DSA 2011

[ngbrdad]

Snow Crystal:

:shock: 12/25 and 10/24 are very low CO/WL hit rate for GEP. Such numbers are lower than some top Higher Ability classes.

Most if not all GEP girls have CO/WL.
Taking an example of 350:200 GEP boy:girl scenario,
80%of 550=440
440-200 girls= 240 boys
240/350=69% hit rate for boys with DSA CO/WL
350-440= 110 boys no CO/WL
:yikes:
Above is just example/scenario only, not true numbers. Pls don't flame :pokeeye:
Saving grace is eventually >90% get into IP after PSLE but got handful in non-IP.

Then they bluff children one leh.
One of the selling point to attract people into accepting the GEP offer was more than 80% will get secondary school of their choice thru DSA.

[ngbrdad]

firefly38:

jtoh, why only RGPS & NYPS will likely to bring average up? based on past years' statistics? Or else not fair to other GEP schools, as parents deciding on which GEP schools to choose for their kids (if they qualify for GEP), after reading your post, will have a wrong impression that only RGPS & NYPS have
high success rate in DSA.

Most GEP girls will get CO/WL.
So being the only all girls school here, it's natural for RGPS to have higher rate.
NYPS being the premier GEP school also should have higher rate lah.
Btw do they have a higher girl : boy ratio compared to other GEP schools ?

[verykiasu2010]

firefly38:

jtoh, why only RGPS & NYPS will likely to bring average up? based on past years' statistics? Or else not fair to other GEP schools, as parents deciding on which GEP schools to choose for their kids (if they qualify for GEP), after reading your post, will have a wrong impression that only RGPS & NYPS have
high success rate in DSA.

NYPS averages around 33% of the cohort, incl mainstream, success in DSA

[jtoh]

ngbrdad:

Snow Crystal:

:shock: 12/25 and 10/24 are very low CO/WL hit rate for GEP. Such numbers are lower than some top Higher Ability classes.

Most if not all GEP girls have CO/WL.
Taking an example of 350:200 GEP boy:girl scenario,
80%of 550=440
440-200 girls= 240 boys
240/350=69% hit rate for boys with DSA CO/WL
350-440= 110 boys no CO/WL
:yikes:
Above is just example/scenario only, not true numbers. Pls don't flame :pokeeye:
Saving grace is eventually >90% get into IP after PSLE but got handful in non-IP.

Then they bluff children one leh.
One of the selling point to attract people into accepting the GEP offer was more than 80% will get secondary school of their choice thru DSA.

I believe the stats are still standing at >80% success rate for last year. Maybe this year's is anomaly? But we can't say for sure until the other schools come back with their stats.

[Snow Crystal]

ngbrdad:

Then they bluff children one leh.
One of the selling point to attract people into accepting the GEP offer was more than 80% will get secondary school of their choice thru DSA.

Never bluff lah, juz that they never say girl girl way above 80% and boy much less % :evil: :evil: overall 80% still correct
Anyway the GEP kids who didn't get any DSA offer or get into IP school after PSLE are usually boy boy right :rant:

[jtoh]

verykiasu2010:

firefly38:

jtoh, why only RGPS & NYPS will likely to bring average up? based on past years' statistics? Or else not fair to other GEP schools, as parents deciding on which GEP schools to choose for their kids (if they qualify for GEP), after reading your post, will have a wrong impression that only RGPS & NYPS have
high success rate in DSA.

NYPS averages around 33% of the cohort, incl mainstream, success in DSA

That's for the entire cohort, including mainstream. I think GEP alone the success rate is very high. Maybe the NYPS parents can confirm?

[verykiasu2010]

jtoh:

verykiasu2010:

[quote=\"firefly38\"]

jtoh, why only RGPS & NYPS will likely to bring average up? based on past years' statistics? Or else not fair to other GEP schools, as parents deciding on which GEP schools to choose for their kids (if they qualify for GEP), after reading your post, will have a wrong impression that only RGPS & NYPS have
high success rate in DSA.

NYPS averages around 33% of the cohort, incl mainstream, success in DSA

That's for the entire cohort, including mainstream. I think GEP alone the success rate is very high. Maybe the NYPS parents can confirm?[/quote]last year NYPS has 4 GEP classes = so assume 100 GEP kids

number of DSA success in 2010 : 155 out of 472 entire cohort, and a few GEP kids did not apply DSA at all

[jtoh]

ngbrdad:

Then they bluff children one leh.
One of the selling point to attract people into accepting the GEP offer was more than 80% will get secondary school of their choice thru DSA.

Actually when MOE gives the 80% figure, they don't say which school the successful DSAs are for. Most kids and parents want to go to RI/HCI/NUSH etc, but of these 80% CO/WLs, some could be for the 2nd tier schools which the kids don't want to go to anyway but tried out for DSA just in case.

[Snow Crystal]

jtoh:

Actually when MOE gives the 80% figure, they don't say which school the successful DSAs are for. Most kids and parents want to go to RI/HCI/NUSH etc, but of these 80% CO/WLs, some could be for the 2nd tier schools which the kids don't want to go to anyway but tried out for DSA just in case.

The DSA positions available in top IPs are more than sufficient to cater for all GEP kids. However, because a lot of kids tried a few IPs and get multiple COs/WLs, thus the said <20% are left with no COs/WLs

[verykiasu2010]

Snow Crystal:

jtoh:

Actually when MOE gives the 80% figure, they don't say which school the successful DSAs are for. Most kids and parents want to go to RI/HCI/NUSH etc, but of these 80% CO/WLs, some could be for the 2nd tier schools which the kids don't want to go to anyway but tried out for DSA just in case.

The DSA positions available in top IPs are more than sufficient to cater for all GEP kids. However, because a lot of kids tried a few IPs and get multiple COs/WLs, thus the said <20% are left with no COs/WLs

DSA is by merit, not by supply vs demand