20 January 2022
O-level students in 2021 fared slightly better than the 2020 cohort.
Last year, 85.6 per cent of O-level students obtained five or more passes. With this, the class of 2021, attained the best showing at the O-level examination in at least three decades.
The Ministry of Education and Singapore Examinations and Assessment Board said that a total of 23,555 candidates sat the O levels last year. Nearly all of them, or 99.8 per cent, passed at least one subject, and 96.4 per cent passed at least three.