Anglo-Chinese School (Independent)

[autolycus]

clayman:

Any reason why the school needs to have 2 sets of time-tables? And even though school supposedly finishes at 1.20pm on Wednesdays, my DS's time-table for week B has him finishing at 2.40pm instead and he was late for his 3rd Language class.

The reason for this is greater time-tabling flexibility.

Examples:

If the school has decided to allocate 3.5 periods for a subject, it can be 4 periods in Week A and 3 in Week B for one class — and the other way around for another class. Also, it means that a class need not always suffer 'last period syndrome', where some poor teacher always has the last period of the day and everyone is tired — now that can be alternated with some other poor teacher.

Essentially, if you have a 10-day cycle to play around with instead of a 5-day cycle, you can do lots more. Or at least, that's what I thought when I decided to do it that way; I got the idea of the 10-day cycle from one school and the 20-min increment from another school and put the two concepts together.

So the best way to handle it is to think of it as a fortnightly timetable, rather than a weekly one...

[jtoh]

So Autolycus you are/were in charge of time-tabling in ACSI.

[autolycus]

jtoh:

So Autolycus you are/were in charge of time-tabling in ACSI.

Oops. Well it was a very long time ago. I believe I was the first person to actually write a report on it, targeting inefficiencies and other problems in the timetabling process. Nostalgia...

[jtoh]

autolycus:

jtoh:

So Autolycus you are/were in charge of time-tabling in ACSI.

Oops. Well it was a very long time ago. I believe I was the first person to actually write a report on it, targeting inefficiencies and other problems in the timetabling process. Nostalgia...

Are you still actively and directly involved in the school or are you more of an advisor now?

[autolycus]

jtoh:

Are you still actively and directly involved in the school or are you more of an advisor now?

I'm actively involved in ACS, but not directly in ACS(I). Some details are in the PM I just sent you.

[ngbrdad]

clayman:

Mandarin:

[quote=\"wormy\"]Time table is split into week a and week b, not told if they represent odd and even week respectively

They represent the odd and even weeks within the school term. 10 weeks in each term, so you always start with week A.

Hi Mandarin,

Any reason why the school needs to have 2 sets of time-tables? And even though school supposedly finishes at 1.20pm on Wednesdays, my DS's time-table for week B has him finishing at 2.40pm instead and he was late for his 3rd Language class.[/quote]From the time table it seems both week A and B all finish at 2.40.
So ACSI students can only choose the later time slot for 3rd language ?

[ngbrdad]

In the JAE exercise, the cut off for admission to ACSI IB is 5 right ?

Is there any bonus points for affiliation ?

[autolycus]

ngbrdad:

From the time table it seems both week A and B all finish at 2.40.

So ACSI students can only choose the later time slot for 3rd language ?

In the JAE exercise, the cut off for admission to ACSI IB is 5 right ?
Is there any bonus points for affiliation ?

1. Yes, re 3rd language.
2. The COP for admission to any school depends on 'market forces'. So far, this has been around 5-6 for ACS(I) IBDP in recent years. Yes, there are bonus points for affiliation, just as with ACJC.

[ngbrdad]

autolycus:

ngbrdad:

From the time table it seems both week A and B all finish at 2.40.

So ACSI students can only choose the later time slot for 3rd language ?

In the JAE exercise, the cut off for admission to ACSI IB is 5 right ?
Is there any bonus points for affiliation ?

1. Yes, re 3rd language.
2. The COP for admission to any school depends on 'market forces'. So far, this has been around 5-6 for ACS(I) IBDP in recent years. Yes, there are bonus points for affiliation, just as with ACJC.

Thanks so an ACSI boy with L1R5 of 9 or even 10 can make it to the IB programme with 4 bonus points ?
If I'm not mistaken, those will bonus points will have priority over those based solely on raw score in the event of a tie in net score right ?
ie 9-4 is ranked higher than 7-2 which ranked higher than 6-1 ?

[autolycus]

ngbrdad:

Thanks so an ACSI boy with L1R5 of 9 or even 10 can make it to the IB programme with 4 bonus points ?

If I'm not mistaken, those will bonus points will have priority over those based solely on raw score in the event of a tie in net score right ?
ie 9-4 is ranked higher than 7-2 which ranked higher than 6-1 ?

1. It depends on the market-determined COP. The school has 450+ places. The students with the lowest scores will get those places, with DSA being the main exception.

2. No. All students get to calculate the nett aggregate score first. However, in case of a tie, Singapore citizens are selected first (i.e. Singaporean student with nett of 6 points beats non-Singaporean with nett of 6 points). Between two students of same citizenship status, RAW aggregate is used, so 6-1 beats 7-2. Bonus points are no substitute for actual performance (whatever we mean by 'actual performance' haha).