stay with me now

The caste system is the biggest threats to humanity and equality it has entered Singapore. Luckily in Malaysia majority Malaysian Indian don’t follow this shit caste system but doesn’t mean they’re not following at all but as worst as India

By Malay Mail

Tuesday, 09 Sep 2025 8:06 PM MYT KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 9 — The Higher Education Department (JPT) has explained why top Sijil Tinggi Persekolahan Malaysia (STPM) scorer Edward Wong Yi Xian from Penang did not secure a place in Universiti Malaya’s (UM) accountancy programme through the centralised Unit Pusat Universiti (UPU) system.

JPT said in a statement that Wong, who scored a perfect 4.0 CGPA and achieved 99.9 per cent in co-curricular activities, was ranked 1,129th out of 2,291 eligible applicants, while only 85 seats were available for UM’s accountancy course this year.

It said Wong was instead offered a place in a Bachelor of Management with Honours at another research university, which was his fifth choice.

JPT added that Wong’s rankings for accountancy were also not within intake limits at other public universities, including Universiti Putra Malaysia (1,724th for 100 seats), Universiti Utara Malaysia (1,288th for 350 seats) and Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (1,062nd for 55 seats).

“Accordingly, the candidate was offered a place based on merit and programme choices, just like all other applicants,” JPT said, stressing that UPUOnline placements were system-generated and based on merit scores.

The case gained attention after MCA president Datuk Seri Wee Ka Siong highlighted Wong’s rejection, calling the centralised admissions system “flawed” and “unfair”. Wong was later accepted into the same UM accountancy course through open intake, but at a fee of RM83,800, nearly 10 times the RM8,300 subsidised route under UPU.

JPT also said it had fulfilled its pledge to place all 1,255 STPM students with perfect CGPAs into public universities, noting that 1,249 had already been offered places while six more were finalising paperwork.

It added that the UPUOnline appeal consultation counter is open at the Higher Education Ministry atrium in Putrajaya until September 12 for candidates seeking clarification.

© 2025, Malay Mail, All Rights Reserved.

Memang 4 flat, but 4 flat has its own merits. Also no math, lowers his merits even more.

So, the recent news of an STPM graduate with a CGPA of 4.0 and cocurriculum mark of 9.9 out of 10 failed to get a Bachelor of Accounting at UM. And there are some posts rising in r/Bolehland , r/malaysiauni and r/Malaysia regarding he didn't pass the basic requirements of taking maths, saying he wasn't good enough and so on.

Before i dive into the case, I would like to address how the current UPU system works

**The Basics of UPU**

UPU currently operates via a "meritocracy system" where candidates compete via merit marks

Merit marks are composed of 2 components,

90% representing academic merit

10% representing cocurriculum marks

The academic merit marks are computed via

CGPA/4 * 90 = Academic merit marks

Whereas cocurriculum marks are simply taken directly from KPM (for STPM) and BMKPM (Bahagian Matrikulasi Kementerian Pendidikan Malaysia)

And Edward, the person in the news, has gotten 99.9% merit, meaning he achieved 4.0 in STPM and also 9.9% in his cocurriculum. This is an overview of his achievements.

**How applying to UPU works?**

In the First Phase (Fasa 1) of UPU, UPU allows everyone to apply to pretty much every course regardless if the candidates are eligible or not. A special thing about Fasa 1 is candidates can apply for courses requiring interview. Say a non bumi applies UiTM, they won't get immediately blocked and rejected, UPU will still receive their application.

After Fasa 1 is closed, Fasa 2 will open up after some time. Fasa 2 will be the same as Fasa 1, no filtering. Only difference is that candidates cannot add or change their options if the option requires an interview.

After Fasa 2, Fasa kemaskini will open up. In this phase, UPU will filter students who **do not meet any 1 of the requirements** of their chosen courses. Say if a course needs the student to take Accounting in SPM, but the student didn't, they will be automatically filtered out. And if a candidate was not invited for an interview, they would automatically get rejected.

After Fasa kemaskini, UPU will announce the result.

**How does UPU select students?**

After fasa kemaskini, UPU will receive everyone's filtered application. Everyone that is not eligible are automatically rejected in fasa kemaskini, so the candidates who survive fasa kemaskini are the candidates that are eligible for being considered in the selection phase.

UPU will rank students via merit marks from the highest to the lowest. Let's say there are 3 slots and there are 5 candidates applying

Candidate A: Merit 100
Candidate B: Merit 99.9
Candidate C: Merit 96
Candidate D: Merit 99.5
Candidate E: Merit 99.0

UPU would rank all of the candidates, the ranking would be

1. Candidate A
   
2. Candidate B
   
3. Candidate D
   
4. Candidate E
   
5. Candidate C

So UPU would choose A, B and D while E and C fail to get the course they picked.

