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Education

Percentage of O-Level Students with Grade C6 or better in At Least 5 O-Level Subjects

Data from Jan 1987 to Jan 2024

Last updated: 10 Nov 2025, 15:03 SGT

MOE (Ministry of Education)

(1) Figures exclude Integrated Programme (IP) students.

(2) Figures include all school candidates except those who took O-Level subjects not in their graduating year.

Percentage 5 olevel passes by Year

Data explorer

PercentageofOLevelStudentswithGradeC6orbetterinAtLeast5OLevelSubjects.csv (190 rows, 3.4 KB)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Race
Text
Percentage 5 Olevel Passes
Text
(Null)0.0%
19872.6%
19882.6%
19892.6%
19902.6%
(Null)0.0%
Malay20.0%
Indian20.0%
Others20.0%
Chinese20.0%
(Null)0.0%
1987Chinese69.5
1987Indian53.3
1987Malay39.1
1987Others57.4
1987Overall65.2
1988Chinese73
1988Indian55.9
1988Malay41.8
1988Others60.8
1988Overall68.7
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_c06331d556cae0e7287547dc1ab239ef"
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. (2016). Percentage of O-Level Students with Grade C6 or better in At Least 5 O-Level Subjects (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved June 3, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_c06331d556cae0e7287547dc1ab239ef/view

About this dataset

Contact

leong_jun_jie@moe.gov.sgvivian_lin@moe.gov.sg

Created on

06 Jan 2016

Licence

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

Agency

MOE (Ministry of Education)