JC or Poly?

[floppy]

I may be wrong on EL, HCL, and CL. Hopefully floppy will log on again soon.

The following post has the JAE booklet embedded in it. Page 29 (PDF page 41) has English as first language, Chinese, and Higher Chinese all as "O" category. That's why I thought you can use either EL or HCL as L1 and any of the three as R4 as long as you don't use both CL and HCL.

Practically speaking, CL should at least match HCL, so I'd guess many end up with EL = L1 and CL = R4 per Merlion's prior reply above.

Just copying out the necessary info from here: https://www.moe.gov.sg/post-secondary/a ... n-criteria

Subjects in L1R5 (L1R5 = First Language + 5 Relevant Subjects):
L1 - English or Higher Mother Tongue Language (MTL)
R1 - H
R2 - M or S
R3 - H, M or S
R4 and R5 - Any 2 GCE O-Level subjects except Religious Knowledge

What cannot be used in the same aggregate computation:
- Grades for both Higher MTL (such as Higher Chinese, Higher Malay and Higher Tamil) and MTL (such as Chinese, Malay and Tamil). For example, if Higher MTL is used as the first language, MTL cannot be used as a relevant subject.
- “Merit” and “Pass” grades for the Mother Tongue ‘B’ Syllabus (Chinese ‘B’, Malay ‘B’ and Tamil ‘B’).

But I think everyone has already figured that out

[Sunofwinter2011]

A short video on the differences between these two.

Hope this will help.

https://youtu.be/7jn19zYmRsA