DSA 2022

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Hendon\" post_id=\"2068812\" time=\"1653595359\" user_id=\"142376:

Do you mean the entire student life records up to this point as found on the report card will be visible to the secondary school?

For this,

I cannot answer you,

because

it depends from which year onwards your own primary school's General office has uploaded the data for DSA. I dont even know your kid study in which primary school. Is up to individual school, how they want to upload their data. Is it from

- from (P1 to P6), all 6 years of data been uploaded or

- from (P3 to P6), or

- from (P4 to P6), or

- just (P5 & P6), last 2 years only ?

Suggest that u kindly go back to your own primary school, clarify with your General Office, find out how many years data have been uploaded. This way, you will be very clear.

What you see inside your Report card, is what they get.

This means that
besides score marks alone, each subject upon 100, whatever comments the Form Teacher has written about your kid , whether comments written are good or bad inside the Report card, for the number of past years' data thats been uploaded into server by General office staff, Yes, the Secondary school panel of interviewers all can see. Can't hide.

[AudreyK]

Getting some advise here.

Is it true that applying DSA via sports will have a higher chance instead of DSA leadership.
Child is a captain of cca sports and a prefect.
Which domain gives her a higher chance?

Also will the sport domain look at her leadership as prefect to add more brownie points to her DSA sport domain.

Hope to get some insights . Thanks

[SG_KP1]

AudreyK\" post_id=\"2069131\" time=\"1653927308\" user_id=\"121871:

Getting some advise here.
Is it true that applying DSA via sports will have a higher chance instead of DSA leadership.
Child is a captain of cca sports and a prefect.
Which domain gives her a higher chance?

Also will the sport domain look at her leadership as prefect to add more brownie points to her DSA sport domain.

Hope to get some insights . Thanks

Hi. Unfortunately, I don't think this question can be generically answered, and even if it can it still depends on the individual student.

For sports, it's really a question of how good the kid is. Some may be a near lock (i.e. highly ranked national player), others may have little to no shot. For leadership, the issue is there are 185 primary schools, all with prefects and CCA leaders. Of course, some will have more in their portfolio while others have less, so again it depends on the kid.

Also depends on the targeted school(s), as some will be flooded with applications while others won't receive quite as many.

I guess one more day to go until the application window closes. Good luck!

[floppy]

AudreyK\" post_id=\"2069131\" time=\"1653927308\" user_id=\"121871:

Getting some advise here.
Is it true that applying DSA via sports will have a higher chance instead of DSA leadership.
Child is a captain of cca sports and a prefect.
Which domain gives her a higher chance?

Also will the sport domain look at her leadership as prefect to add more brownie points to her DSA sport domain.

Hope to get some insights . Thanks

There are 185 primary schools.
In the ballpark, there are 20 schools participating in any given sport.
There are 10 eligible sportsmen per school.
Total eligible DSA candidates for that particular sport: 200.
Probability of success: 1/200

There are 185 primary schools.
In the ballpark, there are 10 prefects per school.
Total eligible DSA leaders: 1,850
Probability of success: 1/1850

Purely mathematical calculation and not taking into account the quality of each candidate, the number of places available per talent area, etc.

[mrsm]

Hi all, may I know if a child’s P4 to P6 mid yr results have been hovering between express and NA, and somehow he gets a CO, will the school already indicate the stream they offer or will it depend on the child’s PSLE results then he will go into the stream he’s qualified for?


Also, I’ve read that the COP for DSA express is 20. What about for NA?

[zac's mum]

mrsm\" post_id=\"2069198\" time=\"1653984855\" user_id=\"22108:

Hi all, may I know if a child's P4 to P6 mid yr results have been hovering between express and NA, and somehow he gets a CO, will the school already indicate the stream they offer or will it depend on the child's PSLE results then he will go into the stream he's qualified for?

Also, I've read that the COP for DSA express is 20. What about for NA?

It is better to check with the particular school directly, especially before you accept any CO.

I heard one principal at an IP/OP dual track school open house that the child just needs to get bare minimum of Express/NA option band (ie. 22) for the school to honour the CO.

Therefore, I guess it is possible that for schools with NA stream, child just needs to get bare minimum of NA/NT option band (ie. 25) for the school to honour the CO. But I can’t say for sure ask I didnt ask the relevant school.

[mrsm]

zac's mum\" post_id=\"2069201\" time=\"1653987496\" user_id=\"53606:[quote=\"zac's mum\" post_id=2069201 time=1653987496 user_id=53606]
It is better to check with the particular school directly, especially before you accept any CO.

I heard one principal at an IP/OP dual track school open house that the child just needs to get bare minimum of Express/NA option band (ie. 22) for the school to honour the CO.

Therefore, I guess it is possible that for schools with NA stream, child just needs to get bare minimum of NA/NT option band (ie. 25) for the school to honour the CO. But I can’t say for sure ask I didnt ask the relevant school.[/quote]

Thank you!
All the best to all of us who's going through DSA this year :xedfingers:

[zac's mum]

mrsm\" post_id=\"2069318\" time=\"1654085354\" user_id=\"22108:

Thank you!
All the best to all of us who's going through DSA this year :xedfingers:

Crossing all our fingers and toes, and hoping the panel sees our kids’ unique strengths. They are so much more than their paper grades

[mystique_j]

And the wait begins… good luck everyone!

[Daddy with one son]

After the DSA application had been submitted. When will we know of any selection tests and interviews? What is the usual timeline?


Wanted to know the cutoff date so that if I have not received a request for tests/interviews, my son is rejected.