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Where Can I Find Chinese Special Programme (CSP) Information?

Start with MOE’s current secondary-school language opportunities page and look for Chinese Special Programme (CSP). This national page identifies CSP as a school-specific language opportunity and is the safest place to confirm the current overview and participating-school route.

CSP is a Chinese third-language programme for students whose Mother Tongue Language is not Chinese. After checking MOE’s overview, follow the exact offer or posting instructions to the assigned school or zonal centre; that current notice should control registration, lesson arrangements and contacts.

Do not confuse CSP with Chinese Language, Higher Chinese Language or the Chinese Language Elective Programme. Also check the student’s cohort before relying on examination labels: older CSP pages may describe O-Level arrangements, while later cohorts need the current school and examination-authority instructions that apply to them.

Find your next step

Official sources · Practical checks · Your next step

Which sources should I use?

Start hereUse it forCheck immediately
MOE language opportunitiesThe current national CSP overview and participating routeThat the programme is CSP and the information applies to the intended cohort
Official CSP school pageA current official-school explanation of the programmeWhether this is the student’s assigned school or centre; do not assume it is universal
MOE SchoolFinderOfficial school profiles and school linksThe correct school website and current contact route
The student’s own offer or school notice is the practical source for registration; another centre’s timetable is only an example.

What does “third language” change?

CSP is additional language learning and does not automatically replace the student’s Mother Tongue Language requirement. Families should confirm the student’s existing Mother Tongue arrangement, CSP offer and overall subject load with the school rather than inferring a substitution.

The programme develops listening, speaking, reading and writing alongside cultural understanding. That makes time, travel and weekly practice important checks, especially when lessons are held at a zonal centre rather than the student’s own school.

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What should we check immediately?

Did you know that a programme can stay familiar while its examination context changes around it? Keep the programme name, cohort and examination document together. This avoids applying an older O-Level statement automatically to a student entering the SEC-era pathway.

Use our secondary subject-combination source guide for the workload decision and the Singapore schools directory to reach the correct official school page. Return to the pathways collection for the wider transition.

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What is the next practical step?

Open MOE’s language page, confirm CSP, and then match the student’s offer to the named school or centre. Save the newest registration notice and record the deadline, lesson arrangement, Mother Tongue interaction and cohort-specific examination source before accepting.

Related programme source guides

Official sources reviewed: 11 October 2026. Recheck current instructions before acting.

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