Fun facts about the format of STPM over years

I was a STPM student,but i didnt did very well..Ask NicholasLim,he knows well.
Certain factors made this failure of mine a very good example for those eager to sit for STPM,
magic word is ''THINK TWICE AND WISE'' .I never said its bad,but if you have better and simpler choice,dont hesitate to go for it.
I feel very pity for those who done well (cgpa3.5-4.0) who failed to secure none of eight choices the deem for.But today im talking about something else even more dulan,mere funny.

Fun facts i found from somewhere..I dunno where..it goes..

How do you explain the fact that 87% of the students passed the examinations of the Sijil Tinggi Persekolahan Malaysia (STPM) recently? When during your grandfather’s time only 10% would have passed? Are students getting smarter? Or are STPM questions getting easier? Let me put things in their proper perspective.

During your grandfather’s time, they would ask exam questions like:
In what year did Parameswara founded the kingdomof Melaka?

The correct answer was “1402″, and they found that only 10% of the students managed to answer the question correctly. This didn’t go down too well with the authorities, because the objective of the exams was to
pass people.

I mean, what’s the point of having exams if people fail?

So later, they found another way to ask the same question:
Parameswara founded the kingdom of Melaka in the year:
(a) 2001
(b) 2004
(c) 1986
(d) 1975
(e) 1402
Tick the correct answer.

The results were better in that 20% of the students passed. But it was still not good enough, so the authorities tried a different tactic a few years later.

Parameswara founded the kingdom of Melaka in the year1402.
true or false?

Well, half of the students guessed “True” and the other half guessed “False”. Fully 50% passed. The results were getting pretty acceptable by now.

Most other countries would be satisfied with a 50% passing rate, but not us. We are a better country, because we are a boleh country the authorities then cracked their heads and then came out with this one:

Read the following sentence carefully.
“Parameswara, the cousin of Proton-Iswara, founded the kingdom of Melaka in the year 1402″.
Underline the name of the person who founded Melaka.

60% underlined “Parameswara”, 30% underlined “Proton-Iswara” and 10% underlined “1402″. Hooiyoh……60% managed to pass! So krever!

But for some reason, the authorities were still not contented. So last year, they came out with this gem:

One day in the year 1402, Parameswara founded the kingdom of Melaka. Then he went home to have dinner. What did he eat? 13% handed in blank answers, 57% wrote “Maggi Mee”, and 10% wrote “Kentucky Fried Chicken”, and 20% wrote “Tree bark”.

The official answer was “Food” of course!

After the marking was over, it was found that 87% of the students had passed. 87%….. now that’s pretty impressive! So it’s true. The students are indeed getting smarter.

After i ran through it,i gave it a thought.Well, thumbs up to the writer!!!
Passing rates do not resembles the real statistic,passing is simply boleh boleh saja..

And a sweet girl called Swee Ying replied:

Hi….yy asked me to read this article..
I wouldn’t fully agree wat is mentioned in your article..
May be for SPM level, the exam is held just to pass the students..I am saying this because a very weak student who scored less than 10 marks in her trial for add maths can pass in SPM!!!Really a miracle!!!!On the other hand, it seems like the number of candidate with straight As nowadays keep on increasing…Not only the top students can get full As, nowadays, most of the students who drop in the upper average class also will have the chances to get straight As….It’s so common to get straight As in SPM…..BUT…..Getting straight As in SPM doesn’t secure u to get another straight As in STPM!!!!STPM is diifferent….When u want to compare 2 students with 10 As in SPM, one of the ways is to see how well they perform in their STPM….

I wouldn’t deny that the standard of STPM is also dropping, but i m quite sure that MPM(an individual organisation which control STPM) is still mantaining the standard of STPM….Some say STPM is even harder than A levels!!!! The syllabus is so wide, the exam questions are so tricky…U really have to work hard to get a good result….Further more, the result shows the grade for every paper…For example, getting an A in paper 1, and A- in both paper 2 and 3,will cause u to get a B+ in overall…It’s not easy to get an A!! I salute those who score As in every paper….

Finally, the most important point coming in…The title of the article is ‘the objective of STPM is to pass people?’….Try to think logically, why form 6 n STPM exist in out country?? Form 6 is actually one of the Malaysian style ‘Pre-U’ course(another one is Matriculation which open to 10% of non bumi)…To enter a public uni in our country, we have to complete either one of the Pre-U courses…The uni will select students depending on their results…Listen, it’s not just to pass STPM and u r qualified for the courses u applied for…U have to compete with the others who holding CGPA same or higher than u….It may be possible for one who get all pass in STPM but can’t even get a place in uni….

Last year, there were 700 hundred over people get CGPA 4.0 in STPM..But this year only 300 hundred over candidates who get 4.0…It nearly reduce by 50%….

MPM controls the percentage of pass in every subject….The statistic shown in newspaper every year doesn’t show how clever or how stupid the students are… The result depends on the ’stupidity graph’ of all the candidates of the year…The weaker are the students, the lower the passing mark so that the percentage of pass will not fluctuate..This is just to make the statistic ‘nicer’….It wont affect the intake of each uni, as they always choose the best, not those who just pass the exam……

Hope u’ll agree…..

I think all of us agree.Why meritocracy is still a floating dream and concept after so many years of concerns?
Why should Brilliant Malaysians(I mean Chinese and Indians)have to suffer beneath oppression of those do not seek true progress and development?WHy brain drain never be Singapore's prime concern?Why Malaysia so 'lousy',so cham??
I bet every each of us knew the answers,since the day we born.