All About GEP

[jtoh]

Herbie:

For p4 to drop out if ge, the child can still choose to go back to their original pri sch. But for p5, u really hv to think hard cos u will end up in the ge but mainstream dept.


I think the child will feel demoralise so die die they will chose to stay in ge.

Only if your original primary school has vacancies available.

[jtoh]

vlim:

I heard of one kid with 3 maths tuition. One maths enrichment center. One tutor to teach/ guide school homework and another tutor to teach/ guide enrichment center homework :rotflmao:

3 tutors! And one to teach enrichment centre homework?!! I can imagine this kid probably has Science, Chinese and English tuition too.

[vlim]

Champion:

MotherHen:

Academic pressure from school is one thing, but I think pressure also comes from parents, who may have excessive expectations of their children and thus overburden them with tuition.

I agree with MotherHen's above statement! :goodpost:

After the last GEP screening tests on 24 August, DD1 (P3) came home told me,\" Mummy, xxx cried because she unable to finish the Maths paper and she worried her mummy will cane her! I give her the whole pkt of issue but still not enough; then I have to bring her to the toilet to clean up!\"

Such was a real scenario and I felt heart-pain for this girl who happened sat beside my DD1 :sad:

Ya when I went home after work tt day, my p3 sadly told me tt she fail her gep test Liao as she didn't have enough time to do 5 qns.
I told is ok.. Gep test is not important ... But school exams are

[Herbie]

jtoh:

Herbie:

For p4 to drop out if ge, the child can still choose to go back to their original pri sch. But for p5, u really hv to think hard cos u will end up in the ge but mainstream dept.


I think the child will feel demoralise so die die they will chose to stay in ge.

Only if your original primary school has vacancies available.

Anyway it is doable. One of the parents has requested the original's principal to double confirm with moe.

[Herbie]

hi vlim,


How’s P6 Gep like?? is it tough?

[vlim]

Herbie:

hi vlim,


How's P6 Gep like?? is it tough?

When my ds was in p5, last yr, a few parents here said tt p6 gep is a breeze... But no le ... As they have ct1 in march and SA in may plus various English assignment,Ss portfolio , maths assignment ... So it was very busy in 1st and 2 Nd term .. But I feel relief after his p6 sa1 exam as tt is the last gep exam ... I feel tt p6 science got lots more things to study such as adaption which is part of mainstream curriculum also .... The rest of the subjects are abt the same as p5 lor .
For Ss they have to do 2 portfolio whereby they have to choose their own topics.... Need quite a fair bit of write out with simple survey etc etc.. But with p4 and p5 Ss portfolio experiences... They shouldn't have much problem with it also with the teacher guidance ..

[Herbie]

huh! very busy in 1st and 2nd term and my dd still have to go for SYF next year.

Die liao.

[vlim]

Herbie:

huh! very busy in 1st and 2nd term and my dd still have to go for SYF next year.

Die liao.

not to scare you...make sure she got time to revise for ct and sa lo..as you know la ...the dsa thingy. But of course, there are some who can handle with 'breeze'

[KSP]

Champion:

After the last GEP screening tests on 24 August, DD1 (P3) came home told me,\" Mummy, xxx cried because she unable to finish the Maths paper and she worried her mummy will cane her!

this was what exactly my dd told me too after the screening test..... i thought it was rare or isolated case.... but seems like very common after reading your post.....

[KSP]

Flowermonaster:

Way2GO:

[quote=\"comfy\"]hee hee that what the MOE said during the GEP briefing, genes from parents. But strange, neither me or hb are from gep lei.

GEP was only implemented from 1984.

DH & me also not from GEP. We did not miss the boat, the boat was still in the drafting stage during our times. :rotflmao:
So, we never got to find out but I believed my DS got that genes from his dad as I'm hopeless with Math. :stupid:[/quote]perhaps can start a poll here to find out how many parents and child are both from GEP.....