PMR Result Published

Another year, another PMR exam result published, another record number of people obtained straight 'A's, another year of excellent etc...

This has become a trend that people just don't care about the quality, but only focus on number of 'A's obtained. Does it really matter how many 'A's you scored regardless of whether you really learnt something? Does it mean you will have a bright future by obtaining all 'A's in PMR exams? Does this guarantee all top students get what they prefer in the future in university and courses selection? Answer is not really.

Nowadays it has become a common trend that people ask "How many 'A's you have? In our year of studies, we will asked the other "What's your aggregate?" In short it may look another similar question, but the real meaning of measure by aggregate is that aggregate did reflex on how your overall performance are and as to how much you really know from your studies that you could apply into the exams. Now it's going the other way round just because result compare to previous year is getting worse and the only solution is by changing the system to a more simpler, easier and more straight forward exams so that more student would be able to pass the exams with flying colour.

If I were to interview a potential staff, I would not care if he get all 'A's in the PMR or SPM but will judge on the general matter, which it is almost impossible to learn from text book, and you need to be smart and alert enough to know all these. And most importantly is how a person handle different situations. In school there won't be anyone teaching such classes, and that it will not require to apply to school students. Life outside school is a lot more than just text book.

Another issue is that by teaching science and maths in English, what's the fuss is all about regarding this? Can they guarantee that teaching in BM will be better off by teaching in English? Maybe they'd hired too many incompetent teachers to teach such subject in a different language that is causing the drop in standard.

So if our government still insisting on the current system, I'm afraid one day our education system will be with those back-makers. We will not move forward, but only move backwards the education system, and our once proud educational system wil have to start all over again from scratch and develop into a highly recognise systems.