Introduction

Eligibility Criteria

Student Selection

Application Process

Polytechnic Preparatory Programme

FAQs

1. Direct Polytechnic Admission (DPA) Exercise will commence on 09 July 2008, for admission into polytechnics in 2009. The DPA Exercise will give the polytechnics greater flexibility to select students on criteria other than examination results, thus allowing a wider range of talents to be recognised. The DPA Exercise also allows students who are interested in, and who have the aptitude for applied learning, to confirm places in polytechnic courses prior to taking their GCE ‘O’ level examinations. Students accepted to polytechnics through the DPA can also benefit from special programmes in the polytechnics, before the start of the formal polytechnic calendar in April.

2. The five polytechnics – Nanyang Polytechnic, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Republic Polytechnic, Singapore Polytechnic and Temasek Polytechnic – will each admit up to 2.5% of their Academic Year 2009 intake through DPA, or about 100 students per polytechnic on average. There will also be a course-specific cap of 30% for each polytechnic course under the DPA. This is to ensure that students admitted through the GCE ‘O’ level route will continue to have access to popular polytechnic courses.