DSA 2021

[xanelynn]

My DS went for the NUSH interview last week. He is a GEP student. We never submit any non -school - based achievements for the portfolio submission.

Hi, do you mean there was no request on portfolio submission at all and your DS was called for interview directly? Thank you in advance.

[bbcxd]

Did your girl take SPSO and/or NMOS last month?

From what I know, a lot of interview notices were given two days after the NMOS. And this year NUSH are using OAS...

Jiayou! All the very best for your daughter!

Hi Pegasu and other parents here,
My girl also did not get an email for even portfolio submission from NUSH. Even I'm wondering what went wrong. Science is her favourite subject and hence I was expecting she gets a chance to interview at the least.
Below is a list of the things I put in for her dsa:
-Gold P6 Vanda science international competition
-Silver P5 Vanda science international competition
-Silver P5 Kangaroo maths Olympiad
-Bronze P6 Hwa Chong Math olympiad
-Environmental science CCA in P4 and P5 where they had even participated in a green wave competition.
- She is a GEP student with consistently decent marks in science, 80-86 till P5 SA2. P6 SA1 she got 88. Even Maths her marks have been decent, 80+ in all SA1 and SA2. Only P4 SA1 she got 65+ because it was a big jump and she took sometime to adjust to the difficulty level and maths was not her favourite subject. P6 Maths SA2 she got an 87. She has not even been very hardworking. On hindsight maybe she should have aimed for 90+?
-Gep students go for an IRS competition in P5 yearly and she got a Silver medal for her project and presentation. (It was a science related project).
- There were no school related science olympiads last year, thus we had just Vanda competition certificate to show. I do not know of any other science competitions I could have got her to participate in.
Honestly I thought she should have atleast got
a chance to interview for NUSH but clearly that's not the case and hence I am wondering what else I could have done.
She has applied for RGS Science too but nothing so far. RGS I know that there would be very few applicants selected for interview as they take such a small percentage for Science dsa, but honestly I thought securing an interview at RGS also would be possible, but im way off hence wanted to know what I may have missed out on
Pls do PM me if you do not want to reply on the public forum.
Thank you

[SG_KP1]

Re NUSH, if unsuccessful and still interested you can see if the SIE (Supplementary Intake Exercise) opens after PSLE results are released (SIE will only open if there is vacancy after all of the COs/WLs are taken-up/converted --- it is possible there is no vacancy). In the past, NUSH website said that students who score 250+ and A* for Math and Science are encouraged to apply. They have not updated this section of the website yet, but presumably somewhere around AL 8 total and AL 1 for Math and Science will be the target. More details here.

https://www.nushigh.edu.sg/admissions/y ... admissions
https://www.nushigh.edu.sg/admissions/y ... sions-faqs

As it pertains to portfolio submission, shortlisting, and CO/WL, I think we all need to remember they probably get 2,000+ applications and cull this down to ~400 interviews to fill 170-180 places. I.e. the interview stage itself is ~1% of the primary school cohort and they accept a fraction of that. For reference, there are 186 primary schools in Singapore, so if we take the top 1-2 kids in math/science in each school that is already 372 kids before considering some of the schools that will have boatloads of kids that are great at these two subjects. Net result; it is a battle and there is no universal magic formula on what will get you through (although somethings probably help more than others).

Good luck to all that are still in the running!

[xanelynn]

Did your girl take SPSO and/or NMOS last month?

From what I know, a lot of interview notices were given two days after the NMOS. And this year NUSH are using OAS...

Jiayou! All the very best for your daughter!

Hi Pegasu and other parents here,
My girl also did not get an email for even portfolio submission from NUSH. Even I'm wondering what went wrong. Science is her favourite subject and hence I was expecting she gets a chance to interview at the least.
Below is a list of the things I put in for her dsa:
-Gold P6 Vanda science international competition
-Silver P5 Vanda science international competition
-Silver P5 Kangaroo maths Olympiad
-Bronze P6 Hwa Chong Math olympiad
-Environmental science CCA in P4 and P5 where they had even participated in a green wave competition.
- She is a GEP student with consistently decent marks in science, 80-86 till P5 SA2. P6 SA1 she got 88. Even Maths her marks have been decent, 80+ in all SA1 and SA2. Only P4 SA1 she got 65+ because it was a big jump and she took sometime to adjust to the difficulty level and maths was not her favourite subject. P6 Maths SA2 she got an 87. She has not even been very hardworking. On hindsight maybe she should have aimed for 90+?
-Gep students go for an IRS competition in P5 yearly and she got a Silver medal for her project and presentation. (It was a science related project).
- There were no school related science olympiads last year, thus we had just Vanda competition certificate to show. I do not know of any other science competitions I could have got her to participate in.
Honestly I thought she should have atleast got
a chance to interview for NUSH but clearly that's not the case and hence I am wondering what else I could have done.
She has applied for RGS Science too but nothing so far. RGS I know that there would be very few applicants selected for interview as they take such a small percentage for Science dsa, but honestly I thought securing an interview at RGS also would be possible, but im way off hence wanted to know what I may have missed out on
Pls do PM me if you do not want to reply on the public forum.
Thank you

OAS was also used in 2019 NMOS.

