PSLE 2010 Results Report Here

[OngMum]

JonC:

livewith_vanilla:

Okay lets say last year I scored 259 for my PSLE.


I placed Cedar Girls as my first choice. As MOE ranks each and every pupil who took the PSLE paper, when it is my turn, the computer would first look at my first choice, in this case Cedar Girls.
As Cedar Girls still has vacancies when it is my turn, I am admitted to Cedar Girls.

However, if I placed my choices like this:

1. School A (COP 262)
2. School B (COP 263)
3. School C (COP 262)
4. School D (COP 261)
5. School E (COP 263)
6. Cedar Girls

I placed Cedar Girls as my sixth choice.

So the MOE system would do it like this.
They rank each and every one who took the PSLE paper.
When it is my turn, the computer would see if there is any vacancy in my 1st choice, School A. If there isn't, the computer would move on to my 2nd choice, School B. Then to school C, school D and to School E.
Lets say there are no vacancy in any of my first five choices.
Then finally the computer would go on to my final choice, Cedar Girls.
There are vacancies in Cedar Girls, thus I am able to get into Cedar Girls.

Hope You understand my explanation !

How the MOE computer rank and select those who are affiliated?

Yes, I would like to know about this too..

[Zann]

Just wonder if it is better to include a 2nd or 3rd option for 3rd language in case you don’t get your 1st one?

[pecalis]

zeemimi:

Japanese will be easier to learn than French, imho. Cos rather similar to chinese in some way. But Jap is also the most popular of the 3 languages. It boils down to interest. Don't take just because you are offered. Take because you really love that language. you can read of the high drop out rate for 3rd lang after the first year in this forum.

And i can tell you it's so hectic in Cedar. My DD did not get Jap (cos no vacancies anymore) and on hindsight, she said it was a blessing in disguise.

This is good news to me - our preference is tt dd doesn't do 3rd language - just concentrate on HCL. However, she insists on doing 3rd language - put Jap as 1st choice, Malay SP as 2nd choice. We strongly recommended Malay to her as 1st choice but she still insists on Jap. We've decided tt she'll have the final say and see how it goes. This mummy is rather mean to rejoice at the prospect of no vacancy!

[vynx]

25hourmaid:

vynx:

[quote=\"25hourmaid\"]
Hi vynx

Sorry, I have read so many posts, answered so many questions, and PMs the last few days that I have absolutely have no idea what was the score your son got for the PSLE, but if my memory does not fail me, I think you son's marks is a bit off from SJI's COP right?

My take is that 2 points from a dream's schools COP is worth a try, but anything more than that, I would classify as \"can try, but risky\".

Hope that helps.

thanks .. my son aggregate is 235 .. i have told my wife his T-score is too far fetch to opt for SJI (looking at the past years COP of SJI)

any comments on my choices made as mentioned above? thanks

Your choices sound rather logical if not for the sentence highlighted in red.

Maris Stella is also a SAP school and Nan Chiau will join the SAP school status soon. So if you say your son's Chinese is \"not that good\", it sounds rather illgical to me that you took out CCHM from your choices, but yet listed another SAP school as your first choice, unless of course, your son really likes Maris Stella a lot and if so, then he stands a very good chance in getting into Maris Stella since his score is 3 points above MS' COP.

That said, I am also a bit puzzled by your 6th choice. Yes, quite unlikely for your son not to be accepted by MS, but then again, why is a school with a COP of 240, which is 5 points higher than your son's score listed as the 6th choice? :? Would suggest that you rethink that, kind of wasting your last choice. Think of it this way, if your son is unable to get into the other 5 schools listed above XM, what are his chances of getting into XM with a COP that is higher than his score?

Hope you don't mind, just my thoughts.[/quote]yup, i understand Maris Stella is a SAP school. however, looking through the CCA of Chung Cheng (Main), there's alot of activities that are Chinese related. Maris Stella offer something different.

my son score A for his CL2 (to me it is a miracle as he always fail his CL2 Paper 2). my son has to buck up his Chinese and he has promised he will try (he has done that for his PSLE)

my son's form teacher just called to remind to submit the Application. i have told her the choices and same question as you have mentioned - Maris Stella is a SAP school. same thing i have told her and she think if my son do not \"switch off\" - not paying attention, he should be fine.

as for the last choice, i don't know what to put after going through the list many times and decided on Xinmin. any suggestion?

[innocent]

Hi all.


Been scratching my head…

We are not sure we shd put Catholic High(COP 248) or
Victoria(COP 245) as first choice.

My son prefer Victoria. His T-score is 247.

But if I put Victoria as first choice and Catholic as sec, it does not make sense since Victoria COP is lower than Catholic.

If i put Catholic as first choice and if he is selected it will not do good
if we appeal for Victoria.

Any advice?
TIA

[pecalis]

innocent:

Hi all.


Been scratching my head....

We are not sure we shd put Catholic High(COP 248) or
Victoria(COP 245) as first choice.

My son prefer Victoria. His T-score is 247.

But if I put Victoria as first choice and Catholic as sec, it does not make sense since Victoria COP is lower than Catholic.

If i put Catholic as first choice and if he is selected it will not do good
if we appeal for Victoria.

Any advice?
TIA

If he prefers Victoria, then just choose Victoria as 1st choice - should be able to get in VS

[autolycus]

headache_queen123:

My daughter is interested to pick up a 3rd language (she is offered to take up) but she is still not sure at this moment whether she should pick up Japanese or French as the third language. Which is more useful, easy to master and selected by most students as 3rd language? Any advice?


... my daughter is better in English language than Chinese and she prefers a mixed cultural environment.

My advice would be that she should take up French. It seems likely that if you are better in English, French will be easier to handle; after all, much of modern English is related to French, historically. Japanese is easy to extract meaning from or relate to if you are good with Chinese.

However Japanese is a less useful language and likely to become even less so in the years ahead as Japan ages and becomes less influential. French is likely to remain useable throughout areas in the EU, and academically, in the humanities.

In terms of cultural exposure, French still has a legacy as a diplomatic language and a language of philosophy and literature. There are French companies worldwide too, and it is easier to join one and work for one.

But after all that, it all boils down to what your daughter thinks. You might want to visit the Alliance Francaise at 1 Sarkies Road (near Newton MRT).

[desichan352]

danlim:

Hi, my dd has 229 and we have narrow the choice down to the following



Swiss Cottage (234)
Presbyterian High(229)
Clementi Town(231)
Kranji(229)

we stay in bt batok, so which choice would be best?

If she really wants to go clementi town, list it as her first choice followed by Kranji. I suggest you don't list Swiss Cottage as one of your choices as she missed the COP by 5 marks and Presbyterian High as it is too far away from ur house. Good luck! ^^

[Advisepls]

I got 255 for PSLE wif 2 A* and 2 A(2 more marks for HCL). After careful consideration, i put cedar as my first choice and crescent as my second choice. By the way i was asked to take up third languange and i applied to take french. I initially thought of japanese but then i thought that there may not be many vacancies left since so many ppl would want to take it up.

Anyway, do you think french is a good language to study as i am strong in english.

[fromnuaa]

how about German? German vs French,which one is easy to learn? which one is more userful?