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Secondary 1 school choice guides
Cut-off points, Posting Groups, how to fill in your six choices, and schools near you.
Schools by area
Each area guide lists the schools within reach at AL 10, 14, 18, 20 and 22, including schools within 3 km.
Cut-off points and scoring
How to Read Singapore Secondary School Cut-off Points (COP): PG1/PG2/PG3, Affiliated and Non-affiliatedA guide to 2025 Singapore Secondary 1 cut-off points: what a COP is, how to read a range like 6–8, how PG1/PG2/PG3 work, affiliated vs non-affiliated, and why the same score of 12 gets into some schools and not others.How PSLE AL Scores Work: Score Bands, Total Score and Posting GroupsHow each PSLE subject mark converts to an Achievement Level (AL 1–8), how Foundation subjects count, which Posting Group your total of 4–30 falls into, and how subject grades set G1/G2/G3 levels in Secondary 1.Why Were 2025 Secondary School Cut-off Points Looser? Will 2026 Be Tighter?Cut-off point changes across 129 Singapore secondary schools for 2023–2025: tighter in 2024, looser in 2025. The driver is cohort size, and most 2026 PSLE candidates were born in 2014, a bigger birth year.
Filling in your choices
How to Fill In Your 6 Secondary 1 Choices: Reach, Match and SafeSingapore S1 posting admits students in score order, so how should you rank your six choices? How many reach, match and safe schools to include, what counts as safe, and how ties and ballots work.AL 21 or 22: PG2 or PG3? The Real Trade-off Under Full SBBStudents with AL 21 and 22 can choose between Posting Group 3 and Posting Group 2. PG3 means a less competitive school at G3; PG2 means a school with a higher cut-off at G2. What each choice means for subjects, peers and pathways.PR and International Students in S1 Posting: Why Ties Go Against You and How to ChooseIn Singapore Secondary 1 posting, ties are broken by citizenship first: citizens, then PRs, then international students. Why PR families should treat borderline schools as reach choices, and how many schools sat exactly at each cut-off in 2025.Choosing Secondary Schools After PSLE: A Practical Guide to Cut-off PointsHow Singapore's Secondary 1 posting works, how to read cut-off points for PG1, PG2 and PG3, and how to split your six choices into reach, match and safe schools.
Types of schools
Integrated Programme (IP) Schools in Singapore: All 16 Schools and Their Cut-off PointsThe 16 secondary schools offering the Integrated Programme in Singapore, with IP cut-off points for 2023–2025, which schools also take PG3 students, and what to weigh before choosing IP.SAP Schools in Singapore: All 11 Schools, Cut-off Points and How Higher Chinese MattersThe 11 Special Assistance Plan (SAP) secondary schools in Singapore with 2025 cut-off points, what (D), (M) and (P) after a cut-off mean, and how the Higher Chinese grade breaks ties.Girls' and Boys' Secondary Schools in Singapore: All 27 Schools and Cut-off PointsSingapore's 15 girls' schools and 12 boys' secondary schools, with school type, area and 2023–2025 PG3 cut-off points, and which of them are IP schools.Which Secondary Schools Have Affiliated JCs? Affiliations and the 2-Point BonusAffiliations between Singapore secondary schools and junior colleges: which schools give a 2-point bonus when applying to the affiliated JC, and where IP schools continue to.Merged Secondary Schools in Singapore (2022–2025): New Names, Campuses and Cut-off PointsSecondary schools merged by MOE in 2022–2025: Bedok Green, Chua Chu Kang, Greenridge, New Town and Woodlands Ring. Which campus each uses and how to read their cut-off points.