People say JPA is biased when judging which application to approve. I do not wish to raise any sensitive issue here, but I believe other than judging your results and your ability, they judge by your descent too. My friend is a superb student with 13A1s and she can't get an offer for JPA scholarship. She truly deserves the shcolarship and I believe by getting the scholarship it can help to reduce the burden of her parents.(She's not super rich). You know what I mean. As a result, people with less ability get the scholarship. This is what causes the brain drain and I think we can forget bout 2020. Government, pls wake up. Please stop favoring.

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Added on September 21, 2007, 12:28 pmOne thing I would like to discuss about is related to the unfairness which prevails in the SPM marking.
Not to show off here, I achieved 10As in spm and I took 11subjects.
What I didn't get A for. Chinese.
My school is a Chinese School and I'm not trying to blow my own trumpet here, I would definitely score a decent grade in my Chinese. If not a decent one,at least a grade which is on par with other grades I achieved in other subjects. In a disappointing manner, I have a lot of friends which obtained very good grades in every subejct but Chinese, a subject which non-muslim students take. I dare to say that I have at least 10 friends who obtain all As in the subjects ,for the exception of Chinese. Basically, we are a chinese school, we learn chinese everyday and it's impossible to find out that we can't do well in SPM chinese. What crap is that to say? People from Chinese schools can't score an A in SPM!? But manage to score As in other subjects".I too have a person whom I know, scored all A1s in his subject but A2 in Chinese. So what's happening? Is our Chinese Language skills aren't adequate to cope with the exam requirement or What? definitely, I dare say, no.
So what I am trying to highlight is the unfainess of the SPM examination. A similar trend is also happening in the Moral Subject, a subject taken by non-muslims. Trying to be frank, it's apparent that the government is trying to reduce the no. of As among non-muslims students through subjects taken by non-muslims, i.e. Chinese and Moral Studies. This is done by adjusting the results graphs, like how my experienced teachers explain, which I deeply believe it's not a myth. It is very sad to see this happening as this will greatly reduce the oppurtunity of these students of applying for the JPA scholarship. Sigh.We don't want to be given the best entitlements, nor do we want to be treated like a king or queen.We are sick of all these unjust policies for years. All we want - equal rights.

This post has been edited by K-I-R-A: Sep 21 2007, 12:50 PM