Pre-Enlist: Just Graduated; Wait for NS Letter = How Long ?

• OniPrince

  3 Jul 10, 08:03

  how long does it take for them to go ns?

  please don't give me answer such as "vary from people to people".

  just give me some estimate time. From shortest waiting period to longest.

• Rooney9

  3 Jul 10, 08:13

  why is this at speaker's corner?

• skythewood

  3 Jul 10, 08:15

  vary from people to people

• Rooney9

  3 Jul 10, 08:17

  lol he just said dun mention vary from people to people already

• OniPrince

  3 Jul 10, 10:19

  Originally posted by skythewood:

  vary from people to people

  
  walew..don't like that leh..

  just asking for some info T_T

• Lokey

  3 Jul 10, 10:57

  Originally posted by OniPrince:

  how long does it take for them to go ns?

  please don't give me answer such as "vary from people to people".

  just give me some estimate time. From shortest waiting period to longest.

  My friend grad this year, enlisted in Nov 2010, If you grad this year and have not received you will have to wait til next year Jan 2011. 

• OniPrince

  3 Jul 10, 11:21

  Originally posted by Lokey:

  My friend grad this year, enlisted in Nov 2010, If you grad this year and have not received you will have to wait til next year Jan 2011. 

  
  sorry but i not a poly grad...so what the exact waiting mth? 2 mth? 5 mth? this is very important to decide my future.^^

• Lokey

  3 Jul 10, 19:24

  Originally posted by OniPrince:

  
  sorry but i not a poly grad...so what the exact waiting mth? 2 mth? 5 mth? this is very important to decide my future.^^

  Huh? but the title is on poly grad mah.

  If you are A level there is a Dec/Jan and Mar/April batch. 

  If you are the O level, ITE, or N level then it will take 2 months or even up to 1 years depending on Pes status for them to recruit you. You have to wait for the current mono to ORD first then you will get enlisted. 

• 105090

  3 Jul 10, 20:07

  Generally, polytechnics ends their final year papers in Feb. So usually will enlist in June or September that year.
  
  BUT, as usual, the SAF is a prata flipper and loves using the words "depends" and "varies". 
  
  Its not uncommon to hear of people who wait up to a year or more for their invitation letters

• tarutaru

  3 Jul 10, 21:06

  Originally posted by OniPrince:

  how long does it take for them to go ns?

  please don't give me answer such as "vary from people to people".

  just give me some estimate time. From shortest waiting period to longest.

  OniPrince have u gone ffor medical check up yet.....

• fudgester

  3 Jul 10, 21:12

  Originally posted by OniPrince:

  
  sorry but i not a poly grad...so what the exact waiting mth? 2 mth? 5 mth? this is very important to decide my future.^^

  If you are not a poly grad, then why is your thread title 'Poly graduates!!!!' then?

  Oh, and really, 'vary from person to person' is the only real answer anyone in here can give you.

• skythewood

  3 Jul 10, 21:15

  one month to 15 years.

  the 15 years was a guy who changed his address, and somehow mindef forgot about him until he apply for passport 15 years later.

• OniPrince

  3 Jul 10, 21:22

  Originally posted by tarutaru:

  OniPrince have u gone ffor medical check up yet.....

  
  i did it on march 30/31

  i am 17 this year...birthday on july 14=18

  so how long before enlisting?

   

  btw i want to know poly grad waiting time vs my waiting time (if u know what i trying to do.)

   

  so i guess going ns will be the best..or my waiting time (while retaking o level) will be for nothing.

• fudgester

  3 Jul 10, 21:26

  Originally posted by OniPrince:

  
  i did it on march 30/31

  i am 17 this year...birthday on july 14=18

  so how long before enlisting?

   

  btw i want to know poly grad waiting time vs my waiting time (if u know what i trying to do.)

   

  so i guess going ns will be the best..or my waiting time (while retaking o level) will be for nothing.

  Like everyone else here has said: vary from person to person.

  Poly grad's waiting time has no impact on yours, and vice versa. Even among poly grads, the waiting time can vary from one month to almost two years (I know one poly fella on that extreme end of the scale).

  Fair enough answer?

• One Harmonius Blend

  4 Jul 10, 10:36

  Originally posted by skythewood:

  one month to 15 years.

  the 15 years was a guy who changed his address, and somehow mindef forgot about him until he apply for passport 15 years later.

  
  So in the end did he got thrown into the military jail?

• Lokey

  5 Jul 10, 16:43

  Originally posted by One Harmonius Blend:

  
  So in the end did he got thrown into the military jail?

  most likely not. It is under the Singapore act that you have to go for enlistment. BUT it is the government who called you for NS. So the government finds you, not the other way round.  

  In some years, (like dragon years ) they are too many people, so the camp are too small to keep all the guys for that years. So some people will have to be delayed.