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Where Can NUS Students Find Language Preparation Programme (LPP) Information?

Start with the NUS Centre for Language Studies Language Preparation Programme page. LPP prepares eligible first-year beginners in French, German, Korean or Spanish for the Student Exchange Programme (SEP). Check the intended language, your prior learning and your degree’s eligibility before following the registration route.

As reviewed on 20 October 2026, the page’s AY2026/27 Semester 1 registration notice runs from 30 June to 8 July 2026. That window has passed. Ask lppenquiry@nus.edu.sg about the relevant intake rather than treating the old notice as a current invitation.

Did you know? Joining LPP does not secure an exchange place. Language preparation and SEP selection are separate. For the exchange application itself, use NUS Global Relations Office outgoing-exchange guidance and your home faculty’s instructions.

Find your next step

Choose the correct language route · Check beginner status and study plans · Prepare your LPP enquiry

Official sources at a glance

Your questionOfficial sourceWhat to check
Is LPP the right route?CLS LPP informationFirst-year eligibility, language choice and current registration notice
Have you learned the language before?CLS placement testsLanguage-specific assessment and registration instructions
How do you apply for exchange?NUS outgoing exchangersFaculty selection, host courses and the separate SEP process
Language preparation supports an exchange plan; it does not replace exchange admission.

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Check the learning route before registering

A useful first decision is whether you need beginner preparation, placement into a higher level, or ordinary language study without an exchange plan.

Be clear about what you already know

The placement-test page directs students with knowledge of a language to the relevant assessment route. Do not assume that learning outside school means you have no prior knowledge. Describe any lessons, self-study or time using the language when you ask CLS which route applies.

Prepare a short learning history: where you studied, roughly how long, what you can read and whether you have taken an assessment. It need not be an impressive résumé. An honest starting point helps you avoid repeating material or entering a class whose pace is unsuitable.

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Check your degree and your reason for applying

CLS lists Law, Pharmacy, Dentistry, Nursing and Medicine among the programmes excluded from LPP. It also distinguishes LPP from learning a language without an SEP intention. Read the eligibility and alternative-study sections together; a language appearing in the university catalogue does not establish LPP eligibility.

Write down why this language connects to your intended study abroad. Then check whether the destination has suitable courses for your degree. A country you would love to visit and a host institution that can support your academic plan are two different considerations.

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Make space for sustained learning

The LPP outline spans four semesters of language study. Look beyond the first course when planning your timetable. Ask your faculty how the sequence fits your degree requirements and what to do if a compulsory course creates a clash.

A practical preparation habit is to reserve small, repeated periods for listening, recall and speaking rather than relying on one long revision session. Keep your own examples of what you can now understand. These are learning suggestions, not extra NUS assessment requirements. Use the university course-registration guide for the wider allocation process.

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Keep the exchange decision separate

NUS’s outgoing-exchange instructions explain faculty selection and the subsequent partner-university application. Check the host’s teaching language as well as the language you hope to learn. A course offered by an overseas university is not automatically taught in that country’s main language.

Use the existing university exchange guide to organise academic approval and host acceptance. Keep language registration, faculty exchange selection and host confirmation as separate entries in your plan. This makes it easier to see which part is settled and which still needs an answer.

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Your next step

Open the CLS page and identify your language, intake and prior-learning situation. If the displayed notice belongs to a past semester, ask the LPP team what instruction applies now.

Include your degree, year of study and intended exchange region in the enquiry. You are looking for the correct learning route first; the eventual exchange application remains a separate decision.

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Official sources reviewed: 20 October 2026. The displayed AY2026/27 Semester 1 registration dates are past dates, not a newly confirmed application window. Recheck CLS and faculty instructions before acting.

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Choose the question that brought you here. Open one useful guide, try a small task, and stop when you have what you need.

Take one question further

The same learning habit can travel across subjects, while each subject keeps its own methods. These routes help you notice a difficulty, understand one part of it, and return to something you can do.

A word is familiar, but using it is difficult.

Move from recognising a word to retrieving it in a new context. Understand vocabulary plateaus.

Try it without the guide: Choose one word you already know. Close the guide and use it in a new sentence. Explain why it fits; try another context tomorrow.

A piece of writing has ideas, but the reader loses the thread.

Make the order of events and the links between sentences clear. Explore composition writing.

Try it without the guide: Choose one short paragraph. Read the relevant explanation, close it, and revise the paragraph. Ask someone to tell you what happened and why.

The Mathematics seems familiar, but marks still disappear.

Find the first point where the working stops being reliable. Find Secondary 4 A-Math mark leakage.

Try it without the guide: For a Secondary 4 A-Math question you have attempted, locate the first uncertain line. Repair that step, then try a comparable question without the worked answer.

A Science fact is remembered, but the explanation is incomplete.

Connect the evidence to a scientific idea and the resulting change. Follow the Primary Science learning route.

Try it without the guide: Choose a familiar Primary Science example. Explain the evidence, the idea and the result without notes. Then change one condition and explain your prediction.

Two accounts of the world seem to disagree.

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Try it without the guide: Take one claim. Find the source best placed to support it, note its date, and state what remains uncertain. Return to your original question.

There is plenty of help, but independence is hard to see.

Check what the learner can understand and do after support is removed. Understand how education works.

Try it without the guide: Choose one small task the child has practised. Agree on a calm, brief attempt without prompts. Use what happens to choose one next step, then stop.

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