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Students of all races do well
Tue, Dec 23, 2008
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Teachers and parents have cause to rejoice - Students of all races did well in Singapore's national exams.

PSLE candidates continued to perform well, with an overall percentage pass rate of above 95 per cent.

The proportion of GCE O-level students with at least 3 O-level passes remained at about 95 per cent while the proportion with at least 5 O-level passes remained above 80 per cent.

On the A-level front, more than 85 per cent of the first cohort of students who took the examinations under the revised A-level curriculum in 2007 obtained at least 3 H2 passes and passed General Paper or Knowledge and Inquiry.

While the revised A-level curriculum is not directly comparable with the previous syllabus, the above percentage was similar to the proportion who obtained passes in at least 3 A-level subjects and General Paper in previous years.

The statistics are part of an annual report from the Ministry of Education.

The report reflects data on the performance of the major ethnic groups with the objective of providing feedback to the communities on how their children fared in the national examinations.

 

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