* National JC (NJC) - Senior High

[phtthp]

phankao\" post_id=\"2098029\" time=\"1676685491\" user_id=\"3486:

Older one entered with less than 250. Graduated in high 80s with local university scholarship.

Personally find even the current environment good for personal growth except so many previous programmes had to be on hold in past 3 years due to covid. Even this year, not all is reinstated yet.

phankao,

If not wrong,
recalled that your son graduated from NJC quite some time back ?
Not recent ?

Go and read reddit forum, the students comments themselves.
The standard of NJC no longer the same as In the past.

By the way, we are not talking about your son one person standard alone. We are not interested in just one particular candidate's performance. We are talking about the OVERALL entire COHORT A level performance. Entire cohort constitute how many students ? A few thousands of JC2 students ! Not just one candidate only

[phankao]

Year 2015.


How the child thrives is individual. Many of the same good teachers are still around so much so the older even said hi during ptm. The small cohort and class sizes are plus points for us compared to the premier level schools, which the younger also qualified for. Academically the child is sound, so was happy to see positive development socially , in responsibility and independence, and other areas which I feel is important in growth and my retirement as parent. Has no tuition other than ... Sadly... Chinese which is not our daily language of communication.

lazygal21\" post_id=\"2098030\" time=\"1676686531\" user_id=\"115005:

hi Panko, that is assuring to hear. may I know which year your child graduated?
i guess A level results before 2020 was still ok, but after that was downhill esp this year. major drop in medium UAS and % of students with RP > 85 also drop drastically this year

[phtthp]

phankao\" post_id=\"2098032\" time=\"1676687407\" user_id=\"3486:

Year 2015.

How the child thrives is individual. Many of the same good teachers are still around so much so the older even said hi during ptm. The small cohort and class sizes are plus points for us compared to the premier level schools, which the younger also qualified for. Academically the child is sound, so was happy to see positive development socially , in responsibility and independence, and other areas which I feel is important in growth and my retirement as parent. Has no tuition other than ... Sadly... Chinese which is not our daily language of communication.

Today is year 2023

2023 minus 2015, equal 8 years.

8 years back was quite sometime, ago. Things have changed !

8 years, is close to one decade (10 years). No longer the same anymore, esp. when school leader changed ?

[phankao]

Yes I understand not one child. But lazy gal is concerned about her one child. Would her child who is already foundationally so good academically not continue to do well unless so affected by cohort? There is personal pride and ability and image right? I don't think the kids there now are a big lazy group though. One big difference now though is no comparative statistics are shown on reports other than grade scores for wholistic reasons so we also just need to trust our child and look at it as a full 6 year journey as advised.


For an A level cohort of less than 500 I think any shift of a small number will affect the percentage significantly compared to over 1000 in RI(JC).

phtthp\" post_id=\"2098031\" time=\"1676687071\" user_id=\"35251:

phankao,

If not wrong,
recalled that your son graduated from NJC quite some time back ?
Not recent ?

Go and read reddit forum, the students comments themselves.
The standard of NJC no longer the same as In the past.

By the way, we are not talking about your son one person standard alone. We are talking about the OVERALL entire COHORT A level performance

[phankao]

Yes, been through Cheng, Ang, and now 2023 under Tay.


Still some years for us to go.

phtthp\" post_id=\"2098033\" time=\"1676687496\" user_id=\"35251:

Today is year 2023

2023 minus 2015, equal 8 years.

8 years back was quite sometime, ago. Things have changed !

8 years, is close to one decade (10 years). No longer the same anymore, esp. when school leader changed ?

[phtthp]

phankao\" post_id=\"2098034\" time=\"1676687780\" user_id=\"3486:

Yes I understand not one child. But lazy gal is concerned about her one child. Would her child who is already foundationally so good academically not continue to do well unless so affected by cohort? There is personal pride and ability and image right? I don't think the kids there now are a big lazy group though. One big difference now though is no comparative statistics are shown on reports other than grade scores for wholistic reasons so we also just need to trust our child and look at it as a full 6 year journey as advised.

For an A level cohort of less than 500 I think any shift of a small number will affect the percentage significantly compared to over 1000 in RI(JC).

lazygal's daughter AL 5 (D) is only PSLE score, at age 12.

