Languages ain't my forte unfortunately. Well I'm aware of that
but I'm considering Medicine and Pharmacy too. If I go Art stream,
my options are lesser. I think poly and JC both are similar in
terms of duration after uni cause sometimes if you go poly you
study in uni for 2 years only. So to me, the duration nvm unless I
fail.
By the way, sometimes, people's hardwork and efforts aren't paid
off so to be safe, I'm thinking more rather than just '' work hard
'' That's why I really need some useful advice.
The duration is not really true, unless you are studying the
exact same thing both in uni and in poly, and did well enough in
poly. There are also other considerations which I don't think I
want to touch now as the post would be too long. Tbh, I was in
engineering, and I did not see a poly grad receiving first class
honours in my year.
I'm sure there are such students around, just that I didn't see
it. Personal encounters with poly students going NUS; they are
really good. But my take is there are other challenges and
difficulties (e.g. the reduction of 1 year, which isn't an
advantage at all) that makes it very very tough to experience the
entire degree journey. My two cents.
But no matter where you are, in Poly or JC, the same thing,
hardwork and efforts aren't always paid off. Why? I always tell my
students: "Efforts does not equal results"
Why really matters, is learning and studying techniques on top
of efforts. The best techniques without efforts means nothing. Hard
work with effort on an ineffective technique also yields nothing.
You need a combination of both. It is the same for Poly, JC or even
university. It's how I got my top scores for JC and Uni.
I only went through the JC route, but personally, after
considering different options, I think JC route to uni is easier.
Reason? If and when you need the help, it is way easier and way
cheaper to find help, compared to finding help for Poly courses,
which are much more niche, not to mention the Poly-NUS route costs
more than the JC (even with tuition support) - NUS
route.