Junior college (Singapore)

Junior colleges (JC) are pre-university institutions in Singapore that offer two-year pre-university courses that leads to either the Singapore-Cambridge GCE Advanced Level (A-Level - offered by all JCs except following 4 which offer IB) or the International Baccalaureate Diploma (IB - offered by MoE's only 4 following JCs, Anglo-Chinese School, School of the Arts, Singapore Sports School, and St. Joseph’s Institution). Admission to Junior college is based on the aggregate raw score of 20 points or less in O-Level "L1R5" (1st language and 5 relevant content subjects) in the examination. Lower aggregate is considered better, i e. 7 aggregate score is better than aggregate score 10. Bonus points (e.g. co-curricular activities etc) are also deducted from this proscore to come up with the final score for the admission.

This article is about the class of pre-university institutions in Singapore. For the larger class of instutitions that includes community colleges, see junior college.
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