2014 A Level Results

Reply to 2014 A Level Results on Sun, 12 Apr 2015 18:10:00 GMT

havok_ex — Sun, 12 Apr 2015 18:10:00 GMT

Augmum:
blaze_im:
Anyone has received letter from nus business? just curious when will they be sending out acceptance letter for business course since it is a competitive course (I believe)?

Am keen to know how competitive NUS Business is ... Roughly, how many applicants applied for the number of vacancies yearly ?
( i am aware of their indicative grade profile)

Even if the figures were given, it wouldnt mean anything.

1. NUS allows 10 choices, meaning anyone could have put Biz as last two choices and still be considered an 'applicant'. Hence inflating the stats.

2. Application fees only cost $10. Which gives applicants 10 choices. Many applicants with bad grades and not much choices will just whack and pray for the best. I know I did.

3. Singaporeans will usually always apply for all 3 big universities at the same time. Meaning even SMU, with a smaller intake, will receive approximately the same number of applicants from NUS/NTU. This triples the number of applicants for each school because one person is technically applying thrice.

Definitely there are more applicants than there are vacancies. But the IGP is all you need to know. Any other stats and figures would just be pretty misleading. In any case, the IGP states the vacancies clearly, 546 for NUS biz ad.

Reply to 2014 A Level Results on Fri, 10 Apr 2015 14:35:33 GMT

takchek — Fri, 10 Apr 2015 14:35:33 GMT

Augmum:
takchek:
I doubt the figures for each degree program is released by the university. Best gauge would be looking at the IGP...That tells you the quality of the admitted applicants.

I think so...have tried to find some clues of figures online...but no info indicated...
Hope can hear from some experienced parents or students here...

Universities won't release such numbers to the public. Only the 90th and 10th percentile of the admitted applicants.

Reply to 2014 A Level Results on Fri, 10 Apr 2015 14:30:08 GMT

Augmum — Fri, 10 Apr 2015 14:30:08 GMT

takchek:
I doubt the figures for each degree program is released by the university. Best gauge would be looking at the IGP...That tells you the quality of the admitted applicants.

I think so...have tried to find some clues of figures online...but no info indicated...
Hope can hear from some experienced parents or students here...

Reply to 2014 A Level Results on Fri, 10 Apr 2015 14:21:11 GMT

takchek — Fri, 10 Apr 2015 14:21:11 GMT

I doubt the figures for each degree program is released by the university. Best gauge would be looking at the IGP…That tells you the quality of the admitted applicants.

Reply to 2014 A Level Results on Fri, 10 Apr 2015 14:16:23 GMT

Augmum — Fri, 10 Apr 2015 14:16:23 GMT

blaze_im:
Anyone has received letter from nus business? just curious when will they be sending out acceptance letter for business course since it is a competitive course (I believe)?

Am keen to know how competitive NUS Business is ... Roughly, how many applicants applied for the number of vacancies yearly ?
( i am aware of their indicative grade profile)

Reply to 2014 A Level Results on Fri, 10 Apr 2015 13:36:19 GMT

lawrenceng8888 — Fri, 10 Apr 2015 13:36:19 GMT

well, my son did very well for all his subjects for his A levels (AAB and B for GP) although he was struggling with biology and GP. Got him good private tutors to pace him and that helped him quite abit as teachers usually are too busy to give personal attention. Good to give them that extra edge from term 2 onwards. JC tuition is expensive so he gathered a group of his friends to engage a private tutor.

Can check out this tutor who really turned his bio around. can go to her website http://mybiologytutors.weebly.com. but of course, she worked well with my son as he found her explanation very clear, i can't guarantee the same for the rest. just thankful to his private tutors for helping him catch up in JC2.

Reply to 2014 A Level Results on Fri, 10 Apr 2015 06:08:54 GMT

blaze_im — Fri, 10 Apr 2015 06:08:54 GMT

Anyone has received letter from nus business? just curious when will they be sending out acceptance letter for business course since it is a competitive course (I believe)?

