Despite what MOE said that starting from this year, Singaporeans will get absolute priority over PRs when it comes to Primary 1 (P1) Registration Exercise (‘MOE: Singaporeans will now get absolute priority over PRs for P1 registrations‘), this is not 100% true.
If you read carefully from the latest MOE’s ruling, Singaporeans DO NOT have absolute priority over PRs yet for the entire P1 registration. The new rule will give priority to Singaporean children only on a phase to phase basis and not from the whole registration point of view.
In the new rule, P1 places will be allotted to Singaporean children first only for a particular phase. When there are vacancies left for that phase after the Singaporean children are taken care of, they will then be allotted to PR children.
Hence, for example, if a PR is an old boy of the school, the PR will still have priority over the Singaporean in Phase 2C as the PR’s kid will be eligible for Phase 2A(2), even though he may be behind other Singaporeans in the same Phase 2A(2). The Singaporean in Phase 2C will still be way behind this PR who essentially is a foreign passport holder. Full story
