SINGAPORE: The manual balloting currently conducted in schools during the Primary 1 registration exercise will be replaced by computerised balloting conducted centrally at the Ministry of Education's (MOE) headquarters.
The change will take effect from this year's P1 registration exercise, the ministry announced in a news release on Tuesday (Mar 20).
P1 places are allocated by ballot when the number of applications exceeds the vacancies at a school during a particular registration phase and the home-school distance category. Currently, the balloting process is done manually at individual schools.
Like manual balloting, computerised balloting ensures an equal chance of admission for applicants, MOE said.
"This helps to streamline the P1 registration processes and make them more convenient for parents, since they no longer need to make arrangements to physically attend the balloting in schools," it added.
Computerised balloting is currently used for the Secondary 1 posting and Joint Admissions Exercise.
AdvertisementAdvertisementThis year, parents can also be notified of the registration outcome via text on the day of the results, in addition to a letter that will be sent to each parent at the end of each phase of the P1 registration exercise, said MOE.
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS TO UNDERGO TWO-STEP PROCESS
Starting this year, international students applying for a Primary 1 place will be required to undergo a two-step process because of an increasing number of applications.
The process first involves submitting an online "indication of interest" form via the MOE P1 website between Jun 5 and 11.
Following this, international students who are notified in October by MOE that they are eligible for a P1 place in a school, must register in-person at the designated schools during Phase 3 of the registration exercise.
The registration of children for admission to P1 classes in 2019 will be open from Jun 28 to Oct 31.
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