2012 P1 Registration Exercise for 2013 In-Take

[phtthp]

hi laughingcat,


so have you decided which school for your DS1 - ACS or NYPS ?
one year down the road July 2012, you need to toss the coin liao!

[phtthp]

laughingcat,


if you choose ACS (Junior), your DS1 and DesertWind DS1 will end up become schoolmates in ACSJ one day. Yours enter P1 2013, while hers enter P1 2014.

kekekekekekekekekke :rahrah:

both of you got something in common ... both of you got 2 boys.

[laughingcat]

I have been reading the MOE guidelines very seriously. Should there be vacancy exceeded for phase 2A, balloting will occur. Has anybody read before that balloting occur for phase 2A in the yesteryear?


http://www.moe.gov.sg/education/admissions/primary-one-registration/faqs/

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[laughingcat]

phtthp:

hi laughingcat,


so have you decided which school for your DS1 - ACS or NYPS ?
one year down the road July 2012, you need to toss the coin liao!

Have not decided yet lor. :sad: Still thinking where to relocate. But first I must like the place and whether can DH & myself can stayed long term. Cannot just consider for kids only.

[Cars2]

laughingcat:

I have been reading the MOE guidelines very seriously. Should there be vacancy exceeded for phase 2A, balloting will occur. Has anybody read before that balloting occur for phase 2A in the yesteryear?]

Yes. For admission year 1990, NYPS could not absorb all its alumni. All phase 2A outside 2km and less than 3 kids were rejected WITHOUT even a chance to ballot. There were not even enough vacancies to go around. The cutoff was at Phase 2A AND the parents have 3kids.

That was under the watch of Mdm Ho Chin Geok's time. Lots of unhappy parents then. Hopefully, history will not repeat itself.

[Dorothy HM]

Anybody has children studying in North Vista Primary School. Care to share more about the school learning environment? Thinking of registering my girl for that primary school.

[phtthp]

hi Cars2,


to clarify, when you say 3 kids - are you refering to triplets born in that family can’t enter NYPS in 1990, or any family with >= 3 kids can’t enter NYPS under phase P2A ?

does this apply to all schools in SG (even up till today), or only to NYPS with families having >= 3 kids ?

[laughingcat]

Cars2:

laughingcat:

I have been reading the MOE guidelines very seriously. Should there be vacancy exceeded for phase 2A, balloting will occur. Has anybody read before that balloting occur for phase 2A in the yesteryear?]

Yes. For admission year 1990, NYPS could not absorb all its alumni. All phase 2A outside 2km and less than 3 kids were rejected WITHOUT even a chance to ballot. There were not even enough vacancies to go around. The cutoff was at Phase 2A AND the parents have 3kids.

That was under the watch of Mdm Ho Chin Geok's time. Lots of unhappy parents then. Hopefully, history will not repeat itself.

:yikes:

Cars2, thank you for the info.

[Cars2]

phtthp:

hi Cars2,


to clarify, when you say 3 kids - are you refering to triplets born in that family can't enter NYPS in 1990, or any family with >= 3 kids can't enter NYPS under phase P2A ?

does this apply to all schools in SG (even up till today), or only to NYPS with families having >= 3 kids ?

To clarify, I am not referring to families with triplets. I am referring to an entire phase 2A where not all registrants were able to gain entry into NYPS. There were not even enough vacancies to allow a ballot process for families that had less than 3 kids (which accorded a registration priority during that time) and lived outside 2km of the school.

The school admission policy went through a number of changes over the years. In the 1980s, when the two child policy was in place, mothers who went through tubal ligation were given priority at P1 registration. Subsequently, the population policy was changed, and a 3-child policy came into force. In line with the population policy of that day, a family with 3 children was given priority during P1 registration on top of the school distance rule. Based on the vacancies available and the number of phase 2A registrants, NYPS could not take in everyone. So not all phase 2A registrants made it in that year.

Amazingly, that year was for children born in 1985 (NYPS had pre primary education at that time, hence registration was performed when the child is at age 5). 1985 was the year of the Ox, and the birth rate was not particularly high. Hence you can say it was indeed a freak result that consequently led to many many unhappy phase 2A parents.

[phtthp]

hi laughingcat,


compare ACS with NYPS, think there are more phase P2A(1) alumni parents from NYPS, than P2A(1) parents from ACS.

because NYPS is co-ed, whereas ACS strictly admit boys only.

maybe safer to choose ACS.

Thanks car2, for your interesting revelation history sharing in 1990!