DSA 2012

[jtoh]

Essential:

Hi may I know if my child does not have any CCA or any other achievements , can apply DSA?

DSA is for students who demonstrate exceptional ability or talent in the academic domain, sports domain or aesthetics domain over and above their peers. If you do not demonstrate such exceptional ability, give DSA a miss and ask your child to focus on PSLE instead. If he works hard and does well there he will still gain admission to his desired school.

[jedamum]

jtoh:

Essential:

Hi may I know if my child does not have any CCA or any other achievements , can apply DSA?

DSA is for students who demonstrate exceptional ability or talent in the academic domain, sports domain or aesthetics domain over and above their peers. If you do not demonstrate such exceptional ability, give DSA a miss and ask your child to focus on PSLE instead. If he works hard and does well there he will still gain admission to his desired school.

What is exceptional academic ability? Winning competition? Or overall certain percentage? Is participating in dsa time consuming?
Dsa in schs with dual track, how does it work ? Dsa only for their ip stream? Or dsa but depending on your psle score if they assign u to ip or o stream?

[jesschan]

When do the schools send out confirmation offers and when do we need to confirm accepting the offer?

[supermama]

tiggermum:

supermama:

Hi,


we missed the NUS High open house and would like to find out more about their DSA. Also would like to know what's the diff of the school with others.

Thanks!

Hi Supermama, you may want to 'hop over' to the NUS High thread under 'secondary school/ IP parents networking' forum to take a look or post your questions. If you are considering the school, it would be better to understand the program before making a decision, as it runs on a different system from mainstream schools and IP.

Hi tiggermum, thanks a lot. Had hop over and get lots of info. Thanks again.

[jtoh]

jesschan:

When do the schools send out confirmation offers and when do we need to confirm accepting the offer?

They start sending out COs from around August. You only need to exercise your DSA CO after your PSLE, sometime in October if I remember correctly.

[jesschan]

jtoh:

jesschan:

When do the schools send out confirmation offers and when do we need to confirm accepting the offer?

They start sending out COs from around August. You only need to exercise your DSA CO after your PSLE, sometime in October if I remember correctly.

Thanks!

[yukilei]

jtoh:

jesschan:

When do the schools send out confirmation offers and when do we need to confirm accepting the offer?

They start sending out COs from around August. You only need to exercise your DSA CO after your PSLE, sometime in October if I remember correctly.

jtoh, do you happen to know is there any website that will indicate the dates for exercising of DSA CO, PSLE release date & S1 posting exercise? Am planning for year end holiday, try not to coincide with these dates.
I know last year DSA CO exercise was btw 24 to 28th oct

[jtoh]

Best to check the MOE website. They will have the most up to date info.

[yukilei]

jtoh:

Best to check the MOE website. They will have the most up to date info.

I've checked but they're still showing 2011 info. No updates yet.
Thanks

[jtoh]

yukilei:

jtoh:

Best to check the MOE website. They will have the most up to date info.

I've checked but they're still showing 2011 info. No updates yet.
Thanks

Just use that as a gauge first. They usually release results etc at the same time every year, ie a particular week day of a particular week. (I can't recall what now). But MOE will not give you the exact date for the PSLE results until later bec they want to give themselves a buffer in case there's a delay in marking.