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In two years, their English grades leapt from F9 to A1
Author: Jane Ng & Amelia Tan
Source: The Straits Times
Date: 11 Jan 2011
Seven of Crescent Girls' School's top 11 students with 9A1s are from China. (Back row, from left): Zhuo Ran, Zhu Yichen and Zhu Duoduo; (front row, from left): Ying Jiani, Wei Qi, Wei Lu and Zhang Yumeng. All are 17 years old.
-- ST PHOTO: CHEW SENG KIM
A GROUP of China-born students at Crescent Girls' School powered themselves from F9s to A1s for English in just two years.
Asked for their secret, the girls, who failed English when they started out in Secondary 3 here in January 2009, said sheer hard work and determination made this possible.
And they did not work on just their English in those two years. All seven scored nine A1s in the O levels they sat last year.
Then again, they are obviously bright: They all found mathematics here a breeze because they were getting far tougher questions back home; science also presented little difficulty because they had covered Singapore's O-level science syllabus by the time they finished the equivalent of Secondary 3 in China.
They also found Higher Chinese easy, and most of them chose to take Chinese literature as their humanities subject.
But English was their Mount Everest. It was one of the reasons they were placed in Secondary 3 here - to give them a year to work at the language - though by age, they should have been in Secondary 4.
They made the most of their catch-up year: They worked on comprehension passages daily, memorised essays and invested more than half their total revision time on English.
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