If your child has been offered a Singapore school through the Admissions Exercise for International Students (AEIS) or Supplementary AEIS (S-AEIS), open the official outcome and save the offered school, level and reporting instructions. Contact the school promptly if you are overseas, missing a document or unsure whether your child needs to attend in person. Keep working from the actual deadline while you wait for an answer.
The offer starts a new set of tasks. A family may have applied through the Singapore Examinations and Assessment Board (SEAB) Candidates Portal, but SEAB’s 2025 candidate instructions directed families to the AEIS or S-AEIS Internet System for results. Follow the link in MOE’s current results notice, then use the offered school’s instructions to organise the reporting visit and first day.
- Save the outcome, reporting dates, school name and offered level.
- Ask who must report and which documents must be brought or sent.
- Confirm what to do if travel or documents may delay reporting.
- Keep reporting, enrolment and the first day on separate calendar lines.
- Plan the commute and first week around the school actually offered.
Read the result as an instruction sheet
Start with the official result for your child. Read the offered level as well as the school name. Record any dates exactly, then check whether the school has issued additional instructions. If the family is abroad, convert the deadline into local time but keep the Singapore time next to it. A date in a family chat is easier to misread when two countries are involved.
Save a copy where the adult handling the process can find it. Record the school office number from the school’s own website. If two campuses or schools have similar names, match the full name and location before making travel plans. Ask the office for the entrance and reporting location if these are unclear.
Know which question belongs where
MOE’s exercise notice is the starting point for how to retrieve the result. The offered school can explain how it wants families to complete reporting, the school-specific documents and practical first-day arrangements. If a question concerns the immigration formalities for your child, follow the current official instructions and ask the school which part of the process it handles. Give the relevant office one clear question at a time.
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Make a reporting checklist for your family
Use three columns in your notes. Put confirmed requirements in the first, questions for the school in the second and practical tasks in the third. An original identity document, a question about who must attend and a plan to practise the bus ride are three different things. Keeping them apart makes it easier to see what could hold up reporting.
Ask which documents need special handling
Check whether the school wants originals, copies, a translation or a form submitted before the visit. If you expect a document to arrive late, identify it in your enquiry and ask what the school wants you to do by the deadline. Use the school’s stated channel for sending identity information. Keep sensitive records out of shared family or parent chat groups.
Make one calendar for the people involved
Put the reporting appointment, expected school start and any follow-up on separate lines. Assign each task to a named adult. A parent abroad may be able to send a form while an adult in Singapore handles an approved practical task. Ask whether another adult can attend or act for you before making that arrangement. Keep the school’s reply with the calendar.
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If you may miss the reporting deadline
Contact the school as soon as the problem becomes clear. Say the offered level, the reporting date in the instructions and the first date on which you can complete the task. Ask what the school needs you to do now and whether an alternative can be confirmed. Follow any current instructions while waiting for a reply. Save a note of the time and channel you used.
For example, a family due to report on Thursday may arrive only on Friday. The useful first question is “We arrive on Friday. Which parts of reporting must be completed before then, and can the school confirm how we should proceed?” This gives the school a date and a specific request. A request to report late is separate from an agreed change to the deadline.
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If the school is farther away than expected
Test the journey from your actual home to the school entrance. Include the walk to the first stop, the time between connections and the trip home after school. For a younger child, compare the transport arrangements a caregiver can reliably manage. If the family plans to move, work out a temporary route while the housing decision is still open.
Keep the reporting decision separate from any enquiry about a different placement. MOE’s exercise guidance and your outcome are the starting points for how places are offered. Ask the relevant office what options exist for a genuine difficulty and continue to track the reporting deadline for the place you have.
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Worked example
A family reads the AEIS outcome while abroad. The parent will be in Singapore before the last listed reporting date, but the child’s flight arrives later. The parent calls the offered school, gives both arrival dates and asks who must report and whether any steps can be started in advance. They record the school’s answer before committing to a revised flight.
The same family finds that the proposed morning route involves two changes. They test a longer but simpler alternative and ask the school about arrival time and entrance. Their child rehearses the journey and learns who to approach at the school office. The reporting deadline and the first school day are now two clear appointments.
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Frequently asked questions
Where should I check the result?
Use the results link in the current MOE notice. SEAB’s June 2025 candidate instructions distinguished the Candidates Portal used for test administration from the AEIS or S-AEIS Internet System used for outcomes.
Can a relative report for us?
Ask the offered school whether it allows a representative for the specific task and what authorisation it requires. Give the school the actual dates if the child or parent is abroad.
Can I wait to report while asking about another school?
Follow the official deadline and ask the relevant office about any placement question separately. Ask what will happen to the offered place if you cannot complete reporting by the stated date.
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