Gifted Education Programme (Singapore)
The Gifted Education Programme (GEP) is a highly selective academic programme in Singapore. Initially designed to identify the 0.5% of students from each academic year with the highest verbal, mathematical and spatial ability (as determined by two rounds of tests), the programme has now been expanded to 1% of the students from each academic year.
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