I sat for the STPM Pengajian Am Paper 2 recently. Upon receiving and reading the contents of the question paper, a few students noticed mistakes for Part D, question number 8. It is a question requiring students to interpret a passage in the form of a graph. The total marks allocated for that question was 15 marks. When we asked the invigilator about the question, she just gave a simple reply “tak tahu”. What a joke! So since we knew that there was some mistake for question 8, I chose to answer question number 7 instead as we were given two choices.
Here’s the extract of the question : Pada tahun 2002 sahaja, pengeluarannya adalah sebanyak 150 007 ribu tan metrik dan meningkat kepada 20729 ribu tan metrik pada tahun 2004, iaitu peningkatan sebanyak 3418 ribu tan metrik berbanding dengan pengeluaran pada tahun 2003. See the typo error?
After a few days, it was reported in Chinese and Malay newspapers that students who had answered question 8 will be given bonus marks. How can such a thing happen? It was a mistake by the Majlis Peperiksaan Malaysia (MPM) which they did not double check or triple check the questions before sending it to be printed.
I wonder who are those involved in preparing the examination questions? Even for Chemistry paper 2, there wasn’t a single graph, which they traditionally asked in the previous years. At least 1 graph from the chapter “Phase Equilibrium” should be tested, not only graph sketching. And how on earth that Inorganic Chemistry tested was almost half the marks, 50 marks, and this year, there were only a few questions on calculations.
How about the students who answered question 7 perfectly? Giving bonus marks to students who answered question 8 is like handicapping students who answered question 7. I know it isn’t fair either for the students who answered question 7, but it was a glaring mistake where students should have noticed while reading the question. After all, it takes only 2 minutes to read a passage.
In daily life, what should you do when you see a right and a wrong? Go for the right? Or the wrong? So why choose the mistake question and not the correct question, question 7 is easier after all.
So what does MPM do next? MPM is really going downhill. Either the printer printed it wrongly or the people setting questions failed their mathematics! And do not make us students guinea pigs!
Here’s the extract of the question : Pada tahun 2002 sahaja, pengeluarannya adalah sebanyak 150 007 ribu tan metrik dan meningkat kepada 20729 ribu tan metrik pada tahun 2004, iaitu peningkatan sebanyak 3418 ribu tan metrik berbanding dengan pengeluaran pada tahun 2003. See the typo error?
After a few days, it was reported in Chinese and Malay newspapers that students who had answered question 8 will be given bonus marks. How can such a thing happen? It was a mistake by the Majlis Peperiksaan Malaysia (MPM) which they did not double check or triple check the questions before sending it to be printed.
I wonder who are those involved in preparing the examination questions? Even for Chemistry paper 2, there wasn’t a single graph, which they traditionally asked in the previous years. At least 1 graph from the chapter “Phase Equilibrium” should be tested, not only graph sketching. And how on earth that Inorganic Chemistry tested was almost half the marks, 50 marks, and this year, there were only a few questions on calculations.
How about the students who answered question 7 perfectly? Giving bonus marks to students who answered question 8 is like handicapping students who answered question 7. I know it isn’t fair either for the students who answered question 7, but it was a glaring mistake where students should have noticed while reading the question. After all, it takes only 2 minutes to read a passage.
In daily life, what should you do when you see a right and a wrong? Go for the right? Or the wrong? So why choose the mistake question and not the correct question, question 7 is easier after all.
So what does MPM do next? MPM is really going downhill. Either the printer printed it wrongly or the people setting questions failed their mathematics! And do not make us students guinea pigs!
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