Created an account just for some questions haha. Hopefully my situation might relate with yours somehow, OP.

My father is half-Malay and my mother is pure Chinese. But because of that little bit of Malay blood in my father, I'm still a Bumiputera. Therefore me entering Matrikulasi will be somewhat easy. I also got 9A's 1B+ in my SPm recently, so I could say that my Matrikulasi spot is already confirmed.

However, I am not satisfied with this. I don't want to study locally. And STPM lets me study overseas and I'm up for the challenge even if it's much harder.

I don't want to do A-levels because of the new STPM format. If you read the news recently, the government is under a lot of pressure with the steadily declining number of people taking STPM. Hence the new system, and I also hope, advantages for the new batch of STPM students (us). The standards might drop and there might be scholarships exclusively for STPM students. But all these are just my guesses and might not come true. But knowing the government, they'll go for some great incentives for the first batch of STPM students so that the next batch might be more.

Like I've said in my previous post, I want to go overseas. I do hope that STPM really lives up to it's reputation as a passport overseas as well as locally. I've did some research and all Commonwealth countries have a treaty to recognize STPM, but whether it is really adhered by, I do not know. It's a gamble.

I reason myself not taking A-levels as I don't want to burden my family with the tuition fees and I hope to fit into that quota set for STPM students by foreign universities (if they even exist). Again, a gamble.

What do you guys think on this?