Notification of Grade Profile and Course Places for A-level and Polytechnic Applicants for the 2009 University Admission Exercise

To provide applicants with information to make their course choices, we are providing information in the following areas:

• Representative grade profiles¹ of the 10th and 90th percentilesof applicants offered places in AY 2008 for applicants holding Singapore-Cambridge GCE A-Level qualifications. The grade profiles refer to the grades scored by A-level applicants in their three H2 and one H1 subjects. For the purpose of this exercise, Grade “C” is assumed for both General Paper (GP) and Project Work (PW) in determining the grade profiles.  Please note that certain courses may require grades higher than “C” for GP. More details can be found at NUS admissions website. Please refer to.Table 1.
• Representative polytechnic Grade Point Averages (GPAs) of the 10th and 90th percentilesof polytechnic applicants offered places for courses at NUS in AY 2008. Please note that in addition to the Polytechnic GPA, the O-Level results of polytechnic applicants are also taken into account for university admissions. More details can be found at
  NUS admissions website. Please refer to Table 2.
• The number of course places taken up in AY 2008. The number of places is subject to change from year to year. More details can be found at NUS admissions website. Please refer to Table 3.

Applicants can expect competition to be keener for courses with more stringent grade requirements and fewer places. In using the tables below, please note the following:

• The grade profiles, GPAs and course places may vary from year to year, depending on the number and performance of applicants and the number of places available.
• Meeting the previous year’s grade/GPA scores of a course does NOT guarantee admission to that course for AY 2009.
• The courses marked with an asterisk (*) are those where additional assessments such as interviews, selection tests, and portfolios are required.
• Certain courses may have specific subject requirements. More details can be found at NUS admissions website.

For more information on the disclosure of grade profiles, please refer to our FAQ here.

¹These provide an indication of the grade profiles for most of the applicants admitted in AY 2008.  There could be other “equivalent” profiles for each course. For example, a grade profile of ABC/C could be considered to be broadly equivalent to BBB/C, unless there are pre-requisites.

Table 1: Grade Profiles of the 10th and 90th percentiles of ‘A’-Level Applicants offered places for courses at NUS in UAE 2008

The courses marked with an asterisk (*) are those where additional assessments such as interviews, selection tests, and portfolios are required


Table 2: Polytechnic GPAs of the 10th and 90th percentiles of Polytechnic Applicants offered places for courses at NUS in UAE 2008

# No representative GPA is shown as the sample size is small.

The courses marked with an asterisk (*) are those where additional assessments such as interviews, selection tests, and portfolios are require

Table 3: Total number of NUS course places taken up in 2008

The courses marked with an asterisk (*) are those where additional assessments such as interviews, selection tests, and portfolios are required

For more information on the disclosure of grade profiles, please refer to our FAQ here.