Category A online application form

Attention
Admission exercise for AY2008-2009 has closed. Invitation for Applications for AY2009-2010 will commence in early March 2009. Updated information will be available from 6 October 2008.

• Applicants (regardless of nationality) presenting the Singapore-Cambridge GCE 'A' Level results, including full-time National Servicemen (NSF) who have a course reserved in NUS and wish to apply for a change of course.
  
  Do not use this form if you are:
  
  
• Presenting an acceptable Diploma from a polytechnic in Singapore.
  
  
• Presenting an international qualification.
  
  
• A current or former undergraduate or graduate student applying for a change in course, transfer or admission.

• Minimal data entry is required.
   
• Submission of paper supporting documents is only required if there are discrepancies. If all data displayed are accurate, applicants will not have to submit any documents.
  
  
• Provide access to online status enquiry and other functions.

• School applicants who sat for the Singapore-Cambridge GCE 'A' Level examination in 2007
  
  2007 school applicants will be issued an Admission PIN (8 alpha-numeric character, case sensitive) by NUS to access the online application system. The PIN slip will be sent to the postal address by end February 2008.
  
  
• Private applicants who sat for the Singapore-Cambridge GCE 'A' Level examination in 2007
  
  MOE will issue an alpha-numeric PIN in February 2008 to private candidates to view their ‘A' Level results online. Candidates can use the original PIN issued by MOE to access the online admission application system.
   
• Full-time National Servicemen (NSF) who have reserved places at NUS
  
  NUS will issue an Admission PIN (8 alpha-numeric character, case sensitive) to all NSF, who have reserved places at NUS, to access the online application system if they wish to apply for a change in course. The PIN slip will be sent to their postal address in January/February 2008.
  

In either Type I or Type II form, under the Section on ‘Choice of Courses’, you will be given TWO parts: (a) and (b) to fill in.
 
In (a), you have to indicate your choice of Single Degree courses in order of your preference.  You must complete (a) before you proceed to (b) to indicate your interest in the Double / Concurrent Degree programmes. 

You need to complete (b) only if you are interested in the double / concurrent degree programmes.  Please note that:

1. If you wish to apply for a double / concurrent degree programme, you must include at least one of the faculties / schools offering the double  / concurrent  degree programme(s) as one of your choices in Part (a).
2. The faculties / schools offering direct admission to double / concurrent degree programmes are Arts & Social Sciences (for Economics and Communications & New Media), Business, Computing, Engineering (except Engineering Science course), Law and Science (for Mathematics/Applied Mathematics and Life Sciences). 
3. To be considered for the Business Administration & Law, Economics & Law, Law & Life Sciences, and / or Law & Master in Public Policy double / concurrent degree programmes, you must have listed Law as your first or second choice in the selection of a single degree course in (a). For more information, please click here.
4. To be considered for the Mathematics/Applied Mathematics & Computer Science double degree programme, you must have listed Science and/or Computing as one of your choices in Part (a).

You will be evaluated for admission to a double / concurrent degree programme if you are successful in gaining admission into a faculty / school that offers one of the double/ concurrent degree programmes.    

Some double / concurrent degree programmes require a selection interview.  Only shortlisted candidates will be informed to attend the interview(s) for the double/ concurrent degree programmes. You may be shortlisted for one or more interviews if you indicate more than one choice for your Double/ Concurrent Degree Programme options. Please note that Double / Concurrent Degree Programmes are highly competitive.

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Since 2006, SAT I scores are no longer be considered for computation of University Score.

SAT I Verbal or Critical reading score with a minimum of 700 score can only be considered if you are applying for any Law-related courses and that you have not obtained at least a B3 (for old syllabus) / B (for new syllabus) for General Paper (GP) or a good pass in your Knowledge & Inquiry (KI) (for new syllabus) in your first and/or subsequent sittings.  You may then submit the SAT I Verbal or Critical Reading score, accompanied by a minimum GP grade of C6 / E, to meet the subject requirements for the Law-related courses.  Please note that the SAT I Verbal or Critical Reading score will not be used in the computation of the University Score.  It is strictly used to meet the minimum subject requirement needed for the Law-related courses, when the applicants are not able to meet the minimum B3 grade required for their General Paper taken at the ‘A’ Level examination.

