if there is a REAL intention to cultivate a high quality education, and give scholarships to the best candidates, then the solution is relatively simple.......

make the spm exam marking more strict, and narrow the 1a band, or better still, substratify the a band..........

there is NO point taking so many subjects, but if one wants to, go ahead.....but ONLY the relevant core subjects will be looked at for scholarship applications.........that will immediately stop people from taking more than the necessary subjects just to get an advantage in scholarship application.........

but there is NO real or sincere wish to improve the system.......there is only the agenda of how to comply with the nep, in a 'meritocracy'.......hence the dumbing down of public exams, and flood the system with thousands of straight 1a's and thus allow subjective discretion into the selection process......

you failed to understand.........that is EXACTLY what they want........

when you have 4000 10a1, and there are 2000 places, OTHER criteria can now be used for selection.....ie discretionary decision making.........

when the others complain, the answer is simple.........'there are so many good students, we cannot give everybody scholarships, so we SELECT based on other criteria other than results'..........

whaola........no more people with 15a1, 16a1 coming to make complains........since they all also got 10a1.........see........problem solved...........

like i said. it's all about trying to comply with the nep, within a veneer of 'meritocracy'.........1malaysia mah.........