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Education

Percentage of GCE O-Level Students with Grade C6 or better in English Language

Data from Jan 1997 to Jan 2023Updated about 1 month 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 pass eng by Year

Data explorer

PercentageofGCEOLevelStudentswithGradeC6orbetterinEnglishLanguage.csv (135 rows, 2.4 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Race Text	Percentage Pass Eng Text
(Null)0.0% 19973.7% 19983.7% 19993.7% 20003.7%	(Null)0.0% Malay20.0% Indian20.0% Others20.0% Chinese20.0%	(Null)0.0%
1997	Malay	59.8
1997	Chinese	69.9
1997	Indian	79.8
1997	Others	79.2
1997	Overall	69.4
1998	Malay	58.2
1998	Chinese	71.2
1998	Indian	77.8
1998	Others	82.1
1998	Overall	70.2

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_ed654e88431da710ad04deced481646c"
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 GCE O-Level Students with Grade C6 or better in English Language (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved January 15, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_ed654e88431da710ad04deced481646c/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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