DSA 2022

[Marina Collection]

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TBF, each teacher specializes in 2 subjects. Hence, an English teacher teaching Geography isn’t out of the ordinary.

The issue of students wanting triple science is always interesting. Most established schools do have the resources to offer more triple science classes but most of the time, they choose not to. Are there additional benefits for offering / choosing a 3rd science over a 2nd humanities?

In the majority of cases, the answer would be no. Bearing in mind that one of the humanities have to be a combined humanities (ie with social studies), having 2 humanities means you can have 1 pure humanities and 1 combined humanities (instead of having combined humanities only). Furthermore, 2 science / 1 combined humanities / 1 humanities will open up the number of options available in JC and beyond.

Quite often , the students end up with triple Sci coz they aren’t confident with 2 humanities . Afterall , they spent their pri school years doing sci so the familiarity is there .

Humanities can be quite a hit or miss. You might think that you’ve got all the points , yet somehow lacking in answering technique so that doesn’t translate into a good score …. Whereas Sci is very clear cut and quantifiable . You know exactly what’s missing .

And it’s not easy to find a good humanities tutor when needed . Whereas , it’s always quite easy to find a sci tutor that can help you score .

[00skyblue00]

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TBF, each teacher specializes in 2 subjects. Hence, an English teacher teaching Geography isn’t out of the ordinary.

Not out of ordinary, yes. But not ideal too in my view. The best is still under the subject expert teacher esp for O level. If the student is able to excel in his or her studies, he or she would like to be in the class under best teachers in sch for that subject, ideally. But if he or she got allocated to an adjunct teacher or a second subj teacher vs if he or she is in a sch which limits the subj allocation, it is debatable which is better.

[Trismom]

I tink these few days won get any email sch maybe busy with psle oral

[Daddy with one son]

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I tink these few days won get any email sch maybe busy with psle oral

The dsa emails are generated by the secondary schools or IP schools. These schools do not need to conduct p s l e oral.

[Daddy with one son]

Trismom\" post_id=\"2078396\" time=\"1660529522\" user_id=\"95333:

I tink these few days won get any email sch maybe busy with psle oral

The dsa emails are generated by the secondary schools or IP schools. These schools do not need to conduct p s l e oral.

[floppy]

00skyblue00\" post_id=\"2078395\" time=\"1660528934\" user_id=\"143605:

Not out of ordinary, yes. But not ideal too in my view. The best is still under the subject expert teacher esp for O level. If the student is able to excel in his or her studies, he or she would like to be in the class under best teachers in sch for that subject, ideally. But if he or she got allocated to an adjunct teacher or a second subj teacher vs if he or she is in a sch which limits the subj allocation, it is debatable which is better.

Not ideal, yes, but that will be the reality in all schools. Can't have teachers specialising in a single subject and be assigned to your class only.

To paraphrase the East Coast plan, \"every teacher, a good teacher\".

[hdbmummy]

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TBF, each teacher specializes in 2 subjects. Hence, an English teacher teaching Geography isn’t out of the ordinary.

The issue of students wanting triple science is always interesting. Most established schools do have the resources to offer more triple science classes but most of the time, they choose not to. Are there additional benefits for offering / choosing a 3rd science over a 2nd humanities?

In the majority of cases, the answer would be no. Bearing in mind that one of the humanities have to be a combined humanities (ie with social studies), having 2 humanities means you can have 1 pure humanities and 1 combined humanities (instead of having combined humanities only). Furthermore, 2 science / 1 combined humanities / 1 humanities will open up the number of options available in JC and beyond.

Hi,

I'm not familiar with this so I'm seeking further clarification. Do you mean that if the child only takes 1 humanities, it also has to be combined humanities or only if the child chooses 2 humanities, 1 of it has to be combined humanities?

Also, while browsing MOE's schoolfinder previously, it seems that some schools indicated combined humanities, while some (IP schools if I don't remember wrongly) listed only pure humanities. So does it differ across schools or is combined humanities a MUST at all schools?

Thanks!

[SG_KP1]

IMO, unlikely many DSA notifications are coming until late next week at the earliest. I think most schools are cognizant of the PSLE Oral and Prelim schedule. There are some interviews going on this week but they seem to be in the minority.


Just focus on the task at hand for the next week and a half…

[floppy]

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Quite often , the students end up with triple Sci coz they aren’t confident with 2 humanities . Afterall , they spent their pri school years doing sci so the familiarity is there .

Humanities can be quite a hit or miss. You might think that you’ve got all the points , yet somehow lacking in answering technique so that doesn’t translate into a good score …. Whereas Sci is very clear cut and quantifiable . You know exactly what’s missing .

And it’s not easy to find a good humanities tutor when needed . Whereas , it’s always quite easy to find a sci tutor that can help you score .[/quote]

The magic chant is \"L1R5\".

If the \"hit or miss\" subject is the only subject you have, and it MUST BE INCLUDED as part of your score, you would probably want to have a backup (hence, the attraction of schools offering 2 humanities instead of channeling all students to 3 science subject). There's no point in scoring 3 A1 for Science when you end up with a C6 for the humanities subject.

P/S: It's easier to score in Science than humanities but it's harder to fail humanities than Science.

[Mr.025413Clumsy]

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IMO, unlikely many DSA notifications are coming until late next week at the earliest. I think most schools are cognizant of the PSLE Oral and Prelim schedule. There are some interviews going on this week but they seem to be in the minority.

Just focus on the task at hand for the next week and a half....

One side of me agrees.

The other side of me...

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LOL!