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This post has been edited by regan96: Feb 25 2015, 03:30 PM

Just Visiting By, do we have to always state the definisi in the pengenalan(first paragraph) of our PA essay?

I don't think so. I never did.

But the marking scheme has undergone lots of serious revamp so I suggest you ask your PA teacher.

My teacher insisted us to do so, just for safety measures. He was a little skeptical about it too, and that was why I turned to you for an advice.

My teacher even told us that MPM has allot a range of 10 to 15 isi when it comes to the marking scheme of PA essay. In short, even if an acceptable isi is written in a piece of PA essay, it won't be given full marks if it doesn't fall under the scope of the aforementioned range. However, that was in the past. Now, he told us that the scope of selected isi of the marking scheme for any given PA essay has been reduced to 7.

PA marking scheme has just got extremely ridiculously strict which results in the bad results for your batch.

What I know and what my batch was required to do may not hold anymore.

Feel bad for you all, but never mind, if you pull through, you are a genius, with lots of lucks!

Yup, I think this is ultimately one of the ways for MPM to be milking a huge sum of cash out of those who intend to resit for the exams.

Anyway, just a few more quick questions:-

-Are we allowed to use pencil when it comes to labeling the tajuk, skala, petunjuk and sumber in the graph? It is mentioned in my PA(Oxford Fajar) book that students should NOT use pencils when labeling them.

-When writing down the sumber in our graph, should we position it directly below the petunjuk, or slightly underneath the bottom right-hand corner of the petunjuk?

Thanks in advance.

1) I don't know about that. My teacher told us to use pencil so if it's now not allowed it's due to changes recently. We always used pencils for labelling and drawing for the whole semester, until when we first sat for our STPM Penggal 2 and realised for the first time the graph paper is printed in the exam paper and there was absolutely no additional graph paper available, meaning if you spoil your paper, you're doomed (first batch's problem). The graph paper was printed very black and rubbing it with eraser dims it (lousy ink quality), there was not an inch of room for mistake for my batch and since the graph paper was printed too black, my batch of people, all of us, for the very first time in our life, use pen to write everything in the graph paper. Our very first time using pen for labelling.......and it's in STPM. Thanks MPM.

2) It should be written at the botton right-hand corner of the petunjuk, and bear in mind it must be BOTTOM. It cannot be on the same line with petunjuk. The space to the left of sumber must be clear.

I see. Anyway, thanks for sharing out your experience. My teacher said it's acceptable if we were to label them with pens, so, I think I'll go with pen.

While we're on it, we've been told that this year(STPM 2014/2015 batch) is the final year/batch where we're allowed to resit for third term exams. Many students and teachers claimed that the results for third term ulangan didn't improve much and in some cases, their third term ulangan results turned out to be worse than their original third term papers. That, coupled with the fact of the delayed date for the release of third term ulangan results makes MPM took the approach(halt the ulangan for third term). I got this news in this morning from my sixth form senior assistant.

This post has been edited by RED-HAIR-SHANKS: Feb 27 2015, 04:34 PM

Is it possible to drop out of Form 6 and start Sem 1 again in June? It'll set me back one year but I think I'll do a lot better if given a chance to do it all over again.

Crazy , the 2-time release of overall results is troublesome enough. Ppl tend to take march results as overall and make statistics base on march results instead of the april one. Omg, this is so flawed...

I think it's highly possible. I've briefly know a student(my former classmate) who was undertaking STPM 2014/2015 last year and within 2 months of studying in lower 6, he quitted. Weeks after that, he personally told me that he will be studying Form 6(albeit in the STPM 2015/2016 session), out of personal reasons.

If you don't mind I ask, why you'd consider taking that route? You fared way better than me in the first term exams, and with 2 resits, you could easily elevate your first term GPA.

Time waits for no man.

Is it final? I mean, is there black and white?

Where I was in lower 6, our PK Tingkatan 6 went for a meeting and were briefed that in 2013 all form 6 students in Penang will be relocated to Junior College.

But it's now being postponed indefinitely, in Penang.

It's best to have black and white before we make a final conclusion. Let's see what MPM announces later.

I reckon it's mostly a hearsay, for now. My friends and I tried to find anything we could about that matter on the MPM website, but it didn't help.

I know my own limits. There's no way I'll be able to do well in Sem 3 while having to revise Sem 1 at the same time. It's one or the other.

I've heard of people who are not doing well in universities taking a semester break or repeating a semester so I figured I should do that as well. I mean, what is a year to me? My childhood, my adolescent years, my whole academic life, leads up to this crucial moment, and yet I screwed it up by fooling around in Sem 1. Giving up a year's time to salvage 10+ years worth of education is a pretty good deal in my opinion.

If given the opportunity to repeat Form 6, with the self-awareness and experience that I currently possess, I feel that I can and will fare pretty well the second time around. One major drawback would be losing all my current peers. Shame that I was starting to bond pretty nicely with them too, but hey, one can always make new friends, right?

I'll go talk to my school's penyelaras Tingkatan 6 on Monday to sort this out but I have the feeling that he'll try to actively discourage me and give the generic response of "You can just start putting in more effort now and resit the papers at the end of the year so you don't have to waste a year's time!" like my parents did. Might even have to contact KPM on my own.

This post has been edited by sagethesausage: Mar 1 2015, 02:30 PM

You'll never know until you've tried it yourself. My close friend had doubts on whether he'll pass all 5 subjects in his first term due to the inordinate amount of workload and incessant pressure, and guess what, he shocked the whole school by not only passing, but also acing the first term with a pointer of 3.50 GPA. He never even imagined of scoring a pointer of beyond 2.50, let alone getting a GPA of 3.50. Yes, he was skeptical in the beginning and he nearly dropped one subject along the way in his first term studies, but at the end of the road, he managed to persevere and aced the test.

He deserves full respect from me, even many students out there with 4 subjects couldn't achieve half of what he has accomplished, and some of them failed abysmally, like me.

The things is, all you need is a little more perseverance and time to ameliorate your first term results, by resitting your first term exams in this November. I believe 8 months is more than enough if you managed to put in a lot of effort into your first term studies while simultaneously undergoing your third semester studies. You don't need to repeat it all over again.

What he said was right. sagethesausage, don't get discouraged by the first term results. Just put in a little more effort, then you are able to ace in both term 1 ulangan and term 3 exam. Believe in yourself. Here I am sharing a quote: if you believe it, then you can achieve it. Determination is the most important factor in form six.

BTW, this Saturday is the MUET exam!! OH MY GOD. There is no doubt that time is flowing as fast as moving sand in the palm.

Just Visiting By I have a question regarding PA graphs.
If the question ask for "indeks harga pengguna bagi keperluan Utama Malaysia pada tempoh-tempoh yang dinyatakan" but in the passage there are two time range, one is jan-jun 2012 and 2013, another one is jun 2012, May 2013 and June 2013, which time range should I choose? Or we have to draw both?

HELP ME PLEASE!!! I'm not understand this.. What should I do first???


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