DSA 2022

[zac's mum]

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Wonder how they do the shortlisting for DSA Academics esp for the IP schools. Like does your child have to be in the top 5% or 10% in school? your child’s results relative to his/her school’s cohort?

General academic domain is dead and gone. Now left with specific academic domain. So I expect the schools will look at that 1 particular subject, plus any relevant competition awards and other experience (eg if Science/Innovation/STEM, whatever problem-solving projects/inventions kid has done out of interest I suppose)

[SG_KP1]

I think the shortlisting process varies by school, and may be different across domains within the same school. Some domains are larger than others, and depending on the school they may be looking for very specific things in candidates (before spending time to test/interview).


In contrast, others are a bit more open and may cast the net a little wider. By all accounts, the RI tests this year were open to a very large number of students (somewhat of a surprise). Not sure if HCI will have as many in attendance this Saturday, but based on some comments here it looks like probably not. Not saying either process is better than the other…

[Cherrieslady]

Hi parents, St.Nicholas ytd received school email regarding my child DSA application for Bilingualism was unsuccessful, got to try PSLE S1 post.

anyone can advice or any idea why will not get single chance for shortlisted?

[Cherrieslady]

Hi parents, I received St.Nicholas school email regarding my child DSA application for Bilingualism was unsuccessful, so got to try the best for PSLE S1 post.

anyone can advice or any idea why will not get single chance for shortlisted?

[zac's mum]

Cherrieslady\" post_id=\"2074345\" time=\"1657766745\" user_id=\"198711:

Hi parents, St.Nicholas ytd received school email regarding my child DSA application for Bilingualism was unsuccessful, got to try PSLE S1 post.
anyone can advice or any idea why will not get single chance for shortlisted?

Sorry to hear that. At least they are nice enough to inform you early.

Is it related to the supporting documents you submitted? Or did they just look at EL and CL grades?

[Cherrieslady]

Yes, they inform. if not I will just everyday refresh my email

I got no idea, or receive any reason, their email was jsut simply indicate unsuccessful.
and… try Sec 1 posting.

[floppy]

Cherrieslady\" post_id=\"2074349\" time=\"1657767364\" user_id=\"198711:

Yes, they inform. if not I will just everyday refresh my email
I got no idea, or receive any reason, their email was jsut simply indicate unsuccessful.
and... try Sec 1 posting.

I think if you don't provide breakdown of results, achievements etc. No one can really tell why your child was rejected.
It could really be due to 101 possible reasons.

[Cherrieslady]

NJC Audition is very short and no conversation.

[cfleurc]

Cherrieslady\" post_id=\"2074353\" time=\"1657768202\" user_id=\"198711:

NJC Audition is very short and no conversation.

Which domain is this? Perhaps if no teamwork/leadership qualities required, no conversation is needed?

[FiFlu624]

Just want to state my observations on a certain DSA sports trial. My kid was notified to participate in a selection for one top school less than 3 working days from the date of trial. On that day, the turnout was quite huge for that sport, so my first thought was that all applicants were made to attend. This is good in my opinion, that everybody gets the chance. But it also means that the achievement records which applicants had submitted were likely not reviewed yet since there was no pre-trial shortlist. The more disturbing point was that shortlisting for post-trial interview seems to be based on the student’s performance in the trial rather than viewed as a whole with past achievement records. Why I’m saying this is that immediately after the trial, the teacher-in-charge told the students that shortlist results would be out the next day. So fast?!

For all I know, other schools take some weeks to finalize the shortlist and I expect there would be a lot of pondering over trial performance, academic results, achievement records etc before a student would be selected for the interview. With so many attendees, if the shortlist can be out so fast, it makes me wonder if the teacher really had time to go thru all records. Further, somehow during the trial, we parents had an opportunity to peek at the happenings within the venue. So we could literally see (from facial expressions and body language), which student was given a “stamp of approval” from the coach. The coach’s assessment seemed to play a great part then. So is this even fair, that an outsourced coach appeared to have a more crucial say in the outcome? How do we know if a selected candidate isn’t already a student of that coach or is somehow already familiar to him/her. Another point I would like to bring up is that on the next day that the interview shortlist was out, the trial was not even completed. Some students who couldn’t make it for the first day were still pending trial on the second day, which is 1 day after the shortlist was released. Again, is this even fair for those who did trial at a later date?
Overall the whole exercise gave me the impression that it was shoddily conducted and made me question whether it was an impartial process.
I could be wrong but I can’t help feeling this way because of the way it was conducted.