PSLE AL Score Calculator
Sum your PSLE Achievement Levels (AL1–AL8), see your posting group under Full SBB, and check indicative cut-off points for 139 secondary schools. Free.
PSLE AL Score Calculator
Select the Achievement Level for each PSLE subject to total your score (4–32), see the posting group it qualifies for under Full Subject-Based Banding, and check it against indicative cut-off points from the 2025 S1 posting exercise (2026 Secondary 1 intake). Everything runs in your browser.
Indicative cut-off checker — 2025 S1 posting (2026 intake)
Search the table or filter by track. Rows your score indicatively meets are highlighted. Every row is a Posting Group 3 cut-off, so only a score of 4–22 is compared.
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COP = PSLE score of the last student posted at the 2025 S1 posting exercise, as compiled by published COP trackers (kiasuparents.com, cross-checked against sgschooling.com) — not checked against SchoolFinder itself. Every figure is indicative. "HCL merit carried at 2025 COP" means the trackers record the last student admitted at that score as also holding a Higher Chinese merit or distinction. SEC is the Singapore-Cambridge Secondary Education Certificate, MOE's name for the non-IP track from the 2024 Secondary One cohort. Specialised schools (NUS High, SST, SOTA, Singapore Sports School, Crest, Spectra, NorthLight, Assumption Pathway) admit through their own selection and are not listed. PG2/PG1 ranges for each school are in MOE SchoolFinder.
How to use the PSLE AL Score Calculator
Pick the AL for each of the 4 subjects
Choose the Achievement Level (AL1–AL8) your child scored — or expects to score — in English, Mother Tongue, Mathematics and Science. If a subject was taken at Foundation level, English included, pick Foundation A, B or C instead: for S1 posting these count as AL6, AL7 and AL8 respectively.
Read the total PSLE score and posting group
The total is the simple sum of the four ALs, from 4 (best) to 32. The calculator shows the Posting Group MOE's table gives that score — including the two-group scores, 21–22 (PG3 or PG2) and 25 (PG2 or PG1) — and the indicative level (G3/G2/G1) for most subjects at the start of Secondary 1.
Search and filter the indicative COP table
Type a school name, filter by track (Integrated Programme or SEC), or tick "SAP only". Schools whose indicative 2025-posting cut-off your score meets are highlighted, and the counter shows how many of the listed schools are indicatively within range.
Read MOE's own advice, then verify on SchoolFinder
MOE says of cut-offs: “Fluctuations of +/- 1 are typical but +/- 2 or 3 could be possible.” Its posting FAQs add: “You are advised to place your preferred school at a higher rank and include at least 2-3 schools where your child’s PSLE Score is better than the school’s Cut-Off-Point (COP).” Check every figure on MOE SchoolFinder before submitting.
How PSLE AL scoring and S1 posting work
From percentage scores to Achievement Levels
Since the 2021 PSLE, every subject has been graded in eight Achievement Levels instead of the old T-score. MOE fixes the bands on each subject's percentage score — its table is headed “Percentage Score Range (%)” — not on raw marks: AL1 for 90 and above, AL2 for 85–89, AL3 for 80–84, AL4 for 75–79, AL5 for 65–74, AL6 for 45–64, AL7 for 20–44 and AL8 for anything below 20. The top bands are narrow on purpose; MOE: “As we expect slightly less than half of the PSLE cohort to score AL 1-4 for Standard subjects, the upper AL bands have comparatively narrower ranges.” Foundation-level subjects are graded A (75–100), B (30–74) and C (below 30), and for posting they count as AL6, AL7 and AL8. Any of the four subjects can be taken at Foundation level, English included.
From score to Posting Group
The PSLE score is the plain sum of the four subject ALs — English Language, Mother Tongue Language, Mathematics and Science — so it runs from 4 (four AL1s) to 32, and MOE counts 29 possible scores. Under Full Subject-Based Banding, which removed the Express, Normal (Academic) and Normal (Technical) streams from the 2024 Secondary 1 cohort, the score decides the Posting Group: 4–20 is Posting Group 3, 23–24 is Posting Group 2, and 26–30 is Posting Group 1 with AL7 or better in English Language and Mathematics. At 21–22 a family chooses Posting Group 2 or 3, and at 25 Posting Group 1 or 2. A score of 31 or 32, or 26–30 without that English and Mathematics condition, is outside every Posting Group; MOE says such students “would be offered the option to repeat the PSLE, or progress to NorthLight School or Assumption Pathway School with their principal’s endorsement.” Posting Groups set the indicative level for most subjects at the start of Secondary 1 — G3, G2 or G1 — and a subject with AL5 or better can be taken at a more demanding level.
