Examination Brings More Harm Than Good Essay Example

candidates’ performance in Bahasa Melayu is better than that of urban candidates. ” Datuk Abdul Ghafar Mahmud, the ‘Ketua Pengarah Pelajaran’ said of the 2011 SPM results.

Our country is made up of 3 main races: malays, chinese and indians. Chinese and indians students were raised in different cultural backgrounds from the malays, using their own language. The malay students have a higher exposure to Malay, especially in the rural areas where traditional values are still intact. The government have raised the Malay standards of the SPM papers but have lowered the english paper standards to lighten the load for these students. When students fail the Bahasa Melayu paper, the students are required to re-sit the paper until they pass the subject.

Perhaps the student is good in other subjects or has planned out a future whereby he or she does not live or work in Malaysia and will never need the use of Bahasa Melayu. This does not just apply to failing the subject but also obtaining very low grades in the subject which will make it even harder for them to get accepted into colleges. This holds them back, wastes them months when they could have been studying overseas. Besides that, the SPM marking scheme is not transparent. It is human nature for us to be afraid of uncertainty. First and foremost, we do not know who is marking our test paper.

Every human being is different and we do not know if the examiner is a strict or a too lenient examiner. The fate of our future is in the examiner’s hands, basically. A student who has constantly been

getting great results suddenly gets something that he or she does not expect to be getting will be affected greatly. This student will not know where they went wrong in the paper and will never learn from their mistakes. Whereas in other examinations such as the ICAS examination, they give you back the papers after they have examined it and they actually show you where you went wrong as well as the reason why it is marked that way.

The marking scheme changes from year to year and this will confuse the teachers marking from giving the correct marks to the students. The students as well as parents do not have a great trust in the examination when it comes to the marking as well as the grading. Now let me ask you this, what good is an examination if the people who take the examination does not even trust it? With that I’d like to end my speech by fully agreeing with the fact that the SPM examination brings more harm than good.