It's based on wajaran. But on how they calculated the percentage to pointer, no one has any idea. Many teachers (including school and tuition centres) have came out with their own calculations but none of those calculations are the same.

Let's see my P.Am from Sem 1, 2, 3 and PBS.
29% = 3.67 (A-)
22% = 3.33 (B+)
29% = 2.67 (B-)
20% = 4.00 (A)

My final pointer is 3.67. If you tried to add them all up and divide by 4, it gives you 3.41. As far as I know, if you get 3.41, your last pointer should be 3.33. If you get let's say 3.77, your final pointer would still be 3.67 instead of 4.00. But worry not about your overall pointer (4 subjects add up divide by 4). If you add them all up divide by 4 and you get 3.89, your pointer will be 3.89 and not 3.67.

If I'm wrong, feel free to correct me. Truth to be told, being the first batch kinda sucks. Everyone was all clueless on how things should be done (even the teachers!). I'm not saying the plan to change to semester system is bad but after going through as first batch, it feels like the ministry is doing a half-ass job in implementing this system.

We all know that the percentage is not given out to candidates. But exactly how the calculation is, no one knows. Even if we do not know the percentage we get, at least it should be known to student on how the calculation is being done. Otherwise, it would be just 'study smart, get good results' without knowing what is the minimum people should be aiming for. Take SPM for example. People want A+, they aim for 90% and above. In STPM, well, it's just study, study, study. Ouh, get 4.00. Save! Get 2.67? What to do? Things like that.

And also, teachers are not given briefing on how the co-curiculum marks should be calculated too. Should it be calculated by semester or by Lower Six & Upper Six. And how the co-curriculum will be added to final results (to be honest, I don't even know if it's 90%/10% in STPM).

This post has been edited by moonnightsilver: Aug 29 2014, 03:02 PM

Ah yes. But the co-curriculum marks which are accumulated in school are not mentioned properly. Since STPM is now semester based, the schools are not told how to accumulated the co-curriculum marks. Would it be accumulated by semester or would it be accumulated by years. Seriously, the teachers were just clueless at that time. But as long as I could get my co-curriculum certificates with an okay marks, I guess I could just move on with it.

Agreed. People are retaking without knowing if that would increase their pointer. Some of my friends had improvement in Sem 3 retakes but their final pointer has no changes. In the end, they had just wasted RM50-RM200. I was the first batch too. Same situation, I thought I did very well in Biology and struggled with Chemistry. But my Sem 3 results said I performed better in Chemistry even though I have no idea how I could get the results. In my final results, the only A- I received is from P.Am. Although sometimes I couldn't understand why Pengajian Am is fail-able.

You get A for Physics? Damn, you're good.

This post has been edited by moonnightsilver: Aug 30 2014, 09:26 AM