its better with one exam only, kids don study till "koo koo" n parents don get nightmare with son exam results. Parents can have more time to spend with their kids just like the good old days. Even with a lot of exams nowadays you see kids getting more "stupid", they will do all kind of thing that is outta your imagination like drugs due to tension from study.

O gosh... cant imagine student's lifestyle without exams.

private secondary school is a waste of monies, those going will be from rich families, how many can afford to pay for RM1k registration fee for enrolment? how many average family can pay for a RM10k fees every year? end of the day u still take the spm examination or some o'level but thats for rich kid only, average family unlikely to waste this kinda money, any extra money left will be pour back to the family as support.

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Added on June 21, 2010, 9:45 amstill got spm ma

This post has been edited by Tohsan: Jun 21 2010, 10:01 AM

Abolish SPM also la, so easy to get A. We need to change the education system la, students are taking too many subjects for SPM.

No!!!!!
Abolish it only expose the students to more discrimination and bias... Imagine school assessment, teacher always has pet student and hate list... In the end, those on the hate list will suffer when they are bright students...

Take me for example, school exam sucks(mostly in essay where teacher's marking is very subjective). In the end I score As. My teacher always thinks that those in top 10 must be very good, so no matter how bad they fare in exam they still beat those in lower tier... Its just like our economy, the rich gets richer, the poor gets poorer... Knowing that, I study in totally different region's school for secondary... I never once get into top 10 because of my essay paper always score 50ish... Of those top students, few of them are actually having tuition by our class teacher... Go think about it.

school exams are almost always harder than public exams. that's why u always score less in school, but then score higher in the public exams.

I would agree if they abolish these exam. No more public exam. For uni intake, higher education make their own exam before select the student to the uni. Just like Japan did it.

Not really, Public exam tend to lower the standard requirement...
For example, 60+ marks is already "A", especially in numeric subjects

bell curves change each year. 60 is not always A, not even the same for each subject.

Yup, kinda of agree...

Guess what, I worried I will get "B" or "C" in SPM Add Math, but I end up get "A1"

OMG this totally speaks for my heart...hahaha second that!

but anyways, i think upsr should not be abolished but instead PMR is the one that should be. let all the students take all the subjects, let them choose what to take and what not to take. Give more options to students, let students experience and learn other thing as well, don restrain them from getting different exposure, like for example let science students take art subjects too like econs, accounts or business too (my school dint let us when i was in form4 n 5), u hv to study yourself or take tuition elsewhere, teacher wont help u in art subjects.

and abolish moral studies...i don see any good it does except maybe boosting your memorising skills? conduct history in english, i think by doing so it will improve our eng language.

well, just my 2 cents lol

upsr is used to see whether one needs to study remove class or not
pmr is used to see whether one goes to science/art stream in form4

if they've been abolished, how's it going to discriminate the good/not-so-good students?

anyway, they're meant to be craps. Scoring 0A in USPR/PMR is nothing. (however that does prove that u have no foundation in your studies)

addition to that, they're plain easy. So there's no harm to take these...

This post has been edited by MrTaxxi: Jun 21 2010, 04:34 PM

abolish matriculation!!!

Why??

I dun think we should abolish UPSR. We can abolish PMR, coz it's really useless. We need UPSR, just like SPM for us to go to a better secondary/ tertiary school. But to me UPSR should not be done in a such a way a 10-12 yr old kid is not going to enjoy his/ her end of childhood.

kids nowadays really lucky...sigh

The truth is, many primary schools are pressured to delivery lots of students with 'A's, some sort of ranking system within each state and district. Schools in turn pressure their teachers who ended up totally focusing on making sure their students score in UPSR only.

I dont really know why such an idea was floated in the first place?

......Have more time for creativity and sports....This must be the biggest turkey of the day!!

this is one of the silliest ideas. but if you want to empower unis to give their own entrance exam then go ahead...

Drop PMR.

Keep UPSR and SPM. Make secondary school a 4 year affair instead of the present 5. Lower secondary can actually be done in 2 years. Form 1 is just a waste of time.