Winner:

hello to all! This is my first time posting here,though i've been following this interesting forum for a couple of months now.

Congratulations to all P6'ers,on their well earned results.
Now for my query:
my DD got 259. we want to choose RGS as her first choice,and hope she gets in, if not plan to appeal.
but for the second choice we are not sure whether to put NJC or cedar.

please advice.

259 for RGS is very risky even with appeal. NJC or even Nanyang is a safer bet. Coz Nanyang takes in students with 257 or less in some years if they are from Nanyang Pri. due to affiliation. RGS no affiliation.

Frog:

My girl got DSA offers to the above and NYGH....she is determine to opt for NUSHigh over RGS.


Do I let her make up her own mind or persuade her to choose RGS, which is what I feel is a better choice knowing the educational system as an insider - being a teacher myself?

RGS definitely!!! More rounded education. And they go to RJC!! Gateway to Ivy League Uni in the USA

Verysuperkiasu:

Congrats to all who have done well.


Thank God for my son's result - 267.

May I ask if want to go IP can this result get any grant from the Govt? Cos I found out very expensive.

If you are Singaporeans, then your son should have been offered the EESIS for IP schools. Then the fees is the same as any secondary school.

If qualify for both RGS & NYGH, then put RGS. Think about the JC : RI vs HCI.

rooney:

Last year COP of Hwa Chong=257, does it includes the merit point from Higher Chinese? What is the COP for those without HMT ?

semaj:

[quote=\"rooney\"]My son got 261 but he did not take Higher Chinese though he got A* in Chinese. What is his chances to get to Hwa Chong?

His choices are as follows:(we are in the west)

1) Hwa Chong
2) Raffles Institution
3) NJC
4) River Valley
5) Nan Hua
6)Bt Panjang High School.

You are wasting Choice no 2. Firstly he should get in to HCI - no problem. Secondly if he doesn't get in to HCI coz it's full, RI would also be full. So you are actually wasting Choice 2. You have to decide as Choice No 1 either HCI or RI.

[/quote]257 is with the HMT. So without it is 254. For RI, the COP is already without HMT since it is not a SAP school

sinoboy:

lightbulb:

hello, i got 4 a* and 265. living in the east.


do any of u know which is better:

CEDAR or CRESCENT???? my 2nd choice is one of them(incase i dont get 1st choice rgs), depending on which is better, so plss help me!!!!!!!!

In the unlikely event that you can't get your first choise, Cedar seems more suitable for you in terms of distance and value add.

You should be able to get to RGS. But your second choice should be Cedar and not Crescent. What about Dunman High as second choice?

rooney:

My son got 261 but he did not take Higher Chinese though he got A* in Chinese. What is his chances to get to Hwa Chong?


His choices are as follows:(we are in the west)

1) Hwa Chong
2) Raffles Institution
3) NJC
4) River Valley
5) Nan Hua
6)Bt Panjang High School.

You are wasting Choice no 2. Firstly he should get in to HCI - no problem. Secondly if he doesn't get in to HCI coz it's full, RI would also be full. So you are actually wasting Choice 2. You have to decide as Choice No 1 either HCI or RI.

25hourmaid:

georgechen99:

[quote=\"25hourmaid\"]
Haha, that is very practical of you. :love: If your son has nothing to offer to them for appeal, then make sure you are happy with second choice, that's what I would advise. Good luck. :celebrate:

Sorry 25hourmaid, I have a question about the appeal, what is the procedure to conduct it? Like say, we must put that school on 1st choice, and we need to inform the school in advance before the posting day...? I can't find any detailed information for it... And the understanding to it which we are talking about here is actually quite different from the statement on the booklet, which is more on the cause of disability so have to appeal.

First of all, I must say I am no expert in the PSLE selection of schools, merely sharing what I have learnt from my own personal experience with my two boys but between the selection of schools and appeal, I would say I am more well-informed about schools than appeal cases.

Speaking for myself, I would exercise my choices wisely and realistically without putting much hope for appeal should my choice be not available. Best option is to exercise the selection with care, making sure that the choices are realistic and making sure that my 2nd or 3rd choices are actually schools which I really don't mind my child getting into in the event that the first choice is not available. I won't put an unrealistic school as my first choice if my child's score is too far off from the COP of that school concerned, with the hope of making an appeal after the Posting results are released.

