Where S Study On Impact Of Removing Upsr Pt3 Exams Academic Asks Govt

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Anuar Ahmad of the National Professors Council said if the study has not been conducted yet, the people need to know why. (Bernama pic)
PETALING JAYA: An academic has questioned the status of an impact study conducted by the education ministry following its decision to abolish the UPSR primary school and PT3 lower secondary school examinations a few years ago.
Anuar Ahmad, the secretary of the education and human capital development cluster at the National Professors Council (MPN), said he believes that the “chaos” surrounding the abolition of these exams could be addressed with empirical data from the study.
“UPSR was abolished more than three years ago in 2021, and the study should have been presented to the public or raised in the Dewan Rakyat by now,” he said on Facebook.
“If the study has not been conducted yet, we need to know why.”
Anuar said the public wants to know whether abolishing UPSR and PT3 had increased children’s motivation to learn or instead, had the opposite effect.
He added that empirical data involving a sample of 100 to 200 students would not provide a true picture of the situation.
“What about the views of the thousands of teachers involved? Has the effectiveness of their teaching improved, or has it become more difficult? Are parents also happy with the classroom-based assessment methods that replaced UPSR and PT3?” he said.
Several parties have called for the exams to be reinstated after arguing that they helped with student outcomes. They also claimed that the absence of these two examinations contributed to student dropouts in the SPM exams.
UPSR was abolished in 2021 while PT3 was cancelled in the same year before it was officially abolished in 2022.
On Monday, education minister Fadhlina Sidek told the Dewan Rakyat the government will not reverse its decision to abolish the UPSR and PT3 examinations.
Instead, she said the government is now focusing on improving the current academic session final examination (UASA) system for Year Six and Form Three students.
Fadhlina said the UASA, a school-based exam at the end of the school year, is designed to reduce stress for pupils compared with having to take national exams. - FMT

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