2010 DSA(Direct School Admission)

[Strparent]

jtoh:

BUT, the DSA option exercise takes place outside of the S1 posting exercise. That is, the child's posting will not be dependent on his PSLE score. Therefore, even if he scores 270, he will still be posted to HCI because that was in his list of choices in the DSA exercise form. He will not be posted to RI because he wasn't high enough on the waitlist ranking.

Thank you very much jtoh, fruitplus and wonderm, :love:

for all your replies and answers. Really helpful.

One more thing jtoh, the way you put it, if there are 10 people ahead of DS in WL for RI, and only 9 slots become available, there will be ZERO chance for him to go to RI ? As you put it, DSA is outside S1 posting exercise, so even if he scores 270, he will not get a chance under S1 posting to RI, but instead definitely be posted to his 2nd choice, if a CO existed there ?

Then, it could be a whammy to him, if he does extremely well above his own expectation and there still is no slot available on WL priority for him. It would be irrelevant then even if he scores 270 and not being considered under S1 posting to RI as an option.

Would the PSLE Tscore be known before the 25 to 29 Oct exercise ? or after ? thanks ahead

[verykiasu2010]

PSLE result this year in MY estimate is 25 Nov

[Jimei]

verykiasu2010:

Pen88n:

Actually I find Singapore Education System very complex - from P1 prep, registration and balloting, to P3 school streaming, then GEP, and the P6 DSA, PSLE S1 posting. :roll:

It's a subject for parents to study. Need planning and strategising and lots of praying to maximise score!

Quite a good summary too !

This is because MOE likes to differentiate students. They like create new grouping scheme. So you see higher mother tongue, Chinese A Chinese B, there could be A1 and A2 in future

[Strparent]

verykiasu2010:

PSLE result this year in MY estimate is 25 Nov

thanks vk2010.

Pen88n:

Actually I find Singapore Education System very complex - from P1 prep, registration and balloting, to P3 school streaming, then GEP, and the P6 DSA, PSLE S1 posting. :roll:

It's a subject for parents to study. Need planning and strategising and lots of praying to maximise score!

hi Pen88n,

You make it sound so tedious throughout, LOL. I think that is only if the parents make it to be complex. Personally, I think the P6 stage is very critical for the kids, so this DSA / S1 posting stage is the most important of all.

We never did anything prior to this stage - DS went to the nearest school which was available, went nonchalantly for the GEP papers ( and shocked us all, hahaha ), then we had to moved school after my teacher aunt advised us to take up the offer, and then now this. As you can tell, I also had not much idea about the DSA process as well, until I read this forum in July.

I think they should be able to enjoy themselves in Primary School, but the real deal starts in Secondary School. That's when kids become the dreaded teen stage, when friends and peers mean more to them than the oldies at home. So if they are in a good school, the influence is likely to be positive and vice versa - hence all of the forumers' concerns and anxiety and stress and nail biting, etc at THIS stage.

The rest is up to them.

Was so much simpler when we were growing up, lol.

anyway, my DD wants her brother to go NJC, so she can still have a chance to join him in 2 years. If he goes boys school, then she will be

( little does she knows when they reach teen stage, she wont want to be near him, LOL )

[wonderm]

Strparent:

jtoh:

BUT, the DSA option exercise takes place outside of the S1 posting exercise. That is, the child's posting will not be dependent on his PSLE score. Therefore, even if he scores 270, he will still be posted to HCI because that was in his list of choices in the DSA exercise form. He will not be posted to RI because he wasn't high enough on the waitlist ranking.

Thank you very much jtoh, fruitplus and wonderm, :love:

for all your replies and answers. Really helpful.

One more thing jtoh, the way you put it, if there are 10 people ahead of DS in WL for RI, and only 9 slots become available, there will be ZERO chance for him to go to RI ? As you put it, DSA is outside S1 posting exercise, so even if he scores 270, he will not get a chance under S1 posting to RI, but instead definitely be posted to his 2nd choice, if a CO existed there ?

Then, it could be a whammy to him, if he does extremely well above his own expectation and there still is no slot available on WL priority for him. It would be irrelevant then even if he scores 270 and not being considered under S1 posting to RI as an option.

Would the PSLE Tscore be known before the 25 to 29 Oct exercise ? or after ? thanks ahead

Strparent, hope you don't mind me jumping in here. In this case, you may consider only putting RI in your DSA acceptance form and reject all other DSA offers whether they are CO or WL. In this case, in case your ds misses the DSA slots, he will still be able to participate in S1 posting using his PSLE results. The risk here is that if his PSLE score is lower than expectation, he may be worse off. PSLE scores will only be known in mid Nov, on the same day when you know the outcome whether his RI WL is confirmed.