I would say parents nowadays are already having it much easier than my time. We have 6 choices to choose from unlike the 2 miserable choices my parents had when I did my PSLE eons ago. With the 6 choices, if they are exercised properly and realistically, I don't see why a child should not get into the school of his/her choice, provided of course, the 6 choices were made with care and consideration. So far, I have yet to come across anyone whose child did not get into any one of the 6 choices. But if a parent were to make unrealistic choices for all the 6 schools, then you can't blame anyone if your child did not get into any of his/her 6 choice schools, right?

So all I can say is that every school has their own appeal procedure and time frame etc. Best is to call up the school of your choice to make enquiries, there is \"no one rule fits all kind of thing\" where appeal is concerned. All I know is that most schools would make their appeal forms available either from their website or hardcopy from their General Office after the Posting result is out on 22 December.

Generally people appeal if they are just one or two points off their dream school's COP or if they think that their child has something to offer to the dream school, for eg, a CCA with stunning achievements which happen to be the dream school's niche CCA etc, but that said, if that is the case, generally the child would have already applied for DSA and would already have been accepted there.

You made a very valid point about appeal for the schools with disabled facilities. If I am not wrong, there is already a list of schools which are disabled friendly so if I were those parents with a disabled child, I would make sure that a school with such a facility is among one of my choices unless of course, the child is a top score but is disabled, then I would make enquiries with my dream school prior to making my choices about their provision for the disabled etc.[/quote]I agree choose wisely parents. When you appeal, you basically have to show why the school has to take your child or rather what does your child have to offer to the school. The school has the right to refuse. So unless you can show the school that your child is say for example a very good sailor and will win medals for them, then you child is in. Otherwise, go try elsewhere. That is really putting it very bluntly.

ksi:

atutor2001:

Hi semaj

You have given a very good stat. Many don't realise. It is the culture of the school. Somehow, RJ students can peak when the time comes. Many of them fooled around throughout JC but will still get straight As in A level.

Ya one more observation. Many top humanity students from RGS will go to HCI instead of RI in JC.

2 things that are constant in the R-spirited school until today:
1. Play n fool around all yr but still excel
2. The stronger cohort is always the science stream. 4 points from 'o' levels can get into arts but never science stream in RJ.

One thing that I see and realise is the RAFFLES SPIRIT. It is definitely something that I don't see in other schools. Sorry to say this but not even Hwa Chong or Nanyang. The Rafflesian spirit is something you can't quite describe but you'll know it when you see it. The sense of belonging, the sense of pride wearing the school badge or school shirt etc. Don't get me wrong Raffles in not my ala mater. But I see the school spirit from RI to RGS to RJC. And that to me stands out.

stetan:

WeiHan:

[quote=\"stetan\"]
HCJC produced the most President Scholars is because it is one of the olderest JC around as compared to RJC which only started in 1982.

You need to compare apples to apples. If you add up the number of years that RJC was RI Pre-U (predecessor), you would have realise that RJC/RI would be 1st lah.

The fact that there wasn't 30-50 as you claim...even that is not consider many out of a cohort of 400 for RI and 400 for RGS =800.

who you trying to kid ?

HCJC being one of the oldest JC can't alone account for the fact that it produced the most president scholars. There must be quite alot of good students from other good secondary schools (such as RI and RGS) to account for it. As I have said, TCHS and NYGS don't produced more than 5 for the last 20-30 years. The other dozens that HCJC have produced must come from other secondary schools...evrybody can go and figure which other secondary schools can produce so many president scholars.

Your argument is beginning to sound like a joke.

How many president scholars are there in a year ?

You can count on your figures, It is an average of only 5 a year.

So you are basing that to say \"many\" people from Ri/RGS goes to HCJC ?

Do you realise how ridiculous your claims are ?[/quote]I think that Hwa Chong became top because before the IP, lots of people wanted to go there. So a lot og RGS girls especillay went to Hwa Chong instead of RJC. I know that coz my niece is one RGS girl who defected to Hwa Chong along with a whole bunch of friends. But with the IP, the feed from RGS, RI and now RV and Dunman and soon, even Cedar,St Nich , SCGS will not go to Hwa Chong. But RJC will have thier feeder schools of RI and RGS. So inevitably, RJC will top.