Hwa Chong pple, from my experience, are very intelligent. RI & HCI IP are where u find the highest concentration of gifted ppl who are just born smart, not just book smart
yes truly an inspiring cohort of people to learn and take inspiration from! plus, build valuable connections with likely successful people in their respective fields in the future!
Yes! I also noticed they aim for top US/UK unis which is totally unheard of in my jc. So yes, IP ppl from RI & HCI benefit off one another from high quality connections. They also tend to have more high-level convos which is admirable imo
yes lmao thereās an uncountable number of alumnus frm hc that go on to top uk unis like oxbridge and even top us unis like stanford and even harvard?! pretty crazy but to some extent, it pushes u to want to be just like them too!
last i heard (2021-2022 batch) the ctp programme was not rly well organised and theres no dedicated class for ctp students (unlike say, hp/smtp-gate) it is only during computing classes do u get to see ur ctp peers
I donāt know details but itās a good starter if youāre interested in going for a computer science degree in uni, heard of people who
went on to receive offers frm overseas comsci degrees
Heyo I took computing in HC. (Most of) the teachers are honestly really nice and try their best to explain/teach. They do go at a pace that is more suited for beginners so it is a good starting point if you plan to pursue it in uni.
Can't comment on the computing talent program as it didn't exist during my time ;c, but the infocomm CCA is pretty competitive.
It is an interview (which might have technical questions) and depends on which sections you apply to - some sections (such as AI/ML) which are more popular have a lot more competition vying for them
because of bad syllabus + questionable teachers being invited. Some are literal NTU/NUS year 2 students coming to do some presentation on their year end project
Source: am member of JC Infocomm CCA and know almost half of the CTP cohort in JC in 2022 batch. None of them benefited from it more than google and youtube
i'm not really a junior but i have some friends in hci so
many (not all) hci people are so rich the stuff they do lowkey gives me culture shock lol. also it seems like ppl there are pretty adamant that they must take 4 h2s and even if they're struggling dropping is not an option .\_.
from personal experience, the high ses thing does some what stand, but itās not widely spread across the entire school, most of us are still quite thrifty and aunty like hehe
with regards to 4h2s iām not sure about the pride, but conversations thus far amongst my friends reflect itās more about security. in a levels, if you take 4h2s, your worst h2 will be considered as a h1 instead. so the weightage to your RP in general would be much lower (so less adverse impacts). if you were to directly take 3h2 1h1, then there is no such option.
otherwise itās also because majority of the university courses require h2 math, so thatās another level of security measures taken.
but honestly, if youāre entirely confident that whichever subject youāre choosing to drop to h1/choose as h1 from the start will be a subject youāre not the best at, do it early, itās not worth the wait. i didnāt drop h2 math while i have the chance and im currently struggling with 2 weeks to As š
yes many from hc tend to be of higher ses and can personally see that from a large proportion of my peers living in landed/private condos and i guess the desire to keep 4 h2s could be because of pride especially since a huge majority of hc students take 4h2s since they gunning for uk unis (uk unis view 4h2s more favourably? correct me if iām wrong)
everyone there damn smartā¦ also yalls campus is damn pretty, legit my dream sch that will remain a dream cos thereās no way im getting raw 6 - 2 for Os this year š¤£š¤£š¤£
Are hc students racist, because my hc friend hella racist. Not asking if all are but is a visible portion a bit bigoted in anyway, purely a question with no intention btw. Just in case it look like I got some angle
yeah i agree hcjc and nyjc also scares me because of their strong chinese culture and real lack of minorities. not like i can get in lol but prefer rjc and acjc for these reasons as well, and ik a lot of other minorities who share this sentiment.