Please note that only SAT I Verbal or Critical Reading score taken in the 5 years leading up to 1 April of the year of application will be considered.  For applications closing on 1 April 2008, the validity period for SAT I Verbal or Critical Reading score is 1 April 2003 to 1 April 2008 (both dates inclusive).

Please note that the last acceptable test date for SAT I score is 26 January 2008.  April / May 2008 SAT I scores will not be considered.

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Full-time National Service status

Male applicants who are or will be serving or had served full-time National Service in Singapore should indicate their full-time national service status on the online application form accordingly.  If you are waiting to be enlisted for NS, please do not choose your NS status as “NOT APPLICABLE” in the online form.  Please choose your NS status as “Registered/Waiting to be enlisted” instead.

Those who have registered but have not enlisted or have not yet been notified to enlist need not provide the date of enlistment and/or ORD in the application form.  However should you have registered at any point in time, you should inform Office of Admissions immediately.

You are required to indicate your Enlistment Date & ORD if you have chosen the following NS status:

• COMPLETING/DISRUPTING BY JUL 08
• COMPLETED, OR
• DISRUPTED TO REPEAT ‘A’ LEVELS

You are required to indicate your Enlistment Date if you have chosen the following NS status:

• SERVING
• PENSIONABLE/CONTRACT SAF, SPF OR SCDF OFFICER
• RSAF PILOT TRAINEE/OFFICER

If you are exempted from NS, please choose ‘EXEMPTED’ and you are required to send the necessary documents (endorsed by MINDEF) to Office of Admissions for our processing.  Please click here for more information on submission of supporting documents.

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Application fee

The application fee is S$10.  Please note that payment must be made by 1 April 2008. Application fee is non-refundable. The following modes are available:

• S$10.00 through any DBS or POSBank ATM machines islandwide.  The simple payment steps are:
  
  Step 1: Insert DBS/POSBank ATM Card in card slot
  Step 2: Enter ATM PIN
  Step 3: Select “More Services” option
  Step 4: Select “Credit Card / Bill Payment” option
  Step 5: In the list of corporations listed, select “NUS Application Fees” for payment of bill
  Step 6: At the “Enter Bill Reference No.” prompt, enter “NUS Application Fees” invoice or account number, which is your 8-digit application number.  Press “ENTER” key to proceed.
  Step 7: Enter amount (ie. S$10.00) and select “Correct” to proceed.
  Step 8: Check your payment details and select “Confirm” to proceed with the transaction.
  Step 9: Upon confirmation by the bank, a transaction receipt with payment details will be issued.
  You should keep this receipt for your reference.  DBS/POSBank will inform us of your payment.  It is not necessary for you to forward the receipt to us.

• S$10 by Visa or Mastercard via Electronic Payment.  Kindly follow instructions listed at the E-Payment website to make the payment and then print a copy of the receipt for your reference.
• S$10 by NETS at the Office of Admissions, NUS. A copy of the transaction receipt will be printed for you for your reference.
• S$10 by cheque/bank draft made payable to ‘National University of Singapore’.  Write your name, address, telephone number and application number of the reverse side of the cheque. Please note that no payment receipt will be issued for payment made via cheque/bank draft.

