After scanning the last couple of pages of this thread, I’ve reached a somewhat disheartening conclusion.
It seems that we will never be able to stop measuring our young 12yos on the basis of their PSLE T-score.
An aggregate of 245?! You shall be condemned to struggle in a ‘top’ IP school (and forever too) since you have entered via DSA.
275? Congratulations! You are a star and the hope of our nation, and certainly you will not be struggling like the 240s!
I am all for abolishing affiliations to secondary schools, even though my children will be able to benefit from this. But to me calling for removal of DSA is akin to calling for going back to the days when ONLY academic results matter in our education system. What happened to all our collective moaning of how narrowly focused our education system was (?)/is?
Posts made by CayennePepper
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RE: PSLE 2015 - Sec Sch Posting for 2016 <See Pg 1 for COP list>
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RE: General Election 2015
JannettLee:
Thank you! FINALLY!!!I was distracted to discuss this GEP thingy again! I'm only interested to talk about GE Election 2015. here. Please don't distract me :razz:
This will be my last posting on Education System and do not bug me again on the GEP.
As I don't wish to go through the details of Finland's education system and the GEP system here.
I was getting tired of reading your rants.
In any event, you can't go through the details of the GEP system even if your life depends on it.
It must be apparent to any sane person reading this thread: YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT IT. -
RE: GEP 2014 - Class Starting P4 in 2015
My dd, alas, is not that excited after peeking at her brother’s math files haha.
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RE: GEP 2014 - Screening & Selection
solaris88:
I just want to mention that if you plan to do HCL, you may not want to stop your chinese enrichment class. HCL at p4 GEP is nothing like HCL at p4 mainstream. The format is already the p5/6 HCL format i.e. no MCQ. From what i've observed, those kids who are not already strong in CL in the first place have found it fairly challenging. I left my kid, who's practically illiterate in CL, to deal with it himself at p4, and at the end of the year... regretted mightily that i didnt get him any help.After reading the booklets given in the envelope..about the programme and the emphasis on the commitment required.. I'm now getting concerned..or rather.. worried...
Perhaps I'm looking at it from my non-gep brain's point of view.. how can a little 10yr old manage all these?
In particular.. it mentioned time management, which my boy and even my wife is having issue with.
Plus the consent required from parent ajnd child on the form..
It's like telling u that going into this is with your eyes open.. don't regret hor..
Then again.. ah boy got in on his own merits, we didn't prep him.. so should be okay?
Also, with the huge burden coming, I'm considering stopping his only outside enrichment class at berries.. which I believe helped his Chinese in school.. not sure if there's even time for this.. or should I let it continue?
Edit: he's got piano lessons also.. Now only at Grade 4 but he intends to go on. Don't know if he'll get overwhelmed from all these... -
RE: Catholic High (Primary)
Checking with P1 parents-- what are the boys supposed to bring on the first day of school? Also, should they go directly to the classroom or gather at the hall?
We missed the orientation as ds2 was ill that day; completely clueless and just woke up to the fact that school starts next week lol.
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RE: Catholic High (Primary)
When I heard Mr Lee’s announcement at prize giving, my first thought was: there must still be some kind of banding, cos there will still be the intermingling GEM classes with the gep classes. Wonder how they’ll effect this.
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RE: GEP 2013 - Class Starting P4 in 2014
Wow, so much excitement here
To the rising p4 geppers, have fun, enjoy the journey, don't get too worked up over grades, and in the hols, LEARN TO TYPE! -
RE: When secular laws & religions views conflate - FCBC case.
Gosh, trying to follow this thread had my overworked and fried mind going around in circles and circles and circles...
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RE: GEP 2013 - Screening & Selection
metz:
Just ran a check with my son. He didn't remember having to do any comprehension last year. Only cloze passages and MCQs. That's all he can vaguely recall.[/quote]Very interesting!Sun_2010:
[quote=\"metz\"]Yup, it's very possible that they have different papers. Though my friend's son and mine took the test in the same centre last year, they have different compre passages. And from a source, only selected questions are taken into account for selection. So, there's really no need to compare questions and answers.
Ah! the plot thickens :evil:
My Ds said there were 4 compre passages I wondered in Eng part1. hmm...
