Last Updated: 15 Sep 2025
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 the consolidated MER of all courses.
Aggregate computation for 2-year Higher Nitec courses
Each 2-year Higher Nitec course uses one of these aggregate types to assess course eligibility. Explore the courses under each aggregate type, their net aggregate scores and fields of study:
Learn which O-Level subjects are used to compute each aggregate type.What cannot be used for aggregate computation
You cannot use:
- The grades of both Higher Mother Tongue and Mother Tongue of the same language in the aggregate score computation. For example, in ELR2B2-C aggregate type, if Higher Chinese is used as best subject B1, Chinese cannot be used as a best subject B2.
- “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’
Bonus points for ITE admission
The bonus points are subtracted from your gross aggregate scores to obtain the respective net aggregate scores for posting.
| Type of bonus points | No. of bonus points |
|
CCA grade
|
2 |
|
CCA grade
|
1 |
- 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 eligible for the CCA bonus points if you have obtained the above CCA grades.
- 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' course choices and aggregate scores in the current JAE, which can differ from previous years.