Malay Special Programme

Benefits of Learning a Third Language

It opens up new horizons to better understand and appreciate Arabic, Chinese, Indonesian or Malay culture. It also facilitates better interaction with native speakers and enhances future learning experiences and job opportunities.

Admission to the courses

To be eligible to apply for the following third languages, applicants must satisfy all three criteria for the respective third language.

• Students must obtain a PSLE Score of 24 or better
• For M(SP), students must not have offered ML/HML as their MTL at PSLE
• For C(SP), students must not have offered CL/HCL as their MTL at PSLE

Organisation of classes

The MOELC follows the standard school term and holiday periods. Lessons are conducted once a week. Each weekly session comprises 3 hours 15 minutes of in-class instruction at MOELC, followed by 45 minutes of online independent learning at home.

Testing and evaluation

• Students’ progress is monitored at regular intervals through quizzes, common tests and an End-of-Year or Preliminary examination.
• Students take the following national examinations:
• O Level at the end of Sec 4
• A Level H1 at the end of JC1 (For the foreign languages only)
• A Level H2 at the end of JC2 (For the foreign languages only)
• Foreign Language students are also encouraged to measure their proficiency against the various external language examinations in French (DELF / DALF), German (Fit fur Deutsch / TestDAF), Japanese (JLPT) and Spanish (DELE) conducted by the respective examining agencies.