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Throwing in my 1c worth...
This generation’s PSLE is no longer the same “easy” PSLE that our generation took. During our time, to score well u just need to know the straightforward facts. Mug well and u will do well.
This generation’s PSLE contains many higher order thinking questions. Our 12-year-old selves would not have been able to handle those on our own. It’s also an unknown factor whether MOE schools and teachers are able to effectively teach such H.O.T. skills to our kids in a large classroom environment. Maybe RGPS has a good track record, I do not know. You’d have to ask the P5 and P6 parents in the school to find out - how’s their girls’ PSLE prep coming along?? Confident to score well with just the school’s help?? Or do parents have to cough up extra $$ and time to help as well?
I’m going into the PSLE prep years with my son now...I can tell u that while I’m stressed (son has affiliated school waiting for him) my friends are even more stressed - they have boys who still have not yet matured, still don’t like to study or are too playful...scoring around AL14 now. With no affiliated school, prospects are not good. Then there is the girl, has been studious and very diligent & obedient since P1-P4, entered top class & doing HCL, but now suddenly into rebellious & emotional puberty phase in P5, shouts back at parents & refuses to comply with her usual studying hard routine...parents at wits’ end with how her PSLE would turn out now. It’s still a big qn mark if she would be able to enter one of the top girls’ secondary schools. Previously given her obedient personality & good academic record they’d thought it was a shoo-in.
The safety net of having an affiliated school to fall back on is quite a nice thing to have IMO.[/quote]
Having a affiliated Sec sch as a safety net is indeed a nice thing to have, but I’ll say it only benefits the ones at the lower end of the spectrum.
A motivated driven kid may not need that safety net, if u do well u can go to ur affiliated school, u can also go to any good schools who take in your grades. Example of SCGS girl who goes to NYGH.
Do the drive n rigor from parents n Teachers from non- affiliated schools provide that drive to excel? If the whole class is motivated, perhaps, it’ll rub off on your own child ? Hence the consistent good PSLE results from these popular non-affiliated schools ?
Of course, there may be kids who crumble under stress from these schools ( kids crumble or the parent crumble only they know
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If you look at MGS thread, some parents voice out concern that their kids / nieces struggling to meet the affiliated COP of 220. Is it Due to the can-fall-back on the safety net anyway, meet bare minimum will do attitude?. Do the Teachers also have less stress to put as much rigor? Like what another user mention, there’s a risk of carrying this stress free false impression into Sec school.
Similarly, if the child rly screw up the PSLE, but “luckily” landed in safety net, does it rly make sense to put this child, now in the last few class of the Sec sch, back into the exact same school system, that he crumble under for the past 6 years?
I think affiliated vs non- affiliated (the popular ones, we not talking about normal neighbourhood ones right?) both have their pros- all depends on the kid himself.
If your child can’t read at K2, complain tired with just 1 enrichment a week currently, then I say better just put in an affiliated pri sch. If not go into academically driven school, lag behind, parents sweat, transfer the stress to the little one- all unhappy.
If you believe your child will shine in a motivated n paced environment, then try any school that’s known to have some rigor, it really doesn’t matter where he or she is. They will rub off on one another and emerge strong either way
So really only you know your child best.
No hate for either type of school pls, it really all depends on which environment your child suits.
