KUCHING: Sarawak's Year Six pupils performed better in Science and Mathematics in this year's Ujian Penilaian Dual Language Programme (UP-DLPS 6) assessment, but English scores declined slightly, says Datuk Seri Roland Sagah.
The state Education, Innovation and Talent Development Minister said the overall pass rates for Science and Mathematics improved to 93.19% and 74.76% respectively, from 84.71% and 61.04% last year.
However, the English pass rate dropped to 85.34% from 90.99%.
"The average score for English declined by 3.23%, although it remains our best-performing subject, with 49.31% of pupils achieving Grade C and above," Sagah said when announcing the results here on Thursday (Nov 12).
"My ministry will work with the state Education Department to engage schools that recorded lower English scores and identify practical measures to improve their pupils' performance."
He also said 70.14% of pupils passed all three subjects, up from 11.18% last year, while the average score across the three subjects improved to 44.97% from 41.2%.
In addition, 683 pupils achieved straight As compared to 176 last year.
A total of 29,126 pupils from 1,045 primary schools sat for this year's assessment.
Sagah said the biggest improvements were recorded in Kapit, Song and Subis districts, which were among the targets of the pilot DLP intervention programme.
He also said schools participating in STEM activities and competitions generally performed better on average.
He added that his ministry will provide UP-DLPS6 learning modules to all DLP schools next year to support pupils in their preparation for the assessment.
This is the second year of the UP-DLPS 6 assessment after it was introduced last year for the first batch of DLP pupils who reached Year Six.
Sarawak implemented the DLP in primary schools in 2020, starting with Year One pupils, for Science and Mathematics to be taught in English.
