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Music Elective Programme (MEP)

The Music Elective Programme MEP is designed to enable pupils with both academic and musical abilities to undertake a challenging Music programme. It aims to develop pupils conceptual and analytical faculties as well as creativity. This is achieved through the practical and theoretical study of Music. Immersed in a musically enriched environment, pupils are developed in the skills and knowledge of performing, composing and appraising music from a range of different cultures. The MEP is a four-year course that prepares pupils for the GCE O Level Higher Music Examination. Pupils selected for the programme will take Music (MEP) in place of Design and Technology and Home Economics at the lower secondary level. In the mainstream schools, MEP pupils are expected to complete the 4-year course and offer Higher Music as a subject for examination at O level. MEP pupils in the Integrated Programme (IP) schools offer H2 and H3 Music as examination subjects at A level or the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme Music at Higher Level. They may opt to sit for the O level Higher Music examination. MEP is offered only at the following schools: School Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) Catholic High School CHIJ St. Nicholas Girls School Crescent Girls School Dunman High School Methodist Girls School (Secondary) Raffles Girls School (Secondary) Raffles Institution Tanjong Katong Girls School School Type Independent SAP, Autonomous SAP, Autonomous Autonomous SAP, Autonomous Independent Independent Independent Autonomous

Pupils interested in the MEP are advised to select schools offering the programme among the six choices of school. They are encouraged to select an MEP school as their first choice. To qualify for the MEP, the pupil must first meet the entry requirement of the Express course in the selected school. Upon admission to the school, the pupil must apply for the programme at the school. The pupil will also need to have attained at least:

EITHER A pass in Grade Three Practical and Theory or Practical Musicianship examinations of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM) or the equivalent standard from other examination boards.(Application must be accompanied by certified copies of music certificates or mark forms.)

OR in the absence of the qualifications stated above, a pass in both the written selection test and practical audition on an instrument (e.g. piano, rebab, erhu, sitar) conducted by the selecting school.

Higher Music in the GCE O Level Examination is equivalent to a Humanities subject. Pupils who offer Higher Music will be allowed to use the Music grade as a Humanities subject grade for admission to a JC/MI.

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