SPM or the Sijil Pelajaran malaysia is here again and more than four hundred thousand students around the age of seventeen years old started sitting for their first paper that was Bahasa Malaysia Kertas 1 on Tuesday the 23rd of November. After eleven years of formal education, from standard one to form five, this examination is the pinnacle of an individual's educational evolution. An experience that will determine the individual's future! One would expect with such a high stature put on such an examination, students sitting for it would take the examination seriously.
Unfortunately, with some students, this is not exactly the scenario because they do not take this examination seriously at all. I observed with a sad feeling some candidates leaving the hall within half an hour after certain papers, which usually last for more than two hours, have just started. With a set time of two hours to complete all the questions, one can only imagine how much a candidate who leaves after half an hour can actually do.
Some candidates do not seem to take examination rules seriously either. Regulations stipulate that students need to be in the examination hall ten minutes before any specific paper starts. Sad to say that some candidates, even saunter into the hall ten minutes or more after the paper has started without even acknowledging the invigilators who glare at their lack of respect for time. Any advise given to these hardcore candidates just seem to fall on deaf ears. Or perhaps they are deaf!
No amount of prayer would be able to change these candidates. I pity their parents who have toiled hard to provide them with worldly necessities and education only to have all their hopes for their loved ones be thrown onto the rocks, broken into a thousand pieces, by their loved ones themselves. Ironically, I do have a prayer for these candidates; I pray that they get what they deserve!
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