Gap Semester 2.0 Scorecard
Gap Semester 2.0
Scorecard
With this new curriculum innovation of the Raffles Programme , Rafflesians will be able to learn , grow , and have fun — while discovering what is truly meaningful and significant to them .’
Gap Semester Portal
What a difference one year makes . Ask a student from the batch of 2012 , and he will tell you about the invaluable learning experiences he enjoyed during his last year in school . Ask a student from the batch before , and he will lament about how he did not receive that same experience . And the same reason invariably comes up — the Gap Semester .
Informally known by students and teachers alike as ‘ Gap Sem ’, the programme has significantly altered student life in RI . It is meant to be a time of learning away from the mundane monotony of school life , and in just its first cycle , it has become intertwined with what we would consider the quintessential
‘ Raffles Experience ’, even though it directly engages only an eighth of the student population . While the Gap Semester is a programme open solely to Year 4 Rafflesians , practically the whole institution has become aware of its existence .
Practically , the Gap Semester is an expanded yet also more focused version of the earlier Differentiated Modules Programme ( DMP ), with one term set aside exclusively for Year 4 students to attend four categories of extra-curricular courses . Whereas DMP offered only in-school enrichment courses , Gap Semester crucially includes student-initiated , work attachment and ( highlyanticipated ) international courses .
DIFFERENTIATED MODULES PROGRAMME
3 weeks long Before the EOYs
No international or work attachment courses except for Overseas Immersion Programme
Limited range of courses Generally conducted in-house by school teachers
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GAP SEMESTER 9 weeks long After the EOYs
Has international and work attachment courses
Expanded range of courses Involvement of a range of external trainers and agencies
Dedicated corporate portal / website
Rafflesian Times
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