Wanted to post last night, but was too tired because of my lack of sleep due to Friday's PAE briefing. Fell asleep at 9+ and woke up at 8 this morning, which is so early for me. The PAE briefing yesterday was a waste of time. They held us up for more than 1 hour just to pass us a booklet, a form, and to let us confirm our testimonials.
Because of some extreme luck, I was able to score 6 points for my Prelims L1R5 (without 2 bonus points from CCA), otherwise I would actually have scored 8. The cut-off point for VJC last year was 5, so I guess I will be able to make it to VJC for the first 2 months, because I will also get another 2 bonus points from affiliation (making my L1R5 2).
For the purpose of this post, let's simplify things such that there is only 1 course type (Science course); there are only 3 JCs: RJC (with cut-off point of 3), VJC (with cut-off point of 5) and TJC (with cut-off point of 6); and everybody gets 2 bonus points from CCA. I will be considering both PAE (using Prelim results to get into JCs) and JAE (using 'O' level results to get into JCs).
The bonus points are computed as follows:
1) First Languages: 2 bonus points if both English and Higher Mother Tongue score A1 to C6 (inclusive).
2) CCA: 2 bonus points if CCA scores A1 or A2, 1 bonus point if CCA scores B3 to C6 (inclusive).
3) Affiliation/Loyalty: 2 bonus points for the 1st choice only, ifa) affiliated JC is chosen as 1st choice; or b) (during JAE only) the same school as the school they were admitted in during PAE, is chosen as the first choice; or c) both.
[max 4 points from (1), (2) and (3)]
A bit confusing, but if I were to choose VJC as first choice I will get 2 bonus points each from (2) and (3a). If I were to, instead, choose RJC as first choice and VJC as second, then I will only get 2 bonus points from (2), and will not get any bonus from (3) at all because I did not choose VJC as first choice, nor is RJC an affiliated school to VS.
For all who are wondering, I don't take Higher Chinese. I wasn't even offered that subject in the first place. This is totally unfair. I scored B3 for my 'O' level Chinese, and it is not as if there aren't people who take Higher Chinese but score a miserable B3 for their 'O' level Chinese. If I were offered Higher Chinese, I may already have gotten my 2 additional bonus points already, given that I pass my Higher Chinese during my Prelims. I may have at least tried getting my additional 2 bonus points, but I was never given the chance to. And the worst of all is that the number of bonus points is 2, not 1. Every bonus point in the L1R5 is very critical in determining whether anyone can get into a JC of their choice.
There are other factors which are unfair, such as not giving credit for those who did extremely well in a particular subject or CCA, but I shall not elaborate into them.
Anyway, there are some people (in VS) who are very smart. They want to go, and can get into VJC, but in order to play safe, they decide to go TJC for the first 2 months. They claim that if they get into VJC for the first 2 months, they are 'wasting' bonus points! This is what they imagine it as: Person A (who did not take Higher Mother Tongue) scored very well for his Prelims and got into TJC. When his 'O' level result was announced, he realised he scored 10. Now, he may be able to make it to TJC through the JAE. This is because he can get 2 bonus points each from (2) and (3b), bringing his L1R5 down to 6. This may (just nice) grant him entrance to TJC. He cannot make it to VJC though, even if he uses all his bonus points from (2) and (3c), because the cut-off point for VJC is 5. He is still short of 1 point. However, if he had gotten into VJC for the first 2 months, he cannot get into VJC again as he is short of 1 point still. Now here's the mathematics: he cannot get into TJC as well, because he can only enjoy a maximum of 2 bonus points (from (2)), which makes his L1R5 8 - short of 2 points!
