18-year-old Shannon Chong lost her older sister to a New Zealand camper van crash in 2023. She told CNA how she helped take charge of family matters while studying for the A-Levels at Jurong Pioneer Junior College.
Continuing our hunt for spacious and affordable homes in Singapore, we turn to take a look at four-room HDB flats this week. These apartments are all sized above 1,100 square feet and are priced from $488K, which might be more palatable for homeowners working with a tighter budget. Also, most of these units are within walking distance of upcoming MRTs.
SINGAPORE - Ms Yvonne Koh Feng Ying, a senior teacher for General Paper at Jurong Pioneer Junior College, plants "spies" among her students. The spies are tasked with providing incorrect answers during discussions - to keep their classmates on their toes and be alert to potential falsehoods or misinformation. Ms Koh, 38, said this method makes learning more enjoyable for.
Students who sat the A-level examinations last year have achieved the best passing rate since 2006, despite the difficult circumstances brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Of the 11,646 candidates, 10,905 students, or 93.6 per cent, attained at least three H2 passes, with a pass in General Paper or Knowledge and Inquiry, said the Ministry of Education and the Singapore Examinations and Assessments Board in a joint press release yesterday.
The result was slightly better than the 93.4 per cent achieved by the 2019 cohort.
Similar to last year, students who returned to their schools yesterday to collect their results had to do so in their classrooms, instead of as a cohort in the school hall.