The "General Certificate of Education 'Normal' Level Examination", otherwise known as the "GCE 'N' Level" or the "'N' Levels", are examinations conducted annually in Singapore taken by students after four years (Secondary Four) in the Normal Academic or Normal Technical streams, with a possibility of leading to the "Singapore-Cambridge General Certificate of Education 'Ordinary' Level Examination" in their fifth-year.
The University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate (UCLES) is the examining authority for subjects conducted in the English language, foreign languages and Non-Tamil Indian Languages. The examining authority for other subjects such as the mother tongue languages is the Ministry of Education, Singapore.
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The"General Certificate of Education 'Ordinary' Level Examination", otherwise known as the "GCE 'O' Level" or the "O Levels" is the examination taken by students of Secondary Education in the United Kingdom, Commonwealth countries or regions associated with the British curriculum. The "GCE 'O' Level" is a subject-based qualification usually encompasses students of Grade 8 to Grade 10.
The "GCE 'O' Level" in the United Kingdom is replaced by the "General Certificate of Secondary Education" (abbreviated "GCSE") in 1988. However, many Commonwealth countries and some British schools still retain the "GCE 'O' Level" through the examining boards of the Cambridge International Examinations (CIE), American Council for Higher Education and Edexcel International.
Note that the Singapore's "GCE 'O' Level", the "Singapore-Cambridge General Certificate of Education 'Ordinary' Level Examination" is, though based on the CIE, a collaboration of both CIE and the Ministry of Education, Singapore; resulting in a notoriously more difficult version of the "GCE 'O' Level".
GCE N level is a major test that Singapore's gov't. used for the secondary 4 Normal Academic Students .