Top PSLE student from Qifa Primary

The top primary six student this year is Qiu Biqing, 13, a girl from Qifa Primary
School in West Coast, with an aggregate score of 290.

The top Malay and Eurasian students, Syafiqah Nabilah Bte Shamshera and
Samantha Annabelle Neubronner are both from Raffles Girls' Primary School.

The top Indian student is Muhammad Saad Siddiqui (below)from Anglo-Chinese School (Primary).
Other top students come from Nanyang
Primary School,Gongshang Primary School, Rosyth School, South View Primary School, Greenridge Primary School, Nan Hua Primary School and Rulang Primary School.

A total of 48,541 Primary six pupils sat for the Primary School Leaving
Examinations (PSLE) this year. Among them, 47,117 pupils (or 97.1 per cent) will proceed to secondary school.

In terms of course eligibility, 63.1 per cent are eligible for the Express course, 22.4 per cent for
the Normal (Academic) and 11.6 per cent for the Normal (Technical) course.

The 2009 Primary six cohort is the first batch of pupils under Subject-based Banding who sat for the PSLE. Subject-based Banding, a refinement to the previous streaming system, was implemented from the 2008 Primary 5 cohort to give pupils the flexibility of taking a
mix of subjects at Standard or Foundation levels depending on their strengths and abilities in each subject.

Only 1,424 students did not pass the exam, they have a choice of enrolling in Assumption Pathway School or NorthLight School, or re-taking their PSLE.

Out of 44 children who were home-schooled, 37 took the examinations this year. Seventeen, or 46 per cent, did not meet the benchmark.