Music helps Chin ace HOTS questions

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“SJKC Chin Hun is the only school which achieved 100 per cent pass in the examination.

In George Town, Chin Le Ren of SJK(C) Perempuan Cina here, said combining music with studies kept her mind active and helped her tackle tricky Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) questions.

“I reduce the hours spent on my smartphone.

“The new exam format encourages you to come up with several possible answers to a specific question and my teachers have been very helpful,” said the pupil who scored eight As.

For Muhammad Danish Muhammad Faee, 12, of SK Datuk Keramat, consistency and self-discipline were the keys to securing straight As.

Some 400 pupils out of 22,215 pupils scored straight As in Penang.

In Putrajaya, Muhammad Fahmy Iskandar Mohd Hafidz, is the only one in SK Putrajaya Presint 11(1) who scored straight As for his UPSR.

He attributed his success to the power of the dhuha prayers, which he had been performing during recess since February.

“I also focused in class, attended extra classes and went for tuition to strengthen my Bahasa Melayu,” he said yesterday.

The eldest of four siblings, Fahmy said he wanted to become a pilot.

Thirty-eight out of 1,726 pupils scored all As in the administrative capital this year.

In Kota Baru, Wan Adibah Farhani Wan Mazlan scored 6As despite sitting for the UPSR examination from her hospital bed at Universiti Sains Malaysia hospital in Kubang Kerian last September.

Adibah’s father, Wan Mazlan Wan Hassan, 50, hoped that the good results would cheer up her daughter, the youngest of four siblings and the only girl in the family.

“I am happy for her. She has suffered so much,” he said, adding Adibah attended extra classes given by teachers at the school.

He said Wan Adibah Farhani started complaining of back pain early this year and it got worse the following months.

In Ipoh, state Education Department director Datuk Rozi Puteh Ismail said 363 students or 1.05 per cent in the state scored straight As in the recent UPSR examination.

In Kuala Terengganu, the drop in English proficiency has led to only 271 (or 1.33 per cent) out of 20,341 students scoring straight As in the UPSR examination in Terengganu.

State education director Shafruddin Ali Hussin said without a good grasp of the language, Year Six pupils fared slightly poorer in the newly-introduced oral and written English papers.