Ujian Pencapaian Sekolah
Rendah also known as Ujian Penilaian Sekolah
Rendah (commonly abbreviated as UPSR,
translation: Primary School Evaluation Test) is a national
examination taken by all Standard 6 (12-year old) students in
Malaysia
.
Students in
public
schools (or
sekolah kebangsaan), are
required to take a minimum of five subjects in this exam but
students in
Chinese and Tamil
vernacular schools have to take seven subjects.
Multiple Choice Questions
are tested using a standardised
optical answer sheet that uses
optical mark recognition for
detecting answers.
This exam is annually held on the second Tuesday of September. The
passing grade depends on the average scores.
Subjects
The subjects that are taken in this exam include:
- Bahasa Malaysia
(Pemahaman or Malay Comprehension)
- Bahasa Malaysia
(Penulisan or Malay Writing)
- English
- Mathematics
- Science
- Chinese (Pemahaman or
Chinese Comprehension) - Compulsory for Chinese school students
only
- Chinese (Penulisan or
Chinese Writing) - Compulsory for Chinese school students only
- Tamil (Pemahaman or
Tamil Comprehension) - Compulsory for Tamil school students
only
- Tamil (Penulisan or
Tamil Writing) - Compulsory for Tamil school students only
- Apitude Test
Science examination
The science paper lasts for 1 hour and 15 minutes. This exam is
divided into two sections, A and B. For section A, students are
given 30
multiple choice
questions with a weight of one marks of each, thus the total
weight that can be given is 30. For section B, students are
required to answer
subjective
questions. In the subjective paper, there are 4 questions and each
question has 4 to 5 sub-questions which carry 1 to 3 marks
depending on the question. Usually, the subjective questions will
start with a diagram and the questions are based on that diagram.
The total weight that can be given here is 20. When one adds the
score of both sections, that person must multiply it by 2 to get
the grand total. The first batch who took this exam were the
candidates sitting for the UPSR year
1997.
Mathematics
The mathematics examination is one hour and forty minutes, and is
also divided into two sections, a "section A" and "section B".
Section A is multiple choice and consists of forty questions, all
have a one point score value. Section B, like
Science, is the subjective area of Maths. There are
20 questions here in total, the first five have a one point score
value, questions 6-14 have a two-point score value, and the last
five have a three point score value. Many students think that this
exam is "tough" because section A's time duration is only 1 hour
and they can't finish it in time.
Questions that are frequently asked in this exam are
fraction,
subtraction,
multiplication,
division,
addition,
area and
volume,
mass,
perimeter,
decimal points,
average,
data,
digit numbers,
percentage,
money,
time,
date and
duration
English
The English examination is divided into 2 sections. The first
section (Paper 1) is 50 minutes long. Pupils will have to answer 40
questions. The first four questions are general questions.
Questions 5 to 7 are fill in the blanks based on an article.
Questions 8-15 are based on a picture which the student has to pick
which answer is the most suitable. Questions 16 to 21 are grammar
questions. Questions 22-23 asks the students to choose the correct
punctuation. Questions 24-25 is asking for the correct spelling of
a word. Questions 26-30 is the same as questions 5-7 but the
answers are slightly different. Questions 31 onwards are
comprehension questions based on a story, label and other things.
Each question is worth 1 mark.
The second section (Paper 2) contains 3 questions. A total of 40
marks has been allocated for this whole section.
- Question 1 asks the students to describe the picture which is
given. This question bears 10 points.
- Question 2 has 2 questions. The student is given 3 choices of
items or packages to buy, each with their own pros and cons. The
first section, the student has to fill in the details of the item
into a table with the information given. The second section, the
student is given as situation such as buying a birthday gift for
their friend and the student must state why he picked that package
and how it relates to the person it is about. Section one has 10
points and section two has 5 points
- Question 3 contains 3-4 pictures. Each picture, a few words are
given below. The student is expected to write an essay using all
the words given in any order they like. This section is worth 15
points.
Format change
Only a few months before the UPSR was held in 2005, there was a
change in the format. The
Ministry of Education of
Malaysia, Datuk
Hishammudin
Hussein informed that all the Pemahaman (
Comprehension), Penulisan (
Essay-Writing), and English papers format will be
changed. The changes are as follows:
Pemahaman
- The Pemahaman paper now has only 40 questions
(previously 50 questions) and the duration of this exam has been
reduced by 10 minutes to 50 minutes. Previously, this exam lasted
for 1 hour.
Penulisan
- The new format for Penulisan papers however are
slightly different from early 2005. Formerly, each paper consists
of two sections namely sections 1 and 2. For
section A, there are two subsections. Candidates can choose to
answer one of two questions given while for section 2, every
candidate must answer the question given. The time given for the
older format is one hour.
- For the newer format, each papers consists of three sections
that are sections A, B and C. Candidates only have 1 hour and 15
minutes to answer all three sections.
Section A
For section A, a picture will be given. Then, pupils must build
five compound sentences based on the picture. The estimated time
given to answer this section is 15 minutes. The marks allocated for
this section is 10.
Occasionally, however, pictures might not be provided and to
substitute that, candidates might be asked to write sentences on a
graph, a
pie
chart, multiple images, or a time table.
Section B
Section B is nearly as similar as the previous format Penulisan
paper. For this section, candidates must choose one of three
karangan or essays to be written on the UPSR paper. The
estimated time given to answer this section is around 40 minutes.
The total marks allocated for this section A
Section C
For Section C, pupils who get SK (Sekolah Kebangsaan) paper must
give at least 5
moral values; pupils who
get SJK (Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan) paper must give 4 moral values
only, unless given other instructions, in paragraph form, from an
article given to them. The estimated time given to answer this
section is 20 minutes. Initially, the pupils were supposed to write
their moral values in more than fifty words (SJK - forty), but now,
they have to write it in less than fifty words (SJK - forty).
Apitude Test
Also from 2009 onwards, the Ministry of Education has introduced
the Apitude Test. This test has 61 questions with a time of 1 hour
30 minutes.
See also
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