The Education ministry is coming up with the suggestion that English is to be made compulsory for securing the SPM certificate. Probably this is one side track that the ministry, or rather the new education minister, can use to show that they care about stopping the declining standard of education in our country from slipping further downward and that they are capable of coming up with some ingenious plan to improve the standard of our education. Surely this will receive approval from all quarters as this clearly and surely is an effective policy in getting the pupils to be more serious in learning the international language.
The standard of education has retreated a few bars below that in some twenty or even ten years ago that merely making English the compulsory subject may not be sufficient. The number of straight A's sudents in the SPM examination may have increased many folds in recent years but the abilities of these top scorers in exceling at higher level has such a great variance that it is impossible to judge the quality of the students by just basing on their examination results. In fact, from random observation of results of STPM ( not sure if there is any official research to find out how top scorers in SPM fare at higher level ), many who score straight A's in SPM lose out to those who just score a few A's in only science and Mathematics subjects. One inference we may be able to deduce is that the standard of science and mathematic in SPM is much lower than that in years back and it is much easier for any student to score A nowadays.
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