Just to add, even a kid who got in without any prep will still struggle at the start until he/she adapts to the programme. It’s not true also that they learn secondary school stuff all the time, though they do learn some of these skills. Certain things they learn won’t be covered in mainstream syllabus at all. The fast pace is true, by the end of P4, my son actually had more than 100 worksheets for math alone. At the start sometimes he couldn’t finish doing correction as teacher was very fast. Before GEP he used to get perfect or near perfect scores without much effort, in P4 he actually had to study and was still getting by with 80+ percent for tests. Morale and self esteem might become an issue for some. For those who don’t come from a GEP school, friendship might be an issue as well, many gifted kids don’t make friends easily. There are quite a lot of things a child need to adapt to when starting the programme. Working extra hard just to catch up, I would feel is the last thing you want to put the child through.

The immediate advantage I can see is that the kids will have no problem adapting to an IP curriculum (and I was told a good number of them do follow the IP path). They are taught to do their independent research, group projects as early as P4, community project, so on and so forth. The curriculum is not exactly hard, but more complex. Lots of writing. Lots of thinking. Lots of self management. They're only prepared for Psle in the last few months of P6, but GEB told us that more than 90% of them do well enough to enter top schools so that's a reassurance. I have no idea how it would turn out for mine though, hoping for the best 🤞. But it sure is a learning experience and opportunity for growth.

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What are the advantages of being a GEP student? Will children be able to have a direct school admission? If the syllabus is the same and they all need to do well in PSLE to obtain a place in a good secondary school.

Not all MA questions are MO type. My eldest told me that there are some questions that are similar to MO types, in one of the papers. The other paper not so much, more like general IQ kind of questions. EL, ability to infer and synthesise information from passage. What the selection criteria were based on, nobody except GEB actually knows, because sometimes kids come back telling their parents that they didn't finish the papers, so many blanks, yet they passed. Then there'd be those who were certified top 1% in terms of IQ and yet didn't get through. My feeling is, the kids should just enjoy taking the paper and not think so much about the outcome. Parents can give them some exposure, but if they're of the right fit, they should be able to get in through their own merits.

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English will be tougher than Maths. English requires plenty of reading and the questions are unpredictable. For maths, so many are trained. How on earth would a super bright kid be able to answer a mo question without any exposure? Even the GEP teachers have shared what type of maths questions will be asked year after year. So those who mentioned no one know what kind of questions would be tested, that's not exactly true. The truth is, it's expensive to train them because cost for gep / mo tuitions over a 1-2 years (or even longer) may not be affordable for most.

Yes there is a programming module after school for GEP, but I don’t think it qualifies as "computing" yet.

We also got our first choice Rosyth. Anyone’s DS/DD in the same school?

Mine did read Harry Potter but I think he prefers reading Dogman and xx-storeyed treeshouse series lol. That said, he loves to read random trivia too. Love almanacs (every year need to get one for him), nat geo, and lame jokes and riddles 🤣

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Chister\" post_id=\"1944680\" time=\"1572880547\" user_id=\"182093:

Hi hi, I'm new here. Would like to find out, anyone who is intending to send their child to a GEP school that's not near your house? We don't live near any GEP school, so I'm wondering about the transport arrangement. Thanks!

For a start, with those 3 Gep schools u have short-listed in mind, first call up the school or check their school website, look for the school bus operator telephone number, call operator up directly, confirm whether got any school bus Transport provided, go to your area fetch your kid to school. In the event no school bus go your area, either arrange your own daily transport to school (Mon to Fri), or choose another GEP school that offer school bus service to your home

Hi hi, I’m new here. Would like to find out, anyone who is intending to send their child to a GEP school that’s not near your house? We don’t live near any GEP school, so I’m wondering about the transport arrangement. Thanks!