The recent Secondary 1 posting outcomes in Singapore showed trends similar to previous years, with over 90% of students securing a place in one of their chosen schools. However, some parents have expressed concern about apparent changes in cut-off points, potentially caused by the increased number of students in the 2024 Dragon Year cohort.
Also similar to previous years, more than nine in 10 secured a place in one of the six schools they chose, said the Education Ministry.The recent Secondary 1 posting outcomes were “comparable” to the previous cohort, with more than 80 percent of pupils being posted to a school of their first, second or third choice. Also similar to previous years, more than nine in 10 secured a place in one of the six schools they chose, said the Ministry of Education (MOE).
Most pupils who needed a tie-breaker were sorted by citizenship and school choice order, with about one in 10 going through computerised balloting, said a spokeswoman for MOE. These trends are similar to previous years. Since the Secondary 1 posting results were announced, some parents have taken to online forums to express concerns that their children did not make it to their secondary school of choice. They said there seem to be significant changes in school cut-off points and wondered if this is due to the larger Dragon cohort size. In 2024, 40,894 pupils sat the Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE), compared with 38,088 in 2023, 37,095 in 2022 and 39,119 in 2021. The Dragon Year occurs once every 12 years in the Chinese zodiac cycle, and each time the year has historically marked the peak of live births in Singapore.The Straits Times spoke to several parents whose children went through the Secondary 1 posting process in 2024, all of whom said they noticed a drop in cut-off scores by at least one point. According to the parents, the cut-off points of Raffles Girls School, for example, dropped from 6 to 5 and Hwa Chong Institution from 7 to 6. Some said their children were not posted to any of their six choices, despite them getting scores that would have qualified in previous years. The parents cited a possible increase in demand for various schools due to the bumper 2024 Dragon Year batch, with some turning to discussions on Facebook groups and Reddit forums in the past wee
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