STPM

My friends are going to have STPM soon enough, bet they will be crammed by books by the time I go back and helluva all over.

People used to say STPM was one of the hardest test in the world, but like SPM and PMR, the passing rate and the percentage of student getting A are increasing.

Examples, 10 years ago, there will be less than 10000 students scoring a full A, but now?

At least 100times of the amount...Why?

Is the test going easier, or the students in Malaysia getting smarter

This is what I found out on internet( a joke stumbled by accident about my question above)

> > Are students getting smarter? Or are STPM questions getting easier?
> >
> > Let me put things in their proper perspective.
> >
> > During your grandfather's time, they would ask exam questions like:
> >
> > In what year did Parameswara founded the kingdom of Melaka?
> >
> > The correct answer was "1402", and they found that only 10% of the
> > students
> > managed to answer the question correctly. This didn't go down too well
> > with
> > the authorities, because the objective of the exams was to pass people.
> >
> > I mean, what's the point of having exams if people fail?
> >
> > So later, they found another way to ask the same question:
> >
> > Parameswara founded the kingdomof Melakain the year:
> > (a) 2001
> > (b) 2004
> > (c) 1986
> > (d) 1975
> > (e) 1402
> > Tick the correct answer.
> >
> > The results were better in that 20% of the students passed. But it was
> > still not good enough, so the authorities tried a different tact a few
> > years later.
> >
> > Parameswara founded the kingdom of Melaka in the year1402. True or
> > false?
> >
> > Well, half of the students guessed "True" and the other half guessed
> > "False". Fully 50% passed. The results were getting pretty acceptable by
> > now.
> >
> > Most other countries would be satisfied with a 50% passing rate, but not
> > us. We are a better country, because we are a boleh country.The
> > authorities
> > then cracked their heads and then came out with this one:
> >
> > Read the following sentence carefully.
> > "Parameswara, the cousin of Proton-Iswara, founded the kingdomof Melaka
> > in
> > the year 1402."
> > Underline the name of the person who founded Melaka.
> >
> > 60% underlined "Parameswara", 30% underlined "Proton-Iswara" and 10%
> > underlined "1402". Hooiyoh......60% managed to pass! So krever!
> >
> > But for some reason, the authorities were still not contented.
> > So last year, they came out with this gem:
> >
> > One day in the year 1402, Parameswara founded the kingdomof Melaka.
> > Then
> > he went home to have dinner. What did he eat?
> >
> > 13% handed in blank answers, 57% wrote "Maggi Mee", and 10% wrote
> > "Kentucky
> > Fried Chicken", and 20% wrote "Tree bark".
> > The official answer was "Food" of course!
> > After the marking was over, it was found that 87% of the students had
> > passed.
> > 87%............now that's pretty impressive!
> >
> > So it's true. The students are indeed getting smarter.
> >
> >

(I didn't write this thing...)

Btw, good luck for all my STPM friends. Sorry for not able to study with you guys, but... good luck

I would be wishing all of you luck from far,

Regards
Jekyll