PUTRAJAYA: The Education Ministry has made preparations including for the possibility of certain schools being flooded in order to ensure students sitting for the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) examination are not affected.
Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin chairing the special meeting on flood preparations in Putrajaya.
Deputy Prime Minister and Education Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said the schools in areas or states usually hit by floods had been identified for the relocation of the examination candidates if these schools were inundated.
"We hope this (flooding at certain schools does not happen, but if it does like in previous years, we are prepared for it.
"The relocation of candidates will be determined by the school principals concerned," he said here today after looking at 164 students of Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Putrajaya Precinct 14(1) sitting for their English I paper for the
SPM examination which began yesterday.
Also present were Education director-general Datuk Abdul Ghafar Mahmud and school principal Juriah Bahali.
A total of 468,808 candidates are sitting for the SPM at 3,533 examination centres nationwide until Dec 14.
Muhyiddin said so far, the examination had been going on smoothly and hoped the students would do well.
"We hope that they be calm and concentrate on the subjects they are taking. We also hope the results will be better for this year," he added.
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