Secondary 2 Streaming

[PhysicsTeacher]

squishybuns:

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English 71
Maths 48
Science 89
MT 80
History 93
Geography 91
Literature 68
FCE 88
DNT 76
Art 78
Overall 78.2%
Lvl Position 6/162

Hi, squishybuns,

You need not worry anything!

Let’s analyse your scores as followed. Let’s group your subjects into: Language, humanity subjects, math and sciences, the average scores for them:

Language (Eng, MT, Lit): 73.0
Humanities (His, Geo, FCE, Art):87.5
Math: 48
Sciences (Sc, DNT): 82.5

Typically, language subjects are very difficult to score over 75%, hence your language capabilities are more than excellent! This together with your outstanding performance in humanity subjects, indicates that you have a very good language mastery and linguistic-based analytic skills. The latter conclusion is further evidenced by your high score in science. This is because Lower Sec sciences are typically at the conceptual or linguistic-based analytic levels, with very minimal use of math. In contrast to this linguistic-analytic skills, your numerical analytic skills seem not measuring up equally. Hence, your worry.

But let’s ask one fundamental question: what is the purpose of the school? One word: training! Your strong language capabilities must the result of a very good language training in your Primary years (you don’t realise it, you should go back to thank your language teachers!), plus of course your love of readings (you don’t realise it either, thank your parents!)! School is precisely there to train human talents for the great good of the nation and even the world! It is precisely your weakness in math that needs rigorous training. To me, other than languages, math is the single most important subject in the secondary years that every student must learn and master, for it builds the foundation for all if not the great majority of subjects in university which can realise the “greater good” for the nation or the world! You are within the top 3% of your school cohort, means you have the more than sufficient means (IQ) to tackle math subjects in school, otherwise something is very wrong with your school! If you cannot do it, 90% of Singaporean will not!

Math, in fact is much more easy to learn compare to the conceptual subject like physics. There was a research revealing that student complete thousands physics calculation problems would still flounder in conceptual problems (can read my threads)! Math is relatively easy because it is a recipe- or routine-based subject (I mean in secondary to JC levels). You just need to follow 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 steps and do more of the similar variety problems, you can solve most of the questions (A2 could be assured, may be not A1).

For your future success, you must aim to take Elementary and Add Math! Do not be over-shadowed by your lack of training in math during your primary years, you have more than enough materials to excel in these subjects! That I am absolutely sure!

[janet88]

my daughter is in NA. next year she will be in sec 2. if she does well enough to choose subject combination with E and A math, will she still be doing these subjects at NA standard?

[koguma]

janet88:

my daughter is in NA. next year she will be in sec 2. if she does well enough to choose subject combination with E and A math, will she still be doing these subjects at NA standard?

Usually if the student does \"NA\" A maths , she will needs to do \"O\" level E Maths.

[janet88]

koguma:

janet88:

my daughter is in NA. next year she will be in sec 2. if she does well enough to choose subject combination with E and A math, will she still be doing these subjects at NA standard?

Usually if the student does \"NA\" A maths , she will needs to do \"O\" level E Maths.

thanks.

[vinegar]

Hi,

My ds is exempted from MT. Hw does it affect his sec 2 streaming? Does he need to take additional subject?

[MyPillow]

vinegar:

Hi,

My ds is exempted from MT. Hw does it affect his sec 2 streaming? Does he need to take additional subject?

Exempted since Pri or in Sec ?
Jc entry need MT , according to jc admission booklet lei

[janet88]

daughter is also exempted from MT since primary school all the way to JC (if she enters).

[sharonkhoo]

MyPillow:

vinegar:

Hi,

My ds is exempted from MT. Hw does it affect his sec 2 streaming? Does he need to take additional subject?

Exempted since Pri or in Sec ?
Jc entry need MT , according to jc admission booklet lei

Exemption should be up to JC level.

Vinegar: I've heard that some schools may ask a child to take an additional subject (another language) in lieu in sec school, but your son obviously hasn't. I don't know how it would affect his sec 2 streaming as that is internal to the school I think. Best to ask the school.

[phtthp]

For students taking GCE O level (Non-IP track) :-


if a Sec 2 student has been exempted from Mother-tongue (Chinese), since Sec 1,
when come to end of Sec 2 streaming, will this student be restricted / confined to only taking certain subject combination(s), from Sec 3 onwards into Sec 4?

Eg.

suppose this Sec 2 student, exempted from Mother Tongue (Chinese), is keen to take Sec 3 & 4 pure (Physics, Chemistry) : is she still allowed to take this subject combination / or not allowed ?


because MOE eligibility criteria is
Mother Tongue is required, to gain admission into Junior College(s).


https://www.moe.gov.sg/admissions/direct-admissions/dsa-jc/eligibility

https://www.moe.gov.sg/docs/default-source/document/education/admissions/jae/files/section-6---jae-information-booklet.pdf

[vinegar]

slmkhoo:

MyPillow:

[quote=\"vinegar\"]Hi,

My ds is exempted from MT. Hw does it affect his sec 2 streaming? Does he need to take additional subject?

Exempted since Pri or in Sec ?
Jc entry need MT , according to jc admission booklet lei

Exemption should be up to JC level.

Vinegar: I've heard that some schools may ask a child to take an additional subject (another language) in lieu in sec school, but your son obviously hasn't. I don't know how it would affect his sec 2 streaming as that is internal to the school I think. Best to ask the school.[/quote]Yes u r right. The school did not ask to take up additional language. Ok thanks. I will ask the school. I hope someone who is in the same situation as me is able to share their experience.