All About A Levels
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1) Usually starts about 7.30 and ends anytime from 2 to 6, depending on your combi and CCA commitment
2) Econs is something O level students never touched before, but given that so many people take H2 Econs nowadays if you do your TYS and study properly it should be fine. Econs at A level is hardly as analytical as history nor nuanced as lit anyway. Similar to geog in terms of skills needed.
3) No need to take H1 CL in JC if you passed O level HMT. No disadvantage not to take.
4) 1st day usually in early Feb or so.
5) Depends. Location, programs offered, CCA offered, subject combi offered.
6) Good thing about 5 point sch is that you likely have abit more special opportunities and support for scholarship/overseas U applications not offered to mainstream JCs. Bad thing is more competition. So up to you. In the end if you want to go to local U (or UK arguably) its only grades that matter, so doesn’t matter which JC you go to. if you want to aim for scholarships or US unis, then you need the CCAs and everything else. -
Hi all.
Can 3 points get into Hwa Chong/Raffles? Like 7 points minus 4 bonus points. I heard it’s only partial? -
Yeah it’s partial. 6-3 is given more priority than 7-4. You can appeal if you can rejected though. Helps to have good CCA track record or leadership positions etc if you’re appealing.
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yoyoyozxc:
Possible but depends on how well the cohort for that year performs. There have been cases where 4 pointers also got in after submitting appeals. All the best!Hi all.
Can 3 points get into Hwa Chong/Raffles? Like 7 points minus 4 bonus points. I heard it's only partial? -
ok thanks for your replies
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hello forumers. i live far away from every jc and there's no direct bus to any of them within walking distance. That means i probably have to take mrt+bus or bus+bus switchings in the early morning and after school, both times when im confirm super tired...Does anyone face the same problem as me? Is buying a car the only way?
How i wish i can live at the hostel or have a school bus to pick me up like in pri sch...i've personally experienced how tiring it is to keep switching transportation in secondary school and was hoping for a change in JC, but no such luck apparently. How do you cope with such an issue? especially when you have to go home in the evening now and squeeze with people on the public transport :nosebleed:
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beezlebubz:
hello forumers. i live far away from every jc and there's no direct bus to any of them within walking distance. That means i probably have to take mrt+bus or bus+bus switchings in the early morning and after school, both times when im confirm super tired...Does anyone face the same problem as me? Is buying a car the only way?
How i wish i can live at the hostel or have a school bus to pick me up like in pri sch...i've personally experienced how tiring it is to keep switching transportation in secondary school and was hoping for a change in JC, but no such luck apparently. How do you cope with such an issue? especially when you have to go home in the evening now and squeeze with people on the public transport :nosebleed:
Where is this place? -
somewhere la aiyo does it matter where i live,
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I thought most students will have to take feeder bus + MRT + bus or feeder bus + bus to their schools. The adults are doing the same to go to work too.
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My history teacher is always lamenting about her sad life in JC with h2 history so i probably will shun from art stream if i were you, plus i hate any content heavy memorizing subject, and in JC the books so thick de T.T