{"id":6486,"date":"2010-04-24T21:50:40","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T13:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=6486"},"modified":"2010-04-24T21:50:40","modified_gmt":"2010-04-24T13:50:40","slug":"statistics-on-upsr-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/tamil-schools\/2010\/04\/24\/statistics-on-upsr-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Statistics on UPSR results"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"_mcePaste\">This news came out <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/Current_News\/NST\/articles\/3jas\/Article\/index_html\" target=\"_blank\">some time back<\/a><\/strong>. Blogging it for future use.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, Subramaniam, who is also MIC secretary-general, said children of Malaysian Indians aged between 4 and 6 years old should be sent to pre-school as they would be able to learn with ease when they move on to primary school.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Currently, <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">10 to 15 per cent of students in Tamil schools who move to Year Four do not have a basic grasp of reading, writing and calculating<\/span><\/strong>.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;If we start them young, they would be able to pick these skills well when they move to upper primary classes.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;For students sitting the Ujian Pencapaian Sekolah Rendah,<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> 40 per cent of them now fail at least one of the seven subjects they take<\/span>.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Our aim is to bring the figure down to 20 per cent and in the long-term, ensure all students from Tamil schools achieve a 100 per cent pass in the exam.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This news came out some time back. Blogging it for future use. Meanwhile, Subramaniam, who is also MIC secretary-general, said children of Malaysian Indians aged between 4 and 6 years old should be sent to pre-school as they would be able to learn with ease when they move on to primary school. &#8220;Currently, 10 to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[19,225,53,36],"class_list":["post-6486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","category-tamil-schools","tag-education","tag-politicians","tag-student-statistics","tag-upsr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6486","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=6486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}