2011 PSLE Discussions and Strategy
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tehsusu:
IP students can do ' o' level as private candidate?
Do 'O' levels as a private candidate?2ppaamm:
[quote=\"phtthp\"]during last Friday open house at RI,
did any parent ask the presenter:
if a boy at end of Sec 2 for some reason or other can't cope with IP curriculum, is there any alternative exit road out ?
This is a secret!
Thks[/quote]I think to do GCE 'O' level in Singapore, you must be at least 15 years old. -
phtthp:
what if the boy wants to be an animal vet - which is the right course to study ?
Don't know leh, maybe same as medicine, I would guess? Chemistry? -
2ppaamm:
I also hope I can retire by then ...vlim:
Thanks soooooo much for your valuable sharing 2ppaamm... In future if my ds got chance to be interview by u pls give chance huh..
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By then I retire already lah. Another 6 years woh... I'm already thinking of retiring. Also, it is very difficult to have this kind of chance, there are so many candidates and so many interviewers, almost every lecturer/professor is involved.
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2ppaamm:
I think they took the IGCSE leh.
Can! Quah Ting Wen, Rainer Ng, all from RI. Lots more.tehsusu:
IP students can do ' o' level as private candidate?
Thks
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how do IP students take O level ?
do they take GCSE O level ? are there lots of students already doing it, or only a small handful ?
you don’t interview candidates for Dentistry faculty.
may i know which faculty you’d interviewed so far ? -
MandyMummy:
I think they took the IGCSE leh.[/quote]iGCSE and O levels same ma.
Can! Quah Ting Wen, Rainer Ng, all from RI. Lots more.2ppaamm:
[quote=\"tehsusu\"]
IP students can do ' o' level as private candidate?
Thks -
phtthp:
I don't really know how to take O levels as a private candidate, but I think it must be quite easy to apply for that, perhaps go to MOE and register?how do IP students take O level ?
do they take GCSE O level ? are there lots of students already doing it, or only a small handful ?
you don't interview candidates for Dentistry faculty.
may i know which faculty you'd interviewed so far ?
People who interview the students are normally the professors in the same faculty. I don't teach Dentistry, so I don't interview potential students from this faculty. -
2ppaamm:
All Singapore schools are the same.
Yes, agreed.Blur Dad:
[quote=\"verykiasu2010\"]
nothing special about RI. RI just make it very transparent via its supplemental intake (are other schools just as transparent?) -- it is not so much an appeal per se -- candidates are subject to GAT test notwithstanding good t-score if they have not done DSA with RI before
RI is my and DS dream school. Sad to say that my DS did not make it in the DSA application and with T-Scored 256, I guess it is near to impossbile. However, I told my DS do not give up. Will appeal to RI via the supplemental intake. If not successful, will try to take the RI year 1 intake test and try to transfer in in year 2. If not successful again, will try in year 2 and so on until year 5. Understand that RI does take in transfer students in year 1 to year 5. Hope DS will make it one day....
Please do not say that all the schools are the same. They are not..... If you keep doing that and keep failing, you are setting your kid up for failure. If you let the boy thinks that RI is the only worthy school, you are telling him he is not worthy. Why not make the best of where he is instead?
Anyway, I thought you can only apply in years 1, 3 and 5? We have enough Rafflesians in the family to let you know it is really not that big a deal to be in RI. I wish my son did not go there sometimes, sometimes, I am thankful he went there. Just like any other school.[/quote]Yes yes, don't do that. Otherwise your son will never be happy in his school and will never ever feel that he belongs there. It can be a very miserable thing for a teenager. They need a sense of belonging, a sense of identity.
I know of boys who are in RI but had near COP results. They are not happy in the school. While they would have been top students in other schools, they are not given opportunities to shine in RI because so many more who are better. They get really disheartened! -
hi BlurDad,
i had helped you pose your 2 questions to the HCI presenter.
here is his reply:-
a) if a child has already accepted a DSA offer from ACS (I) - there is no chance for an appeal according to MOE regulations.
b) a T-score of 257+2 stands a very good chance of entering HCI.
BUT he must place HCI as first choice in the S1 option form. -
2ppaamm:
When a school has a good reputation to keep, the school will keep its reputation at all costs. Singaporean style.
That's a fair statement at all
In schools like RI where 100% of the students are doing IP, would you not think that it's teachers, curriculum, programmes are not quite geared towards or optimized for preparing a handful (Less than 10) who for whatever reasons decide to drop out of IP & opt for 'O' levels instead.
Therefore, in fact it is the more sensible and responsible thing to do - i.e. Students opting out of IP hv to transfer out of the sch
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