LovingParents:

Hi,


I saw your message about your appeal to Maris Stella. Would you kind to share with me the aggregate score of your son? Thanks.[/b]

His score = 231. I hope i dont make a wrong choice by dropping Temasek school

Bear.w.me:

[quote]Hi Guys,


Can help me. My son got posted to Temasek and appealed successfully at Maris Stella. NOw, I 'm confuse which school to choose. Is Marris Stella better than Temasek. Anyone have opinion on these 2 school ?

Thank You
JJtrue

Hi JJTrue,

Temasek Sec is co-ed (or mixed boys/girls) but Maris Stella is boys only school. Secondly, distance from your home is paramount. Thirdly, MS has a affiliation to Catholic High being a Catholic school. So can minus 2 points when applying for CJC after 'O' Level.

My advise is to go for MS owing to affiliation advantage. Final decision is yours.[/quote]Thank You very much for your advise. It certainly help me to make a decision.

MintLeaf:

JJTrue:

Hi Guys,


Can help me. My son got posted to Temasek and appealed successfully at Maris Stella. NOw, I 'm confuse which school to choose. Is Marris Stella better than Temasek. Anyone have opinion on these 2 school ?

Thank You
JJtrue

Maris Stella was founded more than 50 years ago and has a relatively long tradition. Throughout the year, the kids will be busy (including the 1-week break), but at the end of the year, holiday starts early and the kids are given little homework.

The people at the school are friendly, although they can be pretty strict about certain academic policy. For example, there is a subject combination streaming exercise for Sec 3 at the end of Sec 2. If the boy wants to take triple Science for 'O' level, he has to get 70% and above for Maths, Science and overall average. If the child is poor at Art or some specific subject, he has to figure out how to pull up his overall average with another subject. It can be stressful. I don't know why the school limits the number of Pure Science classes.

Personally, I like the Macbook program launched by the school. I don't have to worry about virus for one thing. A Macbook will set you back by about S$2.7K. It comes with a 4-year warranty. The only additional items I chose to get for my son were Adobe CS4 Suite ($99 for MOE student) and a Samson C03U mike ($201 - strongly believed I paid too much).
The school provides Ebooks for most of the textbooks so far, and that means the child does not have to carry too many physical textbooks.

They learn to use iMovie, GarageBand, Flash, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Fireworks, besides the usual MS Office applications (Word, Excel, Powerpoint). The boys are given projects to work on that would give them opportunities to leverage the software skills they have acquired. If the child makes an effort to work on all the projects seriously, he can learn to appreciate the features and concepts of these software.

With a Mac, one can also learn Unix and PHP Programming. PHP and Apache are preinstalled on the Mac OS and can be turned on easily. It is also easy to download Mysql database and install it on the Mac. So if the child wants to learn Unix and PHP Programming, he can do it easily on his own with the Mac.

Thank YOu so much. This is very helpful information. I think I (and my son lah) decided to go to Marris Stella

Hi Guys,


Can help me. My son got posted to Temasek and appealed successfully at Maris Stella. NOw, I 'm confuse which school to choose. Is Marris Stella better than Temasek. Anyone have opinion on these 2 school ?

Thank You
JJtrue

Thanks. Which one according to you better Geylang Methodist, St. Hilda or Hai Sing .


I just realised that my first post didn’t get through. Can all the expert here help me, please.

My son score 231 and i stay in the East. i am not sure if it is wise to choose the schools with COP 232. This is what i think :

Temasek COP 232
Marris Stella COP 232
St. Hilda COP 230
HaiSing 228
Geylang Methodist 226
Ngee Ann 233

Thanks i advance for all your advice

JJtrue

Anyone can advise me if geylang methodist is a good sec school for my son with psle score 231 compared to the previous schools i have mentioned earlier? i heard the GMS is affiliated to ACS JC.