how many of you actually quit jc to go to poly?

[serialninja]

poly life need to be very self displinice man.

uni life too. JC kids beware.

that said, i think it's not very wise to make your decision on where to study based on how "fun" the academic experience is. sure, it may suck now, but it'll suck more if you're an adult and are trying to feed your family and have trouble getting a job or earning enough because you ended up studying something that either basically doesn't pay much or doesn't have a high demand.

i'd rather study now and enjoy the payoffs later. sports cars, condo in orchard, motorcycles, women, sweet guitars, whatever.

 

[MadWerewolfBoy]

well i look at it this way:

times are changing fast and its hard to guess what kinda industry will surface in a few years and which will fall...

going to jc means not to narrow down ur choices (as compared to poly) for 4 years (for guys, cuz of NS) before deciding what degree to get in uni...

so theres plenty of time to decide... if for instance, we get on to a course in poly but due to our changing interests (its common for teens) , we might regret later... whats worse is if the demands change... what to do with a diploma u don't like + 1 which dun get u a good pay?

so my bet is to delay the desicion making 1st... go general then after 4 years go specialised

 

[stars]

lets put it this way.

life is a rat race. you play in this rat race , work your bum off and emerge at the top of the rat race through sheer hard work. good for you.

if you dont, end up at the bottom of the pile , dont work your bum off , live life as it comes, you can only blame yourself for what you have done.

there is no short cut or easier route to success. only hard work , more hardwork and even more hard work.

simple when it boils down to this ? this thread appears like regularly , if you dig up older threads i m sure you can find quite a few

 

[Vio]

to all seondary school people here: PLEASE CONSIDER YOUR PATH AFTER SEC SCHOOL CAREFULLY!


in a nutshell, if you never intended to go to University, do not bother even contemplating going to JC.


you learn 3 times more material in A levels than your entire O level syllabus, having to study 3 times as hard, but only given half the amount of time to do it. majority of JC goers witness the horror of "i didn't know a single f*** thing the lecturer was saying" within the first 2 weeks of school.


What's more, an A level certificate is as useful to your career as that poster of Jay Chou hanging on your bedroom wall. Take a A level holder and a diploma holder and make them both go look for jobs, it is a statistical fact that diploma holders have more useable knowledge in the workforce and are more sought after. To add salt to the injury, a recruiter may choose an O level holder instead of an A level holder bcos they both have the same work exposure (which is nil, discounting part-time jobs) but have to pay the A level higher based on that cert.


That's not all.


A poly diploma holder also has the option of going to universities, and with a much higher drive than JC students. Ask university students in Singapore how their poly-entry counterparts do in universities and they will tell you they are "f***king siao on". That is no exaggeration. They also show a much keener sense of awareness in terms of EQ and social etiquette, and doubtlessly a much more mature attitude in their work.


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My friends who went to JC and did badly for A levels were given university courses they didn't want. Those who took it up suffered for 4 years or more, and a few quit university and went to poly instead! they should have just went to poly and saved themselves 3 years! many others took the "Australian Degree" route and had their well-to-do families pay for their exorbitant education overseas.

 

[Jayshen]

I agree with what you say... What you say is true... but i just feel as a Jc student myself who did get into poly for a while and den came back to jc... i dun believe A level also not that bad la.

The thing about A lvels is it is general. It gives you more choices compared to poly. Most of the time at 16 yrs old, you also dunno what area you want to do when you grow up. Which is why i chose JC and rejected the poly offer cos i was not sure i wanted to do the course that they offered me. So i went to JC and now here i am in uni in a very different engineering field and i like it here cos i found that this is an area i really would like to do in the future. In fact i just took a module in bio-eng and it really suxed.. hahha... very BoRiNg hahah... :wink:

So my advice is JC or Poly is not important. Most important is you must be clear about yourself and know what you want to do in the future. And be clear that the path you take is one that you will not regret.

Go jc combi also must choose properly... go Poly course also must choose properly...

