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In Singapore employment, AWS means Annual Wage Supplement, a single yearly payment often called the 13th-month payment.

In Singapore work and school contexts, an MC is a medical certificate stating that a patient is medically unfit for work or attendance.

In Singapore, NS means National Service, compulsory service for liable male citizens and permanent residents in the SAF, SCDF or SPF.

ORD is the Operationally Ready Date when a full-time national serviceman completes full-time NS and moves into the operationally ready phase.

Polytechnic centres on practice-based diploma study, while junior college is a shorter academic route preparing mainly for A-Level or IB examinations.

PSLE is Singapore’s Primary School Leaving Examination, taken at the end of Primary 6 as a checkpoint before secondary school.