Png (right) with some SMK Batu Lintang straight-A achievers.
Vision-impaired Muhammad Jeffrey and teacher Stephanie with his result slip.
Brenda and her proud parents Mariana and Ganeng are overjoyed.
Lim and his mom are happy with his results.
KUCHING: SMK Batu Lintang has 38 straight-A achievers from a total of 277 students sitting for the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) 2014 examination.
Senior academic assistant Png Hellon said there were 43 of them in 2013.
The pass rate this time was 86.25 per cent.
“Overall, the school scored a 3.85 Grade Point Average (GPA) including Special Education students,” she told reporters when met at the school yesterday.
Vision-impaired Muhammad Jeffrey Bujang Man from SMK Batu Lintang’s Special Education Integrated Programme was happy with satisfactory results in the SPM examination, though failing in Mathematics.
“I am happy knowing that I’ve work hard for the examination,” the boy from Sepauh said.
Jeffrey, who has resided in the school’s hostel since primary school, plans to continue with Form 6 as it provides a shorter route to a diploma compared to pre-university.
The programme’s Form 4 coordinating teacher Stephanie Claire said it was extremely difficult for vision-impaired students to study maths.
“It is hard for them to understand diagrams in particular as the specific Braille code used is different from the literary Braille code,” she explained.
Stephanie revealed that only seven vision-impaired students sat for the SPM this year, three of them being totally blind.
“Franklin Fanso Bitis attained the best result with 1A-, 2B+, 2B, 2C+, 1C and 1E,” she said, adding that Franklin was at the State Education Department to receive the certificate.
Meanwhile, 9A scorer Brenda Kucha Ganeng was thankful to God and her family for her excellent SPM results.
“I worked hard for it and I am happy,” said Brenda who was accompanied by her parents to receive her certificate.
Her father Ganeng Kucha, an aircraft engineer with Malaysia Airlines, and mother Mariana Orchard, a homemaker, could not hide their pride in their youngest daughter’s accomplishment.
Ganeng took leave from work to witness this proud moment yesterday.
Brenda has not decided which university to enrol for.
Her ambition is to become a paediatrician.
“I will complete my diploma in music (piano) and vocal teaching first,” she said.
Lim Fang Wei who was accompanied by his mother Wong Leh Hee, 47, shared the joy of his accomplishment.
His mother said they never forced him to study but let him manage his own time.
“He scored straight-As in the PMR examination. We never had to worry about him,” Wong said.
His strategy for academic excellence was to study hard together with good time management.
Lim wants to become an aeronautical engineer.