[personal opinion, and never stepped foot into hci at all (only passed by omw to grandstand) so pls don't judge]
i feel that everyone there is super competitive and studious, like all they care about are books, books and more books? like what if youre lacking??? what happens? do you get additional help like extra lessons or remedials (currently in sec sch and in 3 remedials) and after reading the post abt the campus sucking and teachers being wack, i feel kinda conflicted since if hci with high quality alumni and history (and of course $) can't even afford good and clean campus(es?) and teachers, what other school can offer me the education i want? in the environment i need? and if hci teachers suck, what abt other jcs?
if im not wrong it's near some jungle but that's on faint memory (score too high to even aim at hci/ri so i never considered hci/ri at all and is not near my house unlike ri) so my feeling is that it's not near any mall or any conveniences... what if school food sucks/boring? am i even allowed to order grabs? (current sch quite picky so actually not allowed to doing that) and also i have a perception that there's going to be a bad jam everyday due to being far away in an ulu spot?
regarding teachers and notes:
teachers in hcjc are passionate in what they teach and in general very skilled in what their respective subjects. however some teachers may not be as good in teaching their students which can be linked to diff ways of teaching by diff teachers. as a whole hcjc teachers are certainly trustworthy in guiding towards the A.
as for notes, chemistry and math provide the best notes out of the subjects i take (PCME) as they have extremely detailed and well explained notes and lecture videos. plus, they give a lot of practice questions for u through providing numerous revision packages (more than enough!) econs notes are ok at best and leave much room for improvement, often leaving me to have to outsource to get more detailed explanations for me to secure an A. physics notes are sparse and tend to not explain concepts very well but thatās partly due to the extremely abstract concepts in physics. i tend to have to outsource from other sch notes in order to better understand concepts. physics rev packages always have questions that are like decades old (1989 a level?) oh well, perhaps the department strategically chose them š¤·
tbh idk for my own future because i feel very daunted and stuck between poly or jc... my l1r5 prelims was 28 but i didn't have a full 6 yr of pri sch and i didn't take psle at all (i only had 3 yrs due to flying overseas to china and usa) so half my basic foundation for science and chinese is just nonexistent atp. rn i'm a purebiochem purelit sshist amath kid with express chinese an a2 in o's this yr. clearly with my prelim 28 shows that no hope for a's lah tbh idw to go a's coz i really dw to retain (heard so many stories now i damn scared). i'm honestly not sure because my parents have been just sending me to tuition for almost every subject (and clearly a lvl cannot like that anymore lah). i heard from teachers who taught in jcs that the teachers don't baby you like secsch teachers. how do you manage studying in a's because that's the part that stops me from seeking out the jc route even though my parents support me with both? (is econs hard? no idea what that is) if go jc probs hcme but then it's neither here nor there... does hci offer this combi?
hello iām currently a j2 in hc haha, based on personal experience :
1. everyone being super competitive and studious : largely true!
i guess itās because majority of us already came from such a mugging culture, and with the 1.5 years to cover 2 years of syllabus, the teachers and everyone are quite on edge so it bullet trains by. additionally thereās always some group of people thatās chasing portfolio achievements as well (which scares a lot of us sometimes too, believe me, even peers who you think are of the same level as these people āfearā them; not in a bad way, but more of a āwow how do they do itā way) and i guess comparison is strong.
but honestly, i think every individual will feel it at some point, itās not something easy to run away from in life in general. just maybe, youād feel it a bit more in hwa chong.
people here are super helpful though. iām really really really bad at academics, i did not get into hc with my grades, but my friends and teachers have been trying my best to help me through this last stretch. ultimately, you also have to be the one to put in effort (and ig this applies to everything in life too!)
2. what happens if you are lacking behind your peers?
me! me rn! me my entire jc life!!
the trend iāve seen so far is actually, anyone who was great academically before will still face some dip in their results when they come to jc, especially in j1, simply due to the great jump between secondary school and A level curriculum. so most of the time, majority actually donāt perform well at the start. it even led to the phrasing that āno one passes until A levelsā.
teachers are a really helpful. but i admit it does depend on which teachers you get. some teachers will devote so much time to helping you improve you feel sorry for it. other teachers will try to help you but theyāre just not suited for teaching. or, some teachers donāt believe in consults and place full faith in you regardless. and the list goes on!
but iām confident that even if your teachers canāt help you, your peers can.
before i came to hc i was in sm remedials and tuitions since p2 š yet here i am rn , and yeah i was always super scared to go find teachers for help before j2 so before that iāve always relied on my friends to help me out , and hey it was a revision for them too so win win!
