Common FAQs

For FAQs related to Posting to Secondary School

For FAQs related to new PSLE scoring system

1. What is the school’s PSLE score range?

Riverside Secondary School’s indicative PSLE score range for 2024 for the various streams are as follows:

Posting Group 3: 8-13

Posting Group 2: 21-23

Posting Group 1: 25-28

Visit https://www.moe.gov.sg/schoolfinder for more information.

2. What are schooling hours like?

In 2025, formal curriculum ends between 1.15 to 1.45 pm on Mon-Thurs and 12.30 pm on Fri for Secondary 1 students.

For our CCAs, training sessions are held either once or twice a week, on Monday or Friday and ends at 5.30 or 6 pm. 

Enrichment programmes, supplementary and remediation lessons can be conducted after formal curriculum time.

1. My child missed the eligibility criteria for SBB subjects but has a strong passion for the subject. May I appeal for my child to take the subject at a more demanding level?

Once students enter secondary school, they will be grouped into mixed form classes comprising students from different Posting Groups and will have opportunities to interact and learn with peers of different backgrounds, strengths, and interests. In their mixed form classes, students will take a set of subjects at a common level, amounting to about one-third of curriculum time. This would allow students in mixed form classes to spend curriculum time together in these subjects.

The common curriculum subjects in Lower Secondary are Art, Character and Citizenship Education, Design and Technology, Food and Consumer Education, Music and Physical Education. Our teachers will differentiate and adopt a range of teaching approaches to meet the different learning needs and pace of their students in the same form class.

At the start of Secondary One, eligible students can offer English Language, Mother Tongue Languages, Mathematics and Science at a more demanding level based on their PSLE Achievement Level (AL) for each of these subjects. Students will be grouped in different classes based on the levels at which they take each subject.

Students will have the flexibility to adjust their subject levels at appropriate junctures, based on their strengths, interests and learning needs. Students will subsequently access programmes and post-secondary pathways based on their various subjects and subject level combinations.

2. My child is not eligible for a subject at a more demanding level. Subject-Based Banding subjects at PSLE. Does my child have the opportunity to take subjects at a more demanding level in Secondary 1? 

At the start of Secondary One, eligible students can offer English Language, Mother Tongue Languages, Mathematics and Science at a more demanding level based on their PSLE Achievement Level (AL) for each of these subjects. Students will be grouped in different classes based on the levels at which they take each subject.

Students will have the flexibility to adjust their subject levels at appropriate junctures, based on their strengths, interests and learning needs. Students will subsequently access programmes and post-secondary pathways based on their various subjects and subject level combinations.

3. My child takes 2 standard and 2 foundation subjects at Primary level, will he/she be offered the standard subjects at Express level?

Students will have the flexibility to adjust their subject levels at appropriate junctures, based on their strengths, interests and learning needs.

The first point they may be eligible for is at the start of Secondary One based on their PSLE Achievement Level (AL) for each of these subjects. Students will have the flexibility to adjust their subject levels at appropriate junctures, based on their strengths, interests and learning needs.

Find out more about Full Subject Based Banding here: https://www.moe.gov.sg/microsites/psle-fsbb/full-subject-based-banding/main.html

1. My child is offered a place at Riverside Secondary School under Direct School Admission (DSA) programme, will he/she be in the same class as other DSA students?

All Secondary 1 students will be evenly distributed according to various considerations.

2. What are the CCAs available at Riverside Secondary School? 

You can find out more about our CCAs on our school website.

3. How many times can my child change his/her CCA?

Students are not allowed to change CCA as this might affect their participation dynamics and mastery of skills in their CCAs. 

4. Will there be any CCA prerequisite or assessment for my child?

Students will go through a CCA Exploration session to have an insight of the CCAs that he/she may be interested in. After which, students will then undergo a CCA Selection process where they will take part in a interviews or trials to ascertain if they are suitable for the CCA.