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    DSA 2012

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Secondary Schools - Selection
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    • K Offline
      ksme
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      GoodDad:


      May I know which school is your DS in?

      To what I know, ACSI takes in about 180 students for year one IP program. 90 is reserved for DSA. Not sure how many will be reserved for feeder schools (ACS(P) & ACS(J)).

      To my best knowledge, last year all the GEP boys from ACS(P) who applied DSA to ACSI were awarded CO or WL.
      From non-feeder school.

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        ksme
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        We were at the HCI open house too. Thought the sharing by the parent of an existing student was very good. She said she has 3 kids, 1 in ACSI, 1 in HCI (Sec 3) and 1 in RI (sec 2). She feels that the school support is strongest in HCI based on her personal experience. The consortium head worked closely with her when her son was not doing well last year and was able to counsel the boy to achieve stellar results at the end of last year. Her point is when the children move to teenage phase, they tend to listen more to their teachers, peers than parents. So it is important to have good support from the teachers and school when things don’t go well. She mentioned she was not too happy when she wrote emails to RI teachers for her younger child and did not receive reply. Those were good feedback to keep in mind.

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          GoodDad
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          ksme:
          GoodDad:



          May I know which school is your DS in?

          To what I know, ACSI takes in about 180 students for year one IP program. 90 is reserved for DSA. Not sure how many will be reserved for feeder schools (ACS(P) & ACS(J)).

          To my best knowledge, last year all the GEP boys from ACS(P) who applied DSA to ACSI were awarded CO or WL.

          From non-feeder school.

          Understand that for year 1 IP program in ACSI, more then 60% of the students are from non-feeder school all over Singapore.

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            Otah
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            ksme:
            We were at the HCI open house too. Thought the sharing by the parent of an existing student was very good. She said she has 3 kids, 1 in ACSI, 1 in HCI (Sec 3) and 1 in RI (sec 2). She feels that the school support is strongest in HCI based on her personal experience. The consortium head worked closely with her when her son was not doing well last year and was able to counsel the boy to achieve stellar results at the end of last year. Her point is when the children move to teenage phase, they tend to listen more to their teachers, peers than parents. So it is important to have good support from the teachers and school when things don't go well. She mentioned she was not too happy when she wrote emails to RI teachers for her younger child and did not receive reply. Those were good feedback to keep in mind.

            Did she mentioned which consortium of HCI? Just had parent meet teachers session these two days. Yes, the teachers are all very patient and understanding to towards both students and parents. Very helpful and responsive to parents email. πŸ˜„ They have alot of young teachers helping around who seems like their ex-students. πŸ˜„

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              Otah
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              ksme:
              leeven:

              Any feedback for ACS (I) IP.


              * how difficult is HAST.
              * Any samples other than what school gave us when registering.
              * is it just HAST results alone or certs also they look.
              * How difficult is the DSA process. Any past experienced parents here , please please help.
              * How many students are selected and CO given to them (past few years)and how many accepted it.

              Not sure if I heard correctly at the ACSI's Open House principal talk. I think it was mentioned they only have 50 places for DSA? I was at the non-feeder school session so not sure if the 50 applies to no. of places for non feeder school. Based on my understanding, in the past, very few students from my ds' school were offered place in ACSI.

              no harm trying if you are really keen, at most try again using PSLE. But your ds may likely to get into HCI or RI if you apply dsa to the two schools concurrently.

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                Flowermonaster
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                Otah:
                ksme:

                We were at the HCI open house too. Thought the sharing by the parent of an existing student was very good. She said she has 3 kids, 1 in ACSI, 1 in HCI (Sec 3) and 1 in RI (sec 2). She feels that the school support is strongest in HCI based on her personal experience. The consortium head worked closely with her when her son was not doing well last year and was able to counsel the boy to achieve stellar results at the end of last year. Her point is when the children move to teenage phase, they tend to listen more to their teachers, peers than parents. So it is important to have good support from the teachers and school when things don't go well. She mentioned she was not too happy when she wrote emails to RI teachers for her younger child and did not receive reply. Those were good feedback to keep in mind.


                Did she mentioned which consortium of HCI? Just had parent meet teachers session these two days. Yes, the teachers are all very patient and understanding to towards both students and parents. Very helpful and responsive to parents email. πŸ˜„ They have alot of young teachers helping around who seems like their ex-students. πŸ˜„

                Her boy is a GEP student so I think the consortium is called iSpark.

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                  leeven
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                  any body know how CT1 for Science calculated for P6 GEP. All I know is my DS did a written paper which 60% so where the remaining 40% comes from. I dont remember he doing any projects this year for science.

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                    Herbie
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                    P6 ct 1 is 30%, sa1 is 70%.

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                      leeven
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                      Herbie:
                      P6 ct 1 is 30%, sa1 is 70%.

                      Hi Herbie.

                      My questions is CT1 breakdown. My DS only wrote a writtern paper that is 60 marks in total. so does that mean for
                      ex student scored 48/60 = .8
                      -> .8*100= 80%
                      -> 80*.3 =
                      -> CT1= 24

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                        Herbie
                        last edited by

                        leeven:
                        Herbie:

                        P6 ct 1 is 30%, sa1 is 70%.


                        Hi Herbie.

                        My questions is CT1 breakdown. My DS only wrote a writtern paper that is 60 marks in total. so does that mean for
                        ex student scored 48/60 = .8
                        -> .8*100= 80%
                        -> 80*.3 =
                        -> CT1= 24


                        48/60*30%=24marks

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