Percentage of PSLE Students Who Scored A*- C, By Subject
Ministry of Education (MOE) tracks the share of PSLE students scoring A* to C in Standard English, Mother Tongue, Mathematics, and Science from 1997 through 2020 across four CSV datasets. Official notes explain exclusions for EM3 and Foundation-level candidatures after subject-based banding reforms. Education researchers analysing primary outcomes and equity across subjects can use this collection for longitudinal comparisons. It supports open-data exploration of Singapore PSLE attainment by individual standard subject.
Official description
Percentage of PSLE students who attained the score of A* to C for each of the individual subjects - Standard English Language, Standard Mother Tongue Language, Standard Mathematics, and Standard Science.
Note(s):
1. The first batch of students under Subject-based Banding sat for the PSLE in 2009.
2. Percentages for Mathematics exclude EM3 students (before 2009) and students taking Foundation Mathematics (2009 onwards)
3. Percentages for English exclude EM3 students (before 2009) and students taking Foundation English (2009 onwards).
4. Percentages for Mother Tongue Language exclude EM3 students (before 2009) and students taking Foundation Mother Tongue Language (2009 onwards).
5. Percentages for Science exclude EM3 students (before 2009) and students taking Foundation Science (2010 onwards).
Ministry of Education CSV on the percentage of PSLE students who scored A*–C in Standard English Language by year and race from 1997 through 2020 under the former T-score system. Results are not comparable with the Achievement Level (AL) series that began in 2021. Education researchers track English attainment gaps across ethnic groups in the pre-AL PSLE era.
Ministry of Education CSV giving the share of Singapore PSLE candidates who scored A* to C in Standard Mathematics, by year and ethnic group, from 1997 through 2020. Each row pairs a year and a race category with a percentage, so the series tracks both the overall attainment level and the gap between communities across more than two decades. Education researchers and policymakers use it to assess progress in narrowing achievement differences at the end of primary school. The series ends at 2020 because the PSLE moved to Achievement Levels in 2021, which are not comparable with T-scores.
Ministry of Education CSV showing the percentage of Singapore PSLE candidates who achieved grades A* to C in Standard Science, by race, from 1997 through 2020. This is the historical T-score-era series and ends before the Achievement Level system introduced for the 2021 PSLE. Education researchers can compare broad attainment trends across reported racial groups, but should not combine these percentages directly with results under the newer AL 1–8 framework.
Ministry of Education CSV showing the percentage of PSLE students in Singapore who scored A* to C in Standard Mother Tongue Language, broken down by race, for cohorts from 1997 to 2020. The columns cover year, race, and the percentage attaining those grades. Because the PSLE moved to the eight-band Achievement Level scoring system in 2021, this T-score-era series ends at 2020 and is not comparable with later statistics. Education researchers use it to compare mother-tongue attainment across ethnic groups over more than two decades.