{"id":1207,"date":"2008-01-28T12:42:34","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T04:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/01\/28\/muet-result-shows-lack-of-fluency\/"},"modified":"2008-02-04T23:38:45","modified_gmt":"2008-02-04T15:38:45","slug":"muet-result-shows-lack-of-fluency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/01\/28\/muet-result-shows-lack-of-fluency\/","title":{"rendered":"MUET result shows lack of fluency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The MUET results which came out last Thursday shows that less than 50% of the students are adept in English (Band 3 &#8211; Modest User, minimum 140\/300 marks). Bearing in mind that this is an optional paper, this results does not look good. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><u>B<\/u><u>and 3<\/u><\/p>\n<p>Modest user &#8211; Modest command of the language. Modestly expressive and fluent, appropriate language but with noticeable inaccuracies. Modest understanding of language and contexts. Able to function modestly in the language.<\/p>\n<p>Many students still not fluent in English<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2008\/1\/28\/nation\/20133535&amp;sec=nation\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PETALING JAYA: A total of 40,222 or 47.79% of all candidates achieved Band Three or higher in the Malaysian University English Test (MUET).<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement from the Malaysian Examinations Council, 37 obtained Band Six, 1,424 Band Five, 9,702 Band Four, 29,059 Band Three, 32,656 Band Two and 11,271 Band One.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 84,149 candidates sat for the test.<\/p>\n<p>MUET, which tests listening, speaking, reading and writing, classifies candidates according to six bands or levels of achievement, from Very Good User (Band Six) to Extremely Limited User (Band One).<\/p>\n<p>Those wishing to retake the test can register at their respective state education departments or district education offices by Jan 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MUET results which came out last Thursday shows that less than 50% of the students are adept in English (Band 3 &#8211; Modest User, minimum 140\/300 marks). Bearing in mind that this is an optional paper, this results does not look good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-1207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}