Upper Secondary Subject Combination Briefing
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Upper Secondary
Subject Combination
Briefing
Friday, 12 March 2021
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Agenda
How school has been managing the COVID-19
situation
To update parents on the post-secondary
pathways
Parents-School Partnership
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Welcome Back To School – Keeping our School Safe
Bukit Merah Secondary School
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SAFE BMSS
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Phase 3 But Life Not back to Normal!
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ABCs of BMSS
AccountabilityPersonal accountabilitySocial responsibility beats COVID
BeliefsMind-set shifts Safety above Comfort and Convenience
Community Support and cooperationStay together by keeping safely apart
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CONFIDENTIAL \ NON-SENSITIVECONFIDENTIAL \ NON-SENSITIVE
Preventing Potential Spread
in Schools
Social Responsibility | Good Personal Hygiene | Decongestion | Reduction of Intermingling | Safe Distancing
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CONFIDENTIAL \ NON-SENSITIVE
Outline of Safe Management Measures in Schools
• Schools will apply the following principles to prevent the
potential spread of COVID-19 at various venues and times
during the school day.
Venues
Classrooms & Special Rooms
(Labs, Kitchens)
Canteen, Play Areas, Fields
School Gates
Activity
Lessons (includingbanded classes)
Recess & Break Times
Arrival & Dismissal Times
Principles
Practise Social Responsibility
Minimise Intermingling
Practise Good Personal Hygiene
Decongest venues as
far as possible
Maintain Safe
Distancing where
possible
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CONFIDENTIAL \ NON-SENSITIVE
General Principle when carrying out group
activities
• 50-8-1(3) rule
• 50 max per venue (with minimal
intermingling), 8 per group, 1m
spacing (btw individuals, btw
groups), 3m spacing for physical
activities.
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CONFIDENTIAL \ NON-SENSITIVE
Ensuring Social Responsibility is Practiced
• Staying Away when Unwell: Students and staff will be
reminded to remain at home if they are feeling unwell.
HQO/SHN/LOA/AA policies are also in place to
ringfence the school.
• Wipe Down Routines: All students will wipe down their
desk areas and common/shared equipment each time
they need to move to a different classroom/venue.
• Wearing of masks/shields properly: Teachers and
students will be strongly encouraged to wear face
masks as their main option, with face shields their
secondary option if uncomfortable.
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CONFIDENTIAL \ NON-SENSITIVE
Maintain Safe Distancing where possible:
Safe Management Measures (SMM) in Classrooms
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SMM in Classrooms
• Classroom Situation: – Temperature Taking
– Wipe-down routine
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CONFIDENTIAL \ NON-SENSITIVE
SMM in Classrooms during Lessons
Conduct of LessonsWhere possible, desks should be arranged in fixed
cluster/exam-style seating with at least 1m between students
(seat-to-seat). (no changing of seats due to contact tracing)
Activities can be conducted with 8 per group limit where group
work is involved.
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SMM in Classrooms during Lessons
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Participating Assembly Programme
in class
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CONFIDENTIAL \ NON-SENSITIVE
Safe Distancing Measures In Canteen
(Recess/Lunch)
• Staggered recess time, not more than 7 classes at one recess and due
to fixed class seating, some classes will have recess in classrooms.
• Students to sit in assigned class seating area and observe safe-
distancing rules while sitting in canteen. Alternate seating arrangement
that is at least 1m apart.
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CONFIDENTIAL \ NON-SENSITIVE
Decongest venues as far as possible:
BMSS Staggered Reporting, Dismissal and Recess Timing
*Staggered Dismissal and Recess time will be reflected in Timetable
*Except Wed (730am for all for SPLT)
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Morning Situation
• Generally not congested
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CONFIDENTIAL \ NON-SENSITIVE
SMM for Other School-Based Activities
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CCAs, external learning journeys in allowed groupings, with exclusive use of
venues if possible
Curricular, co-curricular and enrichment activities with fixed intermingling
across schools
CCA and school activities that can abide by the following SMM can resume:
a) 1m safe distancing measures between students (3m for Physical Activities).
b) Activities that cannot maintain 1m safe distancing measures, should be
reconfigured to multiple groups of 8 with 1m between groups (3m
between groups for Physical Activities).
CCA and school activities involving the following will continue to be suspended in
2021:
a) singing;
b) high level of body contact such as Taekwondo sparring, Rugby scrum and
tackle;
c) overnight camps
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SMM for Other School-Based Activities
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SMM for Other School-Based Activities
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Together,we can keep our school safe.
