School Placement Exercise for Returning Singaporeans-Secondary (SPERS-Sec)

The English test comprises two parts. Your child will be given 2 hours and 10 minutes to complete it:

Part 1: Writing

2 topics are set for Secondary 1, while 4 topics are set for Secondary 2 and Secondary 3.

Your child has to choose 1 topic for composition writing. The word limits for the different academic level are as follows:

• Secondary 1: 200 to 300 words
• Secondary 2: 250 to 350 words
• Secondary 3: 300 to 400 words

Part 2: Comprehension and language use

Compulsory multiple-choice questions

• Comprehension (based on 2 passages): 15 items
• Comprehension cloze (based on 2 passages): 15 items
• Vocabulary: 10 items
• Grammar: 10 items

The Mathematics test comprises 2 parts. Your child will be given 30 minutes to complete Part 1, and 1 hour and 45 minutes to complete Part 2. They will not be allowed to use a calculator.

Part 1

• Multiple-choice questions: 34 items

Part 2

• Short-answer questions: 20 items
• Open-ended questions: 10 to 15 items

For both short-answer and open-ended questions, your child has to show the method of solution clearly by writing their working steps in the spaces provided in addition to providing the final answers.

Generally, open-ended questions require longer and more complex method of solutions as compared to short-answer questions.