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Education

Percentage of O-Level Students with Grade C6 or better in At Least 3 O-Level Subjects

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.

Data from 1987 to 2024

Last updated 10 months ago (10 Nov 2025)

Percentage 3 olevel passes by Year

Data explorer

PercentageofOLevelStudentswithGradeC6orbetterinAtLeast3OLevelSubjects.csv (190 rows, 3.4 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Race Text	Percentage 3 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%
1987	Chinese	90
1987	Indian	81.9
1987	Malay	78.2
1987	Others	85.8
1987	Overall	88.2
1988	Chinese	91.1
1988	Indian	81.3
1988	Malay	78.2
1988	Others	84.8
1988	Overall	89.2

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Race	race	Text	-	-
Percentage 3 Olevel Passes	percentage_3_olevel_passes	Text	-	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_d3337f869a7134ee6b6c48907b44a270"
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. (2016). Percentage of O-Level Students with Grade C6 or better in At Least 3 O-Level Subjects (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 10, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_d3337f869a7134ee6b6c48907b44a270/view

About this dataset

Contact

vivian_lin@moe.gov.sg leong_jun_jie@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)