Frequently Asked Questions

The examination certificate(s) will be sent to you via registered mail after the date of results release. The certificate(s) should reach you within one month from the date of results release.

The Certificate is only issued once. If you have lost your Certificate, you may refer to the options listed below to retrieve a copy of your GCE-Level examination results.

 

Digitised examination results

If you are a SingPass account holder, you will be able to retrieve your past year’s GCE-Level examination results at no cost via yourSkills Passport on the MySkillsFuture portal, or the MySkillsFuture mobile application. Past years’ GCE-Level examination results since 1975  are available online. You may refer to https://www.seab.gov.sg/home/<wbr>services/purchase-of-<wbr>statements-of-results for an updated list of the GCE-Level examination results that can be retrieved online.

 

The digitised examination results are secured with tamper-resistant encryptions. Employers and institutions can verify your results using the OpenCerts platform, accessible at opencerts.io.

 

Please follow the steps below to view his OpenCerts file:

1.           Download the OpenCerts file to your computer

2.           Open a web browser window and go to https://opencerts.io

3.           Drag and drop the OpenCerts file into the OpenCerts Viewer at https://opencerts.io

 

More information regarding OpenCerts can be found at http://opencerts.io.

 

Statement of Results

We offer Statements of Results (SOR) for candidates to purchase. SORs are official documents that certify the achievements of the candidates in the national examinations. Candidates can use the SORs for education and employment purposes.

 

A copy of your GCE-Level SOR will need to be purchased via post or email. The information required to complete a purchase, as well as the costs and delivery timelines, are mentioned in this application form.   

 

Once your payment has been processed and all documents and examination records have been verified, your SOR will be mailed to the postal address indicated in the form. To authenticate your SOR, MOE will also enclose a cover letter that indicates the SOR’s serial number.

 

More information regarding the purchase of SORs can also be found on our website at https://www.seab.gov.sg/home/<wbr>services/purchase-of-<wbr>statements-of-results.

A copy of your GCE-Level SOR will need to be purchased via post or email. The information required to complete a purchase, as well as the costs and delivery timelines, are mentioned in this application form.   

 

Once your payment has been processed and all documents and examination records have been verified, your SOR will be mailed to the postal address indicated in the form. To authenticate your SOR, MOE will also enclose a cover letter that indicates the SOR’s serial number.

 

More information regarding the purchase of SORs can also be found on our website at https://www.seab.gov.sg/home/<wbr>services/purchase-of-<wbr>statements-of-results.

The examination certificate is issued by examination year. SEAB will not combine the results of examinations taken in different examination years into the same certificate.

For enquiries regarding the combining of results for application to the Junior Colleges/Polytechnics/Institute of Technical Education, please contact the Ministry of Education Customer Service Centre.

The certificate reflects the results obtained by a candidate in the year in which the examination is taken. As such, we are unable to print results obtained in different years in one certificate.

By early 2020, all GCE N(A)/N(T)-, O- and A-Level examination results from the 1975 examination year onwards, will be available in the individuals’ Skills Passports which can be accessed from the MySkillsFuture portal at https://www.myskillsfuture.sg/content/portal/en/individual/skills-passport.html, or from the MySkillsFuture mobile application.

The first set of examination results that would be available in the MySkillsFuture portal is the 2018 GCE O-Level examination results.

Following the digitising of the above results, the results of all future GCE-Level examinations will also be made available online after their respective results release dates.

You may refer to the section ‘Past years’ examination results in digital form’ that is found on the following page, https://www.seab.gov.sg/home/services/purchase-of-statements-of-results, for more information on the years of results that have been made available digitally. To find out more about the MySkillsFuture portal and how to access your examination results from the portal, please click on https://www.myskillsfuture.sg/content/portal/en/header/faqs/SkillsPassport.html.

You may refer to the section ‘Past years’ examination results in digital form’ that is found on the following page, https://www.seab.gov.sg/home/services/purchase-of-statements-of-results, for more information on the years of results that have been made available digitally.

MySkillsFuture Portal is currently accessible by individuals with SingPass. Non-SingPass holders will continue to purchase hardcopy Statements of Results (SORs) from the Ministry of Education Customer Service Centre.

For more information, please refer to the section on the Purchase of SORs that is found on the following page, https://www.seab.gov.sg/home/services/purchase-of-statements-of-results.

