1,276 candidates get straight A’s in year 2014

Happy surprises: SMK Tarcisian Convent Ipoh top students - (from left) Manpreet, Kesana and Sancialita - were surprise to find out they have scored all A in the SPM exam.

PERAK has recorded a drop in its SPM examinations performance for last year as compared to 2013.

State Education Department director Rozi Puteh Ismail said Perak only managed to achieve a 5.20 state grade point average, a 0.19 decrease from 5.01 the year before.