Question About Transfer to Indian School

Updated*

I'm going on a long business trip for 3 years to India and I'm allowed to take one person.

My nephew wants to tag along and his parents have agreed to let me take him.

The thing is, hes 15 and will be attending a middle class (the best I can afford financially=$400 CAD a month max) international private school (british/american curriculum)hes now in grade 10) in hyderabad, india.*

Question is which international school is the best for my budget, and near the "Charminar" (I'll be in a hotel near there, the "old city").*

Thanks!

He probably won't be able to adjust because Indian schools require a lot more memorization than over here. Also, the math they will be teaching will be a lot more advanced than what he's learned in grade 10.

You could always put him in one of the American/British schools but the tuition will be pretty high.

It would probably be in his best interest to stay here.

Originally Posted by iempwnage

I'm going on a long business trip for 3 years to India and I'm allowed to take one person.

My nephew wants to tag along and his parents have agreed to let me take him.

The thing is, hes 15 and will be attending a middle class (the best I can afford) private school (hes now in grade 10) there (hyderabad, india).

Google tells me that indian schools, especially private schools, are much harder then western schools.

My nephew has an average of 72. Will he be able to adjust? He's not a hard worker, but hes not lazy, so I'm guessing he will barely pass..

He will probably have some difficulty, for example, as in most asian countries teachings of math and science do not just involve basics as what high schools in north america do, they involve lots, lots more of critical thinking. Grade 10 in india i guess equals to the level of senior high school, and its difficulty in math could possibly reach first year calculus in ontario universities, or even harder ( What I have learned from tons of international students from all counrties in Asia, as they are saying first year cal they had was a joke even comparing to level of difficulty of the math they are dealing with in high school in their home countries. ) So what I suggest would be letting him go beyond basics as from the textbooks he is learning now and try to move deeper into each aspect of subjects. hope it helps.

lol he ll get owned pretty quickly

Do teachers over there still hit kids?

Mine did.

Originally Posted by CEOdeep

lol he ll get owned pretty quickly

Yea, with an average of 72 here in Canada, one of the easiest systems to get 80+ in, he will most definitely get owned.

Also, since everything is so competitive, most Indian kids take private tuitions after class to give them an edge and prepare them for competitive entrance exams to Engineering colleges and Med schools.

If you nephew is ok with being amongst the bottom few then he will be fine. If you think that it will rock his self-esteem then you may want to reconsider. The kids are super competitive.

On the other hand, if you and your nephew are white, and he is even half decent looking, he will have no issues attracting girls. Hell he'll have to beat them away with a stick!

So there's a silver lining for you.

unless u want him to fail badly ... no, not a good idea at all.

Originally Posted by originalnutta

Do teachers over there still hit kids?

Mine did.

Not in private schools where kids with rich or hell even middle class parents go. You can be rest assured, the teacher will be looking for another job soon.

Alas, government schools are a different story. Apparently, some people are more equal than others. But for a society so rooted in the caste system, why would that come as a surprise.

Originally Posted by iempwnage

I'm going on a long business trip for 3 years to India and I'm allowed to take one person.

My nephew wants to tag along and his parents have agreed to let me take him.

The thing is, hes 15 and will be attending a middle class (the best I can afford) private school (hes now in grade 10) there (hyderabad, india).

Google tells me that indian schools, especially private schools, are much harder then western schools.

My nephew has an average of 72. Will he be able to adjust? He's not a hard worker, but hes not lazy, so I'm guessing he will barely pass..

72 is very bad, I got punished for going below 95 back in China, and Indian education system is pretty close to China so I hear from my Indian friend. It's gonna be major pwnage, going from a subpar education system into a real hard working one.

Originally Posted by divx

72 is very bad, I got punished for going below 95 back in China, and Indian education system is pretty close to China so I hear from my Indian friend. It's gonna be major pwnage, going from a subpar education system into a real hard working one.

lol..thats true, stuffs from ontario high school is a joke..comparing to those, and plus the easy going teachers and those bird courses that throw out free marks to increase avg. from what i heard gr 10 math here equals to grade 7 math in china or india or singapore with the test difficulty being in their grade 5 level...all basics =S

Going from Indian curriculum to Canadian curriculum is a piece of cake, but doing it vice-versa, it couldn't get any harder.

I've completed my high-school under the ICSE/ISC board of studies which is considered the hardest in India, this gave me an edge over my fellow college-mates when I joined an American College which, well, obviously followed the American curriculum of studies.

We were studying differentiation and integration in one of the Business Calculus classes. All the people there looked stunned and were like "WTF is this ****?". Where as the students there who studied under the Indian syllabus had already studied differentiation and integration in 10th grade.

It will definitely be hard for your nephew to cope up. Especially with an average like 72% in Canada, it will be very hard. A 72% in India is like 85%+ in Canada easy.

How do I tell the kid he can't go?

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Originally Posted by rey1867

You could always put him in one of the American/British schools but the tuition will be pretty high.

Are there any in Hyderabad?

Near the Charminar?

Edit:
http://india.english-schools.org/int...-hyderabad.htm

How far is this place from Charminar? And how much will they cost me?

You could try emailing them: ish@ishhyd.com
or contacting them with any of the methods listed on their site: click.

Their site's not very good though, and there are a lot of dead links, which makes me a bit suspicious about the school.