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Top OLevel
scorers from Methodist Girls and Spore Chinese Girls
School
SINGAPORE: The GCE OLevel results were released on Thursday.
And the top students were Kim Chan Xinhui from Methodist Girls
School, and Pearlyn Ler Jia Ning from Singapore Chinese Girls
School.
Both scored 9 A1s and 1 A2.
MGS also produced the top Indian and Malay students.
The schools top overall student, Kim Chan said: I think God has
helped me, and together with my teachers and my parents, they
showered a lot of love over me, so that inspired me to study
harder."
This is the first time an MGS has claimed the top overall spot. The
Education Ministry said before the Integrated Programme was
implemented in 2005, it was not unusual for top honours to be
dominated by one school.
With students from the Integrated Programme skipping the OLevels,
schools like MGS now have the chance to shine.
But it said its excellent showing this year is also the result of
its teaching programme. In particular, the school credits its
overseas programmes and interactive classroom pedagogies.
Principal of Methodist Girls School, Shirleen Ong, said: "I think
this bumper crop came as a very pleasant surprise, thats true, and
weve very happy with it. But not totally unexpected, because a lot
of hard work and thinking has been put into it."
Months of hard work have also paid off for students of the
Singapore Chinese Girls School.
A proud moment for its top overall student, Pearlyn Ler who also
scored 11 distinctions.
And over at Swiss Cottage Secondary, family support was also out in
force for Beetsma Diana Husna Zamily, who topped the national
Secondary 5 cohort.
Diana scored 7 distinctions a result not seen since 1999.
But MOE said that for the Secondary 5 cohort as a whole, the
results are comparable to previous years.
Diana said: "Hopefully, go on to a top 5 JC, and then from there go
to a university. Hopefully I can pursue my dream to be a
nutritionist.
In 2007, over 38,400 students sat for the OLevel exams, and 99.9
per cent of them received their certificates.
But theres been a slight dip in those who scored 5 or more OLevel
passes 80.3 per cent of candidates, down from 81.6 the year
before.
Students may submit their applications at the MOE website at
http://www.moe.gov.sg/esp/schadm/jae
They can also apply at http://www.polytechnic.edu.sg/jpsae
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