DSA 2011

[jtoh]

verykiasu2010:

jtoh:

What school is he in now? If he's in co-ed he must be very popular with the girls.

he is in RI, also in Euler program (and Galileo program too, I think)

What're Euler and Galileo programs?

[verykiasu2010]

jtoh:

verykiasu2010:

[quote=\"jtoh\"]


What school is he in now? If he's in co-ed he must be very popular with the girls.

he is in RI, also in Euler program (and Galileo program too, I think)

What're Euler and Galileo programs?[/quote]Euler is the pull-out class for math, selected via test and interview, 3rd year running it, class size is 15 for 2011 sec 1. They don't join the rest of the cohort for math lessons except for end of year exam. SMO competition is treated as their assignment

Galileo is the pull out class for science.....just like math.

[RSS]

Following the maths Olympiad thread. There are 75 smops platinum holders. Ds also came in among top 30 in nus high nmos, for acsi maths Olympiad he also came into the highest category. The only maths olympiad which he didnt win the top category is ri world maths contest. Looks like he and ri are not to be. But it is ok, we like acsi and nus high too just that it is much farther in distance. Didn’t apply hci.

[jtoh]

verykiasu2010:

jtoh:

[quote=\"verykiasu2010\"]
he is in RI, also in Euler program (and Galileo program too, I think)

What're Euler and Galileo programs?

Euler is the pull-out class for math, selected via test and interview, 3rd year running it, class size is 15 for 2011 sec 1. They don't join the rest of the cohort for math lessons except for end of year exam. SMO competition is treated as their assignment

Galileo is the pull out class for science.....just like math.[/quote]I see. All the top SMOPS scorers will be in Euler then.

[phankao]

jtoh:

phankao:

hey, it's only bc different schools have different criteria, so I've not thot about it. RI uses 4.0 max GPA, but other schools use 4.2, 4.3, 4.5, so when a parent just randomly gives a 3.8 GPA as very good, it may not make sense to all, KWIM?

I see. What's the max GPA in NJC? Always curious to learn something new.

4.3

[verykiasu2010]

jtoh:

I see. All the top SMOPS scorers will be in Euler then.

more or less, mostly GEPpers too

[jtoh]

phankao:

jtoh:

[quote=\"phankao\"]
hey, it's only bc different schools have different criteria, so I've not thot about it. RI uses 4.0 max GPA, but other schools use 4.2, 4.3, 4.5, so when a parent just randomly gives a 3.8 GPA as very good, it may not make sense to all, KWIM?

I see. What's the max GPA in NJC? Always curious to learn something new.

4.3[/quote]Thanks phankao. What's the range of scores on it? For eg., is >80% 4.0, >70% 3.8 etc?

[Blur Dad]

RSS:

Following the maths Olympiad thread. There are 75 smops platinum holders. Ds also came in among top 30 in nus high nmos, for acsi maths Olympiad he also came into the highest category. The only maths olympiad which he didnt win the top category is ri world maths contest. Looks like he and ri are not to be. But it is ok, we like acsi and nus high too just that it is much farther in distance. Didn't apply hci.

Hi RSS

Not to worry, base on your DS portfolio and SA1 score. I guess your DS has very high chance to get CO from RI.

All the best.i

[phankao]

jtoh:

Thanks phankao. What's the range of scores on it? For eg., is >80% 4.0, >70% 3.8 etc?

They don't do a per-subject GPA actually but the guideline is this lah:

Above 85% is 4.3
Above 70% is 4.0
Above 65% is 3.5

[verykiasu2010]

phankao:

jtoh:

Thanks phankao. What's the range of scores on it? For eg., is >80% 4.0, >70% 3.8 etc?

They don't do a per-subject GPA actually but the guideline is this lah:

Above 85% is 4.3
Above 70% is 4.0
Above 65% is 3.5

the gap is huge between 4.0 and 4.3, a whopping 15 marks for a difference of 0.3 while only 5 marks to move from 3.5 to 4.0 !

not very balanced leh, at least to me