Review of Secondary/IP Schools

[Jennifer]

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kirakira:

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[JHFMum]

Agree with kirakira. Many GEP students are offered confirmed places in at 2-3 schs. Majority of my dd’s classmates have at least 2 offers. Hence it explains why Ps of NYGH, HCI and ACS(I) have to appeal to the goodwill of parents and students to inform them if they are not taking up the offers.


My dd only applied for 1 sch despite the kiasu mum asking her to try for another. Her reasoning was she did not want to give up her dream of getting into her 1st choice. If she was not accepted then she would study hard for PSLE and get in via PSLE results. She would only consider her 2nd choice if she failed to make it after PSLE. Fortunately, she was offered a confirmed place for her only DSA sch.

After reading the various posts, it makes me wonder if DSA is making parents and students more stressful than before when one only needed to worry after PSLE.

[daisyt]

Have any parents thought of this question ? What happen if the kids are not scoring good \"A\" level results to get into local Uni or to get into the course they want. What other options are there for these IP students ? :?

[chengsmummy]

daisyt:

Have any parents thought of this question ? What happen if the kids are not scoring good \"A\" level results to get into local Uni or to get into the course they want. What other options are there for these IP students ? :?

hi daisyt,

I have never thought of this leh. Don't think there will be any difference between IP and non-IP students in this situation. all of them need the good A level result to enter the hot courses of the local Uni,right? Other than that perhaps can try overseas via other exam results?

wow, still have 5 years to go, you already start to plan already..

[daisyt]

Hi chengsmummy, actually you are quite correct hor. IP or non IP in this situation, they are the same. I am thinking at least non IP still have O level certs mah. But start to think more indept, O level cert is nothing nowadays. OK ... I admit, I think too much.


I just google and seem that Polys also accept 'A' level students.

So my conclusion, the options are
1) Go poly with the A level results, at least can get the course we want but waste 1 year
2) Re-take A level for the subjects not good at, then combine the certs the next year apply Uni. Can ?
3) Go overseas
4) Take course from private Uni here

[lizawa]

chengsmummy:

daisyt:

Have any parents thought of this question ? What happen if the kids are not scoring good \"A\" level results to get into local Uni or to get into the course they want. What other options are there for these IP students ? :?

hi daisyt,

I have never thought of this leh. Don't think there will be any difference between IP and non-IP students in this situation. all of them need the good A level result to enter the hot courses of the local Uni,right? Other than that perhaps can try overseas via other exam results?

wow, still have 5 years to go, you already start to plan already..

So long as you don't fail, I think the \"not so good\" \"A\"-level results can still qualify for some Poly courses, if that's what you are thinking. These kids won't have any 'O'-level results to fall back on.

But I do believe that the IP schools should have a system to identify those who cannot cope with full IP program and get them to switch to 'O'-levels before the 4th year.

[daisyt]

thanks lizawa and chengsmummy, sorry i have to apologise, this question of me might sounds stupid. I simply think too much lah :lol: :lol:

[WeiHan]

I would think that most students in the IP programme should be able to do well in the A level. The problem may be that IP programme emphasised more on independent work and some students may become lax. In the end, it is still the same, they have to take ‘A’ level exams and to do well, it is still the same, keep drilling on the 10 years series problems. It is simply very hard for me to imagine many students who get more than 250 aggregate in PSLE can’t cope with ‘A’ level 10 years series problems.

[kaydenbrown]

daisyt:

Have any parents thought of this question ? What happen if the kids are not scoring good \"A\" level results to get into local Uni or to get into the course they want. What other options are there for these IP students ? :?

Just to add on some points to this. In the UK, there are some schools where the students just go accelerated to the GCSE A levels equivalent and often these students are already identified as good enough so they will usually not screw up their A levels.

However, there will be some who just happen to slack off because they do not really find any goal to work towards so they do not score well for the As.

In such schools, you tend to end up with 2 extreme classes of students.

[shriradh]

Where to get past 10 year series of A level Question papers?TIA