All About T-Score

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Funx3:

ruohoo97:

Just curious, were those top PSLE scorers all from GEP?

Not necessarily.
Thought one of the Top scorer, from Rulang (Neighbourhood sch).

Sch is Super Popular for P1 registration Now, Right?

Yap.....think only 10 vacancies for Phase 2B.

But seriously, think it's more like a one-off / once-in-a-blue moon kinda case.
Compare to the top schools, think the average cohort is still some distance away....but for a neighborhood school, a good progress and doing well

[Funx3]

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Funx3:

Not necessarily.
Thought one of the Top scorer, from Rulang (Neighbourhood sch).

Sch is Super Popular for P1 registration Now, Right?

Yap.....think only 10 vacancies for Phase 2B.

But seriously, think it's more like a one-off / once-in-a-blue moon kinda case.
Compare to the top schools, think the average cohort is still some distance away....but for a neighborhood school, a good progress and doing well

Once a Blue Moon kinda case ....
Macham Strike Top Prize in Spore Sweep?

[BeContented]

Funx3:

BeContented:

[quote=\"Funx3\"]
Not necessarily.
Thought one of the Top scorer, from Rulang (Neighbourhood sch).

Sch is Super Popular for P1 registration Now, Right?

Yap.....think only 10 vacancies for Phase 2B.

But seriously, think it's more like a one-off / once-in-a-blue moon kinda case.
Compare to the top schools, think the average cohort is still some distance away....but for a neighborhood school, a good progress and doing well

Once a Blue Moon kinda case ....
Macham Strike Top Prize in Spore Sweep?
[/quote]Previously, believe RL did churn out students with > 270 for a few years.....but last year's top scorer was a first time. Dun think will happen that often
Frankly, think all these do come with a tradeoff .... typically, the stress level is higher and workload heavier at schools that can churn.

[alng]

BeContented:

Previously, believe RL did churn out students with > 270 for a few years.....but last year's top scorer was a first time. Dun think will happen that often
Frankly, think all these do come with a tradeoff .... typically, the stress level is higher and workload heavier at schools that can churn.

RL is known to give lots of homework. Even a HOD of RL told me before that the school has given so much homework that the students have no time to go for tuition.

RL also focuses a lot on the top class (ONLY). In 2010, 3/4 of the top class (29 out of 40) obtained 260 and above when the average T score was nothing close to the average T score of top schools. I will feel upset as a parent if my child is not in the top class in RL. In my dd and ds schools now, there are more than one top class.

[verykiasu2010]

alng:

BeContented:

Previously, believe RL did churn out students with > 270 for a few years.....but last year's top scorer was a first time. Dun think will happen that often
Frankly, think all these do come with a tradeoff .... typically, the stress level is higher and workload heavier at schools that can churn.

RL is known to give lots of homework. Even a HOD of RL told me before that the school has given so much homework that the students have no time to go for tuition.

RL also focuses a lot on the top class (ONLY). In 2010, 3/4 of the top class (29 out of 40) obtained 260 and above when the average T score was nothing close to the average T score of top schools. I will feel upset as a parent if my child is not in the top class in RL. In my dd and ds schools now, there are more than one top class.

spoon feed and force feed. home work could never finish before mid nite, according to a parent whose son scored 26x

the parent asked the teachers whether the son needs tuition or not. the reply : if he can ever finishes the school homework.

the drilling there is quite well known

[BeContented]

alng:

BeContented:

Previously, believe RL did churn out students with > 270 for a few years.....but last year's top scorer was a first time. Dun think will happen that often
Frankly, think all these do come with a tradeoff .... typically, the stress level is higher and workload heavier at schools that can churn.

RL is known to give lots of homework. Even a HOD of RL told me before that the school has given so much homework that the students have no time to go for tuition.

RL also focuses a lot on the top class (ONLY). In 2010, 3/4 of the top class (29 out of 40) obtained 260 and above when the average T score was nothing close to the average T score of top schools. I will feel upset as a parent if my child is not in the top class in RL. In my dd and ds schools now, there are more than one top class.

