Anglo-Chinese School (Independent)

[autolycus]

fcjjchew:

Thanks v m for your reply.

So if u passed the Higher Chinese in Year 4. Are u exempted IB Chinese in year 5 n 6 ???

thanks.

You will have met the MOE MT language requirement, so you can choose a non-MT language in Year 5/6 (IBDP) if you want.

You must still take a Group 2 subject (i.e. a modern language which need not be your MT language). You are not exempted from doing a second language, but you can now take any available language at any available level (e.g. Spanish, German, French) — except Chinese, because you are now over-qualified.

Hope this helps!

[ngbrdad]

autolycus:

fcjjchew:

Thanks v m for your reply.

So if u passed the Higher Chinese in Year 4. Are u exempted IB Chinese in year 5 n 6 ???

thanks.

You will have met the MOE MT language requirement, so you can choose a non-MT language in Year 5/6 (IBDP) if you want.

You must still take a Group 2 subject (i.e. a modern language which need not be your MT language). You are not exempted from doing a second language, but you can now take any available language at any available level (e.g. Spanish, German, French) — except Chinese, because you are now over-qualified.

Hope this helps!

Heard that the IB Chinese is easier than A level Chinese and hence can boost up the score.
So isn't it to the student's advantage if he takes Chinese at IB instead of other foreign language ? Unless it's very easy to score high marks for these as well.

[ngbrdad]

From the ACS website it’s stated that 100 students will be promoted from the O level side to the IB side at Sec 3.

However with the MGS girls joining the programme in 2014, will the number still be the same ?
Or some places are given up to the MGS girls ?

[kittybank]

what r the chances of getting IP-IB with 253 and 252 respectively?

[tisha]

ngbrdad:

From the ACS website it's stated that 100 students will be promoted from the O level side to the IB side at Sec 3.

However with the MGS girls joining the programme in 2014, will the number still be the same ?
Or some places are given up to the MGS girls ?

Good question ngbrdad. If MGS girls join at Sec 3, it will hardly be considered as a boys school. Lets wait for autolycus to respond.

[autolycus]

wormy: 252-253 not very secure — it's hard to tell in any given year, but I'd feel safer at 255+.


ngbrdad: IB Chinese is easier than A-Level Chinese simply because IB Chinese is Chinese as a Second Language, while A-Level Chinese is supposed to be Chinese as a Mother Tongue Language. However, you can't take IB Chinese at a lower level if you already have better qualifications (e.g. Higher Chinese at O-Level). Educationally speaking, if you have Higher Chinese already, why bother to relearn the same thing? My former students who picked up a spare language found it rewarding, especially when going overseas.

ngbrdad, tisha: the first batch of MGS IP girls to go to ACS(I) will likely be the 2014 Sec 3 batch, who will enter ACS(I)'s Year 5 (the first year of the 2-year IBDP course) in Jan 2016 without having to do their O-Levels; the second batch will be the 2013 Sec 1 batch, who will enter in Jan 2017.

Do note that ACS was a pre-university institution for both boys and girls up to Dec 1976. In Jan 1977, ACJC opened. In Jan 2006, ACS(I) started to take in girls again at Year 5.

[tisha]

autolycus:

ngbrdad, tisha: the first batch of MGS IP girls to go to ACS(I) will likely be the 2014 Sec 3 batch, who will enter ACS(I)'s Year 5 (the first year of the 2-year IBDP course) in Jan 2016 without having to do their O-Levels; the second batch will be the 2013 Sec 1 batch, who will enter in Jan 2017.

Do note that ACS was a pre-university institution for both boys and girls up to Dec 1976. In Jan 1977, ACJC opened. In Jan 2006, ACS(I) started to take in girls again at Year 5.

Sorry to trouble you again autolycus, but just to get it right, will the girls from MGS be selected for the IP, but will continue year 3 and year 4 in their own school and then come to ACSI for yr 5 and yr 6?
Our question is the will 100 places of IP for yr 3 from the 'O' level track be shared by the MGS girls or will they be alloted additional seats? Hope I've framed my question clearly.

[autolycus]

tisha: yes, that is correct — the MGS girls will be 'exported' after Year 4 to ACS(I); the +100 IP places are purely within ACS(I) from Year 2 going into Year 3.


This is roughly how it works. In Year 1, about 150 students from the overall PSLE intake are placed in IP-track classes. At the beginning of Year 3, this number is increased to about 250.

The nett increase includes movement both ways, as some students may be asked to leave the IP track and go back to the default track, while others will do well enough to be asked to join. Some foreign scholars and others may join the IP track at Year 3 too.

By Year 5, the 250++ male students from the ACS(I) IP track will mostly enter the IBDP. They will be joined by about 200 students (some male, some female), including perhaps up to 90-100 from MGS once the MGS IP track begins to produce output, and also O-level students from the ACS schools if they've done well enough. The estimated max capacity of ACS(I) Year 5 is close to 480, which is stretching resources quite a bit, but not fatally.

Does this make sense? Yeah, it's complicated...

[tisha]

autolycus:

tisha: yes, that is correct — the MGS girls will be 'exported' after Year 4 to ACS(I); the +100 IP places are purely within ACS(I) from Year 2 going into Year 3.


This is roughly how it works. In Year 1, about 150 students from the overall PSLE intake are placed in IP-track classes. At the beginning of Year 3, this number is increased to about 250.

The nett increase includes movement both ways, as some students may be asked to leave the IP track and go back to the default track, while others will do well enough to be asked to join. Some foreign scholars and others may join the IP track at Year 3 too.

By Year 5, the 250++ male students from the ACS(I) IP track will mostly enter the IBDP. They will be joined by about 200 students (some male, some female), including perhaps up to 90-100 from MGS once the MGS IP track begins to produce output, and also O-level students from the ACS schools if they've done well enough. The estimated max capacity of ACS(I) Year 5 is close to 480, which is stretching resources quite a bit, but not fatally.

Does this make sense? Yeah, it's complicated...

:thankyou: very much autolycus. True, it is complicated, but your explaination has made it crystal clear.

[ngbrdad]

Hi autolycus, what about GEP students with score of 252-253, who qualified for EEEIS/GE Grant, will they be put in the O level GE class or in the IP section ?