I'm currently in JC1 taking PCME and waiting for my promos results. My school requires us to start signing up for H3 subjects if we are interested before the confirmation of our promo grades. However, little information was given on H3 subjects. I'm a Math/Physics type student and always wanted to study indepth on this fields, but I don't really know the types of H3 offered and all. What's the big difference between MOE and Uni H3s? What's the assessment criteria like? Is H3 really that stressful and hard to manage? Any ex-JC/JC2/educators willing to share their experience on H3 subjects? Thanks.
Originally posted by TypicalGuy394:I'm currently in JC1 taking PCME and waiting for my promos results. My school requires us to start signing up for H3 subjects if we are interested before the confirmation of our promo grades. However, little information was given on H3 subjects. I'm a Math/Physics type student and always wanted to study indepth on this fields, but I don't really know the types of H3 offered and all. What's the big difference between MOE and Uni H3s? What's the assessment criteria like? Is H3 really that stressful and hard to manage? Any ex-JC/JC2/educators willing to share their experience on H3 subjects? Thanks.
What's the big difference between MOE and Uni H3s?
In terms of benefit to your scholarship chances, no difference. And of course, H3s are not included in your Uni Admission Score, so no difference there either.
Any significant difference, other than in syllabus content, is really the experience and the travelling time (ie. you need to spend extra time travelling to NUS/NTU, but you get to experience being part of an actual University class for one module, versus taking a MOE H3 class in your own JC, which is less time consuming but also more ordinary).
Speaking only for Chemistry (ie. my subject expertise), MOE H3 Pharmaceutical Chem is 1/3 Organic Chem, 1/3 Spectroscopy, 1/3 Drugs Biochem. If you don't like studying about Drugs BioChem, or about Spectroscopy, but instead prefer to focus solely on Organic Chem, then you should definitely go for the NTU/NUS H3 Organic Chem module instead.
@UltimaOnline, I heard that Pharmaceutical Chem is a killer H3 subject. Is that true?
And anyways I'm a Math-Physics type person, my Chem is okay but I've little interest.
Originally posted by TypicalGuy394:@UltimaOnline, I heard that Pharmaceutical Chem is a killer H3 subject. Is that true?
And anyways I'm a Math-Physics type person, my Chem is okay but I've little interest.
If you've little interest in Chem, then yeah, H3 Pharma Chem will definitely kill you. Go for H3 Math or H3 Physics. Definitely.
To take H3 subjects, you need to be sure that you can score perfect A's for All your H2 and H1 subjects. Else, personally, I see no point in doing that.
It may help somewhat for H3 students in applying for scholarships.
Do you live near NUS/NTU? Travelling to the unis takes time. This is a consideration given that pace of lectures will be increased in JC2 and also JC hours are already long.
All the best.
@Chemguide7
For sciences, my school produces about 10 to 20 students who got A for promos; and majority of them are China scholars. B is considered an excellent grade since half the cohort fails. The intake of H3 students is about 40% of the cohort. I'm close the 50th percentile.