[Central] Primary Schools

[koppie]

No balloting at acsp too! Just confirmed with school.

[kasparov]

koppie:

No balloting at acsp too! Just confirmed with school.

Twins? Or did they not have more than 24? If I remember correctly, they began with 23 vacancies in phase 2B.

[koppie]

Don’t know. I didn’t ask, but I think it has something to do with moe decision.

[Buzzmom]

ryes:

sglady:

SMPS all 58 applicants are in. No need to ballot.


Most applicants are > 2km according to school.

Therefore, total vacancies for Phase 2C is 9 roll over from 2B + 66 = 75.

Good luck to me in Phase 2C.

Har....I was hoping not much people apply today.

Thanks for sharing. I'm nervous for this. Hopefully can still apply at SMPS in Phase 2C for those >2km

[sglady]

ChiefKiasu:

sglady:

This is exactly the same scenario for what I did last year.


I deregistered my son from ACSP at around 4.10pm, took me 5 mins and I managed to reach ACSJ at 4.20pm and registered my son under Phase 2C. I was rushing like mad.

It was a close shave I swear I will never gonna do this ever.

If your other kid is a boy, you will never have to do this again

Thanks! Chief.

You are right! But I've a girl to register at SMPS, 1-2km under Phase 2C this year.

I'll never register and deregister last minute. It's too stressful and I may have missed my chance. :lightrod:

[ckew]

cutyyan:

She switched to acsp as her registered add is within 1km for both acsj and acsp.

since balloting conducted for both school, she would like to try her luck with acsp first.
Evan she failed in phase2b in acsp ballot, she was still able to register under phase 2c with acsj again. I was at acsp on Tuesday, the lady came in at 4.10pm and making our applicants increased from 26 to 27. Finally, there was another mummy who < 1km pulled out her application immediately and would rush to another school for registration. Due to the deregistration took times, her hubby kept calling her from another school.It was like a drama, the admin staff worried if they deregister her son, she has insufficient time to do registration again. Finally, the deregistration done at 4.15pm.

Anyway, thanks for the mummy withdrawal and making our acsp balloting less competitive. Hopefully, she has sufficient time to register her son with another school.

Sounds like the parents who deregistered at ACSP could be the ones who registered last minute at ACSJ. If that's the case, the number of registrants would have been the same regardless whether the last minute registrations/deregistrations took place. So no one is to blame lah! It's a perfect ending for everyone.

I am just so happy for all the parents who made it. Many of us put in much efforts in finding properties within 1km, planning our finances, praying hard, getting involved in grassroots work, deciding which school suits our children, etc... It's now all paid off. I am sure our sons will enjoy 12 years of all rounded education that helps them become confident, well spoken and self-motivated individuals.

Thanks so much to the schools and MOE for allowing all within 1km to be admitted. Thanks also to all who put updates in this forum so those of us in the workplace were kept informed.

[crusader]

Thanks for update.


The lady in question decided not to proceed with registration at ACJS as she had already secured a place in SJI Jr for her son. She could also see the anxious look in all the other parents’ eyes. It was very gracious of her and everyone in the AVA room in ACJS applauded in appreciation when she announced her decision. She was still in ACJS when I left at 4.35 pm. So the lady who was the last applicant in ACPS is someone else.

In the meantime, the mommy who withdrew from ACPS must have been the wife of Applicant No. 73 (the last applicant) in ACJS who was making frantic calls to his wife to check whether she had actually deregistered as records in MOE have not been updated and he could not proceed to register at JS.

Deregistration was only updated in the MOE system shortly after 4.27 pm (which was announced) - truly a "last minute" deregistration in every sense. What a close shave! Had deregistration not been updated by 4.30 pm (less than 3 minutes away) but thereafter, the parents would have successfully deregistered from PS but be unable to register for JS.

Brinksmanship is dicey- the lag time between paper work to deregister and deregistration reflected in the MOE system is affected by so many other factors beyond one’s control e.g. other applicants waiting their turns, staff tending to other applicants, time it takes for system to be updated, bandwidth, laptop speed.

But all’s well that ends well. Congrats to successful parents in MGS, PS and JS.

Cheers.

[sglady]

Erm… Last year, I checked with the admin staff whether our application has to be in their system by 4.30pm. They told me that so long if we reach before 4.30pm, they will have to register us in the system. That’s what I was told.

[ckew]

Thanks very much to crusader for giving us the fuller picture and for writing to the school for the all inclusive request.

[sweetbaby]

So for phase c 46 or 45 places left? Was the extra slot for phase b taken from phase c?