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The 20 per cent factor
From: New Straits Times
Date: 20010222
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New Straits Times
02-22-2001
The 20 per cent factor
Edition: The City Advertiser; 2*
Section: Education
DO you know that SPM English will for the first time consist of a literature component?
Do you know that the literature component is expected to make up 20 per cent of the marks?
Do you know that SPM candidates are supposed to have read a novel by either Keris Mas, or K.S. Maniam or John Steinbeck, short stories by Somerset Maugham, Guy de Maupassant, Henry Lawson, Roald Dahl and Bessie Head, and poems by Rudyard Kipling, William Shakespeare, Muhammad Haji Salleh, Shirley Lim, Robert Frost ...
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