Reading cut-off points the right way
A cut-off point is often read as an entry requirement set by the school. MOE defines it as an outcome: “For each school, the COPs are determined by the PSLE score of the last student posted to that school in each Posting Group.” Because it comes from one year's results, choices and vacancies, it moves; MOE: “Fluctuations of +/- 1 are typical but +/- 2 or 3 could be possible.” Meeting it is no guarantee either. When students with the same PSLE score vie for a school's last places, MOE applies citizenship (Singapore Citizen, then Permanent Resident, then International Student), then choice order, then computerised balloting. MOE's own advice on the list of six is to “place your preferred school at a higher rank and include at least 2-3 schools where your child’s PSLE Score is better than the school’s Cut-Off-Point (COP).”
HCL, SAP schools and affiliation
Two further considerations apply to some students. Higher Chinese Language: a student with a PSLE score of 14 or better and a Distinction, Merit or Pass in HCL is eligible for a posting advantage to Special Assistance Plan (SAP) schools, and among them those with better HCL grades “will be allocated a place ahead of other students. This applies before the tie-breakers for S1 posting.” Affiliation: a student may receive affiliation priority by listing the affiliated secondary school as first choice and meeting the qualifying criteria; among those students, better PSLE scores are considered first, and MOE keeps “At least 20% of vacancies in each Posting Group of each school” for students without it. This calculator lists the open (non-affiliated) cut-off and flags where the trackers record a different affiliated one. The definitive per-school figures, including Posting Group 2 and 1 ranges, are in MOE SchoolFinder.
A cut-off is set by the last student posted, not by MOE in advance
Each Standard-level PSLE subject is graded in eight Achievement Levels on its percentage score, not on raw marks: AL1 is 90 and above, AL2 85–89, AL3 80–84, AL4 75–79, AL5 65–74, AL6 45–64, AL7 20–44 and AL8 below 20.
The widest band sits second from the bottom: AL7 spans 25 percentage points, against 5 for each of AL2 to AL4. MOE's reason for the narrow top: “As we expect slightly less than half of the PSLE cohort to score AL 1-4 for Standard subjects, the upper AL bands have comparatively narrower ranges.”
Your PSLE score is the sum of the four subject ALs, from 4 (the best possible) to 32. MOE: “there are now only 29 possible PSLE Scores compared to more than 200 aggregates under the previous T-score system.”
Foundation-level subjects are graded A (75–100), B (30–74) and C (below 30), and for S1 posting count as AL6, AL7 and AL8. English can be one of them: MOE's options for primary pupils include “4 foundation subjects”, so an all-Foundation profile totals at least 24.
Taking all four subjects at Standard level, the eight ALs combine 4,096 ways; 344 of those combinations total 18, the most of any score, and one each total 4 and 32. These are combinations, not children — and counting Foundation grades too, the busiest total moves to 22.
Posting Groups by PSLE score, on MOE's table: 4–20 is Posting Group 3, 21–22 is 2 or 3, 23–24 is 2, 25 is 1 or 2, and 26–30 is Posting Group 1 with AL7 or better in English Language and Mathematics. That subject condition sits on the 26–30 row only.
A cut-off point (COP) is not set in advance — MOE: “For each school, the COPs are determined by the PSLE score of the last student posted to that school in each Posting Group.”
When applicants tie on PSLE score for a school's last places, MOE applies citizenship (Singapore Citizen, Permanent Resident, International Student), then choice order, then computerised balloting. MOE: “Meeting a school’s COP does not guarantee admission, as tie-breakers may apply.”
Students with Distinction, Merit or Pass in Higher Chinese and a PSLE score of 14 or better get a posting advantage to SAP schools; MOE says those with better HCL grades “will be allocated a place ahead of other students. This applies before the tie-breakers for S1 posting.”
Affiliation works inside the score, not around it. MOE: “Among students with affiliation priority, those with better PSLE scores will be considered first,” and “At least 20% of vacancies in each Posting Group of each school will be allocated to students who do not benefit from affiliation priority.”
