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Junior college education prepares students for academic life in the university.
Beginning 2006, new JC students will be exposed to a new ‘A’ level curriculum. The new curriculum comprises 3 components: life skills, knowledge skills and content-based subjects. It has more breath and more options and put more focus on thinking and communication skills.
As the approach is towards holistic education, CCAs and Community Involvement Programme matter and will be reflected on the graduating certificate. Local universities will take these into account when accepting students under the special admission scheme.
Content-based subjects being offered under the 4 new disciplines in the new ‘A’ level curriculum include:
A) Knowledge Skills
- General Paper
- Project Work
- Knowledge and Inquiry
B) Languages
- Mother Tongue
- French
- German
- Japanese
C) Humanities and the Arts
- Art
- Economics
- History
- Literature in English
- History ( Chinese)
- History of Chinese Literature
- General Studies in Chinese
- Chinese Language and Literature
- Malay Language and Literature
- Tamil Language and Literature
- Music
- Theatre Studies and Drama
- Management of Business
- French
- German
- Japanese
D) Mathematics and Sciences
- Biology
- Chemistry
- Physics
- Mathematics
- Computing
- Principles of Accounting ( Millenia Institute only )
There are 17 junior colleges and 1 centralised institute ( Millenia Institute ) in Singapore.
All junior colleges offer a 2-year pre-university programme. Only the Millenia Institute offers a 3-year pre-university programme.
The 17 junior colleges in Singapore are:
- Raffles Institution
- Hwa Chong Institution
- Victoria Junior College
- National Junior College
- Temasek Junior College
- Anglo-Chinese Junior College
- Catholic Junior College
- Nanyang Junior College
- St Andrew Junior College
- Anderson Junior College
- Jurong Junior College
- Tampines Junior College
- Pioneer Junior College
- Yishun Junior College
- Serangoon Junior College
- Meridian Junior College
- Innova Junior College
The Top 5 junior colleges in Singapore or the Big 5 as they are widely known are:
- Raffles Institution ( No. 1 JC in Singapore for many years )
- Hwa Chong Institution
- Victoria Junior College
- National Junior College ( PM Lee Hsien Loong is a former student )
- Temasek Junior College
There are 3 junior colleges which offer integrated programmes to admit students at Secondary One and Secondary 3 levels.
Victoria Junior College and Temasek Junior College admit students at Secondary 3 level for a 4-year integrated programme from Secondary 3 to JC 2.
National Junior College admits students at Secondary 1 for a 6-year integrated programme leading to JC2.
National Junior College also admits students at Secondary 3 for a 4-year integrated programme leading to JC2.
For students interested in the International Baccalaureate ( IB ) programme, the Anglo-Chinese School ( Independent ) offers a 6-year integrated programme for both boys and girls at their Dover Road campus.
PM Lee Hsien Loong’s son enrolled at ACS ( I ) and did well at the 2007 IB examination scoring 43 out of a perfect 45 score.
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