GCE Exam: Reasons You Should Get Excellent Scores

By Arah Sho


Any student in Singapore who is planning to apply for an overseas scholarship grant should make sure that he or she passes the GCE examinations with excellent scores. GCE, which means General Certificate of Education, has two levels: the Ordinary and Advanced level. GCE O-level exams are taken by secondary students that are either in fourth or fifth year, while A-level exams are given to second-year junior students.

Public Service Commission (PSC) offers an overseas scholarship grant to students who obtained excellent scores in GCE examinations. Aside from the Overseas Merit Scholarship, other types of government scholarship that PSC offers to deserving students include the President's Scholarship, Singapore Armed Forces Overseas Scholarship and Local-Overseas Merit Scholarship.

Although PSC selects and grants scholarships to students with the highest scores in Advanced level examinations, obtaining an excellent score in Ordinary level is just as significant as being on top list of the examinees that took A-level examinations. This is because the selection would actually begin two years earlier, when students in secondary level take Ordinary level examinations for GCE. PSC would visit the schoolmasters of students who have passed the O-level exam with excellent scores and ask them to apply for an overseas scholarship.

Among the government scholarships that PSC offers, the most important is the OMS. This is why any Singaporean student who wants to apply for an overseas scholarship finds it necessary to register in a tuition agency that will help him or her become familiar with the format of GCE exams and give him or her plenty of examination practices as well. Some students that have difficulty in learning a particular subject like Economics should find a reliable center that specializes in JC Economics Tuition.

Learning agencies that specialize in JC econs tuition may also provide a copy of previous examination papers with detailed answers. But an ideal one knows that the content of former exams may not completely reflect the syllabus for the current school year. Thus, the center a student should find must have both a collection of past examinations and the current syllabus.




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