Yes, you can still purchase the hardcopy SORs at $10 per copy from the Ministry of Education Customer Service Centre. However, we encourage you to retrieve the digitised past year’s examination results from the portal instead if they are available.

The digitised results are secured with tamper-resistant encryptions, and employers and tertiary institutions who wish to verify the examination results of particular individuals are able to do so, by following the steps found on the SkillsFuture Singapore’s website at https://www.myskillsfuture.sg/content/portal/en/header/faqs/SkillsPassport.html.

The identity number that is captured in your examination records takes reference from the identity number that you have used when you sat for your examinations.

To maintain the integrity of the examination records, personal data such as identification number will not be amended or replaced. Hence, you will not be able to find your results for those examinations on the MySkillsFuture Portal, when you access the portal using your new identity number.

Therefore, please purchase hardcopy SORs from the Ministry of Education Customer Service Centre if you require a copy of your examination results.

Yes, SEAB will still issue the hardcopy result slips and examination certificates to the candidates.

For school candidates, this arrangement allows the teachers to provide appropriate and timely counselling and advice to their students on the options for their next level of study. It will also provide the opportunity for schools to celebrate their students’ achievements with the whole cohort.

• To be awarded with a GCE N(T)-Level examination certificate, you must obtain at least grade D in one or more GCE N(T)-Level subjects that you have registered for. Subjects with a fail grade will not be shown on the certificate. 
• To be awarded with a GCE N(A)-Level examination certificate, you must obtain at least grade 5 in one or more GCE N(A)-Level subjects that you have registered for. Subjects with a fail grade will not be shown on the certificate. 
• To be awarded with a GCE O-Level examination certificate, you must obtain at least grade C6 in one or more GCE O-Level subjects that you registered for. Subjects with a fail grade will not be shown on the certificate. 
• To be awarded with a GCE A-Level examination certificate, you must obtain at least grade E in one or more GCE A-Level subjects, or a grade C6 in one or more GCE AO-Level subjects, that you have registered for. Subjects with a fail grade will not be shown on the certificate.

The examination rules and regulations note that all candidates are required to sit for all registered papers of an examination, such as the Oral, LC, Coursework, Practical and Written papers.

Candidates who miss any of an examination’s papers without valid reasons such as illness will be marked as “Absent” for that examination. Both the examination and “Absent” grade will be reflected on your result slip. They will not be reflected on your examination certificate.

The amendment process will be carried out and completed within two weeks after the receipt of the amendment request and payment (if required by SEAB). The amended certificate will be sent to the postal address that they you provided when registering for the examination.

Your GCE-Level results slip will be mailed to the residential address that you provided during the registration exercise. If the address used during your registration is different from the address that you wish to receive your examination documents, please complete the Change of Personal Particular http:// s Form and submit it to us. A copy of the form can be found under the respective page for your examination level. The completed form, together with the clear photocopy of the front and back of your NRIC or identification document, must be submitted via email to SEAB_gce_ admin@seab.gov.sg, with sufficient time before the release of your results.

Your MTL subject grade will be computed based on the better grade which was awarded for Mid-Year and Year-End MTL written examinations, and your grades for your MTL Listening Comprehension and Oral papers. This MTL subject grade will be reflected on your result slip and certificate.

Please inform us of any change in your address by submitting a change of personal particulars form. A copy of the form can be found under the respective page for your examination level. The completed form, together with the clear photocopy of the front and back of your NRIC or identification document, must be submitted via email to seab_gce_ admin@seab.gov.sg, before the release of your results.  

Please contact the Ministry of Education Customer Service Centre if you have not received your results slip and/or certificate.

There is no reprint of the result slips. We will only consider requests for reprints of the certificates due to errors in the personal particulars. All requests for reprints of the certificates are to be submitted to the Ministry of Education Customer Service Centre within 1 week from the date of issue of the certificates. We will review the request before approving or rejecting the request. 

The hardcopy result slip will be mailed to all private candidates on the day of the results release to the postal address that they have provided to SEAB. Please refer to our website for the tentative dates of the result releases for the various examination levels.

Successful candidates will also receive their examination certificates within one month from the date of results release through registered mail. This includes candidates who have only taken a Mid-Year subject in the GCE O-Level or A-Level examinations, provided they obtained a pass in at least one subject.