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Application Tutorial | National University of Singapore | Step-by-step Application to NUS
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Sep 16, 2024
š Ready to navigate the application process for the National University of Singapore (NUS)? Join us in this comprehensive step-by-step tutorial, crafted to guide you seamlessly through the application journey. Whether you're a prospective undergraduate or graduate student, this tutorial covers all you need to know about applying to NUS. š« About National University of Singapore (NUS): NUS is a leading global university consistently ranked among the top universities worldwide. Renowned for its commitment to excellence in education, impactful research, and a diverse array of academic programs, NUS provides an enriching learning environment. š» Application Tutorial Highlights: Introduction to NUS: Gain insights into NUS's rich history, academic strengths, and the range of programs offered. Eligibility Criteria: Understand the prerequisites for admission, ensuring you fulfill the necessary qualifications. Navigating the Online Portal: Step into the NUS application portal with confidence, exploring each section and understanding the submission process. Key Deadlines: Stay informed about critical deadlines to ensure your application is submitted on time. š Duration: This tutorial is approximately 18 minutes long, providing you with an in-depth and comprehensive guide to simplify the application process. š Empower Your Academic Journey: Hit play now to equip yourself with the knowledge and confidence needed to submit a successful application to the National University of Singapore. š Explore More Opportunities: For additional guides on studying abroad and scholarship opportunities, visit our website at globalscholarships.com. š If you found this tutorial helpful, don't forget to give it a thumbs up, subscribe to our channel for more educational content, and share it with others who may find it useful.
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Hi everyone, it's Global Scholarships and I'm your host, As
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And today I want to show you the application process of National University of Singapore
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NUS is regarded as one of the best universities in the world, and it has nine different scholarships for international students
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If you're interested, visit our website at global scholarships.com. So let's get to it
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Now, as always, the first thing we're going to do is to go to the website of the university
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And once here, we go to admissions and click on an understanding. undergraduate and graduate programs
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Now here we have undergraduate and graduate buttons. So we're going to click on undergraduate
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Now, as you can see, we are in the Office of Admissions page. You go to apply to NUS
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Here we have different qualifications like Singapore, Cambridge, GCEA level, Polytechnic diploma from Singapore or NUS high school diploma
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I will choose international qualifications, which is my qualification. And we have a flow chart here
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As you can see, there are four steps. Understanding admission requirements. Submit application online
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Upload supporting documents and make application fee payment and check application status
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Now, we have deadline here. As you can see, for most qualifications, it's March the 3rd
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And if we scroll down, as you can see, we have admission requirements. Now, you need to scroll down and find your specific qualification
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For me, it's Turkish high school qualification. So I click on that
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And here we have requirements for both applicants who have completed the high school final examination
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and applicants who will be completing the high school final examination after application closing date
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So what we have minimum to apply. For people who have graduated, we need Turkish high school graduation certificate or diploma
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A past certificate with an overall GPA of 4.3 is required for candidates to make a competitive application
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For people who are not yet graduates, most recent high school exam results prior to
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to high school graduation and you need to be expected to receive a pest certificate with an overall
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GPA of 4.3 by and then we have standardized tests like ACT or SAT and then we have this standardized
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test like ACT or SAT as you can see it's not required for graduates because you already have a diploma
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but if you haven't graduated yet you need to take one of these tests and you can click here to see
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what tests are accepted now for English requirement high school graduates are required to take a
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test. Now you can click here to see which tests are accepted. It's ILTS and TOFL and all that
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But if you're not a graduate, since you have to take the standardized tests, you do not also have
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to participate in an English test. So basically, if you're a graduate, you don't need to take
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the standardized test, but you need to take the English test. But if you're still a high school student
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you need to take the standardized test, but not the English test. Okay, it's actually pretty simple
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And then we have eligibility. High school graduates are eligible for all programs, while people who aren't graduated yet are not eligible for dentistry, law, medicine and nursing
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And application closing date is March the third. After that, we have outstanding achievements, choice of programs, application outcome, appeals, verification of documents, and, as you can say, English requirements
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Applicants may present any of the following to fulfill the English language requirement. Here you have C1, ILTS, PTA
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Toffle now again you have to take the English language test only if you're a high school graduate so you do not take the standardized test and ever seeing all of that I can now go here and click on apply now
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to apply click on the apply now link that corresponds to your qualification the online application forms are best viewed on Google Chrome and Firefox and then we have application process we are in the step of finding out the program prerequisites so I'm going to click on that
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And then here in the type of applicant, I'm going to choose international applicants
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Now as you can see, we have subject prerequisites. So we're going to go and find the program we want to apply and see the prerequisites
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You can scroll down to find the specific program that you want to apply
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There's quite a list here. Here I'm going to go with business administration
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Here 12 or higher level pass in mathematics. And selection tests or interview now
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And after we are done with finding the subject prerequisites for the program, we want to apply we go back and resume our application process with the second step Apply online data application form Now as you can see we have different application forms for different qualifications I going to go and find my qualification
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All other international qualifications. I'm going to click on Apply Now. Now, here we have our applicant portal
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You can sign in with one of your social accounts, like Facebook, Google, Microsoft account, or LinkedIn
