8 or 7 subjects at Secondary 3

MasterMoogle SG

That's a big IF.

i know is very tua kang der IF la, but all the scholars is triple science one, what to do?

ItchyArmpit SG

my advice... 1 pure science + comb. or 2 pure... dun take 3 pure...

i that time almost all the test get full marks.. come to pure sci i drop to around low a1...

also i got 2 friend who they top the level sec 1 and sec 2... but sec 3 onwards drop le.. so cannot predict de.. good luck :)

ƒlame SG

best choice , double science with A and E maths.

galaxy_twirls SG

Hi BillaMax. If you think you can cope with triple sciences, then I think you should go for it. To me, studying more subjects means that I have more coverage and in addition, I enjoy learning more things; they sort of add more 'colours' to my life. Haha. (I'm sane when I typed this out. xD) Honestly, if you can cope, go for triple sciences. ^^ I believe that the coursework taught in secondary school ensures that one has the basic principles and concepts of a particular subject, readying students for further advanced studies in JC or polytechnics.

For Biology, just like what the other forumers had said, it is mostly memorising, though now, it seems that the system is shifting towards a mix of memory work and application. Compared to the old syllabus which concerns the years before 2008, the new syllabus is more of a 'thinking' rather than memorising and regurgitating, judging from other schools' preliminary examination papers from 2008 and 2009.

For Physics, it is really understanding of basic concepts and application with some calculations to do. Somehow, I just don't get Physics and... my Physics is not too good. :( Hahas. (I hope this won't discourage you from taking it. ><)

For Chemistry, again, understanding and memory work. Somewhat similar to biology. =)

From my two years of experience taking triple sciences plus double humanities (Literature Elective + Social Studies + Pure Geography), taking triple sciences is not an easy job as one have to juggle with quite a handful of subjects. My Physics was the poorest, and I struggled very badly with it... so I didn't feel too good at that time but I didn't give up because I know Physics may widen my scope in the future, even if it doesn't do so, it can help in terms of the way of thinking and analysing Physics questions... They can be applied to other subjects as well. ^^ My biology and chemistry are average, so I didn't really have to worry about them, though I could just save my agony and not take Physics, my nightmare. >w<

Last but not least, the level of difficulty of the subjects at upper secondary level and lower secondary level are somewhat 'worlds apart'. You learnt things at a deeper level. So, you have to think carefully. If I were you, I would take triple sciences and if I really cannot make it and at my wits' ends, then I will drop my weakest science like what dkcx had suggested. As I have not been through JC yet, I ain't too sure if the things learnt in secondary school will help in JC, though I'm sure that ingesting more knowledge surely won't harm one, as long as he can balance out everything and cope with the other subjects. ^^

Remember, if you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask either here in the forum, or your peers and loving teachers in school. ^^ All the best to you! =D

Regards,

galaxy_twirls

donkhead333 SG

Hey,

Generally, chem I feel is a must take due to the practicality involved. Physics / biology would be more of a personal preference, but I would say that the best way to go would be to follow your interests, or pick the lesser evil. Sciences can be relied on to complete the number of subjects needed requirement if you don't want to take humanities.

But most importantly, just follow your interests. Don't be like me, taking physics for 2 years and suffering through all the hair-pulling moments

Cheers!

SexyChin SG

Just take triple science.

Seriously, the workload for o levels is really minuscule.

yiha093 SG

i takeing pure phy/chem .

sci no cake, so i get As .

what else u wan ?

i got a fren all 3 pure sci A1

depend on urself la.

zzz

i also got a fren ,. 3 Pure sci all Cs and Bs .

ViewtyKU990 SG

Hi, i feel that no matter 2/3 science you take, you must take chemistry. Rather important subject i feel.

If you are going into 2 science, you may want to try out double humanities, which include Pure Geog/Hist and Combined Hist/Geog (in case you didnt know Combined means Social studies plus the stated subject).

Maths i would recommend you to take both a and e maths if your school doesnt force you to take it. Taking it will seriously help you lots!

The languages I would not like to say much about it.

For me, I am taking EL, MT, HMT, E Maths, A Maths, Chemistry, Physics, and Combined History. If you are really into science, go ahead and try out the triple science course!

Cheers (:

yiha093 SG

chem is compulsory.

ƒlame SG

A maths also compulsory

angel3070 SG

No education is worth much which does not help those who receive it to understand the world in which they live and to feel more at home and more confident in the world. For many years, the experience of Americans in their academic institutions has not been helping, but rather has hindered, that process.

That experience has tended to be a kind of brainwashing, seeking, in most cases, to establish a bourgeois or (in recent years) a petty bourgeois outlook.

On the higher levels of the system, this has been supplemented by a steadily narrowing of training for a place in the bureaucratic structures which now dominate American life, in business, in government, in education itself, in religion, t he law, medicine, and the defense forces. This is reflected in earlier, and in more and more narrow, specialization and i n the increasing pedantic nature of so much of the work done in all fields.

The chief group of discontented are, of course, the students, who grow increasingly restless, discontented, and alienated because of their recognition of the large-scale irrelevance of so much of what they have to learn. Within these fields, some teachers realize, more or less unconsciously, that much is wrong.

Yet they feel that they must go on, and do so, rationalizing that they have to make a living somehow, and this is the only way they are equipped to earn what is needed, and, secondly they assure themselves and their students that the latter must have a college education. This latter belief is correct only if the student is determined to make his living by finding a place in the great and ever-growing bureaucracies which envelop our world and now overshadow it.

But all of these bureaucracies do their work inefficiently and badly. They look good only if we accept their own fraudulent bookkeeping. If a student wants to spend his life en-capsulated in the interstices of one of these monstrous structures, I suppose he does need a college education, not because college prepares him to do their work but simply because these structures increasingly demand a college degree as a ticket of admission to their employ.

They demand that only because it indicates that the, holder of that ticket has submitted to years of brainwashing in irrelevancies and will put up with the myths of the bureaucracy he joins.

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