All About GEP

[Snow Crystal]

verykiasu2010:

what is \"being GEP .... to be .. converted to IP half way\" ? GEP ends at sec 2. Unless you are saying after sec 1 they have no more GEP for the SBGE at sec school due to the IP ? :?

I read it as the writer belongs to one of the pioneer batch students who got converted to through train during his Sec 2 or Sec 3 year due to implementation of IP in 2005. :?

[verykiasu2010]

Snow Crystal:

verykiasu2010:

what is \"being GEP .... to be .. converted to IP half way\" ? GEP ends at sec 2. Unless you are saying after sec 1 they have no more GEP for the SBGE at sec school due to the IP ? :?

I read it as the writer belongs to one of the pioneer batch students who got converted to through train during his Sec 2 or Sec 3 year due to implementation of IP in 2005. :?

I know; but GEP for sec school ends at sec 2

[Snow Crystal]

ForumWriter:

Oh, and a top IP school is dissolving a few CCAs and SIGs (student interest groups) and reducing training times secretly. Maybe it's because they've realised that their students are performing worse and worse every year. While the reason for this isn't announced, the only change in recent years is the advent of IP and DSA. Off-the-record interviews were conducted with certain school authorities, but the principal herself sounded astonished at the news and her information contradicted that of the CCA heads and other teachers.

Oh interesting, I thought this IP is dissolving the few CCAs due to probably internal review of cost or medal records. Didn't know got different angle...

[verykiasu2010]

Snow Crystal:

ForumWriter:

Oh, and a top IP school is dissolving a few CCAs and SIGs (student interest groups) and reducing training times secretly. Maybe it's because they've realised that their students are performing worse and worse every year. While the reason for this isn't announced, the only change in recent years is the advent of IP and DSA. Off-the-record interviews were conducted with certain school authorities, but the principal herself sounded astonished at the news and her information contradicted that of the CCA heads and other teachers.

Oh interesting, I thought this IP is dissolving the few CCAs due to probably internal review of cost or medal records. Didn't know got different angle...

wow, secretly reducing training times ..... secretly .... :rotflmao: :rotflmao: just wondering whether the students involved had to take an oath on secrecy ....

[Nebbermind]

atutor2001:

The comment about the GPA needing minimal effort to pass is very true. All my kids had honey moon for 5 years. 2 have already survived the system because they woke up a couple of months before A level. However, my last one is a real worry - still having honey moon.

But even in non-IP schools, you donch need to do especially well to get a promotion, ya?

I remember we had O level to wake us up...and so we worked hard for maybe 6 mths...but after that, we slacked for another yr in JC1 too coz promotion was easy too.

Why blame IP? :scratchhead:

[Zann]

Nebbermind:

atutor2001:

The comment about the GPA needing minimal effort to pass is very true. All my kids had honey moon for 5 years. 2 have already survived the system because they woke up a couple of months before A level. However, my last one is a real worry - still having honey moon.

But even in non-IP schools, you donch need to do especially well to get a promotion, ya?

I remember we had O level to wake us up...and so we worked hard for maybe 6 mths...but after that, we slacked for another yr in JC1 too coz promotion was easy too.

Why blame IP? :scratchhead:

Will it be too late for A level preparation if the kids only buck up a yr 6?

[verykiasu2010]

Zann:

Nebbermind:

[quote=\"atutor2001\"] The comment about the GPA needing minimal effort to pass is very true. All my kids had honey moon for 5 years. 2 have already survived the system because they woke up a couple of months before A level. However, my last one is a real worry - still having honey moon.

But even in non-IP schools, you donch need to do especially well to get a promotion, ya?

I remember we had O level to wake us up...and so we worked hard for maybe 6 mths...but after that, we slacked for another yr in JC1 too coz promotion was easy too.

Why blame IP? :scratchhead:

Will it be too late for A level preparation if the kids only buck up a yr 6?[/quote]for the bright ones, no problem. I have seen JC 1 people spending 6 days a week at CCA, attend lectures in the morning, hardly do tutorials due to CCA competition (every year must win championship type), hardly scrape through promo exam to JC 2 .... and start engine at June school holidays....still came out with 3 A level 'A's plus a C ...... the teachers almost have heart attack because of him .... LOL

[verykiasu2010]

Zann:

Nebbermind:

[quote=\"atutor2001\"] The comment about the GPA needing minimal effort to pass is very true. All my kids had honey moon for 5 years. 2 have already survived the system because they woke up a couple of months before A level. However, my last one is a real worry - still having honey moon.

But even in non-IP schools, you donch need to do especially well to get a promotion, ya?

I remember we had O level to wake us up...and so we worked hard for maybe 6 mths...but after that, we slacked for another yr in JC1 too coz promotion was easy too.

Why blame IP? :scratchhead:

Will it be too late for A level preparation if the kids only buck up a yr 6?[/quote]for the bright ones, no problem. I have seen JC 1 people spending 6 days a week at CCA, attend lectures in the morning, hardly do tutorials due to CCA competition (every year must win championship type), hardly scrape through promo exam to JC 2 .... and start engine at June school holidays....still came out with 3 A level 'A's plus a C ...... the teachers almost have heart attack because of him .... LOL

[Kiasucy]

Nebbermind:

atutor2001:

The comment about the GPA needing minimal effort to pass is very true. All my kids had honey moon for 5 years. 2 have already survived the system because they woke up a couple of months before A level. However, my last one is a real worry - still having honey moon.

But even in non-IP schools, you donch need to do especially well to get a promotion, ya?

I remember we had O level to wake us up...and so we worked hard for maybe 6 mths...but after that, we slacked for another yr in JC1 too coz promotion was easy too.

Why blame IP? :scratchhead:

Say in RI, wouldn't the yr4 result affect their choice of subject combination in yr 5 n 6? Or affect their sch approval for them to take 4 H2 subjects? Was told in some ip schools it will. :?

[atutor2001]

Zann:

Nebbermind:

[quote=\"atutor2001\"] The comment about the GPA needing minimal effort to pass is very true. All my kids had honey moon for 5 years. 2 have already survived the system because they woke up a couple of months before A level. However, my last one is a real worry - still having honey moon.

But even in non-IP schools, you donch need to do especially well to get a promotion, ya?

I remember we had O level to wake us up...and so we worked hard for maybe 6 mths...but after that, we slacked for another yr in JC1 too coz promotion was easy too.

Why blame IP? :scratchhead:

Will it be too late for A level preparation if the kids only buck up a yr 6?[/quote]2 of my kids have done it that way. Determination is the key. Intelligence level just above average can liao.

Actually, it is the culture of the school that matters. If it is happening every year in the school where students who failure at prelim can get all A's at A level, the students will develop the confidence or \"howlianness\" that \"others can do it so can I\". So to them it is normal - nothing to brag about.

However, not sure if it is happening only in this particular IP school or all top IP schools. As for normal IP schools, I think better don't try.