GEP 2012 - Screening & Selection

[jtoh]

Puzz...zzle:

If u only put 1 choice, and happen that the school is very high demand & no vancancy. Will MOE post u only after allocated those with 2nd , 3rd choice first. just like Pr 1 phC. Is there a risk?

If you put only one choice, and that school has no vacancy, MOE will post you to the school nearest you which has a vacancy. It's happened many times previously. For eg someone living in the East who put NYPS as his only choice was eventually sent to Tao Nan.

[jtoh]

titank:

Estimate 500 will be offered on GEP program. Maybe MOE would put in certain percentage of extra places in the event those not taking up the GEP prog & choose to remain in the current school.

There's no waitlist for GEP. If say only 300 students decided to take up GEP, then only those 300 will be in GEP for that cohort.

[polkadot]

dagong99:

Not really, GEP curriculum does not take up the whole day and all 9 GEP schools will have the same programmes, same exam papers. He does most of his work in school as the school does not allow them to bring back & most of the work has to be done in class with the exception of projects. I get to see only some of them when I need to sign for his filing.

FYI, filing is an important task in GEP in which DS2 'suffers' because basically, he is a messy person and couldn't care less for filing. :faint:

They should be able to complete work in school or home. There are times when homework is challenging that there could be some stress.

The programme is structured by MOE. he teachers have regular meeting sessions to discuss and standardise marking.

DS is a bit disorganised. His table was very messy and he was constantly seen fumbling in a sea of papers. :imdrowning: However his teachers were very impressed with his filing. I guessed it is a way to keep them organised and focused.

[phtthp]

jtoh:

Puzz...zzle:

If u only put 1 choice, and happen that the school is very high demand & no vancancy. Will MOE post u only after allocated those with 2nd , 3rd choice first. just like Pr 1 phC. Is there a risk?

If you put only one choice, and that school has no vacancy, MOE will post you to the school nearest you which has a vacancy. It's happened many times previously. For eg someone living in the East who put NYPS as his only choice was eventually sent to Tao Nan.

if u put down only 1 choice (eg: Nanyang very hot & popular because it is co-ed and also parents hoping to transfer their younger sibling in and if there is no vacancy in Nanyang ) and you stay in the east -
MOE v likely post your child either to Tao Nan (Marine Parade) or St Hilda (Tampines); whichever that still have vacancies.

[Fun fun]

For kids staying in woodlands/yishun, most of them were posted to rosyth.

[ksmummy]

If the current sch is already a GEP centre, can we opt for a switch to another GEP sch? Automatic transfer for younger sibling as well?

[nansk]

alwayshappy:

,,, I know some of GEP schools are preferred more than others. My questions is for Indian PR ( whose native language is neither Chinese/Malay or Tamil) are there any other specific consideration in selecting the GEP school. I think SAP school only offer Chinese as mother Tongue. So are SAP GEP school out of bound whose mother tongue is not Chinese...

Not so. If your ds is taking an Indian language on Saturdays, and gets into GEP, he will continue going to Saturday school.

If he is currently taking an Indian language Mon-Fri in his own school, then then you could either select a school which has that language (parallel programme) or start going to Saturday school.

[ss501]

ksmummy:

If the current sch is already a GEP centre, can we opt for a switch to another GEP sch?

Yes - perhaps with valid reasons. My son was transferred to another gep sch.

ksmummy:

Automatic transfer for younger sibling as well?

No. It depends on the availability of vacancies in the sch. Despite my elder daughter being posted to a gep sch, my younger son was unable to transfer to the sch due to the fact that there were no vacancies. We have waited for three years until he was accepted into gep.

[monmon31]

ss501:

ksmummy:

Automatic transfer for younger sibling as well?

No. It depends on the availability of vacancies in the sch. Despite my elder daughter being posted to a gep sch, my younger son was unable to transfer to the sch due to the fact that there were no vacancies. We have waited for three years until he was accepted into gep.

Yes, it was the case for my SIL for her DS2.

[papakiasu]

I am the first one here to announce my DS make it to GEP.