trust me dude, every uni in the world HAS bell curve system, believe me or not, just that it doesn’t apply to all courses due to the nature of the course.

@Monash Student,
I’m sure PX2 forgot to type the word “some”. And in my university(UNSW), it is the lecturer’s decision whether to scale the results according to the bell curve or not.

Quote(PX2 on May 31st, 2009 at 12:24 pm):
Bell curve grading will always exist, even in universities. It’s actually a way to tell where you stand compare to your fellow citizens. There’s no huge problem with SPM results as long as the subjects are capped.

The problem comes when there’s JPA scholarship. They are not doing a good job in looking for the right ppl.

There should also be different streams of education. Malaysia education only offered 1 stream for sec sch. 5 years no matter what. Whatever grades u get, u’ll promote. It’s not the case in Singapore. fail form 1 stay in form 1. Indonesia can compress a 7-year-malaysian education to 4 years.. how cool’s that.. So, there are different ways of finding the cream of the crop.

I do not agree that you mentioned about even there is a bell-curve in all universities. Monash University for example does not have the bell-curve system!!!!

I always hate the government for playing with the race card. I mean everyone should be equal and everyone should have a chance.

To me history and moral are some of the most useless subjects don’t you agree? I’m a SPM student this year and I just can’t see through this because what is the “REAL” use in your life? in your work? in your dream? How can these two subject take into account to determine a student’s future? I might be wrong but this is my 2 cents.

Quote(Kiasu on May 31st, 2009 at 9:15 pm):

Talks about JPA Scholars, the government must set a standard rules for the selection of the top students because every years JPA Selection Board get scores all the time. A laughing talks by foreigners that no one country like Malaysia has the type of working under ‘Black Box’ in selection of scholars. Like Indonesia, government scholarship only go to top students but not race and poor.

Limitations of the maximum subjects is not a problem, according to Muhyddin Yassin, the capping system is to let students to make use of their extra time for co-curriculum instead of academics only.

The only problem is the JPA scholarships. They have quotas for races. That’s what makes the distributions of scholarship unfair (in a sense). To put it simple, if the quota for chinese is full then Bumi is still vacant, even those normal results bumi can get the scholarship while the straight A’s chinese got outlisted. But we can’t blame JPA for this, it’s the system in Malaysia where Bumi gets the priority and the biggest portion.

Quote(Kiasu on May 31st, 2009 at 9:15 pm):
I think the maximum subjects for SPM Exam should be limited up to 12 but not 10. Government wants 10 subjects because they think of capability of the bumi students and also in the favor of selection of JPA Scholars for some students.

Talks about JPA Scholars, the government must set a standard rules for the selection of the top students because every years JPA Selection Board get scores all the time. A laughing talks by foreigners that no one country like Malaysia has the type of working under ‘Black Box’ in selection of scholars. Like Indonesia, government scholarship only go to top students but not race and poor.

I am agree with I want to know that Australian students take place in this or not.