Starting from 2019, parents are no longer required to submit a re-application for Secondary 1 students who have obtained approval at the primary level to offer AsL/FL. However, the student will need to submit the approval letter to the school.

Applications for a change of language from AsL/FL to Chinese/ Malay/ Tamil/ NTIL will not be accepted from the secondary level. Parents would have been informed of the implications of offering AsL/FL as MTL-in-lieu before the submission of application in primary school. The implications are as follows:

• Students are required to learn the AsL/FL privately at all school levels, as instruction is

  not provided by MOE.

• Students are required to provide documentation (e.g. marked assignment, result slip, payment receipt) to the school to show that they are learning AsL/FL regularly.

• Students are required to take the AsL/FL papers at the GCE O Level examinations or under the Singapore-Cambridge Secondary Education Certificate (SEC), and the Arabic or FL papers at the GCE A Level (H1) examinations.

• Students are required to fulfil the MTL requirement by attaining the minimum grade for admission into a junior college or centralised institute (D7 or above for GCE O Level), or a local publicly-funded undergraduate programme (S grade or above for GCE A Level H1). There is no Higher AsL/FL, ‘B’ syllabus or G1/G2 for AsL/FL.