Nothing to cram. One free 3-minute check shows which topics this year left shaky, and where to put the next twelve months.
Written 29 September 2026 · updated 16 October 2026 · PSLE 2026 written papers 24–30 September, from SEAB's own timetableShort answer: if your child sat the papers this year, rest for a few days — then do one thing: the free 3-minute gap check, taken once. It shows which topics the year left shaky, and those are the topics Sec 1 work builds straight on. If your child sits PSLE in 2027, take the same check now: it takes three minutes, and it tells you what is worth fixing while there is a year in hand instead of three weeks.
You do not have to guess. SEAB's own Important Dates page carries a tentative PSLE results window of Tuesday 24 – Wednesday 25 November 2026, and says the release can only be confirmed once marking and processing are complete. The 2026 marking exercise runs 12 to 14 October, so these are the quiet weeks in between. Schools tell pupils the confirmed day at least a week before. We publish the window SEAB prints and do not invent a day beyond it — checked on SEAB's Important Dates page, 13 October 2026.
This is the part almost nobody explains until the results are already in your hand. Most P6 students are posted to a secondary school through MOE's S1 Posting exercise — and you get seven calendar days, starting on results day, to submit the choices. MOE's own S1 Posting page (last updated 1 October 2026, read again on 15 October 2026) prints these dates:
| When | What happens |
|---|---|
| Now until the results | Explore and shortlist schools. MOE's own advice is to start talking about secondary school choices with your child before the results are released — so this is the work you can do now, with no results needed. |
| Tue 24 or Wed 25 Nov 2026 (tentative) | PSLE results released at 11am. Your child's S1 Option Form and Eligibility Letter come with the results. |
| The 7 calendar days after that | Submit up to 6 school choices, in order of preference, in the S1 Portal — from 11.30am on results day until 4.30pm on the last day of the window. The portal stays open 24 hours a day throughout. |
| Fri 18 Dec 2026 (tentative) | Posting results released through the S1 Portal (Singpass) and by SMS. |
Every date above is MOE's own and MOE marks the two 2026 dates tentative — check MOE's S1 Posting page before you rely on them (checked 15 October 2026). One consequence worth knowing now: if no choices are submitted in the seven days, MOE posts the child to a school with remaining vacancies near the registered address. The choosing is yours to do, and the shortlist can be started today.
A report card gives you a grade. It never tells you which thinking went wrong. Two children can both score 70 and be losing marks in completely different places — one in ratio, one in speed and distance. After the papers the marks stop mattering for a while, but the gaps are still there, and nobody is in a rush to hide them. These are the calmest weeks of the year to look.
| Step | What happens |
|---|---|
| 1 · Diagnose | Ten questions, three minutes. Every topic is scored separately, so you get weak spots topic by topic instead of one overall number. |
| 2 · See the map | A gap map you can read in ten seconds, plus the two or three topics worth working on first. |
| 3 · Practise only those | Every wrong answer shows the faulty thinking and the correct path, then your child redoes it until it sticks — plus a plain-English weekly report to you. |
Your child has a year, and a year is enough to fix this properly. The drills are written for the PSLE in all four subjects — multiple-choice in Maths, Science, English and Chinese, sorted by topic — plus Maths problem sums with the working marked step by step: the written paper that carries half the marks since the 2026 format change. A P4 child gets 156 P4-level Maths problem sums across 13 topics. Start with the free check; the free month that follows needs no card.
SEAB's own Important Dates page carries a tentative PSLE results window of Tuesday 24 – Wednesday 25 November 2026, and says the release can only be confirmed once marking and processing are complete. The 2026 marking exercise runs 12 to 14 October, so these are the quiet weeks in between. Schools tell pupils the confirmed day at least a week before. We publish the window SEAB prints and do not invent a day beyond it — checked on SEAB's Important Dates page, 13 October 2026.
Seven calendar days, and they start on results day. MOE's S1 Posting page (checked 15 October 2026) prints a tentative results release of Tue 24 or Wed 25 Nov 2026 at 11am, then a submission window of seven calendar days — from 11.30am that day to 4.30pm on the last day — for up to six schools, in order of preference, in the S1 Portal. Posting results are released on Fri 18 Dec 2026 (tentative). The shortlist itself can be started now, before any results are out.
Rest for a few days — the papers ending is not a reason to start a new topic the same week. Then do one thing: the free 3-minute gap check on the same ten questions. It shows which topics the year left shaky, and those are the topics Sec 1 work builds straight on.
No — a year is the useful amount of time. Twelve months lets a child fix the few topics that cost the most marks without cramming. Three weeks does not. The check takes three minutes and needs no card.
Yes. The 3-minute check and the first month are free and need no card. After that, while the launch slots last the guided sittings are free too — no price is published until the slots are gone, and it appears on the site before anything is charged. Nothing is charged automatically: no auto-renewal, no lock-in.
No. It is a practice companion — it finds the exact thinking errors and drills those, and it works alongside school and any tutor. The honest limits are listed on the page.
Where to go next: the 2026 paper dates and times · free daily drills · what the free month includes · the free PSLE topic guides.
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