DSA 2011

[phankao]

realwhiz:

I received a call from NYGH on last Friday for my DD to attend violin audition on Wednesday (13 July)... even before the GAT test on Saturday. Is this the normal procedure?

Different schools have different procedures.

[RSS]

ngbrdad:

From my own observations thru the posts in this thread, Maybe the interview dates are based on SA1 results. The higher the marks, the earlier the interview dates.

Not true. Ds best friend score lower than ds but interview date is 2 days earlier.

[jtoh]

realwhiz:

I received a call from NYGH on last Friday for my DD to attend violin audition on Wednesday (13 July)... even before the GAT test on Saturday. Is this the normal procedure?

Not unusual. That happened previously too at NYGH where the audition took place before GAT.

[jtoh]

phankao:

verykiasu2010:

i know of a few families that deliberately put one son in RI and the other son in HCI .... too bad I do not have another DS .....else do the same....best of both worlds :evil: :evil:

Like the triplets in year 2009 batch of Sec 1s? ;D one in RI, one in HCI, and one in NJC?

They would be best placed to address the differences among the three schools.

[jtoh]

hexagon:

ngbrdad:

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dont think so as my DS classmates whose result lower than his is 1-2 days b4 him leh :scratchhead:

But both are still above 80s and exempted from GAT right ?

My son's P6 SA1 result <75%, took GAT on 8th July and will be attending RI interview on 18th. Dont think it's by alphabetical order either cos his name is S. No point speculating, for all we know, they just draw the names out of a hat... :lol:

For the presentation, he cant decide between ERP or IVP. He said he is not going to prepare a portfolio cos none of his classmates who have gone for interviews was asked to show it. Will try to persuade him to at least prepare a folder with his certs.

As for the term reports, can we \"forget to bring\"? Dont think the interviewers are interested to know that his handwriting needs improvement (read: horrible and illegible), he lacks focus and is distracted easily (read: troublemaker) for all 3 years in GEP. [/quote]Not advisable to \"forget to bring\" term reports. From past experience, they will ask for it. Or if they don't the other students going in for the interview will pass theirs to the panel and the panel will look expectantly at you. The school can always ask for it directly from your primary school if you don't give it to them and it'll look quite bad if they procure it themselves and realize why you \"forgot to bring.\"

Which one did your son do better in? IVP or ERP? You can bring both actually. Chances are they may not even ask about it.

[yukilei]

jtoh:

Blur Dad:

If all GEPers are in iSparks then the number is quite small compare to RI

For Sec 1, total about 81 students only.I guess RI has about 170+ students.

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The figures look about right. HCI + RI total about 250+. Total number of GEP boys about 330. So remainder of abt 70-80 boys in ACSI, NUSH, DHS, SJI...

My Ds's has 352 GEP boys, ie next year, they'll be applying for DSA. Wonder if the schools will increase the number of classes to take in the additional boys???? They're the dragon babies!!!!

[jtoh]

yukilei:

jtoh:

[quote=\"Blur Dad\"]
If all GEPers are in iSparks then the number is quite small compare to RI

For Sec 1, total about 81 students only.I guess RI has about 170+ students.

http://i52.tinypic.com/15q9o9g.jpg\">

The figures look about right. HCI + RI total about 250+. Total number of GEP boys about 330. So remainder of abt 70-80 boys in ACSI, NUSH, DHS, SJI...

My Ds's has 352 GEP boys, ie next year, they'll be applying for DSA. Wonder if the schools will increase the number of classes to take in the additional boys???? They're the dragon babies!!!![/quote]I'm sure they'll cater for the increase if there's a need.

[Blur Dad]

yukilei:

jtoh:

[quote=\"Blur Dad\"]
If all GEPers are in iSparks then the number is quite small compare to RI

For Sec 1, total about 81 students only.I guess RI has about 170+ students.

http://i52.tinypic.com/15q9o9g.jpg\">

The figures look about right. HCI + RI total about 250+. Total number of GEP boys about 330. So remainder of abt 70-80 boys in ACSI, NUSH, DHS, SJI...

My Ds's has 352 GEP boys, ie next year, they'll be applying for DSA. Wonder if the schools will increase the number of classes to take in the additional boys???? They're the dragon babies!!!![/quote]
maybe yes or maybe no for GEP boys. Is there any increase of classes in Pri GEP classes for GEP boys for \"Year 2000 Dragon\" boys? I guess not. But I know for the \"Year 2000 Dragon gilrs\" there are additional classes. In RGPS, there are 3 classes of GEP classes instead of the normal 2. The rest of the GEP centers, no change from the pervious year.

Anyone can confirm? I mgiht be wrong.

[jtoh]

Blur Dad:

maybe yes or maybe no for GEP boys. Is there any increase of classes in Pri GEP classes for GEP boys for \"Year 2000 Dragon\" boys? I guess not. But I know for the \"Year 2000 Dragon gilrs\" there are additional classes. In RGPS, there are 3 classes of GEP classes instead of the normal 2. The rest of the GEP centers, no change from the pervious year.

Anyone can confirm? I mgiht be wrong.

RGPS has always had 3 GEP classes. They've had it for years. Nothing to do with Dragon babies.

[hexagon]

Thanks jtoh for the advise. Dont think we will actually "forget to bring" (doesnt reflect very well on the child)…just wishful thinking.


DS was hoping for a later interview date to give him time to prepare his portfolio. His good friend who scored >80% for SA1 is going on 26th july. I would rather he goes earlier, get over and done with and have one less thing to worry.

Heard from his friend who went for HCI interview (DS did not apply, struggling with Chinese) that one of the questions in Chinese was to ask him his opinion of the education system in Singapore. DS asked : what is jiao yu? bang head…a good thing he didnt apply for HCI. Some questions are youth centered like what is your favorite computer games and do you have a facebook account.