PETALING JAYA: SPM top scorer Grace Kiew Sze-Ern (pic) has proven that students can excel in examinations without attending tuition classes.

“What we learn in school is enough. We could just do revision by ourselves at home,” said the SMK (P) Sri Aman student after collecting her results in school yesterday.

Kiew, 17, who obtained 15A+s, is the second top student in the country’s SPM 2009 results.

When asked what was her secret, she replied in jest: “Study hard and pray a lot.”

However, she admitted to crying the day before collecting her results due to pressure, and was relieved that she did so well.

Born in Warrington, Britain, and raised in Malaysia, Kiew was a principal cellist in her school’s orchestra.

She also speaks Japanese and a little bit of Korean.

Kiew is looking at options such as medicine and dentistry.

Principal Alainal Hasani Md Noor said she was very proud of her students’ achievement.

“It’s a gift from them to me,” said Alainal.

Another student, Siti Aqeela Shaik Mohamed, who obtained 10A+s, was in tears when she received her result slips from the principal.

Top scorers’ recipe for success

PETALING JAYA: Strong family support and self-discipline seem to be the recipe for success for most of this year’s SPM top scorers.

Although Ashley Leow’s life has not been a bed of roses, she emerged as one of SMK (P) St George’s top scorers.

The Penang lass has always kept her spirits high despite her family not being able to provide the best for her.

Leow, who scored 9 A+s, said her family was not well-off and there were times when she wished she had what her friends had.

“My mother is a housewife. My father got retrenched last year and is now helping a relative with his business.

“Sometimes I wish I could afford some nice things like what my friends had, but I didn’t let it get me down,” the bubbly 18-year-old said.

She said she did not expect to do so well, especially in Mathematics since it was her weakest subject.

Leow was also active in many co-curricular activities, namely judo, bowling and the Interact Club.

The Sukma 2008 bronze medal winner said her passion for judo helped instil discipline in her and taught her many of life’s lessons.

Fellow 9 A+s scorer Stephanie Chan said that although she, Leow and another top scorer Yeoh Jin Ming were not in the same class, they had discussions whenever they were not clear about something.

Yeoh said she was surprised when she scored 9A+s as she only started revising in the few months leading up to the exam.

“But it’s important to pay attention in class and to concentrate in your lessons,” she added.

Principal Shariffah Afifah Syed Abbas attributed the success of the school, one of the first 20 high performance schools in the country, to the students, teachers and parents.

In Ipoh, news of Hu May Khei being one of the country’s top SPM scorers did not come as a surprise to her principal Che Su Mahamud.

Che Su said Hu, of SMK Convent Taiping, had scored in all public examinations.

Hu is studying in Singapore now.

“She is a pleasant girl who is an all rounder,” Che Su added. In Malacca, Lai Yin Kwin, who attributed his top-scoring success to strong family support and self-discipline, is among the top 10 students in the country.

Lai, who is from Malacca High School and scored 9As, thanked his parents, in particular his mother Ng Gek Choo and two elder sisters who had also previously scored straight As in their SPM.

In Klang, it was an early birthday gift for Siti Aisyah Mohd Ramli as she emerged as one of the top scorers in Selangor.

Siti Aisyah, who is going to celebrate her 17th birthday on March 14, said she believed the key to her achievement was from sharing knowledge and helping others in their studies.

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By KAREN CHAPMAN

PUTRAJAYA: The practice of listing top students who excel in the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) is back after an absence of a few years.

This year, Gladys Tan Yee Kim from SMK Green Road in Kuching emerged the top SPM student in the country with a score of 10A+’s.

The practice was stopped as the ministry was moving towards a more holistic education system and there were suicide cases involving several students who did not perform well in public examinations.

Announcing the list, Education director-general Tan Sri Alimuddin Mohd Dom added that the country’s top school was SM Sains Seremban (see list).

He said a total of 7,987 students obtained a combination of A+, A and A- in all the subjects taken in the SPM last year, adding that 214 students from government schools and 41 students who were either from private schools or private candidates, obtained A+ in all subjects taken.

“We have implemented a more detailed grading system starting from last year’s SPM and an A+ grade is considered a super distinction,” he told reporters when announcing the analysis of the SPM and Sijil Tinggi Agama Malaysia (STAM) 2009 results at the ministry yesterday.

Alimuddin added that A+ was the highest possible grade, which meant students would have scored more than 90% in the subject (see chart).

Students are now graded according to A+, A, A-, B+, B, C+, C, D, E and G compared to previously when the grades were from 1A to 9G.

On the number of subjects taken by students, he said 3,052 students sat for 10 subjects, 2,230 took 11, 1,700 took nine while only one student took 17, four took 16, and 13 took 15.

Alimuddin said 538 students with special needs were among the 465,853 who sat for the SPM.

He said Ng Jin Lui from SMK Gajah Berang in Malacca, who is visually impaired, was the top special needs student in the country with four A+’s, three A’s and four A-’s.

In Science, English and Moral Education, Alimuddin said rural students did better than their urban counterparts.

For the overall results, Alimuddin said 364,046 students obtained the SPM certificate this year compared to 347,443 in 2008.

Of the total who obtained the certificate, 199,155 passed all their subjects compared to 181,419 in 2008.

On the overall achievement of schools for SPM in relation to National Key Result Areas, Alimuddin said a majority of them were in the excellent, good and moderate categories.

“About 143 (6.7%) of the schools are in the ‘with potential category’,” he said.

Meanwhile, he said 3,138 students obtained the STAM certificate with the minimum grade of Maqbul (Pass).

“Their achievements mean they will be able to obtain a place at Al-Azhar University in Egypt and other institutions,” he said.

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