All About GEP
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Niyaji:
I like your analogy of smuggling a plastic rod into a nuclear reactor. :lol: Very apt.Burst out laughing after I read that Straits Times article yesterday.
Quite a few graduates of the GEP program are parents nowadays. Likewise some going through it now also post here intermittently.
The final round tests raw intelligence. No amount of \"preparatory classes\" can give a student more intelligence. You either already have it (in which case you're wasting money on prep classes), or you don't (which means you're also wasting money on prep classes since you won't get in anyway!). Intelligence can only be built up since infancy, through years of stimulation and environment - NOT in last-minute \"prep classes\".
The only use I foresee in prep classes is if the child is brilliant, but too lazy to build up Maths/English (and thus, might fail the first round, but pass the final round) - in which case, the prep class may help. In such a case, the only tuition centres that are honestly able to live up to their claims (the rest are just trying to make easy money from kiasu parents) would be those that screen potential candidates FIRST by an IQ test, since the IQ test cannot be trained for. Only the gifted child who passes that, but isn't so good in Maths/English, would benefit from such \"classes\".
The GEP program isn't for the faint of heart, or lacking in ability. \"faking\" that ability, i.e. hothousing to pass the screening tests, is like smuggling a plastic rod into a nuclear reactor. In the unlikely chance that the rod passes the screening tests, it would still melt instantly once subjected to the high temperatures in the reactor core - it doesn't have the mettle to withstand the conditions. -
TwaTau:
not quite. my son's class sort of \"pressurize\" the teachers to tell them what are needed the previous day so their school bags are rather light (around an inch stack of paper), unless they need to bring their files.The trouble is they don't pack their bag, and not having it available when the school needs it, spells trouble for them. So the Kiasu mentality kicks in and everything goes into the bag, :slapshead:
Also find that ge students' bags are very disorganized because of so much worksheets. to make matters worse, the daily works takes up 10%. -
Lilac66:
For parents who have P3 kids who sat for the GEP screening today, how did they find the papers?
My girl said ok, not very difficult. -
Niyaji:
How true. To start preparing for GEP Selection in the last minutes, even if it can be trained, will be too late.Intelligence can only be built up since infancy, through years of stimulation and environment - NOT in last-minute \"prep classes\".
Heard of some parents that started preparing since Kindergarten :shock: -
MrsSeah:
If I could recall from the reading in these forum, the real challenge is in the Selection (Round 2) not the Screening (Round 1)Lilac66:
For parents who have P3 kids who sat for the GEP screening today, how did they find the papers?
My girl said ok, not very difficult. -
Hi parents
Have you heard of kids who are tested gifted but didn't get into GEP :scratchhead: -
Trapwithin:
If I could recall from the reading in these forum, the real challenge is in the Selection (Round 2) not the Screening (Round 1)[/quote]Yap. Quite a number of my colleague kids can go thru round 1 but not round 2 last year.MrsSeah:
[quote=\"Lilac66\"]For parents who have P3 kids who sat for the GEP screening today, how did they find the papers?
My girl said ok, not very difficult.
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Trapwithin:
Preparing since kindergarten??? OMG!!! I hope the kids aren't burnt out.
How true. To start preparing for GEP Selection in the last minutes, even if it can be trained, will be too late.Niyaji:
Intelligence can only be built up since infancy, through years of stimulation and environment - NOT in last-minute \"prep classes\".
Heard of some parents that started preparing since Kindergarten :shock: -
Trapwithin:
No wonder those brain training and enrichment classes are so popular! So, training must start as young as possible to be effective.
How true. To start preparing for GEP Selection in the last minutes, even if it can be trained, will be too late.Niyaji:
Intelligence can only be built up since infancy, through years of stimulation and environment - NOT in last-minute \"prep classes\".
Heard of some parents that started preparing since Kindergarten :shock:
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sleepy:
According to the MOE Gifted branch, the answer is yes.Hi parents
Have you heard of kids who are tested gifted but didn't get into GEP :scratchhead:
Even if they are tested \"gifted\", these kids are not exempted from the GEP screening tests.
The IQ tests are a different matter from the GEP screening tests.
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