When I was in Pre-U, male students wear PAP-style uniform - white shirt and white long pants. I couldn't remember what shoes we wore. In sec 4, I was in a boys' school which allowed only prefects to wear long pants. All others, no matter how tall you were or whether you had hairy legs, wore white shorts.
The principal of my secondary school was very strict. Sometimes we saw him walking along the corridor holding a cane in his hand and we wondered if someone had been caned or someone was going to be caned. Or maybe he was looking for a victim, hoping to catch a boy misbehaving in class.
And in those days, what mattered was not what you liked or what subjects you were good in. It was what the school had to offer. In upper secondary, besides the compulsory subjects, my class studied two science subjects, two technical subjects and two maths subjects - 8 subjects.
Actually I was not interested in the Woodwork (a technical subject) and Chemistry. I was interested in the Maths subjects and Physics.
In Pre-U, my class had GP, Pure Maths, Applied Maths, Physics and Chemistry. Again we had no choice. Otherwise, I would like to take Economics or Statistics instead of Chemistry.
I especially liked Applied Maths. It deals with practical things like forces, momentum, velocity, etc. I find it difficult to memorize facts in Chemistry.
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Hmm, I cant remember which JC has white shirt and white pants. Or was it RI?
Icemoon, I think JCs appeared only in the 80s. Before that, pre-u classes were conducted in some secondary schools. At that time I think male pupils in all the pre-u classes wore white-on-white. I am not sure what the girls in pre-u wore.
Sorry have to correct you. First JC was in 1969. Yours truly was in the first batch.
The next JC that came along a few years later; i.e. in the 70's was Hwa Chong. I think the principal was our Applied Maths teacher, Mr Lim Nai Tian. Not sure which one came after that. Could be Catholic JC.
I also remember seeing a JC in Lor Chuan. I think it was Nanyang JC.
In my sec schooldays in the1960s, our uniform was also white shirt/white pants. During my times, Sec 1 & 2 students allowed shorts whereas Sec 3 & 4 long pants. Like what you've mentioned, my principal was very strict, he also carried a cane when he walked along the corridor looking into the classrooms !! Do u know how frighten we were then. I don't thinks principals these days allow to practise this,eh ?
Chun See, thanks for the correction. I think in the 70s JCs and some schools offer pre-u courses, later schools offer only the 3-year course.
FL, nowadays schools are very reluctant to cane pupils.
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