About

Built by someone who sat the paper

CEI Grill is independent preparation for Singapore’s CEI (KAH) licensing examination, the certificate every employment agency’s Key Appointment Holder has to hold. It started as one person’s revision system and turned into a product because the system worked.

Why it exists

I registered for the CEI (KAH) exam on 29 June 2026 without signing up for the course, and then panicked. What I had was a pile of PDFs, some of them dense enough that there was no way to tell what mattered and what was padding. Every hour spent working out what to study was an hour not studying, and the exam date was not moving.

So I built a system to make it manageable. I spent four days on the notes, a fifth day on practice questions and one mock exam, and sat the real paper on 13 July 2026. I scored 60 out of 80 on the first attempt, from about 14 hours of study. That is one person’s result rather than a promise, and results vary, but it is the reason this exists at all.

The material is ordered by marks, not by chapter

Course notes are organised by chapter, and chapter order has nothing to do with what the paper is worth. Section A, covering EARF and EFMA, carries 56% of the marks. Section B spreads 38% across nine topics. Section C, the case studies, is the remaining 6%. Study chapter by chapter and a topic worth 2% of the paper gets the same attention as one worth 20%, purely because they happen to run to the same number of pages.

Everything here is reorganised around those weightings, so the highest-yield material comes first. The mock exam samples the same way: every topic present in a section is guaranteed to appear at least once, so you cannot finish a mock and discover you were never asked about something that shows up on the real paper.

Every figure is checked against the source

Some pages of the course notes contain errors. Running every statutory figure against MOM and Singapore Statutes Online turned up outdated WICA compensation limits and incorrect fee calculations, and one error worth naming on its own: the notes listed three licence tiers, Comprehensive, Select and Basic. MOM recognises two. “Basic” does not exist. Taken at face value under time pressure, which is exactly how you read things the week before an exam, that would have shaped real answers on the paper.

So every statutory figure on this site is verified against MOM or Singapore Statutes Online before it ships, and the free study notes carry links to the official sections so you can check them yourself.

What is free and what is not

Study notes on four syllabus topics are free and need no account: EARF, EFMA, Migrant Domestic Worker rules and the Employment Act. A 15-question diagnostic is free once you sign up, with no card required.

Full access is a one-time S$88 for 60 days, with no subscription and no auto-renewal. That opens the rest of the course notes, all 280 practice questions, the timed two-hour mock exam and the cheat sheet. It is backed by a pass guarantee, which grants additional access rather than money back, and the conditions are set out in full on that page.

Who operates it

CEI Grill is operated by VASTLY PRECISE PTE. LTD., a company registered in Singapore. It is independent: not affiliated with, endorsed by or partnered with the Ministry of Manpower, NTUC LearningHub, Singapore Polytechnic, Ngee Ann Polytechnic or any government agency, and not an accredited CEI course provider. The material is preparation for practice purposes and is not legal advice. Statutory figures change, so check anything that matters against current MOM sources.

Questions, or anything that looks wrong on the site, go to our contact page. Corrections are genuinely welcome. If a figure here is out of date, it is a bug.

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