<div dir="ltr"><h1 class="" id="page-title" style="border:0px;font-size:2.5em;margin:5px 0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:36px;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">New format for English paper in UPSR</h1><div id="content-content" style="border:0px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><div id="node-330834" class="" style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 20px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;clear:both;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;background-repeat:initial"><div class="" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14.004px;line-height:1.5;border:0px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;background-repeat:initial"><div class="" style="border:0px;font-size:0.917em;margin:5px 0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(153,153,153);float:left;width:350px;background:transparent">Posted on 28 September 2015 - 04:59pm<br><em style="border:0px;font-size:12.8417px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Last updated on 28 September 2015 - 06:08pm</em><div class="" style="border:0px;font-size:12.8417px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><strong style="border:0px;font-size:12.8417px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><p style="border:0px;font-size:12.8417px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Elly Fazaniza<br><a href="mailto:newsdesk@thesundaily.com" style="border:0px;font-size:12.8417px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(214,25,32);text-decoration:none;background:transparent">newsdesk@thesundaily.com</a></p></strong></div></div><div class="" style="border:0px;font-size:14.004px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;float:right;width:250px;background:transparent"><div class="" style="border:0px;font-size:0.857em;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px 20px 0px 0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><span class="" style="border:0px;font-size:12.0014px;margin:0px 8px 0px 0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;display:block;float:right;height:16px;width:16px;background:url(http://www.thesundaily.my/sites/all/themes/sun/images/icons/email.png) no-repeat"></span><span class="" style="border:0px;font-size:12.0014px;margin:0px 8px 0px 0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;display:block;float:right;height:16px;width:24px;background:url(http://www.thesundaily.my/sites/all/themes/sun/images/icons/googleplus.png) no-repeat"></span><span class="" style="border:0px;font-size:12.0014px;margin:0px 8px 0px 0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;display:block;float:right;height:16px;width:16px;background:url(http://www.thesundaily.my/sites/all/themes/sun/images/icons/twitter.png) no-repeat"></span><span class="" style="border:0px;font-size:12.0014px;margin:0px 8px 0px 0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;display:block;float:right;height:16px;width:16px;background:url(http://www.thesundaily.my/sites/all/themes/sun/images/icons/facebook.png) no-repeat"></span><span class="" style="border:0px;font-size:12.0014px;margin:0px 8px 0px 0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;display:block;float:right;height:16px;width:51px;background:url(http://www.thesundaily.my/sites/all/themes/sun/images/icons/sharethis.png) no-repeat"></span><div class="" style="border:0px;font-size:12.0014px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;clear:both;overflow:hidden;width:0px;height:0px;background:transparent"></div></div><div class="" style="border:0px;font-size:14.004px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><a href="http://www.thesundaily.my/print/330834" target="_blank" alt="Print this article" title="Print this article" style="border:0px;font-size:14.004px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(214,25,32);text-decoration:none;display:block;height:16px;width:16px;background:url(http://www.thesundaily.my/sites/all/themes/sun/images/icons/print.png) no-repeat transparent">Print</a></div></div><div class="" style="border:0px;font-size:14.004px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;clear:both;overflow:hidden;width:0px;height:0px;background:transparent"></div></div><div class="" style="border:0px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;background-repeat:initial"><p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14.004px;line-height:1.5;border:0px;margin:10px 0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:base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-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14.004px;line-height:1.5;border:0px;margin:10px 0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;background-repeat:initial">"It is too short for both students and teachers to adjust to the new system," he said.</p><p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14.004px;line-height:1.5;border:0px;margin:10px 0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;background-repeat:initial">He added that for the current Year 5 students and teachers, they will have less than one year to adjust to the new system.</p><p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14.004px;line-height:1.5;border:0px;margin:10px 0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;background-repeat:initial">Additionally, it will be a burden for parents too.</p><p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14.004px;line-height:1.5;border:0px;margin:10px 0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;background-repeat:initial">“Let the parents’ voice their opinions too, not spring this announcement on them," he said.</p><p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14.004px;line-height:1.5;border:0px;margin:10px 0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;background-repeat:initial">He added a suitable time frame of two years would be more favourable to implement the new format.</p><p style="border:0px;margin:10px 0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;background-repeat:initial"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.004px;line-height:21.006px"><a href="http://www.thesundaily.my/news/1565647">http://www.thesundaily.my/news/1565647</a></span></font><br></p></div></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">**************************************<br>N.b.: Listing on the lgpolicy-list is merely intended as a service to its members<br>and implies neither approval, confirmation nor agreement by the owner or sponsor of the list as to the veracity of a message's contents. Members who disagree with a message are encouraged to post a rebuttal, and to write directly to the original sender of any offensive message.  A copy of this may be forwarded to this list as well.  (H. Schiffman, Moderator)<br><br>For more information about the lgpolicy-list, go to <a href="https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/" target="_blank">https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/</a><br>listinfo/lgpolicy-list<br>*******************************************</div>
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