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Written 31 October 2026 · every date below is SEAB’s or MOE’s own, with the day we read itShort answer: the 2026 results are due in a tentative window of Tuesday 24 – Wednesday 25 November 2026, released at 11am — and you then have seven calendar days to submit up to six secondary-school choices, in order of preference, in the S1 Portal, until 4.30pm on the last day. This page is that week, in order, as a checklist.
| When | What to do |
|---|---|
| Results day 11am |
Collect the two papers that come with the results: the S1 Option Form and the Eligibility Letter. Write down your child’s PSLE score, because that is the number the posting uses. Decide nothing on the first afternoon — the seven days start today, and one of them is for being calm. |
| Days 1–2 | Make the long list, ten to fifteen names. For each one, ask the school for its PSLE score range from last year’s posting (MOE publishes these; take the school’s own page or MOE’s SchoolFinder as the source, never a forum post). Cross out any school you would not actually send your child to for the next four to six years. |
| Days 3–4 | Cut to six, in the order you would truly accept them. The order matters more than the list: MOE places the child in the highest-ranked school on your list that has a place, so a school you would refuse belongs nowhere on it. Visit one or two in person if you can, and ask three things: who the Sec 1 form teacher is, how the school handles a child who is strong in one subject and shaky in another, and what the first term’s maths looks like. |
| Days 5–6 | Get the paperwork right before you touch the portal: the Option Form filled in the same order as your list, the Eligibility Letter to hand, and any additional form the school asks for (an affiliated school, a Special Assistance Plan school). One missing page on the last afternoon is a week lost. |
| Day 7 before 4.30pm |
Submit in the S1 Portal with Singpass. The portal runs 24 hours a day, so submit on day six or the morning of day seven — the last afternoon is when everyone else is on it. |
If no choices are submitted inside the seven days, MOE posts the child to a secondary school with remaining vacancies near the registered address. Not a punishment, just the default — and the one outcome you can avoid by setting a phone reminder for day five.
The posting decides the school. It does not decide how ready your child is for the work in January, and Sec 1 maths builds straight on the topics the year left shaky — ratio, fractions, speed, the word problems that need two steps. The free three-minute check shows which of those are actually weak, topic by topic, before the new term buries it. No card, no sign-up, and it stays free.
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SEAB prints a tentative window of Tuesday 24 – Wednesday 25 November 2026, at 11am. The confirmed day comes from the school at least a week before. Read on SEAB’s Important Dates page, 13 October 2026.
Seven calendar days: from 11.30am on results day until 4.30pm on the last day of the window. The S1 Portal is open 24 hours a day throughout.
Up to six. Use all six if you can honestly accept all six — a shorter list is better than a list padded with schools you would refuse.
Submit once, correctly, in the order you mean. Do not use the portal as a scratchpad on the last afternoon.
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