I was like "Fuiyoh! Luckily I am no longer a SPM candidate!" when I saw the news on SPM Sejarah 2013. As all of us might have known, SPM candidates have to pass Sejarah in order to get SPM certificate. But that's not the only bad news.... There will be 3 Papers for Sejarah from 2013 onwards.
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Summary:
New format will be used for SPM Sejarah in year 2013, in conjunction with its status as a must-pass subject.
The new format is approved in the “Mesyuarat Jawatankuasa Kurikulum Pusat.
The SPM Sejarah subject will be tested with 3 papers involving:
Paper 1 (1249/1) – Multiple-Choice Questions
Paper 2 (1249/2) – Structure and Essay
Paper 3 (1249/3) – ‘Tugasan’ (loosely translated as “Tasks”)
Paper 1 SPM Sejarah 2013 (1249/1)
40 objective questions with a weightage of 30%.
Total marks here will be 40 marks.
Paper duration is an hour.
Paper 2 SPM Sejarah 2013 (1249/2)
The paper is divided into 2 sections.
In Section A, there are 4 compulsory subjective structured questions worth 40 marks (with each questions beings 10 marks).
In Section B, students are given 7 essay questions to choose from, from which students are required to answer 3 essay questions worth a total of 60 marks (with each question being 20 marks).
Total marks are 100 marks.
The weightage of this paper is 50%, which is also the highest among all the three papers.
In this paper, students are given 2 hours and 30 minutes to complete the paper.
Paper 3 SPM Sejarah 2013 (1249/3)
In this paper, students are given a “task”, where the general theme/title will be notified to students a month prior to the date of the Paper 3 SPM Sejarah.
However, the actual detailed title of the task will only be announced on the exact examination day.
This task bears a weightage of 20% with a total of 100 marks.
Students are allowed 3 hours to complete this paper.
General for all 3 papers
All papers covers the entire syllabus of Form 4 and Form 5 Sejarah/History.
The difficulties are appropriate for students towards the end of their Form 5 studies.
A task? What would it be? And... 3 hours... Maybe some patriotic arts and crafts like seni? LolXD What do you think?
So, what do you think about the new implementation. A good or a bad news? I do think that most of us will see it as a bad news but who knows, the third paper might be a really easy paper that help students to score
Good luck tho all the SPM candidates^^ (It's a genuine wish, I do not mean to be sarcastic ><)
This post has been edited by DavidWKW: Aug 27 2012, 09:14 PM