I thought the dust has settled over the weekend a.k.a. Sunday yesterday. I received my girl’s result via SMS on Saturday afternoon and so I said to myself, Alhamdullilah and that’s that. My girl’s happy. Later yesterday afternoon, someone named, HambaAllah, sent me an email on the full PSR result. I didn’t check my email until now and I said, ‘Hmmm…should I put this up in my blog or shouldn’t I?’ That was the question.
So much excitement (and maybe some frustrations) upon hearing or getting the PSR result on Saturday afternoon that I didn’t log on to my blog yesterday. When I checked it this morning, there were a number of comments on visitors asking for the PSR result’s website.
Here it is. psr2008
I can see on the shapes of things to come now. I predict that from now on MoE will never published the full result of public exams in their website but through the SMS service. Yes another $3 (hope it will still be that amount) in the near future and no more public show. I still wonder where people get the full result then? Surely the source is MoE, yes?
Here are some stats from the PSR 2008 result:
- 3% increase pass rate compared to 2007
- 88.8% (nice fig) achieved overall pass (5,976 from a total of 6,729 candidates) – Last time, BT reported there were 7,180 who sat for PSR this year. Hmmm….
- 2007 figure recorded 80% pass rate
- 2006 figure recorded 81% pass rate
- 9.2% or 619 candidates achieved five ‘A’s
- In 2007, only 148 candidates achieved five ‘A’s (way to go 2008ers!)
- 48 schools have all passed at least four out of the five subjects
- 16 schools achieved a 100% pass
Now the question for most parents is which secondary school. To many, the simplest answer is where you reside as that’s the MoE policy. For private students, the choices are JIS (the lucky ones), ISB (the green school I called with their One Million Trees Project – with a TM – trademark), SMS International (previously the famous PDS – love this school), Yayasan Secondary School (catching up among the elitists group) and one I just found out today, the PGGMB Secondary School.
So many choices.. lets start thinking Boris.
