Most states record improvement in PMR examinations

Johor students have achieved the best Penilaian Menengah Rendah (PMR) examination results in five years.
Johor Education director Sufa’at Tumin said Johor had shown an improvement in School Average Grade or “Gred Purata Sekolah” (GPS) by obtaining a score of 2.84.
“This is the best GPS in five years,” he said, adding that the percentage of students who passed was 63.32% and the percentage of students who obtained excellent results was 5.65%, compared with 4.93% in 2007.
He said that out of 57,613 students who took the examination, 356 scored 9As, 2,348 obtained 8As while 327 scored 7As.
Sufa’at added that the teaching of Maths and Science in English did not affect the students as 88.74% of the students obtained Grade A, B, C, and D in Mathematics and 89.19% in Science. He said the number of students who obtained all Es dropped from 42 in 2007 to 24 this year.
The top three schools in the state are Sekolah Tun Fatimah, Johor Baru; SM Sains Johor, Kluang; and SM Sains Kota Tinggi.
In Ipoh, Perak Education director Mohd Radzi Abd Jabar said a total of 2,591 candidates (or 6.11%) scored straight As. Of the 2,591 pupils, 206 scored nine As, 1,174 had eight As while 611 obtained seven As.
A total of 41,676 pupils sat for the examinations in Perak.
In Kuantan, State Education Department director Datuk Abdul Aziz Latiff said 1,377 from 27,028 Pahang students scored all As in all subjects taken. He added that 253 students scored 9As while 1,029 scored 8As and nine scored 7As. He said a total of 17,298 of them passed all their subjects.
Thirteen schools – the same as last year – recorded 100% passes. They are Sekolah Menengah (SM) Sains Tengku Abdullah, SM Sains Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah, SM Sains Sultan Ahmad Shah, Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan (SMK) Abdul Rahman Talib, SMK Berasrama Penuh Integrasi, SMK Sultan Abu Bakar, SMK Ahmad, SMK Seri Jengka, SMK Sultanah Hajjah Kalsom, SMK Seri Bentong, SMK Muadzam Shah, SMK Seri Pekan and SMK Jengka Pusat.
In Malacca, state Education Department director Isa Abu said some 65.1% or 9,272 students chalked passes compared with 9,301 students last year. He said there was also an improvement in the quality of passes with 879 students scoring straight As, an increase of six from last year.
He added that the improvement in the overall passing results was also seen in English (76.4%), Mathematics (87.3%) and Science (91.4%) compared with last year.
SMK Sains Muzaffar Shah in Ayer Keroh, SMK Infant Jesus Convent in Bandar Hilir and SMK Agama Sharifah Rodziah in Telok Mas came up tops with 100% passes.
Meanwhile, all 54 students of private boarding school College Yayasan Saad in Ayer Keroh scored straight As.
In Kota Kinabalu, Sabah Education Department deputy director Dr Muhiddin Yusin said the number of students who scored between 7As and 9As increased to 660 from 596 last year.
He said of the 39,487 students who sat for the examinations this year, 20,500 or 54.24% obtained at least a D grade.

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