UPSR 2013 Performance The Best In Four Years

PUTRAJAYA, Nov 14 (Bernama) -- The overall performance of candidates in the Ujian Pencapaian Sekolah Rendah (UPSR) this year is the best in four years, says Education director-general Tan Sri Abd. Ghafar Mahmud.

He said 466,167 candidates set for the UPSR this year with the overall performance up by 0.04 of the National Grade Point Average (NGPA).

"This is the best in four years since 2010, with the NGPA at 2.31 that year rising to 2.30 in 2011, 2.31 in 2012 and 2.27 in 2013. (A smaller NGPA shows better performance by candidates).

"This is an achievement to be proud of. I congratulate all the teachers and students for the better performance this year," he said when announcing the analysis of the UPSR 2013 results, here, today.

Abd Ghafar said 42,646 UPSR candidates this year obtained A in all subjects, an increase of 0.21 per cent over last year's figure.

He said the performance in the Bahasa Melayu (BM) subject by national schools (SK) rose by 0.17 of the Grade Point Average (GPA) for BM Pemahaman and by 0.03 for BM Penulisan compared to last year's figures. (A lower point shows better performance).

Performance in BM by national-type schools (SJK) also shows an improvement of 0.14 GPA (BM Pemahaman) and 0.19 (BM Penulisan).

"The better performance in BM has contributed to the good overall performance in the UPSR this year," said Abd Ghafar.

As for the English Language subject at the SK, he said the overall performance dropped by 0.06 point, with the number of candidates obtaining A down by 0.2 per cent, grades A, B and C down by 2.9 per cent while grades D and E, up by 3.0 from last year's figure.

At the SJK, the overall performance in English Language rose by 0.12 point, with the number of those getting A and A, B and C up by 4.2 per cent and 2.1 per cent, while D up by 1.0 per cent and E, down by 3.0 per cent.

For Mathematics, Abd Ghafar said the GPA was down by 0.03 compared to last year, with candidates getting grade A and grades A,B,C down by 1.2 and 0.08 per cent respectively, grade D down by 0.2 per cent and E, up by 1.0 per cent.

For Science, the performance was down by 0.02 point, with those scoring A remaining at 22.6 per cent like last year and grades A,B,C down by 0.2 per cent, D down by 0.7 per cent and E, up by 0.9 per cent.

As for the subject of Chinese Language-Comprehension, the performance was down by 0.04 point. The number of candidates scoring A was down by 3.0 per cent, A,B,C down by 0.1 per cent, D up by 0.2 per cent and E, down by 0.1 per cent.

The performance in Chinese Language-Written was also down, by 0.02 point, with the number of grade A and grades A,B,C achievers down by 0.1 and 0.5 per cent respectively, grade D down by 0.3 per cent and E, up by 0.9 per cent.

As for Tamil Language-Comprehension, there was an improvement by 0.21 point over last year's figure, with candidates getting A and grades A,B,C increased by 7.2 and 5.4 per cent respectively, while for grades D and E, the number was down by 5.4 per cent.

The overall performance in Tamil Language-Written was down by 0.06 point. The number of those scoring A and A,B,C were down by 3.9 and 0.5 per cent respectively, grade D down by 0.1 per cent and E, up by 0.6 per cent.

Abd Ghafar said the overall performance of urban and rural students in the UPSR 2013 showed improvement with the difference in GPA only by 0.04.

He said 25,685 of the urban candidates (an increase of 0.20 per cent) and 16,960 from the rural areas (increase of 0.27 per cent) scored A in all subjects.

"The figures show that the excellent performance gap between urban and rural students is getting smaller, at 0.07 per cent this year."

As for students with special needs, he said there were 12 top performers (three visually impaired, two spastics and seven with other disabilities) compared to 25 last year.

Abd Ghafar said 9.15 per cent of the candidates this year scored A in all subjects compared to 8.94 per cent in 2012, an increase of 0.21 per cent.

He said 56.28 per cent of the candidates scored the minimum C grade in their subjects this year, while the number of those who scored below the minimum (grades D or E in all subjects or combination of both) was down by 0.06 per cent to 3.36 per cent.

--BERNAMA