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Education

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

Data from Jan 1987 to Jan 2023Updated 27 days ago

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 3 olevel passes by Year

Data explorer

PercentageofOLevelStudentswithGradeC6orbetterinAtLeast3OLevelSubjects.csv (185 rows, 3.3 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Race Text	Percentage 3 Olevel Passes Text
(Null)0.0% 19872.7% 19882.7% 19892.7% 19902.7%	(Null)0.0% Malay20.0% Indian20.0% Others20.0% Chinese20.0%	(Null)0.0%
1987	Malay	78.2
1987	Chinese	90
1987	Indian	81.9
1987	Others	85.8
1987	Overall	88.2
1988	Malay	78.2
1988	Chinese	91.1
1988	Indian	81.3
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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Sample OpenAPI query

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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

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 3 O-Level Subjects (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved January 15, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_d3337f869a7134ee6b6c48907b44a270/view

About this dataset

Contact

song_boon_khing@moe.gov.sg vivian_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)

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