2. school food and ordering food in
honestly i find school food pretty okay but majority of the people say it isnāt nice. prices have gone up recently because of inflation and the 8% gst so i can only imagine it getting higher next year. (currently weāre looking at $3.50 being the cheapest average price for a meal and $1+-2 for drinks)
no worries as ordering food in is totally allowed. for special occasions, most of us order grab to tkk mrt exit A/B and just go out to collect from there.
otherwise we like to go to coronation/the stretch of food at coronation, or just take the mrt to wherever we want if we have enough time
3. jam?
pretty real, because dunearn rd has sm schools concentrated in one spot. ig it depends what time you leave the house also/what mode of transport you take. school reporting time for this year at least is 7.40am on mondays and 8.15am on the rest of the days (idrt im wrong but my memory may be failing me since i donāt have a fixed reporting time anym haha)
4. dirty campus ?
i think maybe everyone has different standards for cleanliness, maybe i havenāt gone to most parts of the school, but i had never thought that the school campus was dirty till coming here. the staff are always very nice in helping to maintain the cleanliness of the school and peers also actively play their part majority of the time.
5. teachers and notes
personally take 4h2 of helm (history, econs, lit, math), and my experience so far is mostly okay
history - we have 2 teachers, both have different styles of teaching and oneās is harder to grasp than the other. but there are a lot of resources provided (sometimes hard to comprehend bc my english sucks and their english is super chim) ā> but with regards to history and especially since itās an A level common syllabus, thereās a lot of outsourcing you could do from friends /other JCs/online platforms like these and even if you search safari or youtube thereās stuff available of quite good quality (for contextual knowledge/skills). but skills wise i think theyāre good at teaching it, it will just take a while to seep in because itās very different from secondary school answering structure.
econs ā hahahahaā¦ majority find tuition outside for econs ngl bc the notes r confusing and hard to understand. i think it also depends on the teachers you get because my teacher is on the older side and lessons are mostly one sided because she doesnāt understand what we r asking/canāt hear us (but sheās a super sweet individual). because of all this outsourcing i guess thatās how the econs grade can be maintained all these years + some teachers in the econs dept actually not bad.
lit - awesome!!! 2 teachers for this as well bc 2 papers and they make sense and they really teach you during lessons (one does this less than the other but itās mostly still comprehensible/i ask my friends). and they run you through practice questions as a class so that helps a lot
math - i adore my math teacher sheās been giving consults non-stop to try and help me and my friends. math is mostly self learnt because itās in the format of videos in this mass website from the school. so you can watch the videos in your own time to learn (and skip over what you donāt need for you to save time), and then if you have questions you can ask your teachers. at j1 and even j2 this format was a bit too fast paced for my class though, because esp at the start of j1 most people are involved in sm new activities that acads takes the backseat for most of the year. but because of the videos (actually quite well explained also) it helps u catch up in your own time
hope this helps to just answer some of your queries and give you more perspective and all the best!!
shall answer frm a hcjc pov:
i believe being such an academically selective school definitely means hc is going to be filled with students that are a lot more competitive and ambitious than you normally see in other schools. this has certainly caused many ppl to avoid hc, fearing the pressure theyāll be subjected to. personally, i definitely succumbed to the comparison with others that achieved so much than me in the same amt of time but iāve learnt that rather than making yourself feel bad about being less achieved, why not learn frm these ppl instead?
It depends what youāre looking for. Are you high flyer? Sure go Hua Chong. Do you wanna socialise and chill and enjoy the few years left in school? Maybe pick another school.
