Got Soalan Bocor?
Note (Edit@2228hrs, 30 Sept 2007): If you’re here via a search engine looking for exam tips, sorry, the only tip I have for you here is this: Don’t waste your time surfing the internet looking for tips. Instead, use it wisely to do your revisions!
I was on my way home from buying groceries when I heard a special announcement on the radio just now. No it had nothing to do with the National Budget, it’s something more interesting, less predictable. Do you remember my entry about SPM tips and the craze for more A’s in today’s exams? Someone took it a step further by announcing exam tips on the radio today. Well actually, he made the announcement over the telephone, and it was broadcast to public.
Apparently this man, more popularly known as Mr Andrew Choo, had ‘accurately predicted’ this year’s UPSR questions, and now he’s doing it again for the upcoming PMR paper. He is also said to have predicted last year’s exam questions accurately. The radio station I was listening to was 988, a local Chinese radio station. He was actually invited to make the announcement on-air. He also has a website, which seems to be quite a hit itself.
Now isn’t that interesting? Haven’t we just heard about this year’s UPSR leaks? In case you’ve forgotten, students who sit for the UPSR exam are mostly 12 year-olds. The people who bocor-ed the questions clearly wanted to start these kids young! After all, there never seems to be a shortage of ‘tip-providers’ for PMR and SPM exams, every year. The announcement by Mr Andrew Choo on the radio, at one part, actually went something like this (spoken in Cantonese):
“Our recent predictions for the UPSR had turned out to be very accurate, so now, dear PMR 2007 students, listen up carefully…”
He proceeded to read out the questions, in BM, word-by-word. I found it quite unbelievable, and even thought it was a joke. Honestly, I have heard about exam leaks all my life, since I was in school myself, but I had never heard them being announced openly before. This brings up a question: Can someone actually do that, legally? With the level of confidence that Mr Choo had, I could almost tell that he meant business, especially since his UPSR 2007 predictions turned out to be highly accurate.
Personally, I don’t believe in accurate ‘predictions’; there is no such thing. To me, if the questions are really accurate, then they’re as good as leaks. What happened to the good ol’ way of studying hard for exams, without relying on tips? Do we actually need them? It is unfair to those who have no access to the tips, especially those who’re from the lower-income group because these tips don’t usually come for free. Usually, you either need to find a tuition center that boasts the ability to accurately ’spot’ questions, or buy special ‘workbooks’ that claim to contain accurate predictions of future exam questions.
With all these unfair advantage for the select few and blatant disregard for exam integrity, I wonder where our education system is headed. Our bolehness is getting a little out of hand, don’t you think?
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08 Sep 2007 narrowband
Ok lar, let us score more As easily!
During my studied time, my school teachers or tuition teachers used to tell us this “Copy down these questions, these are spot questions that may come out in SPM.” Everyone of us were so happy and memorized hard on those questions. Did those so called spot-questions came out in the SPM ? YES BUT not exactly the same!
Hahaha… early start mah. It is also happening in our local colleges and unis… my lecturers used to give us “tips” on which sections to study harder after they had seen the test paper. LOL!
of course there is no such thing as “accurate predictions” if he is so damn accurate, he is already making millions now…ask Mr. andrew to predict four numbers la…it only takes four…of better yet..seven numbers…lol
No wonder there’re dozens of those who nailed 20 over A’s easily in SPM because of ppl like him. In my opinion, he’s not really giving the youth the drive to score A’s but drive to score MORE and MORE A’s.
We all love exam tips, of course but not till this extend of publicity. It’s so business oriented to make public announcement on radio, omg!
Thanks for the birthda wishes :) Abt yr post, it is not illegal to predict the questions :) He is quite skilled in a sense. ON the other hand he cannot always be correct.
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Hey Vid,
My source (very reliable) told me that the questions are leaked. The stuff you are hearing over the radio is just part of it. Apparently the leak started from the rural areas and spread like wildfire after that.
Accurate predictions is of course, just like getting insider tip in the stock market, an illegal act. If anything should be done now, I suggest Lembaga Peperiksaan Negara pay a visit to Andrew Choo’s operation premise and dig the real sources to the “predictions”. We don’t need punters in our education system.
This same source also told me how our education has gone to the dawgs after many years of experience in the Malaysia education sector.
Yeah, looking at the quality of the exam now, I am not surprised why our education quality is equivalent to dawg food.
Well, to these parents who are crazy about getting A’s with their children, if there’s one thing my working experience tells me, bosses don’t look for straight A’s academicians to fill up their work force. Stop focusing on the wrong A’s.
Wow unbelievable. What is the point of scoring so many As if he/she is only good at memorizing bocored answers. Cehhhhh
I seldom thrust whatever tips, and I study is not because exam, is just what I like, that’s why I never pass my moral and Malay, and history, hehe.
All the tips or whatever accurate prediction, is much more accurate if describe as buying questions from high position exam department, or simply one of the question’s reviewer.
I remember in form 3, I attended a Malay lecture, RM50 for 2 hours, so expensive, some of them thought that the booklet is the key to score perfect… at the end, those who put attention on the slide score perfect. I am one of it, just lucky I attended that.
The accuracy is approach 100%, as he is the question reviewer! But he didnt do again next year… maybe got caugh, haha.
My poor sis might have to resit wor… so stupid eh :(
i will hate it as much as my daughter if she has to re-sit because of some other people’s dishonesty!
