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Hu Yan Ling:

Thanks all for your help!

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We checked out Crescent yesterday just to take a look at the school since it wasn't the open house.
Great.
My girl was completely \"defeated\".
She said we've to travel one hour plus and we've asked a student there about the JC rate. She replied it wasn't 100% but 65.
She was willing to go to Cedar.
I heaved a sigh of relief.
And she completely removed Crescent from the 6 choices.

In the end her choices were(accordingly): Cedar, Anglican, St. Nicholas, TKGS, TK Sec, Chung Cheng Main.
I'm quite happy with her choices.

Actually there was another reason why she chose Cedar: The immersion programme includes her cousin's daughter's(my girl's dad is the youngest in his family so...) school.

Thanks all the parents once again!
:salute:

This is totally wrong. Crescent has 100% admission into JC for the past 3 years. It has NEVER been 65%. In fact, Crescent even got the Value-added award, which meant that the students entered crescent with a score if 245, but when they graduate, their scores are better than those who graduated from other schools whose psle cop was 250.


Also, Cedar is more towards sports. Crescent has WIIs and absolutely great facilities. the teachers are even willing to stay back past their worktime to conduct consultations with students.

Life at crescent is also not totally about work. they have many outside classrooms activities and they even use their computers and dataloggers to conduct experiments. To be honest, I think your daughter will lose out by choosing cedar, because i know a girl from crescent and she entered crescent with a psle cop of 244 but graduated with an L1R5 of 5. Most of crescent's students graduate with good o-level scores, average would be L1R5 of 6, which means all subjects A1.

I don't think it is fair to say that their daughter is losing out by choosing Cedar. I study at Cedar and it is great. Yes, we are more inclined to sports, but this year, our school also has a Cedar Arts Fest which showcases our performing arts CCAs talents. In terms of facilities, other than having many sports halls, basketball courts, our own 400m track and many others, Cedar also has numerous dance studios, a theatrette, etc.. My school also has a decent O level result performance, just that some of our students prefer to choose Poly over JC, which isn't uncommon. I know students from Raffles and Nanyang that choose Poly over JC as well.

There's also a vibrant community here. The school pride is amazing. Cedar is not just about studying, it's about having fun and learning to be confident as well.