I Am Proud Of You!

I am quite relieved that I do not need to worry about my girl's academic performance so far... She has been topping her class in Primary One and Two consecutively. However, now in P3, she is in one of the two best class and her mid-year class position dropped to #9, probably because of the competition with the better student. For this, I am still very proud of her...

Recently, there is a Gifted Education Programme (GEP) test that is opened to all P3 students in Singapore but optional to participate. Nothing to lose, I let her take the first part, i.e., the screening test, just to gauge how clever is she.

One day, she came back from school and broke the happy news to me that she was one of the 12 in her school, being selected to participate in the second round, the Selection Test. Smart girl! If she pass this round, she will be the top 1% of the cohort intellectually gifted to be in GEP and may need to change to one of the few GEP schools to receive better education in P4 to P6.

However, I begin to have funny feeling inside me...One part of me hoping she can get through to this round and become the top 1% of but another side of me worrying of the competition and stress level that she may get in a highly competitive environment.

I myself is feeling so stress up in having to live in this world and I really do not want her to feel stress in any ways... Anyway, not to worry now... shall consider again when she gets her results in November. I still want to say that I am feeling very proud of her for able to participate in the GEP testing.

While I am updating this post, she is currently sitting her English paper now and general ability at 11 am in Damai Primary School. Tomorrow shall be Maths. Hope she just try her best and don't feel any stress....