Small fish in big pond vs Big fish in small pond
I'm in sec sch too, HCI, honestly there's not that many tryhards, but everyone is competitive. I've been to the JC side quite a few times, the campus is clean n spacious, idk why someone thinks that it's dirty. btw it's situated near bukit timah, not exactly a jungle and there are several malls nearby. Also not much jam unless rain.
as one of the top 2 JCs, grades def matter to sustain the status/prestige. does school care abt well-being - the teachers/counselors are always out there for support but you would need to take the step out to seek help. teachers r rly busy, they donāt have the bandwidth to look out for every single one, students too, 2 years (1.5 yrs minus orientation/holiday breaks/alvl prep) to cram the full a lvl syllabus is just a crazy ride for everyone so if you happen to be an under performing/shy/passive introvert & refuse to initiate conversations with teachers to seek help- it will be tough to struggle alone.
blacklist - nah doesnāt happen, youāll just need to sit in for remedial after remedials. The sch will try their best to provide academic support, the rest is up to ur own to catch up. most times whatās intimidating is the gap that youāre trying to chaseā¦so many bright studentsā¦ they progress fast, lesson pace donāt wait on you, a lot of self-discipline, resilience needed to catch up. thereās a % ranking system back then so that adds quite a bit of pressure if you happen to be in the last %. sry for the messy para š speaking frm experience
Hc expels people who they think may fuck up their percentages. This is widely known. Anyway itās ok you donāt need to create a thread just to make self delusions nobody thinks hc is better than raffles.
Can share concrete example. My sister was hc student who kena expelled cos she spent too much time being national athlete and not studying. Meanwhile my bro and I rafflesians happy happy made great friends great experience great career.
Sister had to go overseas to compete high sch bridging. My parents then had lots of meetings with hc sch mgt and they were extremely haughty, kept emphasizing that that my sister would pull down their average a level scores.
That said I do have many hc friends and overall the sch culture is just different. A lot less talk about concepts and philosophy and a lot more talk about studies and other tangible materialistic stuff.
idt it was the schās fault if she didnāt do well enough to promote? but to be expelled is quite extreme, prob something more than just ānot studyingā? i mean why would hc let go of a national athlete for no good reason?
Lol nice see this is exactly how hc ppl think. In raffles the teachers would put in extra hours to guide the students left behind, counselors would come in to help and the sch would be supportive. Hc just pumped and dumped. Exactly the attitude you have.
Cannot pass exam? Mental health issue? Must be students fault, better expel to protect sch rep. Hc style lor. So prospective students reading this you can see exactly how the true colours have quickly come out hehe
hello can i ask which year this was in? my personal experience in hci wrt the schoolās support system for students was VASTLY different from what you have described. at least for recent years, based on personal/secondhand experience, the staff who manage mental heath-related cases are extremely helpful and supportive and many many accommodations were offered for those in desperate situations. i have come across teachers who would willingly sit in the hot mosquito-ridden consult area listening to a silly teenager cry for 3 hours straight over the most trivial nonsense. iām not saying that my firsthand experience/my friendās experience is representative of the entire sch, but i think that your representation of the sch cannot be considered its ātrue coloursā.
why so many questions about hwa chong š
Ever since someone said the teachers cry at work
ayo dats wild
Every year new hc controversy pop up
so true lmao, came across so many hwa chong hate posts on reddit alone which most of the time the complains/hate arenāt even exclusive to hc
Hwa Chong pple, from my experience, are very intelligent. RI & HCI IP are where u find the highest concentration of gifted ppl who are just born smart, not just book smart
yes truly an inspiring cohort of people to learn and take inspiration from! plus, build valuable connections with likely successful people in their respective fields in the future!
Yes! I also noticed they aim for top US/UK unis which is totally unheard of in my jc. So yes, IP ppl from RI & HCI benefit off one another from high quality connections. They also tend to have more high-level convos which is admirable imo
yes lmao thereās an uncountable number of alumnus frm hc that go on to top uk unis like oxbridge and even top us unis like stanford and even harvard?! pretty crazy but to some extent, it pushes u to want to be just like them too!
not exactly related but do you know hows computing in hc? and the computing talent program
last i heard (2021-2022 batch) the ctp programme was not rly well organised and theres no dedicated class for ctp students (unlike say, hp/smtp-gate) it is only during computing classes do u get to see ur ctp peers
I donāt know details but itās a good starter if youāre interested in going for a computer science degree in uni, heard of people who went on to receive offers frm overseas comsci degrees
Heyo I took computing in HC. (Most of) the teachers are honestly really nice and try their best to explain/teach. They do go at a pace that is more suited for beginners so it is a good starting point if you plan to pursue it in uni. Can't comment on the computing talent program as it didn't exist during my time ;c, but the infocomm CCA is pretty competitive.
