2010 DSA(Direct School Admission)

[jtoh]

verykiasu2010:

jtoh:

[quote=\"INNOVATE\"]fromnuaa


I share almost similar view as verykiasu2010. Not only Nanyang Girls, the standard of english in HCI, Dunman High,RV High, CHIJ St. Nicholas and Catholic High are prettty good.

In fact, you can use this given opportunity to immerse your dd in a top girls school to cultivate her interest in chinese without affecting her english. Students from all the above-mentioned schools use english as the language of communication. In this information age, the divide between top Sap schools and top mainstream schools is blurr.

At year4, your dd will be expected to sit for her GCE O- level higher chinese whether in Nanyang Girls or RGS and a minimun grade of D7 must be achieved to be exempted from H1 chinese during jc1. This is to meet the uni MT requirement. So you will now observe that Nanyang Girls can provide your dd with the right enviroment to cultivate her interest in chinese which may be very useful for her in the future.

Do not be duly concern with your dd current standard of chinese. Just as many pupils from China are able to make the english grade in Singapore as well as top unis overseas, I am pretty sure yr dd is able to do it too.

I hope that she will find her stinct in Nanyang Girls High memorable.

I am under the impression that the standard of Chinese at Nanyang is higher than that at RGS. Am I correct?

How do students who did not take HCL at primary school cope with HCL at Nanyang? Is it an uphill struggle, assuming that the child's Chinese isn't very good.

the school is keenly aware that not everyone who enters via DSA or PSLE has done higher chinese, and they won't leave the kids to struggle on their own

Mdm Heng is a super principal there. Trust her to take care of the kids there, when they have made the offer to you[/quote]I know the school says they will do their best to support a child once the child is in the school. I'm interested to know actual experiences. How is the child actually supported? Extra classes? Remedial classes? Weaker students grouped into a different class? What if a child continually scores a C? Will they be allowed to drop the subject to CL?

[verykiasu2010]

jtoh:

I know the school says they will do their best to support a child once the child is in the school. I'm interested to know actual experiences. How is the child actually supported? Extra classes? Remedial classes? Weaker students grouped into a different class? What if a child continually scores a C? Will they be allowed to drop the subject to CL?

possible all the various combinations you have listed above

those teachers are very resourceful

my DD's classmate went there at the bottom of the COP, and her HCL has gone up by leaps and bounds ...

[Nebbermind]

had a friend who son was in the pre-HCI, chinese high, some yrs ago. was a bright student from NYPS who did very well...no problem with HCL. But somehow during either sec2 or 3, he started failing HCL and that affected his other subjects. since the school does not have normal chinese, his only way ahead was to switch school...not much choice. also, with results sliding down, not easy to convince other 'branded' school to take him in.

[verykiasu2010]

Nebbermind:

had a friend who son was in the pre-HCI, chinese high, some yrs ago. was a bright student from NYPS who did very well...no problem with HCL. But somehow during either sec2 or 3, he started failing HCL and that affected his other subjects. since the school does not have normal chinese, his only way ahead was to switch school...not much choice. also, with results sliding down, not easy to convince other 'branded' school to take him in.

what is the cause in Sec 2 / 3 that affected the HCL and other subjects also caused by HCL? sounds too much of a generalisation from your friend.

pre-HCI days means Chinese High days and the kids would be doing 'O' Levels instead of the through train / IP to HCJC...

And how could one subject just suddenly drop ? and caused other subjects to drop ? BGR problem ? disciplinary issue ? may be your friend did not tell you the whole story to save face lah .... just guessing

I remember those who are weak, they are given extra tuition by the teachers, and if there is any emo issues, the teachers are approachable....unless they don't want to talk and got discipline issue that caused all the subjects to drop, not just HCL...HCL is just a scapegoat by the parents may be

[xxjustakidxx]

I’m from hci sec 1. in my time table, 8 periods spent on LA (english) and only 7 spent on chinese.

[verykiasu2010]

xxjustakidxx:

I'm from hci sec 1. in my time table, 8 periods spent on LA (english) and only 7 spent on chinese.

so, are you telling us it is more english than chinese ? lol !

[INNOVATE]

Parents who do not have kids in a SAP school may fear that it is challenging for a pupil who did not offer HCL during primary school to take HCL at sec level. Their anxiety is misguided.


Do not fred. For GEP and high ability pupils, they have no problem coping given the right climate and encouragement from their parents. Firstly, HCL is only one of the 8/9 subjects and secondly, their chinese is not really cmi standard, otherwise, they would not have managed to enter such a good school.

Personally, I have encountered many examples of students from pure english speaking families excelling in a SAP enviroment. NO worries!

[wonderm]

xxjustakidxx:

I'm from hci sec 1. in my time table, 8 periods spent on LA (english) and only 7 spent on chinese.

Anyone has such info for Sec 1 in RI? Then we can see at least from curriculum time wise, whether SAP schools indeed allocate more time for Chinese at the expense of English.

[verykiasu2010]

wonderm:

xxjustakidxx:

I'm from hci sec 1. in my time table, 8 periods spent on LA (english) and only 7 spent on chinese.

Anyone has such info for Sec 1 in RI? Then we can see at least from curriculum time wise, whether SAP schools indeed allocate more time for Chinese at the expense of English.

RI is not SAP school

For HCI as mentioned above by xxjustakidxx, english got more time than chinese

[wonderm]

verykiasu2010:

wonderm:

[quote=\"xxjustakidxx\"]I'm from hci sec 1. in my time table, 8 periods spent on LA (english) and only 7 spent on chinese.

Anyone has such info for Sec 1 in RI? Then we can see at least from curriculum time wise, whether SAP schools indeed allocate more time for Chinese at the expense of English.

RI is not SAP school

For HCI as mentioned above by xxjustakidxx, english got more time than chinese[/quote]You misunderstood me. Besides comparing absolute number of periods for English and Chinese. I think another way is comparing between different schools. Just for example, if Sec 1 in RI has 10 periods on English, but just 5 on Chinese, then we know that HCI indeed allocate more time on Chinese compared to non-SAP schools such as RI.