GEP 2011 - Screening & Selection

[jtoh]

jedamum:

Just4Fun:

[quote=\"jedamum\"]congrats to those who got through!

does the class teacher really announce how many got through?
i only know for ICAS, my kid's teacher just dished out the papers and told them to keep to themselves.

Jedamum,
Do we hv ICAS or UNSW at Pr 3 level???
Totally clueless ....or my child is not involved so hv no idea at all.
Pls adv ? Thx !

UNSW is new to me. ICAS yes at P3 level, they even have at P2. depending on whether the school inform the parents to sign up. I signed my boy up for fun last year for computer skills. This year, he did computer skills and 3 other subjects as his form teacher suggested that everyone from their class should attempt all ICAS papers for exposure.
school will issue a notice cos fee deductable via edusave.[/quote]ICAS and UNSW are the same thing.

[jedamum]

jtoh:

ICAS and UNSW are the same thing.

oic. heehee..i thought something different. :oops:

[Herbie]

Hi jtoh, you have a PM.

[raysusan]

sorry

what is ICAS or UNSW??

[gleemom]

Round 1 results out in ds’ school. 26 out off 44 students in his class got through

[Sun_2010]

UNSW - University of New South Wales

It conducts the exams called ICAS - International Competitions and Assessments for Schools

[KSP]

there are about 180 primary schools and only 4,000 are going for 2nd round....


http://www.moe.gov.sg/education/programmes/gifted-education-programme/faq/gep-pupils/

so on the avg only 22 from each school.....

[Just4Fun]

I heard that the 1st screening test was actually marked by the respective school teachers.

Does it mean that the selection is also done by the own school and not MOE?
Is this the reason why some schools "got" the test results earlier than others?
Some even as late as 1 wk later !!!
I am really curious how this system work. Any one to share some light?

[Snow Crystal]

mickeyhmh:

My DS1 also got through round 1. His class (HA) had about 75% got through. Heard one of the MA class had only 1 who went through. His classmate from P1/P2 (not same class this year) also got thru - unexpected as his English was not too good, tho' his Maths was excellent.

:rahrah: :congrats:

[jtoh]

Just4Fun:

I heard that the 1st screening test was actually marked by the respective school teachers.

Does it mean that the selection is also done by the own school and not MOE?
Is this the reason why some schools \"got\" the test results earlier than others?
Some even as late as 1 wk later !!!
I am really curious how this system work. Any one to share some light?

I don't think the schools would have any say in the selection. They probably just feed the scores back to MOE and MOE will release the selected students' names to the schools.