DSA 2011

[jtoh]

Hi blur-dad, sorry to hear about your son’s DSA experience. I’m sure your son will do well enough via his PSLE results to get into his dream school. Will he be taking up the ACSI WL? Or will he forgo it and try for RI/HCI at the S1 Central Posting exercise?

[Funx3]

nanosphere:

ds has rec'd co fr rvhs.he enjoyed the interview which according to ds was carried out in 3 stages.first, one and half min in chinese answering 3 given questions, second is a debate and lastly they were given a picture and they've to talk abt their own experience in relating to the picture.a gd experience for him.

:congrats: nanosphere!
Look Like U Have a Boy who Enjoy Challenges!
:celebrate: :celebrate:

[MandyMummy]

nanosphere:

ds has rec'd co fr rvhs.he enjoyed the interview which according to ds was carried out in 3 stages.first, one and half min in chinese answering 3 given questions, second is a debate and lastly they were given a picture and they've to talk abt their own experience in relating to the picture.a gd experience for him.

:congrats: nanosphere and ds :rahrah: :rahrah:

[ngbrdad]

nanosphere:

ds has rec'd co fr rvhs.he enjoyed the interview which according to ds was carried out in 3 stages.first, one and half min in chinese answering 3 given questions, second is a debate and lastly they were given a picture and they've to talk abt their own experience in relating to the picture.a gd experience for him.

:congrats:

[LangMum]

nanosphere:

ds has rec'd co fr rvhs.he enjoyed the interview which according to ds was carried out in 3 stages.first, one and half min in chinese answering 3 given questions, second is a debate and lastly they were given a picture and they've to talk abt their own experience in relating to the picture.a gd experience for him.

:congrats: nanosphere and DS.

[yukilei]

ngbrdad:

tisha:

[quote=\"ngbrdad\"]Sigh still no letter.

So nowadays postman doesn't work on Sat is it ?
Like that must wait till Monday liao.

Same here, the evening mail is also delivered. No letter form NJC. But got the reject letter from ACSI :sad: but expected. So I guess we do have postal delivery twice a day. Hope postman delivers on sat, I'm not too sure that no delevery on sat. More importantly hope it is good news. :xedfingers:

Ya lor.
Since when did they stop postal delivery on Sat ?[/quote]I think there's delivery on Sat, but maybe only once. Ard noon time. Nowadays, Singpost employ neighbourhood aunties & uncles to deliver letters..... I've seen one on Sat before... maybe you try again later.

[yukilei]

ngbrdad:

breadbin:

My son was interviewed by the team with the Discipline Mistress of NJC. For some answers, he was cut short in mid sentence and a new question was asked.

So we thought he was a real goner for the njc dsa, that was why i said the CO was unexpected.

I really don't know how much weightage the interviews hold.
There were so many different panels and interview time can range from 10 min to 45 min.

I remember some kids didn't answer \"PIER\" as HCI values during HCI interview. Wonder if they get CO from HCI. If they do get in, then we can roughly know how much the weightage the interviews hold. Anyone can comment on this?
& also those kids who couldn't ans HCI in mandarin??

[yukilei]

Blur Dad:

8228:

For P6 GEP, roughly how many percents of students have results > 80%? Thanks.

Not sure, but I have done some simple calculation . There are estimated about 320-330 x P6 GEP boys in year 2011.

1)\tAssume 90%++ have applied for RI. So Est. 300 GEP boys have applied to RI
2)\tRI has about 175 seat for GEP Students
3)\tTo my understanding there are few cases of GEP boys who scored low end of 80% were awarded WL for RI
4)\tSo I assume that there are more than 175 GEP boys scored more than 80% for their SA1
5)\tThere are total about 450 primary 6 GEP students in year 2011. Including those P6 GEP girls, I believe there are more than 50% of the total cohort scored more than 80% for SA1.

However, you might not agree with me.

My DS scored 77.x% for his SA1. Applied DSA to RI, HCI and ASCI. Got rejected from RI and HCI. WL for ACSI. The DSA journey was quite painful for my DS. Take sometime for him to get over it.

Well, I guess this is the price to pay for not scoring >80% and hoping to get DSA to the top boy’s school via DSA.

Cheers

Blurdad, sorry to hear abt this. This is my worry too... I really hope that my ds can score >80% next year, hoping he does not need to go thru such agony. But seems like those who get low 80% also can't be spared by such agony this year. Imagine there're 350 GEP boys in 2012 batch!
Wishing your ds all the best for his PSLE!

[yukilei]

nanosphere:

ds has rec'd co fr rvhs.he enjoyed the interview which according to ds was carried out in 3 stages.first, one and half min in chinese answering 3 given questions, second is a debate and lastly they were given a picture and they've to talk abt their own experience in relating to the picture.a gd experience for him.

:congrats: :rahrah:

[Blur Dad]

yukilei:

ngbrdad:

[quote=\"breadbin\"]My son was interviewed by the team with the Discipline Mistress of NJC. For some answers, he was cut short in mid sentence and a new question was asked.

So we thought he was a real goner for the njc dsa, that was why i said the CO was unexpected.

I really don't know how much weightage the interviews hold.
There were so many different panels and interview time can range from 10 min to 45 min.

I remember some kids didn't answer \"PIER\" as HCI values during HCI interview. Wonder if they get CO from HCI. If they do get in, then we can roughly know how much the weightage the interviews hold. Anyone can comment on this?
& also those kids who couldn't ans HCI in mandarin??[/quote]
I think the answer to your question is easy. For HCI and RI doesn't matter how well the GEP boys performed in the interview or the short written test or the GAT test. If the SA1 scored below 80%, there will be no CO. Maybe a WL from HCI if scored is very near to 80%, like 79.xx%.