"Alright as a graduate. This school is really two sides of the same coin. It depends how lucky you are. Lets start with facillities. First, for the P5 GEP batches, the water cooler is not even cool, in fact it once dispensed HOT water! while the others were ice cool. Now, the toilets in CRC and KRC are different leagues apart, the krc toilets are stinky, broken and even have cockroaches. The chinese culture promotes respect, but some(not all) of the students are mean, rude and look down upon others. The culture of "respect" also makes the students hate the school more as some of us feel restricted.
About the GEP:
as a member of the 2024 batch who graduated, i found that first, and this is only an observation, that only 3 people in a class of 30 (ge meta) lived in an hdb. is that normal? not at all. Most of the students went in (including me) because of these GEP "training centres" which were really just camps for children to do practice papers everyday which really affects their mental health and physical as many of my ge classmates are depressed.
The biased
well, it is kind of obvious when you been here a decent bit, especially compared to my old school(bukit timah) as many other reviews tell you, the teachers do like to treat the girls better and it crushes many peoples self confidence.
About one specific review where it says" they put all the bad students together in with a few prefects and cross the fingers" i believe is quite true. Among the many classes, some obviusly have way more troublemakers which is ok, just learn to be serious at the right time. HOWEVER, all the "good students" are placed into the META class and slapped with the ge people in normal non academic subjects.
Still, i have met some amazing people here who are still my friends in secondary school i would say just dont waste the effort unless u live nearby"