jkorompis\" post_id=\"2048649\" time=\"1637908672\" user_id=\"193874:

hi All,

May I know how are classes at nygh allocated? DSA acad students (mainstream）placed together?
My DD wants to know the possibility of her pri school mate being in same class. both dsaed to nygh

Most likely will be in the same class together.
Last year, my DD was also from mainstream, DSA acad , was posted to a class mixture of dsa acad , sport, geppers. First day of sec 1, she was happy to see her primary school mate in the same class as her ( By PSLE t-score). The school will try their best to group the girls from same neighbouring primary school together
And by the way , the ang moh girl who is very good in mandarin, is from S1-02, not as what another parent had said in another discussion thread. Feel free to pm me if have any questions

Is there any way to find out nygh subjects median scores for a particular cohort?

Veyron\" post_id=\"2041999\" time=\"1634039135\" user_id=\"30663:

Mommymini\" post_id=\"2041993\" time=\"1634037684\" user_id=\"129282:

I'm genuinely confused.

Why can it not be 95*2+85*2? That will also give a Tscore of 264.3. How does your calculation prove that all subjects have the same A* score?

In fact, by similar calculation, i can get Tscore 267 (99*2+85*2). How can this show that 85 is not A*? Unless there is proof that A* for all subjects means the same score, any kind of calculation can be done. Agreed that it is difficult to imagine A* for a score in the 70s, but 80s still seem plausible.

You are right because we are discussing the minimum t-score for 4A*
Certainly, a 3A* + A t-score can be higher than 4A*

This is the same reason why AL6 students can achieve a higher raw score or T-score equivalent than AL4
e.g
AL6 95 95 89 89
AL4 90 90 90 90

One very good example is the AL COP for NYGH.
T-score COP is 261 in 2020, similar to RGS, but AL COP for 2020 is AL7, while RGS is AL6

Is it because NYGH is SAP, thus t-score can be 258+3?

PSLE is just 3 weeks away before the first paper start. Why waste your energy on something which you have no control over?

Better to divert all these energy towards preparing for the exam.
And for those DC on school’s WL, take it positively, “WL is better than straight rejection” , “My DC must have something special in the eyes of the school to make to WL” . Positive energy is very important, it affect the child preparation.

Good luck to all kids for their upcoming PSLE.

Hi to all parents whose kid is taking psle this year. I writing to share with you my experience of dsa 2020 with my DD and hipefully it can help you in one way or another in your kid journey.


My DD is from a neighbourhood school in the west, in fact it is the most “unwanted” primary school in the neighbourhood, with many many foreigners students, much more than locals.
I never believe in forcing my kids to tution, therefore i will always let them decide if they need to have any extra lesson outside. Happy to say she was “lazy” , helping me save quite abit on tution fees.
Since primary 2 or 3, i have been telling my DD if there is a subject that can acheive full marks, it will definitely going to be maths. These words have big impact to her as her subsequent exam for math has always been full marks, except sometime 1 or 2 careless calculation mistakes where she lost marks. But these carelessness actually motivate her more because her heart feels pain for giving the marks back to the teacher.
An Apple a day keep the doctor away. Since P5 i started to give her a maths problem sum every day for practise, which i pick up from some parents post in the facebook group post. From there slowly we learn together and understand together. Slowly from our learning , i realise her thought and process sometime are different from mine. she will explain her steps to me, and it makes sense. I thought her concept is much better than me. I told my wife about it and we decide why not let her try out Dsa for math domain?
We have our concerns too.
1) Will my DD have lesser chance since she is not from atas pri sch? She is not even the best in her sch.
2) will she be demoralize if kena rejected and affect her mood towards prelim and psle?
3) will the school even shortlist her? Her prior math cert is just a P5 MO which her pri sch made her participate, got a gold which she also dun know how she did it.