[soul_starry]

My DS went for the NUSH interview last week. He is a GEP student. We never submit any non -school - based achievements for the portfolio submission.

Hi, do you mean there was no request on portfolio submission at all and your DS was called for interview directly? Thank you in advance.

Got received email for portfolio submission but we don’t have anything to submit

[Niu2009]

My DS went for the NUSH interview last week. He is a GEP student. We never submit any non -school - based achievements for the portfolio submission.

Hi, do you mean there was no request on portfolio submission at all and your DS was called for interview directly? Thank you in advance.

Got received email for portfolio submission but we don’t have anything to submit

You mean your DS not attend any competition or project ? So the 10 items in DSA platform is
blank? What you use to apply math domain ? School results only ? Thanks in advance!

[bbcxd]

Did your girl take SPSO and/or NMOS last month?

From what I know, a lot of interview notices were given two days after the NMOS. And this year NUSH are using OAS...

Jiayou! All the very best for your daughter!

Hi Pegasu and other parents here,
My girl also did not get an email for even portfolio submission from NUSH. Even I'm wondering what went wrong. Science is her favourite subject and hence I was expecting she gets a chance to interview at the least.
Below is a list of the things I put in for her dsa:
-Gold P6 Vanda science international competition
-Silver P5 Vanda science international competition
-Silver P5 Kangaroo maths Olympiad
-Bronze P6 Hwa Chong Math olympiad
-Environmental science CCA in P4 and P5 where they had even participated in a green wave competition.
- She is a GEP student with consistently decent marks in science, 80-86 till P5 SA2. P6 SA1 she got 88. Even Maths her marks have been decent, 80+ in all SA1 and SA2. Only P4 SA1 she got 65+ because it was a big jump and she took sometime to adjust to the difficulty level and maths was not her favourite subject. P6 Maths SA2 she got an 87. She has not even been very hardworking. On hindsight maybe she should have aimed for 90+?
-Gep students go for an IRS competition in P5 yearly and she got a Silver medal for her project and presentation. (It was a science related project).
- There were no school related science olympiads last year, thus we had just Vanda competition certificate to show. I do not know of any other science competitions I could have got her to participate in.
Honestly I thought she should have atleast got
a chance to interview for NUSH but clearly that's not the case and hence I am wondering what else I could have done.
She has applied for RGS Science too but nothing so far. RGS I know that there would be very few applicants selected for interview as they take such a small percentage for Science dsa, but honestly I thought securing an interview at RGS also would be possible, but im way off hence wanted to know what I may have missed out on
Pls do PM me if you do not want to reply on the public forum.
Thank you

OAS was also used in 2019 NMOS.

Was it? My apology! Maybe my girl remembered wrongly.

I only recall the question booklet was given back in 2019.

[Pegasus08]

Re NUSH, if unsuccessful and still interested you can see if the SIE (Supplementary Intake Exercise) opens after PSLE results are released (SIE will only open if there is vacancy after all of the COs/WLs are taken-up/converted --- it is possible there is no vacancy). In the past, NUSH website said that students who score 250+ and A* for Math and Science are encouraged to apply. They have not updated this section of the website yet, but presumably somewhere around AL 8 total and AL 1 for Math and Science will be the target. More details here.

https://www.nushigh.edu.sg/admissions/y ... admissions
https://www.nushigh.edu.sg/admissions/y ... sions-faqs

As it pertains to portfolio submission, shortlisting, and CO/WL, I think we all need to remember they probably get 2,000+ applications and cull this down to ~400 interviews to fill 170-180 places. I.e. the interview stage itself is ~1% of the primary school cohort and they accept a fraction of that. For reference, there are 186 primary schools in Singapore, so if we take the top 1-2 kids in math/science in each school that is already 372 kids before considering some of the schools that will have boatloads of kids that are great at these two subjects. Net result; it is a battle and there is no universal magic formula on what will get you through (although somethings probably help more than others).

Good luck to all that are still in the running!

Yup I saw that, SIE will look at prelims and PSLE results and portfolio (again!). So if portfolio for DSA cannot make it, then don't know if portfolio for SIE will be treated the same and not taken for selection or not. Regardless, I have told my girl to study hard for prelims at least!

[Pegasus08]

Has anyone's child taken SPSO and gotten interview from NUS High (results of SPSO not out yet though). I believe they also used OAS?

[phtthp]

Hi, do you mean there was no request on portfolio submission at all and your DS was called for interview directly? Thank you in advance.

Got received email for portfolio submission but we don’t have anything to submit

You mean your DS not attend any competition or project ? So the 10 items in DSA platform is
blank? What you use to apply math domain ? School results only ? Thanks in advance!

maybe
NUS High treat P6 ( GEP & Mainstream) applicants differently. After all, their curriculum is different