Reply to 2014 A Level Results on Thu, 12 Mar 2015 14:04:29 GMT

micko07 — Thu, 12 Mar 2015 14:04:29 GMT

jtoh:

They don't bother with GP, MT and PW but would take into consideration the 4th core subject.

Depends on the university. Oxford, for example, gives offers of AAA. An offer may or may not specify subjects, depending on subject combination as well as the subject one is applying for. For instance, a kid with PCME (all H2) applying for Law would probably be asked for AAA, with no further specifications. However, someone with the same combination applying for Chemistry might be asked for AAA in PCM (the more relevant subjects).

Some UK unis give 4 H2 offers (eg Cambridge), but I think they're relatively uncommon. The standard offer is 3 H2s.

Reply to 2014 A Level Results on Thu, 12 Mar 2015 09:16:56 GMT

jtoh — Thu, 12 Mar 2015 09:16:56 GMT

pirated:
jtoh:
[quote=\"zbear\"]I like to know - do Ranking Points work in the same way as PSLE T-score? So the higher, the better?

Also, it doesn't matter how many As you get just like in PSLE - how many A* ?
The higher your UAS the better. So if you score straight As for your 3 H2s and 3H1s you'll get 90. Only applicable to local unis I believe.

Your belief largely correct.

UK unis don't care about H1, GP, MT, nor PW[/quote]They don't bother with GP, MT and PW but would take into consideration the 4th core subject.

Reply to 2014 A Level Results on Thu, 12 Mar 2015 07:30:55 GMT

pirated — Thu, 12 Mar 2015 07:30:55 GMT

jtoh:
zbear:
I like to know - do Ranking Points work in the same way as PSLE T-score? So the higher, the better?

Also, it doesn't matter how many As you get just like in PSLE - how many A* ?
The higher your UAS the better. So if you score straight As for your 3 H2s and 3H1s you'll get 90. Only applicable to local unis I believe.

Your belief largely correct.

UK unis don't care about H1, GP, MT, nor PW

Reply to 2014 A Level Results on Thu, 12 Mar 2015 05:41:39 GMT

jtoh — Thu, 12 Mar 2015 05:41:39 GMT

zbear:
I like to know - do Ranking Points work in the same way as PSLE T-score? So the higher, the better?

Also, it doesn't matter how many As you get just like in PSLE - how many A* ?

The higher your UAS the better. So if you score straight As for your 3 H2s and 3H1s you'll get 90. Only applicable to local unis I believe.

Reply to 2014 A Level Results on Thu, 12 Mar 2015 05:02:57 GMT

Skyed — Thu, 12 Mar 2015 05:02:57 GMT

zbear:
I like to know - do Ranking Points work in the same way as PSLE T-score? So the higher, the better?

Also, it doesn't matter how many As you get just like in PSLE - how many A* ?

The ranking points are based on your grades for the subjects, and imo it's the grade for the H2s that really matter the most since each grade is worth 2x that of a H1..

Reply to 2014 A Level Results on Thu, 12 Mar 2015 02:44:24 GMT

zbear — Thu, 12 Mar 2015 02:44:24 GMT

I like to know - do Ranking Points work in the same way as PSLE T-score? So the higher, the better?

Also, it doesn’t matter how many As you get just like in PSLE - how many A* ?

Reply to 2014 A Level Results on Wed, 11 Mar 2015 01:10:49 GMT

Louis — Wed, 11 Mar 2015 01:10:49 GMT

tansm2010:

should be possible, my nephew just received his result last week, 6 distinctions without any tuition since sec 1

I would think those very top students with six distinctions are mostly without tuition because they have no time to listen to same explanation again. Spent time practising and memorising is more productive.
This is something that many students addicted to tuition cannot understand. The process of figuring out an answer is more important than the answer itself. Some students conveniently \"subcontract\" their thinking to tuitors, and some tuitors happily take over the task. However, in exam, students have to figure out their own solutions, particularly if the questions do not repeat. Same thing at work place, there is no model answers to follow, so the skill to be independent thinker is important, which is mostly mislead by tuition, except some very very good tuitors who prompt students to think, but they are rare, and good students do not need them.

