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PFP Entry Requirements

Besides applying for the NYP PFP, you will also need to ensure your eligibility for the full-time course of your choice. For more details, check:
  1. Minimum Grade Requirements for NYP PFP
  2. List of full-time NYP diploma programmes and Requirements

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Minimum Grade Requirements for NYP PFP

At NYP, our PFP curriculum offers two distinctive tracks to get you ready for your chosen course. 

  • Group 1: Design & Media, Engineering, Humanities, IT or Science
  • Group 2: Business Management or Social Work

 

To fulfill the entry requirements for either tracks, you must meet the raw ELMAB3 aggregate of 12 points or lower, before CCA deductions. This includes English, Mathematics and your Best 3 subjects at your N-Levels.

 

Subjects taken at O-Levels can be combined with your N-Level results to compute your PFP eligibility.

 

N-Level SubjectsGroup 1Group 2
English Language Syllabus A32
Mathematics Syllabus A / Additional Mathematics33

One of the following relevant subjects:

  • Design & Technology
  • Food & Nutrition / Nutrition & Food Science
  • Science (Chemistry, Biology)
  • Science (Physics, Biology)
  • Science (Physics, Chemistry)
3-

One of the following relevant subjects:

  • Art
  • Geography
  • History
  • Humanities (Social Studies, Geography)
  • Humanities (Social Studies, History)
  • Humanities (Social Studies, Literature in English)
  • Literature in English
  • Principles of Accounts
-3
Any two other subjects (excluding CCA*)44

* CCA points will be considered in the posting to a course

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NYP Full-time Diploma Courses and Requirements

To be eligible for the course of your choice, you must also meet the minimum ELMAB3 requirements of that specific course. Some courses also have medical requirements that you must meet.

 

Students placed on the PFP may or may not be eventually posted to the course programme of his/her choice, as admission to a course is based on merit and subject to the availability of vacancies. 

Tip: Use our course finder to check the past year's ELMAB3 score range, and gauge the competitiveness of admission.

  • Using the filter function, select "N-Level".
  • View the net ELMAB3 aggregate of the highest to lowest ranked students who were admitted to NYP courses in the 2024 PFP Admissions Exercise.
Courses offered under Group 1: 
Design & Media, Engineering, Humanities, IT or Science courses
Courses offered under Group 2: 
Business Management or Social Work

Are you a Sec 3N(A) student? Starting from the 2026 intake, students will be admitted to the PFP in 3 broad clusters instead of a specific diploma programme. Find out how our curriculum at NYP is designed to support this new structure.

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