2020 PSLE Discussions and Strategies(for those born in 2008)

[MerlionInGermany]

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I think this triple science thing is targeting an older group of market audience or those who ya-ya about being able to study triple science. Frankly, triple science has limited advantages (and losing a humanity subject is a huge disadvantage) these days.

Well I guess the trip science students are still clever now. Just that doing double science does not mean you are stupid or less clever. And the thing sold to some students by tuition teachers is that you need the O level science to do the A level science, whereas you dont need the O level humanities to do the A level humanities, so if you are not sure, then do the trip science.

[MerlionInGermany]

Zeal mummy\" post_id=\"2006037\" time=\"1606736625\" user_id=\"58173:[quote=\"Zeal mummy\" post_id=2006037 time=1606736625 user_id=58173]
Are the children allowed to do 3 sciences with 2 humanities? Including 2 math and 2 languages, 9 in total? What’s the popular subject combination for IP now?[/quote]

Oh and I want to add that for some school, if you do trip science, you must do 2 humanities, so you cannot do 8-subject trip science. It has to be a 9-subject trip science.

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MerlionInGermany\" post_id=\"2006045\" time=\"1606738446\" user_id=\"2964:

floppy\" post_id=\"2006014\" time=\"1606732928\" user_id=\"97579:

I think this triple science thing is targeting an older group of market audience or those who ya-ya about being able to study triple science. Frankly, triple science has limited advantages (and losing a humanity subject is a huge disadvantage) these days.

Well I guess the trip science students are still clever now. Just that doing double science does not mean you are stupid or less clever. And the thing sold to some students by tuition teachers is that you need the O level science to do the A level science, whereas you dont need the O level humanities to do the A level humanities, so if you are not sure, then do the trip science.

I think the triple science students are clever. I also think the double science students are clever. At the end of the day, black cat or white cat, as long as they can score A1, it’s a smart cat.

[678Yess]

It is not that taking triple science is not possible as compare to the past. The school now has more after school program and CCA activities as compared to the past… Also, there is no advantage in the calculation or L1R5 or LIB4 if after taking triple sciences, all the 3 sciences at not doing well enough to be used to calculate L1R5. Also, if you go JC after O level, you can only do two sciences in JC.

[pengpeng]

CheerioMama\" post_id=\"2006025\" time=\"1606734300\" user_id=\"109742:

Out of curiosity, does anyone know of any student from this cohort who has scored 280 or more including HCL? What is his/her score?

Two students score 282 without HML from reliable resources, A* for all four subjects, not to disclose the school and student names.

[CheerioMama]

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CheerioMama\" post_id=\"2006025\" time=\"1606734300\" user_id=\"109742:

Out of curiosity, does anyone know of any student from this cohort who has scored 280 or more including HCL? What is his/her score?

Two students score 282 without HML from reliable resources, A* for all four subjects, not to disclose the school and student names.

So few high scorers this year I am inclined to think that those scoring 280 and above, without HMT is only a handful.

[pengpeng]

Zeal mummy\" post_id=\"2006037\" time=\"1606736625\" user_id=\"58173:[quote=\"Zeal mummy\" post_id=2006037 time=1606736625 user_id=58173]
Are the children allowed to do 3 sciences with 2 humanities? Including 2 math and 2 languages, 9 in total? What’s the popular subject combination for IP now?[/quote]

HCI allows student to take 2 sciences (Phy and Chem), 2 humanities, 2 maths and 2 languages, plus Additional subject of either Bio or Computing, total 9 subjects, provided his Sec 2 result is good.

10th subject needs special approval.

[kylene]

CheerioMama\" post_id=\"2006050\" time=\"1606739447\" user_id=\"109742:

pengpeng\" post_id=\"2006049\" time=\"1606739248\" user_id=\"77520:

[quote=CheerioMama post_id=2006025 time=1606734300 user_id=109742]Out of curiosity, does anyone know of any student from this cohort who has scored 280 or more including HCL? What is his/her score?

Two students score 282 without HML from reliable resources, A* for all four subjects, not to disclose the school and student names.

So few high scorers this year I am inclined to think that those scoring 280 and above, without HMT is only a handful.[/quote]But ESIS quite high at 261 . So no change to COP ?

[CheerioMama]

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CheerioMama\" post_id=\"2006050\" time=\"1606739447\" user_id=\"109742:

[quote=pengpeng post_id=2006049 time=1606739248 user_id=77520]
Two students score 282 without HML from reliable resources, A* for all four subjects, not to disclose the school and student names.

So few high scorers this year I am inclined to think that those scoring 280 and above, without HMT is only a handful.

But ESIS quite high at 261 . So no change to COP ?[/quote]I am under the impression that they are fewer 261 and up as compared to the previous year but I could be wrong.

Since HCI COP for last year was fairly low compared to the year before, I am only guessing that the COP may go up as a result of increased demand this year but again I could be wrong as the actual COP is also a result of demand and supply.

[doodbug]

I wonder if ‘top’ schools took in fewer DSAs this year / made fewer DSA offers, given that there were no National School Games, and no sports trials (and possibly other trials too) for non-Academic DSA domains.