STPM: Improvement In 13 Subjects
A total of 34 candidates who sat for the 2006 Sijil Tinggi Persekolahan Malaysia (STPM) obtained excellent results, scoring principal A in all the five subjects they took, from 20 the previous year.Malaysian Examination Council Chairman Prof Datuk Dzulkifli Abdul Razak said of the 34 candidates, 23 were from the science stream with eight of them scoring A in all 13 papers. He said the remaining 11 were from art stream who included three candidates with As in all 10 papers.
"Generally, I am satisfied with the 2006 STPM results because of the increase in the number of candidates scoring grade A in five and four subjects," he said when announcing the analysis of the 2006 STPM results here Thursday.
He said 414 candidates obtained 4As in all four subjects and 63 others scored 4As out of the five subjects they sat for.
A total of 63,008 or 90.86 per cent of the 73,690 candidates obtained a full certificate which requirement is a principal in at least one of the subjects.
On subject performance, Dzulkifli said, there was an improvement in 13 subjects with General Paper recording 77.82 per cent passes.
Other subjects which showed improved performance included Tamil, Arabic, English Literature, Malay Literature, Syariah, Usuluddin, History, Accounting, Mathematics S, Mathematics T, Further Mathematics T and Chemistry.
He said there was a drop in the percentage of passes in nine subjects.
For the Sports Science, a subject introduced for the first time last year, he said it recorded a 61.24 per cent passes.
Dzulkifli said overall, candidates from science stream did better than those in the arts stream. "Students in urban areas also showed better performance than students in the rural areas," he added. (Bernama)
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posted by The Malaysian. at 3/15/2007 03:30:00 PM
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Is it "Malaysia Boleh" or "Malaysia Bodoh"?
The Australian columnist Michael Backman has graciously accepted an
interview request with BolehNation.com. "I am very busy right now. But
not too busy for Malaysia!" is his answer to our email!
The interview will be available on www.BolehNation.com soon!
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If you forgot about his article, here it is:
Michael Backman
November 15, 2006
MALAYSIA'S been at it again, arguing about what proportion of the
economy each of its two main races - the Malays and the Chinese -
owns. It's an argument that's been running for 40 years. That wealth
and race are not synonymous is important for national cohesion, but
really it's time Malaysia grew up.
It's a tough world out there and there can be little sympathy for a
country that prefers to argue about how to divide wealth rather than
get on with the job of creating it.
The long-held aim is for 30 per cent of corporate equity to be in
Malay hands, but the figure that the Government uses to justify
handing over huge swathes of public companies to Malays but not to
other races is absurd. It bases its figure on equity valued, not at
market value, but at par value.
Many shares have a par value of say $1 but a market value of $12. And
so the Government figure (18.9 per cent is the most recent figure) is
a gross underestimate. Last month a paper by a researcher at a local
think-tank came up with a figure of 45 per cent based on actual stock
prices. All hell broke loose. The paper was withdrawn and the
researcher resigned in protest. Part of the problem is that he is
Chinese.
"Malaysia boleh!" is Malaysia's national catch cry. It translates to
"Malaysia can!" and Malaysia certainly can. Few countries are as good
at wasting money. It is richly endowed with natural resources and the
national obsession seems to be to extract these, sell them off and
then collectively spray the proceeds up against the wall.
This all happens in the context of Malaysia's grossly inflated sense
of its place in the world.
Most Malaysians are convinced that the eyes of the world are on their
country and that their leaders are world figures. This is thanks to
Malaysia's tame media and the bravado of former prime minister
Mahathir Mohamad. The truth is, few people on the streets of London or
New York could point to Malaysia on a map much less name its prime
minister or capital city.
As if to make this point, a recent episode of The Simpsons features a
newsreader trying to announce that a tidal wave had hit some place
called Kuala Lumpur. He couldn't pronounce the city's name and so made
up one, as if no-one cared anyway. But the joke was on the script
writers - Kuala Lumpur is inland.
Petronas, the national oil company is well run, particularly when
compared to the disaster that passes for a national oil company in
neighbouring Indonesia. But in some respects, this is Malaysia's
problem. The very success of Petronas means that it is used to
underwrite all manner of excess.
The KLCC development in central Kuala Lumpur is an example. It
includes the Twin Towers, the tallest buildings in the world when they
were built, which was their point.
It certainly wasn't that there was an office shortage in Kuala Lumpur
- there wasn't.
Malaysians are very proud of these towers. Goodness knows why. They
had little to do with them. The money for them came out of the ground
and the engineering was contracted out to South Korean companies.
They don't even run the shopping centre that's beneath them. That's
handled by Australia's Westfield.
Next year, a Malaysian astronaut will go into space aboard a Russian
rocket - the first Malay in space. And the cost? $RM95 million ($A34.3
million), to be footed by Malaysian taxpayers. The Science and
Technology Minister has said that a moon landing in 2020 is the next
target, aboard a US flight. There's no indication of what the
Americans will charge for this, assuming there's even a chance that
they will consider it. But what is Malaysia getting by using the space
programs of others as a taxi service? There are no obvious technical
benefits, but no doubt Malaysians will be told once again, that they
are "boleh". The trouble is, they're not. It's not their space
program.
Back in July, the Government announced that it would spend $RM490
million on a sports complex near the London Olympics site so that
Malaysian athletes can train there and "get used to cold weather".
But the summer Olympics are held in the summer.
So what is the complex's real purpose? The dozens of goodwill missions
by ministers and bureaucrats to London to check on the centre's
construction and then on the athletes while they train might provide a
clue.
Bank bale outs, a formula one racing track, an entire new capital city
- Petronas has paid for them all. It's been an orgy of nonsense that
Malaysia can ill afford.
Why? Because Malaysia's oil will run out in about 19 years. As it is,
Malaysia will become a net oil importer in 2011 - that's just five
years away.
So it's in this context that the latest debate about race and wealth
is so sad.
It is time to move on, time to prepare the economy for life after oil.
But, like Nero fiddling while Rome burned, the Malaysian Government is
more interested in stunts like sending a Malaysian into space when
Malaysia's inadequate schools could have done with the cash, and
arguing about wealth distribution using transparently ridiculous
statistics.
That's not Malaysia "boleh", that's Malaysia "bodoh" (stupid).
http://www.michaelbackman.com
(This article is posted with written permission from Michael Backman)
Since Boon brought out the issue of Malaysia Boleh/Bodoh and the comparison of the economic pie among the main races, I can help but ask wheter the best students among the STPM were mainly chinese, it is unfair for the chinese to always do well in stpm. How about closing one eye in the exams for the underqualified races? Ha Ha Ha.
But seriously, can we have the breakdown of the races who obtained excellent results in the STPM results announced and also the percentage comparison of the number from each race that sat for the exam. Looks like it is becoming an exam purely for the non bumiputras.
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