Section A
For each question from 1 to 8, select your answer from the choices.
As of 2019, what percentage of people in Singapore live in 1 - 2 room flats?
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Public Rental Scheme provides highly-subsidised HDB rental flats to low-income Singapore citizen households with no other housing options or family support. The monthly rent for a 1-room and 2-room flat is $25 - $205 and $44 - $275 respectively.
Which of these statements is/are true about the Public Rental Scheme?
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The recent need for home-based learning has revealed realities of a digital divide. According to the 2017/18 Household Expenditure Survey, 81.4% of resident households have a personal computer, and 87% have internet access.
In contrast, for households residing in 1- and 2- room HDB flats, ___ have a personal computer and ___ have internet access.1
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The table below compares the average monthly household income of Singaporeans across five income groups, from lowest to the highest income, and their expenditure ($) in the year 2007/08 and 2017/18. 2| Income Quintile | 2007/2008 | 2017/2018 |
| Income | Expenditure | Difference | Income | Expenditure | Difference |
| 1st - 20th | 1466 | 1787 | -321 | 2235 | 2570 | -335 |
| 21st - 40th | 3934 | 2950 | 984 | 5981 | 3753 | 2228 |
| 41st - 60th | 6175 | 3602 | 2573 | 9678 | 4812 | 4866 |
| 61st - 80th | 9439 | 4569 | 4870 | 14 407 | 5826 | 8581 |
| 81st - 100th | 19 511 | 6138 | 13 373 | 26 587 | 7573 | 19 014 |
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Singapore came out tops in the Global Food Security Index, which assesses if people have physical and economic access to affordable, quality food which meets their nutritional needs. However, a separate, local study on food insecurity revealed that 63.7% of the households living in one-room-flats experience moderate to severe food insecurity.
Of the 45 severely food insecure households surveyed, at least ____ received no food support at all while ___ received daily cooked meals.4 The remaining households received support in the form of dry rations or vouchers.
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An open-ended survey on Singaporeans’ perceptions of class, wealth and status revealed the following nine signifiers of one’s social class, listed in alphabetical order: Car, Domestic Helper, Education, Family, Holidays/Travel, Housing, Job/Source of income, Language, Networks.5
Identify the top 3 most frequently mentioned class signifiers.
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A study involving 10 children who scored fairly well (at least 70 percentile) in their school examination despite their disadvantaged environments found that their main motivations to excel in academics are ___.6
Which of these statements best apply?
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A study about how children (9-12 year olds) from lower income families view or participate in their family’s financial situation revealed that ___ .7
Which of these statements best apply?
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Section B
For each question from 9 - 12, choose what applies to the underlined words. Select your answer (A or B) from the choices.
It has been estimated that a family of four in Singapore requires an income of S$2,500-3,000 per month in order to invest in (9) human capital and create the possibility of (10) social mobility or a life beyond continued (11) basic subsistence for adults or children of the next generation.
Such investments include supporting in-school education, improving skills, and the purchase of goods like computers, internet connection or mobile phones that provide vital assistance in training, education and networking. If (12) poverty was defined in this way, then approximately 23-26 per cent of households would fall into this category.8
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Inspired by our country’s obsession with examinations, this paper was designed to test your knowledge about less privileged families in Singapore. It was created as part of Homerun, a community arts show by 5 children from Lengkok Bahru who have just finished the PSLE.
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