The Joint Admissions Exercise (JAE) is an annual exercise conducted by the Ministry of Education to allow holders of Singapore-Cambridge O-Level certificate to apply for admission to courses offered by Polytechnics.

You are eligible to participate except if you have been successfully admitted to a school through Direct School Admission-Junior Colleges (DSA-JC) / Polytechnic Early Admissions Exercise (Poly EAE) / ITE Early Admissions Exercise (ITE EAE):

• Singapore Citizens or Permanent Residents (PR) with valid Singapore-Cambridge O-Level Examinations results from any year.
• International students studying in a Government School, Government-Aided School or Independent School in Singapore with valid 2024 Singapore-Cambridge O-Level Examination results.

To be eligible for a course, you must meet the minimum entry requirements of that specific course. Some courses also have medical requirements that you must meet.

However, meeting the minimum entry requirements of a course does not guarantee you a spot. Admission to a course is based on merit and subject to vacancies. You may refer to the past year’s JAE ELR2B2 range of a course to gauge the competitiveness of admission.

Appeal application period: 4 Feb - 7 Feb 2025 (Tentative)

JAE applicants who have not been posted to a course, or wish to change to another course after the release of the JAE posting results may submit an appeal via the JAE Online Appeal Portal.

• You may submit an appeal application for up to 6 Polytechnic courses and/or ITE Higher Nitec courses, for which you have met the course minimum entry requirements and the JAE ELR2B2.
• Please refer to the JAE Online Appeal Portal for the details on appeal procedure and release of JAE appeal results.
• Do consider your appeal carefully. If you already have a JAE posting, your original posting will be automatically revoked if your appeal is successful. If your appeal is unsuccessful, your original posting will be retained.