Depending on the mode of payment you have chosen, the time needed to process your application fee will be different. You can check if your payment has been received through the Online Application Status Enquiry (OASF):

• Payment by ATM - three working days after you have made the payment
• Payment by Credit Card - three working days after you have made the payment
• Payment by NETS – five working days after you have made the payment
• Payment by Cheque/Bank draft - five working days after you have submitted the cheque/bankdraft via local post (ie. posting within Singapore) / personally at the counter
• Payment by Cheque/Bank draft – minimum seven working days after you have submitted the cheque/bankdraft via international post (ie. posting from outside Singapore), depending on the country of origin

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Kindly be reminded to submit the MT result slip to the Office of Admissions by 1 April 2008 if you belong to one of the following categories:

1. If you have (re)taken your MT examination at a different sitting from your 2007 Singapore Cambridge GCE ‘A’ level examinations, AND/OR
   
   
2. If you have obtained a better scoring for your MT examination at a different sitting from your 2007 Singapore Cambridge GCE ‘A’ level examinations;

• Offering a non-Tamil Indian Language (viz Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Panjabi & Urdu)
  
  If you are offering a non-Tamil language subject in-lieu of your MT subject, such as Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi. Punjabi and Urdu, kindly submit their PSLE or GCE ‘O’ Level MT result slip, together with the GCE ‘A’ Level MT result slip to us by 1 April 2008.

• Offering an approved Foreign Language (FL) (French, German, and Japanese) or Asian Language (AL) (Arabic) in-lieu of Mother Tongue (MT)
  
  If you have been given approval by Singapore Ministry of Education (MOE) to offer a foreign language (FL) in-lieu of MT, you are required to submit your GCE ‘O’ FL or AL result slip, together with your GCE ‘A’ Level FL or AL result slip to us by 1 April 2008.

• Offering a non-language GCE ‘A’ Level subject-in-lieu (SIL) of Mother Tongue (MT)
  
  If you are offering an SIL in-lieu of MT, you are required to submit a letter (issued by MOE) to us by 1 April 2008, indicating the GCE ‘A’ Level subject that has been approved to be the SIL for MT.
  
  You may like to note that with effect from 2003, MOE has ceased to offer SIL in-lieu of MT.  As such, if you are not eligible to offer a MT at your GCE ‘O’ and/or ‘A’ Level examination, you should have been given exemption from MOE.  Kindly submit the letter of exemption (issued by MOE) to us by 1 April 2008. 

• Exemption of Mother Tongue at GCE ‘A’ Level examination
  
  You will be exempted from offering MT at GCE ‘A’ Level examination if you belong to one of the following categories:

1. Students who have been given approval by MOE for exemption from offering MT at GCE ‘O’ Level examination
2. Students who have offered Burmese / Thai Language at GCE ‘O’ Level examination.
   
   You will then be required to submit the letter of exemption (issued by MOE) to us by 1 April 2008. 
   

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Confirmation of receipt of online application

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For Category 'A' applicants, the online facility is only available three working days after the release of 2007 Singapore-Cambridge GCE ‘A’ Level results in March 2008.  You can log in with your application number and Admission PIN to track your application status and check regularly for updates.  Please click here to access our Online Application Status Facility(OASF).

Kindly note that the application number and the Admission PIN given to you in 2008 to check your online application status can only be used during the admission period between March to August 2008 if you have applied admissions in 2008.  This online facility will close on 31 August 2008 and afterwhich, it will no longer be available. 

Using the application number and Admission PIN to check the online application status is only meant for current year applicant, i.e. candidates using it during the period from March to August in the year that he/she applied.

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Online Acceptance

If your application is successful, you are required to accept the offer online via the common acceptance platform by the stipulated deadline given in the admissions package.  

As the online acceptance platform is common across the three local universities, namely NUS, NTU and SMU, you may be offered a course of study in each of the three local universities if you have met the admission requirements and selection criteria of each university.  The online common acceptance platform will reflect the place(s) that have been offered to you, ie. for eg.  if you are offered a place each in NUS and NTU, the online acceptance platform will reflect the two courses.  However you are only allowed to accept one offer from one of the three universities if you have been offered by more than one university. 