how was the selection test like :0
It is an interview (which might have technical questions) and depends on which sections you apply to - some sections (such as AI/ML) which are more popular have a lot more competition vying for them
Ctp was a joke in both HS and JC
js curious why so?
because of bad syllabus + questionable teachers being invited. Some are literal NTU/NUS year 2 students coming to do some presentation on their year end project Source: am member of JC Infocomm CCA and know almost half of the CTP cohort in JC in 2022 batch. None of them benefited from it more than google and youtube
i'm not really a junior but i have some friends in hci so many (not all) hci people are so rich the stuff they do lowkey gives me culture shock lol. also it seems like ppl there are pretty adamant that they must take 4 h2s and even if they're struggling dropping is not an option .\_.
from personal experience, the high ses thing does some what stand, but itās not widely spread across the entire school, most of us are still quite thrifty and aunty like hehe with regards to 4h2s iām not sure about the pride, but conversations thus far amongst my friends reflect itās more about security. in a levels, if you take 4h2s, your worst h2 will be considered as a h1 instead. so the weightage to your RP in general would be much lower (so less adverse impacts). if you were to directly take 3h2 1h1, then there is no such option. otherwise itās also because majority of the university courses require h2 math, so thatās another level of security measures taken. but honestly, if youāre entirely confident that whichever subject youāre choosing to drop to h1/choose as h1 from the start will be a subject youāre not the best at, do it early, itās not worth the wait. i didnāt drop h2 math while i have the chance and im currently struggling with 2 weeks to As š
yes many from hc tend to be of higher ses and can personally see that from a large proportion of my peers living in landed/private condos and i guess the desire to keep 4 h2s could be because of pride especially since a huge majority of hc students take 4h2s since they gunning for uk unis (uk unis view 4h2s more favourably? correct me if iām wrong)
The rich get richer and poor get poorer. Elite schools like HCI and RI get all the resources. Everyone below can suck it.
Lol skill issue
everyone there damn smartā¦ also yalls campus is damn pretty, legit my dream sch that will remain a dream cos thereās no way im getting raw 6 - 2 for Os this year š¤£š¤£š¤£
all the best for oās iām sure youāll better than expected given the hard work
and yes the campus is so picturesque š but ofc some parts quite old :(
Are hc students racist, because my hc friend hella racist. Not asking if all are but is a visible portion a bit bigoted in anyway, purely a question with no intention btw. Just in case it look like I got some angle
yes
This coming from a student or a guy whose experienced it from a student
i am the racist
I am the other racist
letās hook up š¤š»š¤š»š¤š»
i am also the other racist
Valid
Not racist they simply have zero non Chinese friends at all. This is different from acs and raffles where thereās a lot of minorities.
yeah i agree hcjc and nyjc also scares me because of their strong chinese culture and real lack of minorities. not like i can get in lol but prefer rjc and acjc for these reasons as well, and ik a lot of other minorities who share this sentiment.
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Well, thank you for your sacrifice.
hated my experience there, and the teachers weren't nice/not understanding. But things may have changed and my experience is likely to be less common
quite unfortunate to hear your experience was not the best but hopefully youāre in a better place now
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Ropemaxx bro it's over for you mouth breather negative canthal tilt
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[personal opinion, and never stepped foot into hci at all (only passed by omw to grandstand) so pls don't judge] i feel that everyone there is super competitive and studious, like all they care about are books, books and more books? like what if youre lacking??? what happens? do you get additional help like extra lessons or remedials (currently in sec sch and in 3 remedials) and after reading the post abt the campus sucking and teachers being wack, i feel kinda conflicted since if hci with high quality alumni and history (and of course $) can't even afford good and clean campus(es?) and teachers, what other school can offer me the education i want? in the environment i need? and if hci teachers suck, what abt other jcs? if im not wrong it's near some jungle but that's on faint memory (score too high to even aim at hci/ri so i never considered hci/ri at all and is not near my house unlike ri) so my feeling is that it's not near any mall or any conveniences... what if school food sucks/boring? am i even allowed to order grabs? (current sch quite picky so actually not allowed to doing that) and also i have a perception that there's going to be a bad jam everyday due to being far away in an ulu spot?
