School of Science and Technology

[JHFMum]

carebear:

I gather that those who applied to SST and have been given a place are having second thoughts?


You have up to 26 oct to decide right?

After that, presuming you give SST a positive answer, but after PSLE results are released and your child does well enough to get to his dream school, previously thought to be unreachable, can he still reject his confirmed application and go for his dream school?

According to MOE, you must honour your decision. On PSLE day, the child is given the confimation letter, no option form. Understand from other discussions that parents do go around appealing but the process is tedious and no gaurantee. It's a gamble when we made a decision to accept a DSA sch. We really do not know if our child will do exceptionally well to qualify for a better sch.

My take is know the strength of the child and if it is what the DSA sch can dev him/her in, then accept the sch and give him/her the best support to do well in the sch.

[lalala]

carebear:

I gather that those who applied to SST and have been given a place are having second thoughts?


You have up to 26 oct to decide right?

After that, presuming you give SST a positive answer, but after PSLE results are released and your child does well enough to get to his dream school, previously thought to be unreachable, can he still reject his confirmed application and go for his dream school?

you just described eveything im worried about. My son decided to apply for SST without the knowledge that he had to choose whether he wanted to enrol in it before the release of the PSLE results. Now he is in a delimma. He decided that he would give up on the offer and concentrate on his PSLE so that he can get in NJC etc. But he is still thinking.

[turquoise]

lalala:

you just described eveything im worried about. My son decided to apply for SST without the knowledge that he had to choose whether he wanted to enrol in it before the release of the PSLE results. Now he is in a delimma. He decided that he would give up on the offer and concentrate on his PSLE so that he can get in NJC etc. But he is still thinking.

Is SST having another Open House after the PSLE? Taking another look at the school may give him a better idea of whether that's what he wants. NJC is having a school tour on Oct 24.

[phankao]

lalala:

you just described eveything im worried about. My son decided to apply for SST without the knowledge that he had to choose whether he wanted to enrol in it before the release of the PSLE results. Now he is in a delimma. He decided that he would give up on the offer and concentrate on his PSLE so that he can get in NJC etc. But he is still thinking.

Hai, which means he was not even familiar with the DSA process when he applied? You were also not aware?

Did he apply for NJC under DSA also?

My boy applied both and he was prepared to accept either, and as parents, we just had to respect his choices.

SST is just an unknown step with no history. But with SST being a govt initiative, I doubt it will be poorly setup. Surely they would want to make it a success.

Did your child voice any opinions on this? Is the dilemma his or yours?

[phankao]

turquoise:

Is SST having another Open House after the PSLE? Taking another look at the school may give him a better idea of whether that's what he wants. NJC is having a school tour on Oct 24.

I know there's an event on 24 Oct at SST, but it's only for those who have been given CO/WL. As all places are taken up under DSA already, why does the school still need to have an open house?

NJC having a school tour still makes sense since it takes in around 50% under DSA and balance 50% during the sec 1 posting exercise.

[lalala]

phankao:

Hai, which means he was not even familiar with the DSA process when he applied? You were also not aware?


Did he apply for NJC under DSA also?

My boy applied both and he was prepared to accept either, and as parents, we just had to respect his choices.

SST is just an unknown step with no history. But with SST being a govt initiative, I doubt it will be poorly setup. Surely they would want to make it a success.

Did your child voice any opinions on this? Is the dilemma his or yours?

we kinda got the dates mixed up, we thought it was 26 November, same day as when psle results came out. Hai

my boy did not apply for NJC as we did not want to put so much stress on our kid, running here and there. I thought the camp was on the same day too?

I'm sure SST would not be a total flop, with NTU and NP professors mentorshop, advanced applied learning modules and the future@school status.

This delimma is actually his, as he wants to go to SST but does not know if it is actually a good school

[phankao]

lalala:

my boy did not apply for NJC as we did not want to put so much stress on our kid, running here and there. I thought the camp was on the same day too?

Actually the NJC test is similar to SST's. So I doubt your child would have been stressed up. SST's camp was on 18July & 1st Aug, so depends on which day your child's SST camp was on. If his was 1st Aug, then yes, it clash with NJC's camp. My son's also, but he took his at SST a day before going for NJC's camp. This kind of thing - no harm asking if it's arrangeable.

[lalala]

phankao:

lalala:

my boy did not apply for NJC as we did not want to put so much stress on our kid, running here and there. I thought the camp was on the same day too?

Actually the NJC test is similar to SST's. So I doubt your child would have been stressed up. SST's camp was on 18July & 1st Aug, so depends on which day your child's SST camp was on. If his was 1st Aug, then yes, it clash with NJC's camp. My son's also, but he took his at SST a day before going for NJC's camp. This kind of thing - no harm asking if it's arrangeable.

Ya my son's friend took the NJC test. It was the HAST.

Since your kid got accepted to NJC, why dont he take the offer? Its a 6 yr IP programme.

[phankao]

lalala:

Since your kid got accepted to NJC, why dont he take the offer? Its a 6 yr IP programme.

I didn't say he wasn't going to.

[lalala]

phankao:

lalala:

Since your kid got accepted to NJC, why dont he take the offer? Its a 6 yr IP programme.

I didn't say he wasn't going to.

good for him.