Choose Secondary school for 2010

[mathsparks]

noob:

Hi Mathsparks, please advice what does eesis stands for?

Edusave Entrance Scholarships for Independent Schools. MOE pays $2400 per year for school fees in IS school. Check other details in the MOE website. If your child is eligible, it would be printed in the letter attached to the S1 form.

[traineeks]

Vikaesh:

I got 267


1st choice: RAFFLES INSTITUTION [262]
2nd choice: ?
3rd choice: ?
4th choice: ?
5th choice: ?
6th choice: ?

Is there a high chance that I will get raffles institution?
What top schools should I place as my other 5 choices [must offer tamil, though]
Please help
Thanks in advance!

Almost certain to get into RI. Only other IP schools left for boys with tamil would be NJC, ACSI and NUSH. For NUSH, you apply directly at their website and no need to use the 6 choices.

[mallavarapu]

I checked with MOE on the same topic. As others have mentioned in one of the threads, there are decimals attached to the scores we see. So every pupil has a different PSLE score. As rightly mentioned, a student will be scanned through all this six choices until he gets one, before the computer checks the next lower PSLE score pupil. this is what i understand from the booklet and from talking to MOE.


If for some reason many pupils opt for a particular school, no doubt the COP might be more. but opting that particular school as #1 choice of # 6 choice does not help at all.
My few cents of thought.

[mallavarapu]

Parents, my daughter got 246. Methodist COP is 253…!

I want to chooose MGS as 1st choice and Crescent as 2nd choice…
Is it too optimistic to opt Methodist as 1st choice…? Is there a ray of hope…? any experiences to share…??
She has prefect/leadership certificates… not sure if those kinda things help in appealing…

Appreciate your feedback.

[kiasuchild]

mallavarapu:

Parents, my daughter got 246. Methodist COP is 253...!

I want to chooose MGS as 1st choice and Crescent as 2nd choice..
Is it too optimistic to opt Methodist as 1st choice..? Is there a ray of hope..? any experiences to share..??
She has prefect/leadership certificates.. not sure if those kinda things help in appealing..

Appreciate your feedback.

I'm a child too, but based on what my teacher told me, the hopes of appealing are not too high.

There was a boy that my teacher taught with an aggregate score that allows him to get into HCI, but not RI. He put RI as the first choice, but did not get in.

HCI did not accept him as well (it was at the 2nd/3rd choice) , he ended up at SJI.

Likewise, your child might not get into Cresent although you pass the cut-off point if you put Cresent as your 2nd/3rd Choice.

If your child does well in a CCA, you might consider appealing.

Why not try Cedar Girls? I heard that it is a good school, and should be within your child's t-score.

[julongmum]

My DD t score 244, now very trouble as to choose either Nan Hua High or Crescent Girls as 1st choice. pls help or share yr tots please… tks in advance

[mallavarapu]

Thanks Kiasu child for sharing your views…!!

I heard similar views… but i still not clear how it works… MOE says, the seat will not be filled with a pupil with lower PSLE score (including the decimal thingy…)…

In the situation u mentioned… Was HCI cutoff lower than what the boy got…? If HCI cut off was higher than what the boy got… then irrespective of he choosing HCI as 1st or 6th choice would not matter…

Thanks for your views. I will be putting in crescent as my first choice. Agree with you that Cedar is a good school. We live in the west so distance is a problem. that is why preferring Crescent.

[yellow-dk]

I am still very confused


How does it really work?

Example (I have omitted decimal etc just for simplicity...)
290
...
260
...
150

The computer will go down the list and process starting from the first child and post him/her to the 1st choice school.
Next it goes down the list by merit of T-score. Assuming the 1st choice has reached the school's no. of vacanies for 1st choice sch, it will go to 2nd choice, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th until a vacany is found. Then it goes to the next child in line... and so on ...

If this is correct, the child with higher T-score will always have an opportunity to get into the school of his/her choice (as long as there is a vacany and he/she meets the COP) regardless of whether it is 1st, 2nd or 3rd choice? There is no way anthr child with lower T-score will be admitted to a school just because he/she puts it in 1st choice.

That means that we dont have to worry about whether we put the school in 2nd choice or 3rd or 4th?

Someone please HELP !!! This will help a lot of us decide on the choices.
Many thanks

[turquoise]

yellow-dk:

I am still very confused


How does it really work?

Example (I have omitted decimal etc just for simplicity...)
290
...
260
...
150

The computer will go down the list and process starting from the first child and post him/her to the 1st choice school.
Next it goes down the list by merit of T-score. Assuming the 1st choice has reached the school's no. of vacanies for 1st choice sch, it will go to 2nd choice, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th until a vacany is found. Then it goes to the next child in line... and so on ...

If this is correct, the child with higher T-score will always have an opportunity to get into the school of his/her choice (as long as there is a vacany and he/she meets the COP) regardless of whether it is 1st, 2nd or 3rd choice? There is no way anthr child with lower T-score will be admitted to a school just because he/she puts it in 1st choice.

That means that we dont have to worry about whether we put the school in 2nd choice or 3rd or 4th?

Someone please HELP !!! This will help a lot of us decide on the choices.
Many thanks

Yes. This is clearly stated and illustrated in the MOE PSLE Booklet 1 and on its website. A resourceful 12 year old has also kindly scanned and reproduced that page on this forum.

[cindylauper]

Wonder if anyone could advise me about edusave for independent schools. My daughter's S1 form does not mention edusave subsidy for independent schools. Does it mean I have to pay full amount of school fees if my daughter goes to SCGS or MGS?

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