Notification of Grade Profile and Course Places for A-level and Polytechnic Applicants for the 2009 University Admission Exercise

To provide applicants with information to make their course choices, we are providing information in the following areas:

• Representative grade profiles¹ of the 10th and 90th percentilesof applicants offered places in AY 2008 for applicants holding Singapore-Cambridge GCE A-Level qualifications. The grade profiles refer to the grades scored by A-level applicants in their three H2 and one H1 subjects. For the purpose of this exercise, Grade “C” is assumed for both General Paper (GP) and Project Work (PW) in determining the grade profiles.  Please note that certain courses may require grades higher than “C” for GP. More details can be found at NUS admissions website. Please refer to.Table 1.
• Representative polytechnic Grade Point Averages (GPAs) of the 10th and 90th percentilesof polytechnic applicants offered places for courses at NUS in AY 2008. Please note that in addition to the Polytechnic GPA, the O-Level results of polytechnic applicants are also taken into account for university admissions. More details can be found at
  NUS admissions website. Please refer to Table 2.
• The number of course places taken up in AY 2008. The number of places is subject to change from year to year. More details can be found at NUS admissions website. Please refer to Table 3.

Applicants can expect competition to be keener for courses with more stringent grade requirements and fewer places. In using the tables below, please note the following:

• The grade profiles, GPAs and course places may vary from year to year, depending on the number and performance of applicants and the number of places available.
• Meeting the previous year’s grade/GPA scores of a course does NOT guarantee admission to that course for AY 2009.
• The courses marked with an asterisk (*) are those where additional assessments such as interviews, selection tests, and portfolios are required.
• Certain courses may have specific subject requirements. More details can be found at NUS admissions website.

For more information on the disclosure of grade profiles, please refer to our FAQ here.

¹These provide an indication of the grade profiles for most of the applicants admitted in AY 2008.  There could be other “equivalent” profiles for each course. For example, a grade profile of ABC/C could be considered to be broadly equivalent to BBB/C, unless there are pre-requisites.

Table 1: Grade Profiles of the 10th and 90th percentiles of ‘A’-Level Applicants offered places for courses at NUS in UAE 2008

NUS Courses	Representative Grade Profile 3H2/1H1
	10th percentile	90th percentile
Faculty of Law
Law*	AAA/A	AAA/A
School of Medicine
Medicine*	AAA/A	AAA/A
Nursing*	CDD/C	AAA/A
Faculty of Dentistry
Dentistry*	AAA/A	AAA/A
School of Design & Environment
Architecture*	BCC/C	AAA/A
Industrial Design*	CCC/B	AAA/A
Project & Facilities Management	BBC/C	AAB/B
Real Estate	BBC/B	AAB/C
Faculty of Engineering
Engineering	BBB/A	AAA/A
Bioengineering	ABB/A	AAA/A
Chemical Engineering	AAA/A	AAA/A
Civil Engineering	BBC/C	AAA/A
Electrical Engineering	BBB/C	AAA/A
Environment Engineering	AAA/A	AAA/A
Engineering Science	BBB/A	AAA/A
Industrial & Systems Engineering	AAA/A	AAA/A
Materials Science & Engineering	AAA/A	AAA/A
Mechanical Engineering	BBB/A	AAA/A
Computer Engineering (FoE)	BBB/C	AAA/A
School of Computing
Computing	BCC/B	AAA/A
Computer Engineering (SoC)	BCC/C	AAB/B
Faculty of Science
Pharmacy	AAA/B	AAA/A
Science	BBB/B	AAA/A
School of Business
Business Admin	AAB/B	AAA/A
Business Admin (Accountancy)	AAA/B	AAA/A
Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences
Arts & Social Sciences	BBC/C	AAA/A
Arts & Social Sciences (MT related)	BBC/C	BBB/C

The courses marked with an asterisk (*) are those where additional assessments such as interviews, selection tests, and portfolios are required


Table 2: Polytechnic GPAs of the 10th and 90th percentiles of Polytechnic Applicants offered places for courses at NUS in UAE 2008

NUS Courses	Representative Grade Profile Polytechnic GPAs
	10th percentile	90th percentile
Faculty of Law
Law*	#	#
School of Medicine
Medicine*	#	#
Nursing*	3.02	3.86
Faculty of Dentistry
Dentistry*	#	#
School of Design & Environment
Architecture*	#	#
Industrial Design*	#	#
Project & Facilities Management	3.41	3.82
Real Estate	3.37	3.82
Faculty of Engineering
Engineering	#	#
Bioengineering	#	#
Chemical Engineering	3.88	3.99
Civil Engineering	3.26	3.80
Electrical Engineering	3.55	3.96
Environment Engineering	3.67	3.94
Engineering Science	#	#
Industrial & Systems Engineering	#	#
Materials Science & Engineering	#	#
Mechanical Engineering	3.64	3.96
Computer Engineering (FoE)	3.33	3.93
School of Computing
Computing	3.54	3.95
Computer Engineering (SoC)	3.54	3.95
Faculty of Science
Pharmacy	#	#
Science (Biostatistics)	#	#
Science (Chemistry & Applied Chemistry)	3.34	3.82
Science (Computational Biology)	#	#
Science (Life Sciences)	3.65	3.92
Science (Physics)	3.41	3.80
School of Business
Business Admin	3.50	3.92
Business Admin (Accountancy)	3.64	3.95
Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences
Arts & Social Sciences	3.39	3.82
Arts & Social Sciences (MT related)	#	#

# No representative GPA is shown as the sample size is small.

The courses marked with an asterisk (*) are those where additional assessments such as interviews, selection tests, and portfolios are require

Table 3: Total number of NUS course places taken up in 2008

NUS Courses	Course Places
Faculty of Law
Law*	231
School of Medicine
Medicine*	260
Nursing*	75
Faculty of Dentistry
Dentistry*	44
School of Design & Environment
Architecture*	171
Industrial Design*	34
Project & Facilities Management	137
Real Estate	144
Faculty of Engineering
Engineering	131
Bioengineering	64
Chemical Engineering	295
Civil Engineering	81
Electrical Engineering	293
Environment Engineering	58
Engineering Science	46
Industrial & Systems Engineering	67
Materials Science & Engineering	50
Mechanical Engineering	315
Computer Engineering (FoE)	73
School of Computing
Computing	301
Computer Engineering (SoC)	77
Faculty of Science
Pharmacy	132
Science	1,100
School of Business
Business Admin	457
Business Admin (Accountancy)	133
Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences
Arts & Social Sciences	1,613
Arts & Social Sciences (MT related)

The courses marked with an asterisk (*) are those where additional assessments such as interviews, selection tests, and portfolios are required

For more information on the disclosure of grade profiles, please refer to our FAQ here.