National Junior College (Junior High)

[anxious789]

breezie80 sure, but don’t just take my word, speak to other NJC students/parents too and also NJC’s teachers.


Nway, I can see that there’s lack of response from NJC parents here which isn’t surprising. To be honest, I have not visited kiasuparents since my ds went to NJC. This is because once he was in, the other parents set up a grp chat. We have a whole cohort group chat (because the cohort is not that big) and also class group chat. We also have some teachers’ whatsapp contact. Hence, there is no need to visit kiasuparents as we can easily ask in d group chat or PM our queries to some other parents that we have made friends with.

The only reason why I chance upon this forum is because my dd was trying for DSA this year so I was trying to look for info for schools that we wanted to DSA her to. We chose gals’ school to DSA to instead of NJC in the end as she has already been in co-ed primary school for 6 years and was always paired to sit with a boy in class as teachers think that that’s the best way to maintain less talking among the students in class. Hence, we thought it will be a good time to swap to an all gals environment.

For boys, since they have NS, I think that there is no harm that they go to co-ed Sec school since they will be in all boys environment during NS. Also, a kind soul from kiasuparents was kind enough to PM more details about his daughter’s experience in the gal school that we chose to DSA so I thought I should do my part to share my kid’s experience at kiasuparents too.

[breezie80]

Hi anxious, I have PMed you tks

[LeeTaiTai]

I was told by a friend that some tuition centres like TLL does not accept or encourage NJC students to join as their syllabus are very different…any idea if NJC is really advance or just simply teaching very different topics. With all aiming towards A levels, how could it be so varied?

[lazygal21]

I hv a child in NJ and I can understand why some tuition ctr dun accept njc students. for LA, the testing of the reading skills aka compre is very diff format fr the O level qns and I find it difficult. They hv a Thinking module inside LA curriculum time (though is a separate subj n is gradedbut not reqd for promotion) which is like practically impossible to outsource. Then for Maths in Sec 1, nearly finish half of sec 2 syallabus. For Sec 2, they ask u to buy Sec 3, Sec 4 and A maths textbook. Sci by itself diff schools r teaching diff topics at diff times. Sec 1 already touching one Sec 3 topic. In short, will be hard for the tuition ctr to cater for NJ students unless they can form a grp specially for them. NJ yearly cohort is only 200 afterall. But on the bright side, think of it as saving money on tuition since hard to find. I am only speaking for the sec school section.

[LeeTaiTai]

Thanks for sharing, but I wonder if by end of sec 4 , most IP schools including njc will cover all similar stuff since they are all preparing the students for A level not just internal exam. If NJC already studying upper secondary content in lower secondary, any idea what they generally cover in upper secondary then?

[melan3479]

Hi,

I need advise please on how many sets of school uniform (blouse + skirt) and how many sets PE uniform (shorts + Polo Tee ) is needed for Sec 1. We are travelling soon and will be back by end of December so I would like to buy ahead.

[ski]

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Hi,
I need advise please on how many sets of school uniform (blouse + skirt) and how many sets PE uniform (shorts + Polo Tee ) is needed for Sec 1. We are travelling soon and will be back by end of December so I would like to buy ahead.

1 set of blouse+skirt is enough. PE t-shirt and shorts suggest to get 4 each.

[melan3479]

hi ski, thanks a lot for your reply…

[Chin99]

Hi! need advice , are all Junior 1 required to take HMT or depends on the PSLE results ?

[RR2022]

All students qualified to take HMT will be asked for consent to take HMT or not. There are CL classes as well. To add, majority are taking HMT since students entered NJC by score will qualify to take HMT regardless whether they did HMT at pri school.