National Junior College (Junior High)

[Chin99]

Hi! need advice , are all Junior 1 required to take HMT or depends on the PSLE results ?

[RR2022]

All students qualified to take HMT will be asked for consent to take HMT or not. There are CL classes as well. To add, majority are taking HMT since students entered NJC by score will qualify to take HMT regardless whether they did HMT at pri school.

[RR2022]

For parents who want to know about the gender ratio, this year intake was quite balanced. Almost 50:50.

[RR2022]

To parents who are still considering if u want to choose NJC, just to share that NJC is a very down to earth school. The students are taught well with the right moral and the school motto is “Service with Honour”. It is a very friendly, sharing and caring environment. The parents who penned the last few posts really wrote what it is like about the school. There is also no locker in the whole school and no theft thus far according to the Year Head. A great place to send your kids. We have no regrets sending our kid to this school. I do hear last year choice 2 NJC, the student was balloted out. Good luck to all of u!

[chocoball]

hi fellow parents, my child will be joining NJC in 2024. would like to know:

1. does NJC follow the secondary or JC calendar/hols? i understand that the start date is later? and also secondary school will end school 2 weeks before the official school holidays start, cos of the O levels. is this the same for NJC for A levels?
2. can you share the Year 1 booklist?
3. any information which you can share about the boarding program? when do they get to experience this?
thanks in advance.

[babylamb]

We used to go to learning lab for science but like what one parent said TLL doesnt encourage us to sign up with them because the syllabus taught by NJC is more in depth.


Can i check if parents have any recommendations on where we can go for science enrichment?

Thanks in advance.

[CoolChillPapa]

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To parents who are still considering if u want to choose NJC, just to share that NJC is a very down to earth school. The students are taught well with the right moral and the school motto is “Service with Honour”. It is a very friendly, sharing and caring environment. The parents who penned the last few posts really wrote what it is like about the school. There is also no locker in the whole school and no theft thus far according to the Year Head. A great place to send your kids. We have no regrets sending our kid to this school. I do hear last year choice 2 NJC, the student was balloted out. Good luck to all of u!

Good to hear from you about the vibes in NJC. The only qualms I have with NJC is the selection of CCAs. No uniform groups ah. Nevertheless, still good school to send kids there. I believe if choice 2 got balloted out, it is those with AL7 and put NJC as 2nd choice. Seems like those who indicate NJC as first choice if they have AL7 would have an almost sure chance of getting in.

[RR2022]

Hi, yes indeed NJC has limited CCA selections for Sec levels and no uniform groups. As each sec level is a small cohort so I guess can’t have too many CCA choices to be offered to the students. On the other hand, each class size is about 30 or lesser students, hence, it maybe a more conducive class size for learning.

[RR2022]

NJC Sec follows MOE JC calendar, so it will start a week later than Sec schools. School will also end a week later than other Sec schools. Also, you are right, sec schools will end earlier than what is stated in MOE calendar for end of year. For this year, NJC sec 1 ended on 3 Nov.


Apologies as I am a noob in posting in Kiasu parents and am not very sure how to post a reply that is linked to a post. Pardon me, somehow I am not getting it right on posting a reply.

[CoolChillPapa]

Thanks for the tips on NJC. I think this year many people are choosing branded school and NJC does not benefit from it. Perhaps only in the arena of JCs, it is considered a good one since our Prime Minister was from there. So this year there was no balloting for those with AL7 but the COP is now at AL8 instead. Nevertheless, the students going to NJC would still very competitive in all their subjects. I have a hunch that the students there are more diverse in ethnicities which is good for our children. Rather than just be surrounded by one gender or by majority of one race, it is much better to mix around with people who are more diverse.