Using the same logic, the only candidates better than him are candidates with merit 100.

Moving on to the next part.

**Differences of Pre-University in Malaysia**

In Malaysian Education system, there are Matrikulasi KPM, STPM, Asasi, Diploma, A-levels.

Most of the candidates in UPU are either Matrikulasi or STPM students, asasi and diploma students are minorities. Differences of STPM and Matrikulasi are often a controversial debate in politics and everyday discussions. The purpose of both systems are identical, to allow students to further their studies for degree.

However, there are 3 significant differences among STPM and Matrikulasi.

1. Matrikulasi has a 90/10 Bumi to Non bumi quota.

This causes a significant lower portion of non bumis. But why is it that every year after matrikulasi intake result is announced, why does some chinse and indian students go to political parties and cry for help? why does every non bumi want to get into matrikulasi? What is so special about it?

This leads to the 2nd and 3rd difference of Matrikulasi and STPM.

1. Academic difficulty

STPM is a pre-u that uses 80% exam and 20% assignments/kerja kursus, some subjects even have no assignnments at all.

Whereas Matrikulasi follows a 40% Exam and 60% Assignment and Quizzes system. This makes matriks an easier route to score a high CGPA. Lecturers in matriks often give full marks in assignments. Quizzes in Matriks are done online via google form, which leads to a lot of cheating during quizzes, and lecturers don't bat an eye since they also benefit from high-scoring students. (KPI)

Another notable thing is STPM has a harder syllabus with a stricter marking scheme compared to matriks, which is more lax and easier.

Take for example, Ali and Abu. Ali is an STPM student, Abu is a matriks student. They both only get half of the marks in their exam, but they score full marks in their assignments.

So Ali would get 40% from exam out of 80%, and 20/20 in his assignment. Totalling a score of 60% which is a B- or 2.67

Abu on the other hand would get 20% out of 40% in his exams, and 60% out of 60% in his assignments. This totals to 80% which is an A or 4.0

Even though Ali gets through a harder exam, scores on the same level of Abu, Abu benefits from the high distribution of marks to assignments, causing Ali to get B- while Abu gets an A, meaning even though Ali can actually be smarter, the system says that Abu is smarter simply because of a different system. Which makes matriks students to have an abundant of 4.0 graduates.

1. Cocurriculum marking

In STPM, cocurriculum uses the system known as PAJSK. PAJSK has a very strict marking scheme, to get anything above 9 out of 10 implies the student participates in state level competitions or national level. Meaning, STPM students need to win competitions starting at school level, progressing to district level, then state level, and finally national level. They have to represent their own state at minimum to get a score more than 9 in koko. And the average in STPM is usually around 7 to 8 marks in koko

In Matriks, cocurriculum does not follow PAJSK. Rather, another system. Every activity that includes a whole matriculation college is automatically considered state level, and competitions between matriculation colleges are considered national level. And the marking scheme is so easy that if you lounge around, fool around, did not join any activities AT ALL, except for the compulsory ones, you would get a minimum of 9.5 marks in matriculation according to its marking scheme, so the average at matriks is already more than 9.5, and achieving 10 out of 10 in matriks isn't a difficult thing to do.

Meaning, you don't need to represent your own state to get 10 marks in matriks, you don't compete with the top students of other states, you just compete with students at another college or the same college. A 10 marks of koko in matriks is easily achievable via winning at 1st place in an internal competition in matriks.

This isn't the same case as STPM where you need to compete between the top students of another district or another state (i.e Pahang state baseball team vs Negeri Sembilan state baseball team). In matriks is just Kolej Matrikulasi Pahang vs Kolej Matrikulasi Negeri Sembilan, usually average students.

This inflates the merit marks of matriculation students. Whereas STPM students get left behind in terms of merit marks.

**How does this relate to Edward?**

Edward, even though he has gotten a CGPA of 4.0 like any other matrik students applying at UM, he actually have to go through a harder syllabus in STPM, a harder time of getting a 4.0.

He has gotten 9.9 marks in koko, meaning he likely represents Penang in some sport/competition and won some awards alongside with it against other state's representatives. So, his abilities are significantly higher than that of a normal student.

Unfortunately, due to the inflation of merit marks in Matriculation, he fails to compete with the merit 100 students from matriks. Even though on paper, he got bested by merit marks, but in reality, Edward would actually beat merit 100 students from matriks if they competed under the same conditions (same pre-university), it's just that how KPM evaluates both system differently causes those who do not have the same levek of competence (matriks students) to be able to compete with those who are actually competent. It's like putting someone who won a badminton competition against other schools in Temerloh is the same as someone who represents Sarawak to play badminton at SUKMA. That's the underlying issue here.