When she go Secondary school, is a different ball game altogether.

Are NJC subject Teachers, teaching lazygal daughter's class, from Sec 1 all the way to JC2, for ALL the subjects, good ?
We don't know.
What if, unfortunate (touch wood), her class get assigned to some lazy subject teachers, and if Principal don't watch out for lazy teachers around, .... ?

How about the Principal at NJC now, good or not, we also don't know. P got to prove herself, with so many pair of eyes looking at her. Only time can tell, perhaps?

[lazygal21]

my gal is hardworking though at times need a bit of pushing. i m thinking in the maybe lack of resources on the school and not gd teaching standard, will my gal still be able to progress academically? if u just look at the RP admission criteria for local uni these says, the competition is so intense. even courses that used to be be so easy to get in with B now req straight A or RP> 85. hence the worry as a parent.


then what could cause the drop in the results? is it the JAE cohort raw score (not nett score) is higher than other similar ranked JC? i dun know.do note that JAE cohort is larger than the IP cohort.

i hv taken a look at the JH1 school notes, not very impressed. i hv another child in HCI and i would say their notes r more comprehensive

[phtthp]

lazygal21\" post_id=\"2098039\" time=\"1676688901\" user_id=\"115005:

my gal is hardworking though at times need a bit of pushing. i m thinking in the maybe lack of resources on the school and not gd teaching standard, will my gal still be able to progress academically? if u just look at the RP admission criteria for local uni these says, the competition is so intense. even courses that used to be be so easy to get in with B now req straight A or RP> 85. hence the worry as a parent.

then what could cause the drop in the results? is it the JAE cohort raw score (not nett score) is higher than other similar ranked JC? i dun know.do note that JAE cohort is larger than the IP cohort.

i hv taken a look at the JH1 school notes, not very impressed. i hv another child in HCI and i would say their notes r more comprehensive

Yes, we have noticed that kids born in and after year 2000 onwards, are very very competitive, at the A-level Exit point, end of their ( JC / IB ) journey !

We are not talking about being competitive at Primary 1, because where got exam now at P1 ?
But, we are talking about the extreme competitiveness, found at end of both
( A-level JC + IB ) journey. The degree of competition sometimes can be suffocating, esp. In the Top few ranked JCs.

[phankao]

phtthp... I am also waiting to see with the younger one. If there's value add shown in grades since it is a 6 years journey that we are mid way through. I don't monitor the kids day to day school work though as long as I see they are managing their schedule well enough and year end doing reasonably and no alerts or warnings from school like some that I heard of.


I am glad for positive peer influence so far. Work and play.

phtthp\" post_id=\"2098038\" time=\"1676688184\" user_id=\"35251:

lazygal's daughter AL 5 (D) is only PSLE score, at age 12.

When she go Secondary school, is a different ball game altogether.

Are NJC subject Teachers, teaching lazygal daughter's class, from Sec 1 all the way to JC2, for ALL the subjects, good ?
We don't know.
What if, unfortunate (touch wood), her class get assigned to some lazy subject teachers, and if Principal don't watch out for lazy teachers around, .... ?

How about the Principal at NJC now, good or not, we also don't know. P got to prove herself, with so many pair of eyes looking at her. Only time can tell, perhaps?

[00skyblue00]

lazygal21\" post_id=\"2098039\" time=\"1676688901\" user_id=\"115005:

my gal is hardworking though at times need a bit of pushing. i m thinking in the maybe lack of resources on the school and not gd teaching standard, will my gal still be able to progress academically? if u just look at the RP admission criteria for local uni these says, the competition is so intense. even courses that used to be be so easy to get in with B now req straight A or RP> 85. hence the worry as a parent.

then what could cause the drop in the results? is it the JAE cohort raw score (not nett score) is higher than other similar ranked JC? i dun know.do note that JAE cohort is larger than the IP cohort.

i hv taken a look at the JH1 school notes, not very impressed. i hv another child in HCI and i would say their notes r more comprehensive

With any new policy, one cannot expect to see outcome in 1 or 2 years. The best bet is to make use of access to better notes since she has and her grit and will to achieve AL5D to push for her personal best.