Frequently Asked Questions
- Each of the four subjects — English Language, Mother Tongue Language, Mathematics and Science — is graded an Achievement Level on its percentage score, from AL1 (90 and above) to AL8 (below 20). The PSLE score is the sum of the four ALs, so it ranges from 4 (best) to 32. Foundation subjects graded A, B or C count as AL6, AL7 and AL8 for posting.
- Percentages. MOE's table is headed “Percentage Score Range (%)”, so the bands should not be read as raw-mark cut-offs. MOE does not publish how a percentage that falls between two bands is rounded.
- MOE: “The cut-off point (COP) is the PSLE score of the last student posted to a school through the respective Posting Groups after the S1 Posting process has concluded.” SchoolFinder shows each school's indicative PSLE score range. On how far it moves, MOE says: “Fluctuations of +/- 1 are typical but +/- 2 or 3 could be possible.”
- No. MOE: “Meeting a school’s COP does not guarantee admission, as tie-breakers may apply.” When applicants with the same PSLE score vie for the last places, the tie-breakers are citizenship (Singapore Citizen, then Permanent Resident, then International Student), then choice order, then computerised balloting, which “takes place only when students vying for the last available vacancies in a school have the same PSLE score, citizenship status and choice order of that school.”
- From the 2024 Secondary 1 cohort, under Full Subject-Based Banding, the Express, Normal (Academic) and Normal (Technical) streams were removed. MOE: “The PSLE score ranges for the three Posting Groups will be mapped from the previous N(T), N(A) and Express streams respectively.” A Posting Group sets the indicative level for most subjects at the start of Secondary 1 — G3, G2 or G1. On MOE's table a Posting Group 2 student with AL5 or better in a subject may take it at G3, and a Posting Group 1 student may take it at G2 or G3 with AL5 or better, or at G2 with AL6 or Foundation A.
- These scores sit in two Posting Groups: 21–22 in Posting Group 2 or 3, and 25 in Posting Group 1 or 2. The family chooses one, and MOE says: “You cannot submit school choices with a mix of Posting Groups.” If no school choices are submitted, MOE assigns the more academically demanding of the two.
- A score of 31 or 32, or 26–30 without AL7 or better in both English Language and Mathematics, is outside MOE's Posting Group table. MOE: “Students who are not eligible for any of the Posting Groups would be offered the option to repeat the PSLE, or progress to NorthLight School or Assumption Pathway School with their principal’s endorsement.”
- Foundation subjects are graded A (75–100), B (30–74) and C (below 30). MOE: “For the purpose of S1 posting, Foundation level AL A to AL C will be mapped to AL 6 to AL 8 of Standard level subjects respectively.” English can be taken at Foundation level too. MOE does not say how a Foundation grade in English or Mathematics is read against the “AL7 or better” condition for Posting Group 1; this calculator uses the mapped AL and says so when it matters.
- The Singapore-Cambridge Secondary Education Certificate. MOE: “Under Full SBB, the GCE O- and N-Level will be replaced with the new Singapore-Cambridge Secondary Education Certificate (SEC) examinations. This will apply from the 2024 Secondary One cohort onwards.” A school's non-IP intake is listed as SEC; for dual-track schools MOE treats the IP and the SEC as separate school choices.
- MOE: “Your child may receive affiliation priority if they list their affiliated secondary school as their first choice and meet the qualifying criteria.” Among those students, better PSLE scores are considered first, and at least 20% of each Posting Group's vacancies go to students without affiliation priority. The affiliated figures in this table come from the same trackers as the open cut-offs; check SchoolFinder for the exact ranges.
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Important — please read.
Indicative figures only — not admission advice. The cut-off points shown were compiled from the published outcomes of the 2025 S1 posting exercise (2026 Secondary 1 intake). Actual cut-offs are an outcome of each year's cohort results, school choices and vacancies, and can shift by several points; meeting a COP does not guarantee a place, as tie-breakers (citizenship, choice order, ballot) still apply.
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Verify before acting. Always confirm posting-group eligibility, indicative PSLE score ranges (including affiliated, PG2 and PG1 ranges) and option-form procedures with MOE SchoolFinder and official MOE channels before submitting school choices.
Scope limits: the table covers Integrated Programme and SEC (Posting Group 3) open cut-offs from posting; it does not model DSA admissions, specialised/independent-school selection, third-language programmes or mother-tongue exemption cases.
