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661 Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 269734 Website: www.hwachong.edu.sg Email: [email protected] Tel: +65 64683955 Fax: +65 67695857
1st March 2017
Hwa Chong Class of 2016 Sustains Tradition of Excellence
The class of 2016 has achieved excellent results again and we are very proud of our students. Dr Hon Chiew Weng, Principal, Hwa Chong Institution says, “Congratulations to the Class of 2016 on their excellence! We are proud that they have performed well not just academically, but holistically too. For example, they have actively served society, serving an average of 106 hours in community service. We are very grateful for the strong guidance and unwavering support of our teachers and parents.” 60% of H2 subjects recorded significant improvements. 10 subjects have recorded the best performance in the last five years. These include H1 General Paper, H2 Economics, H2 Chemistry, H2 Biology, H2 Literature in English, H2 Geography and H2 Computing. Besides their sterling academic results, the Class of 2016 has also excelled holistically.
306 students have been conferred the Hwa Chong Diploma with Distinction
This cohort tirelessly and selflessly contributed back to the community, serving an average of 106 hours in community service;
They have continued Hwa Chong's tradition of excellence with 49 World Championship Titles (2006-2017);
They also took home 51 Top 3 titles at the Interschool Sports Championships in 2016 and;
14 Certificates of Distinction for Performing Arts at the 2015 Singapore Youth Festival.
661 Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 269734 Website: www.hwachong.edu.sg Email: [email protected] Tel: +65 64683955 Fax: +65 67695857
To date, 11 Hwa Chong students have been awarded provisional Public Service Commission Scholarships. Loh Jia Yi has also been conferred the provisional Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) Scholarship. She is the second female student from Hwa Chong to be conferred this scholarship. 173 students have been offered scholarships to pursue their undergraduate studies in local universities such as NUS, NTU, SMU, and SUTD. Even before the release of the GCE A-Level results, 12 students have been admitted to Peking and Tsinghua Universities for bicultural excellence. Three students have also received conditional offers from Fudan University.
This year, a record number of 52 Hwa Chong students have received offers to Cambridge and Oxford University. Over 600 offers have also been made to Hwa Chong students from top US and UK universities such as Harvard, Brown, NYU, Imperial, LSE, and King’s College London.