As titled.
There are several possible reason.
First , the students are too smart, that they want to challenge themselves and see if they can outsmart Amalina( the current record holder for most straight A of SPM).
Second, peer pressure. Just because my friends take more i need to take more as i am afraid of loosing.
Third, guardian pressure. Either the parents forcing, or some school principle forcing to take more. Well, they dont actually 'force' it, they just actively encourage students to take more....( like my previous school...:( ）
Fourth, Scholarship pressure 。For Bumi , nope. For Chinese and Indians, yes. Although in JPA selection for scholarship criteria, 15A1 and 10A1 carries the same weight( they used to told us) , 15A1 and 10A1 carries different 'political weight' in terms of arguing.
Fifth, just wanna learn more. ( Nah ......bullxxxx,）
So question , who to blame for?
Ofcourse you cannot blame the students, they just white rat follow the social experiment.
You cannot blame their parents too. Which parents dont want their child to be excellent and grab a scholar to lighten family burden?
You can't blame the School neither, principal are responsible for school reputation( especially for some CIS, dont asked me what is CIS ) . They just doing whatever legal and appropriate mean to build the reputation up.
You also can't blame the Education department, Scholarship giver blah blah blah. How are they going to distinguish smart and mediocre students and allocate the right education resource.
If you want to blame, blame the statistic and social expectation.
We want the education department worth our tax payer money. We also wants the performance of students rise ( particular the parent's student ） rise to justify the cost, tax, money , tuition fee etc we invest on it. The minister and people in education department want to see improvement in students' performance to show the education system runs well.
Therefore here we go, every year, under pressure of students, parents and society complaining the exam questions were too hard, the education department keep on changing the syllabus, exam format and even the exam question standard so that students can get mark more easily. When students failed, to make the statistic looks better, they lower the benchmarks. Hence, so many people can work hard and get As that we hardly distinguish between smart and hardworking with mediocre and hardworking. Hence, students need to distinguish themselves so that they can be better than others.
The cause, however, is the limiting education resource available( especially for non-bumi ) . Not to mention the hard to get in Medicine department in national university, but also the oversea scholarship available. Things do change recently,
but based on 20 years of previous culture and the likeliness of JPA ｔｏ ｃｕｔ ｓｃｈｏｌａｒｓｈｉｐ ｄｕｅ ｔｏ ｆｉｎａｎｃｉａｌ ｈａｒｄｓｈｉｐ， ａｌｔｉｔｕｄｅ ｔｏｗａｒｄｓ ｍｏｒｅ Ａｓ ｍａｉｎｔａｉｎｅｄ．
Ｔｈｅ ｓｏｌｕｔｉｏｎ？
Ｆｉｒｓｔ， ｒｅｓｔｏｒｅｄ ｔｈｅ ｐｕｂｌｉｃ ｃｏｎｆｉｄｅｎｃｅ ｔｏｗａｒｄ ｔｈｅ ｓｔａｎｄａｒｄ ｏｆ ｔｈｅ ｅｘａｍ， ｂｙ ｎｅｖｅｒ ｌｏｗｅｒ ｔｈｅ ｂｅｎｃｈ ｍａｒｋ ｓｏ ｍｕｃｈ！
Second, reform middle school education system. Compared with singapore, we are lagging one year behind when entering uni. For some government sponsor scholar, they are even two year behind their mates in oversea uni.
Possible methods include, shorten the lifespan from 5 yrs to 4 yrs. Change some compulsory subject , like Moral into community service kind of certificate requirement( so that we dont have to redo it on BTN ) .Make history a selection after PMR, abolish EST , you sure get more slots in timetable to concentrate on the hardcore subjects.
Thirds, build more uni and maintained their standard so that people dont always looking for oversea studies. Limiting the current government Scholarship available but make it fair for everyone to compete. I am fairly sure the bumis can outsmart the Chinese and Indians anyway.
When i saw the news below, i totally stunned.
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Effective last year, Alimuddin said students who took the Principles of Accounting subject and obtained good results would receive international recognition.
“This is for Level Two of the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) and exemptions from sitting for a Certified Accounting Technician One (CAT 1) paper under the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants qualifications,” he said.
Of the 87,355 students who took the Principles of Accounting subject, he said 30,046 obtained the LCCI certification while 20,347 obtained exemptions for the CAT 1 paper.'
It starts 2007! Can anyone tell me how to get my LCCI exemption using my Principal account certificate?
Also, if there aren't specific program targeting those students, are they going to works?
God knows.
