Compare RGS vs NYGH

[hildangirl]

Its a personal choice. I know of parents from both schools who are involved in their kid’s education. My dd was very clear that she wanted to join RGS. She has friends in both schools. Just realised that more than half her classmates joined RGS with some joining NYGH . More DSAed to NYGH than RGS given that most mainstreamers without sports DSA find it difficult to get into RGS.


The average PSLE score for RGS last year was 265. I wonder if any NYGH parent can share the average PSLE score for NYGH.

Positives for NYGH: Beautiful campus, lesser stress level (since there is a big population of students with lesser scores from the affiliated primary school), bilingual students
Negative: less exposure to other races, uniform, traffic outside the school

Positives for RGS : students of all races and nationality, preferred by most high ability kids ( most GEP students end up in this school), leads to the top ranked JC

Negative: cramped campus, traffic outside the school, higher stress level for some students (not all since my mainstream dd is coping well with no tuitions)

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dimsum:

During my time (i was born in mid 70s), The PSLE cut off point for RGS was ALWAYS higher than NYGH. It's the no. 1 girl's school. So I was quite surprised when I read that for last year, NYGH's COP was the highest. Seems like there's a shift?

last year my friend with a dd who had a score of 252 got into NYGH a day after the PSLE postings were released. No sports dsa.just based on psle score.

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My daughter can go toNYGH! So happy for her!

[friendship]

those full of oriental culture, cina look, impressed with all cina thingy. Most probably will choose that school

[ruohoo97]

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dimsum:

During my time (i was born in mid 70s), The PSLE cut off point for RGS was ALWAYS higher than NYGH. It's the no. 1 girl's school. So I was quite surprised when I read that for last year, NYGH's COP was the highest. Seems like there's a shift?

last year my friend with a dd who had a score of 252 got into NYGH a day after the PSLE postings were released. No sports dsa.just based on psle score.

Is she from NYPS?

[ruohoo97]

ruohoo97:

Augmum:

U mean more kaisu = better ?? :scratchhead:

I meant \"in that sense\". Having KS parents, it's not necessarily bad thing, as long as parents know when to draw a line. There seems a correlation between how KS the parents are and how well the child perform in school. :roll:

It seems to me RGS's parents are more involved in their dd's school than those of NYGH's. Hope that will prompt more NYGH parents to share :boogie: .

My neighbor's DD reports the same. As for RGS, I am bit sad to read about one forum letter from the Straits Time regarding the teachers's sarcastic remarks to students . Just hope that was isolated case.

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ruohoo97:

ruohoo97:

[quote=\"Augmum\"]
U mean more kaisu = better ?? :scratchhead:

I meant \"in that sense\". Having KS parents, it's not necessarily bad thing, as long as parents know when to draw a line. There seems a correlation between how KS the parents are and how well the child perform in school. :roll:

It seems to me RGS's parents are more involved in their dd's school than those of NYGH's. Hope that will prompt more NYGH parents to share :boogie: .

My neighbor's DD reports the same. As for RGS, I am bit sad to read about one forum letter from the Straits Time regarding the teachers's sarcastic remarks to students . Just hope that was isolated case.[/quote]Isolated case.. Most teachers are very approachable.

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ruohoo97:

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[quote=\"dimsum\"]During my time (i was born in mid 70s), The PSLE cut off point for RGS was ALWAYS higher than NYGH. It's the no. 1 girl's school. So I was quite surprised when I read that for last year, NYGH's COP was the highest. Seems like there's a shift?

last year my friend with a dd who had a score of 252 got into NYGH a day after the PSLE postings were released. No sports dsa.just based on psle score.

Is she from NYPS?[/quote]The cut-off for Nanyangprimary school girls is even lower. You will be posted in the PSLE posting exercise itself. This girl was from other school.

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musette:

Had been reading through this thread and the individual RGS and NYGH threads. No nearer to coming to a decision.


Is that right? My dd wants to go RGS and DH and I want her to go NYGH, but we don't want to force her. Spoke to my friend whose dd is in sec 1 NYGH this year. She said she can tell me with great certainty that the teachers in NY are very good and caring.

I am sure the teachers at NY are good and caring. So are teachers at RGS. Both are good schools. One is a SAP school other is not. As simple as that. If you prefer a SAP school, go for NYGH.

[ruohoo97]

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last year my friend with a dd who had a score of 252 got into NYGH a day after the PSLE postings were released. No sports dsa.just based on psle score.

Is she from NYPS?[/quote]
The cut-off for Nanyangprimary school girls is even lower. You will be posted in the PSLE posting exercise itself. This girl was from other school.[/quote]

During the open house, one parent inquired why last year one student who scored 262 did not but get into NYGH?, the principal explained the same T-score of 262 could have 20 over decimals, the computer automatically placed the higher one for vacancy. Could it be your friend's DD was DSA by academic.

For NYPS, the cut-off point is 250.