In August this year, many P3 students sat for the GEP Screening Exercise. Those who qualified for the first round of tests will receive a letter inviting them to attend the GEP Selection Exercise on 20 and 21 October this year, although the letter may be released by schools as late as a week before the test date itself. While the two tests may sound similar, the GEP Selection Exercise includes one component that the GEP Screening Exercise doesn't — the General Ability Assessm

According to MOE, questions in the GEP Screening and Selection Tests are based on Primary One to Primary Three syllabus. That means for Mathematics, students will not be tested on say, the area of a circle, because students would only have learnt how to calculate the area of squares and rectangles, and not circles, by the end of Primary Three. For English though, it is harder to draw the boundary around what falls within Primary One to Primary Three syllabus because there is

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Can your P3 child solve the following General Ability question? When it comes to numbers and letters, one way to relate the two is to convert letters into numbers based on their corresponding positions in the alphabet. For example, A corresponds to 1, B to 2, C to 3 and so on. In the question above, I corresponds to 9; D corresponds to 4; P corresponds to 16; Rewriting the expressions, we have 3 ∞ 9 2 ∞ 4 4 ∞ 16 The next leap of insight requires us to realise that in each ex

When a cup is half-filled, the same amount of water occupies 1⁄5 of a jug. A jug can contain 180 ml more water than a cup. How much water can the cup contain? Video solution: Want to prepare your child for the GEP Screening and Selection Tests but not sure how to go about it? Let us help you! Click here to find out why discerning parents choose Joyous Learning for GEP prep. #GEPSelectionTest #GEPScreeningTest #GEP

GENERAL TIPS Skip tough questions and come back to them later If you find that you’re taking too much time on a particular question, put down your best guess first, circle the question and move on to other questions. Come back to this question later when you are done with the other easier questions. If you are unsure of something, ask the teacher If you find that you’re taking too much time on a particular question, put down your best guess first, circle the question and mo

3. Attempt IQ questions or brain teasers As mentioned, the General Ability component is quite similar to IQ tests. There are verbal question types (as seen in point 1), and non-verbal question types which frequently involve pattern recognition. Here’s an example Can you find the pattern? If it looks familiar, you’re right – they can be found in many IQ question books! These pattern recognition questions aren’t difficult, but they can be if you’ve never seen them before. One w

2. Attempt heuristics type problem sums For the Mathematics section, many of the questions are high level (for Primary 3 students) versions of Excess-Shortage, Constant-Sum/Difference, and Making a Supposition type questions. What do these mean? Here’s an example of each. Excess-Shortage Adrian goes to a stationery shop to buy pens. A red pen costs $0.90 and a blue pen costs $0.70. If Adrian spends all his money buying blue pens, he will have $0.60 left over. However, if he b

Yes, it's that time of the year again where the GEP admissions test are looming on the horizon. Some parents hold the view that this is a test they shouldn't prepare their child for, while others think they'd only be putting their child at a disadvantage because others would be preparing for it... (and so the debate rages on) For those who think something is better than nothing, here're 3 high impact brain workouts you could give your child to gear them up for the GEP Selecti