Do you feel that it is harder to get into poly now?

• Lorry`

  26 Apr 07, 21:04

  1 thing i want to ask....
  
  really must go uni meh? everytime i know of a uni grad who cant get a job, i lol@hisherface
  
  ok but the thing is, uni dont have the course i want
• ndmmxiaomayi

  26 Apr 07, 21:12

  RP is never a dumping ground. Even if you fail EMS, the worst grade you can get is D7 before you can enter RP. I've not seen one who get an E8 and below for EMS entering RP.
  
  The same standard also applies to the rest of the polytechnics here (note that it doesn't apply to all courses)
  
  While RP is may seem like a slacker's place, it's not easy to study here. Besides working in groups everyday, you also have to learn independently. Those who treat RP as a dumping ground realizes this within a month and transfer out.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  26 Apr 07, 21:24

  Originally posted by 798:

  my advice to all:
  
  better be sure which course u r choosing. some new courses r not relevant to the uni as uni do not have.
  
  course like a mixture of engineering cum management or cum IT get u nowhere comparing to pure engineering courses like mechanical or electrical engineerings.
  
  n some courses may be hot only for short-term only n job demands are actually not require much intakes. governments did emphasize on life science is the latest trend but the fact dat it is still not very broad in sg unless u thinking of further studies or working in oversea.

  Actually, not so true. If you are a more technical person, pure engineering or pure IT is definitely the way to go.
  
  Those mixture courses are hot in sectors like the banks, where they require the graduates to know IT/Engineering and business. You get a technician to explain why the business won't survive, will die until very jialat.
  
  Take my team as an example. My facilitator screwed my team up for this reason. His comments for the team: not convincing enough why he as CEO should give the IT department more budget to make sure the business survives. Our team had a fault, we are too technical. The CEO, on the other hand, is a business-minded person. He could not see why even if his servers are hacked his business could not survive.
• Deunamist

  26 Apr 07, 22:52

  Originally posted by strado:

  Some JC students actually want to go to poly so that they belong to the "hip and cool" crowd rather than the "nerdy muggers" in JCs.
  
  Its just the wrong mentality. "I want go poly, not jc, so that I can wear my own clothes everyday."

  Precise.
• cApitaland

  27 Apr 07, 00:16

  i tot now nerd is the cool trend? haha i blur ah.
  
  want go poly sure hard one if you apply fer the courses in demand la. but if you guai2 durin sec school easy la.
  
  i agree wif you. lastime sec school take amaths den now learn again. can sleep le class time. summore gt people frm jc dropout i tink cos fail promos ah den come here to poly.
• lageihsif

  27 Apr 07, 00:25

  eh. i take A math and pure humans and pure sci not becuz i wan go jc.
  its bcuz my sch only offer these. combined 1s must go na.
  then why shld i go jc and let those that cant go jc ppl go poly?
  u have to fight for ur place and not go arnd asking ppl to give u a place.
• 798

  27 Apr 07, 00:44

  Originally posted by ndmmxiaomayi:

  Actually, not so true. If you are a more technical person, pure engineering or pure IT is definitely the way to go.
  
  Those mixture courses are hot in sectors like the banks, where they require the graduates to know IT/Engineering and business. You get a technician to explain why the business won't survive, will die until very jialat.
  
  Take my team as an example. My facilitator screwed my team up for this reason. His comments for the team: not convincing enough why he as CEO should give the IT department more budget to make sure the business survives. Our team had a fault, we are too technical. The CEO, on the other hand, is a business-minded person. He could not see why even if his servers are hacked his business could not survive.

  yes, u have to be a well-rounder in every interdisciplinary n a successful team will work well comprises of different pple wif different specialities.
  
  but i am talking about uni course for students who wish to continue further studies for degree. if u want to enter tis course, ur stands beside getting good grade of entering electrical engineering is higher if u have a EE diploma comparing to others who have diploma in ECE, engineering computing or telecommunication principle.
  
  in uni nowaday, the sch emphasize on other interdisciplinary so that undergrads can prepare themselves well entering workforce outside.
• strado

  27 Apr 07, 20:11

  Originally posted by lageihsif:

  eh. i take A math and pure humans and pure sci not becuz i wan go jc.
  its bcuz my sch only offer these. combined 1s must go na.
  then why shld i go jc and let those that cant go jc ppl go poly?
  u have to fight for ur place and not go arnd asking ppl to give u a place.

  Yours is as exception, depending on the school's offer of subjects combinations. I'm not saying all is like that, but majority of people who are eligible for JC sci stream usually talk a crazy combo of pure everything. Their pure humans includes either pure geog and pure history or a pure of either with a sub combi of the other one with social studies. And some even take lit as a private sub for os. Followed by pure bio, pure chem and pure physics all together, plus higher MT, A maths, total taking of 9 subjects.
  
  When you got 9 pure subjects, it will be a sin to not go jc and be a scholar in the future.