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AdeleisG:

Congrats to all! I received a letter weeks ago for eagles award so I will be attending the ceremony.

But I am getting confused for my grc site's ceremony cos I am supposed to expect another letter that will provide me with more details of the ceremony (i.e. date, time, venue). I'm worried the letter that was supposed to be sent to my house has been mistakenly sent to another place with a similar address, so I won't be surprised if I have missed the ceremony!
Does anyone here living in serangoon know about the ceremony details? I feel very helpless here please help! Thanks in advance!

Call yr GRC to check WHEN the ceremony of the award presentation will be held...
The second letter will indicate the recipient's serial number....

No need to be unduly worried....Even if u miss the ceremony ....
U can still collect the cert n yr cheque fr the GRC office...( within a specific period)

ya I will check with my site grc tomorrow.
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Congrats to all! I received a letter weeks ago for eagles award so I will be attending the ceremony.

But I am getting confused for my grc site's ceremony cos I am supposed to expect another letter that will provide me with more details of the ceremony (i.e. date, time, venue). I'm worried the letter that was supposed to be sent to my house has been mistakenly sent to another place with a similar address, so I won't be surprised if I have missed the ceremony!
Does anyone here living in serangoon know about the ceremony details? I feel very helpless here please help! Thanks in advance!

Hi all, I would like to ask for some advice regarding a level subjects. Currently my subject choices are physics, economics, maths and the last one - I'm not sure if I should choose china studies or chemistry.


Does anyone or their children know about the curriculum of china studies or chemistry? Would greatly appreciate if you can share some valuable advice here. I've some questions in mind though: how is the subject like? What's the difficulty level around? Did you/your child regret taking the subject?

Thanks in advance!

IMO chemistry is much more difficult than china studies. I never took it before but I was in the same class with H1 Eng Lit, Gen Studies in Chinese and China Studies in English. We were quite a weird mix. It depends on where you wish to proceed after A-levels. Having both physics and math is more than enough to open doors to almost all courses in university. So you dont have to pick chemistry even if you choose to enter the science or engineering route in university. From what I saw, my classmates were generally lazy but did pretty okay for China Studies so I dont think its too difficult.

I think lots of people take chemistry. Chemistry is really taxing in my opinion. Employs lots and lots of memory as well as application skills. I clicked well with physics, math, GP and lit but I always hated chem. For physics, you could derive formulas from the definition and vice versa. You could also derive the shapes of different graphs and relationships from those formulas itself, so there wasnt much to memorise. I invested much more time into chem but scored even worse for it than my other subjects. All that said, I regret taking chemistry. My JC was a neighbourhood JC so we didnt have much options in terms of subject combinations. It was either 3 science and 1 humanities or 3 humanities and 1 science. I wanted to take 2 of each but wasnt allowed.

Math and physics are critical in my opinion because a large portion of university spots are for science and engineering. But outside of these 2 subjects, you should choose something you are much more interested in. In any case, you can look up the syllabus on SEAB's website.

Thanks for the detailed sharing! I'm a triple science student and honestly, my sciences are better than my languages. But I don't have the intention of giving up physics (since it's a subject that can score in) so next to strike off from my list is chemistry. I enjoyed secondary school chemistry but I'm not too sure how's a level chemistry like. I have checked the syllabus on Seab website and I have seen new topics, so I would like to ask is JC chem a large jump from secondary school chem?

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Hi all, I would like to ask for some advice regarding a level subjects. Currently my subject choices are physics, economics, maths and the last one - I’m not sure if I should choose china studies or chemistry.


Does anyone or their children know about the curriculum of china studies or chemistry? Would greatly appreciate if you can share some valuable advice here. I’ve some questions in mind though: how is the subject like? What’s the difficulty level around? Did you/your child regret taking the subject?

Thanks in advance!

Hi ga2004, it would good if your daughter can speak to her math & chem teachers to find out her weak areas. As a sec 3 student too, I fared badly for my ca2 for my chem but I went for regular consultations with my teacher + tried many past year pp as possible.


Practise as many math & chem questions related to syllabus too. Will be useful understanding & getting the feel of question types in exam. Try headstart during this holidays by revising sec 1-3 syllabus and ask your daughter to clarify any doubts with her teachers asap.

Motivate her too! Take care.

Hi, regarding autism, I’m not sure whether this was mentioned previously in any page, but having read and once contacted a teacher who’s experienced in helping autistic children, I would suggest swimming therapy for them. The swimming therapy may not be cheap though useful in helping them deal better with surrounding.


Water is in fact a good way of helping them in terms of thinking; I’m not very clear about how it works either but it’s been proven to be really effective. Sg also has some schools which specialize in swimming therapy for autistic children.

Hope this helps!

Hi Germalux, I can understand your dilemma as a Sec 2 student who is choosing subject combi as well. I feel that it will be better for you to take combi 1 since you are interested in science. Also, this combi is more suitable for you since you have little interest in history. although you will have to drop one of the sciences when you go to jc, the science that you may drop in future is still a form of enrichment for you in secondary school. Besides, all these three sciences are useful if you take medicine in future. For me, I would prefer geography to history, as the latter is more challenging for me. Good luck for your choice!

Hi, I am a Sec 2 student at an IP school. I am currently applying for ESIP and I have heard that applicants have to sit for the IPST (Integrated Programme Schlorship Test) at Sec 3. I would like to find out about this test, and any advice about it would be greatly appreciated.