All About GEP

[Flowermonaster]

WTK:

Flowermonaster:

[quote=\"WTK\"]May I know what are the topics to be tested for GEP 5 social studies ? TIA


Mine said yesterday maths test was difficult, can't even finish the paper

Hi WTK, below are the P5 SS topics to be tested.
Problems after WWII
Towards full internal self-government
Merger & Separation
Challenges after separation
spore political leaders in the 1950s & 1960s
Citizenship & building our Sporean identity
Man & his environment

MCQ 15 marks
Open-ended 35marks
Total 50 marks

Thanks flowermonaster for the SS topics :thankyou:[/quote]You're most welcome!

[iFirefly]

hello "flowermonster" (ops, not typo error this time), nice to see you here! your kid is in GEP P5?

[MotherHen]

MotherHen:

As for dd2, she just took the screening test in August. She already told me no matter what the results are, she's not changing school. I'm perfectly cool with that. In fact, now that I see what dd1 does in school, I would actively dissuade dd2 from taking up the GEP offer (if, for whatever freakish reason, she was selected). Not that she's no good, just that the program is not suitable for her.

MotherHen, :hi5: again! My DD1 said the same thing to me after the August 24th GEP papers and I said it's alright so long you do your best in your school exams! [/quote]



Exactly :celebrate:

[naggo-nitemare]

I remember the period just before PSLE was my dd’s most relaxed time in her 3 years in GEP.( don’t count holidays lah)[/quote]



Same for my DS. Last year was his p6 year. The few weeks leading up to psle was to him mind numbingly boring. Nothing but school- issued mock paper after mock paper. With cca n the usual curriculum halted, he had the most time he ever had in 3 yrs. It was a nice break, I thought.

[SAHM_TAN]

Thanks angell and MotherHen for sharing too. Most likely I will just let DD1 take the screening test when it's her turn. Looking at DH's and my genes and both their grandparents' genes, doubt she belong to this track

[comfy]

I think a lot of dd’s friends moms don’t think that she will be selected for gep,too. When they came to know about it, the expression on their faces said "How come? why their ds/dd are not in". So SAHM_TAN, you could be in for a surprise or "shock".

[jtoh]

angell:

Lynn2010:

[quote=\"Herbie\"]Actually, my dd also very cool and calm abt the year end exam... mummy very kan chong but she very relax...

Hahahah.... you are right Herbie. It is usually the mummy (and perhaps daddy) the kan cheong ones and not the kid. I remember last yr (my dd P5) give me a form \"stress management\". By reading the headline (busy lah), i thought she wanted to go for the course. I told her, no problem if she wants to attend. She replied \"No, mummy, i think you need it, not me\". :rotflmao: So \"ma lu\"

I remember the period just before PSLE was my dd's most relaxed time in her 3 years in GEP.( don't count holidays lah)[/quote]Same for my dd. She watched tv all day, we went away during the September holidays... For us, we figured that anything she needed to study she should already have. The week leading up to PSLE should just be about relaxing and keeping a cool head.

[comfy]

jtoh:

angell:

[quote=\"Lynn2010\"]Hahahah.... you are right Herbie. It is usually the mummy (and perhaps daddy) the kan cheong ones and not the kid. I remember last yr (my dd P5) give me a form \"stress management\". By reading the headline (busy lah), i thought she wanted to go for the course. I told her, no problem if she wants to attend. She replied \"No, mummy, i think you need it, not me\". :rotflmao: So \"ma lu\"

I remember the period just before PSLE was my dd's most relaxed time in her 3 years in GEP.( don't count holidays lah)

Same for my dd. She watched tv all day, we went away during the September holidays... For us, we figured that anything she needed to study she should already have. The week leading up to PSLE should just be about relaxing and keeping a cool head.[/quote]Is it all your ds/dd do very well/quite well in their SA1 that why, can be so relaxed? or have COs?

[angell]

SAHM_TAN:

Thanks angell and MotherHen for sharing too. Most likely I will just let DD1 take the screening test when it's her turn. Looking at DH's and my genes and both their grandparents' genes, doubt she belong to this track

:welcome:
Should try lah, no harm doing so. Often hear of stories where the kids who came in tops from P1 to P3 did not get in GEP while those playful ones got in, so you'll never know.....A little tip, it's useful to know fractions, i.e. if the tests have not changed, my dd did it umpteen years ago.

[angell]

comfy:

Is it all your ds/dd do very well/quite well in their SA1 that why, can be so relaxed? or have COs?

I think my dd was very relaxed because there was no homework, no projects, no deadlines to meet and she claimed that she already knew \"everything\" when I nagged her to study. I guess having a CO does take off the stress too.