Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe by Email 719 students scored 7As this year. This is a big jump from previous year where either 573 or 571 students got 7As.
This is the first time students who took Science and Math in English since Standard 1 took the exam.
Some statistics as mentioned in the Star:
Between 31% to 46% of pupils who sat for the Ujian Pencapaian Sekolah Rendah (UPSR) this year answered the questions set for the Science and Mathematics paper entirely in English.
Education director-general Datuk Alimuddin Mohd Dom said a total of 159,234 pupils answered the Science paper completely in English. For Mathematics it was 238,153.
This is a significant increase compared to last year’s figure of 1,324 for Science and 1,075 for Mathematics.
“The 518,616 pupils who sat for the UPSR this year are the first group to have started studying the two subjects in English since the policy was introduced in 2003,” he told a press conference Thursday after giving an analysis of the UPSR 2008 results at the ministry.
Meanwhile, Alimuddin said the ministry had compared this year”s UPSR results with the last five years to compare pupils’ performance.
“The pupils’ UPSR results were better this year compared to the average measured over the last five years,” he said.
He said 9.2% (46,641) scored all As this year compared with an average of 7.8% over the last five years.
The number of pupils who achieved grades A, B and C in all subjects was 62.7% this year compared to the 60.5% average over five years.
Usually they compare year by year, but this is the first time comparing with average of five years results.
