A few days back I went for the mandatory checkup for all 17 years old because we are going to enlistee next year in around April (don’t quote me on that, depending on your birth date, you will enlist at different times from your friends). Anyways back to the checkup.

I went to the checkup with my cousin. The place itself, from what I can tell, is heavily guarded. At the entrance, you will need to verify your identity using your NRIC and they have to verify your phone number etc. Finding CMPB in the compound was easy cause we just followed the family in front of us HAHAHA.

Inside, there was a registration booth where you have to collect your queue number and wait your turn to register for the checkup. The queue was surprising fast I would say, they was only about 2-3 person in front of me. The registration was quite easy and fast, just pass the required documents to the person and he/she will pass you a folder of documents with some name stickers, and tell you where to go.

The ‘outside’ stations are as follow:

1. Photo Booth

2. 3D mapping of body (need to take off shirt and glasses) and feet

Afterwards you walk through a set of double doors and they is another counter. I shall reference all the stations after this counter as ‘inside station’.

At this counter, they checked your NRIC for the last time, and asked you some questions related to your habits (i guess?) so like any drug allergy, medical conditions, police records, trouble with the law. There was 4 question on the card in total, but I cant remember all of them.

For the ‘inside’ stations, they are as follow:

1. Hearing tests (the headphones were really tight and big and bulky hahahaha)

2. Eye test (luckily I went to an optician to get my eyes checked recently)

3. X-ray of chest (removal of shirt required)

4. Checking of teeth (i don’t really know what was the purpose of this? maybe is to see if your teeth are straight / abnormal)

5. Urine test (i shall not delve further, but basically just testing your own urine with a strip of paper to see if you use any substance i guess)

6. Blood extraction (my worst fear HAHA it took quite long actually but the guy who was extracting felt my sense of fear and asked me how if it was my first time. the worse part is when i thought it was over and looked over, i saw the needle still inside my right arm :< ok but afterwards got bleed a little and it stopped)

7. Height and weight (pretty self-explanatory)

8. Electrocardiogram (this is the easiest station, you just lay there and breathe. cause basically they are measuring your breathing rate / blood flow in your heart. the people there was cool and they were playing music HAHAHA that was the best station in my opinion)

9. Medical checkup (the wait time for this was the worst. took up most of the time. so basically what you need to do is answer questions from the person like a doctor reviewing a patient. my guess is to see if you are really the guy in the NRIC, so like you cannot fake your identity and gender. Yeah to confirm the gender part they ask to look at your genitals as well. Other questions include which school, what subject combinations, how many people you living with)

10. Vocational Assessment (basically an IQ test with 7 sections. was damn tedious and the questions have a time limit. they require your math, physics, english and pattern recognition skills. the room to do the test was very cold and i almost froze so PSA: BRING A JACKET AND WEAR LONG PANTS. everything is done on a desktop. total time it took me is about 1h 30 minutes)

11. Questionnaire (yea just when you thought you completed everything, they hit you with 150 questions of survey, just to judge who you are and your character. some questions include: have you gotten in trouble with the law, do your teachers often need to remind you to stay out of trouble, do you like to lead others, do you think people are genuinely are truthfully. some questions were really out of the blue so much so you start to question yourself on your life choices. ok lah i guess they just want to have a psychological / mental / leadership record of us through the survey. i’m curious who they paid to draft all the questions for them though…)

Overall, the staff there were nice, some were just doing their jobs, others talked to you and engage you in a conversation even though they weren’t paid to do so, which is a plus to my experience visiting there. Hope this little blog helps those in the future who needs to go for this check up cause there aren’t really a lot of information on the web about this. You are welcome :)