If you're doing A-Levels, why do you want to take MUET? Take IELTS or TOEFL instead.
MUET only eligible for admission into public university in Malaysia only.
A-Levels can't be used for admission into public university in Malaysia.

why not: let your parents pay for your edu fee, while you work part time and use those money to pay your living hostel fee..

aiyyoohh....then if like dat, your plan very mistake already since early beginning....

your main problem is:Money... even talent students nowadays hard want to find scholarship to go abroad, and also in here... before choose the type of Pre-U, you should know liao on what you're going to do after your degree, plan out your road....

you aim to go overseas with recognised cert, such as A-level, SAM etc.....but, in middle of road, you have no money to get to study abroad, heck, even in middle of A-level also you are struggling......

but, if let's say you stay at stpm, you can still save a lot of money, even more when you don't go tuition.... in fact, just as exactly same as a- lvl cert, stpm cert is recognised in overseas, in ipts and also ipta!!! even if you don't have money to go abroad, you can study in ipts, and if ipts is a little harder in terms of cash, then you still got tiny chance to compete for a seat in ipta, win-win situation!!!!!!

you should just keep hang on, and move forward in your previously stpm,.....