All Parents of 2009 PSLE kid: Preparing from Sec2 Streaming

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DadofGirl



One may opt to do 7 subjects. No problem.

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For high ability students it’s better to take 2 science plus 2 maths plus 2 humanities than triple science with only one humanities. Good cca record is worth 2 bonus points like HMT.



Another reason for above recommendation is it’s important to expose your able kids to a pure humanities subject at sec3/yr3 as it will help them in reading a constrasting subject at jc level plus the general paper.

[DadOfGirl]

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DadofGirl



One may opt to do 7 subjects. No problem.

Thank you Innovate.

[jtoh]

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For high ability students it's better to take 2 science plus 2 maths plus 2 humanities than triple science with only one humanities. Good cca record is worth 2 bonus points like HMT.



Another reason for above recommendation is it's important to expose your able kids to a pure humanities subject at sec3/yr3 as it will help them in reading a constrasting subject at jc level plus the general paper.

What if the student's in an IP programme? Is it still better to take double science, double humanities vs triple science?

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jtoh:

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For high ability students it's better to take 2 science plus 2 maths plus 2 humanities than triple science with only one humanities. Good cca record is worth 2 bonus points like HMT.



Another reason for above recommendation is it's important to expose your able kids to a pure humanities subject at sec3/yr3 as it will help them in reading a constrasting subject at jc level plus the general paper.

What if the student's in an IP programme? Is it still better to take double science, double humanities vs triple science?

IP or non-IP ,is better to take 2cience and 2 maths vs triple science so as to enable these able students to focuss on cca and excel academically. Good cca is very critical both for scholarship applications and to pursue the most competitive courses in unis.

Triple science is stressful even for v able students considering the fact that these are the ones likely to hold leadership positions in schools.

[phankao]

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For high ability students it's better to take 2 science plus 2 maths plus 2 humanities than triple science with only one humanities. Good cca record is worth 2 bonus points like HMT.

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The average students in my dd's school would take 2science + 2 humanities. The high-ability students to 3science+2humanities. They don't actually have triple-science plus 1 humanities. In fact, much to my dd's dismay, e-lit was compulsory.

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phankao:

The average students in my dd's school would take 2science + 2 humanities. The high-ability students to 3science+2humanities. They don't actually have triple-science plus 1 humanities. In fact, much to my dd's dismay, e-lit was compulsory.

Is this common, whereby schools insist that a particular humanities be compulsory? Which school is this if you don't mind revealing?

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jtoh:

phankao:

The average students in my dd's school would take 2science + 2 humanities. The high-ability students to 3science+2humanities. They don't actually have triple-science plus 1 humanities. In fact, much to my dd's dismay, e-lit was compulsory.

Is this common, whereby schools insist that a particular humanities be compulsory? Which school is this if you don't mind revealing?

Combine humanities is compulsory for all students taking 0-level. IP schools have their own humanities programme.

[zeemimi]

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jtoh:

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The average students in my dd's school would take 2science + 2 humanities. The high-ability students to 3science+2humanities. They don't actually have triple-science plus 1 humanities. In fact, much to my dd's dismay, e-lit was compulsory.

Is this common, whereby schools insist that a particular humanities be compulsory? Which school is this if you don't mind revealing?

Combine humanities is compulsory for all students taking 0-level. IP schools have their own humanities programme.[/quote] :? sorry, what is combine humanities? as in geog-hist as one subject? something like combine science in my time more than 25 years ago? study like 75% of each subject?

[phankao]

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jtoh:

[quote=\"phankao\"]

The average students in my dd's school would take 2science + 2 humanities. The high-ability students to 3science+2humanities. They don't actually have triple-science plus 1 humanities. In fact, much to my dd's dismay, e-lit was compulsory.

Is this common, whereby schools insist that a particular humanities be compulsory? Which school is this if you don't mind revealing?

Combine humanities is compulsory for all students taking 0-level. IP schools have their own humanities programme.[/quote]My dd's school is SNGS - she just finished her Os. Maybe it would be different in CHS - since they allow the boys there to make up their own subject combinations.

I suppose Combined Humanities is compulsory only for Science stream students. Combined humanities can be \"Social Studies+Geog\" or \"Soc.Studies+History\". I think it's rare for students doing 2 pure Science to do a pure humanities eg. Geog or History. On the other hand, students doing 2 pure Humanities eg. Geog or History, would often be taking a Combined Science, which is often \"Physics+Chemistry\".

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