Why didn’t any of the SPM and STPM straight A students manage to gain admission the past few years? Did they/their parents/their teachers concentrate on the ’wrong’ things?

If a poor student used computing to transform his/her parent's nasi lemak/fried kuay teow business, that can be a plus point. If it was a new concept, plus plus plus point...... The problem may be too many local students strictly follow their decade-old textbooks.......

This post has been edited by hwt: Dec 21 2013, 12:19 AM

This lady did get into Harvard with STPM. But then she also had other achievements.

Monday August 16, 2010
Tiong gets it right in Harvard
http://www.thestar.com.my/story.aspx?file=...rawak%2f6824505

This post has been edited by hwt: Dec 21 2013, 04:15 AM