THE fanfare around individual straight-A achievements in the SPM exam is unhealthy enough, but 2025 has unveiled a more insidious fixation: the average school grade (“gred purata sekolah” or GPS).
Once confined to internal educational reports, this year these figures are dominating parents’ chat groups and alumni Facebook pages. What began as a modest administrative metric has now escaped ministry corridors, mutating into a public spectacle of statistical idolatry with consequences few foresaw.
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