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But what if you do not have any of these social accounts, or you just don't want to use
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use any of them. Well, then what you do is you click on, go back, twice
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And when we are on this page, you scroll up, and as you can see, we have a note here
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All prospective applicants will require an account with Google, Facebook, Microsoft, or
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linking to access the online application system. If you do not have an account from any of the above, you will need to sign in here before
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we proceed to submit an application. So we click here, and it will take us to a page where we can create our login account
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So here I'm going to use a disposable mail, then we put in our verification code, and now we give our information
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First name, John, last name, Doe, password. Let's just find a password that we are comfortable with and create account
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Your NUS account with username, your email has been created successfully. An email has also been sent to you to confirm the account creation
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You may use the account for your NUS Undergraduate admission application. Now to continue our application, we need to go back to the applicant portal, which we do by clicking on Office of Admissions, and then click on Apply Now, scroll down and find our qualification, and click on Apply Now
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Great, once again, we are back in the applicant portal. Now we click on social account, and then we use a U.S. login account
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So first we type in our email, then we type in our password, and click on our password
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sign in. And as you can see, we are in the applicant portal. We have a welcome text here
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Thank you for your interest in NUS undergraduate programs. And you can read this and then we click on
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continue to apply. Please select the correct application category. We are an international
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applicant with international qualification. Next. Are you currently an undergraduate or former
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undergraduate of a university? Since we are applying for an undergraduate program, I'm going to choose
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No and click on next. International high school qualification. Please select your high school examination
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I will choose Turkish high school. And next. And now we have different sections here
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Like personal details, choice of study, education, achievement, other information, documents, and declaration
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First we start with personal details. Please indicate the location you're applying from
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Non-EEA. I have read, understand, and agreed to the collection, use and disclosure of my personal data
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as described in the privacy notice and that if I am located inside EEA
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the provisions of Appendix 1 shall also apply to my personal data
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Let's choose this, and we have personal particulars. Salutation, Mr. Full name. Let's say John Doe
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Given name. John. Gender. Male. Date of birth. Let's say postal code
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Block and house number. Street name. N country. Turkey. Citizenship. Turkey. Residential status. Foreigner
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Race and ethnic group. Well, for Turks, it's a little complicated, so I'm going to choose others
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Religion. No religion. Marital status. Well, single. Email address. Okay. Mobile number
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Yeah, let's choose this one. And let's move on. Alternative contact. Let's say cousin
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Mobile. And save and next. And we have NUS College. NUS College is a faculty within the National University of Singapore
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that offers an enriched curriculum for undergraduates who wish to challenge themselves
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both academically and beyond academics, while pursuing their degree in NUS. So if you're interested, you can read this to get more information on NUS College
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do you wish to be considered for NUS College? I'm going to choose no here
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Choice of Study. Single degree programs. Indicate your choices in, order of preference. You may choose up to eight choices. Now there are more
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information about specific programs so you might want to check them out and see if there any information on the specific program that you want to apply to But now I going to start adding programs First program
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Let's say economics. And if you want to add more programs, you can click here on this plus. And let's say
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business administration. Let's add another one and say environmental studies. Okay. And let's choose
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our preferred major for business administration. Let's say business economics. And save and next
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Choice of study. Double degree, concurrent degree, double major, minor and specialization programs
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This selection is optional. Indicate your choices in order of preference. You may choose up to eight choices
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Well, if you want to do a double degree, you can choose it here, but I'm going to click on save and next
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Now we are on education. International High School Education. Name of the school
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Country. Turkey. From, let's say, examination. high school. That's right. Month and year taken. Let's say, okay, if graduated more than a year ago
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the activity is engaged, current and past. Let's say working. Result time, actual or predicted and forecast
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Let's say chegar and add some subjects. Let's say math. Okay, let's click on save and next
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Other education. So this section is optional. We have ILTS, TOFL, and other
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all the other tests that you might need again remember to check the requirements of your specific
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qualification where are you from what qualification you have i'm talking about this table we went
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through earlier like turkish high school is my qualification and then we have different
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requirements for people who are graduated and people who are not graduated like standardized tests
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or english requirements make sure that you fill out the tests that you need to okay and then
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we click on save and next. And then we have university and tertiary education
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If you have not been to any university, you can just click on save and next
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And then we have achievements, short questions and answers. This section is mandatory
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As part of our admissions process, we would like to get to know you better through a series of five short response questions
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This is a self-evaluation of your interests and suitability for the program
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So please answer simply and honestly in standard English. own words. Do not use any external aid such as artificial intelligence, yeah, they're on to me
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I guess, or ghostwriting. Doing so may have a negative impact on your application. Each question
