Hi - any tutors for Sec 2 history in the Clementi/Dover area? My boy is really struggling with this subject

floppy\" post_id=\"1992756\" time=\"1598510996\" user_id=\"97579:

Frankly, it’s a lot of people assumption that MOE doesn’t want the kid to wake up too early to travel to school. AFAIK MOE isn’t really bothered, and frankly, so are most people

Actually - I have a friend who is a secondary school teacher for a neighbourhood school (if that matters) - his school tried to change the timing to begin from 830 instead of the usual 730 starts - they tried it for one term and there were a surprisingly large minority of parents who still insisted on dropping off their kids at 630 in the morning!

With a 830 start - the school gates would only be opened at 715 - so for the first two weeks, there were quite a few kids who were just stuck outside the school gates for 45 mins to an hour!

I think MOE would like to change it, but they have to balance it with the vox populi (voice of the people) - otherwise you get all the \"those ministars in their white tower don't know what is happening on the ground\" type of rubbish comments.

You cannot underestimate the selfishness of people.

Wonka\" post_id=\"1953122\" time=\"1576305142\" user_id=\"182868:

rawsalmon\" post_id=\"1952455\" time=\"1575902967\" user_id=\"31470:

Hi all,
Can anyone share what is the highest Tscore you all have heard so far and from which school?

277 ACS. What about you? What’s the highest you’ve heard so far and from which school?

Anyone else heard other highest scores?

Does this still matter? I'm glad we're slowly moving away from such outdated measures of worth - in years past, there were threads in this forum tracking scores - now it's reduced to the odd posts like these, this is good.

tsh0202\" post_id=\"1947753\" time=\"1574386043\" user_id=\"6030:

Hi,
I’m in the midst of selecting a sch for my DS.i would like to get some feedbacks about SJI. Anyone can share? TIA

Anecdotal (not from me!) - Chinese standard is not good.

tyeogh\" post_id=\"1947953\" time=\"1574406893\" user_id=\"94399:

Er....why would anyone want to study a 3rd language? My DD1 in Cedar sec 3 IP tells me all her peers who took 3rd language regretted. Maciam jiak bah bo sai bang. Already so busy. Got free time, might as well go have a life...

Different strokes for different folks - as the saying goes - there are some students who are truly motivated to take up a 3rd language - my friend's kid loves Japan and took up Japanese - in fact, the only motivation for taking HMT was to qualify for the \"higher\" 3rd languages, like Japanese.

The kid is now a young adult and working in Singapore, but with a focus on Japan and travels there once a month on business - simply because of the ability to converse in Chinese, Japanese and English.

So, yeh, that is ONE answer to your \"why\"?

jakoh\" post_id=\"1947944\" time=\"1574406430\" user_id=\"151698:

Are there any source which provides the stats on COP for top 10% to be eligible for 3rd language & top 30% for HMT bonus points to be considered?

Doubt it - they are trying to de-emphasise on scores - they don't share anything anymore - it will all be hearsay.

Stevenlsf\" post_id=\"1947872\" time=\"1574400933\" user_id=\"69371:

so this years the feedback of the paper is that it is easier than previous year and the cop is expected higher in general?

Don't know about that - this year (2019) there were reports about the 2 \"famous\" questions on the maths paper that made students cry - I don't remember reading anything about the 2018 paper making students cry - the students only cried last year when they realised the COP scores rose for the 230 - 240 range of schools because of (presumably) easier papers in 2018.

For the \"top\" schools - the ones with COP of 255 and above - I don't think they will change much - maybe 1 point.

Swc\" post_id=\"1947865\" time=\"1574400098\" user_id=\"178585:

Jazzcy\" post_id=\"1947840\" time=\"1574397043\" user_id=\"53313:

May I know what is the cut off point to qualify for foreign language this yr? Or is every year the same number?

252 this year. No every year is different coz this is basically the cut off for top 10%.

I have a colleague, kid got 250 - still offered a 3rd language - so I guess top 10% is 250 this year?

For all those parents questioning the necessity for such ridiculously difficult questions on the maths paper - the simple answer is that it’s to find the top, top students and separate them from the rest. Singaporean students are already the top in the world, if all the exams had the "normal" questions, there will be a large percentage who will do very well in the exams, and then there will be a large percentage of students who will do very well in their T-scores.

But since, PSLE is NOT a competition with yourself, but with others, the examiners will need these sort of questions to separate out the top, top from the top to the not quite top to the ok students.
As parents, we should tell our kids not to worry about these questions, to do what they can and move on - this is what I’ve told my kids - my DS got all these questions wrong, but he didn’t cry over it - we know he’s done his best and these questions would have been a struggle for him - maybe he’ll understand it next year or in two years time or maybe never, but that’s ok - move on and learn - focus on what you can do and what you know and do it to the best of your ability!

phtthp:

school nowadays are strict.
if you don't make it in time before cut off time, school will ask you \"Why so late then come here to register with us? Come back next Phase : 2C, to register your dd\"
( if you miss the closing time dateline set)

As long as you are in the school and have notified whoever is in charge of the registrations that you are there and waiting, they will still register you.

That was my experience. I was in the school at 16:15, waiting to see the numbers come up, when no one else showed up at the school, I quickly called my wife to deregister from the backup school and registered at our school of choice. I called my wife at 16:29 - the other school's registrar was new to all this and it took her almost 20 minutes to get the registration cancelled off the system. TBH, I was panicking! But luckily, the school we wanted had an experienced lady and she calmed me down, saying, as long as you were here before the cutoff time, we have to register you!

:rahrah: