Sabah wants to know why nearly 6,000 SPM candidates failed to show up for exams

Chief Minister Datuk Seri Hajiji Noor with top SPM 2022 students who received state scholarships under Yayasan Sabah in Kota Kinabalu on Tuesday (Aug 1).

KOTA KINABALU: The Sabah government wants the Education Department to identify why 5,686 students failed to turn up for the 2022 Sijil Perlajaran Malaysia (SPM) examination.

Chief Minister Datuk Seri Hajiji Noor described it as worrying and a cause for concern and said that only 34,461 students out of the 40,147 who registered in Sabah sat for the SPM 2022 exam.