DSA 2011

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TREX8:

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All the best to those with DSA activities tomorrow:
- NYGH GAT
- RGS/RI Domain-Specific Selection Tests
- HCI DSA (Test and Interview?)

To All Parents, SUPPORT your DS/DD ALL THE WAY regardless of how they felt they have performed for the tests/interviews.

DS/DDs do your BEST so that whatever the outcome, YOU can say that you have done your best and there will be no regrets or \"if only I had...\"

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:thankyou: TREX8
For Your :rahrah: :rahrah:

[TwaTau]

tan li heng:

Hi, my brother would be taking the HCI dsa test tomorrow and i would really want to help him. May anyone provide me with the relevant advice? You help is greatly appreciated.

Your brother is in which domain?

Here is what I extracted from HCI DSA website for the various domains tomorrow. As for the details of each of the test, you got to refer back to the earlier post to get some hint:

Gifted Education Programme Students
 Free Response Written Test
 Interview

2011 Singapore Math Olympiad for
Primary Schools (Platinum, Gold & Silver medalists)
 English Test
 Chinese Test
 Interview

2011 NYGH Singapore-Malaysia Bilingual
Olympiad (Top 30) or
HCI Bilingual Talent Camp (Leaders)
 Mathematics Test
 Interview

Sports Talents & other Primary 6 students
 English Test
 Chinese Test
 Mathematics Test
 Interview

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:welcome: Ashton!

Thank you so Much for your Detail Sharing of the DSA journey!

And What Wonderful Kids U Have .... Both Bright and Talented!

ALL the Best to Your DS2 and Hope he Gets Offer from his Dream Sch!
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Ashton:

Hello everybody! I have been a reader of this forum for a long while but now, I have decided to participate too!


My DS1 is in year 3 ACS(I). He got in through DSA. Let me recount his experience.

In 2008, he applied DSA to ACS(I), RI and HCI. He received CO from ACS(I) and HCI.

ACS(I): The phone call came first to let me know that he was successful in his application. It was followed by an email and a letter. We were invited to the school to receive the official letter of confirmation. It was held in a lecture room; there was no tea reception. Those on waitlist were invited too. Ex-principal Ong Teck Chin gave a speech. The main highlight was telling those on waitlist that if they really want ACS(I), they should put it down as their first choice during the Sec 1 posting exercise as the chances of getting it were very high based on past years. They should put down their CO from other schools as second choice because if their first choice on Waitlist is not offered, they will be given their second choice automatically which is already confirmed. Make sense, right?

HCI: He was in the phase 1 DSA exercise as he had won medals in Maths Olympiads especially the one conducted by HCI. Not sure whether he did well for the tests, but I think his interview helped. I had prepped him for it, telling him questions that would be asked would likely be: “Why HCI?” “Any other schools you have applied?” \"If you are offered RI and HCI, which would you choose?” True enough, they were asked. He told me they were grouped in threes, and the panel consisted of two teachers and an older HCI student as an observer. DS1 was very kiasu; he was always the first to answer. He told me if he doesn’t answer first, then if those other students mentioned those points he want to make, then he would not have any thing new to say and it wouldn’t look good. He said after he had answered, the other two boys were practically repeating what he had said. He got the CO through email and snail mail.

RI: Naturally, he applied under the Maths Domain as he was strong in it and he was also not a Gepper. The strange thing was getting a phone call a couple of days before the GAT telling me that he need not go down to sit the test as he had already done the GAT through HCI. Both tests were the same, so RI would get the results from the GAT centre. But they didn’t refund the $50 leh… On the selection test day, I could see that there were many applicants under the Maths Domain, probably about 50 students? Think English and Science were about 20 while I distinctly recalled there were only 2 students for MT (Chinese). He told me that the Maths test was tough, which was why he didn’t get a CO from RI.

Hi, Ashton

Your DS1 didn't get CO from RI but was he in waitlist?

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ngbrdad:

DS went all the way to the canteen with his friends without telling me. Luckily I spotted them, tailed them all the way there and tried hard to usher them back to the test venue. So ended up looking after some other people's kids as well. Apparently these are his classmates that went without accompaniment by parents.

Oh ngbrdad, So Considerate of U ....
But on the Other HAnd, since Looking after One, Might As Well Rope in to Look After .... ONE Group!
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[anxiouskiddo]

Hey uhm sorry if it isn’t you, but are you Yi Ying?

[anxiouskiddo]

Oh hey if you are, Qian Wei here XD!

[ngbrdad]

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ngbrdad:

DS went all the way to the canteen with his friends without telling me. Luckily I spotted them, tailed them all the way there and tried hard to usher them back to the test venue. So ended up looking after some other people's kids as well. Apparently these are his classmates that went without accompaniment by parents.

Oh ngbrdad, So Considerate of U ....
But on the Other HAnd, since Looking after One, Might As Well Rope in to Look After .... ONE Group!
:celebrate: :celebrate:

Not easy controlling one group of boys.

[Mum1113]

jtoh:

Students who participated in DSA will be given a DSA Exercise Form some time after their PSLE exams to indicate their 1st choice/2nd choice etc based on their list of COs/WLs. After they submit this form, these students will no longer participate in the S1 Central Posting Exercise.

When the PSLE results are released, these students who have DSA COs will receive a slip to indicate which school they have been posted to. Those who were on WLs but indicated their WL schools as 1st choice will also be notified as to whether they were successful in their choice. If not, they will have to take part in the S1 Central Posting.

Thanks jtoh mummy, this clears my doubt now cheers

[Blur Dad]

ngbrdad:

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[quote=\"ngbrdad\"]
DS went all the way to the canteen with his friends without telling me. Luckily I spotted them, tailed them all the way there and tried hard to usher them back to the test venue. So ended up looking after some other people's kids as well. Apparently these are his classmates that went without accompaniment by parents.

Oh ngbrdad, So Considerate of U ....
But on the Other HAnd, since Looking after One, Might As Well Rope in to Look After .... ONE Group!
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Not easy controlling one group of boys.[/quote]Hi ngbrdad

So how is the GAT? Any feedback from your DS? Able to complete? Easy?

Thank you