This month is perhaps the most trying time in the lives of Malaysians aged 16 to 17. They are sitting for the SPM examination.

For many, the exam will determine the course of their lives. Can I be a doctor? Can I be an engineer? Or a pilot? A researcher in tropical diseases? Their dreams will be shaped by the exam, given that the next critical stage of their young lives – the path to university education – is decided by their SPM grades.

More than half a million students are going through the exam, which has been made harder this year by their having to endure studying through a pandemic that has crippled the usual modes of classroom education and social learning.

Given all this, one would think that the institutions of the state, if not society at large, would be well aware of the mental stress being imposed on these young people and their parents and thus understand they have an obligation to assist them in all ways possible.

However, these stressors are just the tip of an iceberg. The larger truth is hidden under the superficially calm yet cruel waters, in the silence of unseen forces under the waterline.

The iceberg is only getting larger with every passing year and the country is being steered towards it by an apartheid system inflicted upon even the children of this country. It is manifested at all the levels of our education policy. An example is the 90% quota for Malays for the pre-university matriculation course.

If one is a non-Malay and an aspiring doctor, one may never be able to realise one’s dream. A creative genius will be shunted out of the system or the country. A young person with a desire to become an ambassador will be deprived of the opportunity to study liberal arts and win a government scholarship.

The bitter reality is that we have a system of racial discrimination in education that has no parallel anywhere else in the world.

The sad truth is that innocent Malay children suffer from this system too by virtue of having privileges that others do not. The disenfranchised from poor families are taught in bad schools where standards are low because it appears the system does not believe that gaining access to the best education is critical. They are thus less able to compete and they grow up believing they are entitled.

Indeed, the sense of entitlement applies across the economic spectrum. Such is the perverse nature of discriminatory policies.

What is the large-scale discrimination that everyone knows about but only whispers of? It has nothing to do with how affirmative action should be used to benefit poor Malays, but everything to do with a deep psychosis at the heart of the political and economic system. That psychosis is institutional racism.

Racism that discriminates against children who cannot fight back is a sickness, and the political architects and perpetuators of this system should be exposed and shamed. So should all the well-heeled beneficiaries of such a system, especially the members of the Malay political and business elite who remain silent over this great injustice.

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my time, engineering is about 60% chinese

oh well

after 30 years i finally INSAF and Understood

From fighting against QUOTA to Accept QUOTA system.





We are not born Equal
Should not be treated Equal.

They had huge disadvantage to begin with.

damn it Jan 18

In BolehLand, any non-muslim who expects fairness and meritocracy is undertaking an exercise in futility.

So if you qualify for local Uni, then can go SG. 3 times...owai

borned into the wrong race
sad fact

Lol I thought this as well.

Ktards have ruined me. I'll never be the same anymore

Rokek suppork

what disadvantage?
genetically inferior?

from another angle.
as a type C, you are expected to be better than the rest, the others are not even worthy to be compared against you

This post has been edited by prozfromhell: Sep 11 2025, 01:43 PM

https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/202...ed-seats/190572

Edward Wong, the STPM top scorer from Penang whose case drew public attention last week, was ranked 1,129th among 2,291 eligible applicants for Universiti Malaya’s (UM) accountancy course, where only 85 seats were available this year, the higher education department (JPT) said.

According to Free Malaysia Today (FMT), JPT said Wong, who achieved a perfect 4.0 CGPA and scored 99.9 per cent for co-curricular activities, was instead offered a Bachelor of Management with Honours programme at another research university, his fifth choice.

The department also revealed its rankings for other public universities: Universiti Putra Malaysia (1,724th out of 4,154, with 100 seats available), Universiti Utara Malaysia (1,288th out of 2,595, 350 seats), and Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (1,062nd out of 2,292, 55 seats).

“Accordingly, the candidate was offered a place based on merit and programme choices, just like all other applicants,” JPT said in a statement, dismissing claims that flaws or gaps existed in the UPUOnline system.

“At the same time, JPT remains open to feedback and suggestions on ways to improve the existing system,” the department said.

The case gained traction after MCA president Datuk Seri Wee Ka Siong labelled the centralised admission process as “flawed” and “unfair”, noting that Wong was later accepted into the same UM course through open intake.

However, the fee was RM83,800 — nearly 10 times higher than the RM8,300 UPU-subsidised route.

JPT also stressed that its pledge to place all STPM students with a 4.0 CGPA in public universities had been fulfilled, with 1,249 out of 1,255 applicants already placed and six awaiting final paperwork.

The department said the UPUOnline appeal consultation counter would remain open until September 12 at the higher education ministry’s atrium in Putrajaya for students seeking clarification.

This post has been edited by Hattori: Sep 11 2025, 01:45 PM

How to get 3 times better than Bumi when they already score 100%?

well, not sure how he can complain.

he is not even close to being selected

Open discrimination, just go to other channels. The system and rules are all going against u. Just go other ways that work, and still available

And they wonder why SG is doing much better than MY.

There are 1,100+ other candidates that scores better than "4.0 CGPA and scored 99.9 per cent for co-curricular activities" ?

90% quota for Malays for the pre-university matriculation course. Is this the current going?



This post has been edited by jojolicia: Sep 11 2025, 01:49 PM

Meaning you need to be more fit 6 packs, handsome, taller and more instagram followers. Preferable national athelete with stpm 4.0.

This post has been edited by mois: Sep 11 2025, 01:48 PM

STPM alone can about 1200 with perfect 4.0 pngk

you can figure yourself