KiasuParents - Parenting in Singapore

For those parents with PSLE children, here's the much needed indicative guide only for top 10 sec schools (by prestige):


- Raffles Institution ( PSLE cut-off : 263 )

- Raffles Girls Secondary School ( PSLE cut-off : 265 )

- Hwa Chong Institution ( PSLE cut-off : 259 ; SAP School)

- Nanyang Girls High School ( PSLE cut-off : 262 ; SAP School)

- Dunman High School ( PSLE cut-off : 259 ;SAP School)

- Singapore Chinese Girls School ( PSLE cut-off : 254 )

- Methodist Girls School ( PSLE cut-off : 253 )

- Anglo-Chinese School Independent ( PSLE cut-off : 253 )

- NUS High School of Mathematics and Science ( via DSA )

- CHI St Nicholas Girls School ( PSLE cut-off : 250 ;SAP School)

Top 5 Boy Schools in Singapore ( by prestige ) are :



- Raffles Institution ( PSLE cut-off : 263 )

- Hwa Chong Institution ( PSLE cut-off: 259)

- Anglo-Chinese School Independent ( PSLE cut-off : 253 )

- Victoria School ( PSLE cut-off : 246)

- St Joseph Institution ( PSLE cut-off : 244 )

Top 5 Girl Schools in Singapore ( by prestige ) are:



- Raffles Girls Secondary School ( PSLE cut-off: 265)

- Nanyang Girls High School ( PSLE cut-off: 262)

- Singapore Chinese Girls School ( PSLE cut-off: 254 )

- Methodist Girls School ( PSLE cut-off : 253 )

- CHIJ St Nicholas Girls School ( PSLE cut-off: 250 )

Other interesting facts:

1. The independent secondary schools attract the Top 5 % of each PSLE cohort and are targeted at students who are
clearly university-bound.

2. The SAP schools normally attract the Top 10% - 20% of each PSLE cohort.

3. Students who are in the Top 10% of their PSLE cohort will be given an option by the Ministry of Education to study a foreign language (French / German/ Japanese)

4. NUS High School, SOTA and SST are targeted at students with specific talents.

Excellent information ks2me! Will sticky this in the Secondary school thread.

Selected Notable Alumni of Singapore Top Schools

Raffles Institution

- Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew

- Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong

- Senior Minister S. Jayakumar

- Speaker of Parliament Abdullah Tarmugi

- Cabinet Minister Lim Hng Kiang

- Cabinet Minister Raymond Lim

- Cabinet Minister K Shanmugam

- Former Cabinet Minister Lee Yock Suan

- Former Cabinet Minister E W Barker

- Former Cabinet Minister Dr Ahmad Mattar

- Former Deputy Prime Minister S Rajaratnam

- Former Cabinet Minister Howe Yoon Chong

- Former Singapore President Dr Wee Kim Wee

- Former Singapore President Yusof Ishak

- Former Singapore President Dr Benjamin Sheares

- Singapore’s first elected Chief Minister David Marshall

- Minister of State Koo Tsai Kee

- Senior Minister of State Dr Balaji Sadasivan

- Minister of State Heng Chee How

- Ko Kheng Hwa, former Managing Director, Economic Development Board

- Heng Swee Keat, Managing Director, Monetary Authority of Singapore

- LG Lim Chuan Poh, former Chief of Defence Force, former Permanent Secretary , current Chairman of A* Star

