NS or continue schooling?

• Yuki~!

  23 Feb 08, 23:27

  I'm seeking advice for a friend of mine. He's 17 this year & is retained in Sec 3 for the 2nd time. His principal, school counsellor & teachers recommended that he join the army in April (?) as he is not doing well in studies. This is his 3rd year as a Sec 3 NA student leh, what should he do?

   

  Join the army or continue for studying for the next 2 years & graduate when he is 19?
  Then after NS, then how? Private?

• pierre^^

  23 Feb 08, 23:30

  NS ftw

   

  maybe he will be more mature and start to tink abt his future

   

   

• ctstalin

  23 Feb 08, 23:34

  if he cannot study wat for continuing...go army take a break from sch..come out still can go study one

• Yuki~!

  23 Feb 08, 23:37

  But won't that be too long?
  By that time, everyone around him would've gotten their diplomas or A levels cert

• stellazio

  23 Feb 08, 23:38

  But after NS do what without an O or N level cert.

• Yuki~!

  23 Feb 08, 23:39

  Originally posted by stellazio:

  But after NS do what without an O or N level cert.

  
  Exactly.

• hisoka

  23 Feb 08, 23:46

  more importantly what does he plan to do?lets not talk about ns first. assuming no ns what does he want to do. continue study for O's? go out and work? etc?
• bryanw

  23 Feb 08, 23:57

  i also know ppl ite nvr complete in ns. n another guy stopped sch at sec 3 went to ns. better 4 them.

• Yuki~!

  24 Feb 08, 00:12

  Originally posted by hisoka:

  more importantly what does he plan to do?lets not talk about ns first. assuming no ns what does he want to do. continue study for O’s? go out and work? etc?

  
  I asked him what he plans to do after Os, he said:

  "Go poly lah"

  -.- Go poly at 20..

• stellazio

  24 Feb 08, 00:16

  Even he sign on in NS also can't even becoming WO.

• Yuki~!

  24 Feb 08, 00:18

  Originally posted by stellazio:

  Even he sign on in NS also can't even becoming WO.

  
  Yar, then how?

• gunner77

  24 Feb 08, 00:33

  just continue studying

  my sch got 1 boy retain at sec3 for i tink 3 years oso, he oso continue to study

  tis year sec 4

• seotiblizzard

  24 Feb 08, 05:37

  Haix .....

• Ed11790

  24 Feb 08, 05:51

  school is better cause u can have fun learning and meeting new friends............if he joins army then its not good cause its very dangerous

• ^tamago^

  24 Feb 08, 07:41

  Let him get an 'O' level cert. At least he can consider signing on. And also, he's working very hard now right?

• Guardx

  24 Feb 08, 09:21

  1) can i ask why is he retaining in his sec 2? Due to playing non stop? refuse to go to school? Or he try very hard but do not do well.

  2) ask him where does his interest lies? if it is not study why not let him go to army to rough him up a bit.

  I have seen cases where kids after going thorugh army score As... Cos they do not want to be look down by people and wanted to get a better life.

  3) age is not a factor when it comes to study. Is better to get a good result later in life rather then stuck with a super poor result for the rest of his life.

• lonely_boy_88

  24 Feb 08, 12:24

  army does bring a change to a lot of ppl. Suffering in army, and all the extremes actually make some ppl think and look again at their own life.

   

  if he really cant cope with his studies atm, why nt go to the army first, maybe after NS, he might find the reason to study.

• Y_Shun

  24 Feb 08, 12:29

  Go NS, then come out liao take private O then go Poly?

• Scania L113 lover

  24 Feb 08, 12:32

  NS first....give him some time to pull himself together.

• martin_lim85

  24 Feb 08, 12:49

  Originally posted by stellazio:

  But after NS do what without an O or N level cert.

  u are right! i got O and after that joined NS. after ORD i having hard times to find a job

• Yuki~!

  24 Feb 08, 18:05

  Originally posted by Guardx:

  1) can i ask why is he retaining in his sec 2? Due to playing non stop? refuse to go to school? Or he try very hard but do not do well.

  2) ask him where does his interest lies? if it is not study why not let him go to army to rough him up a bit.

  I have seen cases where kids after going thorugh army score As... Cos they do not want to be look down by people and wanted to get a better life.

  3) age is not a factor when it comes to study. Is better to get a good result later in life rather then stuck with a super poor result for the rest of his life.

  
  He retained in *Sec 3 twice because he simply does not have any interest in studying. Now he is showing improvement but there comes the option of just joining the army instead of continuing to study.

   

  He's not stupid or slow. Just lacking motivation. I think that he can improve much more, if he continues schooling.

• cApitaland

  24 Feb 08, 18:21

  I think shud stardie first. Complete O's or at least N level. Then to NS and end up poly. Its never to late to stardie.

• Yuki~!

  24 Feb 08, 18:23

  Originally posted by cApitaland:

  I think shud stardie first. Complete O's or at least N level. Then to NS and end up poly. Its never to late to stardie.

  
  That's what I'm thinking. But I'm just afraid that history might just repeat itself.

  After all, he's in Sec 3 for the third year already.

• cApitaland

  24 Feb 08, 18:31

  can can. my senior repeated his O's. went to VJC. den repeated there again. so like i think can make it wan la. i think you see your friend is can study type or not first.

• Yuki~!

  24 Feb 08, 18:39

  Originally posted by cApitaland:

  can can. my senior repeated his O's. went to VJC. den repeated there again. so like i think can make it wan la. i think you see your friend is can study type or not first.

   

  Lol, he is smart, but not the study type, how? @@