Let's see a brief history of this matric thing.

I've heard that this matric thing has existed for a very long time. But it's just that, it was opened to non-bumis around 10 years ago. Before that, we have quota system (don't remind me of the ratio). So, it's like before we non-bumis can get into matric, all non-bumis take stpm in order to get into public universities.

And as a rule of thumb according to 'Malaysian convention', there have always been non-bumis who scored high in stpm, and who have concomitantly failed to get into their desired courses. They usually get perhutanan, perikanan, perkapalan, etc courses which they do not even know exist.

Then, it's like an annual festival, in which these fellas would go to MCA or other institution to show the officers their results and ask the officers to do something about it. Laughably, the government even set up an appealing website for these fellas. They might instead convert such an effort into bettering the education system.

Then, someone think that this annual festival cannot be allowed to propagate. Thus, they put out a proposal of 'abolishing quota system', replacing it with 'merit system'. In mandarin, I call that 'change soup but not change medicine'. And we are the monkeys who were played by the 'morning 3 evening 4' tricks. Remember that, we learned that in primary school and we laughed loudly at those monkeys which were so stupid to accept such a deal. And now we are those monkeys.

The ratio remains the same, or at least similar. Do you think that reflects the genuine ratio in terms of academic capability? We can say no without referring to any statistics because we're born in this country, and we've been seeing this phenomenon for as long as we live.

Please, why rush for something which depress your values? There are still other options waiting for you to discover. STPM is one. A waste of time? Not, after you finish it. Then you'll realize who's wasting time.

As in Wong Hung Soon? In Golden Jade? lol

In our year, no one likes him, but he didn't teach our class.


Is this now a trend to rush for matric? Why is that so....so despairing?




You are out-dated already, mister. Now it is ISA = Ikut Suka Aku. In fact, it has been this for a very long time already.

This post has been edited by exec: Apr 25 2008, 03:50 PM

STPM Math T is already laughable, you can expect what you would have in matric.