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The success of an IP student is based on an assumption that students are self-disciplined enough to ensure that they manage their time well and be diligent in their studies, so that they will remember all the core content taught to them and yet find enough time to engage actively in independent learning.<ref name="Some students fail">{{cite news | access-date=11 February 2012 | archive-date=9 January 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120109204917/http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_747635.html | url=http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_747635.html | title=Some students fail to thrive on Integrated Programme scheme | date=22 December 2011 | author=Sandra Davie | url-status=live | newspaper=The Straits Times}}</ref> However, this may be considered a utopian ideal. Without an important watershed intervening national examination to help them focus, students may simply let their guard down.<ref name="Some students fail" />

IP may also widen inequality among students in Singapore. Performance in the PSLE, which determines whether a student can enter a top IP school, is arguably dependent on the amountMost of support that the child receivesplaces in theirtop primaryJunior school years and even before. More well-off parentsColleges are able to afford numerous tuition classesreserved for their children and push them to become top scorers in the PSLE so that they can enter a top IP schoolstudents. Most of the places in top Junior Colleges, suchThis asincludes [[Victoria Junior College]], [[Raffles Institution]], [[National Junior College]] and [[Hwa Chong Institution]], are reserved for IP students. Students from less well-off families have less access toAs such, additional classes and so may not be able to do as well in the PSLE as the richer peers. Many of them will bestudents taking the [[GCE Ordinary Level|O Level]] track, and will face tighter competition when they wish to enter top schools in Singapore, in comparison to their IP peers who have already secured a spot in their affiliated JC. As such, they will have even less chances to enter a top school, and inequality widens.

The Integrated Programme is allegedly for clearly university-bound students. While for non-IP students who fail to perform well in the A-level, they still have their O-level qualifications, which act as a "safety net". However, in the absence of this "safety net", IP students who under-perform in the A-level will have only their [[Primary School Leaving Examination]] (PSLE) certificate to fall back on.<ref name="Some students fail" />

When students enter an IP school, they are already set to take the junior college path, as opposed to other post-secondary educational paths such as the polytechnic path. Whether the students are mature enough to make this decision at an age of twelve, or if this decision should be based on an examination which the students took at that age, is debatable.

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