Last Updated: 29 August 2023

Institute of Technical Education

1. Admission matters and courses offered

To be eligible for admission to a 2-year Higher Nitec course at the Institute of Technical Education (ITE), you must meet these 2 criteria:

You must have sat for at least 5 O-Level subjects over a maximum of 2 years.
Meet the minimum entry requirements (MER) of the course that you are applying for. Find out the MER of specific courses on CourseFinder or refer to this document for the consolidated MER of all courses.

Each 2-year Higher Nitec course uses one of the aggregate score types:

ELB4-A

ELR1B3-B

ELR1B3-B	Subjects
EL	English Language
R1	Any 1 best-scoring relevant subject: Elementary Mathematics Additional Mathematics Principles of Accounts
B3	Best 3 other subjects

ELR2B2-C

ELR2B2-C	Subjects
EL	English Language
R2 (1st Group of Relevant Subjects)	Any 1 best-scoring relevant subject: Elementary Mathematics Additional Mathematics
R2 (2nd Group of Relevant Subjects)	Any 1 best-scoring relevant subject: Biology Biotechnology Chemistry Combined Science Computing/Computer Studies Design & Technology Electronics/Fundamental of Electronics Engineering Science Human & Social Biology Integrated Science Physical Science Physics Science (Chemistry, Biology) Science (Physics, Biology) Science (Physics, Chemistry) Science (Physics, Chemistry, Biology)
B2	Best 2 other subjects

You cannot use:

The grades of Higher Mother Tongue Language and Mother Tongue Language in the same aggregate computation.
“Merit” and “Pass” grades for the Mother Tongue ‘B’ Syllabus for aggregate computation.

Higher Mother Tongue Language: Higher Chinese, Higher Malay and Higher Tamil
Mother Tongue Language: Chinese, Malay and Tamil
Mother Tongue ‘B’ Syllabus: Chinese ‘B’, Malay ‘B’ and Tamil ‘B’

The bonus points are subtracted from your gross aggregate scores to obtain the respective net aggregate scores for posting.

You can get a maximum of 2 bonus points from CCA grade achievement.

Type of bonus points	No. of bonus points
CCA grade Excellent A1 or A2	2
CCA grade Good B3 to C6	1

Type of bonus points

No. of bonus points

CCA grade

CCA grade

If you are a private candidate, current or ex-student of other types of institution (JC, MI or polytechnic) and are eligible to apply for ITE courses through JAE, you will still be entitled to CCA bonus points.
The previous year's JAE net aggregate scores in CourseFinder are only used as a reference and do not guarantee admission. The actual course aggregate scores depend on students' O-Level results and course choices during the JAE, which may differ from previous years.