Friday March 13, 2009
6,277 aced all subjects taken in SPM last year
By KAREN CHAPMAN
PUTRAJAYA: A total of 6,277 students who sat for the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) last year obtained As in all subjects taken.
Education director-general Datuk Alimuddin Mohd Dom said this was an increase compared with 5,060 in the previous year.
“From that number, 1,676 obtained 1As in all their subjects,” he told a press conference when announcing the SPM and Sijil Tinggi Agama Malaysia (STAM) results at the ministry yesterday.
Alimuddin said three students obtained 16 1As – two from SMJK Yoke Kuan in Sekinchan, Selangor and one from SMK Tung Hua in Sibu, Sarawak. Two students obtained 15 1As while six obtained 14 1As.
All the answers: Alimuddin holding a copy each of the 2008 analysis for the SPM and STAM examinations. “Of the 435 students with special needs who sat for the examination last year, one with low vision obtained nine 1As and another who is deaf scored 12As,” he said.
A total of 442,936 students sat for 111 subjects offered under the SPM last year.
He said there were improvements in the performance of four core subjects – Moral Studies, History, Mathematics and Science.
On the seven most popular subjects taken by Arts students, he said Visual Arts and Entrepreneurial Studies showed an improvement while there was a decline in Geography, Music Education, Commerce, Principles of Accounting and Economics.
He said 22.2% of 1,785 students who sat for the Iban Language paper which was offered for the first time last year, scored As.
Effective last year, Alimuddin said students who took the Principles of Accounting subject and obtained good results would receive international recognition.
Of the 87,355 students who took the subject, he said 30,046 obtained the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) certification while 20,347 obtained exemption from sitting for the Certified Accounting Technician One (CAT 1) paper.
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