[Pen88n]

verykiasu2010:

Pen88n:

Actually I find Singapore Education System very complex - from P1 prep, registration and balloting, to P3 school streaming, then GEP, and the P6 DSA, PSLE S1 posting. :roll:

It's a subject for parents to study. Need planning and strategising and lots of praying to maximise score!

Quite a good summary too !

VK2010, thank you. Actually not the end of road yet.

Continue as follows:
Secondary IP vs IB vs GCE \"O\" level, then comes GCE \"A\" level vs Diploma in Poly, and finally, if still in the race: local or overseas Uni and which course.

It's a long and tedious road!

[jtoh]

Strparent:

jtoh:

BUT, the DSA option exercise takes place outside of the S1 posting exercise. That is, the child's posting will not be dependent on his PSLE score. Therefore, even if he scores 270, he will still be posted to HCI because that was in his list of choices in the DSA exercise form. He will not be posted to RI because he wasn't high enough on the waitlist ranking.

Thank you very much jtoh, fruitplus and wonderm, :love:

for all your replies and answers. Really helpful.

One more thing jtoh, the way you put it, if there are 10 people ahead of DS in WL for RI, and only 9 slots become available, there will be ZERO chance for him to go to RI ? As you put it, DSA is outside S1 posting exercise, so even if he scores 270, he will not get a chance under S1 posting to RI, but instead definitely be posted to his 2nd choice, if a CO existed there ?

Then, it could be a whammy to him, if he does extremely well above his own expectation and there still is no slot available on WL priority for him. It would be irrelevant then even if he scores 270 and not being considered under S1 posting to RI as an option.

Would the PSLE Tscore be known before the 25 to 29 Oct exercise ? or after ? thanks ahead

Hi Strparent,

Yes, you're correct. He will not be posted to RI even if his T-score is 270.

The DSA Exercise School Preference Stage takes place in October. PSLE results will only be known in late November. Hence you have to make your decision on your choice of DSA school before your results are out.

If a candidate is confident that he did well in his PSLE (having already taken all the papers by then), then he can choose to forgo the CO in HCI and just put down the WL for RI. So even if he doesn't get in via WL, he'll be able to take part in the S1 central posting and get into RI provided he meets the COP.

[Strparent]

My goodness, wonderm and jtoh ! :shock:


the 2 of you are true blue parents who cared deeply for your kids !

you READ my mind

was thinking of that last resort option too. So got to wait for DS to take all his papers and see how he feels.

Thsi forum is great, thanks for everyone's feedback. :love: :love:

[d1s2]

Strparent:

verykiasu2010:

PSLE result this year in MY estimate is 25 Nov

thanks vk2010.

Pen88n:

Actually I find Singapore Education System very complex - from P1 prep, registration and balloting, to P3 school streaming, then GEP, and the P6 DSA, PSLE S1 posting. :roll:

It's a subject for parents to study. Need planning and strategising and lots of praying to maximise score!

hi Pen88n,

You make it sound so tedious throughout, LOL. I think that is only if the parents make it to be complex. Personally, I think the P6 stage is very critical for the kids, so this DSA / S1 posting stage is the most important of all.

We never did anything prior to this stage - DS went to the nearest school which was available, went nonchalantly for the GEP papers ( and shocked us all, hahaha ), then we had to moved school after my teacher aunt advised us to take up the offer, and then now this. As you can tell, I also had not much idea about the DSA process as well, until I read this forum in July.

I think they should be able to enjoy themselves in Primary School, but the real deal starts in Secondary School. That's when kids become the dreaded teen stage, when friends and peers mean more to them than the oldies at home. So if they are in a good school, the influence is likely to be positive and vice versa - hence all of the forumers' concerns and anxiety and stress and nail biting, etc at THIS stage.

The rest is up to them.

Was so much simpler when we were growing up, lol.

During my time, Hwa Chong was top JC, then NJC and then RJC. Now it seems the name Raffles is now considered most prestigious . I was at RJC for 1st 3 months, then went to NJC, lol. Now you hardly see anyone do that, jumping from RI to NJC.

Actually, I know of RI/RGS students who had applied for DSA (JC) to ACS I (IB) or HCJC for JC next year, with some who had already accepted the offers. There are still some movement among the JCs though in small numbers.

[jtoh]

Strparent:

My goodness, wonderm and jtoh ! :shock:


the 2 of you are true blue parents who cared deeply for your kids !

you READ my mind

was thinking of that last resort option too. So got to wait for DS to take all his papers and see how he feels.

Thsi forum is great, thanks for everyone's feedback. :love: :love:

Did all the research previously when my child was taking PSLE and DSA. Had to familiarise myself with all the different scenarios just in case. Fortunately my child was given CO to 3 schools so we had it easy.