Fewer students score straight A’s

Smiles all around: Students of SMK Zainab 1 celebrating their excellent SPM results at their school.

PUTRAJAYA: The overall Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) achievement declined with fewer students scoring straight A’s, and educators attribute this to possibly a change in the way questions were structured.

Of the 429,003 students who took the examination last year, 11,289 (2.63%) scored straight A’s – compared to 13,970 (3.16%) out of 442,588 students in 2013.