2012 PSLE Discussions and Strategy
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BeContented:
Why I raised this is because my neighbor score 251+2. But only offered up to cat2, not offered cat3 - French/jap/German.[/quote]What is your neighbor's grade for English? A or A*? Maybe only those who are strong in languages are being offered Cat 3, third language.
250 & above is top 10% & they are able to opt for Cat 3, third language.mummy so kiasu:
[quote=\"BeContented\"]
This is my understanding.
3rd Languages has 3 categories
Cat 1 - Malay / Chinese (special programme)
Cat 2 - Arabic / Bahasa Indonesia
Cat 3 - French / Japanese / Germain
Not sure about Cat 1&2. For Cat 3, also called Foreign Language, is only offered to the top 10%.
So far, I know that this year, 251 has been offered up to Cat 2.
255 & above is offered all 3 categories.
I suppose the top 10% cut-off would be from 252 - 255 then. -
fifiyeo:
Don't know about you fellows out there. I'm still pulling off my hair trying to arrange our 6 choices. It's now down to which is 1st and last. Hiaz... I bet we all grew lots of white hair over this!
This is too late to help you....but I thought you should always put the school with
the highest COP first, then down to the school with the lowest COP as the 6th choice?
(Except in the case of affiliated sec school which you should put as 1st choice)
From what I understand (disclaimer: this is what I understood about posting 2 yrs
ago when my sister was cracking her head over her DD's selection), the posting starts
with the highest scorer (285 this year), down to the lowest scorer (43).
So starting with the boy who gets 285, he naturally will be posted to his 1st choice.
Next comes those who scored 284...and they too will get posted to their 1st choice.
This goes on until it reaches your child at 2xx. At this point, MOE (or computer) will
first look at your 1st choice. If there is vacancy, then your child will be posted there.
If not, then the 2nd choice will be looked at. This process gets repeated until a vacancy
is found within the 6 choices of schools you have selected. Once your child gets posted,
the system moves on to the next child with the next lower T-score.
So by this process, putting a school in a lower choice does not discount your chances
of getting posted to it.
Eg.
Child1 with score 242 place school A of COP 240 as 3rd choice, while Child2 with
score 241 selected school A as first choice. Since Child1's T-score is higher than Child2's,
he will be posted to school A ahead of Child2, despite school A not being his 1st or 2nd choice school.fifiyeo:
Should be alright. As long as your last 2 choices COP is below his score. Good luck!mummy so kiasu:
[quote=\"fifiyeo\"]Finally! It's done. Now the wait. Hopefully not another death sentence.
Only last one is 12 pts above COP. The others below COP or on the dot.[/quote]If what I wrote above is correct, then your child will never be posted to the last choice
school, since you have choices above it with COP lesser than your child's and thus will have vacancies. -
BeContented:
250 & above is top 10% & they are able to opt for Cat 3, third language.mummy so kiasu:
[quote=\"BeContented\"]
This is my understanding.
3rd Languages has 3 categories
Cat 1 - Malay / Chinese (special programme)
Cat 2 - Arabic / Bahasa Indonesia
Cat 3 - French / Japanese / Germain
Not sure about Cat 1&2. For Cat 3, also called Foreign Language, is only offered to the top 10%.
So far, I know that this year, 251 has been offered up to Cat 2.
255 & above is offered all 3 categories.
I suppose the top 10% cut-off would be from 252 - 255 then.mummy so kiasu:
What is your neighbor's grade for English? A or A*? Maybe only those who are strong in languages are being offered Cat 3, third language.[/quote]A for both languages.Why I raised this is because my neighbor score 251+2. But only offered up to cat2, not offered cat3 - French/jap/German.
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How are we suppose to receive the posting results? By post or email?? Sorry I just returned from wonderland.
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fifiyeo:
How are we suppose to receive the posting results? By post or email?? Sorry I just returned from wonderland.
By SMS. 19th dec, 6am. -
isetan:
OMG, I think I won't be able to sleep the whole night and any bit of sound from my phone will send me hopping of the bed! :nailbite:fifiyeo:
How are we suppose to receive the posting results? By post or email?? Sorry I just returned from wonderland.
By SMS. 19th dec, 6am. -
Better sleep early…else by the time u will be too sleepy to stay awake at dawn.
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Can we parents register without DC going along?
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fifiyeo:
Can we parents register without DC going along?
Hi fifiyeo, today is only 18th Dec & you already can't sleep? Still KSP at 2am?
Why not let DC go along? Suppose to be registration cum orientation day. You need to get uniform & textbooks for him on that day as well. -
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