From 2025, junior colleges (JCs) will no longer reveal to students how their cohorts fared in the A-level examination

[tripleme]

SINGAPORE – From 2025, junior colleges (JCs) will no longer reveal to students how their cohorts fared in the A-level examination.

This joint decision by the principals of all 17 JCs and Millennia Institute offering the A levels is meant to support the education system’s move to reduce over-emphasis on grades, and focus on students’ holistic development, said Mr Aaron Loh, principal of Raffles Institution, in an e-mail reply in response to queries.

This means that students who collected their A-level exam results on Feb 21 were not shown any grades-related data during their school briefings, such as the percentage of distinctions by subject or the number of students with at least three H2 distinctions.

In previous years, schools would share how the cohort performed across different subjects, as well as the number of top scorers, or put up such information on their websites.

This move comes after the International Baccalaureate (IB) stopped releasing data from May 2023 on the number of IB students with perfect scores of 45.

The Switzerland-based IB organisation had said in 2024 that this was to discourage the use of assessment results for comparisons among students, schools or communities.

Mr Loh said that over the years, schools here have already cut down on the data from detailed results that is shared with students, parents and the public.

https://www.straitstimes.com/singap...d-academic-results-with-their-a-level-cohorts

 

[tExtra]

They still know which schools produce better performing students internally…

 

[Devoan]

Glass hearts DEI ****...

Like that this year Hougang and Sengkang don't need to share results also liao lor

 

[parchiao]

PAP won’t even show who in Singapore got the jobs.

Won’t even tell us who bought the COEs.

The future of Singapore is to make us like what we were in the past, well before the internet was available.

Make Singapore Ignorant Again.

 

[Suporter]

Scared affect cohesion ?

 

[samferguson]

Sinkies you all want the truth? You all can't handle the truth!

 

[van123]

JC’s overall results does not vary much from year to year anyway

 

[Shion]

pls la, pretending to reduce emphasis over grades ???

 

[tatsit]

reduce emphasis over grade? then why even have GCE O/A levels?

scrap Singapore GCE O/A levels and adopt IGCSE (International General Certificate of Secondary Education) O/A levels.

 

[galaxynote]

internally they still compare among themselves

 

[tomsss]

the comparison is still apparent la. it is in their blood

 

[sukukia]

Glass hearts DEI ****...

Like that this year Hougang and Sengkang don't need to share results also liao lor

is there a hg and sk jc in sinkieland?

 

[Mystyque]

SINGAPORE – From 2025, junior colleges (JCs) will no longer reveal to students how their cohorts fared in the A-level examination.

This joint decision by the principals of all 17 JCs and Millennia Institute offering the A levels is meant to support the education system’s move to reduce over-emphasis on grades, and focus on students’ holistic development, said Mr Aaron Loh, principal of Raffles Institution, in an e-mail reply in response to queries.

This means that students who collected their A-level exam results on Feb 21 were not shown any grades-related data during their school briefings, such as the percentage of distinctions by subject or the number of students with at least three H2 distinctions.

In previous years, schools would share how the cohort performed across different subjects, as well as the number of top scorers, or put up such information on their websites.

This move comes after the International Baccalaureate (IB) stopped releasing data from May 2023 on the number of IB students with perfect scores of 45.

The Switzerland-based IB organisation had said in 2024 that this was to discourage the use of assessment results for comparisons among students, schools or communities.

Mr Loh said that over the years, schools here have already cut down on the data from detailed results that is shared with students, parents and the public.

https://www.straitstimes.com/singap...d-academic-results-with-their-a-level-cohorts

All this anti-competition information hiding and wonder why Singaporeans not as competitive/hungry as FTs

 

[ChinTuaKi]

I tot we are a society based on merit? Meritocracy...

What happened? Swss IB do something in 2023 and we changed our practice for so many years...duh

 

[KYZT2021]

so good no need KPI?

 

[uselessbum]

On the one hand, they claim that they don't want them to "emphasize on grades". Yet on the other hand, they still have a very rigid COP (cut-off point) system. COP is effectively an epeen measuring contest as well.

 

[samferguson]

reduce emphasis over grade? then why even have GCE O/A levels?

scrap Singapore GCE O/A levels and adopt IGCSE (International General Certificate of Secondary Education) O/A levels.

You can't do that... You will be touching the cheese cakes of a lot of stake holders.

 

[BBClone]

Might as well don’t reveal exam results

Everyone just lives on with blissful ignorance

 

[standarture]

Quite funny their strategy. The good ones from international reowned schools in world are successful due to good grades and competition. The entrepreneurs are those who dont focus on school in the first place. Their brains are different, nothing to do with grades or no grades or strict education. So you remove grading, it will be neither here nor there. End up with a bunch of average lazy workers.

 

[chaiscool]

All this anti-competition information hiding and wonder why Singaporeans not as competitive/hungry as FTs

Imo it's cuz sinkie are too competitive that's why tio pwn by FT. There's local uni elitism and they will hiam private uni / poly grads. Meanwhile FT from tunku rahman and uptron all help each other despite their degree mill.

Glass hearts DEI ****...

Like that this year Hougang and Sengkang don't need to share results also liao lor

Aiya where got DEI, not everything about diversity.

On the one hand, they claim that they don't want them to "emphasize on grades". Yet on the other hand, they still have a very rigid COP (cut-off point) system. COP is effectively an epeen measuring contest as well.

Might as well don’t reveal exam results

Everyone just lives on with blissful ignorance

Quite funny their strategy. The good ones from international reowned schools in world are successful due to good grades and competition. The entrepreneurs are those who dont focus on school in the first place. Their brains are different, nothing to do with grades or no grades or strict education. So you remove grading, it will be neither here nor there. End up with a bunch of average lazy workers.

Imo this is meant for the parents who been stressing their kids too much. Moi know one too many who kpkb about A+,A,A- till their kids get mental health problem and suicidal. So even if their kids get good grades, the parent are not happy and will say others did better.