Malay students academic performance

The report are out on the annual academic performance of Singapore’s three main ethnic groups.

It looks like the Malays students has mixed outcome, whilst the O-level passes is seeing encouraging results, Math it seem has always been an Achilles’ heel of many Malay students.

PSLE English - 94% of Chinese, Malays and Indians earning at least a C grade.

PSLE Math - 56.3% of Malays scored at least a C, down from 63.4% from 10 years ago. National average is 83.1%.

O-level – 59% passes for Malays, a jump from 49% in 1999.

What does this mean?

Well at least there’s some progress of efforts by the Malay community to reach out to students.

Still more could be done, as the root of the problem for discouraging results for many Malay students is because they’re from broken families.

We have some 7,500 dysfunctional Malay families in Singapore, and they need more help, and there’s still room to improve our national average once we reach out more families.

Math-wise, I myself have always been weak it, nothing less than a C grade throughout my whole schooling life, until I got to Polytechnic that is, where my Math teacher, who turns out to be my favorite lecturer, kept drilling in us about the importance of practice.

Keep on doing sums, examples and problems, and I finally got my brain wrapping around the Match concept that has been bugging me. So heed my advise kids, keep on practicing!

Melayu Boleh!