PETALING JAYA: The Education Ministry has confirmed that there was no leak in a Bahasa Malaysia test paper in the UPSR examination on Tuesday.
Education director-general Tan Sri Alimuddin Mohd Dom said the Malaysian Examinations Syndicate investigated the complaint from a parent that the questions in the paper were similar to what had been given by the pupils’ teacher just before the start of the examination.
“It is a coincidence that the questions were similar to the workbook which the teacher had used,” he told The Star.
Alimuddin said the teacher had been drilling the pupils on how they should answer the questions by giving them various sample questions to practise on.
“It is a coincidence that the topics the teacher had chosen were similar to what was in the actual exam. There has been no leak,” he said.
He was responding to a report published in a vernacular daily alleging that some teachers at a school had allegedly given out a sample essay just minutes before the exam started.
The UPSR started on Tuesday and ended yesterday.
The school where the incident was alleged to have happened has also brushed off the claim.
Its spokesperson said such incident could not have happened at the school as all the teachers were aware that it was an offence.
The parent who lodged a complaint with the Malaysian Examinations Syndicate said he hoped the matter would be investigated thoroughly.
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