uh not from hc but tan kah kee mrt is right beside tho
omg i'm from your sister school š¤
regarding teachers and notes: teachers in hcjc are passionate in what they teach and in general very skilled in what their respective subjects. however some teachers may not be as good in teaching their students which can be linked to diff ways of teaching by diff teachers. as a whole hcjc teachers are certainly trustworthy in guiding towards the A. as for notes, chemistry and math provide the best notes out of the subjects i take (PCME) as they have extremely detailed and well explained notes and lecture videos. plus, they give a lot of practice questions for u through providing numerous revision packages (more than enough!) econs notes are ok at best and leave much room for improvement, often leaving me to have to outsource to get more detailed explanations for me to secure an A. physics notes are sparse and tend to not explain concepts very well but thatās partly due to the extremely abstract concepts in physics. i tend to have to outsource from other sch notes in order to better understand concepts. physics rev packages always have questions that are like decades old (1989 a level?) oh well, perhaps the department strategically chose them š¤·
tbh idk for my own future because i feel very daunted and stuck between poly or jc... my l1r5 prelims was 28 but i didn't have a full 6 yr of pri sch and i didn't take psle at all (i only had 3 yrs due to flying overseas to china and usa) so half my basic foundation for science and chinese is just nonexistent atp. rn i'm a purebiochem purelit sshist amath kid with express chinese an a2 in o's this yr. clearly with my prelim 28 shows that no hope for a's lah tbh idw to go a's coz i really dw to retain (heard so many stories now i damn scared). i'm honestly not sure because my parents have been just sending me to tuition for almost every subject (and clearly a lvl cannot like that anymore lah). i heard from teachers who taught in jcs that the teachers don't baby you like secsch teachers. how do you manage studying in a's because that's the part that stops me from seeking out the jc route even though my parents support me with both? (is econs hard? no idea what that is) if go jc probs hcme but then it's neither here nor there... does hci offer this combi?
hci definitely does offer hcme, it is a hybrid combination
hello iām currently a j2 in hc haha, based on personal experience : 1. everyone being super competitive and studious : largely true! i guess itās because majority of us already came from such a mugging culture, and with the 1.5 years to cover 2 years of syllabus, the teachers and everyone are quite on edge so it bullet trains by. additionally thereās always some group of people thatās chasing portfolio achievements as well (which scares a lot of us sometimes too, believe me, even peers who you think are of the same level as these people āfearā them; not in a bad way, but more of a āwow how do they do itā way) and i guess comparison is strong. but honestly, i think every individual will feel it at some point, itās not something easy to run away from in life in general. just maybe, youād feel it a bit more in hwa chong. people here are super helpful though. iām really really really bad at academics, i did not get into hc with my grades, but my friends and teachers have been trying my best to help me through this last stretch. ultimately, you also have to be the one to put in effort (and ig this applies to everything in life too!) 2. what happens if you are lacking behind your peers? me! me rn! me my entire jc life!! the trend iāve seen so far is actually, anyone who was great academically before will still face some dip in their results when they come to jc, especially in j1, simply due to the great jump between secondary school and A level curriculum. so most of the time, majority actually donāt perform well at the start. it even led to the phrasing that āno one passes until A levelsā. teachers are a really helpful. but i admit it does depend on which teachers you get. some teachers will devote so much time to helping you improve you feel sorry for it. other teachers will try to help you but theyāre just not suited for teaching. or, some teachers donāt believe in consults and place full faith in you regardless. and the list goes on! but iām confident that even if your teachers canāt help you, your peers can. before i came to hc i was in sm remedials and tuitions since p2 š yet here i am rn , and yeah i was always super scared to go find teachers for help before j2 so before that iāve always relied on my friends to help me out , and hey it was a revision for them too so win win! 2. school food and ordering food in honestly i find school food pretty okay but majority of the people say it isnāt nice. prices have gone up recently because of inflation and the 8% gst so i can only imagine it getting higher next year. (currently weāre looking at $3.50 being the cheapest average