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January 8, 2016

No appealing if you miss PSLE cut-off point

During the December holidays, MOE passed a new ruling that secondary schools are not to take in transfer students with PSLE aggregate scores lower than their official cut-off point.So what exactly does that mean?Basically, students who did not make it into a school via the Secondary 1 posting exercise need not bother to appeal.Even those who …

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