LOLs… my brother’s reply towards that would be “I wished I could resit the paper, I didn’t know how to do at all and I would appreciate a second chance” haha.. remember what I said about boys?
This is the truth. We all rely on tips. In high school, teachers used to give out tips before exams. In Uni, we will ask for it if lecturers did not give any tips regarding the must-study-chapters. It’s not fair for those who have studied hard. But oh well, it’s the human’s nature - asking for more and taking advantages over others. Perhaps there’s someone out there who will not take the advantages , but in the end of the day, he/ she might be following others’ footsteps too - copying down the tips. Hahas. :P
Our education system indeed leaves much to be desired. I don’t think I have used any of what I have studied now that I am working. SIGH…whatever happened to the days when we would only *spot* that the animal we were gonna dissect was the frog or cockroach… :P
Woow the website even showed the member’s name and state who joined. How can it be legally on the net and broadcasting? it seem like our education level gonna fall down.
aaah paper bocor quite an issue during my spm.
a certain tuition center in seremban passed the trial questions (which turned out to be very very accurate to the real paper) to a certain all boys school and the students there sold them to another students from other schools and made quite a fortune from it.
it is so obvious that the tuition centre was so damn crowded during trials.
and during trial, teachers could easily spot all those soalan bocor papers lying around our exam hall. haha. they were quite pissed with it. students didn’t even bother to hide it.
two good points:
#1 students can make money
#2 teachers can check paper easily
Seems like it’s getting more and more part of our culture.. in a few years time we would probably see on satellite TV with a “predictor” leaking tips on the local kindergarten mid term test..
even last time also got tips here n there la…and sometimes all wrong 1 also.
aih, our education system already sux…creating robots than thinking human beings…….now, got such “cheaters” somemore… they wanna make our future generation worse than robots?
Neo - At the end of the day, these As will not mean anything to anyone, anymore! Meaningless, valueless!
Keeyit - It is ‘inside-info’ like this that blurs the line between leaking and spotting. I think it’s hurting the education, because that is an unfair advantage to some students.
Rinnah - Well, to be fair, at least you still had to study that section, because you weren’t told the exact question (or how it’ll be asked). In the case of the UPSR, PMR and SPM leaks, the questions are the ones that get leaked out!
Eunice - Ya I would also want to have a share in that!
Victor - That’s why, the A-chasing has got to stop. If it continues then the standard of our education system is really taking a plunge.
Bengbeng - What about those who didn’t hear his predictions? Wouldn’t it be unfair for them? I think exams will become really pointless if people keep spotting questions like this.
Chriskong57 - Thanks. I’ve bookmarked you in my feedreader, will update my blogroll later this month, after I find time. Alot of cleaning up and updating to do ;)
YC - I believe they had been leaked too ;). Ah, when you relate it to stock markets, it makes sense. If Mr Choo were to be brought into hot-soup, I am sure there are hundreds of others who’re also responsible,
Sadly, scholarships look at As, still. How? ;(
Che-cheh - Yea lor. Dem unfair to those who need to study like mad.
Vhanded - I never trusted tips too, because there are actually people who’d create fake tips and spread it around. Kiasu people who’re afraid of having too many peers scoring good results.
Eunice - Have to resit?!! Actually, I half-heartedly hope they would do that, to uphold the examination integrity.
But I highly doubt they’ll do that… It’s too costly (they’d rather
spend theirspin our money on super expensive screwdrivers and 3.1 megapixel cameras).Bkworm - But what if the current result stands also because of some people’s dishonesty? Some students might have aced the exam when they shouldn’t have… won’t you be bothered?
Xinyi - Yes, a resit will most benefit students like your brother!
Emily - I don’t expect tips from lecturers, but I appreciate them if they’re given. My lecturers may hint on topics to cover, too, and they usually do that to all their lecture classes, thus leaving no-one out. The thing is, at the end of the day, we’re still expected to read up at least one whole section of it.
It is different if we’re talking about leaking questions, and only to a select (lucky?) few… it’s directly the questions already, don’t even need to worry about anything else.
Giddy Tiger - Haha, that’s cruelty to animals :p But yeah we did that in school too, lol. I felt so bad ;(
Darren - It’s already on its way down, ever since the day when everyone started chasing for more and more (pointless) As in SPM, in recent years.
Pinksterz - So it was all about the money, huh? But what’s the point then, the exams? If it’s legal to do so, might as well abolish exams, save govt costs!
Jian - I hope private broadcasting companies in Malaysia understands the term ‘Corporate Responsibility’. Yes, preventing exam leakage *can* be a type of responsibility.
Alvin - Yeah that’s why I never believed in tips. But what angers most people is that, for the few lazy students who really took the tips seriously, they actually scored well because the tips turned out to be accurate! How unfair is that, right…
Indeed, our education system is grooming robots, rather than thinking humans.
one word, malaysia education system “sucks”
Changhh: Oh? I can’t agree fully, but it can be improved. Thanks for your feedback!
are you trying to be funny here????
Nope I’m not :)
Hi, there! Whatever u said is rite!
Even parents are supporting their children to get straight As, helping them by buying a lot of workbooks. send them to tuition everyday, and the tuition teachers are from government schools, give them tips all the time after they went for meeting. Teachers also “gan chiong” about tips, why not students leh?