Yes, you can.

But you sounded more of 'You should do it ’ rather than ‘Nominating the Person’.

phtthp:

GiftedGem should do it this year, since yr dd sitting for PSLE this year.

Or any other mom, with P6 child this year.
Example :
KSP, Champion, etc

Parents with P6 children sitting for PSLE this year, 2014, should Do the Summary.

Glorymom doesn't have any P6 dd, this year.
Not fair to keep asking Glorymom every year, as she may be busy.
Just because Glorymom had done it once before, we should not impose this type of responsibility, on her every year.

It is the prerogative of these parents whether to do it or not.
It is not RIGHT for you to dictate who should do it too. Sounds demanding... don't you?

Imp75:

sorry to throw on a wet blanket but the more I read this thread, the more I am seeing the kiasuism mentality of sporeans in trying to secure a place for their child using this alternative path (and depriving others who might be less an all-rounder and prob needs the place more?) even though the parents or child probably know they can get into their dream school using their PSLE results, whatever happen to the \"noble\" objective of DSA Academics where the aim is to admit students with exceptional talents in a particular field of study.


MOE should just scrap this scheme. It's being abused (by school or parents or whatever!)

No offence also. If not kiasu, why are you reading in this portal?
This is for kiasu parents.

sotongdad:

One of the questions asked during the interview was if you have applied another school for DSA.


If you answered no and said NYGH was the only DSA application, than most likely will get CO if other parts of the interview went well.

sotongdad, I thot I saw yr thread sharing yesterday nite ard 10 plus and it was a good one on your observation at the tea session. How come you deleted it ?

It doesnt matter if < 60% of Geppers prefer R schs. Afterall, it is their preference of choices. There is limited supply vs high exceeding demand for R schs which lead to handful of Geppers not getting COs or on WLs as well.

[quote=\"imbblim\"][quote=\"MLAStar\"]How many CO will NYGH give MS and non-nyps students?? :?:

Accordingly to previous year info, their GEP intake from DSA is less than 50...so the bulk still goes to MS...

Oh I see. But if it's MS, won't nyps students get most of the CO?[/quote]

Nyps pupils affiliation - PSLE also must hit 250 if want to go nygh. DSA 就要凭实力。[/quote]


Based on last yr batch, 2 GEP classes in NYGH ( appx 40) and the bulk still goes to MS. For RGS, 5 GEP classes ( appx 150). Class size for RGS is more than NYGH. But heard NYGH P conduct Fiesta Day to win the Gepper parents over.

PSLE2014:

slmkhoo:

I beg to differ. I rather have different selections as what GiftedGem has mentioned. if the test proves easy for Gepper and not MS, who will be at the losing end?

If they sit for the same test, then those who do better should get the places. Fair and square. It's when the process is different for the 2 sets of students that you get the fair/not-fair argument. For RGS at least, my MS daughter and others had to take a test which the GEP students didn't take. Maybe she wouldn't have got in anyway if the GEP girls had taken the same test, but we'll never know now. And in her case, the argument that she got weeded out at GEP selection in P3 doesn't apply either as she was overseas and never took the test.

MS parents like me will prefer to have different selection tests so that our children can have their own breathing space to take the tests within their same level of competency and not competing with the cream of the top 1%.

zeemimi:

slmkhoo:

Same selection process does not necessarily mean same across all schools but rather all students applying to a school has to go through the same process. And some schools do just that, whether u are gep or ms, u still have to sit for the same test.

Thanks, zeemini, that's what I meant. MOE doesn't set the selection criteria for the schools, but it should require each school to set the same criteria for all applicants, whether GEP, MS, from overseas etc. At least that would be seen to be clearer and fairer. I don't like quotas as they are less transparent.

I beg to differ. I rather have different selections as what GiftedGem has mentioned. if the test proves easy for Gepper and not MS, who will be at the losing end?

zeemimi:

Whether ri needs to cross sell, I can't comment. But the fact is they have been doing this- conducting open house n customized open house for top 10 boys of ms schs. If these events are not to promote themselves, then what is it for?
Estimation of success rate is based on homework done here and elsewhere. So why did I let him dsa ri? Cos I don't want him to ask me one day why I didn't let him try, which happened to some of friends who didn't let their kids dsa though they wanted. I felt he was better doing another curriculum than at ri.
As I've mentioned earlier, it's not a matter of not managing expectations. Now I state it is not a matter of crying gep foul. It is a matter of the school giving false hope to ms.
Sure, I know the school treats all students equally. They hv a great curriculum. I have another child in there too. I only take issue with their mgt of dsa.

As long there is no real fact findings on success rate, even more, we should not deem that it is a zero chance here. From parents source, how accurate it can be? f the sch is giving false hope to MS, you could have raised it up during Open House to set it straight once and for all.

cherryland:

[quote=\"zeemimi]

During ds time, ri extended special invitation to the top ten boys of his ms school to attend a special customised open house. There the boys were shown how good the school is and encouraged to apply dsa. And so that was what got ds wanting to dsa ri even though his success rate was almost nil.

Zeemimi

This is exactly wat got my ds interested in RI. Together with 9 other boys, they were shown how good the school is. Lol. :rotflmao:[/quote][/quote]

We know jolly well that RI needs not to cross sell how good the sch is. The past performance index speaks volume of the sch's capability. What makes you think the success rate as almost nil? Again, this is based on hearsay from parents which stirred up this thread to be heated up and at the expense of blaming the Geppers.

As I have said, the purpose of DSA is to select the best of 'best students' and if every parent thinks DSA is the route for easier entry to these top schools, think twice pls.