I’m not trying to splash cold water onto you guys with regards to the application for medicine in Singapore. Do bear in mind that it’s way much harder than you thought in just getting an offer to study medicine.

My DS had a perfect score academically (which I heard there are around 1,300 students achieved perfect scores every year), along with a 8.0 BMAT result (about 95 percentile), and had volunteered work at the Community Centre alongside a MP for close to 2 years, went for the interviews, and got rejected at both NUS and NTU applications. After which, he went on to apply to four UK universities, went for another 4 interviews with these four universities, all got rejected. Most recently, he applied for three Australia universities, went for the interviews as usual, and finally finally he got an offer from one of the Australian universities.

What I’m trying to say here is that the application journey for medicine was extremely traumatizing, both for the parents and my DS, with disappointment after disappointments. Over the last 1.5 years while he was in NS, all his annual leaves were applied for medicine interviews. Can’t imagine that he had to go through nine interviews sessions, each for a couple of hours, to finally get this precious offer. In addition to all these traumatic anxieties, the parents now have to prepare to part a total of around S$500,000 for the school fee, plus $120,000 for food & lodging.

So my sincere advice to all potential applicants, do prepare to arm yourselves with great determination to face the challenges. And for parents, the outrages school fees.

Results for NTU is out at 5 pm today.

From my understanding, November date is the only date that is recognized by NTU. Other dates are for other universities entry requirements.

Oh so they broke their usual notification pattern then. Thanks for the info.


Enjoy the holiday.

No news of offers from NTU yet. I guess it will be tomorrow evening then.


Rest well for the big news tomorrow.

99.9% of the reason is due to BMAT. Reason why they didn’t take the BMAT and can’t apply to NTU is because BMAT happens during their A level exam in November.

Those MOs are serving to complete their NS obligation, likely about 9 months to a year depending on when they dropped out of NS to start their medicine study. One advantage of them doing so is that those serving period (to complete their remaining NS obligation) as MO can be considered as part of their residency.

Based on previous years’ notification patterns, we should be expecting the first batch of NTU offers to be sent out by this evening or tomorrow around 6 pm.


Good luck to all applicants and parents.