About JUPAS

Music Qualifications

1 How can the applicants be certain that the copies of supporting documents of their music qualifications have been received by the JUPAS Office?

Applicants who have submitted supporting documents to the JUPAS Office for verification will first receive an automatic acknowledgement email^#^ from the JUPAS Office. A follow-up / confirmation email^#^ will be sent in 2 working days. Applicants may then log in to their JUPAS accounts to check the verification status.

School applicants, who have presented their certificates to their schools for verification, can log in to their JUPAS accounts to check the verification status once the qualifications have been verified by their schools. No further submission to the JUPAS Office is required.

Please refer to the section on Music Qualifications for more information.

2 Will the music qualifications without verification be deleted after the deadline of 29 April 2026? How will the 9 JUPAS participating-institutions and the SSSDP institutions consider these music qualifications?

NO. The music qualifications without verification will not be deleted after the deadline of 29 April 2026 (5: pm).

However, qualifications without verification by the deadline of 29 April 2026 (5:00 pm) will NOT be considered by the 9 JUPAS participating-institutions and the SSSDP institutions.

3 Do applicants need to submit copies of supporting documents of the music qualifications to the JUPAS Office if they have been verified by their schools via the JUPAS online application system?

NO. No further submission to the JUPAS Office is required if school applicants have presented their certificates to their schools for verification. They can log in to their JUPAS accounts to check the verification status.

However, qualifications without verification by the deadline of 29 April 2026 (5:00 pm) will NOT be considered by the 9 JUPAS participating-institutions and the SSSDP institutions.

4 Can applicants enter qualifications other than those listed in the List of Music Qualifications?

NO. Applicants can only enter music qualifications listed in the List of Music Qualifications.

The following items will NOT be accepted for the verification of music qualifications:

"equivalent" qualifications;
qualifications not listed in the List of Music Qualifications;
screenshots showing results from webpages / emails; and
provisional results (e.g. mark forms, score sheets).

Please refer to the section on Music Qualifications for more information.

5 If applicants have undergone name changes but the names contained in the certificates are the previous ones, what should they do?

Applicants must inform the JUPAS Office immediately and submit copies of Deed Poll and / or identity documents containing the previous names for subsequent actions.

Please refer to the section on Personal Profile for more information.

^#As email is one of the channels that the JUPAS Office, the 9 JUPAS participating-institutions and the SSSDP institutions will use to contact applicants, applicants must ensure that the setting of their personal email accounts will not filter out or place such correspondence in the trash / junk / spam folders.

^ Emails and SMS are delivered via third party network providers and therefore the JUPAS Office is not responsible for any delay, loss, transfer, amendment or damage arising from the transmission process via third party network providers.

Should there be any discrepancies between information contained in emails and SMS and applicants' JUPAS accounts, the information contained in the latter (i.e. the JUPAS accounts) shall prevail.

Applicants are strongly advised to log in to their JUPAS accounts to double-check the related information.