JC or Poly?
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Wonder-ful\" post_id=\"2127267\" time=\"1705455021\" user_id=\"121000:
Actually, the best person to confirm this, is the Principal or Dean of that (whichever) respective Polytechnic Faculty course, which your son is interested in. During Open house Polytechnic, you can pose this question, to this Officer in charge.
My son was trying to decide between JC and Poly. His results were average (12-2 =10) and felt he had no chance for the better JCs. End up choosing to apply for NA poly (9-2=7) and felt he had a better chance of entering a course he'll prefer.
Realized that students now a days are avoiding JCs with the mindset that its very academic and with huge homework loads.
My concern now is that I heard only 1/3 or less poly graduate makes it to U as compared to 75% of JC students. How true are these numbers.
By and large, if your son in the Poly wants to pursue a local University course, in some highly popular hot in demand course faculty, often, this will require at least a 3.75 to 4.0 GPA score, in his final year.
After Poly graduation,
2 routes are open (available) for him :-
1) work first, to gain some working experience, before going back to study in the uni.
This way, the Poly graduate will be certain of the right course (direction in career path) to pick & to further his study,
because
the working life exposure in the industry, will help him to confirm if that is really what he wants to work in.
2) don't work yet.
Straight away, continue to further his study
either
locally or
go overseas abroad to (UK / USA / Australia / European) universities, for further study.
Some Poly courses can enable students to jump / to be admitted directly into 2nd year of the uni course, skip the first year.
Yes, by & large, is about one third of students with high GPA score, will continue to local uni.
Why ?
Because
the purpose of receiving your Poly Diploma, is to prepare students for .... working life.
In fact, in their final third year,
just before Internship about to start,
the Poly course coordinator inside that faculty, will inform students which are the companies going to come down to interview them. So, these final 3rd year Poly students will get ready, prepare their job resume in advance and on that very day itself when the respective companies' representatives come down, they will interview the students on the spot, in certain interview room(s) premises already prepared before hand. Some of the successful candidates (students) can sign contract, with these sponsoring companies. -
1) if go (choose) Poly,
a)
you need to be consistent in your study. The key word is consistency, and this requires self discipline.
Because
if say, for example, u did not do well in Term 1 and come Term 2, try to catch up, you will feel more stressed ! Thus,
it is better (safer) to maintain your own academic standard regularly every Term, in every Trimester, instead of try to do " catch up".
Why ?
Because
your GPA score (Polytechnic) is accumulative, from the very first day you stepped into a Polytechnic until the end of your final, 3rd year including Internship progress report made by your supervisor, at your Internship working place.
b)
go Poly,
only if you are very sure, definite, certain about your own career path. That is, what u want to be, regarding your ambition in life.
Otherwise,
if you realised that you have choosen the wrong course (faculty) to study inside the Poly, u will start to regret & start having thoughts to want to pull out (withdraw) from the Poly course and try to go back to A-level path, instead. By then, u already wasted your time spent. You cannot turn back the clock.
2)
if you still not sure, un decided what you want to become in your future career,
need another further 2 more years to think through, to consider, to talk to more people (working adults) from the different, various working industries so as to familiarise yourself with,
then,
stick to the A-level
or
the IB path (SJI / ACSI).
After all, it is easier to enter local universities, via (IB + A-level) route, than via Polytechnic route. -
phtthp\" post_id=\"2128183\" time=\"1706584104\" user_id=\"35251:
After all, it is easier to enter local universities, via (IB + A-level) route, than via Polytechnic route.
Just curious , how u know it is difficult poly grads enter local uni ( nus, smu, ntu, ), means lesser poly grad population in these 3 unis ?
But I do see my circle of friends , relatives of poly grads can enter uni too : unisim,suss, sit etc
Am not too sure abt sutd students backgrd ? -
I think if not aiming the big 2 or 3 AU, then should be quite ok ?
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MyPillow\" post_id=\"2128184\" time=\"1706585694\" user_id=\"70594:
I'm sure there are statistics to answer your questions. But simply based on the fact that stronger students tend to choose JC, you would expect a higher proportion of JC students in universities.
Just curious , how u know it is difficult poly grads enter local uni ( nus, smu, ntu, ), means lesser poly grad population in these 3 unis ?
But I do see my circle of friends , relatives of poly grads can enter uni too : unisim,suss, sit etc
Am not too sure abt sutd students backgrd ? -
MrsKiasu\" post_id=\"2128186\" time=\"1706587554\" user_id=\"43981:
Not all poly grads make it to the local universities - about 30%, is what I've heard. Not all JC students make it to university either, and in some JCs and MI, it's also around 30%.
I think if not aiming the big 2 or 3 AU, then should be quite ok ?
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