Friday 9 December 2011

What's Unique About SPM 2011?

BM: A totally new Komsas, that's why all of us are so troubled. We are not able to spot any possible topics for this year komsas and therefore we have to study all. And guess what, all three komsas that came out this year were not spotted by any of the states trial paper, particularly drama: cempaka berdarah. All 3 komsas really caught all of us off guard. The harbinger of trouble: it tells us the government is doing their job. Hot topics are to be avoided.

BI: New literature, no short stories and drama.

BC: A totally new format with no objective questions at all. For paper 1, addresses for both writer and recipient are given, both 应用文 are 公函, unlike previous years where both are different format. For paper 2,
shorter and thank goodness easier 文言文,no 翻译,and probably the easiest SPM chinese paper for the past 3 years.

Maths: The first question for paper 2 is either sets or graphical inequalities, and it has been going on in cycle, where the first year is sets and the second year is graphical inequalities and the cycle continues for almost  8 years and this year, the paper violates the cycle and the first question is sets, although it has been tested last year. Another sign the government is avoiding any topics that can be easily spotted.

Additional Maths: Paper 1 is quite tricky if compared to previous years, but the standard remains the same. A totally unexpected question is being tested in paper 2: logarithm. Hence, a lot of students are unable to answer the question. Third sign the government is avoiding any topics that can be easily detected.

Sejarah: This is the paper ALL SPM students lament about. Why? For previous years, students will tell you they hate memorising all those Islamic facts and all events that happened before Independence of Malaysia. And this year, students will complain because all out studies end up useless! Why? After memorising all rubbish in Form 4 and Form 5 textbooks, we were being tested on Sivik like "Adakah bandar anda dibina secara terancang?", "Apakah lagu kebangsaan kita?", "Apakah kesan kepada negara sekiranya rakyat tidak diberi pendidikan formal?",  "Bagaimana anda tunjukkan perasaan cinta kepada negara semasa lagu kebangsaan dimainkan?" , "Apakah perasaan anda apabila lagu kebangsaan berkumandang? Berikan dua alasan", "Mengapakah buruh asing suka datang ke Tanah Melayu?" ,"Apakah kesan kedatangan buruh asing. Berikan dua kebaikan dan keburukan." Tell me, honestly, if you are a student who has wasted two years memorising all those rubbish in the textbooks and you are given a paper who consist of 80% KBKK questions and 20% sejarah questions, how would you feel? Happiness standa 80% I admit, but frustration covers the rest (no anger, nobody would be angry, they'll just be frustrated) as you realise you have wasted 2 years of study.

Biology: Paper 1 is too easy. Paper 2 questions are weird, some are KBKK questions that you have to endeavour to relate it to your biology knowledge. Hot topics are not being tested, again, and all those unimportant topics came out. Paper 3 is fine, hot topics did come out for this paper. The only paper that we are satisfied about.

Chemistry: Paper 1 is fine. Again, hot topics aren't tested on paper 2 and those weird questions came out. Questions seem to be random. Paper 3 part 2, constructing experiment has probably left a lot of students thunderstruck as no one would have expected that experiment would be tested. Even a teacher in my school says it's very unimportant. SPM boleh!

Physics: The main complaint is about paper 3. The others are fine. Paper 1 is pretty tricky, and there's one question with two answers and one question with no answer. Did they even bother to check?

Moral: Closed paper. Nothing can be disclosed.




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