@floppy It’s an absolute pity that Kiasu Parents have became a ghost town these days. It used to be such a thriving forum up until the revamp. Likewise, I use XiaoHongShu nowadays to check out how the PRCs are gaming the academic and DSA domains.

GEP has been gamed to death by the PRCs and MOE has no choice but to scrap GEP after 40 years. From hereon, I highly suspect the PRCs will hyper-focus on DSA (academics/sports/arts) especially now that their GEP route into branded schools have been terminated.

It will be a matter of time before MOE also scraps DSA once it gets gamed to death by the PRCs in the years ahead.

@floppy It’s an absolute pity that Kiasu Parents have became a ghost town these days. It used to be such a thriving forum up until the revamp. Likewise, I use XiaoHongShu nowadays to check out how the PRCs are gaming the academic and DSA domains.

GEP has been gamed to death by the PRCs and MOE has no choice but to scrap GEP after 40 years. From hereon, I highly suspect the PRCs will hyper-focus on DSA (academics/sports/arts) especially now that their GEP route into branded schools have been terminated.

It will be a matter of time before MOE also scraps DSA once it gets gamed to death by the PRCs in the years ahead.

@zac-s-mum Maths/Science academic domain DSA have been thoroughly researched on XiaoHongShu since time immemorial…almost all the PRCs are sending their kids to PRC tuition centres such as Kangaroo and OneTarget for intensive boot camps.

These days, the hot topics on XiaoHongShu involves sharing gaming tactics on sports/arts DSA. The PRCs are especially focused on DSA ever since MOE shuttered the 40-year GEP program which in itself has also been gamed to death by the PRCs.

Any P3 parents have received GEP screening round 1 results on Parents Gateway?

@zac-s-mum I can totally picture the parents on xiaohongshu wailing in grief. It is a real pity that the GEP system has been gamed to such an extent by these parents that MOE has decided to throw away the baby with the bath water. Websites like these are dime a dozen on PRC forums:

https://bbs.kangaroo.study/forum.php?mod=forumdisplay&fid=36

I really do suspect that the proportion of non-local GEP kids have been so heavily skewed in recent years that this drastic step has been taken by MOE.

@Brando glad to hear that the medication is working well for your son and the amazing turnaround! Did you managed to obtain accommodations from the GEP program for your son’s twice exceptionality?

We have just received the full neuropsychological report and still trying to figure how we should approach the school and MOE for accommodations for our son’s giftedness and dyslexia…should we just send the entire neuropsychological report to the school principal?

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I have a 2e child diagnosed at age 7 on the recommendation of her school. She is in the gifted range with SPD and handwriting issue. A good portion of gifted kids do mask and cruise until requirements exceed their abilities, then they crash; so it is best to be pro-active and get them the help they need now. From my understanding, most local school has in-house dyslexia support program, you may want to inquiry with your DS's school. My DD is now 9 so she hasn’t taken the GEP screening tests, so do take what I say about GEP with a pinch of salt. From my research, your DS should enjoy being in the program. The program allows the child the freedom to learn deeply and widely about a topic/subject that the current/normal curriculum doesn’t. Since that’s how a gifted child learns best, he should enjoy being in the program. However do note they don't do curriculum acceleration. Hope this helps.

Many thanks for sharing your experiences mamawan, especially on the mask & cruise tendencies of 2E children. Similar to your DD, my DS is 9 and will be sitting for his GEP screening next month. Currently seeking views from different sources as I'm still unsure if GEP is suitable for 2E children given their learning disability as a comorbidity.

I'm worried that when it comes to MOE curriculum work, DS may lag behind his GEP classmates (despite his high cognitive abilities) thus affecting his confidence from feelings of inadequacy. Just trying to figure out what is best for DS that fully leverages his strengths.

My DS underwent about 8 hours of assessment with a psychologist and was revealed to be highly gifted (> 99.9 percentile) based on his FSIQ score of 147 on the WISC-V. Simultaneously, he is also diagnosed with dyslexia for which he has been relying on his giftedness to mask over.


Sadly for many 2E children, they are often unidentified as their learning disabilities (LDs) mask over their giftedness, consigning them to a lifetime of underachievement (relative to their giftedness). Copying a couple of links below on 2E children's \"masking\" ability.

Are there any 2E children currently in MOE's GEP program? Is your child able to cope or does your child's LD proves too big of a stumbling block in the GEP program?


https://childmind.org/article/twice-exceptional-kids-both-gifted-and-challenged/
https://www.davidsongifted.org/gifted-blog/twice-exceptional-smart-kids-with-learning-differences/

Hi, any parents of 2e child in this thread? Would like to seek some advice regarding challenges faced by 2e children in GEP program. Thank you.

Hi, are there any parents of 2e (twice exceptional) child in this thread? Would like to seek advice from parents of 2e children regarding challenges faced by their child in the mainstream primary education system. Please PM me if you are willing to share


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Hi, any parents have received posting results yet? Thanks!