After some discussion with her, she decided to try. Her thought “no harm trying”
If get shortlist by sch, can hv free experience for interview. For a 12 year old kid, these opportunity for interview is rare right? We want her to embrace the experience and journey of dsa, while not going to let it affect her preparation for prelim and psle regardless of the outcome.
Next question what school to choose? She say girl school, and after some read up and decision, she chosen nygh and 2 others girl school. I didnt even bother to ask her why not rgs. It her decision, let her enjoy it.
To our surprise, she was shortlisted by all 3 schools. Test and assisgment were done in her pri sch after lesson end, follow by e interview.
From there she roughly can tell which sch she has a feel good feeling ( higher chance of co or wl). She feel she had the least chance for nygh cos she couldnt even finish all the questions in the paper. And she also forgot all the questions for interview. (Guess she must have mess it up). Further more, there were another 2 school mates applying for nygh too. They are always better than her in terms of academy results.
Dsa outcome was released before psle. It was kept away from her till psle was over, she was accepted by 2 schools, and nygh was of them. We dun want complacency to set in.
This dsa journey has actually prompt her to even excel her usual self for psle. We expect her psle result to be around 250-259, in the end her result was way beyond our expectation. She was out to prove the school wrong for not accepting her because she thought no chance for all 3 dsa schools.
End of day , this dsa journey prove to be a good one. We are happy for her and glad we involve her in decision making and embracing the opportunity given to her.
The sec sch teachers in charge have years of experience in dsa , it is definitely not something we as parents know what they are looking for or looking at. What we parents can do is to let our kids make the final decision and reassure them that no matter what the outcome, it is definitely not going to be end of the world. In fact it is just the beginning, the beginning of a new learning journey. Let the kids write their own journey, you be surprised where it is going to lead them to. Let them know it is not how successful they are that define them, it is how fast they can “get up “ when they “fall down” that will define them. So let dsa be an opportunity for them to learn, even though the chance of “falling down” is high.
My best wishes to all P6 in this year psle.

May i ask parents with DD dsa in maths domain into NYGH previous few years, roughly how many spots were given?

TIA

jakoh\" post_id=\"1994574\" time=\"1599658581\" user_id=\"151698:

jakoh\" post_id=\"1994502\" time=\"1599631487\" user_id=\"151698:

Just received WL from NYGH. Any idea the chance to be placed in?

Quote “ As your child is on the Wait List, she will be considered for admission to our school subject to available vacancies. However, your child must still be eligible to attend a course offered in our school based on their PSLE results, i.e. the Express course.” Does this mean she will be offered Express not IP stream?

Read this from the MOE website, \"In previous years, about half the students on the schools’ wait lists were eventually given a place.\" Wondering if this is an average stats, and how much it's reflective it is to NYGH?

Anyone has heard WL for NYGH and RGS converted to CO?

It was a roller coaster ride for us this week, ended up with 2 CO. 1 of it is NYGH, accepting or rejecting is still 50-50. I believe there are parents out there just like us, so im sure WL for NYGH and RGS converting to CO is pretty high.
Nevertheless, your kid’s chance is depending of her ranking inside the WL in that particular school. For example, a math domain CO rejection doesnt mean the next in line math domain WL will be in, the chance will given to the highest ranking inside the school WL. My advice is to encourage your kid to work hard in upcoming PSLE.
Cheers and good luck!
:celebrate:

Kiddies\" post_id=\"1994145\" time=\"1599458542\" user_id=\"114631:

SAHMummy\" post_id=\"1994140\" time=\"1599457505\" user_id=\"62132:

Hi, Anyone received CO froM SCGS?

DD's classmate said she received \"not successful\" reply from SCGS around 2X August 2020.

Hopefully those who are still waiting are the CO/WL group.

:thankyou:
Really hope so...

SAHMummy\" post_id=\"1994140\" time=\"1599457505\" user_id=\"62132:

Hi, Anyone received CO froM SCGS?

Email from SCGS says mid Sep, my guess is either fri or next mon.

icez118\" post_id=\"1991942\" time=\"1597845495\" user_id=\"116664:

any idea if the school which you have applied for, can also see the other schools you have applied DSA for and its status during their shortlisting?

Dun think the respective school will be able to see and know which other schools the kids have DSA for but during the interview, school may prompt the question to the kids. It is better to answer them honestly. My DD was ask by the interviewers during her second round interview. She answer them honestly, no harm.