Right. Here's where their mathematics ends. We imagine there is this Person B who is even smarter than Person A. He has the same mentality as Person A, and got into TJC for the first 2 months. Now, when he got back his result for 'O' level, he realised he scored an amazing 6 points! Wow! Now he can go anywhere. This is the drawback: if he choose to go VJC, his teachers change, his class changes, the environment changes. He is so used to the environment in TJC that he does not want to leave. His teachers are recommending him to stay in TJC. His seniors and friends from TJC are all bugging him to stay. So where does he go to now? VJC is a better institution (by rank). By staying in TJC, he is depriving himself the opportunity to study in a better school. But he has already made many friends in TJC. Now he is at a cross-road... smart!
There is another group of people in VS who is stuck between RJC and VJC. They claim that they stand a higher chance getting into RJC if they choose RJC as their first choice for the PAE. Then if they do well for 'O' levels, they can again choose RJC as their first choice again and stand a better chance getting in there (4 bonus points probably). Now, let's imagine an unlucky Person X who got into RJC for the first 2 months. When he received his 'O' level result, he realised he scored 7 (and failed his Higher Chinese) for his L1R5. Unable to use his Higher Mother Tongue results for all his choices, he chooses RJC as first choice and VJC as second choice. He will get 4 bonus points for his first choice ((2) and (3b)) and only 2 bonus points for his second choice (the CCA bonus points (2)). So he will be competing against the COP of the respective JCs. But have you ever heard of partial 3 and partial 5? The cut-off point for RJC is 3, but it doesn't mean ALL 3-pointers will get into that JC - only some will. So what if Person X is so unlucky that he is one of those who does not get chosen into RJC (partial 3), as well as VJC (partial 5)? Poor guy.
Now what if the same Person X now decides to choose VJC as his first choice during the JAE? Well, remember Person B I was talking about? This Person X is even worse than him. He is now forced to transfer into a lower-ranking institution because of his score. Well, it's not easy to score 6, you know?
Now we have a Person S who knows what he is doing. He chooses VJC as his first choice for PAE and because he is doing to do so well for his 'O' levels, he can easily choose VJC again during the JAE. Plus he gets to enjoy 2 additional bonus points from the whole of (3). This will leave him with no headaches at all as to which JC to go to. One short and simple choice - VJC. I urge all readers to follow this person S who does not have to worry so much as compared to Persons B and X.
Oh and did I tell you that my name also starts with 'S'?
Because of some extreme luck, I was able to score 6 points for my Prelims L1R5 (without 2 bonus points from CCA), otherwise I would actually have scored 8. The cut-off point for VJC last year was 5, so I guess I will be able to make it to VJC for the first 2 months, because I will also get another 2 bonus points from affiliation (making my L1R5 2).
For the purpose of this post, let's simplify things such that there is only 1 course type (Science course); there are only 3 JCs: RJC (with cut-off point of 3), VJC (with cut-off point of 5) and TJC (with cut-off point of 6); and everybody gets 2 bonus points from CCA. I will be considering both PAE (using Prelim results to get into JCs) and JAE (using 'O' level results to get into JCs).
The bonus points are computed as follows:
1) First Languages: 2 bonus points if both English and Higher Mother Tongue score A1 to C6 (inclusive).
2) CCA: 2 bonus points if CCA scores A1 or A2, 1 bonus point if CCA scores B3 to C6 (inclusive).
3) Affiliation/Loyalty: 2 bonus points for the 1st choice only, if
[max 4 points from (1), (2) and (3)]
A bit confusing, but if I were to choose VJC as first choice I will get 2 bonus points each from (2) and (3a). If I were to, instead, choose RJC as first choice and VJC as second, then I will only get 2 bonus points from (2), and will not get any bonus from (3) at all because I did not choose VJC as first choice, nor is RJC an affiliated school to VS.
For all who are wondering, I don't take Higher Chinese. I wasn't even offered that subject in the first place. This is totally unfair. I scored B3 for my 'O' level Chinese, and it is not as if there aren't people who take Higher Chinese but score a miserable B3 for their 'O' level Chinese. If I were offered Higher Chinese, I may already have gotten my 2 additional bonus points already, given that I pass my Higher Chinese during my Prelims. I may have at least tried getting my additional 2 bonus points, but I was never given the chance to. And the worst of all is that the number of bonus points is 2, not 1. Every bonus point in the L1R5 is very critical in determining whether anyone can get into a JC of their choice.