- LG Bey Soo Khiang, former Chief of Defence Force, current SEVP, SIA

- Tee Tua Ba, former Chief Commissioner of Police Force

- Teo Ming Kian, Permanent Secretary

- Peter Ong, Permanent Secretary

- Tan Yong Soon, Permanent Secretary

- Ravi Menon, Permanent Secretary

- Dr Tan Chin Nam, former Permanent Secretary

- Peter Chan, Permanent Secretary

- Koh Cher Siang, Permanent Secretary

- Dr Tan Kim Siew, Permanent Secretary

- Professor Lim Pin, former Vice-Chancellor of National University of Singapore

- Dr Su Guaning , President of Nanyang Technological University

- Seah Kian Peng, Member of Parliament

- Zagy Mohamad , Member of Parliament

- Dr Toh See Kiat , former Member of Parliament

- Othman Haron Eusoffe, former Member of Parliament

- Dr Tan Cheng Bock, former Member of Parliament

- Dr Wan Soon Bee, former Member of Parliament

- Loh Meng See , former Member of Parliament

- Wee Siew Kim, Member of Parliament

- Ahmad Khalis, Member of Parliament

- R. Sinnakaruppan, Member of Parliament

- Tony Pua, Member of Parliament in Malaysia

- Professor Tommy Koh, Ambassador-at-Large

- Former top stockbroker Peter Lim

- Robert Kuok , founder and chairman of Shangri-La Hotel & Resorts



Anglo Chinese School

- Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Cabinet Minister

- Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, Cabinet Minister

- Dr Ng Eng Hen, Cabinet Minister

- RADM Lui Tuck Yew, Cabinet Minister

- Dr Goh Keng Swee , former Deputy Prime Minister

- Dr Richard Hu, former Finance Minister

- Lim Kim San , former Cabinet Minister

- Yeo Cheow Tong, former Cabinet Minister

- David Lim, former Minister of State

- LG Desmond Kuek, Chief of Defence Force

- Khoo Boon Hui, Chief Commissioner of Police Force

- Winston Choo, Former Chief of Defence Force, current Chairman of Red Cross

- Sim Kee Boon, former top civil servant

- Ho Peng Kee, Senior Minister of State

- Ong Kian Min, Member of Parliament

- Lam Pin Min, Member of Parliament

- Sin Boon Ann, Member of Parliament

- Arthur Fong, Member of Parliament

- Warren Lee, former Member of Parliament

- Ong Beng Seng, founder of Hotel Properties and Singapore F1 Grand Prix

- Chiam See Tong, veteran Member of Parliament

- Alvin Yeo, Member of Parliament

- Tan Sri Dato Teh Hong Piow , Founder and Chairman of Public Bank Malaysia

- Tan Sri Dr Tan Chin Tuan, former Chairman of OCBC Bank


St Joseph Institution



- RADM Teo Chee Hean, Cabinet Minister

- Mah Bow Tan, Cabinet Minister

- BG George Yeo, Cabinet Minister ( also attended St Patrick School )

- Dr Tony Tan, former Deputy Prime Minister and current Chairman of National Research Foundation

- Philip Yeo, Chairman of SPRING Singapore

- Leo Yip, Permanent Secretary

- Tan Tee How, Permanent Secretary

- Christopher de Souza, Member of Parliament

- Charles Chong, Member of Parliament

- Chay Wai Yuen, former Member of Parliament

- Charles Chong, Member of Parliament

- Davinder Singh, Member of Parliament

- Matthias Yao, former Minister of State

- Bernard Chen, former Minister of State

- Khoo Teck Puat, formerly Singapore top billionaire

- Lim Chee Onn, Keppel Corporation

Hwa Chong Institution

- Former President Ong Teng Cheong

- Dr Lim Wee Kiak, Member of Parliament

- Kenny Yap, CEO of Qian Hu Corporation

- James Tan, former Commissioner of Singapore Civil Defence Force

- Tan Swie Hian, famous artist

- Luo Hau Cai, Chief Justice, Supreme People Court, China


Raffles Girls School

- Justice Judith Prakash , judge

- Dr Amy Khor , Mayor

- Denise Phua, Member of Parliament

- Lim Soo Hoon, Singapore first woman Permanent Secretary

- Jennifer Yeo, lawyer and wife of Cabinet minister George Yeo

- Claire Chang, wife of Ho Kwon Ping- founder of Banyan Tree Holdings

- Chua Sock Koong, Group CEO of SingTel

- Kit Chan , singer

- Stefanie Sun , singer

- Corinne May, singer

Singapore Chinese Girls School

- Ms Jennie Chua , President of The Ascott Group

- Dr Susan Lim, renowned surgeon

- Euleen Goh, former Chairman of IE Singapore

- Professor Thio Li-ann, Nominated Member of Parliament


Methodist Girls School

- Mrs Lee Kuan Yew ( Mdm Kwa Geok Choo )

Nanyang Girls High School
- Grace Fu, Senior Minister of State

- Yu-Foo Yee Shoon, Minister of State

Victoria School

- President S R Nathan

- Former President Devan Nair

- S Dhanabalan , former Cabinet Minister and current Chairman of Temasek Holdings

- Teo Ser Luck, Senior Parliamentary Secretary

- Lim Biow Chuan, Member of Parliament

- Ho Meng Kit, former Permanent Secretary ( Pre-University in Raffles Institution)

- Chang Chie Foo, Permanent Secretary

- Lam Chuan Leong, former Permanent Secretary

- Ong Chit Chung , former Member of Parliament

- MG Ng Chee Kern, Chief of Air Force

- MG Neo Kian Hong, Chief of Army

- LG Ng Yat Chung, former Chief of Defence Force

hi ks2me, maybe you could add on if its SAP or non SAP because the SAP are allowed to include HMT and if the COP is included or excluded HMT. For eg. I know NYGH, last year 262 COP is included HMT. Tks

daisyt wrote:hi ks2me, maybe you could add on if its SAP or non SAP because the SAP are allowed to include HMT and if the COP is included or excluded HMT. For eg. I know NYGH, last year 262 COP is included HMT. Tks

The cut-off points listed are for 2007, not 2008

eg. for 2008:

RGS 263
NYGH 263 (inc HMT)

RI 262
HCI 259
NJC 259 etc...

hi daisyt, added the SAP schools already.

ks2me, just curious, why no RVH ?