Actually, RL has 3 top classes too. But we tend to hear people commenting that sch ONLY focus on 1 top class. Maybe some truth (as in top class gets a little more worksheet? ) but IMO, prob many many Schs are doing the same, or I could be wrong. Seems like my DS from another Sch (opposite end - lousy Sch) also has parents making similar comment.

Frankly I am curious how NYPS achieve this feat of producing > 200 students with T-score >250. (40% of cohort). RL seems to have gain so much 'publicity' over their workload but yet only has ~65 students scoring > 250. DS Sch despite getting comments from parents that Sch only focus on 1st class, only churn 5-8 students yearly with t-score >250. T-score in top class varies from 18x - 26x.

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alng:

[quote=\"BeContented\"]
Previously, believe RL did churn out students with > 270 for a few years.....but last year's top scorer was a first time. Dun think will happen that often
Frankly, think all these do come with a tradeoff .... typically, the stress level is higher and workload heavier at schools that can churn.

RL is known to give lots of homework. Even a HOD of RL told me before that the school has given so much homework that the students have no time to go for tuition.

RL also focuses a lot on the top class (ONLY). In 2010, 3/4 of the top class (29 out of 40) obtained 260 and above when the average T score was nothing close to the average T score of top schools. I will feel upset as a parent if my child is not in the top class in RL. In my dd and ds schools now, there are more than one top class.

Actually, RL has 3 top classes too. But we tend to hear people commenting that sch ONLY focus on 1 top class. Maybe some truth (as in top class gets a little more worksheet? ) but IMO, prob many many Schs are doing the same, or I could be wrong. Seems like my DS from another Sch (opposite end - lousy Sch) also has parents making similar comment.
Frankly I am curious how NYPS achieve this feat of producing > 200 students with T-score >250. (40% of cohort). RL seems to have gain so much 'publicity' over their workload but yet only has ~65 students scoring > 250. DS Sch despite getting comments from parents that Sch only focus on 1st class, only churn 5-8 students yearly with t-score >250. T-score in top class varies from 18x - 26x.[/quote]
NYPS has 4 GEP classes which is about 100 pupils already, with the remaining 100 pupils from 10 mainstream classes, this figure easily make up the >200 pupils scoring >250 T-score.

[mummy so kiasu]

Funx3:

ruohoo97:

Just curious, were those top PSLE scorers all from GEP?

Not necessarily.
Thought one of the Top scorer, from Rulang (Neighbourhood sch).

Sch is Super Popular for P1 registration Now, Right?

A few years ago, there was one from Sengkang Primary School. Another neighbourhood school. It currently also focus a lot of it's top class (top 20 students in the cohort) & hoping to produce another top national scorer. I believe that some of mainstream kids actually qualified for GEP but they choose to remain in the mainstream. These kids tend to produce better results in PSLE. Another reason is that GEP Programme is very different from the mainstream. GEP kids are not drilled for PSLE. Most of the them get into top schools through Academic DSA. However, top schools offer GEP tend to produce better PSLE results & more top scorers than neighbourhood schools.

[mummy so kiasu]

Funx3:

BeContented:

[quote=\"Funx3\"]
Not necessarily.
Thought one of the Top scorer, from Rulang (Neighbourhood sch).

Sch is Super Popular for P1 registration Now, Right?

Yap.....think only 10 vacancies for Phase 2B.
But seriously, think it's more like a one-off / once-in-a-blue moon kinda case.
Compare to the top schools, think the average cohort is still some distance away....but for a neighborhood school, a good progress and doing well

Once a Blue Moon kinda case ....
Macham Strike Top Prize in Spore Sweep?
[/quote]The school will work hard to try to maintain it's reputation after producing a national top scorer. It will also become more popular in its neighbourhood. Can't compare its average cohort performance with top schools. Top schools can depend on their top students from GEP classes to push up it's overall performance. We have to make fair comparison, only compare their mainstream performance.

[mummy so kiasu]

NYPS produces 120 of them from the mainstream (out of 320) + another 80 of them from the GEP to make up the 200 students with T score of 250 & above. Most of it’s kids come from well to do families. They go to branded enrichment schools such as learning lab, which most of the neighbourhood schools’ kids could not afford.