Work with Numbers up to 10 Millions by age 9.

English state schools in UK are taking actions to toughen up their standards in order to compete with international advance education systems such as Singapore.

A draft mathematics curriculum suggests that students at the age of nine will have to know all their time tables up to 12×12 and be able to work with numbers up to 10 million by the end of the primary education. Currently, students only need to know up to 10×10 and work with numbers below 1,000 by age 11. This is quite a challenge for future students. If students nowadays think that the current education system is tough to excel in, think again.

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Spelling Bee Again.. Who Won?

Spelling Bee

Remember our article on spelling bee when we showcase funny videos of the event.

The Winner for Singapore’ s very own Spelling Bee is finally out on 28 April. Jordan Foo from ACS (Primary) has emerged as the champion! Congratulation Jordan!

Beating 28 other finalists and spell his way to the top at the Raffles City Convention Centre is no easy task.

So do you know how to spell apocalyptic and gesundheit? If you don’t, you have just lost to Jordan who is 12 years old. Don’t worry, we cannot spell them too.

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Conversation Between A Husband & His Wife

Just for Laugher. For Singapore Parents.

A Singapore edition of a blog post : http://blogs.greatschools.org/greatschoolsblog/2012/04/public-vs-private-school-a-drama-in-interminable-acts.html 

A Conversation Between A Couple Discussing About Tuition. (Not based on true story)

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Husband: This is crazy. We can’t afford to send both children for both group tuition and home tuition. I don’t know why you’re even contacting a tuition agency.

Wife: Because PSLE and O Level are approaching. We need to ensure that they can get into the top schools.

Husband: Paying $1000 plus a month for all the tuition isn’t an option. It’s out of the question.

Wife: At least primary school tuition is only $400.

Husband: You’re kidding me, right?

Wife: OK, It’s more like $450.

Husband: We. Can’t. Do. This.

Wife: We might get financial aid.

Husband: Even if we get a few hundreds, the tuition fees will still be overbearing.

Wife: But we have savings!

Husband: That’s before the market crashed.

Wife: But we still have our CPF. We should invest in the future: our children! We’re old, disposable, our lives are almost over.

Husband: We’re not 88! We’re just 38. We could live another 50 years if my boss doesn’t sack me.

Wife: But when we get old, I don’t want to be a burden to them. When the time comes, we should migrate elsewhere and leave them alone.

Husband: I do not want to go anywhere. Singapore is my home!

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*The above post is not meant to offend anyone. Cheers!

We strongly advise parent to find a single good home tutor or tuition center. Overwhelming the children with too much stress will not be good in the long run.

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How Primary 1 Children Get Into School?

From 2012 onwards, the Ministry of Education (MOE) will implement measures to further differentiate between Singapore Citizens (SCs) and Permanent Residents (PRs) at the Primary One (P1) Registration Exercise.

Example 1: School A has 50 vacancies in a specific phase and 61 children applying, based on the table below.

Home-School Distance	SC	PR
< 1km	38	3
Between 1km and 2km	10	1
> 2km	8	1
Total	56	5

As the total number of SC applications exceeds the number of vacancies, not all SCapplicants will be admitted. The vacancies will be allocated to the SC children based on home-school distance in this order of priority – home-school distance is (1) within 1km, (2) between 1km and 2km and (3) outside 2km. In the above example, the 38 SCchildren living within 1km from the school will first be admitted, followed by the 10 SCchildren living between 1km and 2km from the school. After the 48 vacancies are taken up, the remaining two vacancies will be balloted among the eight SC children living outside 2km from the school.

Example 2: School B has 50 vacancies in a specific phase and 54 children applying, based on the table below.

Home-School Distance	SC	PR
< 1km	29	4
Between 1km and 2km	15	2
> 2km	3	1
Total	47	7

As the total number of SC applications is less than the number of vacancies in this phase, all the 47 SC children will be admitted first and PRs can still be admitted thereafter. The remaining three vacancies will be allocated to the PR children based on home-school distance in the same order of priority – home-school distance is (1) within 1km, (2) between 1km and 2km and (3) outside 2km. The four PR children living within 1km from the school will ballot for the remaining three vacancies.

By giving SCs priority before PRs only when balloting is required, MOE will retain the underlying principles of the P1 Registration Framework, which reflect a careful balance of considerations, and provide for diversity in our schools, while according SCs a further privilege.

International Students (IS) will continue to be eligible to register after SCs and PRs are placed, at Phase 3 of the P1 Registration Exercise.

Read more here…

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Should You Get Your Degree In Singapore? Look At This Table Before Deciding.

Singapore’s universities were ranked quite well by Britain’s Times Higher Education magazine. With an improvement from the previous ranking, it seems that Singapore will be able to convince many foreign students to further their studies here.

The magazine compiled its World Reputation Ranking by asking 17,554 experienced academics in 137 countries to rate universities in two areas: research and teaching.

Top universities
1. Harvard University
2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3. University of Cambridge
4. Stanford University
5. University of California, Berkeley
6. University of Oxford
7. Princeton University
8. University of Tokyo
9. University of California, Los Angeles
10. Yale University
11. California Institute of Technology
12. University of Michigan
13. Imperial College London
14. University of Chicago
15. Columbia University
16. Cornell University
16. University of Toronto
18. Johns Hopkins University
19. University of Pennsylvania
20. Kyoto University
21. University College London
22. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Z�rich
23. University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
23. National University of Singapore
81-90. Nanyang Technological University

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Use Smartphones to Help You Study More Efficiently.

Use smartphone to study more efficiently? The smartphone penetration rate in Singapore is extremely high especially among the college students. How do students really use their smartphones? Look at the inforgraph below for some interesting facts. Does those facts resemble your lifestyle?

Via: STUDYBLUE.com

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