 

[ShredCow]

err. no offense. but i think thats a very stupid question man. guys how can dun go ns?

Why would you not want to go?

I mean, the things you learn in NS can be very beneficial, in a relationship sense. You learn how to relate with different people... and you make new friends. The experience is unforgettable and yeah, it might be tough and what not, but when you come out to work, you'll prob look back and miss the days where you tried to cao keng at every oppurtunity without fear of losing your job.

And besides, to get a PES F and avoid army, you'll find it tougher to get a job. Because during your job interview, they will ask if you have gone thru NS. No? Why? And its not easy to get PES F, its got to be something serious.. and serious means it would prob affect your work now or later. Why take a sickly worker?

Stop dreading it! 8)

 

[neuro182]

Hmm

waa..kena PES F...actually no gd la..becos meaning u r like some-sort of handicap...did ur frend suffered from back injuries or any of serious injuries before??

He also dunnoe why kena Pes F. He will be enquiring from them & I'll ask him soon. Another fren of my fren kena Pes F & exempted from NS bec of a hole in the heart. Poor fellas man!!

 

[mikemann]

quiting jc for poly would mean just defering ur ns till later lah.. no way to avoid it unless u wanna pay.. about 40k i think

I don't think that there is such a thing as pay to nullify serving NS. 40K by working standard is not a big sum. Especially people from rich background.

There are other ways to get around, like example by medical means. Yeah money does help you attain a certain condition by some specialist, to be brought to a medical board review. But not a sure thing, if you unlucky, you can even land in hot soup, charged with malingering.

I believe that 40K was some court case where the one who deserted to other country and want to return to SG. That was the fine imposed on him. If you are still of liable age, even when you return, they will make you serve the remaining term you owe. Including reservist too.

 

[redjackal]

i guess it's about where u wanna go after that....
if you're aimming for uni. then JC will be better of course. it sort of have the drive to study

poly, everyone is slacking and it might influence u as well...
getting in uni from poly is harder too.

so yeah....the whole singapore is filled with poly students
dipolma is actually a basic basic out of the basic thing in the working enviroment.

if you are aimming for condo car BMW like what he said...haha
then i suggest u go higher...

it's just too practical in singapore.
admit it... :lol:

 

[Kaye]

migrate migrate!!!

hmm my cousin was in jc, after his ns, he went to poly to study biomedical.

 

[Darren]

Quit JC

I did. After 3 months at CJC under that singapore govt plus strict vow of celibacy kind of conduct, quit to go Ngee Ann to study Biotech. Plus the teachers there suck pretty bad, all very tai tai and proud. I say F**K you I pay ur salary biatch.

There you go, see the love I have for JC.

 

[stars]

Re: Quit JC

I did. After 3 months at CJC under that singapore govt plus strict vow of celibacy kind of conduct, quit to go Ngee Ann to study Biotech. Plus the teachers there suck pretty bad, all very tai tai and proud. I say F**K you I pay ur salary biatch.

There you go, see the love I have for JC.

3 months isnt exactly a very good guage. why dont u go through the full 2 years before you actually have something credible to say ?

the first three months arent even JC life. its the sweet pill of trial and considered by many to be the "honeymoon" period in JC. even after 2 years in JC i still cant tell you whether has it been good for me. come back in 30 years time. in retrospect , then i may be able to give u a good evaluation of the JC system and its impacts on my life.

 

[Timex]

quiting jc for poly would mean just defering ur ns till later lah.. no way to avoid it unless u wanna pay.. about 40k i think

I believe that 40K was some court case where the one who deserted to other country and want to return to SG. That was the fine imposed on him. If you are still of liable age, even when you return, they will make you serve the remaining term you owe. Including reservist too.

In order to leave SG you have to pay a bond amount and i am very sure that its more like 75K. The amount is forfeited unless you come back and serve.

As Mikemann has said this amount, this amount is peanuts to rich families.

