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Education

Percentage of N(T)-Level Students with Grade D or better in English Language

Data from Jan 2008 to Jan 2023

Last updated: 10 Dec 2024, 15:18 SGT

MOE (Ministry of Education)

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

Data explorer

PercentageofNTLevelStudentswithGradeDorbetterinEnglishLanguage.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%
2008	Malay	77.3
2008	Chinese	75
2008	Indian	83.2
2008	Others	90.2
2008	Overall	77.1
2009	Malay	78
2009	Chinese	77.8
2009	Indian	82
2009	Others	93.4
2009	Overall	78.7

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Race	race	Text	-	-
Percentage Pass Eng	percentage_pass_eng	Text	-	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_91e642c7daff698ef6762e9088669603"
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(T)-Level Students with Grade D or better in English Language (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved June 27, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_91e642c7daff698ef6762e9088669603/view

About this dataset

Contact

song_boon_khing@moe.gov.sg vivian_lin@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)