GEP 2012 - Screening & Selection

[CharleneX]

Still no news from my DS’s school…

[monmon31]

CharleneX:

Still no news from my DS's school...

maybe you want to call the General Office or contact DS's form teacher

[CharleneX]

monmon31:

CharleneX:

Still no news from my DS's school...

maybe you want to call the General Office or contact DS's form teacher

I did give them a buzz this morning and was told they have not receive the results yet. When I asked my DS if any of his classmates been notify, his reply to me was a no.

Strange when none from his class (of higher ability) get through the screening test? hmmm....

[CharleneX]

monmon31:

CharleneX:

Still no news from my DS's school...

maybe you want to call the General Office or contact DS's form teacher

I did give them a buzz this morning and was told they have not receive the results yet. When I asked my DS if any of his classmates been notify, his reply to me was a no.

Strange when none from his class (of higher ability) get through the screening test? hmmm....

[shurley197323]

My DS had received the letter from the school yesterday for the 2nd round of GEP.

[baobei]

Vevey:

Ds' class has 20/44 kids got in. Whole sch 35 /300 kids

Btw, r classrooms in Andersen pri airconed? Can wear sweater during tests?

Which GEP tests centre has air-con classrooms?

[titank]

Guess most of the kids have to take GEP Screening Test on the 16 & 17 Oct 12.

Anyone can share what are the pros & cons if admitted to GEP program?

[sunnymumsy]

Heard that the top scorers for PSLE are generally not from GEP… if that is the case, what’s the point of GEP apart frm prestige? Can someone enlighten me? How will it help a student?

[Sunflower mummy]

My friend who has a P5 GEP boy share with me her GEP experience.

She told me she regretted sending him into the programme. The child is not the self discipline kind and requires ‘push’ to do / revise his homework. And there are lots of projects to do in GEP programme, social studies itself 3projects a year. And due to his poor time management, he left with very little time to revise. Furthermore when the boy encounters difficulties in his studies, they don’t know how to coach him(the boy’s father is a PHD holder). She said compare to mainstream, the kids have more time to revise the work as projects do not affect them much…
I am not sure if this is one of the reason that we don’t see often PSLE top scorer to be GEP kids…and a friend kid who is GEP has a score of 222 in PSLE while his friend in mainstream has 265.

[MrsSeah]

Sunflower mummy:

My friend who has a P5 GEP boy share with me her GEP experience.

She told me she regretted sending him into the programme. The child is not the self discipline kind and requires 'push' to do / revise his homework. And there are lots of projects to do in GEP programme, social studies itself 3projects a year. And due to his poor time management, he left with very little time to revise. Furthermore when the boy encounters difficulties in his studies, they don't know how to coach him(the boy's father is a PHD holder). She said compare to mainstream, the kids have more time to revise the work as projects do not affect them much...
I am not sure if this is one of the reason that we don't see often PSLE top scorer to be GEP kids...and a friend kid who is GEP has a score of 222 in PSLE while his friend in mainstream has 265.

Do your friend send his son for training to go into the gep?