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Last Updated: 11 Oct 2024

Secondary 1 (S1): Submit school choices

4. Complete the S1 Option Form

Learn how to choose a suitable school and understand how posting works. You are encouraged to discuss the secondary school options with your child.

You may use the S1 Option Form (80kb) to get ready for online submission, saving time and ensuring a seamless submission process.

You will need to prepare the following information:

School choices

List your child's 6 secondary school choices in order of preference.

You will have additional considerations:

If you are applying to a school affiliated with your child’s primary school

  • For priority admission to the affiliated secondary school, your child must indicate that school as the first choice. However, admission is not guaranteed as it is still subject to the availability of vacancies. Some schools may also have additional qualifying criteria for students from affiliated primary schools.
  • At least 20% of the vacancies in each Posting Group of each school will be allocated to students who do not benefit from affiliation priority.

If you are applying to dual-track secondary schools

  • For dual-track schools offering both Integrated Programme (IP) and the Singapore-Cambridge Secondary Education Certificate (SEC) Programme, affiliation considerations will only be given for the SEC Programme.
  • If your child is interested in both the IP and SEC Programme offered by the same school, you must indicate the 2 school names as separate choices in order of preference. Do note that if your child has indicated only the school name with the IP, they will not be considered for posting to the SEC Programme, and vice versa. Learn more about SEC and Full SBB.

List of schools offering both the Integrated Programme (IP) and Singapore-Cambridge Secondary Education Certificate (SEC) Programme:
  • Anglo-Chinese School (Independent)
  • Catholic High School
  • Cedar Girls' Secondary School
  • CHIJ St. Nicholas Girls' School
  • Methodist Girls' School (Secondary)
  • Singapore Chinese Girls' School
  • St. Joseph's Institution
  • Victoria School

Posting Groups

Choose only schools that offer the Posting Group that your child is eligible for, so that you do not waste your options. Learn more about Posting Groups.

If your child is offered two Posting Groups but did not make any submission through S1 Internet System

If your child did not make any submission through S1 Internet System to indicate their preferred Posting Group option or submit school choices during S1 Posting, your child will be assigned a Posting Group that offers the more academically demanding subjects at the start of Secondary 1, as shown below:

Posting Group Options Assigned Posting Group 
Posting Group 3 or Posting Group 2 Posting Group 3 
Posting Group 2 or Posting Group 1  Posting Group 2

Third Language options

If your child is eligible for a Third Language, list up to 3 choices in order of preference, using the 2-digit language codes.

The Third Language option codes can be found in your child’s Eligibility Letter, as well as on the S1 Internet System.

If the number of applicants exceeds the number of vacancies, selection will be based on merit. Your child will receive the outcome from their posted secondary school in late December.

Important reminder

During the S1 posting process, your child will be posted based on academic merit. This means that a student with a better PSLE score will be considered first for posting to their preferred school.

For this reason, make sure you:

  • Take reference from the schools' PSLE score ranges from previous year.
    Meeting the previous year's cut-off point (COP) of a school does not guarantee admission.
    • The PSLE score ranges in SchoolFinder serve only as a reference for you and your child to shortlist suitable secondary schools.
    • Actual schools' COPs of the 2024 Primary 6 cohort are determined by actual school choices and reflect the score of the last student(s) admitted into each school. The actual COP of a school is known only after the conclusion of the 2024 S1 posting process.
    • Actual COPs can vary year on year depending on the cohort's PSLE results and their school choices in that year's S1 Posting Exercise.
    Learn more about the PSLE score ranges.
           
  • Select your schools carefully as choice order of schools will affect your school posting.
    Take into account if your child just meets the COP of a school, it also means that majority of the students in that school have better PSLE score than your child.
    • You are strongly encouraged to include at least 2 to 3 schools where your child's PSLE score is better than the school's previous year's COP.
    • Use all 6 options with a range of COPs and rank your preferred school higher in your submission.

Learn how posting works.





Receive S1 Option Form and Eligibility Letter
Submit your child's choices