wow. i cant believe people here could finish SPM without understanding the mechanism of "bell curve" =.=

Personally, i dont know how people can score below 60.

I think during my times, if ANYONE score below 65, consider fail already "gagal tahap sbp" it will show in RED.

i guess lucky. haha. all the sekolah harian and vernacular schools full of rempits and ah longs which helps sbp gets 100% straight A's =.=''

normal distribution and reading the buku sifir i tot is normal mats ==

have to disagree here. no one cares if you have 100 or 80 marks. if you got straight A, you will get lots of interviews for scholarship. THATS where a 80 marks and 100 marks person will differentiate itself.

Who needs a 100 marks person who never went to national levels in any sports or club activities, never become captain prefect, and never become ketua unit beruniform?

There are thousands of schools, that means we have thousands of head prefects, thousands of people in the national levels, and thouisands of ketua unit beruniform. If you cant even get this, then 100 marks also you dont deserve a scholarship.

The 80 marks person will deserve it more. This is where you hack the weed from the crop,

no this is exactly why you are wrong. You cannot make ANY decision based on this number. for example, if SPM this year had 50% university level questions, and the average mark is 15

Another year SPM 99% tadika questions, and average mark is 97

the 15 and 97 says NOTHING about the quality of students. you need historical data. u need to rank each data by efficiency you need to put out outliers. thats how you compare and analyse data.

This is exactly why malaysia newspaper is a huge joke. look at utusan. look at malaysia kini, look at harakah. Everything also one dimensioned. The reporters all degree by post. wtf lol

This post has been edited by YameteOniichan: Apr 9 2012, 03:08 PM