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Percentage of PSLE Students who Scored AL 1-6, By Subject

Percentage of PSLE Students who Scored AL 1-6 in Standard Mother Tongue Language

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Percentage of PSLE Students who Scored AL 1-6 in Standard Mother Tongue Language

Data from Jan 2021 to Jan 2023

Last updated: 26 Nov 2024, 16:53 SGT

MOE (Ministry of Education)

The first year that students sat for the PSLE under the new Achievement Level (AL) scoring system was in 2021. Under the new system, there are eight ALs, AL 1-8. The new AL scoring differs from the T-score system and results from the two systems are not comparable. As such, a new series of statistics was started from 2021 PSLE. The T-score series before 2021 PSLE are available on Data.gov.sg.

Percentage psle mtl by Race

Data explorer

PercentageofPSLEStudentswhoScoredAL16inStandardMotherTongueLanguage.csv (15 rows, 302 B)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Race
Text
Percentage Psle Mtl
Text
(Null)0.0%
202133.3%
202233.3%
202333.3%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
2021Malay98
2021Chinese94.3
2021Indian95.1
2021Others86.9
2021Overall94.7
2022Malay97.9
2022Chinese94.2
2022Indian94.4
2022Others87.9
2022Overall94.6

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
YearyearYear (YYYY)--
RaceraceText--
Percentage Psle Mtlpercentage_psle_mtlText--
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_0787520bb7a9bed16d5a7b8e964805b1"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

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Ministry of Education. (2022). Percentage of PSLE Students who Scored AL 1-6 in Standard Mother Tongue Language (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 25, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_0787520bb7a9bed16d5a7b8e964805b1/view

About this dataset

Contact

vivian_lin@moe.gov.sgsong_boon_khing@moe.gov.sg

Created on

13 Dec 2022

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

MOE (Ministry of Education)