Help in HMT.

[jtoh]

prancingpony:

Hi, would appreciate it very much if someone can help clarify. My son is taking HMT and will be in sec 3 next year. I was told they have to sit for the MT O level next year ( mid year?) and if they did not do well they can reseat again at the end of the year? And in the meantime, they do still have to sit for their normal HMT school exams do they not?

I am rather confused cos am not able to get a clear picture, so will probably ask silly questions so please excuse me.
Thank you!

Your son will have to sit for his MT O level exams in Sec 3 and continue to take his school's HMT exam in Sec 3. If he scores an A for his MT at O levels, he will be allowed to take his HMT O levels at Sec 4. If he passes HMT O levels, he will be exempt from MT for A levels.

[prancingpony]

Thank you koguma, twilight and jtoh. Will his MT O level result then be the one that will be included in the R5? What if he doesn’t do well even after few tries. Will he be allowed to take HMT at sec 4?


Thank you for your feedback. Appreciate it.

[twilight]

Yes, you can count MT as R5 provided you do not use HMT for L1.

My school does not allow students who do not do well in MT to take HMT in sec 4 but such cases have been rare in my school. Best to check with the school.

[prancingpony]

Thank you for the info, twilight. Much appreciated.

[millan]

janique_bear:

My daughter is in Sec 2 this year, and she had been scoring like 25, 26 and 21 out of 50 for her HMT. I'm really very worried for her as I don't want her to be kick out of HMT. :scared: Is there any way to help her up, to increase her standard to like 35, other than tuition as she does not have tuition. Please, help me!! :?:

Hi ,

my son also in sec 2 and take HMT and went for tuition. He gets c5/c6 range He dun like chinese, so tuition to me is to sustain not to improve.

I am thinking of opting him out to normal chinese liao..

Why I thot of letting him to hv HMT is bec I intend to save him the 2 years in JC on chinese.

One thing i need to confirm: in sec school currently do utake both paper HMT and normal chinses or u only take HMT paper?

[twilight]

Without HMT though, you won’t have the 2 additional bonus points. If he has 3rd language, then it’s fine. Otherwise, it’ll be difficult for him to enter HCI and RI and even VJC. This is something my friend who does MT is lamenting right now. It is still possible to enter HCI and RI without HMT, but it’ll be through appeal and that’s another troublesome process.


The school exams will only either be HMT or MT standard. For my school, we will take the O level MT paper at the end of sec 3. Therefore, sec 3 mid year we’ll do MT paper but end of year we’ll do HMT paper.