NYJC is located in the middle of the HDB heartlands of Serangoon. There's a big canal leading to the JC, and during monsoon season, students are treated to look into the canal to observe floods at a safe spot.

To put it bluntly, this is where all the good students go after they did surprisingly badly for their 'O' Levels, or they missed entry into their first choice JCs because they fell short of the expected aggregate by one or two points.

Such is the nature of the competition at this standard. As a result, NYJC is full of students with great potential to excel. Look out for the Nanyang dogs roaming the school, they are quite friendly and don't bite.

By the way, if you happen to be a student here, you'd do well not to be late for school. Students who have been caught 7 times or more will be made to pose for the art-elective students as an art model for one-and-a-half hours. Lucky or unlucky, depending on who you are *winks*