Reply to 2014 A Level Results on Tue, 10 Mar 2015 13:36:27 GMT

tansm2010 — Tue, 10 Mar 2015 13:36:27 GMT

zbear:
DVL:
My DD is like your DS, no other tuition other than Higher Chinese till O Lvl. DD was not from any IP school but made it to VJC after O Lvl. DD did not have any tuition during her JC, relied solely on her own, help from her friends and most important of all, her JC teachers. It was a good training for her to prepare her Uni life. DD collected her results recently, she scored distinctions in all her subjects with a total of 90 rank points. Her success was especially sweet as she did it without any tuition. This is not post to brag but to share that it is possible to do well in A Lvl without relying on tuition.

Congrats to your dd for such excellent results.

Sad to say, your dd belongs to the minority who can excel with perfect score without tuition.

should be possible, my nephew just received his result last week, 6 distinctions without any tuition since sec 1

Reply to 2014 A Level Results on Sun, 08 Mar 2015 23:55:07 GMT

Jennifer — Sun, 08 Mar 2015 23:55:07 GMT

slmkhoo:
Jennifer:
I ask him how to compute the perfect score of 90 ytd. Surprisingly, he does not know how this UAS 90 comes about.

Is it:

H2 Distinction = 20 marks
H1 Distinction = 10 marks

To get 90, 4 H2 subjects + 1 H1 Subject?
What goes into the UAS:
http://www.nus.edu.sg/oam/apply/local/a ... evel1.html

A UAS calculator:
http://zueet.com/tools/a-level-universi ... alculator/

Elder boy takes 4 H2 subjects (Maths, Physic, Chemistry & ELL).

Based on the NUS link, it is:
****************************
Take grades in:
• Best three H2 subjects, with worst H2 subject counted as one H1 subject (at least one has to be a contrasting subject)
• GP
• PW

*****************************

so for students with 4 H2 subjects combi, the max UAS is computed as:

20 + 20 + 20 (3 H2 subjects)
10 (1 H2 subject)
10 + 10 (GP and PW)

Now I understand

Reply to 2014 A Level Results on Sun, 08 Mar 2015 23:43:45 GMT

sharonkhoo — Sun, 08 Mar 2015 23:43:45 GMT

Jennifer:
zbear:
who can excel with perfect score without tuition.

I hope my elder boy can achieve this too.

I ask him how to compute the perfect score of 90 ytd. Surprisingly, he does not know how this UAS 90 comes about.

Is it:

H2 Distinction = 20 marks
H1 Distinction = 10 marks

To get 90, 4 H2 subjects + 1 H1 Subject?

What goes into the UAS:
http://www.nus.edu.sg/oam/apply/local/a ... evel1.html

A UAS calculator:
http://zueet.com/tools/a-level-universi ... alculator/

Reply to 2014 A Level Results on Sun, 08 Mar 2015 23:40:39 GMT

Jennifer — Sun, 08 Mar 2015 23:40:39 GMT

zbear:
who can excel with perfect score without tuition.

I hope my elder boy can achieve this too.

I ask him how to compute the perfect score of 90 ytd. Surprisingly, he does not know how this UAS 90 comes about.

Is it:

H2 Distinction = 20 marks
H1 Distinction = 10 marks

To get 90, 4 H2 subjects + 1 H1 Subject?

Reply to 2014 A Level Results on Sun, 08 Mar 2015 11:26:36 GMT

zbear — Sun, 08 Mar 2015 11:26:36 GMT

DVL:
My DD is like your DS, no other tuition other than Higher Chinese till O Lvl. DD was not from any IP school but made it to VJC after O Lvl. DD did not have any tuition during her JC, relied solely on her own, help from her friends and most important of all, her JC teachers. It was a good training for her to prepare her Uni life. DD collected her results recently, she scored distinctions in all her subjects with a total of 90 rank points. Her success was especially sweet as she did it without any tuition. This is not post to brag but to share that it is possible to do well in A Lvl without relying on tuition.

