Aristocare

[ForumWriter]

Mychildren:

Frankly speaking, I wonder nowadays GEPers are real gifted or not? Or they got in because they've spent $$ for the preparation? :scratchhead:

I never had tuition, other than Chinese tuition. That's because my dad is a Cantonese and my mum is a Teochew, they can't speak Mandarin.

Want to test me?

I signed up for KSP because I hope to dispel the rumours that tuition can buy results in everything, even for the GEP.

Don't send your kids for GEP tuition. If they get into the GEP, struggle and require more tuition to survive, others who got in without tuition and can survive with no problems (like me) won't be sympathetic.

[Mychildren]

Forumwriter,


Got no $$ to send & don't want them to suffer unless they prove to be gifted.

[ForumWriter]

Anyway, regarding the AristoCare issue, I believe that Kelvin Ong should be punished. But my feeling is that the government won’t want to get its hands dirty by mounting an official investigation; it’ll just let those cheated parents complain and sue through the judicial process.


As for the parents who got cheated, I hope that they will not be getting any refunds. After all, the government has said time and again that it doesn’t want anyone to train specifically for the GEP.

There is a need to make a point that these parents were cheated willingly: The government already said GEP training is useless; if parents feel that GEP training isn’t useless and it turns out to be so, they can’t complain and seek refunds!

[Picolo]

verykiasu2010:

osim:

Please do not send your kids for GEP training. It's a program meant for the naturally gifted, not for wannabes. The latter suffer having to get tutored to keep up. I've seen some in my daughter's class like these, it's a sorry sight ...

at least osim not so o-sim ....... :evil:

:rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao: good one, vk...

osim not o-sim （黑心/black-hearted）but that Kelvin Ong Wee Loong sure is... btw I remember a red book by him in POPULAR from last year ...

Ta-da! There it is:
http://www.popular.com.sg/jsp/product/product_detail.jsp?vca001=235&vpd001=93212
dun buy that book okie... not worth the $$$ at all. I have one on my shelf collecting dust only. Dunno why I bought it in the first place... must be the print under his name that attracted me... (laughing at myself)

[ForumWriter]

The Calabi-Yau manifold on the front cover also looks impressive, I guess. Although Kelvin Ong probably wouldn’t be able to interpret that at all.

[verykiasu2010]

ForumWriter:

The Calabi-Yau manifold on the front cover also looks impressive, I guess. Although Kelvin Ong probably wouldn't be able to interpret that at all.

:rotflmao: :rotflmao:

[Picolo]

verykiasu2010:

ForumWriter:

The Calabi-Yau manifold on the front cover also looks impressive, I guess. Although Kelvin Ong probably wouldn't be able to interpret that at all.

:rotflmao: :rotflmao:

:rotflmao: :rotflmao: He dunno nevermind. Just hope its web-like structure will remind him that 法网难逃.

[Imami]

verykiasu2010:

some parents are deluded to think that being charged a high price means must be good, and surprisingly when the child got into GEP (due to his/her own ability rather than anything else), then the parents credit it to the money \"well spent\"...

this is a wake up call that GE ability could not be trained. if the kids have it, they have it. if not, it is just wasting money and pressuring the kids needlessly. parents should understand why SBGE ends at sec 2.

I was about to ask if Gep prep classes are really effective. I always think gifted means gifted, no need artificial aids prior to/during the gep selection. Hence don't quite understand why need prep class :scratchhead:

Is this chap the only one offering gep prep class? Ok, I am just curious - is gep prep class common/popular?

[Imami]

osim:

Please do not send your kids for GEP training. It's a program meant for the naturally gifted, not for wannabes. The latter suffer having to get tutored to keep up. I've seen some in my daughter's class like these, it's a sorry sight ...

Is there such thing as into gep but cannot make it and turn back to normal stream? Erm... You know, non gep class? Or entered gep, cannot make it then die there?

[Lynn2010]

ForumWriter:

Mychildren:

Frankly speaking, I wonder nowadays GEPers are real gifted or not? Or they got in because they've spent $$ for the preparation? :scratchhead:

I never had tuition, other than Chinese tuition. That's because my dad is a Cantonese and my mum is a Teochew, they can't speak Mandarin.

Want to test me?

I signed up for KSP because I hope to dispel the rumours that tuition can buy results in everything, even for the GEP.

Don't send your kids for GEP tuition. If they get into the GEP, struggle and require more tuition to survive, others who got in without tuition and can survive with no problems (like me) won't be sympathetic.

I definitely agree. My dd who did not have any special GEP training, got into GEP. Though her results throughout the GEP program were not fantastic (that is, not at the top, neither was she at the bottom too), she did not have any tuition (other than Chinese as she grew up in Aus and joined Spore sch 4th term in Pr1).

Being such potato, she passed her MT in P1 SA2 (like i said she joined P1 4th term, that is she has only 2 mth to prepare, not bad for someone who doesnt grow up with the language, never taken the language at all). She scored A for PSLE Chinese and B for HMT (quite good for someone who hates Chinese)