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Education

Percentage of N(A)-Level Students with Grade C5 or better in English Language

Data from Jan 2008 to Jan 2023Updated about 1 month ago

MOE (Ministry of Education)

(1) Figures exclude N(A) students on the Through-train Programme who progress to Secondary 5 N(A) without taking the N(A)-Level Examination.

(2) Students who offer the subject at a more demanding level are also taken into consideration.

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PercentageofNALevelStudentswithGradeC5orbetterinEnglishLanguage.csv (80 rows, 1.4 KB)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Race
Text
Percentage Pass Eng
Text
(Null)0.0%
20086.3%
20096.3%
20106.3%
20116.3%
(Null)0.0%
Malay20.0%
Indian20.0%
Others20.0%
Chinese20.0%
(Null)0.0%
2008Malay99.1
2008Chinese96.4
2008Indian99.6
2008Others98.5
2008Overall97.5
2009Malay99
2009Chinese96.8
2009Indian99.7
2009Others98.8
2009Overall97.7

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
YearyearYear (YYYY)--
RaceraceText--
Percentage Pass Engpercentage_pass_engText--
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_18b84ce97cc3b50468056400ecbbad90"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

Ministry of Education. (2019). Percentage of N(A)-Level Students with Grade C5 or better in English Language (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved January 15, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_18b84ce97cc3b50468056400ecbbad90/view

About this dataset

Contact

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

Created on

15 Jan 2019

Licence

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

Agency

MOE (Ministry of Education)

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