Congrats to your dd for such excellent results.

Sad to say, your dd belongs to the minority who can excel with perfect score without tuition.

Reply to 2014 A Level Results on Sun, 08 Mar 2015 07:43:46 GMT

Jennifer — Sun, 08 Mar 2015 07:43:46 GMT

DVL:
Jennifer:
My elder boy is sitting for A lvl this year. Other than Chinese tuition up to his O lvl paper, he does not hv any tuition in sec sch.

When I read about the Physics super tutor having elite sch students in his class just to maintain their already A* grades, I panicked a little n asked my boy if he wants to attend such tuition. I even called up a few centres that provide GP tuition to ask whether they hv crash courses in holidays.

Anyway, after the panic mode is off, I am back to normal.
My DD is like your DS, no other tuition other than Higher Chinese till O Lvl. DD was not from any IP school but made it to VJC after O Lvl. DD did not have any tuition during her JC, relied solely on her own, help from her friends and most important of all, her JC teachers. It was a good training for her to prepare her Uni life. DD collected her results recently, she scored distinctions in all her subjects with a total of 90 rank points. Her success was especially sweet as she did it without any tuition. This is not post to brag but to share that it is possible to do well in A Lvl without relying on tuition.

:thankyou: for sharing.

Reply to 2014 A Level Results on Sun, 08 Mar 2015 07:24:50 GMT

DVL — Sun, 08 Mar 2015 07:24:50 GMT

Jennifer:
My elder boy is sitting for A lvl this year. Other than Chinese tuition up to his O lvl paper, he does not hv any tuition in sec sch.

When I read about the Physics super tutor having elite sch students in his class just to maintain their already A* grades, I panicked a little n asked my boy if he wants to attend such tuition. I even called up a few centres that provide GP tuition to ask whether they hv crash courses in holidays.

Anyway, after the panic mode is off, I am back to normal.

My DD is like your DS, no other tuition other than Higher Chinese till O Lvl. DD was not from any IP school but made it to VJC after O Lvl. DD did not have any tuition during her JC, relied solely on her own, help from her friends and most important of all, her JC teachers. It was a good training for her to prepare her Uni life. DD collected her results recently, she scored distinctions in all her subjects with a total of 90 rank points. Her success was especially sweet as she did it without any tuition. This is not post to brag but to share that it is possible to do well in A Lvl without relying on tuition.

Reply to 2014 A Level Results on Sun, 08 Mar 2015 06:36:11 GMT

Jennifer — Sun, 08 Mar 2015 06:36:11 GMT

My elder boy is sitting for A lvl this year. Other than Chinese tuition up to his O lvl paper, he does not hv any tuition in sec sch.

When I read about the Physics super tutor having elite sch students in his class just to maintain their already A* grades, I panicked a little n asked my boy if he wants to attend such tuition. I even called up a few centres that provide GP tuition to ask whether they hv crash courses in holidays.

Anyway, after the panic mode is off, I am back to normal.

Reply to 2014 A Level Results on Sun, 08 Mar 2015 05:56:20 GMT

Mdm Koh — Sun, 08 Mar 2015 05:56:20 GMT

I think students decide whether to take up tuition based on whether their results at school match up to their expectations. Generally, students will fare slightly better at the national exams than at school exams, but because the competition for entry to JC/uni has gotten tougher, many students who do not score at least a C grade at school may consider tuition to boost their grades. Scoring better at school will make them more confident as the national exams approach. In a sense, you can say that they don’t want to take the risk. The risk of not doing well is definitely there. The only way to eliminate the tuition culture is if students can manage to improve their grades at school. Then parents won’t feel the need to engage tutors.