There are other factors which are unfair, such as not giving credit for those who did extremely well in a particular subject or CCA, but I shall not elaborate into them.
Anyway, there are some people (in VS) who are very smart. They want to go, and can get into VJC, but in order to play safe, they decide to go TJC for the first 2 months. They claim that if they get into VJC for the first 2 months, they are 'wasting' bonus points! This is what they imagine it as: Person A (who did not take Higher Mother Tongue) scored very well for his Prelims and got into TJC. When his 'O' level result was announced, he realised he scored 10. Now, he may be able to make it to TJC through the JAE. This is because he can get 2 bonus points each from (2) and (3b), bringing his L1R5 down to 6. This may (just nice) grant him entrance to TJC. He cannot make it to VJC though, even if he uses all his bonus points from (2) and (3c), because the cut-off point for VJC is 5. He is still short of 1 point. However, if he had gotten into VJC for the first 2 months, he cannot get into VJC again as he is short of 1 point still. Now here's the mathematics: he cannot get into TJC as well, because he can only enjoy a maximum of 2 bonus points (from (2)), which makes his L1R5 8 - short of 2 points!
Right. Here's where their mathematics ends. We imagine there is this Person B who is even smarter than Person A. He has the same mentality as Person A, and got into TJC for the first 2 months. Now, when he got back his result for 'O' level, he realised he scored an amazing 6 points! Wow! Now he can go anywhere. This is the drawback: if he choose to go VJC, his teachers change, his class changes, the environment changes. He is so used to the environment in TJC that he does not want to leave. His teachers are recommending him to stay in TJC. His seniors and friends from TJC are all bugging him to stay. So where does he go to now? VJC is a better institution (by rank). By staying in TJC, he is depriving himself the opportunity to study in a better school. But he has already made many friends in TJC. Now he is at a cross-road... smart!
There is another group of people in VS who is stuck between RJC and VJC. They claim that they stand a higher chance getting into RJC if they choose RJC as their first choice for the PAE. Then if they do well for 'O' levels, they can again choose RJC as their first choice again and stand a better chance getting in there (4 bonus points probably). Now, let's imagine an unlucky Person X who got into RJC for the first 2 months. When he received his 'O' level result, he realised he scored 7 (and failed his Higher Chinese) for his L1R5. Unable to use his Higher Mother Tongue results for all his choices, he chooses RJC as first choice and VJC as second choice. He will get 4 bonus points for his first choice ((2) and (3b)) and only 2 bonus points for his second choice (the CCA bonus points (2)). So he will be competing against the COP of the respective JCs. But have you ever heard of partial 3 and partial 5? The cut-off point for RJC is 3, but it doesn't mean ALL 3-pointers will get into that JC - only some will. So what if Person X is so unlucky that he is one of those who does not get chosen into RJC (partial 3), as well as VJC (partial 5)? Poor guy.
Now what if the same Person X now decides to choose VJC as his first choice during the JAE? Well, remember Person B I was talking about? This Person X is even worse than him. He is now forced to transfer into a lower-ranking institution because of his score. Well, it's not easy to score 6, you know?
Now we have a Person S who knows what he is doing. He chooses VJC as his first choice for PAE and because he is doing to do so well for his 'O' levels, he can easily choose VJC again during the JAE. Plus he gets to enjoy 2 additional bonus points from the whole of (3). This will leave him with no headaches at all as to which JC to go to. One short and simple choice - VJC. I urge all readers to follow this person S who does not have to worry so much as compared to Persons B and X.
Oh and did I tell you that my name also starts with 'S'?
1 Comments:
all these mathematics... i say just choose the jc that you're the most comfortable with, and leave the rest up to the person up there. - someone who has been thru it all =D
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