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Method & sources
How it computes
Each subject's percentage score is graded on MOE's Achievement Level bands (AL1 ≥ 90, AL2 85–89, AL3 80–84, AL4 75–79, AL5 65–74, AL6 45–64, AL7 20–44, AL8 < 20); Foundation A, B and C, on any subject including English, count as AL6, AL7 and AL8 for posting. The PSLE score is the sum of the four ALs, 4 (best) to 32, and sets the Posting Group on MOE's table. The cut-off checker compares it with each school's previous-year indicative cut-off: the score of the last student posted.
What this tool implements
- MOE PSLE Achievement Level scoring (in force since the 2021 PSLE): AL1–AL8 bands on each subject's percentage score, Foundation A (75–100), B (30–74) and C (below 30) posted as AL6/7/8 on any subject including English, score = sum of four ALs (4–32)
- Full Subject-Based Banding posting groups (from the 2024 Secondary 1 intake): PG3 4–20, choice at 21–22, PG2 23–24, choice at 25, PG1 26–30 with AL7 or better in English and Mathematics
- Tie-breakers at a school's last places in MOE's order: citizenship (Singapore Citizen, then Permanent Resident, then international student), then order of school choice, then computerised ballot
- Higher Chinese Language posting advantage to SAP schools is shown for Distinction, Merit and Pass, in that order, for scores of 14 or better
- Every cut-off row carries the indicative caveat: cut-offs are set by the previous cohort's results and choices, move year to year, and meeting one does not guarantee a place
- Corrected 2026-10-14: English could not be set to Foundation level, although MOE's options for primary pupils include "4 foundation subjects"; the bands were described as raw marks where MOE's table is "Percentage Score Range (%)"; a score outside every Posting Group read "MOE assessment", and now quotes MOE: students "would be offered the option to repeat the PSLE, or progress to NorthLight School or Assumption Pathway School with their principal's endorsement"; the non-IP track is labelled SEC, MOE's name for it from the 2024 Secondary One cohort, not O-Level. Where English or Mathematics is at Foundation level at a score of 26–30, the page says MOE does not state how that grade is read against "AL7 or better" and that the mapped AL was used. Unsourced claims were removed: the 2025 cohort size and posting rate, a count of SAP schools, and affiliated cut-offs "10+ points" more lenient.
Sources
- Ministry of Education, Singapore. PSLE Scoring System — Achievement Level bands, Foundation-level mapping, posting groups and the Higher Chinese Language posting advantage. https://www.moe.gov.sg/psle-fsbb/psle/psle-scoring-system
- Ministry of Education, Singapore. PSLE Scoring System — FAQs on posting to secondary school (Achievement Levels, posting groups, tie-breakers, how PSLE score ranges arise). https://www.moe.gov.sg/psle-fsbb/posting-to-secondary-school/faqs
- Ministry of Education, Singapore. Secondary 1 posting — Understand PSLE score ranges (indicative cut-offs are the previous year's first and last posted scores and fluctuate year on year). https://www.moe.gov.sg/secondary/s1-posting/how-to-choose/underst…
- Ministry of Education, Singapore. SchoolFinder — indicative PSLE score ranges by school and posting group. https://www.moe.gov.sg/schoolfinder
- Ministry of Education, Singapore. Learn how posting works — tie-breakers, affiliation priority and the 20% of vacancies kept for students without it (last updated 01 Oct 2026). https://www.moe.gov.sg/secondary/s1-posting/how-to-choose/how-pos…
- Ministry of Education, Singapore. What are Posting Groups — PSLE score ranges, the English Language and Mathematics condition for Posting Group 1, and choosing between two groups (last updated 01 Oct 2026). https://www.moe.gov.sg/secondary/s1-posting/how-to-choose/what-ar…
- Ministry of Education, Singapore. PSLE FAQs — students not eligible for any Posting Group. https://www.moe.gov.sg/psle-fsbb/psle/faqs
- Ministry of Education, Singapore. Subject-based banding for primary school — options including four Foundation subjects (last updated 05 Dec 2025). https://www.moe.gov.sg/primary/curriculum/subject-based-banding
What can make this go out of date
- Indicative cut-off table (139 schools) is the 2025 Secondary 1 posting exercise, for the 2026 intake, compiled from published trackers of MOE SchoolFinder figures; MOE updates SchoolFinder after each December posting, and the table is due for refresh after the 2026 exercise.
Abridged — the full review record for this tool runs longer than the list above.
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