I'm currently in JC1 taking PCME and waiting for my promos
results. My school requires us to start signing up for H3 subjects
if we are interested before the confirmation of our promo grades.
However, little information was given on H3 subjects. I'm a
Math/Physics type student and always wanted to study indepth on
this fields, but I don't really know the types of H3 offered and
all. What's the big difference between MOE and Uni H3s? What's the
assessment criteria like? Is H3 really that stressful and hard to
manage? Any ex-JC/JC2/educators willing to share their experience
on H3 subjects? Thanks.
What's the big difference between MOE and Uni H3s?
In terms of benefit to your scholarship chances, no difference.
And of course, H3s are not included in your Uni Admission Score, so
no difference there either.
Any significant difference, other than in syllabus content, is
really the experience and the travelling time (ie. you need to
spend extra time travelling to NUS/NTU, but you get
to experience being part of an actual University class
for one module, versus taking a MOE H3 class in your own
JC, which is less time consuming but also more ordinary).
Speaking only for Chemistry (ie. my subject expertise),
MOE H3 Pharmaceutical Chem is 1/3 Organic Chem, 1/3
Spectroscopy, 1/3 Drugs Biochem. If you don't like studying about
Drugs BioChem, or about Spectroscopy, but instead prefer to
focus solely on Organic Chem, then you should definitely go
for the NTU/NUS H3 Organic Chem module instead.