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STPM pass rate increases
By TAN SHIOW CHIN; TheStar
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KUALA LUMPUR: The percentage of students who passed all their subjects in the 2009 STPM examination increased to 47.7% from 44.1% in 2008. Malaysian Examinations Council (MEC) chairman Tan Sri Prof Dzulkifli Abdul Razak said the number of students who obtained a cumulative grade point average (CGPA) of 3.0 and above also increased to 35.9%, compared with 31.5% the previous year.
Just under 1%, or 331 students, scored the perfect CGPA of 4.0, said Prof Dzulkifli, who is also Universiti Sains Malaysia vice-chancellor. He announced the results at the MEC headquarters in Selayang near here yesterday.
The number of top achievers — students who scored 5As — also increased by two to 15 students. Of the 15, two science and three arts students obtained As in all their papers, making them the top scorers in the nation
The trend of students answering in English for Science and Mathematics papers also continued, with 97.5% of candidates answering fully in English, compared with 92.7% in 2008. The Mathematics papers in particular — Mathematics S, Mathematics T and Further Mathematics T – had more than 98% of candidates answering fully in English.
Asked if the reversal of the teaching of Science and Mathematics to Bahasa Malaysia would affect the STPM, Prof Dzulkifli said: “We haven’t made a decision yet. As long as there is a need, we will continue (what we are doing now).”
Meanwhile, urban students continued to outperform their rural counterparts.
Around 12.1% obtained three to five As, compared with 7.1% of rural candidates.
The difference was especially obvious in the science stream, where 15.6% of urban students scored three to five As versus 4.5% of rural students.
Ten subjects — General Paper, Arabic Language, Literature in English, Malay Literature, History, Geography, Economics, Accounting, Mathematics T and Biology — saw an improvement in their overall pass rates by 2% to 6.5%.
In the meantime, Computing and Sports Science declined by 5.7% and 5.6% respectively, while Further Mathematics T saw only two out of 16 candidates obtaining full passes. The remaining 10 subjects showed no significant change (less than 2%) in their pass rate.
A total of 52,348 candidates sat for the exam last year at 758 centres across the country. Of this, only 8,776 (16.8%) were science students, while 13,205 (25.2%) sat for five subjects.
Source - The Star, 26-Feb-2010
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