The Education Ministry's (MOE) plans to phase out the streaming system, and implement full subject-based banding instead, made the headlines this year.
Starting next year, 28 secondary schools will pilot the full subject-based banding programme that allows students, based on their strengths, to study more subjects at a higher or lower level.
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