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SINGAPORE:
Girl power prevails in this year's Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) results. The top PSLE students across Singapore's three largest ethnic groups are all girls. A total of 49,856 Primary 6 pupils sat for the PSLE this year, with 97.1 per cent of them qualifying for secondary school education, down slightly from last year's 97.7 per cent. Almost 64 per cent are eligible for the Express course, while some 22 per cent qualify for Normal (Academic) and 12 per cent for Normal (Technical). Nanyang Primary School produced four of the 15 top students, including the highest scorer. Wee Yen Jean is the top Chinese pupil, Farah Aqilah Bte Safi'I the highest Malay scorer and Mridula Sairam the top Indian student. Breaking the girls' dominance is top Eurasian student Ahmad Ashraf Bin Muhammad Johari of Chongfu Primary School. Yen Jean also beat all primary six students in this year's PSLE, with a top score of 287 points. The Nanyang Primary School student, who bagged 4 A* and a distinction in Higher Chinese, said her aggregate score came as a surprise. "Normally, I just do average performance. I don't usually top at anything, that's why this time round, it was a shock," she said. Her father, Dr Wee Tze Lin, said: "The good thing is that we never had to actually send her for any tuition. But what I think has been good for her is that apart from the fact that she is very motivated, I think the school has a very conducive environment." Farah, the top Malay student, got an aggregate score of 278. The South View Primary pupil obtained 4 A* and a distinction in Higher Malay. Mridula Sairam, the top Indian student, came from Haig Girls' School. She had an aggregate score of 281. This year marks the first time Primary 6 full-time Islamic religious school or Madrasah students must sit for the PSLE under the Compulsory Education Act. 321 of these students sat for the examination and emerging tops among them was Muhammad Mus'ab Yusof from Madrasah Al-Irsyad, with a score of 260. His mother, Latifah Noorahman, said: "We are happy that the Madrasah system has been able to produce pupils with very good results, which are comparable to many pupils in national schools." In all, 98 per cent of the Primary 6 Madrasah cohort are eligible for secondary school. This is slightly higher than the national average of 97.1 per cent. 41 per cent of Madrasah pupils qualify for the Express course, 48 per cent for the Normal Academic and the rest for Normal Technical. With the PSLE certificate, Madrasah students are now able to make a switch to the secular education system, should they choose to do so. Two out of the six Madrasahs, however, failed to make this year's minimum PSLE benchmark score of 171. The two are Madrasah Al-Arabiah and Madrasah Wak Tanjong. If these two Madrasahs fail to meet the benchmark in the next two years, they will not be able to admit new Primary 1 pupils. But as Al-Arabiah intends to focus on secondary level Islamic education under the new Joint Madrasah System, it will no longer have a Primary 1 intake from next year.

- CNA/ir

hmm.

then ah. so to sum up the malaysia activities till now ;D

arrived on saturday 5.30. slack at aunt's house. fun still =D but the fk up thing was seeing arsenal lose 2-0 to aston villa. crap, watch till 80 minutes went into the room with my sis aunt and cousins to play mahjong.

sunday was wedding ceremony and wedding dinner hahas. xiao shu and anna jie jie hoho. hmm then me as the smallest boy in the male side. had to do many lame lame traditional things =p

monday and tuesday ah. nth much + bored then go down swimming. brought our laptop and psp here. so me and my sis camp ;D cousins also guo ye with us at aunt's house almost every night, but sometimes need return for tuition -.- actually many times o.0 so at 1+ we would still be mahjong-ing lool

wednesday parents drove home at 5 a.m, my father need chiong back for directors meeting TT. they wanted to go back last night, but too late =p me and my sis already had plans to stay for at least 2 weeks. going back next friday on plane with maid. at night superr nice (and pretty/shuai) xiao shu and xiao shen brought us to the longest pasar malam in malaysia and shopped. sad lah there so much food we could only buy a few coz about just ate dinner -.- but bought clothes too rofl. see see the malaysian teens too ;D

coz cousins were busy tuition-ing (14 and 16) so thursday followed my xiao shu and xiao shen to my 2nd aunt's shop in bandar utama Acala, which sold those holy figurines and blah. interesting to see ppl come in, then johnny, the guy studying for his Master's and hired, go tui xiao in guangdong language. siann me and my sis were like why did our aunt choose to run a shop like that LOOL. then in the megamall, all the teenagers shopping obviously werent attracted =( after that left the shop to johnny, uh actually my xiao shu and xiao shen are the ones taking charge of the shop, then the 4 of us went to IKEA, shun bian tried the buble tea in malaysia, passionfruit nai cha lmao. then xiao shen ordered a barbie doll jelly cake, the whole big tall skirt was made of jelly, to early celebrate my cousin and sis birthdays, both in december. anyway ate curry puffs in IKEA o.0 at night we went to cousin's house to deliver their mattresses, which they lent for our penang relatives who just left after the wedding, lend to my er gu's third condo for them to reside in for a few days.

at night our cousins also came with us after their tuition, with xiao shu and xiao shen, coz xiao shu was bringing us to KL's BEST hor fan, hei mian and 1 more -mian. hahas then xiao shen said when my uncle brought her here to eat when they were dating, she minus-ed points but after the meal she plus points lolz. anyway on the way there we passed through the city of KL, those skyscrapers and night lights, pubs equivalent of marina bay and clarke quay. then impromptu decided to go take some pictures against the cityscape of twin towers and KLCC.

uh back to the mian. hmm so it was just like a hong kong roadside stall. also had no menu, then it has been the same boss cooking at the same place for over 30 years. my uncle frequents it for 6 or 7 years and knows the boss's wife well. then rofl the boss is like never talk, my xiao shu say has only seen him talk twice and that was scold his wife lolz. but we did see him talk haha, and this time quite happily. he cooks with that nonchalant face, reminds me of the dumb hong kong drama serials where there are similar ppl. above all his food is pwnage -.- he only opens at about 8.30 all the way to 3 in the early morning. then going by his customers he takes home easily 50k each month -.- . also went to eat the better than kfc fried chicken, there had a lot of roadside stalls which sold great food. then there were loads of funny stories, like when xiao shen was dating xiao shu, then he lied quite a few times LOL. like say his father was an accountant when he was a bus fare conductor, then they argue cheekily lool. also like my cousin's father, last time took a big rat on its tail and whacked it hard on the floor, showing my 6 yr old uncle how to do it and he was like stunned. hahas should see how he told the story ^^ very fun night. the foods owned ~

ytd ah, cousins need tuition again, we (we should always stand for me and my sis =D) went with er gu to visit my xiao gu who had recently given birth, caesaerean. the baby cute daoo. we went out to eat and da bao asam laksa for dinner before coming back. after that we at 1 am helped 'moved house', helped our aunt go clear stuff like shoes and clothes from her first home, a lot rofl. the stuff inside the fridge was screwed. at home, aunt's second home, we downed each a bowl of asam laksa ;D

today suddenly make me wake up at 7, decided to use the com and blog lols. then today at night all of us, about 10, all going to karaoke. also going to eat the jelly cake in celebration of birthdays for a mini party hoho. theres buffet which include mussels and oysters ;DD

uhh. this post is actually quite long rofl. have loads of pic on phone. find some time to upload.

ARSENAL JY AGAINST MAN CITY~