Dear parents,


Never knew this S1 process is just as stressful but hope everyone arrives at the best decision and choices.

Out of curiosity, does anyone know of any AL4-6 cases who made very conscious decision NOT to go for any of the top schools and more importantly, why?

I personally know of one AL6 who's a foreigner and straight up chose a government IP school because of school fees. Another AL6 is worried because of the potential demanding environment that requires one to always be at the top, they aren't financially well off too and instantly think it's never in their league.

00skyblue00\" post_id=\"2123419\" time=\"1700801148\" user_id=\"143605:

AL4M is eligible for ESIS, your results slip would have stated which is $2400 per year for 6 years, covers most of NYGH fees. Need to top up for RGS.

For commuting, alternatively, you can consider to take bus 174 to Bukit Timah, no need transfer and get to seat from start to end with mostly accurate timing of bus from Boon Lay Bus interchange. The journey in the morning quite alright. You can see many HCI, NJC, and others on the bus along the way. You can try taking the different routes together with your girl during holidays to familiarise. I heard from friend NY's reporting time is 8:15am for most days. Hence they chose it.

But if your girl is not into Chinese, RGS may be more suitable? Which school to chose highly depends on the student, whether her unexpected high performance was her own abilities or with a lot of assistance and whether she is strong in Chinese or not or not into too much chinese based activities or program. But no matter what, competition among the best students should be expected. Competition can be healthy and may help each other to pursue excellence. But competition can also be toxic, plays politics, in order to stand out among others. Some are so talented and motivation, it may be interpretated wrongly as too ambitious and toxic. So it really depends on the personality of the child.

As long as the child can have a small group of 2 or 3 close friends to start with, it will make a big difference in her sch life, I strongly believe.

What she has achieved is exceptional! All the best to her!

Some CCAs may need one time top ups, you can try asking more about this from gurus.

@00skyblue00 Thanks for sharing in great details, especially on the interpretation of 'toxic' environment where I think many children tend to say that rather easily. I think it's really informative in helping us arrive at a more informed decision eventually.

Avenue3\" post_id=\"2123413\" time=\"1700799135\" user_id=\"45412:

My friends' DD goes from Boon Lay MRT to RGS by train. NYGHS is certainly doable. Do note that the girl needs to change bus at MRT (1 or 2 stop I think from Tan Kah Kee). Then Year 5 and 6 is at HC, which is right above MRT and not much walk.

Many students drop out of third language at some point. I dont have stats, but only 20-30% continue to write exam.

Dont worry about campus facilities - i think there is over emphasis on this in forums. All top schools are good in my opinion.

I do not know much about scholarships, may be others can give their opinion.

@Avenue3, Thanks a lot for sharing... Still quite puzzled Google doesn't include DTL in the route but will figure it out along the way (that's if she's really going there. I do agree on the over-emphasis on facilities, sorry for the kiasu parent speak haha...

kab\" post_id=\"2123406\" time=\"1700797097\" user_id=\"7705:

My older girl is in NYGH sec three. I highly recommend the school. My girl ends at 5:00pm for CCA days ( twice per week) and 6:45pm ( once a week) for third language day. Most school program can be paid by Edusave. There are also all sorts of financial help available.

I wish my younger girl ( PSLE this year) did well enough for NYGH! She got AL8D which is not bad but sadly not good enough to join her jie jie...

@kab, it's really informative to hear from parents with child from the mentioned school, thank you and really appreciate it. Your younger girl's AL8 with distinction in HMT is no mean feat. I felt that it can be so much more stressful for a younger sibling to do well enough to join her sister, but I'm sure she'd thrive at any school too.

Hello parents, total newbie here to find out information and opinions, and thanks in advance to hear from anyone.


We are Singaporeans and live in the extreme west. For the two months, we were only hoping our child could get into RVHS with her prelim results and location as the main considerations. Then my child had pulled off the unthinkable and gotten AL4M, and the general opinion we got from surrounding friends was it would be a pity not to go RGS or NYGHS.

The thought of her joining NYGHS is extremely alluring but the distance remains the biggest barrier. And we like to find out more pros and cons from both NYGHS and RVHS.

Several questions we have for now below:

1. We have heard more great things about NYGHS’ teachers (in forums especially), and would like to find out more about teachers in RVHS, how students fare under them, etc.

2. How the two schools fare in terms of campuses, facilities. We do understand it’s hard to draw definitive comparisons between the two.

3. School hours for both school are about the same. The biggest worry remains on how often and late the students stay back after school hours; which of the two invest more in after school activities and CCAs.

4. We would like to find out more about the third language offering, how intense it gets, and the drop out rate, etc.

5. We aren’t financially well-off, even with the possibility of scholarship, we do worry about money when it comes to other programme fees in independent schools like NYGHS. Is that the case for NYGHS, or both?