Snow Crystal:

GO if you have papa mama scholarship from parents who can well afford - no strings attached. And if medicine is your passion, pursue it! It is v v v v difficult to get into NUS medicine even if you have AAA/A or AAAA/A. At least a thousand+++ local A level takers will achieve 4As for 4 H2 core subjects. But enrollment to NUS medicine is only 260 (current) with ard half from Raffles family. So majority 4 straight As (H2) students will be rejected. If you can enter UK Medicine 1 year earlier, why not. Yes please please check if recognized by Singapore and major cities. Can you please share which UK prep school you are considering going? In case we aunties and uncles also have to consider this route next time for our DD/DS :moneyflies:

I'm not the person who originally asked the question but I know of a few people who went to Cardiff Sixth Form College and Concord College (Shrewsbury) when they were going that route.

Both schools sometimes have representatives coming down to Singapore so you might want to check http://www.overseaseducation.sg/asedu/en/index.asp for more info.

As a 17 year old who speaks proper English, I think the best way for children to learn to speak proper English is by speaking proper English to them and encourage them to read more books (which you are doing).


My parents always spoke proper English to me and the first time I learnt about Singlish was when I entered primary school. Back then, when I spoke a word of Singlish, my parents immediately corrected me and explained why that was incorrect. Till this day they still do so (but less often!).

My parents encouraged reading from an early age and my brother and I became voracious readers.

Another factor that I attribute my speaking of proper English is that I tend to hang around people who speak proper English. In fact, one of my best friends has been called a grammar Nazi by many!

Although some may recommend that children learn the elements of a sentence, such as verbs and adjectives, I think that when proper English is spoken and reinforced, it will develop.

I would think that it is hardly possible for it to common for students to petition against teachers, given the calibre of this school. Sure, some teachers may be disliked but this to be expected.

[quote] Not true lah. Let say for physics, the \"Kinematics module\" will not be able to serve as a foundation for subsequent module on \"electricity\". So after being tested in term 1 on kinematics they will not see it again. CT is topic based. [/quote]My statements should be taken into context. Of course, it is not possible to integrate the two at this level but in topics such as dynamics and mechanics, knowledge from previous topics is essential.

The students in J1 now and were from RGS that I know do not find it as hard to adjust as you seem to say. In fact, sometimes the RGS students have an upper hand (e.g. Organic Chemistry) because they have already studied it in RGS.

There are quite a few benefits to the IP too!

verykiasu2010:

moomoo7368:

Hi parents of current or ex-Rgs girls, my dd has been offered a place at Rgs through dsa.


But I heard comments that some ip teachers do not teach much and that learning is left ver much to the pupils themselves.

So I would really appreciate it if I could get feedback about rgs' programmes from parents who have or had girls in the Rgs ip programme.

whatever it is, it is time to train to girls to be more independent in their studies, learn where to get what and how

I concur.
[quote]My comments are :

1) There are some very good teachers who really spoon feed their students with wonderful notes. Unfortunately, these are not the majority.
Some are so lazy that they didn't even bother to give their students the standard notes. The trick is to have many friends and get notes from classes with the good teachers. There was a really good math teacher who left recently. A real lost to the school but I wonder if the principal is aware.

2) Generally by JC1, they forget what is a \"real exam\" after being tested by \"modules\" for the last 4 years. However, being intelligent kids, most of them will recover by JC2.

2) For weaker students who takes time to \"recover\", best to make them do \"O\" level paper on their own because IP can deviate quite substantially from the \"O\" level syllabus.[/quote]Are good teachers the ones who spoon-feed students with notes? Perhaps this is a value judgement but I think good teachers should actually encourage students to think on their own. Though your statement that \"Some are so lazy that they didn't even bother to give their students the standard notes.\" may be true, do not be mistaken; Most teachers in RGS are not like this.

In addition, I do not believe that students will forget what a \"real exam\" is. If your definition of a real exam happens to be one that covers all topics, it is still not true that students will forget. Whatever the subject is, topics covered earlier would serve as a foundation to future topics. Hence, it is not true that students would not remember.

It is precisely because the IP deviates from the O Level syllabus that it is not advised for students to do the O Level paper on their own. The topics taught are more advanced than the O Level topics. However, I do admit that the O Level papers would serve as a good revision for foundation building.
[quote]It is quite worrying as dd is one of those who need to be 'pushed'. So if she gets one of the 'bochap' teachers, it would be...[/quote]Going to RGS would possibly encourage her to study on her own and learn to think critically!