@chenlaoshi I can’t find this page and a lot of time I cannot log into this site. But yeah it is very quiet this year .

@besttutor2359 can you PM me

In the words of Gen Z “early” but in the words of Kiasu - “late”

I wonder why the DSA 2026 thread has not been started. The 2025 may have been started earlier but can’t find it.

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/direct-school-admission-must-be-accessible-to-all-students-chan-chun-sing

How do you think they will implement this as for example some talent areas do require training from you such as dance art olympiads?

@doodbug can’t agree more.I think the new format favours all the old inactive threads so the new threads are hard to find really miss the chatter

Finally found this link. IT is very quiet this year. Should we sign up for some last minute bootcamps for Chinese?

@chenlaoshi I can’t find this page and a lot of time I cannot log into this site. But yeah it is very quiet this year .

@skyyger at the parent’s program you can ask how many places available for that speciality. and kind of make a guess? if that helps

@revils_ling you can do supplementary intake.

Re: Comparing Chinese Enrichment (Primary/Preschool)

Hi any recommendations for enrichment centre for P5 ? My son currently in Wang for five years and he cannot follow the class . I wonder if I did wrong by sending in to Wang maybe have to change

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Thanks mystique_j for your response. I also wanted to ask about the boarding program in Year 1. I heard that it isn't compulsory and is on a FCFS basis. Has your DS experienced it before? In addition, do you have any insight on the cohort size for DSA Infocomm at HCI?

My DS is now leaning towards DSA Infocomm for HCI instead of DSA Maths after doing some online research on this domain today. But he doesn't have much to show, except for the HCIC results he received today. I was wondering if it's worth trying since his Infocomm achievement will just appear as a 1-liner in his DSA submission. 🤔 A part of me being a parent is wondering if he will have a higher chance in this domain as compared to Maths. He's not dying to get into HCI, but I think he wants to have this option if possible. His 2 other options are NUSH and SST. Would appreciate any advice on this. Thanks!

Some background info:
The results for HCIC 2024 were released this morning, and to our amazement, my DS did surprisingly well. He doesn't have a background or any prior accolades in coding/programming so it was really out of the blue. So far, he has only dabbled in HTML on his own on rare occasions, and for this competition, it was meant as a try for fun activity since he doesn't attend any coding classes and was never particularly keen to. To prep, we borrowed some Python- and robotics-related books from the library for him to read up about 2-3 weeks before the competition. We didn't expect much because most of his afternoons were spent on attending MOs and revising for school common tests. I think he only spent less than 8-10 hours in total reading the books, and about 2 hours trying out the codes on the computer. So when we saw the results this morning, we were dumbfounded and it made us wonder, is this area another strength of his that we didn't know about? His almost 12 years of life has mostly been about his love for Maths only, so we naturally thought that he would just try for DSA Maths when the time comes and that would be it. Now we (including my DS) are not so sure anymore.

It is anyone's guess if the one achievement is enough. Some of them have been at infocomm since P4.. If your son has a long list of MO medals, Maths has good chance if you want to DSA. Possible to apply for 2 domains.