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Registration of New Students – Qualifying English Test (QET)

Students who do not possess the necessary English Language qualifications are required to sit for the Qualifying English Test (QET) set by the Centre for English Language Communication (CELC). The objectives of the QET and format of the test are available at CELC’s website.  

The 2nd QET for Academic Year 2011/2012 is scheduled as follows:

QET2  
Date: 17 November 2011
Time: 1.00 pm to 2.45 pm
Registration: All students sitting for QET2 have to register their attendance from 17 to 27 October 2011. Students who do not register by 27 October 2011 will have to sit for QET1 in July 2012 (date to be confirmed).
Seat no. & Venues:

Please check the seat number here (PDF format).
(Use Acrobat 'find' to look for your student ID & seat no.) 

Campus map: Multipurpose Sports Hall (i.e. MPSH 1)

Students sitting for the QET are required to bring along an identification document with his/her photo attached (e.g. Student Card, NRIC, passport) to the examination venue.

Release of results: 16 December 2011. Will be posted at CELC’s website.

Please take note that a student can only sit for the QET once.

 

You will be exempted from sitting for the QET if you possess any of the following qualifications:

  • Singapore-Cambridge GCE ‘A’ Level
  General Paper ('AO' Level GP) - B4 and above
  or
  General Paper (H1 Level GP) - C and above
  or
  Knowledge Inquiry (KI) - D and above
  • International-Cambridge
  General Paper (‘AS’ Level GP) - C and above
  • High School Certificate (HSC)
  General Paper (GP) - C and above
  • SAT
  Reading & Writing (750 and above) and Essay (10 and above)
  • IELTS
  Overall (8 and above) and Writing & Reading (8 and above)
  • TOEFL
  115 and above (internet-based), or 280 and above (computer-based), or 650 and above (paper-based)
  • International Baccalaureate (IB)
  Theory of Knowledge - C (Satisfactory) and above
  • NCEA Achievement Standard 90720 or 90721
  English at Level 3 Minimum rating of A (Achievement) has been attained
  • NUS High School of Mathematics and Science
  EL5102 English for Academic Purposes (Critical Reading & Writing) - B- and above
  or
  EL5101 – Language in Society II and EL6103 – Language in Society III - B and above in both

In addition to the above, the following students are also exempted from sitting for the QET:


  • Student admitted to Medicine (except for Nursing), Dentistry and Law courses
  • Part-time students enrolled in Bachelor of Technology Programmes and Bachelor of Science (Real Estate)
  • Students who have taken and passed the QET at NUS or NTU or SMU within two years of a change in course/University or have attained an exemption grade in an English Proficiency module in NUS or NTU or SMU. These include:
(a) Students re-applying to NUS
(b) Students switching courses within NUS
(c) Students transferring from NTU
(d) Students transferring from SMU

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