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    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Tertiary Education - A-Levels, Diplomas, Degrees
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    • Imp75I Offline
      Imp75
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      So maybe status quo is better for those “slackers” like mine hahaha …,no need do so much and really smell roses along the way ……

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        sembgal\" post_id=\"2099535\" time=\"1677725835\" user_id=\"5559:

        Hi

        Can I clarify that if a student start with 4 H2s in J1, can the student choose the 3 best H2s subjects’ grading for University admission? It’s like you have 2 Humanities subjects grades but you chose the better grade one for application to JC.
        Based on the new chart to compute the UAS, the short answer is Yes.

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        • lee_ylL Offline
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          I dont think we need to worry for those aiming for Law/Med/Dentistry. If need be, I am sure these kids can swallow sword or spit fire in order to stand out from the rest.


          So we can assume that there will be many RP70s applying for other courses like Bis Ad, Accountary etc.? The Indicative Grade Profile (IPG) will then become AAA for half the local Uni courses? So what’s next? Conduct balloting for sought after courses that do not conduct interviews?

          Minister Chan has to look into creating more vacancies for popular courses I guess, if not, we will still be back to square one. After all UAS is for universities admission and we do not wish to introduce other selection criteria for university admission. Otherwise, remove stress from doing away with one content heavy subject but add stress by not having sufficient places in local universities

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            newkeynesian
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            lee_yl\" post_id=\"2099545\" time=\"1677730041\" user_id=\"17023:

            I dont think we need to worry for those aiming for Law/Med/Dentistry. If need be, I am sure these kids can swallow sword or spit fire in order to stand out from the rest.

            So we can assume that there will be many RP70s applying for other courses like Bis Ad, Accountary etc.? The Indicative Grade Profile (IPG) will then become AAA for half the local Uni courses? So what’s next? Conduct balloting for sought after courses that do not conduct interviews?

            Minister Chan has to look into creating more vacancies for popular courses I guess, if not, we will still be back to square one. After all UAS is for universities admission and we do not wish to introduce other selection criteria for university admission. Otherwise, remove stress from doing away with one content heavy subject but add stress by not having sufficient places in local universities
            Maybe Biz Ad requires AAA but not Accountancy. I think in recent years the requirement for Accountancy has somewhat reduced quite a bit which runs contrary to my time, at least AAB otherwise no talk.

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            • iRabbitI Offline
              iRabbit
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              lee_yl\" post_id=\"2099545\" time=\"1677730041\" user_id=\"17023:

              I dont think we need to worry for those aiming for Law/Med/Dentistry. If need be, I am sure these kids can swallow sword or spit fire in order to stand out from the rest.

              So we can assume that there will be many RP70s applying for other courses like Bis Ad, Accountary etc.? The Indicative Grade Profile (IPG) will then become AAA for half the local Uni courses? So what’s next? Conduct balloting for sought after courses that do not conduct interviews?

              Minister Chan has to look into creating more vacancies for popular courses I guess, if not, we will still be back to square one. After all UAS is for universities admission and we do not wish to introduce other selection criteria for university admission. Otherwise, remove stress from doing away with one content heavy subject but add stress by not having sufficient places in local universities
              Is A-Level on a bell curve? If it is, then don't need to worry too much about more kids scoring straight A.

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              • iRabbitI Offline
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                floppy\" post_id=\"2099534\" time=\"1677725750\" user_id=\"97579:

                I thought we already know the answer?

                All results being constant, the ones who can do 变脸 will be admitted first, the sword swallowers second and the fire breathers third.
                To one-up those pesky 变脸 practitioners, I'll tell my kid to swallow sword, breathe fire, walk on his hands, all at the same time! 😆

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                • iRabbitI Offline
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                  slmkhoo\" post_id=\"2099506\" time=\"1677715735\" user_id=\"28674:

                  I also think that removing mid-year exams may not be a good idea - don't the students need some practice? I hope teachers are still allowed to set timed tests for allow students to practise under exam constraints, just to provide student feedback.
                  I think this is a real concern, especially for the IP kids who may not have that much practice in the first place, having skipped O-Level.

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                  • zac's mumZ Offline
                    zac's mum
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                    floppy\" post_id=\"2099532\" time=\"1677725503\" user_id=\"97579:

                    TBH, I did :rotflmao: I had also benefited from doing pure physics and double math for my O.

                    In JC, I was wondering why everyone was so busy and complaining about the A Level / workload. GP was a killer though. Most difficult subject for me and I couldn’t study for it, even if I wanted to 😂
                    GP isn’t that difficult if your teacher told u the right formula. Basically just give the For and Against, then sum up with your opinion and why u lean towards For or Against. And i’m pretty sure you’re up to date on political and other general knowledge issues, and can wax on about them. A1 there u go.

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                      floppy
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                      zac's mum\" post_id=\"2099551\" time=\"1677732513\" user_id=\"53606:[quote=\"zac's mum\" post_id=2099551 time=1677732513 user_id=53606]
                      GP isn’t that difficult if your teacher told u the right formula. Basically just give the For and Against, then sum up with your opinion and why u lean towards For or Against. And i’m pretty sure you’re up to date on political and other general knowledge issues, and can wax on about them. A1 there u go.[/quote]
                      A1 now, maybe, but it was C5 then :rotflmao:
                      My angmoh was bad (is still bad) but I am just glad I didn’t have to attend that dreadful English class in university for students who didn’t score B3 (or was it B4) for GP and didn’t clear the internal English exam.

                      A reason that I probably didn’t have much of an interest in GP was due to the tutor. She managed to make F Math far more interesting than GP and that’s really something 😂

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                      • floppyF Offline
                        floppy
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                        iRabbit\" post_id=\"2099550\" time=\"1677731429\" user_id=\"51587:

                        I think this is a real concern, especially for the IP kids who may not have that much practice in the first place, having skipped O-Level.
                        Those kids still have regular exams in schools right? Schools are are allowed to conduct not more than 1 WA per subject per term. I guess that would count as some sort of practice.

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