Fun Facts

• The longest word in the English Language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis and it is an artificial long word said to mean a lung disease caused by inhaling very fine ash and sand dust.

• If you put headphones into your nostrils and open your mouth, it forms instant speakers

• To play “Happy Birthday” on your phone dial 112163 112196 11#9632 969363

• The University of Victoria offers a course in “The Science of Batman”

• It is impossible to say “Good Eye Might” without sounding Australian

• 7% of all Facebook accounts belong to dogs and 4% of all accounts belong to cats

• Shark foetuses fight and eat each other while still in the womb. The one that is left alive is the only one that is born.

• Frozen lobsters sometimes come back to life when thawed.

• The continents can be rearranged to form a chicken.

• After an hour of swimming in the pool, you would have ingested 1/12 of a litre of urine.

• Annually, you swallow 12 pubic hairs from fast food.

• Annually, you swallow 5 insects while sleeping.

Prepping for the One Year War

How does one prepare for the horror that is Form 5?

Things you'll need:

• Past year questions books
  -Topical or full length paper is up to your own preference
• A lot of good pens
• 2 mechanical pencils
  -Cause ain't nobody got time to sharpen pencils!
• A truckload of correction tape

The Basics

Malaysians can skip this part and go to Part 2: Prepping for the One Year War

What is SPM?

The Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM), or the Malaysian Certificate of Education, is a national examination taken by all fifth-year secondary school students in Malaysia.

Equivalents:
O-Level
General Certificate of Secondary Education(GCSE)
11th grade in American's K–12 (education)

What is a compulsory pass subject?

It refers to subjects which all SPM candidates have to pass. If a student fails a compulsory pass subject, he/she is considered to have failed SPM. Students can choose to retake these subjects during the SPM Ulangan if they failed it.

Compulsory pass subjects

Bahasa Melayu(BM)

Sejarah(SJ)

What is a core/compulsory subject?

It refers a subject that must be taken by all SPM candidates. The only exceptions are Pendidikan Moral & Pendidikan Islam which depends on the students' religion and Science which is only compulsory for students in the Commerce, and Literature and Arts streams.

Core/compulsory subjects

Code	Subject (Official name)	Subject (English name)	Examination language
1103	Bahasa Melayu	Malay language	Malay
1119	Bahasa Inggeris	English language	English
1223	Pendidikan Islam (For all Muslim students)	Islamic Studies	Malay
1225	Pendidikan Moral (For all Non-Muslim students)	Moral Studies (also Moral Education)	Malay
1249	Sejarah	History	Malay
1449	Mathematics	Mathematics	English and Malay
1511	Science (For students in the Commerce, and Literature and Arts streams only)	Science	English and Malay

More detailed explanation- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sijil_Pelajaran_Malaysia

The Complete Guide to SPM

The Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia(SPM) has come and gone once again.

Now it's this year's candidates turn to start their journey to the end of secondary school.  

The candidates for this year's SPM probably have many questions for their seniors but may not have the chance to do so or may be too intimidated to ask.  So, I've decided to do a series documenting my SPM 2015 experience, my tips for acing it and some post-SPM advice too.  Hopefully it'll be if use to all you current Form 4 or Form 5 juniors out there who are scouring the net for SPM tips.

I'll link to all the post in the series here when I'm done. 

General

The Basics (Malaysians can skip this)

Prepping For The One Year War

Deciding Your Stream

SPM Rechecks

Subject-by-subject

The part 1 for all the subjects are basically a summary of the format and the structure of the paper while the part 2 is the actual tips.

• Bahasa Melayu (BM)
  - Tatabahasa Ringkas
  - Format untuk Rumusan & Karangan
  - SPM Bahasa Melayu: Part 1
  - SPM Bahasa Melayu: Part 2
  
  
• English / Bahasa Inggeris (BI)
  - SPM English: Part 1
  - SPM English: Part 2

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You can read about how I did in #spm2015 here.

My SPM 2015 Results

LONG TIME NO SEE!

My apologies for taking so long to update.  I've been busy with college applications and other post SPM shtuff. I still have a lot of unfinished business but I just really really wanted to tell you guys the great news.

I GOT 8A 1B!

An actual picture of me after I got my results

It isn't really an amazing result but I'm satisfied with it. 

but...

I'm just really a little unsatisfied with that one B+ cause it's like 

WTF MAN IT'S ONLY 5 MARKS MORE JUST GIVE ME AN A! 

I contemplated getting a recheck for the paper(Physics) but the office clerk advised me against it. He said that usually B+ rarely ever becomes an A. He said you should only do it if: