Subject Combinations
Explore the subject combinations on offer and find one that fits your interests and goals for further study.
Overview
We offer a variety of subject combinations that cater to students’ interests, strengths and aspirations for further studies.
Our subject combinations follow MOE’s curricular requirements:
Students may select subjects at three different levels of study: Higher 1 (H1), Higher 2 (H2) and Higher 3 (H3). A student may not offer the same subject at both H1 and H2.
All students must take four content-based subjects, of which at least three must be H2 subjects. The fourth subject may be taken at H1 or H2.
One of the H1 or H2 content-based subjects must be a contrasting subject.
Students in the Arts stream must take a subject from the Science and Mathematics group.
Students in the Science stream must take a subject from the Humanities and the Arts group.
The subject ‘Knowledge & Inquiry’ can serve as a contrasting subject for students from both streams.
All students must take H1 General Paper and Project Work (PW).
All students must take H1 Mother Tongue Language (MTL).
Students who have obtained a D7 or better grade for O-Level Higher MTL are exempted from the H1 MTL requirement.
Students may take H2 Mother Tongue Language and Literature in lieu of H1 MTL.
Details on H3 offerings will be made known to students in JC1 Semester 2.
Merit-Based Allocation
A merit-based allocation approach is used for some subjects, for example when the demand for the subject exceeds the number of places available.
The table below gives the indicative cut-off for merit-based allocated subjects from last year’s exercise.
Indicative cut-off points for merit-based allocated subjects
Subject | Indicative Cut-off | Remarks |
H2 Biology H2 Chemistry H2 Physics |
| Students who did not offer O-Level Pure Science are strongly recommended to take no more than one H2 Science subject |
H2 Mathematics |
| Students who did not offer O-Level Additional Mathematics are strongly recommended to take H1 Mathematics |
Subjects with Prerequisites and Selection Tests
The table below shows details of subjects with MOE centrally-set prerequisites and/or school-administered qualifying test.
For AY 2026, all qualifying tests will be administered on 05 February. Please note that there will be NO make-up qualifying test / re-test after 05 February.
H2 subjects with prerequisites and selection tests
Subject | Prerequisites / Selection Tests |
H2 Art |
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H2 Computing | Pass school qualifying test |
H2 English Language and Linguistics |
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H2 Foreign Language (French, German, Japanese, Spanish) | Students must be enrolled in or gain admission to the MOE Language Centre to offer the subject |
H2 Further Mathematics |
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H2 Knowledge and Inquiry |
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H2 Malay Language and Literature H2 Tamil Language and Literature |
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Subject Combinations (for 2027 JC1 intake)
Students must offer a subject combination that corresponds to their posted stream (Arts or Science).
Students may refer to the subject combination offered by the College and select one that best caters to their interests, strengths and aspirations for further studies.
A subject combination will be opened if there are at least ten students who have registered for that combination.
Students who do not meet combination-specific criteria will be considered individually. The College will allocate them a suitable subject combination within their posted stream after discussing their strengths, interests and aspirations.