What is the difference between O levels and N Levels?

Wat is the difference between O levels n N Levels?

• Answer:

  Secondary Education places students in the Special,Express,Normal (Academic) or Normal (Technical) course according to how they perform at the PSLE.The different curricular emphases are designed to match their learning abilities & interests. Based on results of the PSLE, students undergo secondary education in either the "Special","Express","Normal Academic" or "Normal Technical" course. Both Special & Express are 4-year courses leading up to a Singapore-Cambridge General Certificate of Education (GCE) "Ordinary"—"O" level examination.The difference between Special & Express is that in the Special course,mother tongue language (English and mother tongue) are taught at a higher level (Higher Mother Tongue) & thus more difficult.A Third Foreign Language - namely French,German & Japanese - can be taken in addition to the mother tongue or to replace it.This seems especially popular with students who are struggling with their mother tongues.Non-Chinese students may also study Chinese Language,while non-Malay students are given the opportunity to take up Malay Language as a Third Language. Normal is a 4-year course leading up to a Singapore-Cambridge GCE "Normal"—"N" Level examination,with the possibility of a fifth year followed by a Singapore-Cambridge GCE "Ordinary"—"O" Level examination."Normal" is split into "Normal (Academic)" & "Normal (Technical)",in the latter students take more subjects that are technical in nature,such as Design & Technology,while in the former students are geared towards an eventual sitting of the GCE "O" Level examination & normally take subjects such as Principles of Accounting.In 2004,MOE announced that selected students in the Normal course would have flexibility to sit for the Singapore-Cambridge GCE "Ordinary"—"O" Level examination direct,without having to sit for the Singapore-Cambridge GCE "Normal"—"N" Level examination.