04 September 2019
A group of 28 secondary schools will pilot full subject-based banding next year, where students take subjects at a higher or lower level, based on their strengths.
The schools include Bedok Green Secondary, Paya Lebar Methodist Girls’ School (Secondary), Pei Hwa Secondary and St Patrick’s School.
Students at these schools will be able to choose to study humanities subjects at a more demanding level from Secondary 2, if they have the aptitude for them. The existing options are English language, mathematics, science and mother tongue language.
The 28 pilot schools will also try out new form class arrangements instead of the traditional sorting by Express, Normal (Academic) and Normal (Technical) streams. Students from different streams will be placed in the same form class.
The Ministry of Education said that more secondary schools will introduce full subject-based banding from 2022 to 2024, and will learn from the pilot schools’ experiences.