2010 DSA(Direct School Admission)

[verykiasu2010]

mjl:

My4Darlings:

有人欢喜有人忧


Received the email - My boy is not successful.

塞翁失马，焉知非福
My4Darlings, tell your boy the above story.
As he does not get the DSA, he will probably work extra hard and end up doing very well for the PSLE, and eventually still get into his dream school! I have heard of students who got DSA offers, then become relax and end up not doing well for PSLE and do not meet the EESIS cut-off.

that is one of the reminders from the principals who made the confirmed offers

[Pen88n]

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 )

I think nowadays it gets a little more complicated over the years - even nearby neighbourhood sch also have ranking and some end up balloting over a few phases. I've seen colleagues rushing round to find \"better\" schools with vacancies for P1 registration phase after phase. For some, it is tedious from P1 :lol:

[sautille]

verykiasu2010:

haha, i also \"prefer\" RI but my son kept getting invited by HCI for activities .... so he is now very pro-HCI ....被收买了!

My situation was the exact opposite. My son was only invited by HCI to 1 camp (can't remember which one) end of P5 which he couldn't attend because we were traveling, and participated in a translation competition. However, he was invited by RI to like 4 events throughout P5 and P6. After an overnight camp in RI earlier this year, he was totally sold to the idea that RI is his dream school :lol:.

After PSLE, I will get him to take a hard look at whether his \"dream\" school is indeed the \"right\" school. Somehow, I am not thrilled that he has to spend 2 hours each day on the bus to and fro from school. The decision will be his, of course.

[ApronMama]

Is EESIS auto-renew for the 6yr through out even if a child has not been doing well at IP school.


Does anyone know how EESIS is mathematically determined? The MOE website msg is not clear in definition.

[sautille]

ApronMama:

Is EESIS auto-renew for the 6yr through out even if a child has not been doing well at IP school.


Does anyone know how EESIS is mathematically determined? The MOE website msg is not clear in definition.

MOE website only says \"The scholar must make good progress each year in order to continue receiving the scholarship.\" Doesn't sound like an auto-renewal to me.

[verykiasu2010]

sautille:

verykiasu2010:

haha, i also \"prefer\" RI but my son kept getting invited by HCI for activities .... so he is now very pro-HCI ....被收买了!

My situation was the exact opposite. My son was only invited by HCI to 1 camp (can't remember which one) end of P5 which he couldn't attend because we were traveling, and participated in a translation competition. However, he was invited by RI to like 4 events throughout P5 and P6. After an overnight camp in RI earlier this year, he was totally sold to the idea that RI is his dream school :lol:.

After PSLE, I will get him to take a hard look at whether his \"dream\" school is indeed the \"right\" school. Somehow, I am not thrilled that he has to spend 2 hours each day on the bus to and fro from school. The decision will be his, of course.

congrats ! your son got CO from RI.

my son kept missing the RI activities ......... one of his friends kept invited, submitted for DSA, sat for selection test - still no news. another of the class mate, average marks lower, got CO from RI, but did not get HCI's CO ..... funny world

[flametree]

[quote]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.[/quote]
Hi d1s2,

any idea why the RI/RGS students decided to switch to ACS I (IB) or HCJC for JC ?

thanks

flametree

[Zann]

[quote="verykiasu2010


my son kept missing the RI activities … one of his friends kept invited, submitted for DSA, sat for selection test - still no news. another of the class mate, average marks lower, got CO from RI, but did not get HCI’s CO … funny world[/quote]

so HCI is just as difficult to get in. As some said, the demand on HCL might have scared aways some, plus the mono culture environment. The multi-culture environment is also one of the reason why
people choose RI, given a choice.

[lemontea]

my son kept missing the RI activities … one of his friends kept invited, submitted for DSA, sat for selection test - still no news. another of the class mate, average marks lower, got CO from RI, but did not get HCI’s CO … funny world[/quote]


My neighbour’s dd got CO from RGS but the mother just could not believe that she was not even offered an interview from NYGS. The dd was invited to RGS tea session before DSA application.

[d1s2]

flametree:

[quote]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.

Hi d1s2,

any idea why the RI/RGS students decided to switch to ACS I (IB) or HCJC for JC ?

thanks

flametree[/quote]I am not exactly sure but my daughter said one of her friends wanted a change of environment and another felt that the Humanities Program could be better.