SINGAPORE: About 85.6 per cent of students scored at least five passes at the 2021 GCE O-Level examinations, just above the previous year’s record of 85.4 per cent.

Of the 23,555 candidates who sat for the examinations last year, 20,152 had five or more O-Level passes, according to results released by the Ministry of Education (MOE) and Singapore Examinations and Assessment Board (SEAB) on Wednesday (Jan 12).