According to UM's requirements for accounting, Edward did pass all of it actually, otherwise he would've been filtered long ago at kemaskini, but he didn't. Meaning he passed all of the requirements

**Closing**

Although Edward, by merits are the same level than those who are "better than him on paper", he is still discriminated against due to him not being a matriks student, which leads to racial issues because matriks have a race quota.

However, there are a lot of other public universities with accounting programmes that Edward would've gotten into. It is indeed his fault he got USM Management since it was his choice, he should've chosen another uni like UUM Accounting Information Systems if he really wanted to study accounting. But I wouldn't blame him for incompetence, he is in fact very competent that just didn't got the same opportunity to compete on an equal footing.

And for the record, if anyone is asking about my credibility in comparing these systems, I am a non, graduated from matriks recently, who successfully got into UM Accounting recently via UPU. I know how matriks and STPM systems are because I've been through matriks, and my sister has been through STPM. I got a merit 100 as well, thanks to matriks system maxing my own CGPA and koko. And to be frank, if I were to pit against Edward in STPM, I wouldn't have stood a chance at all, which shows how big of the disadvantage STPM students are against matriks students.

Thanks for reading this long post.

You guys can read the source at The Rakyat Post and Malaysiakini. You guys can also read the Facebook Post here.

This morning I read a news about STPM top scorer with 99.90% merit failed to get his dream course which is Accounting at Universiti Malaya. This guy name Edward Wong Yi Xian failed to get any Accounting Programme from UM, UKM, USM, UPM, UTM and UUM. Instead he got his Fifth Choice which is SARJANA MUDA PENGURUSAN at USM. When I read the news title, I thought he doesnt get any offer all.

This kinda baffles me that this guy put that programme as his 5th choice in UPU and he is suprise he get that programme. If he actually dont want that programme, why the hell did he put it as his 5th Choice!? He also say he is applying to six university but he put Management which the programme he dont want as his 5th choice.

If you go look at UPUOnline e-Panduan and look at STPM Tahun Semasa (Sastera), there are 16 Accounting Course can choose from various university. Minus the UITM, UNIMAS and UMS (Since he is not Bumiputera and assuming he dont want to fly to Borneo) he still have like 13 course he can choose and put into UPU. He can also still pick UIAM and USIM even if he are not muslim since this two university still accept non muslim. UPU allow you to put 12 Choice and if he really want to pursue accounting, he should fill all 12 choice with Accounting programme. But for some unknown reason, he decided to put SARJANA MUDA PENGURUSAN at USM as his 5th choice and he is surprise that he get that programme.

In my opinion, it is not the system fault that UPU give him SARJANA MUDA PENGURUSAN at USM when he himself put it as his 5th choice. UPU is a system and the system doesnt really know what you actually want. What they know is the choice you put in UPU is the programme you willing to take. If you dont want that certain programme, dont put that certain programme into your UPU choice. The UPU will check your first choice and decide whether you get the programme. If not, UPU will proceed with your second choice and so on until your last choice. It just happen UPU reach his 5th choice and decide he is eligible for that programme and decided to give him that programme. From what I can see, this guy dont understand how UPU system works at all.

The issue here seems like he doesn't get into his dream university which is Universiti Malaya rather than his dream course. UM cant take every top scorer in this country. There are more than 100,000 people applying for UPU and there are a lot of people with 100% merit out there. USM itself is one of the top university in Malaysia and it is also hard to get in. I am very sure there are a lot of people who failed UPU out there willing to take that course and willing to traded his places.

I used to think couples who sit side by side are weird, like “don’t you want to see the person you’re talking to?” until I’m in a relationship. I feel it’s easier to talk especially in a large group of settings, feels closer too. I was never a cheesy type but I get a bit upset when we’re at the restaurant and there’s no tables to sit side by side. Or it’s just because our love language is physical touch? Would love to here your thoughts

Malam kite layan kucing ye

Can't check anything to confirm the leak as they're asking for $7 (USD) just to activate your account. And $2 for every individual's information. So can't confirm the severity of the data leak as I have no idea how much info they're holding inside.

I saw some comments on FB and Reddit that people tried their own IC, managed to do it for free (correct me if I'm wrong), but it's no longer the case now. Those who did claimed to see a lot of personal info there. Did the website start charging after it goes viral to milk the cow?

And most of all, how is this website even legal?

Selamat berjumpa dengan Nasi Mandi

That's not my point though. This is what makes me sad to read:

Farhan said limited facilities posed a challenge as the state’s only swimming pool is being upgraded. This had forced training to be held in lakes and rivers.

How la to be a developed country, state pun barely maju....

What do you guys do when you’re added to scam groups like this? I always send a meme or gif lol and then IMMEDIATELY i was removed 😂