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8% NS trainees cannot read and write is not a big surprise to me.
I personally knew a Chinese guy from KL who managed to pass SPM modern mathematics. My friend provided tuition to him a few months before his SPM, he was shock to discover a city student has almost zero foundation in mathematics. Many basic concepts like multiplication first, than addition or deduction later were not “taught” in his national primary school.
With 11-year education and passing three public examinations, and yet we still found 8% of young Malaysians cannot read and write.
How these people passed the public exams is another boleh and mysterious event.
Joint bid to eradicate illiteracy among National Service trainess
Wednesday, January 11th, 2012 08:14:00
PUTRAJAYA: The Education Ministry will work with the Defence Ministry (Mindef) to identify the demographics of National Service (NS) trainees found to be illiterate during their stint.
Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, who is also the education minister, said the shocking revelation was serious and important, and the ministry was aware of a small number of illiterate Form Five students.
“We will identify where these students came from and we will also liaise with Mindef. We might have a special programme for these students. I do hope we achieve 100 per cent literacy and numeracy,” he said.
Muhyiddin said the government already had the education National Key Results Area (NKRA) in place where literacy and numeracy were among the key factors.
Yesterday, a daily reported about eight per cent of 6,667 NS trainees from 30 camps nationwide were unable to read or write. The findings were based on a pilot project, using a module called I-Smart, involving the third batch of trainees in August.
“The objective of the programme was to ensure the trainees had basic reading and writing skills,” Defence Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi had said in the report.
Touching on the panel to review the education system, Muhyiddin said it was still in the early stages and he might also include more members to the body.
“We are still in the early stage. We have established a committee to study and discuss the best possible plan to be proposed,” he said.
“The committee will then submit the proposal to the panel, which consists of people from various backgrounds, such as AirAsia founder Tan Sri Tony Fernandes and Khazanah Nasional managing director Tan Sri Azman Mokhtar.
“Once the proposal has been submitted, the panel will give their input and opinions to strengthen the plan.”
I asked my nephew who scored 11As (9A1 + 2A2) in SPM are their generation truly smarter than my generation? He humbly replied no, the exam standard is low nowadays.
Any statistician will tell you making examination performance comparison with previous years is totally meaningless. A scientific examination marking for grading is not a fixed percentage, it’s adjustable percentage depending on percentile and distribution of the exam result in the said population.
The reasons are as below,
1. Two different populations.
2. Two different sets of examination papers.
3. The passing and grading marks are not fixed, a loophole can be manipulated by the authorities.
I quote an example in my old day, no student in my school would score A1 in biology paper if a fixed grading mark like 80% was used as A1 yardstick. Many biology examination questions in that year were designed to test a student’s analytical thinking power, not the memory power as we thought in the class. Many students were stunned and panicked (me too!), some have to be calmed down by the field examiners.
The SPM result in that year is I was only one scored A1 in biology, no A2 either in my school. Probably less than 10 students in entire Muar scored A1 in biology subject.
Don’t be misled by BN government on such nonsense story that this year students are performed better (or worst which is normally censored in local mass media) than last year.
Such year to year comparison is a meaningless exercise in statistics. This is tantamount to comparing an apple and an orange.
More score straight As in PMR exam
By MINDERJEET KAUR
Slimmer gap between and rural students
PUTRAJAYA: THIS year’s Penilaian Menengah Rendah (PMR) examination results were the best in the last four years, with more students scoring straight As.
Of the 481,147 students who sat the examination, 30,863 or 7.77 per cent obtained Grade A, compared with 30,863 (7.02 per cent) last year.
Education director-general Datuk Seri Abd Ghafar Mahmud said he was happy with the results, which showed a slimmer gap between urban and rural students.
“This is the best PMR achievement for 17 subjects in the last four years, based on the National Average Grade.
“The achievements are due to the efforts of teachers, parents and the students,” he said at a press conference yesterday.
The results also saw more scoring Grade A in Mathematics, Science and English. But there was a decline in As for the Malay, Mandarin and Iban language papers, as well as Islamic studies.
Ghafar said the National Average Grade showed 2.71 points this year, compared with 2.74 last year, 2.78 in 2009 and 2.83 in 2008.