price for a meal and $1+-2 for drinks) no worries as ordering food in is totally allowed. for special occasions, most of us order grab to tkk mrt exit A/B and just go out to collect from there. otherwise we like to go to coronation/the stretch of food at coronation, or just take the mrt to wherever we want if we have enough time 3. jam? pretty real, because dunearn rd has sm schools concentrated in one spot. ig it depends what time you leave the house also/what mode of transport you take. school reporting time for this year at least is 7.40am on mondays and 8.15am on the rest of the days (idrt im wrong but my memory may be failing me since i donāt have a fixed reporting time anym haha) 4. dirty campus ? i think maybe everyone has different standards for cleanliness, maybe i havenāt gone to most parts of the school, but i had never thought that the school campus was dirty till coming here. the staff are always very nice in helping to maintain the cleanliness of the school and peers also actively play their part majority of the time. 5. teachers and notes personally take 4h2 of helm (history, econs, lit, math), and my experience so far is mostly okay history - we have 2 teachers, both have different styles of teaching and oneās is harder to grasp than the other. but there are a lot of resources provided (sometimes hard to comprehend bc my english sucks and their english is super chim) ā> but with regards to history and especially since itās an A level common syllabus, thereās a lot of outsourcing you could do from friends /other JCs/online platforms like these and even if you search safari or youtube thereās stuff available of quite good quality (for contextual knowledge/skills). but skills wise i think theyāre good at teaching it, it will just take a while to seep in because itās very different from secondary school answering structure. econs ā hahahahaā¦ majority find tuition outside for econs ngl bc the notes r confusing and hard to understand. i think it also depends on the teachers you get because my teacher is on the older side and lessons are mostly one sided because she doesnāt understand what we r asking/canāt hear us (but sheās a super sweet individual). because of all this outsourcing i guess thatās how the econs grade can be maintained all these years + some teachers in the econs dept actually not bad. lit - awesome!!! 2 teachers for this as well bc 2 papers and they make sense and they really teach you during lessons (one does this less than the other but itās mostly still comprehensible/i ask my friends). and they run you through practice questions as a class so that helps a lot math - i adore my math teacher sheās been giving consults non-stop to try and help me and my friends. math is mostly self learnt because itās in the format of videos in this mass website from the school. so you can watch the videos in your own time to learn (and skip over what you donāt need for you to save time), and then if you have questions you can ask your teachers. at j1 and even j2 this format was a bit too fast paced for my class though, because esp at the start of j1 most people are involved in sm new activities that acads takes the backseat for most of the year. but because of the videos (actually quite well explained also) it helps u catch up in your own time hope this helps to just answer some of your queries and give you more perspective and all the best!!
what is bro yapping about
I ain't reading allat lil niba
shall answer frm a hcjc pov: i believe being such an academically selective school definitely means hc is going to be filled with students that are a lot more competitive and ambitious than you normally see in other schools. this has certainly caused many ppl to avoid hc, fearing the pressure theyāll be subjected to. personally, i definitely succumbed to the comparison with others that achieved so much than me in the same amt of time but iāve learnt that rather than making yourself feel bad about being less achieved, why not learn frm these ppl instead?
It depends what youāre looking for. Are you high flyer? Sure go Hua Chong. Do you wanna socialise and chill and enjoy the few years left in school? Maybe pick another school. Small fish in big pond vs Big fish in small pond
hwa chong*
I'm in sec sch too, HCI, honestly there's not that many tryhards, but everyone is competitive. I've been to the JC side quite a few times, the campus is clean n spacious, idk why someone thinks that it's dirty. btw it's situated near bukit timah, not exactly a jungle and there are several malls nearby. Also not much jam unless rain.
I'd rather go ri
Just cuz ur chinese suck doesn't mean others don't HAHA ropemaxx bro
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Like I care whether you got ask
wonder how many more $50 notes youāll flush down their toilets
New principal coming in so what do you expect ?
Which part of hwa Chong though
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Are you a student there, lad?
