If DD/DS get into a dream school, good, if they don’t it doesn’t matter. My own experience of DS being in a dream school is that the competition and ranking of students within the school occurs constantly, and this will go on for 6 years until JC2. Everything you need to be selected, go for trials, go for selection, vie for a spot, whether its academics, competitions, cca, any activity. The kids are constantly on an emotional roller coaster of highs and lows, of getting selected or not. One test, one exam, one selection process can make or break. So you might be very passionate in something, but you botch up on the day, or you say something stupid, then habis. Its like going through DSA all the time throughout the 6 years. If you don’t get, you have to scramble and go and find another alternative. Its meant to train the students for adult life. That is true to an extent. As an employer I find alot of the younger ones many with good grades come in and get disillusioned by work life very fast and don’t stay the course. Working life is where you need the stamina to last it out, and be committed in the job to get to the top. If the kids are constantly being filtered and selected in very quick time, and not encouraged to take the time to develop their passions which take time, they are not going to learn endurance, and commitment. They also would have burned out by the time they finish school, because of having to go through so many selection processes. Many of them also find, that working life is not as exciting as school, because there isn’t this constant selection or reward process. In many work places, you could wait years before your next promotion exercise. Whereas in school, every other week or month, there is the attraction of a reward. So my two cents, its okay, if you don’t get into a dream school or through the DSA process. There are many other routes to career success.

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Any parents can share? What is a good sec 1 score? Is it common to get 4.0 GPA for all subjets? Will they change or band the classes in s2 - and any chance of getting into the euler and galileo prog in s2?

thx everyone for encourging replies. ds had wanted to try 4 dbates - i said dont bcoz hes chnse cannot spk so well. he didnt listen come back from debates v down becoz so many boys, topics v harrd and some so calm and spk so well. he went for the sports he rep the pschool in the coach said somethng like no need to try furhthr. i told him nvmind go for maths (since i math grad), he came back said didn’t qualify. i have told him, core cca and specprog, must be of std to win medals for sch othw not good even if can get in. he wanted the musical groups but they say need music background. think i will take ur advice and ask him to do npcc. hope he will turn out okay.

thanks vlim. i know it shdnot matter. but ds very quiet altho usually very noisy. and his friens parents have also said to me they have to spend time encouraging their Ds not to be down. on cca - ds went so many tryouts, 6 already, and hes abv average for some (even play for school but guess not so good) also told cannot get in. some of the tryouts have 60 to 80 boys for 10 places. then for mep/aep/csp/msp also so hard. class com also cannot. subj rep also didn’t get. very worreid.

New here. But wanted to ask DMs with sec 1 DS in ri whether you find sec1 stessful? Ds iGEP, went to a pri school that didn’t emphasise GEP becoz they wanted students to go feeder school. Now find that alot of things we didn’t know - must have joined maths and sci and major sports and other competitions inpschool, must get above 265, must have a* in a subject, must be in school team before can qualify etc, etc. so DS at a total disadv getting into any of the highly sourght after cca, specialprogs etc. we just didn’t know and pschool didn’t say. actually pschool didn’t tell students about dsa and what to expect or prepare for except for feeder school. pschool also not very focused on academics and doesnt open competitons for sports or other things to everyone - so most doesnt know. DS very demoralised - he says his p friends also v demoralised becos cut out from a lot of things. Anyone has same experience?