PSLE 2012 - Results Discussion

[isetan]

@poet2010. Agree but are there cases where one go into a top school and fallout half way thru the study…due to aptitude issues?

[bupashu]

Peony:

Just to add about the spotlight on NYPS.


Personally, I take the exceptionally excellent results this year to be from the \"hunger\" factor. No one made the top list last year and hence the school really wanted to prove its might.

http://www.moe.gov.sg/media/press/files/2011/annex-a-infosheet-2011-psle-results.pdf

Motivation is a very important factor in achieving success.

the principal's never talked about making to the top. they don't need the top student to prove who they are as a school. they know where they stand and there is lots of emphasis that the great majority must do well, not just the top few

teachers teaching the best class also teaching the bottom class

was just looking at stats from 1995, 1996 ....they have been pretty consistent with the % of quality passes of A & A*, no different from today

[Skyed]

isetan:

@poet2010. Agree but are there cases where one go into a top school and fallout half way thru the study....due to aptitude issues?

Yeah. In SCGS if you don't do well enough you will be either retained (doesn't happen often) or transferred to NA in another school since SC only offers Express (starting from next year IP also).

However in schools such as Hwa Chong and other IP schools there are usually 1 or 2 classes reserved for the weakest students that also take O levels despite being in IP. They only kick you out if you're really that bad.

[Skyed]

isetan:

@poet2010. Agree but are there cases where one go into a top school and fallout half way thru the study....due to aptitude issues?

Yeah. In SCGS if you don't do well enough you will be either retained (doesn't happen often) or transferred to NA in another school since SC only offers Express (starting from next year IP also).

However in schools such as Hwa Chong and other IP schools there are usually 1 or 2 classes reserved for the weakest students that also take O levels despite being in IP. They only kick you out if you're really that bad.

[moonee]

Skyed:

isetan:

@poet2010. Agree but are there cases where one go into a top school and fallout half way thru the study....due to aptitude issues?

Yeah. In SCGS if you don't do well enough you will be either retained (doesn't happen often) or transferred to NA in another school since SC only offers Express (starting from next year IP also).

However in schools such as Hwa Chong and other IP schools there are usually 1 or 2 classes reserved for the weakest students that also take O levels despite being in IP. They only kick you out if you're really that bad.

I thought Scgs has duo track, my dd did nt take on their CO even tho I wanted her too cos thought that if she cant cope in Ip, then can switch to O levels instead.
Other colleges like NJC do ask the child to transfer out if their marks are below standard too. I dont know whether they have classes for the weaker ones like Hwa Chong.

[fattypie]

Hi all,


Most only notice the the top list in Nyps. But I witness my neighbor’s child who was posted to a neighborhood sec school last year. Both the child n mother were depressed. They distance themselves from neighbors nowadays.

My niece’s schoolmate at scgs, also come from Nyps. For three years, this girl never brief a word of where she came from. Finally, at the end of sec3, my niece discovered that she is a geppers from Nyps. Till now, this girl still feel depressed…sad right.

[phtthp]

SCGS is also a very good Sec school.

there is no reason for this ex NYPS Gepper to feel sad.

[mummy so kiasu]

Some people prefer SCGS then NYGH. Both are good schools, just different cultures. Maybe the girl misses her good friends who go to NYGH.


My hubby’s nephew who was from NYPS ended up in a neighbourhood school too. He was from the bottom class. Same as my nephew. Those who shine are from GEP & top classes. Some neighbourhood schools’ top classes also did quite well in the recent PSLE.

[mummy so kiasu]

Some people prefer SCGS then NYGH. Both are good schools, just different cultures. Maybe the girl misses her good friends who go to NYGH.

[mummy so kiasu]

Some people prefer SCGS then NYGH. Both are good schools, just different cultures. Maybe the girl misses her good friends who go to NYGH.