Pupils need skills in grammar

UPSR candidates recited prayer before entering examintaion hall while holding a pencil set where new rules prohobited student from bring in pencil case in the exam hall here at Sekolah Kebangsaan Dato Hashim, Pengkalan Chepa,Kelantan.

I REFER to the letter “Sad and mad with the results of UPSR 2016” (The Star, Nov 19, 2016) now that the UPSR is on again.

My 12-year-old nephew who goes to a national type school in Damansara is nervous about sitting for the examination, particularly the English subject because he cannot write sentences in the way required by the test.