NO NAMING OF TOP STUDENT THIS YEAR

By KAREN CHAPMAN

This, it says, is because all the top scorers have their own strengths and weaknesses.

“We have 105 candidates who performed very well,” director-general Datuk Dr Ahamad Sipon said when announcing the analysis of the results at the ministry yesterday.

“One hundred of them are the best among those who obtained 1As in all subjects taken while five are special students with between five As and nine As.”

Asked if Yeo Jie Ming from Bukit Mertajam High School in Penang was the best overall student, being the only one with 16 1As, he said this was not necessarily the case as the ministry looked at the raw scores.

Malaysian Examinations Syndicate director Datuk Dr Adi Badiozaman Tuah stressed that it would be unfair to name one student as the best since all 105 had their strengths and weaknesses.

Dr Ahamad also said the ministry would prefer students not to take more than 12 subjects.

He said the trend of taking many subjects was meaningless.

“If a student takes Biology, Chemistry and Physics, there is no point in taking General Science too as its syllabus is more basic compared with the three subjects,” he said.

He also said girls did better than boys on the whole but declined to reveal the breakdown.

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i am thinking about the real reasons behind it. hmm...