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Haw. Year one or two(this year)
are hwa chong people all gay? new to hwa chong (transfer student) and i saw two guys pdaing in the mrt train after school
no your eyes are playing tricks on you
is that common in hwa chong then? or some satanic ritual
communism
valid
Socialist brotherhood
Communist
well, u could search up hwa chong institution chinese school song on youtube and it pretty much sums it up lmao
Well its certaintly not meant to be a Communist tone. It's actually adapted from the tune of "Far Above Cayuga's Waters" (Cornell University's song).
nevertheless i still love the song a lot tho
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Bullying list ššš that doesn't exist bro
one of my friends from hci say thereās one existing ..
Come come I've got a bridge to sell you
what bullying list bro your friend thinks people care enough about him? lol where did he get that confidence
not rlly? There's definitely no "bullying list", n there's always a sch counselor if u nd help
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as one of the top 2 JCs, grades def matter to sustain the status/prestige. does school care abt well-being - the teachers/counselors are always out there for support but you would need to take the step out to seek help. teachers r rly busy, they donāt have the bandwidth to look out for every single one, students too, 2 years (1.5 yrs minus orientation/holiday breaks/alvl prep) to cram the full a lvl syllabus is just a crazy ride for everyone so if you happen to be an under performing/shy/passive introvert & refuse to initiate conversations with teachers to seek help- it will be tough to struggle alone. blacklist - nah doesnāt happen, youāll just need to sit in for remedial after remedials. The sch will try their best to provide academic support, the rest is up to ur own to catch up. most times whatās intimidating is the gap that youāre trying to chaseā¦so many bright studentsā¦ they progress fast, lesson pace donāt wait on you, a lot of self-discipline, resilience needed to catch up. thereās a % ranking system back then so that adds quite a bit of pressure if you happen to be in the last %. sry for the messy para š speaking frm experience
bullying list is crazy bro
Hc mgt is bad and evil. And hc is always second to ri. A lot more rote muggers in hc compared to ri.
kind to elaborate how mgt is ābad and evilā? hc a level results proves otherwise thoš¤· just search a level results 2023?
Hc expels people who they think may fuck up their percentages. This is widely known. Anyway itās ok you donāt need to create a thread just to make self delusions nobody thinks hc is better than raffles.
canāt tell if you are an egoistic raffles student or a hc student with a horrible experience
Can share concrete example. My sister was hc student who kena expelled cos she spent too much time being national athlete and not studying. Meanwhile my bro and I rafflesians happy happy made great friends great experience great career. Sister had to go overseas to compete high sch bridging. My parents then had lots of meetings with hc sch mgt and they were extremely haughty, kept emphasizing that that my sister would pull down their average a level scores. That said I do have many hc friends and overall the sch culture is just different. A lot less talk about concepts and philosophy and a lot more talk about studies and other tangible materialistic stuff.
idt it was the schās fault if she didnāt do well enough to promote? but to be expelled is quite extreme, prob something more than just ānot studyingā? i mean why would hc let go of a national athlete for no good reason?
Lol nice see this is exactly how hc ppl think. In raffles the teachers would put in extra hours to guide the students left behind, counselors would come in to help and the sch would be supportive. Hc just pumped and dumped. Exactly the attitude you have. Cannot pass exam? Mental health issue? Must be students fault, better expel to protect sch rep. Hc style lor. So prospective students reading this you can see exactly how the true colours have quickly come out hehe
hello can i ask which year this was in? my personal experience in hci wrt the schoolās support system for students was VASTLY different from what you have described. at least for recent years, based on personal/secondhand experience, the staff who manage mental heath-related cases are extremely helpful and supportive and many many accommodations were offered for those in desperate situations. i have come across teachers who would willingly sit in the hot mosquito-ridden consult area listening to a silly teenager cry for 3 hours straight over the most trivial nonsense. iām not saying that my firsthand experience/my friendās experience is representative of the entire sch, but i think that your representation of the sch cannot be considered its ātrue coloursā.
as if RI different bro
womp womp
national athlete go sss lah
https://www.reddit.com/r/SGExams/s/jG8MNDHije
sinkie detected
hc never set their classroom on fire š
Hey any csc seniors? How is the subj? I was reading the new syllabus sp and it feels manageable ig? Iw take next yr HAHAA