Good incentive indeed. What worries is the tendency to focus on A scorers to the extent that the under achievers and near-illiterates are often demoted to be invisible in the school.
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Incentive for Tamil schools with many top scorers
KUALA LUMPUR: Tamil schools with more than 10 pupils scoring 7As in the UPSR examination this year will get RM500 per pupil as an incentive to produce more high scorers.
This incentive is for the school and is separate from the RM500 given directly to each pupil who scores 7As in the UPSR every year, said MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu after presenting the cash to 580 pupils who scored 7As last year.
He said the MIC-owned Maju Institute of Educational Development (MIED) would give out the incentive for the schools.
He said a school which had 10 pupils scoring 7As would get RM5,000, which could be used to buy additional revision books for those sitting for the UPSR in the future.
Previously, only the three schools with the highest number of excellent pupils were given monetary reward, but from next year the incentive would be extended to all schools with more than 10 excellent scorers
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For excellent results: Samy Vellu handing over a trophy to one of the top pupils, Darshini Thevi, as MIED chief executive Chitrakala Vasu looks on in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday.
Five chosen as best pupils – N. Darshini Thevi (SJKT Ladang Semenyih, Selangor), M. Divya Darsiny (SJKT Taman Tun Aminah, Johor), S. Rajeswary (SJKT St Theresa Convent, Taiping, Perak), A. Thenmoli (SJKT Kroh, Perak) and G. Shanmugan (SJKT Mentakab, Pahang) – received RM1,000 each.
The three best schools, all from Johor, were SJKT Ladang Kulai Besar (24 pupils), SJKT Taman Tun Aminah, Skudai, (23) and SJKT Jalan Haji Manan (21).