 

[One]

well dude..i've done a full 2 yrs in an A level institution and didnt pass to go to yr3...now i wanna quit and apply for poly...i dun have the heart to repeat the yr2...hmmm how abt tat people? 2yrs and then another 3yrs...

 

[mero]

A poly diploma holder also has the option of going to universities, and with a much higher drive than JC students. Ask university students in Singapore how their poly-entry counterparts do in universities and they will tell you they are "f***king siao on". That is no exaggeration. They also show a much keener sense of awareness in terms of EQ and social etiquette, and doubtlessly a much more mature attitude in their work.

Quite a lot of generalisation there.... Are you saying that every single person who goes to poly will come out and be "f***king siao on"? And I don't see why a poly student would have "a much higher drive than JC students". Going by your earlier reasoning, I come to this conclusion that I myself do not agree with - since you stated that with just an A level cert, JC graduates would have more difficulty finding a job than a diploma holder, then in that case JC students would have more incentive and drive to go to university than poly graduates because otherwise their A level cert would be as good as a piece of toilet paper. :roll: I don't even wanna get started on your claims that they have better EQ, social etiquette and maturity.

Secondly, if you intend to go to a GOOD university (think Ivy League, Cambridge, Oxford etc), it is relatively harder for poly students to get a scholarship. Whereas for JC graduates there are a slew of scholarships waiting to be applied for.

So, contrary to what some people are saying here, JC is not as useless as you think and not everyone will go in and come out without knowing WTF you've been doing and flunk your A levels. You reap the rewards of your labour, so if you don't study, don't expect to breeze through, I think that goes for all courses whether it's JC or poly.

 

[Timex]

No wat i don't think all the poly grads in uni are siao on. Only some them such as the cert of merit holders are.

However that being said, the poly guys are able to do better in the initial phase of uni life cause they have learnt some of the subjects before.

The really siao on ones are the foreigners on scholarship. In the past, there was this guy that never even left the campus in his entire undergrad life.

 

[mikemann]

The really siao on ones are the foreigners on scholarship. In the past, there was this guy that never even left the campus in his entire undergrad life.

Boy I pity that bugger.... a winner in terms of scholalistic sense, but a total loser in life itself.

Unless he gets to score with undergrad babes every other night, then it's a different story.....heh heh heh... :twisted: Who would want to leave the campus then.

Just one word, no matter how high IQ. MORON!!!

 

[Timex]

Unless he gets to score with undergrad babes every other night, then it's a different story.....heh heh heh... :twisted: Who would want to leave the campus then.

Just one word, no matter how high IQ. MORON!!!

If he gets that sort of treatment, i would mug like him too.

 

[Darren]

I need time to have credibility?

Hey Stars,
So u think one should waste their time to find out that they dont like what they are doing when its all back to same place after 2 years...that you didnt like JC.
Maybe I think like a low IQ person, someone hits me but I wont go back to get hit. You on the other hand might wanna go back and see if he hits harder.
People give their critics after watching a movie...maybe they should have watched it for a few months?

And if so you said you need time to have something credible to say, you read my one little post and you jump at me saying I aint credible. Oh my God I am complaining about people complaining again........!!!! 8O

The only thing I learnt about JC was sex booze and cigarettes....hmmm maybe that also must go back and time trial it a bit more. Any one in JC wanna volunteer?

Cheerios!!!!

 

[theblueark]

My friend went through N-Level, O-Level, JC A-Level twice, Poly and now in Uni. Damn determined guy.

I have another friend who went to VJC for one year, and left just before the first year final exam. He couldn't stand that principle. Then he joined poly.

I myself had pressure from teachers and principle to go JC, but I chose to go Poly partially cos I'm a bit rebel, partially because I believed I could still go Uni from Poly (and have that extra diploma cert), partially cos I don't wanna wear uniform, partially cos I went to the poly open houses and the girls were more chio, partially cos I don't like the sec school/JC teaching style and partially cos I was thinking that if I don't feel like studying after Poly, at least I can.