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After 40 years, it’s time to relook the gifted programme for primary schools
It has become another test that one can excel in with extra tuition and classes, rather than a way to find the truly gifted.
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The unintended consequence of the programme is the pressure on children to get into the programme at the end of Primary 3.
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Loh Shurn Lin
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Back in 1983, I was part of the first batch of pupils to be asked to take something called the Gifted Education Programme (GEP) selection tests straight after our Primary School Leaving Examination results came out.
We could not prepare for the tests and had no idea what the programme was about.