A performance index comparing urban and rural students showed 2.61 and 2.90, respectively. The highest band for excellent performance index is zero.
Ghafar said the number of rural students with Grade A in all subjects increased to 6,474 (4.28 per cent), compared with 5,825 students (3.81 per cent) last year.
The number of urban students scoring Grade A in all subjects also went up by 0.86 per cent, from 24,084 students (8.86 per cent) last year to 26,189 (9.72 per cent) this year.
The number PMR candidates this year increased by 3,408 (0.75 per cent) from last year.
Students with Grade E in all subjects dropped by 40 from 386 (0.09 per cent) last year to 346 (0.08 per cent). Those with a minimum D (not including all As) climbed to 272,966 (61.88 per cent) this year from last year’s 265,388 (60.39 per cent).
Students who scored Grade A in Malay language dropped from 27.6 to 26.3 per cent, but there was an increase in Grades B, C and D for the paper.
For English, Grade A scorers increased by 0.8 per cent from 17.6 per cent last year to 18.8 this year.
The same was seen in Mathematics and Science, for which the number of Grade A scorers increased by 1.3 and 4 per cent, respectively.
The truth is only 9.6% students in the public universities are Malaysian Chinese.
Young Malaysian Chinese (Indian too) are denied the rightfully seats in the public universities because of
1. UMNO abused the public funds to build apartheid MARA and Petronas universities for bumi (actually for Malay).
2. Dual tier schooling and examination system. Malay students are enrolled into good facilities MARA junior colleges and sit for internal examination. Chinese and Indian students are forced to study in normal schools and sit for STPM.
3. Allocate too many seats for foreign students especially from the Islamic nations and Muslims from the non-Islamic nations.
Why bumi (actually Malay) students are not sitting STPM? Because at least 90% of them will fail in STPM.
MCA is impotent and let UMNO to monopolize the usage of resources for bumi. So MCA only solution is to build TARC and UTAR to accommodate qualified Chinese students who are deprived of opportunity to study in the public universities paid by their parents (via income, sales and import taxes).
Teresa: I’m also from KTAR
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/12/15/nation/10101877&sec=nation#13239184669801&if_height=640
KUALA LUMPUR: Seputih MP Teresa Kok is another DAP leader who studied at Tunku Abdul Rahman College, a project initiated and supported by the MCA.
The Selangor state executive councillor and DAP national organising secretary issued a statement yesterday admitting she had studied at KTAR for a year but defended her role as an opposition MP.
She said she did not think the MCA expected Malaysians who accepted “any form of service from the MCA, such as admission into Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman or funding from the 1MCA Medical Foundation” to be permanently indebted to the party.
The admission came following reports in the Chinese media and online portal stopthelies.my that Serdang MP Teo Nie Ching’s mother had sought the help of the Negri Sembilan MCA.
State MCA chief Datuk Dr Yeow Chai Thiam had reportedly said Teo did not acknowledge the MCA’s help until he enquired about her mother’s health.
The portal also questioned why Teo’s mother, who had a heart problem, had to seek the assistance of the MCA when she (Teo) had constantly attacked the MCA.
Teo’s husband is also a doctor.
The portal also reported that Wanita DAP chief and Bukit Mertajam MP Chong Eng had studied for a year at TARC.
The issue has been widely reported by many blogs and portals with debates over the positions of the two DAP MPs.
Sabah MCA vice-chairman Chew Kok Woh questioned why the DAP had claimed the MCA had done nothing for the Chinese community when its leaders had benefited from the MCA.
Yesterday, responding to Kok, Chew said it was good that she had openly admitted she had studied at TARC “because she feared being named by the media”.
“There are many other DAP leaders who had gained from the MCA but still persist in saying MCA had done nothing.
“I do not expect them to be grateful but hope they can search their conscience,” he added.
Now I realized Chinese and Indian students are so stupid who cannot compete with Malays.
Malays are so smart, until they occupy 72.4% in the public universities!
We Chinese with 25% population only can take up 9.62% share. I have to admit Chinese is unable to compete with Malay, therefore, affirmative action should be channeled to Chinese and Indian to balance the racial imbalance in the public universities.
Another fact is those foreign students are mostly from Muslim countries.
