DIBERI PELUANG: Tiga murid SK Bandar Bintangor (dari kiri) Idie Ganyoi, Edward Augustine dan Richmend Mangi diiringi oleh guru kelas mereka selepas menjawab kertas Bahasa Melayu dalam peperiksaan UPSR di Pejabat Pelajaran Daerah Maradong, di Bintangor, semalam.SIBU: Tiga murid Sekolah Kebangsaan (SK) Bandar Bintangor yang dihalang menduduki peperiksaan Ujian Penilaian Sekolah Rendah (UPSR) dibenarkan mengambil peperiksaan semula semalam.
Ia serentak dengan peperiksan Penilaian Menengah Rendah (PMR) yang diadakan di seluruh negara.
Augustine Milau yang merupakan penjaga kepada salah seorang murid berkenaan ketika dihubungi berkata, semalam ketiga-tiga mereka menduduki kertas Bahasa Melayu 1 dan 2.
“Peperiksaan bermula dari jam 8.30 pagi hingga jam 1 petang,” katanya ketika dihubungi semalam.
Menurut Augustine, peperiksaan yang bermula semalam akan berakhir pada 6 Oktober depan.
Dalam pada itu seramai 4,964 pelajar di bahagian Sibu termasuk Kanowit dan Selangau menduduki PMR semalam.
Penolong Penyelia Pejabat Unit Penilaian dan Peperiksaan Sibu Steven Antas ketika dihubungi berkata, sebanyak 35 pusat peperiksaan dibuka.
“Kertas pertama pada hari ini (semalam) ialah Bahasa Melayu 1 dan 2 serta Pendidikan Islam (PI). Bagaimanapun enam daripada kertas peperiksaan yang diduduki pelajar adalah wajib,” katanya.
Kesemua mata pelajaran wajib tersebut ialah Bahasa Melayu, Bahasa Inggeris, Matematik, Sains, Geografi, Sejarah, Kemahiran Hidup, Pendidikan Islam (hanya pelajar Islam).
UPSR restitution for trio
by Anthony Aga. Posted on October 5, 2011, Wednesday
SARIKEI: The three SK Bandar Bintangor pupils prevented from sitting for the Ujian Pencapaian Sekolah Rendah (UPSR) last month, finally got their chance to complete the examination yesterday.
Official sources confirmed that the trio sat for all the papers they missed on Sept 13-14, when they were said to have been locked in a remedial room by school authorities.
“The trio are not required to sit for the papers which they had already taken on September 15. They only need to sit for the papers they missed out on the first two days,” said the source who refused to elaborate.
The special examination session was conducted by officials from the Examination Board at the Meradong District Education Office in Bintangor.
The three pupils — Idie Ganyol, Edward Ujoh Augustine and Richmend Mangi — were said to have been prevented from sitting for the examination as they were considered academically poor thus could pull down the school’s overall performance.
A police report was filed by the pupils’ parents over the incident on Sept 15.
After a team of policemen who went to the school to investigate, found the three boys locked in a room, the school sent the trio to the examination hall to sit for English Paper 1 and 2 and another subject.
Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin later apologised to the pupils’ parents and allowed the pupils to sit for the examination at a later date.
Muhyiddin, who is Education Minister, ordered the Examination Board to prepare examination questions similar to those given earlier.
http://www.theborneopost.com/2011/10/05/upsr-restitution-for-trio/
