About DPA

The Direct Polytechnic Admission (DPA) Exercise will commence on 8 July 2011, for admission into the polytechnics in 2012. The DPA Exercise gives the polytechnics greater flexibility to select students on criteria other than examination results, thus allowing a wider range of talents to be recognised.

The DPA Exercise also allows students who are interested in, and who have the aptitude for applied learning, to confirm places in polytechnic courses prior to taking their GCE O-Level examinations. Students accepted to polytechnics through the DPA can also benefit from special preparatory programmes in the polytechnics, before the start of the formal polytechnic calendar in April 2012.

For more information, please click here to check MOE's website for details.