原帖由 littlemak 於 09-12-3 18:39 發表
fsforth,
i agree,
high cost of school fee and boarding fee, far from home site, .........
applying for pri school mainly for having the through-train sec school. but if (i mean, if ) the sec school i ...
Go to SSCPS, then SSC, then very good academic result.
If you think like that, SSCPS may not be your cup of tea.
Of course, it is difficult to say whether SSC will have very good academic results 10 years later or will be much more famous. The world keeps changing a lot.
It''s better not to expect the results will be improved so much. If it happens, SSC may not be SSC.
Strong academic results is not the culture of SSC, I think. Even if the school fee is so high, ...
I'm not sure what you mean about the "culture". But I do hear from parents there saying there are more homeworks than before, and they said the principal wants to make improvements, and her intentions could be interpreted from the principal's report.
But I believe the phenomena is if parents want their children to have strong academic results (within the framework of HK exams system), most likely SSCPS is not their first / second choice. Parents would rather choose those gov't aided traditional schools but with above average exam results if they fail to get admitted to those top DSS schools. Examples would be st. stephen's girls, St. paul's catholic, st. canossa, Wah Yan, etc.
Why are there still so many parents sent their children to SSCPS? So this school still has its own niche.
Looking at the figures, in terms of average number of "A" attained, only DGS is on a par with St. Paul Co-ed. But some said that DGS has far better result in English.
this is actually similar to the past practice of CU taking "暫取生" or offering "firm offers" based on HKCEE results in the 90s. We also needed to have C or above in both English and Chinese in order to skip F.7 and enter CU in F.6. (and that's why more than 1/3 of the class in my Year 1 had A in HKCEE English and Chinese)
btw, i think the 傳說全班拔尖, is referring to the F.6 class but not the F.5 class (should be around 30-35, right?)
原帖由 dvb 於 09-12-3 22:20 發表
I don't think 14 is difficult at all. 14 should be the minimum. Good parents' kid should have more than 14 no matter which school the kid goes to.
this is actually similar to the past practice of CU taking "暫取生" or offering "firm offers" based on HKCEE results in the 90s. We also needed to have C or above in both English and Chinese in orde ...
Assuming that most parents here are looking for primary schools at this stage, then it may not be very relevant to pay too much attention to the HKCEE results of secondary schools. HKCEE and HKAL will become history in just a matter of years.
By the time our children are applying for F.1, there should be several years of NSS exam and university admission track records in all different secondary schools for our reference. It may be a completely different game. Some traditional schools may not be able to keep their names while some other schools may be performing very well under the NSS curriculum.
How did you mean by "firm offer"? I got the provisional offer after HKCEE and had to pass some exams administrated by CUHK after F.6 in order to get the final admission. I remember we had to self-study Chinese language/literature for one of the exams. But I guess it was still better than taking the A-levels. By the way, we did not need to have at least 6As to get the provisional offer.
Yes, I had four great years at CUHK too.
[quote]原帖由 bakusensei 於 09-12-4 10:22 發表
well, I was offered "firm offer" and enjoyed 4 happy years in CU. :)
原帖由 kaifu
於 09-12-4 10:11 發表
Assuming that most parents here are looking for primary schools at this stage, then it may not be very relevant to pay too much attention to the HKCEE results of secondary schools. HKCEE and HKAL will become history in just a matter of years.
By the time our children are applying for F.1, there should be several years of NSS exam and university admission track records in all different secondary schools for our reference. It may be a completely different game. Some traditional schools may not be able to keep their names while some other schools may be performing very well under the NSS curriculum...
Kaifu, I also hope that there will be a completely different game after the introduction of NSS. But it seems that “老師的思維沒有改變”.
I knew some teachers assisted in the formulation of the NSS syllabus. 前陣子, 黃明樂出了一本《港孩》, 當中有篇幅探討NSS. I bought some copies of the book and sent to these teachersbut their response is
原帖由 kaifu 於 09-12-4 10:35 發表
How did you mean by "firm offer"? I got the provisional offer after HKCEE and had to pass some exams administrated by CUHK after F.6 in order to get the final admission. I remember we had to self-st ...
well, may be we are from different "generation"
we didn't need to pass the exam administrated by CU after F.6. it seemed that we needed to at least perform not too bad in F.6. [but i still ve some fds playing the whole F.6 and enter PMM (medicine)) after F.6. but i didn't bother to ask if they passed all the subjects in F.6]