Last Updated: 27 Oct 2025
Direct School Admission (DSA-Sec): Receive school allocation results
2. Allocation outcomes
If your child is admitted to a secondary school through DSA-Sec, they are not allowed to submit school choices during S1 Posting, nor transfer to another school. They are required to honour their commitment to the posted DSA-Sec school for the duration of the programme.
However, they may still be eligible to submit:
Your child will receive an Eligibility Letter enclosed with their PSLE results if this applies to your child. You must submit these options by the last day of S1 school choice submission period.
- The Posting Group and Third Language options should be submitted during the S1 school choice submission period via the S1 Internet System or through your child's primary school.
- If no options are submitted, your child will be enrolled into the Posting Group that offers subjects at the more academically-demanding level at the start of S1 or considered to have opted out of Third Language in secondary school.
What to do if the outcome is unsuccessful
If your child is not admitted to a secondary school through DSA-Sec, they must participate in S1 Posting, if eligible.
You should submit your child's secondary school choices by the last day of S1 school choice submission period. You may still opt for the schools that your child has applied to during the DSA-Sec, except for specialised independent schools as they do not participate in S1 Posting.
Students who do not submit any school choices will be posted to a school with remaining vacancies, based on their official registered address, after all the students who have indicated their choices have been posted. Due to limited vacancies, they might not be posted to a school near their official registered address.
If you have changed your residential address on your NRIC, inform your child's primary school by end October to update their records.