2025 GCE Ordinary Level Syllabuses Examined for Private Candidates

Here are the 2025 GCE O-Level examination syllabuses that are offered to private candidates:

For syllabuses that have been revised, the specimen papers are available on the website for three years, including the year of posting. We seek your understanding that some items / images / resources may not be available in these online specimen papers, due to copyright restrictions. In such cases, a description of the item / image / resource, and/or a web-link may be provided. The full specimen paper, in printed format, may be purchased from SEAB.

From 2017, certain papers of selected GCE O-Level subjects will be conducted in the e-Examination format (for example, e-Oral). These subjects are as follows:

Subject Title	Subject Code	Paper
English	1184	4
Chinese	1160	3
Malay	1148	3
Tamil	1157	3
Higher Chinese	1116	3
Higher Malay	1117	3
Higher Tamil	1147	3

Online Tutorial for Mother Tongue Language and Higher Mother Tongue Language e-Oral examination to understand the revised examination format.

Cambridge Subjects

Subject Title	Language Medium	Subject Code	Specimen Papers for Revised Syllabus [Year of Posting]
English Language	English	1184	-
Literature in English	English	2065	-
History	English	2174	Paper 1 Paper 2 [2023]
Humanities (Social Studies, Geography)	English	2260	Paper 1 Paper 2 \| Insert [2023]
Humanities (Social Studies, History)	English	2261	Paper 1 Paper 2 [2023]
Humanities (Social Studies, Literature in English)	English	2262	Paper 1 [2023]
Geography	English	2279	Paper 1 \| Insert Paper 2 \| Insert [2023]
Economics	English	2286	-
Spanish	Spanish	3034	-
Hindi	Hindi	3194	-
Urdu	Urdu	3196	-
Gujarati	Gujarati	3199	-
Panjabi	Panjabi	3203	-
Bengali	Bengali	3215	-
Burmese	Burmese	3249	-
Thai	Thai	3260	-
French	French	3917	-
German	German	3918	-
Japanese	Japanese	3919	-
Additional Mathematics	English	4049	-
Mathematics	English	4052	-
Science (Physics, Chemistry)	English	5086	Paper 1 Paper 2 Paper 3 Paper 5 [2023]
Science (Physics, Biology)	English	5087	Paper 1 Paper 5 [2023]
Science (Chemistry, Biology)	English	5088	Paper 1 Paper 3 Paper 4 Paper 5 [2023]
Physics	English	6091	Paper 1 Paper 2 [2023] There is no specimen for Paper 3.
Chemistry	English	6092	Paper 1 Paper 2 [2023] There is no specimen for Paper 3.
Biology	English	6093	Paper 1 Paper 2 [2023] There is no specimen for Paper 3.
Business Studies	English	7085	-
Principles of Accounts [Updated] ^	English	7087	Paper 2 \| Insert [2023]
Computing [Revised] Software required: Microsoft Office (Excel) Python JupyterLab Desktop	English	7155	Paper 1 Paper 2 \| Insert [2024]

^ Change is to response format for Paper 2. The new response format requires candidates to write answers on the question paper.

Local Subjects

Subject Title	Language Medium	Subject Code	Specimen Papers for Revised Syllabus [Year of Posting]
Higher Chinese	Chinese	1116	Paper 1 Paper 2 Paper 3 [2023]
Chinese	Chinese	1160	Paper 1 Paper 2 Paper 3 - Oral Paper 3 - LC [2023]
Literature in Chinese	Chinese	2031	-
Higher Malay	Malay	1117	Paper 1 Paper 2 Paper 3 [2023]
Malay	Malay	1148	Paper 1 Paper 2 Paper 3 - Oral Paper 3 - LC [2023]
Literature in Malay	Malay	2032	-
Islamic Religious Knowledge _{Note: Religious Knowledge cannot be used as one of the best-scoring subjects for aggregate score computation for JC and Millennia Institute admission. See} _link _.	Malay	2080	-
Arabic	Arabic	3186	-
Higher Tamil	Tamil	1147	Paper 1 Paper 2 Paper 3 [2023]
Tamil	Tamil	1157	Paper 1 Paper 2 Paper 3 - Oral Paper 3 - LC [2023]
Literature in Tamil	Tamil	2033	-
Humanities (Social Studies, Literature in Chinese)	English	2263	Paper 1 [2023]
Humanities (Social Studies, Literature in Malay)	English	2264	Paper 1 [2023]
Humanities (Social Studies, Literature in Tamil)	English	2265	Paper 1 [2023]

Singapore Citizens and Singapore Permanent Residents who would like to register for Mother Tongue Language Syllabus B can write to SEAB with their request.