unless the ministry of education change the system of education... like HK or singapore or USA style... dun 100% base on exam but 50% exam and 50% activities...

Hopefully one day.
I have a friend in UK. He told me that many youngsters with the age around 25 already reached their PHDs and their knowledge are far better than us. Why ?
I still vote to continue to have UPSR & PMR. Examination is one of the best test to students' intelligent standard. But, the recent standard needed to be increased.

Phd has nothing to do with how lower education is.

The definition of Phd is as :



... and I never mean without Phd is considered as "lower educated", but it does showing out a higher education standard of a person.
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No offense .... and back to the topic, please.

I vote for "No abolish".

... my SPM is 4A, 2B, 2C and 1D. how could one with such crappy results sit for a PhD, right?

Is this result considered as poor ?? 

To make it clear ... when I meant  PMR standard is low, I meant it these few years
( 2005 onwards). I know it because I have experience in education field.

i hear u. i'm just focusing on the PhD part. PhD and lower education is not directly related.

PETALING JAYA: The Malaysian Examinations Syndicate (MES) has proposed the abolishment of two major public examinations – the Ujian Pencapaian Sekolah Rendah (UPSR) in Year Six and the Penilaian Menengah Rendah (PMR) in Form Three.

Its director Datuk Dr Adi Badiozaman Tuah said there would be no public examination at the primary and lower secondary levels following the proposed introduction of school-based assessment.

“If this is approved, the UPSR will be conducted for the last time in 2012 and the PMR in 2015,” he said.

The MES has proposed five forms of assessment for students in the national education system. These will be piloted in the 30 pioneer cluster schools next year. They are:

# SCHOOL assessment – planned, developed, conducted, examined and reported by teachers in schools.

# CENTRAL assessment – involving standards, instruments, data analyses and guidelines provided by the MES.

# CENTRAL examination – fully conducted by the MES.

# PSYCHOMETRIC tests – used to measure students’ innate abilities.

# PHYSICAL activity assessment – used to evaluate and measure students’ performance and involvement in extra-curricular activities.

The MES has recommended that only the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia for Form Five students be retained as a public, central examination at the upper secondary level.

Under the proposed move, Dr Adi said, various methods would be used to gather data about students’ growth and development, performance and achievement.

“We will empower teachers to conduct school-based assessment and give them the tools and training to carry it out effectively.

“School assessment will be given due recognition and acknowledgement,” he said after delivering the keynote address at a forum on educational assessment here yesterday.

According to Dr Adi, the ultimate aim is to reduce over-reliance and over-dependence on data obtained through centralised public examinations for information about students.

MES is devising psychometric tests which will be introduced in schools to help teachers gather data on their students – including their innate abilities, strengths, weaknesses, talents, aptitudes, attitudes, personalities and interests – to understand them better,

“There has been too much attention given to public examinations. School is now looked upon as a process of preparing students for public examinations. School assessment has lost significance and the outcome is not taken into account in students’ final grade,” said Dr Adi.

He added that the current assessment used was not holistic enough.

“The focus should not only be on academic aspects. We should also assess students’ personal and character development and involvement in extra-curricular activities.”

Even with PMR and UPSR around, students still lazy and dun wanna work hard...Imagine if there are no exams..

shouldn't be abolished...
consider learning with no goals...
people wont take learning serious without these test...

yeah man..what's the point going school but got no exam..i think student doesn't bother going to school either if no exam..

i choose no.

why want to abolish these 2 exams? they have their own purpose, and until now i dun see disadvantage for both exam.
maybe some will said no use, but try to think positively, as like other have said before, the purpose is to test students performance based on their level respectively.

ABOLISH matriculation. no fair for 90% bumis take freaking easier exams...

matriculation shld b abolish,those from matric are really bring the local university standard down.

Doing a experiment w/o knowing wad is beaker.....dis kind of standard....shld go back secondary or even primary schl.

**Express MARA r even worse,form 5 straight enter Local uni,the so-called elite,but i dun see any of them r doing well.

P/S :: These 2 r almost 100% for bumis,UM not even in top 200 dy(THES last year world ranking),other are even worse....as far we can see(if u got eyes),our local uni ranking r only dropping yr by yr.