heard there are NUS High pupils who got admitted into Law faculty, NUS university.
anyone know how many got admitted into Law, past 3 years trend (2013, 2012, 2011 ) ?
what subject combination(s) did these NUS High pupils take in Year (5 and 6) ?
1. English, Humanities & MT in NUSH is benchmarked to mainstream standards, with MT being an exact copy while EL & Humanities are modified to fit the NUSH context.
2. English education WILL be compromised in NUSH, compared to other top schools. Much less drilling, practice, and emphasis in NUSH. If you are good in English, you will still be good; but if you are not, you will probably not improve much compared to your JC peers. This will be an issue in university years, when significant amounts of writing are expected.
3. "A problem" with the system in NUSH is that there is no standardized exam to benchmark the students, and each teacher is given significant leeway to develop their own lessons without the need to adhere to a strict syllabus. If the teacher is good, then this is excellent; but if the teacher is sub-par, then quality of learning suffers. This was a problem in the first few batches. They’ve been trying to improve this issue the last few years by bringing in more NIE-trained teachers.
4. MT is completely de-emphasised. It is seen as a "pass and forget" subject, albeit a subject that will still affect your CAP significantly. Standards are definitely significantly lower than mainstream.
Btw, numbers provided for Class of 2010 above are wrong.
For offers to local universities (Batch size: ~170):
Medicine (11)
Dentistry (1)
Law (4)
Approximately 1/3 head overseas.
Approximately ~20% are on some sort of scholarship. (not confirmed)
Most people end up doing Science or Accountancy (circa 40%) locally.
However, there are people doing all sorts of subjects in university; from Architecture to Liberal Arts to even Art & Design.
Scholarship organisations which have awarded NUSH students with scholarships include PSC, EDB, ASTAR, DSTA, CAG, HPB, IRAS, MOE…in short, quite a spectrum.
Yes, the standard of English in NUSH is generally lower than in other schools, because:
(a) The students there are more science inclined than humanities/languages inclined
(b) Not much emphasis is put on English (it was cut 2 hours a week for some time before being raised back to 3 hours per week just a few years ago)
The curriculum is new and quite haphazard; teachers have considerable leeway to do what they want (because there is no O or A level exams to hold them to account) so it depends alot on what kind of teacher you have. The English teachers there are a mixed bag, so it depends on your luck.
So yes, the standard of English education in the school is quite lacking, but if you’re good in English then it doesn’t really matter. If not, then other schools would probably do a better job in improving your language skills. But hey, its NUSH of Math and Science.
In essence, it doesn’t matter what subject combi you do as long as you are confident in doing well in it.
If you’re aiming for a scholarship or top overseas universities, do 4 H2s. If not, then just do 3 + 1.
The school is reputable but the fees are very expensive (e.g. Tiger cadet pilot program costs $184,000) and you are not assured of a job when you graduate. There was an article in the ST last time about a graduate who complained that he was not offered a job by SIA despite the fact he trained alongside many of them under the SIA cadet pilot scheme. In addition, to get hired by the big airlines you will typically need lots of flying hours and type ratings under your belt, so it’s hard to break into the cycle if you are not already in it. Not sure about the path if you want to try being bizjet pilots.
in Singapore there are 3 pilot schemes. SIA is the one that is fully sponsored and most prestigious, but SIA isn’t really growing much nowadays and they took in too many cadets last time so they have an excess of pilots - so it’s hard to join. Jetstar & Tiger also offer schemes but these are self-funded, they only give you a job after you graduate but at least you’re guaranteed an A320 type rating and flying experience.
otherwise you can try overseas airlines such as cathay (hong kong) and etihad (abu dhabi), but again priority would probably be given to their own nationals.
octoberbaby:If trying to enrol into US universities, need to take TOEFL test?
1. Regarding the point about UK unis not recognising GP, true. Most of them don’t, and officially look at O level EL results. They focus more on the H2 subjects (and H3 for selected elite courses at Oxbridge e.g. Medicine) as well as any admission tests/teacher recommendations. However, if you’re aiming for the top schools and the top courses where alot of subjectivity is involved in admissions, then getting that B may affect your application somewhat.
2. Only a grand total of two scholarships (with no more than 3 combined slots a year) allow you to pursue overseas medicine. They are PSC President’s scholarship & ASTAR MBBS-PhD scholarship. So yes, it is far, far easier to get into NUS Medicine than to get an overseas scholarship to study medicine. However, if you’re talking about going to UK without a scholarship, then getting into any UK school except for Oxbridge/UCL/Imperial/King’s is likely to be easier than getting into NUS medicine. This is especially so when NUS medicine is expanding its intake to 300 and NTU medicine is opening up places for another 150 - it should be far easier to get into medicine in the coming years, although still competitive.
3. if you’re talking about law, similarly in the UK only Oxbridge/UCL/LSE are harder to get into than NUS law. It is far easier to get a scholarship to study law in the UK though compared to medicine; most scholarships allow you to do so (although you are not allowed to practice when serving out your bond which is sort of a "waste" of your degree). the only relevant scholarship would be the PSC scholarship and quite a number (10+ per year) study law in UK under PSC each year, again almost exclusively in Oxbridge/UCL/LSE.
However, even if you go UK to do law, top firms there (and singapore firms/govt too) do also welcome students from solid "upper middle-tier" schools such as Nottingham, Bristol, or Manchester.
1) Usually starts about 7.30 and ends anytime from 2 to 6, depending on your combi and CCA commitment
2) Econs is something O level students never touched before, but given that so many people take H2 Econs nowadays if you do your TYS and study properly it should be fine. Econs at A level is hardly as analytical as history nor nuanced as lit anyway. Similar to geog in terms of skills needed.
3) No need to take H1 CL in JC if you passed O level HMT. No disadvantage not to take.
4) 1st day usually in early Feb or so.
5) Depends. Location, programs offered, CCA offered, subject combi offered.
6) Good thing about 5 point sch is that you likely have abit more special opportunities and support for scholarship/overseas U applications not offered to mainstream JCs. Bad thing is more competition. So up to you. In the end if you want to go to local U (or UK arguably) its only grades that matter, so doesn’t matter which JC you go to. if you want to aim for scholarships or US unis, then you need the CCAs and everything else.
jkids:1. Opened in 2004; First batch graduated in 2008. First full batch (6 years) in 2010.Hi
can anyone share...
1. How long has this programme existed?
2. Is the NUS high school diploma 'equivalent' to any of this - GCE A level/IB Diploma/Grade 12/Local Poly's Diploma?