Champion,


In PSLE, they’ll have to write TWO : situational (eg. letter,email,postcard) and continuous (pictorial or 命题, 2 choose 1). From P5 onwards, the school exams will include situational. P1-P4, only continous.

You will not find any public information of IB score of students accepted into which Uni course. It varies from year to year depending on the pool of applicants. (much like our secondary school COP).


Me too worried about this for many years…till before/at the start of Senior School Year 1 (ie. IP year 5). The school had a briefing for parents to explain the deadlines and steps. They have a dedicate staff team taking care of career counselling and university applications. This team gave handouts of the statistics they accumulated from previous SJI graduates…eg. which uni, which course, which are mandatory subjects, approx IB score accepted etc. This helped my son finalised his choice of 6 IB subjects. In the final year, the school also held briefing and workshops to help those students who intend to apply to USA or UK universities ie. what to do, what to prepare etc etc. All students are offered this help (and not just selected groups).

In short, don’t worry, the school will provide the information to you and your child when the time comes.

I have not been here for a long while ! :imcool: Yesterday, my son received his IB result and this forum came to mind as I reflected upon his 6 years in SJI. My son is the first batch of SJI IP intake from S1 (via PSLE result). He is stronger in Maths & Science and average in languages. It was not an easy decision as I have many friends asking me : IB needs very good English ? Are you going to let him take iOlevels as backup ? :roll:


Now 6 years on, SJI was the right school for him. My son had 6 wonderful years in SJI, ups and downs included. He made some good friends and we are thankfully he is one of the 67% who attained >40points.
https://www.sji.edu.sg/news-and-events/news-highlights/2019

No school is perfect but we are impressed about the school leadership team's approach to always care for the whole development of the child and strive to help each child achieve his potential. There are a few good teachers who really stood out as being passionate about their job, the school, and their students.

I personally think this is a value-added school as it took in students with Tscore of 25X and growing them to achieve comparable IB results.

Wishing all of you a pleasant journey too, with SJI !

My time here at Kiasuparents has come to an end. All the best, especially to new Sec 1s !

Ora et Labora ! Men and Women of integrity, Men and Women for others !

CONNECTION2016:

Argument can also raised that SJI is new with IB. But you can also refer to the ACS(I) O level and SJI O-level result. Definitely SJI did very good, but compare to the ACS(I), they should have done much better. So what I mean, there are still very good room for improvement for SJI on both O level and IB; and we (parents and school both) should strive for this, help each other and embrace the better / proven system.

CONNECTION2016

ACSI did very well and they have been doing very well in both IB and Olevels results. This is a fact, no need to argue. I hope you already did the comparisons before you send your son to SJI.

There is always room for improvement (maybe except for the :rahrah: \"perfect\" school).

However, very few percentage of SJI parents visit this site. You will reach the right and more parents/school, by bringing your constructive suggestion(s) directly to SJI and SJI Parents' Support Group.

Here on a public internet forum, your suggestions will reach very few people who has actual stakes in SJI's interest.

By the way, hope that Parents 1/2/3 will also feedback to SJI. It would be a shame to churn out robots, regardless of their academic results.

happyhearts

Glad to hear your son is happy in SJI. The Sec 1 orientation and campfire are indeed very well run and memorable experience. At the beginning of Sec 3, there is camp TABA for the boys to bond with their new classmates (after Sec2 subject combination). SJI emphasis on camaraderie. My son loves his school and has grown to be much more confident and responsible.

There is no perfect school and no school with ALL good teachers (except maybe the :rahrah: school mentioned in earlier posts on this thread ) but I am impressed with the way the school handled disciplinary issues and parents' feedback.

radiantmum:

I am a little confused here.


I thought I read SJI IB first batch is 2018 but how come already have average results of 41? Is that from SJI International - they are having same curriculum?

Anyone can share also 2015 SJI O level L1R5 median?

SJI International also offers IB. Is that what you mean by same curriculum ?

SJI IB first batch refers to SJI IP IB, meaning students admitted to SJI after PSLE, joining Year 1.
Average result refers to SJI students admitted to Year 5 and took the IBDP in 2015.

maychua1975:

CONNECTION2016:

Almost same. ACSI is 5 point. difference is 2 points. but the IB result difference is huge huge and huge. they have good amount of intake in Y5 (about 200 students). amonst these lots of students scoring 45/44.

The IB results for ACSI is about 42 average, while SJI was 40 last year then went to 41 this year. As you mentioned, the JC intake is very different. The PSLE intake for ACSI IP is also much better.

Then again, by the amount of complaints you have, I'm pretty sure your son is in the wrong school. He'd be better off in ACS(I) =P Good luck.

I absolutely agree with maychua1975 ! ACSI has a long history of stellar IB result (not only Singapore, worldwide) and not only in the past 2 years.

Welcome to all S1 boys and parents to SJI ! Your sons will enjoy the orientation ! :rahrah:

Do go for those segments where parents are invited, precious memories for you !

radiantmum:

N just ruefully realised SJI fees are 30 to 40 times more than a govt school. Hope that translates to smaller class tchr student ratio, better resources n more enrichment opportunities for our kids.

SJI is an independent school. It is stated in the School selection booklets. Fees also published on website. Other independent schools are ACSI, MGS, NUSH, to name a few.

I hope these will be helpful in setting your expectations :

See page 8 :
http://www.moe.gov.sg/education/seconda ... ooklet.pdf

http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/f ... -singapore

kattyzhao:

Does Sec.1 students need to bring all the textbooks on the first week? Normally the school schedule will be from 7:30am to 14:10pm, right?


Thank you so much for the reply!

All the information you requested are here : http://sec1.sji.edu.sg/16-school-sec-1-events
Always check the S1 website for latest updates. http://sec1.sji.edu.sg/