24 January 2017
A former Junyuan Secondary student succeeded in gaining entry to her dream biomedical course at Temasek Polytechnic despite having to overcome financial difficulties as well as health issues.
17-year-old Tiffany Chee managed to fulfil the GCE O level requirements of an L1R4 score of 16 for entrance into the course.
Tiffany, who applied to Temasek Polytechnic via the Early Admissions Exercise in Secondary 5, had visited the Accident and Emergency Department 15 times, and was hospitalised five times. She missed many lessons and her grades suffered.
“I think it was really due to stress,” she said, noting that the problems went away after she started exercising regularly.
Tiffany managed to score an A1 in Combined Science (Bio/Chem) in Secondary 4, one of the O-level subjects she took at the Express level.