I remember that my ds1's description of the compre passages were completely different from friends who sat for the papers in other centres.
Also, he left quite a few questions uncompleted in the math paper (way more than the usual 4 or 5) and yet got in while some of his friends left many blanks too but didnt get in, leading me rather inclined to believe in the existence of 烟雾弹s. Hmmmm now that i think about it, all the questions he couldnt do were of a specfic type/nature. -
RE: GEP 2013 - Screening & Selection
That gas to pipe question-- my friend’s kid said gas+pipe=gaspipe, so is it shark+fin=sharkfin hahahahahaha!
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RE: GEP 2013 - Screening & Selection
Steadyberry:
Wish my ds is like yr ds. Coz 2 yr later, my dds' turn to sit for gep. Unfortunately, not able to get anything fr my ds. Btw, another fav quote fr my ds: \"mum, told u before I hv short term memory\" :slapshead:[/quote]Your ds is very cute
That reminds me of some of my ds's classmates- they claimed they couldnt remember a single thing from all 4 papers, but they got in lah.CayennePepper:
[quote=\"Steadyberry\"]After reading doreme's post, I asked my ds \"did u recall any question about gas is to pipe, then shark is to ?\" He replied \"er..... I think so...\".
My ds sure cannot get in. Can't even recall a single que. Sigh...
My son, otoh, came out of the centre and started writing questions down and drew many many many diagrams on our used carpark coupons. :evil: He wanted ME to try them, especially the math ones (i'm known for not 'getting' numbers).
Darn, i wanted to keep those questions but DH threw them away with the usual car trash :gloomy:
Hmmm i suspect my son spent many long mins staring at the questions and scratching his head; maybe that's why he could remember them! -
RE: GEP 2013 - Screening & Selection
Steadyberry:
That reminds me of some of my ds's classmates- they claimed they couldnt remember a single thing from all 4 papers, but they got in lah.After reading doreme's post, I asked my ds \"did u recall any question about gas is to pipe, then shark is to ?\" He replied \"er..... I think so...\".
My ds sure cannot get in. Can't even recall a single que. Sigh...
My son, otoh, came out of the centre and started writing questions down and drew many many many diagrams on our used carpark coupons. :evil: He wanted ME to try them, especially the math ones (i'm known for not 'getting' numbers).
Darn, i wanted to keep those questions but DH threw them away with the usual car trash :gloomy: -
RE: Some well-regarded principals to head schools in heartlands
http://www.moe.gov.sg/media/press/2013/10/ministry-of-education-appoints-60-principals-in-2013.php
The list of new appointments is out
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RE: Some well-regarded principals to head schools in heartlands
mwchua:
He was my GP tutor too!atrecord:
He was my GP tutor in JC leh...
Yes, same for me. He was my GP tutor back in JC days also. A quite funny tutor I personally think.... -
RE: GEP 2012 - Class Starting P4 in 2013
Miracle Child:
Congrats and big pat for our kids! Exams are over...can relax now.
Big pats for daddies and mummies too! -
RE: GEP 2012 - Class Starting P4 in 2013
DS said his EL teacher told them they didnt do as well in EL as she’d expected, ha!
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RE: GEP 2012 - Class Starting P4 in 2013
My ds barely finished the math paper. Left with only 5 mins to check and he used precious seconds to label some diagram. Are they supposed to label anything?!
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RE: GEP 2013 - Screening & Selection
coolbreeze:
Last year there were quite a few questions on Area. So if your school hasn't covered/completed this topic, it may be useful to go through the concepts on your own.
Thanks for the advice. My DS's sch hasn't completed teaching their Maths syllabus yet so I think I should go over the remaining topics with him over the weekend. He doesn't have tuition and will come to us only if he has questions.
I remember some of the diagrams my son drew to show us after the tests. You really have to be very creative to figure out the solutions! I have to say that, to the best of my knowledge, whatever is taught in p3 should be sufficient to allow the kids to work out the answers, just that the questions were not the typical find-the-area questions we see in p3 school exams -
RE: GEP 2012 - Class Starting P4 in 2013
Oops, I misunderstood what you meant kekekekeke. My apologies :oops:
Maybe, like you said, the teacher didnt make it clear enough that the practices were for SA...
All the best for tomorrow's paper