MCA innovative solution is asking Chinese parents to subsidize Malay and foreign students in our public universities and send their children to private funded universities with their pocket money like UTAR.
Malaysian Chinese should not called themselves Chinese, we should call ourselves Buddha for sacrificing so much for 1Malaysia.
Who says Chinese is a second class citizen? Chinese actually is a forth class citizen after first class Malay, second class East Malaysia bumi and third class foreigner. I think Indian is fifth class.
Shocking facts on institutionalised racism against the Indian poor
FMT LETTER
From Sambu Lingam, via e-mail
Malaysian Indians are the third largest ethnic community in the country, thus we would expect that entitlements for them from the government should reflect it. But facts are cleverly concealed by those in power in a well planned and orchestrated scheme such that it is difficult, even impossible to know what really is happening.
Appalling statistics concerning enrollment of young Indian students in the 20 public Universities were revealed to the delegates at the Second Hindraf Convention in KL on Dec 4, 2011.
In the 20 public universities, 453,629 students enrolled in the current year. The breakdown: Malays 328,309 (72.37%); Chinese 43,624 (9.62%); Overseas students 24622 (5.4%); Lain lain 23,559 (5.19%); Sabah/Sarawak students 21616 (4.77%); Indians 11639 (2.57%); Orang Asli 260 (0.06%).
From our tax money 24,662 African, Arab and other foreign students are enrolled in the public universities. But the Indians of the country, who stand to contribute to the country, are only at 2.57%. In the total population in the country the “others” category constitute 1.2 % only but they take up 5.19% of the university enrolment. Who are those categorised in the “lain-lain” stream and where did they come from?
In spite of the reality that we are the third largest community in Malaysia, we get the 6th place in numbers of enrolment into public universities. Going by the 7.4 % ratio of the Malaysian population, Indians enrolled in public universities should be 33,522. Only 11,639 were given places in public universities. It means that the remaining 22,000 or so young Indian students are forced to study in private universities.
Assuming it takes about RM100,000 or more to get a degree from a private university, that amounts RM22 billion taken away from the already impoverished Indians. And by the way, where do you think this money goes – to enrich all those who own the private universities? My estimate is that 60% of that goes to enrich the Malay elite in Umno who own the Universities.
See how the statistics when studied in its totality and in the various dimensions tell a shocking story about the way in which institutionalised racism operates on the Indian poor. This is only the tip of the iceberg.
It is clear from this one example, that one of the key pre requisites we need for correction of such problems is transparency in statistics like this. This is clearly not going to happen as that is one of the key mechanisms by which institutionalised racism can prevail.
This Cambridge program clearly is violating the Malay language status as the official teaching language in the public funded schools as stipulated in the constitution.
The bumi first apartheid policy in MARA is not just discriminated against non-bumis, a number of bumis who study in the normal schools also being discriminated and made disadvantage to compete with UMNO-chosen MARA students.
It’s not a singe double-standard, there are multiple double-standards in this program.
Stop using English in all normal schools is designed to make your children stupid and inward thinking, and destined to serve elite class as cheap worker, drawing RM1,500 per month as a fresh graduate.
Vote BN out if you are sick with UMNO apartheid policy!
Cambridge programmes at Mara Junior Science Colleges by 2016
PUTRAJAYA: By 2016, the Cambridge International General Certificate of Secondary Education, one of the most recognised qualifications in the world, is expected to be offered at 45 Mara Junior Science Colleges (MRSM) nationwide.
Majlis Amanah Rakyat (Mara) director-general Datuk Ibrahim Ahmad said currently, the programme was only offered at the Tun Abdul Razak, Pekan and Pahang MRSM, from early this year.
Next year, he said, the programme would be available at six more MRSM located in Parit (Perak), Johor Bharu and Batu Pahat (Johor), Sandakan (Sabah), Kota Putra (Terengganu) and Baling (Kedah).
He was speaking to reporters at the Putrajaya International Convention Centre here Saturday.
Ibrahim said, so far, response towards the programme had been encouraging, especially from the parents of 180 students already in the programme, as it provided students another certificate besides the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia, to help them pursue their studies abroad.
“We want our students to be global, but at the same time, maintain the character that is synonymous with Malaysia,” he added. – Bernama
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