If you wish to alter your decision after submitting your online acceptance, please log in with your date of birth, NRIC number and application number to do so. You may submit multiple changes but only the last change received by the stipulated deadline will be CONSIDERED.  No late acceptance will be entertained after the stipulated deadline given in the admissions package.

After you have submitted the online acceptance, you will receive an acknowledgement, which serves as confirmation for your online decision.  No other confirmation letter will be given.  Please print a copy of the acknowledgement page for your reference.  

More detailed instructions on the online acceptance will be provided in the admissions package which will reach you not later than end May 2008.  Please read the instructions carefully before accepting the offer online.  For more information on application outcome, please click here.

Please note that instructions for online acceptance will only be provided in the admissions package for applicants whose applications are successful.

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Applicants, who wish to appeal against the admission decision of NUS, are allowed one appeal to be submitted online with your application number and Admission PIN, from 30 May to 5 June 2008.You may submit multiple appeals but only the last appeal received by the closing date of the online appeal will be CONSIDERED.

A total of 1000 characters are allowed for the appeal. The ability to summarise and be concise is valued. The length of the written appeal does not enhance your chances. The outcome of appeal will be released by end June / early July 2008.

Mass emailing to multiple parties within NUS outside the appeal protocol will result only in slowing down the appeal process. The NUS Office of Admissions makes the final decision on all appeals.

Applicants are advised to exercise personal planning. Applying only to NUS is not a valid reason for appeals. While waiting for the result of your appeal, you should accept the course offered, or your place may be given to another applicant.

Please note that appeals to Architecture, Dentistry, Industrial Design, all Law-related courses, Medicine, Nursing and some of the double / concurrent degree programmes that require a selection interview, will not be considered, unless you have taken the required aptitude tests and interviews conducted earlier.

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If you have forgotten/misplaced your Admission PIN (8 alpha-numeric character & case sensitive) after submitting your online application, you can retrieve your Admission PIN via our Online Application Status Facility.  Please note that retrieval of the Admission PIN via the Online Application Status Facility is only applicable to those who have submitted an online application to NUS.

Alternatively, you can send us an email with the required information so that we could verify and revert to you. Please click here to send us an email with your name, application number (if applicable), date of birth, residential address, name of high school / junior college / polytechnic attended, first choice as stated in application (if applicable) and next of kin's name. Upon receiving the request, we will send you the Admission PIN via post within five working days. Please note that mails to destinations outside Singapore will take longer time to reach you.

For urgent PIN requests, please bring along your NRIC or passport to seek a replacement of your PIN from the Office of Admissions, Block E3A, Level 1, 7 Engineering Drive 1 (opposite University Cultural Centre).  You may also send a representative, with a letter of authorisation and your NRIC or passport to collect a new PIN on your behalf.  The letter of authorisation should bear your signature, NRIC/FIN number or passport number and the representative's NRIC/FIN number or passport number.

For Category A applicants, please note that for PIN requests received after 19 March 2008 (Wed), the above processing time still apply.  If you need the PIN urgently to apply for admission before the Category ‘A’ application closes on 1 April 2008, you are strongly encouraged to:
1) Personally/Send a representative to seek a replacement of your PIN at our office, OR
2) Apply via the Online Application Form Type II instead.

We regret that we are unable to reveal PIN over the phone and/or via email.

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Registration as private candidate for the Singapore-Cambridge GCE ‘A’ Level examination

Applicants who are not confident of being offered admission to a course at NUS may wish to register to retake the ‘A’ level examination in 2008.  Registration for the 2008 Singapore-Cambridge GCE ‘A’ level will be held from 10 to 22 March 2008.  Interested applicants can register at the MOE website.  MOE will not accept any late applications after 22 March 2008.  In the event that the application to NUS is successful, the applicant can request for a full refund of the examination fees provided that they inform MOE of their withdrawal from the examination by 30 June 2008.

Online Application Form I
Online Application Form II

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