Wednesday 20 December 2017

Informatics Olympiad Training, IOI 2018, Internship, NUS SoC

Lim Li has been quite busy after she has finished her NUS High final exams in the second week of Oct. She has done/will be doing the following:

Oct - Nov:  Taught a group of Primary 4-6 students Intro to Informatics Olympiad (IO); they were taught in groups of two, 3 sessions per group
Nov: Provided IO training to RI and RGS students, in RI
Nov: Provided 4 sessions of Basic IO training to 30+ students (from various schools in Singapore), in NUS School of Computing (SoC)
Dec: Providing 12 sessions of Advanced IO training, in NUS SoC
Jun - Sep 2018: Main trainer for IOI 2018 Singapore Team
Sep 2018: Accompanying Singapore Team to IOI 2018 in Japan

She has also secured an internship with a game design company, from Jan to Apr 2018.

Aug 2018: Starting Computer Science undergraduate course at NUS SoC

Monday 4 December 2017

Singapore Schools' Oxbridge Applications, Offers & Acceptances in 2014-2016 Admission Cycles

Below are statistics of Singapore schools with considerable applications to and offers from Oxbridge. For complete lists, please refer to the respective Cambridge and Oxford application statistics websites' links after the tables below.

Note that 'admissions cycle' refers to the UCAS Apply cycle in which applications are considered, eg '2016 cycle' refers to applications made from September 2015 onwards for admission to courses starting in October 2016 or by deferred entry for courses starting in 2017.











2016 Admission Cycle Cambridge 剑桥 Oxford 牛津

UCAS Sch ID
Applns Offers Acceptances Applns Offers Acceptances

45199 HCI 华中 81 18 (22%) 12 (15%) 61 17 (28%) 16 (26%)

45681 ACSI 英华自主 63 15 (24%) 13 (21%) 39 5 (13%) 4 (10%)

45765 SJII 圣约瑟国际 9 3 (33%) 3 (33%) 8 2 (25%) 2 (25%)

45769 NUSH 国大附中 20 7 (35%) 4 (20%) 13 3 (23%) 3 (23%)

45777 DHS 德明 12 <3 <3 13 3 (23%) 3 (23%)

46015 RVHS 立化 6 <3 <3 5 0 (0%) 0 (0%)

48056 RI 莱初 109 35 (32%) 26 (24%) 134 35 (26%) 27 (20%)

48057 ACJC 英初 16 <3 <3 11 3 (27%) 3 (27%)

48058 NJC 国初 21 6 (29%) <3 15 2 (13%) 1 (7%)

48091 VJC 维初 35 9 (26%) 7 (20%) 25 5 (20%) 5 (20%)











2015 Admission Cycle Cambridge 剑桥 Oxford 牛津

UCAS Sch ID
Applns Offers Acceptances Applns Offers Acceptances

45199 HCI 华中 83 26 (31%) 20 (24%) 71 19 (27%) 15 (21%)

45539 OFS 6 3 (50%) <3 2 0 (0%) 0 (0%)

45681 ACSI 英华自主 53 15 (28%) 15 (28%) 46 7 (15%) 5 (11%)

45765 SJII 圣约瑟国际 7 3 (43%) <3 12 4 (33%) 2 (17%)

45769 NUSH 国大附中 21 4 (19%) 4 (19%) 12 4 (33%) 3 (25%)

45777 DHS 德明 15 3 (20%) 3 (20%) 44 8 (18%) 6 (14%)

46015 RVHS 立化 11 <3 <3 20 5 (25%) 4 (20%)

48056 RI 莱初 136 39 (29%) 26 (19%) 161 39 (24%) 19 (12%)

48057 ACJC 英初 24 7 (29%) 7 (29%) 10 1 (10%) 1 (10%)

48058 NJC 国初 18 <3 <3 18 2 (11%) 1 (6%)

48091 VJC 维初 22 <3 <3 26 6 (23%) 5 (19%)











2014 Admission Cycle Cambridge 剑桥 Oxford 牛津

UCAS Sch ID
Applns Offers Acceptances Applns Offers Acceptances

45126 Tanglin Trust Sch 7 4 (57%) 4 (57%) 11 2 (18%) 2 (18%)

45199 HCI 华中 84 24(29%) 16 (19%) 68 20 (29%) 16 (24%)

45681 ACSI 英华自主 62 16 (26%) 12 (19%) 55 7 (13%) 6 (11%)

45765 SJII 圣约瑟国际 7 3 (43%) 3 (43%) 5 2 (40%) 2 (40%)

45769 NUSH 国大附中 19 8 (42%) 8 (42%) 12 3 (25%) 1 (8%)

45777 DHS 德明 15 <3 <3 20 2 (10%) 2 (10%)

46015 RVHS 立化 9 <3 <3 17 2 (12%) 2 (12%)

48056 RI 莱初 123 37 (30%) 27 (22%) 132 40 (30%) 31 (23%)

48057 ACJC 英初 24 6 (25%) 4 (17%) 9 1 (11%) 1 (11%)

48058 NJC 国初 13 3 (23%) <3 14 2 (14%) 2 (14%)

48091 VJC 维初 30 5 (17%) 5 (17%) 28 6 (21%) 5 (18%)











Cambridge Application Statistics
(refer to Applications, Offers & Acceptances by UCAS Apply Centre on the right of webpage)

Oxford Applications and Acceptances by UCAS Apply Centre (update on 25 Nov 2018: it appears that this link is no longer accessible, check this new link instead)

Friday 1 December 2017

Activities and Handicraft with SilverACE @ Redhill

Volunteering in Enriching Lives of Seniors Programme (ELSP), RSVP Singapore

Some activities and handicraft work with the elderly at SilverACE @ Redhill
Every Wednesday, 2-4 pm