Anglo-Chinese School (Independent)
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kandc:
Is there any bonus points (affiliation or CCA) for ACS(I) body to enter IB by JAE at Y5, besides the HCL 2 points? Also got maximum bonus point by JAE? Is it difficult to get 2 bonus point from CCA? Seems that the 2 bonus point from HCL will be very important if applying other JCs.
No, there are no affiliation points applied; those are only for selected JCs. The maximum point bonus is 4 points. 2 bonus points from CCA in ACS(I) is normally fairly easy.
In perspective, you'll need about 5 points adjusted to get into ACS(I)'s IBDP by JAE if you haven't entered by any other means. If you're a student in ACS(I) who has pursued CCA assiduously and also got a raw aggregate score of 6-7 points, you will have those 5 points. The HCL would give you 3 points.
However, if you need HCL + CCA to get your 5 points adjusted, that means you had 9 points. The best case scenario is that you had 5 A1s and everything else was 4 or worse. The worst-case scenario is that you had a 4 for English, which pretty much indicates a limitation to your language skills.
Again, considering the holistic interests of the student, I'd rather apply for another place. The IB programme requires lots of concerted effort, and although the average grade produced by ACS(I) is very high (top 3-5 in the world every year considering both northern and southern hemispheres), there are always a few who don't do so well.
The best advice I can offer is to avoid overdoing things. Work hard, but focus on things that the student has genuine passion for, and on things that are truly essential — some math, some science, a technical mastery of language, the ability to write good humanities/lit essays. Don't do things for the sake of 'trajectory'.
Why not? Because the world is changing at a greater rate. Predictability (if we ever had it) has decreased. You can't tell what will be useful or not, but if the ability to learn is super-solid, your son will be able to adapt to many of the things the future will throw at him. That comes first.
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Hi, my son is in ACSI express. So far how’s the workload in your sons’ class?
My DS says the sch teach very little and very little homework and Maths is too easy. Is it like that for your boys and is the school expecting the kids to read more and on their own? Or is it just simply too laid back or my DS is too efficient?
How’s the workload for the IB stream? -
My son also in express. So far ; very free; even more relax than primary school days . Cca not started as well. He’ s getting restless.
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South African, number1: it's a little-known fact that deserves to be better known and seems obvious on hindsight — the Sec 1 induction period is generally more slack than the Primary 6 intensive-suffering period.
A more important fact is the idea you will find in Nadar & Einarsson (2010), 'Memory reconsolidation: an update', Annals of the NY Academy of Sciences Vol 1191, pp 27-41. Apparently, strong training leads to memory inflexibility and inability to learn. Hence slackness interspersed with periods of shockingly intense stimuli seems to be a good idea.
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Hi Autolycus, thanks. I guess I will enjoy this time bonding with him while I can. And give him encouragement and motivation to strive for better results. Yes, after the intense grilling in P6 these days, its a breeze for now.
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Same for my son.
Really enjoying Sec1 life at the moment.
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Hi Autolycus,
Really appreciated your advice & fully agree with you. I do understand the IB is a good programme to train students to be holistic. But exactly as you pointed out, it is not suitable for every boy. So my question will be how to judge/observe as early as possible if the boy fits in IB programme or not? The judgement would be "the ability to write good humanities/lit essays"?? Therefore, as you commented in your last reply to my post, "the worst-case scenario is that the boy had a 4 for English, which pretty much indicates a limitation to your language skills". So usually poor English mastery will limit his performance in IB exam, better look for another place b4 the IBDP exams? Thanks a lot! -
kandc: it's not so grim as it sounds...
We have many scholars coming in at Year 3 with imperfect language skills. All of them have to write essays in English for the IB if they do the IBDP. I have a number who went on after graduation to good colleges and universities in the USA and UK. Surely our own citizenry should perform at least as well in that area...
However, I have to say that when I mentioned essay-writing skills (also including technical writing etc), I meant it prescriptively — our students MUST develop those skills no matter where they go, or else their mobility will be limited in future. -
Mvm:
There is a link to the parents portal on the school's webpage. However we need an ID and password to log in. Any idea when year 1 parents will start to have access?
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Math competition team 2012 for junior category
Name \t Class\t Category
Kumaravel Vignesh\t1.03\t Junior
Joel Toh Yi Liang\t 1.06\t Category
Ng Chun Lin\t 1.06\t
Jeyakumar Jegan\t 1.08\t
R. Saravanamani \t1.08\t
Surendra Shenoy Basti\t1.14\t
Ashraf Roshan S/O Abdul Nasser\t1.14\t
Gideon Kharistia\t1.14\t
Goh Yu Xuan\t1.14\t
Muthuramalingam Naveen Krishnan\t1.14\t
Bharath Chandra Sudheer\t1.17\t
Shum Rui Yuan\t2.03\t
Yan Xu\t2.04\t
Hughie Hwang Bing Howe\t2.11\t
Chan Jie Sheng Jensen\t2.12\t
Guan Yang Ze\t2.12\t
Leong Chee Weng, Michael\t2.13\t
Ng Ding Yi\t2.13
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