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has a character reply limit, so avoid verbose answers and write straight to the point. Okay
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I'm not going to answer these. I'll just write some random stuff, but make sure that you
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answer them honestly and simply, okay? Question one, tell us something you have done outside your
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school curriculum to prepare yourself for your chosen degree, For example, did you work in a relevant part-time job or did you take an online course
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You know what? I'm going to copy and paste this one. Okay. Number two, tell us about a time when you fail to do something on your first try but succeeded on subsequent attempts
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How did you learn from your initial failure? Change your approach so that you eventually succeeded
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Paste it again. Number three, tell us about something that is meaningful to you and why
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Okay? Number four, what is your proudest achievement? How does it display your commitment and how have you been enterprising
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Please also explain how it exemplifies some of the five in US values of innovation, resilience, excellence, respect and integrity
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Okay. Number five. Is there anything else about yourself which you want us to know? Yeah. List of achievements
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For the university to better evaluate your application, please list up three achievements that may include co-curricular activities and non-academic activities like social work, competitive sports
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which you have participated. If you have no achievements, please select non-applicable
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Okay, these could be like medals, representing your country, active participation in community
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service, internship. I'm going to choose here just not applicable, okay? And save and next
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Health and support. Do you have any past or current medical, mental health, disability
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impairment, which may or may not cause you to require the support or facilities while studying at
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University. Note, disclosure will not disadvantage your application. I'm going to choose
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no here and save and next Other information Have you ever been arrested charge in court put on probation or convicted of an offense by a court law or a military court in any country or jurisdiction
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suspended or expelled from an educational institution or terminated from your employment for any reason
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Or are there any court or disciplinary proceedings pending against you in any country or jurisdiction
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Well, if you choose yes, you need to explain yourself. I'm going to choose
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here. Save and next. Okay, then we have tuition grants for international students. There is a
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limited number of tuition grants available for international students and these are awarded on a
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competitive basis based on merit. You may apply for a tier C tuition grant. If you take up a
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tier C tuition grant, you will be required to secure employment and serve in a Singapore entity
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for three years upon graduation. If you wish to apply, please fill the tuition grant
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application form as part of your university application. Okay, so let's save and next
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As you can see, we have two options here. I'm a permanent resident or international student and I wish to apply for a tuition grant
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I am prepared to sign a tuition grant agreement with the government of Singapore
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which would require that I secure employment and serve in a Singapore entity for three years upon graduation
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or that we do not wish to apply for tuition grant. I will choose that I wish to apply for tuition grant and save a next
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I declared information provided by me in this declaration form is true and accurate
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and I have not deliberately or willfully omitted to provide any information that will render me
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ineligible to receive tuition grant. Should I make a false declaration? I understand that
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I will be committing a criminal offense that may be punishable with a jail term and or fine
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Please select the option that applies to you. We have three options here. The first one is I have not received any tuition grant from Singapore government
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The second is that I have received a tuition grant from Singapore government, but I did not graduate from the course
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The third is that I have received a tuition grant from the government, and I did, and I did graduate from the course
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So I will choose I have not received any tuition grant. And save. And next
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Terms and conditions. In applying for a tuition grant, I confirmed that I agree with the terms and conditions set forth above
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Knowing the providing false information in this form is a criminal offense under Section 177 of the Penal Code
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punishable with imprisonment for a term up to six months or a fine of up to a maximum of
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five thousand U.S. dollars or with both okay let's confirm that and save and next do we intend to apply
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for financially yes how sold income information if you have any information on this type it in
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i'll just say less than one thousand dollars save and next okay here we have the documents we
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need to upload please upload following supporting documents you should go ahead and upload
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All of these, I'll just skip them, save and next. And we are in declaration
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I read and I agree to the terms and conditions contained in the privacy notice
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Click here to see the privacy notice. I agree to receive marketing, advertising
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I will not choose any of these. I'll just confirm I read and agree to the terms
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And save and next. Personal identification number. A pin is required for you to access the other application portals
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Please create your 8 alphanumeric case sensitive character. pin and keep it confidential. You know what? I'm going to just choose this one and copy and paste
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and save and next. Application confirmation. Please verify that the information is accurate before
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clicking the submit button. As you can see, we can review our entire application, all the information
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if they are true, if they are okay. And since we can click here and submit our application
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It shows that all the things we put in are acceptable and we are good to go
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Now, I'm not going to click on submit because I do not want to send them a fake application
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but after we click on submit, you need to pay the application fee and then track your application on the application portal
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