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In the GEP, some of us felt like the X-Men. But not all of us were heroes
Is it just a coincidence that many children in the Gifted Education Programme feel marked by difference? In the GEP, we could be different together.
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Being different did not always feel like a gift to the writer.
ST ILLUSTRATION: MIEL
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On a sleepy Saturday morning in 2002, I sat down in a classroom, in a school I didn’t attend, to take a test I didn’t know would fundamentally alter the course of my life.
With no deep awareness of its significance, a nine-year-old me would have much preferred playing on my Game Boy Color to taking the Gifted Education Programme (GEP) selection test. In spite of myself, I begrudgingly realised I was having fun answering what felt like a series of tricky riddles, number puzzles and pattern-finding games.
