All about A level results
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anyone wans to rant?
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I find this year's result was quite good even with the express train batch taking with us leh. My result was alright ba.
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Channel NewsAsia - 1 hour 43 minutes ago
87.5% A—level students pass under revised curriculum
SINGAPORE: The GCE A—level examination results are out and students have scored almost as well as the previous batch, despite a new curriculum.
Last year was also the first time that students from the Integrated Programme (IP) sat for the Cambridge examinations.
Top student Ian Wee is well on his way to becoming a clinician scientist in neurobiology.
The IP student from Hwa Chong Institution (HCI) scored a total of nine distinctions and his project on proteins is awaiting publication in an international scientific journal.
Ian is one of 1,660 IP students who got their results on Friday. The other two IP schools whose students sat for last year’s Cambridge papers are National Junior College (NJC) and Raffles Junior College (RJC).
IP students at Temasek Junior College and Victoria Junior College, which offered the programme from 2005, will sit for their A—level exams this year.
Having skipped the O—levels, IP students had their first taste of the Cambridge exam at the A—levels. This year’s A—level cohort is also the first batch to go through a new curriculum.
There is now a bigger emphasis on independent learning, project work and inter—disciplinary subjects.
In this respect, some might say that IP students have an advantage over the rest of the cohort. But educators said it is not necessarily true because for several years now, the entire education system has been moving towards ’teach less, learn more’.
Indeed, the Education Ministry (MOE) said where broad comparisons can be made with the old syllabus, performance across the level is similar to last year’s results.
According to MOE figures, 87.5 percent or 11,418 of 13,053 students who sat for the exams last year obtained three Higher—2 (H2) passes and a pass in General Paper (GP) or Knowledge and Inquiry a new inter—disciplinary paper.
90.1 percent of the students got at least two H2 and two H1 passes.
Last year, 88.2 percent had three A—level passes and a pass in GP, while 91.1 percent scored at least two A2 and two AO passes, including GP.
On the whole, IP students have fared as well as the others.
While RJC declined to make comparisons, HCI said its students, who have all gone through part of the Integrated Programme, have performed better than their seniors.
Over at NJC, where nearly one in four students are in the IP, about half of them scored at least three distinctions, comparable to last year’s batch.
But Ian feels that in some subjects, IP students like him have the edge.
"A lot of my friends tell me that the Integrated Programme helps when you do Knowledge and Inquiry because of the space that the IP system gives you to discover more about yourself and to do the sort of reflection that I think is quite essential to such a philosophical subject," he said.
Over at Anglo—Chinese Junior College, it was a moment to savour for Su Peng Tian, who has overcome a two—year battle with cancer to score two As and two Bs.
He now wants to pursue medicine at university.
"Being a long—term patient, it helps me to experience, to see more of what a patient and doctor’s relationship is, and what both sides need from each other," said Peng Tian. — CNA/so
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How come no one is bitching about their results?
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Originally posted by RETARDED_MORON:
How come no one is bitching about their results?
you can start the ball rolling
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ok la the result ... haha my friends all did quite good ...
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edited
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may i know what are the popular courses in NUS and NTU?
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I thought quite a few forum people take A levels want, post results leh. Good we celebrate together, lousy we can counsel each other and give you advice about your next step
How come A Levels so not exciting one... O levels the whole forum buzzing with activity!
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screwed gp
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i guess not many ppl have done well in As la. =( my school not many ppl get full distinctions. so yeah. haha.
for me, i din do well. so do my class. when we received our results, there were no tears of joy or sorrow, we just stood there aimlessly, dunno which path to take.
the only jcs i heard did very well are hci and rj. is that true?
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When they Not do well leh ... What you get leh ? my H2 AAA but GP got D
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i got bcd for h2
b for h1 e for gp.
can go where?
im screwed
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My friends got a few want to retake now waiting for interview from the JC again. for guys going NS abit more ma fan ...
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hi5 to club18! lol. gotten bcd for h2 too. for h1 is D and E
anyways, is materials science engineering easy to get in? in both NUS & NTU
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quite popular. A lot of poly students in that course. Went to the open house last year.
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howhowhow???
my results can go anywhere?
anything in the finance/management sector?
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General Paper - A
H2 Mathematics - A
H2 Chemistry - A
H2 Biology - A
H2 History - A
H3 Biology - Dist
My advice for future A Level students? Choose the easiest subjects and bluff your way through JC!
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Hmmm... my ex tuition student got 5As and 1B
The other one got 2A 1B 2C (include GP)
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Hi all!!! Anyone knows roughly what grades is the cut off point for engineering in both nus and ntu?
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Originally posted by frienderine:
Hi all!!! Anyone knows roughly what grades is the cut off point for engineering in both nus and ntu?
not very high... think around 40.
But my info was when Chinese was still taken into calculations.
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How do you calculate?
1 H2 A = 20?
1 H1 A = 10?
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Originally posted by frienderine:
How do you calculate?
1 H2 A = 20?
1 H1 A = 10?
I don't know how it is calculated now... My time, no H1 H2, just A levels.
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oh.. okay.. thanks for your quick response! ^^
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okay.. i dont know whether this is correct, but this was what my friends told me.
H2: A=20 points
B=17.5 points
C=15 points and so on
each grade's difference is 2.5 points
H1: A=10 points
B=8.5 points
C=7 points and so on
each grade's difference is 1.5 points
just take it for your reference. =D