Junior college (Singapore)
[1] Admission to junior college is based on attaining an aggregate raw score of 20 points or less in the O-Level examination.
The junior college system was first introduced at the end of the 1960s as a standardisation of all pre-university courses offered by various high schools in Singapore.
[2] The educational blueprint of a junior college system was first made public by Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew in May 1965, terming it as a "super secondary boarding school".
[6] National Junior College was officially declared open by Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew on 14 May 1970.
[citation needed] Junior colleges accept students based on their "L1R5" aggregate grading attained in the Singapore-Cambridge GCE Ordinary Level examination.
4H2+1H3 or 3H2+2H3), inclusive of Mother Tongue Language (MTL), Project Work and General Paper or Knowledge & Inquiry.
However, there have been exceptions; a very small number of outstanding students have been granted approval by MOE to take 13 AUs.
Students who have taken the Higher Mother Tongue language paper at the O-level and have obtained a minimum grade of 'D7' are exempted from taking formal MTL lessons and examinations in JC1.
Consequently, students are able to gain extra credits and skip several modules in the University with the H3 paper done with their other GCE A-level subjects.
Since 2008, the scores of a student's three H2 and one H1 subject are computed inclusive of Project Work (PW) and either GP or KI for admittance into local universities (namely NUS, NTU, SMU and SUSS).
[16] Applicants for the Humanities Programme must attain at least a B3 in English for the Singapore-Cambridge GCE Ordinary Level examination or equivalent.
Singaporean students under the programme are eligible for the Chinese Language Elective Scholarship offered by the Ministry of Education.
Singaporean students under the programme are eligible for the Malay Language Elective Scholarship (MLES) offered by the Ministry of Education.
[24] Singaporean students under the programme are eligible for the Tamil Language Elective Scholarship (TLES) offered by the Ministry of Education.
Singaporean students under the programme are eligible for the Music Elective Scholarship (MES) offered by the Ministry of Education.
Singaporean students under the programme are eligible for the Music Elective Scholarship (MES) offered by the Ministry of Education.
[33] Similarly, Singaporean students who attend independent junior colleges and require financial assistance can apply for the MOE Independent School Bursary (ISB),[33] as well as the UPLIFT Scholarship, depending on their household's monthly gross income and their monthly per capita income.
They typically provide scholarship allowances of S$1000 per annum in addition to a remission of school fees, subject to an annual cap of S$2400.
