November 19, 2009 13:56 PM

Better UPSR Results This Year

PUTRAJAYA, Nov 19 (Bernama) -- The Ujian Pencapaian Sekolah Rendah (UPSR) results show an overall improvement this year compared to last year, with the overall national average grade increasing by one per cent, Education Director-General Tan Sri Alimuddin Mohd Dom said.

"The number of pupils scoring all As increases to 9.51 per cent this year compared to 9.19 per cent last year.

"The number of those with good achievement (minimum C) increases to 63.03 per cent compared to 62.56 per cent last year while the percentage of those with all Es declined to 0.64 per cent compared to 0.66 per cent last year," he told a news conference.

There were 506,620 pupils who sat for the UPSR this year compared to 507,320 last year.

He said that rural candidates also showed an improvement although they still lagged behind their urban counterparts.

"Overall, the gap between rural and urban pupils is narrowing. This can be seen in the contraction in the overall achievement disparity between rural and urban pupils," he said.

He said that the gap between rural and urban pupils achieving excellent results this year was 3.64 per cent compared to 4.22 per cent last year.

The gap for good performance between the two areas is 5.55 per cent this year compared to 6.25 per cent last year.

In terms of subject, Tamil language showed a strong improvement in the number of students obtaining Grade A, which is 3.6 per cent, while Mathematics also showed a strong increase, which is 4.2 per cent.

Meanwhile, 2,725 of 24,826 UPSR candidates in KUALA LUMPUR obtained 5As and 7As in the examination.

Federal Territory education director Sulaiman Wak said 66.89 per cent of 16,607 candidates passed the examination.

"Although the percentage is down from 66.94 last year, the percentage of those scoring all As increased to 10.98 per cent compared to 10.90 last year," he told reporters.

He said 94 candidates in SK Setiawangsa scored all As, 80 in SK Bukit Damansara and 76 in SK Taman Tun Dr Ismail.

In TERENGGANU, 3,664 or 15 per cent of 23,944 candidates obtained all As, state education director Ariffin Embong said.

In KELANTAN, some 69.03 per cent of 25,369 candidates passed their UPSR, an increase of 2.25 per cent compared to last year, state education director Mohd Ghazali Abdul Rahman said.

He said the number of candidates who obtained 5As and 7As had increased by 14.31 per cent to 5,259 candidates compared to 4,244 last year.

"Three subjects show a significant increase either in terms of percentage or the quality of grades obtained, namely Mathematics, Science and English," he said.

In PERLIS, 439 or 9.53 per cent of 4,607 candidates scored either 5As or 7As.

State education director Mansor Lat said the achievement was an increase of 0.79 per cent from 8.74 per cent last year.

In NEGERI SEMBILAN, the state education department will study the reason for the decline in the achievement for the English language.

The decline is about 2.5 per cent for national schools and 1.7 per cent for national-type schools, state deputy education director Jamali Salam said.

Overall 2,343 of 19,404 candidates in Negeri Sembilan obtained 5A or 7A.

In JOHOR, 6,283 or 10.13 per cent of 62,401 candidates obtain all As.

Johor education director Sufa'at Tumin said the figure was an increase from 9.64 per cent last year.

In PERAK, the number of pupils scoring excellent results dropped slightly by 0.27 per cent from 9.05 per cent last year to 8.78 per cent this year.

State eduxcation director Mohd Radzi Abd Jabar said 3,937 of 44,856 candidates in Perak obtained 5As 7As.

In PAHANG, seven Orang Asli pupils obtained 5As in the examination, deputy state education director Abdul Hamid Abu Bakar said.

"Of the total 761 Orang Asli candidates, 18.4 per cent passes all subjects," he said.

A total of 3,225 candidates in Pahang obtained 5As and 7As compared to 3,145 last year.

In KEDAH, 3,742 or 9.36 per cent of candidates obtain all As, an increase compared to 8.69 per cent last year.

State education director Shahidan Abd Rahman said the number of students who passed all the subjects increased to 25,344 candidates or 63.37 per cent this year compared to 24,775 or 61.84 per cent last year.

In PENANG, the state recorded an increase in the number of students who passed in all subjects this year.

State education director Ibrahim Mohamad told a news conference that of the 26,259 students who sat for the UPSR, 17,638 managed to pass in all subjects.

He said the number of student who achieved all As was 3,177 or 12.10 per cent.

Two schools managed to record 100 per cent passes this year namely Sekolah Model Khas Tok Jaya in Butterworth and SJKC Kuang Yu in Kepala Batas.

Sekolah Kebangsaan Batu Lanchang emerged as the state's best UPSR performing school with 70 students scoring 5As.

-- BERNAMA

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