{"id":28043,"date":"2014-09-24T08:14:09","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T00:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=28043"},"modified":"2014-09-24T08:14:09","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T00:14:09","slug":"give-all-upsr-pupils-a-pass-for-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=28043","title":{"rendered":"Give all UPSR pupils a pass for English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I REFER to your headline \u0153Despair for 473,000\u009d (NST, Sept 12), and suggest that, since re-sitting the UPSR English Exam Paper will not contribute to improving the standard of English in pupils, the authorities should give everybody a minimum pass grade, and avoid putting the pupils through the aggravation and expenditure of having to sit for the exam again.<\/p>\n<p>To continue reading the rest of the article, click <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1mN7wx1\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I REFER to your headline \u0153Despair for 473,000\u009d (NST, Sept 12), and suggest that, since re-sitting the UPSR English Exam Paper will not contribute to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[79],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28043"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28044,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28043\/revisions\/28044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}