{"id":2636,"date":"2008-11-13T23:30:05","date_gmt":"2008-11-13T15:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=2636"},"modified":"2008-11-13T23:46:27","modified_gmt":"2008-11-13T15:46:27","slug":"record-number-of-7as","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/tamil-schools\/2008\/11\/13\/record-number-of-7as\/","title":{"rendered":"record number of 7As"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">719 students scored 7As this year. This is a big jump from <a href=\"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/tamil-schools\/2007\/11\/18\/srkt-upsr-2007-results\/\" target=\"_blank\">previous year<\/a> where either 573 or 571 students got 7As.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is the first time students who took Science and Math in English since Standard 1 took the exam.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some statistics as mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2008\/11\/13\/nation\/20081113170344&amp;sec=nation\" target=\"_blank\">in the Star<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"text-align: justify;\"><p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>This is a significant increase compared to last year&#8217;s figure of 1,324 for Science and 1,075 for Mathematics.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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,&#8221; he told a press conference Thursday after giving an analysis of the UPSR 2008 results at the ministry.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Alimuddin said the ministry had compared this year&#8221;s UPSR results with the last five years to compare pupils&#8217; performance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The pupils&#8217; UPSR results were better this year compared to the average measured over the last five years,&#8221;\u009d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said 9.2% (46,641) scored all As this year compared with an average of 7.8% over the last five years.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Usually they compare year by year, but this is the first time comparing with average of five years results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[19,53,20],"class_list":["post-2636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tamil-schools","tag-education","tag-student-statistics","tag-tamil-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636","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=2636"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2645,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636\/revisions\/2645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}