When it comes to education in Malaysia all students will start grumbling towards the system which have been practiced so far since independence.
4-6 years – kindergarten.
During this period children study fundamental education such as alphabet, words, sentence, numbers, colors, songs, phrases, coloring.
7-12 years – Primary School
During this period student learn more about language, basic mathematics, calculation, writing essays, and other co curricular activities. This 6 years will pass by very fast and finally they will end up in sitting for UPSR in the final year of primary school. These will be the deciding factor for those who want to enter into premier school or vocational schools.
13-15 years – Lower Secondary School
During his period student will be having fun and enjoyable moment of their entire life. The number of subjects they took will definetly burden them.
BM,BI, Math’s, History, Geography, Science, Moral, Arts, Kenahiran Hidup and Tamil or Chinese OR Jawi are those subjects that have to be studied during form 1 until form 3. Smart student will be scoring easier in their PMR examination in form 3 and those who not very keen in studies will having their red marks in the report book.
16-17 years – Upper Secondary School
Those who get red marks will facing hard time whether want to proceed studying or quit. But education in Malaysia don’t allow student who have bad result to stop studying. They still have the choice to continue study, but will be entering art stream. Those who score flying colors will be sitting in the science stream. The number of subjects keeps increasing to 10 or more subjects that compulsory for the SPM exam. With no other choice all form 4 student will be biting their nails to face the SPM exam in the following year end. They have less than two years to cover more than 10 subjects with a complicated syllabus. Students who are in the premature stage don’t have any choice to decide on their carrier path,
like wise in the Srilanka or even India, education system totally different from here. They have the vision in education of what they want to be in future. They have the education system that provides necessary skills and knowledge which helps them in the future. Of course it is important to include all sort of knowledge in early stage, but if this is the case Malaysian education doesn’t give much importance to IT related studies in the early stage. Do you know IT will be controlling the world in the future? What is going to be to our student in the future? Are they going to be left behind from the western countries, Japan, Singapore, India and China, Korea, Taiwan? They are very far away from us. Event we start now we can’t catch up with them in coming 50 years.
The secondary education system should be customized according to needs of the students who decide what will be their future career path. In accordance with that, the subject that they pursue must help them in the future. The system must make sure that, student are eager to develop their knowledge and skills thru the education system. By preparing for exam, student doesn’t really gaining knowledge but practicing to pass the exam by choosing short cut methods. On of the short cut methods is doing the same type of question again and again because student just want to pass the examination…that’s all their aim.
To be continued..
4-6 years – kindergarten.
During this period children study fundamental education such as alphabet, words, sentence, numbers, colors, songs, phrases, coloring.
7-12 years – Primary School
During this period student learn more about language, basic mathematics, calculation, writing essays, and other co curricular activities. This 6 years will pass by very fast and finally they will end up in sitting for UPSR in the final year of primary school. These will be the deciding factor for those who want to enter into premier school or vocational schools.
13-15 years – Lower Secondary School
During his period student will be having fun and enjoyable moment of their entire life. The number of subjects they took will definetly burden them.
BM,BI, Math’s, History, Geography, Science, Moral, Arts, Kenahiran Hidup and Tamil or Chinese OR Jawi are those subjects that have to be studied during form 1 until form 3. Smart student will be scoring easier in their PMR examination in form 3 and those who not very keen in studies will having their red marks in the report book.
16-17 years – Upper Secondary SchoolThose who get red marks will facing hard time whether want to proceed studying or quit. But education in Malaysia don’t allow student who have bad result to stop studying. They still have the choice to continue study, but will be entering art stream. Those who score flying colors will be sitting in the science stream. The number of subjects keeps increasing to 10 or more subjects that compulsory for the SPM exam. With no other choice all form 4 student will be biting their nails to face the SPM exam in the following year end. They have less than two years to cover more than 10 subjects with a complicated syllabus. Students who are in the premature stage don’t have any choice to decide on their carrier path,
like wise in the Srilanka or even India, education system totally different from here. They have the vision in education of what they want to be in future. They have the education system that provides necessary skills and knowledge which helps them in the future. Of course it is important to include all sort of knowledge in early stage, but if this is the case Malaysian education doesn’t give much importance to IT related studies in the early stage. Do you know IT will be controlling the world in the future? What is going to be to our student in the future? Are they going to be left behind from the western countries, Japan, Singapore, India and China, Korea, Taiwan? They are very far away from us. Event we start now we can’t catch up with them in coming 50 years.
The secondary education system should be customized according to needs of the students who decide what will be their future career path. In accordance with that, the subject that they pursue must help them in the future. The system must make sure that, student are eager to develop their knowledge and skills thru the education system. By preparing for exam, student doesn’t really gaining knowledge but practicing to pass the exam by choosing short cut methods. On of the short cut methods is doing the same type of question again and again because student just want to pass the examination…that’s all their aim.
To be continued..
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