SPM 2008 Result Out on the 12th of March 2008!

The 2007/2008 Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) result will be announced on the 12th of March 2008.
Students can collect their result slips from schools starting at 10.00am.

There are 439,255 candidates sitting for the SPM at 3,913 exam stations nationwide last year.

Among those, 386,265 or 87.9% are students from the schools supported by the Ministry of Education while 14,672 or 3.4% are students from schools supported by state governments and other bodies.

Besides that, 10,687 (2.4%) are students from private schools while 27, 631 or 6.3% are private candidates.

UPDATE: SPM 2009 is released on the 12th of March as well. What a coincidence? I guess my prediction is quite true. ;)

Barisan Rakyat Poster

Barisan Rakyat (The People's Front - 民阵) is made up of various political parties from Penisula Malaysia as well as Sabah and Sarawak. These political parties includes Democratic Action Party (DAP - 民主行动党)，Parti KeADILan Rakyat (PKR - 人民公正党), Parti Islam Se-malaysia (PAS - 回教党), etc etc.

Here is the poster of the Barisan Rakyat, which is competing against the ruling Barisan National (National Front - 国阵) party.

UPDATE: Barisan Rakyat has been officially renamed as Pakatan Rakyat (The People's Alliance- 民联).

Pakatan Rakyat is headed by Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim and under him there are three party president, who are Datin Seri Wan Azizah from Parti KeADILan Rakyat (PKR - 人民公正党), Lim Kit Siang from Democratic Action Party (DAP - 民主行动党) and Dato' Seri Hadi Awang from Parti Islam Se-malaysia (PAS - 回教党). 

Pakatan Rakyat also controls five (5) states in Malaysia and a Federal Territory. They are:-

• Kedah
• Kelantan
• Kuala Lumpur
• Penang
• Perak
• Selangor
• Sarawak (soon)