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assalamualaikum...peace to all...

couple of days ago, a friend of mine asked me a question:

"what are the differences between malaysia's education system and aussie's?"

and by that question he meant at school level.so this post is intended to answer his question.

well, from what i know, both system are indeed quite different.One of the significant differences is that here they pay great attention to assignments and course works too apart from exams and tests.and from what i have been gone through, the Australian Year 12, the assessment was made up as 50-50.that is 50% are from exams mark and another 50% from assignmnts.

the assignments include extended essays, issue analysis and presentations.not sure whether this system of theirs is better from ours.but from my opinion, it is quite good.it helps students to obtained skills other than memorizing notes.information searching skill, presentation skill and critical thinking are some examples of them.also, we get to be quite independent in our learning.as in to complete all those assignments.so this kinda prepare us for university environment.

also, each state in australia have their own education assessment board.meaning their education system too are quite different for different state.for instance, in south australia, the secondary school certificate is called SACE.whilst for western australia it is called WACE.this is quite intriguing for me though.but perhaps it is due to the size of australia itself and the size of each states.they are just huge.




hm.i guess thats all that i know.
cheers.