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Start of Sec 1
End of Sec 2
The subjects they can select
End of Sec 4/5
The courses they can select
End of tertiary education
The career they aspire
Begin with the end in mind
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Singapore Education System
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Pathways for ‘O’ Level Students
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Aggregate Computation for Admission
into various Tertiary Institutions
O Level Students
• 2-Year Junior College course : L1R5 (<=20)
• 3-Year Millennia Institute course : L1R4 (<=20)
• Poly course based on ELR2B2 (<=26)
• ITE Higher Nitec course – 3 GCE ‘O’ Level
grades
• ITE Nitec Course –2 GCE ‘O’ Level grades
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Computation of L1R5
(for O-Level students entry to JC)
L1 First Language English / Higher Mother Tongue
R5 Relevant Subject 1 Humanities
Relevant Subject 2 Mathematics/ Science
Relevant Subject 3 Humanities / Mathematics / Science
Relevant Subject 4 Any GCE 'O' Level subjects
(except Religious Knowledge)
Relevant Subject 5 Any GCE 'O' Level subjects
(except Religious Knowledge)
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COMPUTATION OF L1R4 (for O-Level
students entry to Millennia Institute)
L1 First Language English / Higher Mother Tongue
R4 Relevant Subject 1 Humanities
Relevant Subject 2 Humanities / Mathematics / Science
Relevant Subject 3 Any GCE 'O' Level subjects
(except Religious Knowledge)
Relevant Subject 4 Any GCE 'O' Level subjects
(except Religious Knowledge)
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COMPUTATION OF ELR2B2 (for O-
Level students entry to Polytechnics)
EL English Language
English Language
R2 Two Relevant Subjects
Two group of relevant subjects from
four categories of courses:
B2 Two Best Other
Subjects
Best 2 other subjects
AHumanities or
Media courses B Business courses
CEngineering, Science,
Facility Management or
IT coursesD
Architecture or
design courses
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COMPUTATION OF ELR2B2 (for O-
Level students entry to Polytechnics)Aggregate
TypeELR2B2-A ELR2B2-B ELR2B2-C ELR2B2-D
Types of
CoursesHumanities, Media Business
Engineering, Science,
Facility Management, ITArchitecture, Design
EL English
R2
1st
Group of
Relevant
Subjects
• Art
• Combined Humanities
• Music
• Elementary Mathematics
• Additional Mathematics
2nd
Group of
Relevant
Subjects
• Additional
Mathematics
• Art
• Chinese
• Combined Humanities
• Design & Technology
• Elementary
Mathematics
• Food & Nutrition
• Higher Chinese
• Higher Malay
• Higher Music
• Higher Tamil
• Malay
• Music
• Principles of Accounts
• Tamil
• Art
• Combined Humanities
• Higher Art
• Higher Music
• Music
• Principles of Accounts
• Biology
• Chemistry
• Physics
• Combined Science
• Design & Technology
• Food & Nutrition
• Art
• Biology
• Chemistry
• Physics
• Combined Science
• Design & Technology
• Food & Nutrition
• Higher Art
B2 Best 2 Other Subjects (Excluding CCA)
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• From 2024, students applying for admissions to the
polytechnics will generally need to meet three subject-
specific MERs
• In general, the subject-specific MERs will comprise
three subjects*:
a. English Language
b. Two relevant subjects drawn from the R subject list for
the associated course type
COMPUTATION OF ELR2B2 (for O-
Level students entry to Polytechnics)
EL
R2
* Exceptions may be made in special circumstances, especially for regulatedcourses with specific requirements
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COMPUTATION OF ELR2B2 (for O-
Level students entry to Polytechnics)
NYP Diploma in Mass Media Management
2020 COP: 5 to 14 points
For example:
New MER (from AY2024)
EL
R1
R2
English: C6
Mathematics: C6
Any one of the 2nd group of
Relevant Subjects for the ELR2B2-B
Aggregate Type: C6
Current Subject-Specific Entry Requirement
English: C6
Mathematics: C6
Any three other subjects: C6
To be eligible for selection, student must also have
sat for one subject listed in the 2nd group of
relevant subjects for the ELR2B2-B Aggregate Type.
3 subject requirements
Type
B
5 subject requirements
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GCE ‘O’/’N’ Level Preparation
• 2 year of journey of preparation and
examination
• Focus on rigour in subjects especially
English Language & Mathematics
• Increased width and level of difficulty of
subjects (eg coursework and pure
sciences)
• New subjects and strong foundation is
important for examination success.
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Assessment Weighting
Coursework
Subjects
Term 1 Term 2 Term 3 Term 4
WA1 (%) WA2 (%) WA3 (%)Year-End
Exam (%)
All Non-
Coursework
Subjects
15 15 15 55
Non-Coursework Subjects
SubjectTerm 1 Term 2 Term 3 Term 4
WA1 (%) WA2 (%) WA3 (%) WA4 (%)
Art 25 25 25 25
D&T (Sem 1) 60 40
FCE (Sem 2) 60 40
For FCE and
D&T, results
for the
Semester will
be results for
the whole
year.
No mid-year examinations
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Promotion Criteria
Criteria for Promotion
2E - Pass EL AND Overall 50%
2N(A) - Grade 5 or better in EL and Two other
subjects, OR
- Grade 5 or better in Four subjects
2N(T) - Grade D or better in Maths or EL, AND
- Pass in one other subject
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In Bukit Merah Secondary…….
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Parents as Partners
• Aspiration
– Where does your child/ ward want to be at the end of
Sec school?
• Attendance
– Ensure that they have a valid reason for absence
• Attention
– Communicate with teachers
Talk to
your
child
Monitor
your
child
Talk to
teachers
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Parents as Partners
• Assignments
– Write homework in Student Handbook
– Assigned homework to be completed daily
• After-school Activities
– Sufficient time to study and play (use Revision
Timetable)
– Study groups (4 to 5 people) with friends
– Organised room & study table / desk at home
Monitor
your
child
Monitor
your
child
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• Communications
– Letter to parents (Parents Gateway and on
School Website)
– http://www.bukitmerahsec.moe.edu.sg
– Student Handbook
– Annual School Magazine
• Contact Us
– 6474 8934
– Email addresses of all staff can be
found in school website
Parents as Partners
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BMSS Website
https://bukitmerahsec.moe.edu.sg
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