[JC/Poly to Uni] - Life is getting tougher every year

• UltimaOnline

  6 Feb 10, 02:30

  2009/2010 Minimum 'A' Level Grade Requirements for NUS, NTU, SMU courses

   

  NUS 2009/2010 : http://www.nus.edu.sg/iw/resources/oam/misc/NUS%20IGP.pdf

  NTU 2009/2010 : http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/oad2/website_files/AY09-10_IGP.pdf

  SMU 2009/2010 : http://www.smu.edu.sg/admissions/applysmu/Samp%20Notif%20%28SMU%29%202009%20COP%20FINAL%20with%20FAQs.pdf 

   

   

  As more young Singaporeans realize the importance of getting a Uni degree, everyone is studying harder and the overall grades are getting better (even tough the papers are not getting easier, on the contrary, because of the better grades of each passing cohort, the papers will only get tougher), yet the number of places available in the local Universities have not caught up.

   

  Add to this the effect of significantly increasing numbers of foreign students every year (and bear in mind the majority of these foreigners are top students in their own countries, plus they have a lot more at stake, so they're even more desperately motivated to top everyone else in academia), competing for places in JCs, polys and the local Universities.

   

  The result, every year the minimum grade requirements for NUS, NTU, SMU courses keep getting more and more demanding. Life is getting tougher for the Singapore student, with each passing year.

   

• cactusjack23

  6 Feb 10, 03:02

  yeah =[

   

  what can we do

   

  only study harder

• ThunderFbolt

  6 Feb 10, 12:19

  or don't study, set up own business and employ all the uni grads? =)

• wee_ws

  6 Feb 10, 14:09

  Hi,

    Juz give one's best, that's most important. Plus, one should develop the ability to gather what's really important to do well in studies.

    Jiayou to all!

  Cheers,
  Wen Shih

• Takchek

  6 Feb 10, 15:27

  This phenomenon is not unique to Singapore. It is also happening in America, and I suspect in the other countries as well.

   

  http://takchek.wordpress.com/2007/04/04/the-ever-more-competitive-higher-edudation-landscape/

   

  http://takchek.wordpress.com/2006/11/10/rising-state-flagships/

• UltimaOnline

  6 Feb 10, 15:40

  Originally posted by Takchek:

  This phenomenon is not unique to Singapore. It is also happening in America, and I suspect in the other countries as well.

   

  http://takchek.wordpress.com/2007/04/04/the-ever-more-competitive-higher-edudation-landscape/

   

  http://takchek.wordpress.com/2006/11/10/rising-state-flagships/

   

  Thanks for sharing, yes this is happening world-wide. In China today, the majority of University graduates are woefully jobless, and those who are employed are earning an average of Sg$200 a month. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer, everywhere.

  
  This does seem a troubling but inevitable trend. It seems that humanity is inevitably approaching (perhaps in as soon as several decades, or perhaps in another couple of centuries; highly improbable for this process to reach completion by 2012, regardless of what some folks might like to think) a critical cross-road, in which some powerful (hopefully not necessarily catastrophic) and fundamental paradigm shifts to shake the complacency (a ticking timebomb) out of Humanity in the political, religious, economic, environmental and technological arenas, would eventually and mandatorily occur. Not as a judgement inflicted by some external power, but as a natural and inevitable consequence of the ultimately self-destructive patterns of humanity.

• Dejomel

  6 Feb 10, 16:35

  Originally posted by UltimaOnline:

   

  Thanks for sharing, yes this is happening world-wide. In China today, the majority of University graduates are woefully jobless, and those who are employed are earning an average of Sg$200 a month. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer, everywhere.

  
  This does seem a troubling but inevitable trend. It seems that humanity is inevitably approaching (perhaps in as soon as several decades, or perhaps in another couple of centuries; highly improbable for this process to reach completion by 2012, regardless of what some folks might like to think) a critical cross-road, in which some powerful (hopefully not necessarily catastrophic) and fundamental paradigm shifts to shake the complacency (a ticking timebomb) out of Humanity in the political, religious, economic, environmental and technological arenas, would eventually and mandatorily occur. Not as a judgement inflicted by some external power, but as a natural and inevitable consequence of the ultimately self-destructive patterns of humanity.

  
  It's one sad cycle.

  Just stay strong and prepared, at least until the dust settles, though the tornado is only barely forming.

• Forbiddensinner

  6 Feb 10, 17:42

  For NIE:

  http://www.nie.edu.sg/nieweb/programmes/loading.do?id=Foundation&cid=13467650&ppid=27164675

  Look at the amount of poly students who got in.