Source: https://www.facebook.com/azman.haj

Was MRSM sponsoring IGCSEs for students before, until this parent's post show up?

IGCSE fees seems reasonable compared to IGCSE Centers paying RM 700-800/papers.
And Each Children need to take atleast >5 subjects, already costs RM 5-8k for Examination Fees alone....

MRSM don't let parents to opt out for IGCSE for their children?
Also SPM is free, since paid by PIBG most of the time

Disclaimer : TS doesn't know how IGCSE works in MRSM.

miskin but have 7 kids

kek

Wow, unfair. Cheap price for education for orang kite

wajib ka IGCSE tu? SPM tak laku ka?

No idea, always been offered for Examinations in Oct/Nov for IGCSE in Form 4.
Basically IGCSE = Form 4 + 5 syllabus with dumb down.

Shouldn't be that hard. Somemore got open marking scheme for students to blindly regurgitate answers to.

igcse if taken at british council or similar set up will cost about rm700 to 1000 per paper. if taken at some international schools which use igcse syllabus it is around rm450 per paper.

those MRSM with IGCSE also same fees of rm450 per paper due to government to government agreement.

so orang kita or not, anybody can actually go kawtim at any international schools to let your kid become exam candidate there. I know one parent who did that. her son taken igcse tuition from private teachers and then the mother kawtim with g***** international school to take exam there and she paid rm450 per paper.

not all mrsm have igcse. only around 11 or 14 out of all mrsm. fees are not sponsored by gomen. parents have to pay themselves. if cannot then they wont apply to mrsm with igcse.

my eldest also in one mrsm igcse, now form2. i have to pay for checkpoint exam this year (around 600) and when he in form 4, i will have to pay igcse fees as well. we also paid for his external modules/tuition during school breaks, around 700 to 1000 per week/module.

so far this is the tongkatness i utilized. asb not so much cost now no money paying kids schools. house discount didnt't get because my house is not a bumi lot. spm also i paid the fees coz my parents can pay. job also at private company. only my wife work with gomen and the only reason is that her specialty is in emergency and trauma which no private hospital willing to hire, not lucrative at all. otherwise sudah lama she run to private hospital.

RM 700 for external modules + tuition welp
Even Chinese tuition only RM 200 /month parents complain already

During my time like no igcse. Anyway, i remember those poor kids got allowance. They got monthly cheque from mara.

What is the advantage of igcse over spm?

i didn't even remember i took igcse paper or not when i was in mrsm jasin

RM3.4k is cheap anyway for 1-year of quality education

but surely these ppl know that mrsm and MARA institutions in general are quite lenient if you have difficulty paying fees or loans.. just tell the mrsm office or nearest mara branch office about your difficulties and they will aid you in the best way they can

This post has been edited by kerolzarmyfanboy: Jan 8 2019, 11:52 PM

Surely not as MRSM Jasin is not an IGCSE mrsm

Read properly. That post said anak in form 4. IGCSE mrsm means their kid already in mrsm since form 1 since IGCSE mrsm has no form 4 intake. This year intake 70 percent are b40. So in this case, janji already di capati.

Can drop out after finish IGCSE paper in Form 4? When results release in December?
And Apply to College at the age of 17?

Whereas all your SPM counterparts need to wait until 18 to apply?

Exactly. I heard some parents send their kid to do engineering foundation at utp using IGCSE results. Don't take spm but have to pay fees sendiri. A colleague told me 20 of her daughter's friends did that.

AFAIK utp foundation requires spm BM or equivalent so may be they have to take BM SPM papers as private candidate. I know of one kid who took BM as second language IGCSE paper and scored highest in the world for it. (Apparently it's just tp3 level BM). This year IGCSE got BM as first language paper option.

My daughter is in IGCSE MRSM, just took her Check Point exam last year...now in Form 3. Those wonder what is this MRSM is actually.... this MRSM took a little bit different approach in learning where most subject are taught in English. They have 2 exams came from Cambridge.... one in Form 2 called Check Point & another one in Form 4.

Yes it is expensive considering the papers are from Cambridge and the total payment are not fixed depending on the currency exchange that time. Many parents, they dont have enough infos on this....they just think they are proud if childern are selected to study here..... without knowing the way the education is delivered & amount of fees.

My experience, those children with just passed their UPSR "ngam2 atas pagar" especially english & math, they will struggle here.....

Now we have 3 types of MRSM; normal MRSM, Ulul Albab MRSM (with plus Islamic education) & IGCSE MRSM (with plus Cambridge paper)

If these parents feel the fees are unfair, feel free to place their kids in normal school. Plenty others who are happy to have their slots.

Some of my friend just use trial spm. But they will still check the actual result later on. Advantage is they can start early.

Sos : ex mrsm.

THIS!
but but but the tongkat mentality is strong!

Correction. There's also Technical MRSM where the students studies the basics of engineering. Currently there's only MRSM Bentong where my son was the 1st intake in 2016.