page_title: Sijil Tinggi Persekolahan Malaysia
section_title: Form Six
hierarchical_section_title: Sijil Tinggi Persekolahan Malaysia / Form Six
caption_attribution_description: English: Education in Malaysia: Grade certificate of Sijil Tinggi Persekolahan Malaysia (STPM) or (engl.) Malaysian Higher School Certificate)
context_page_description: The Sijil Tinggi Persekolahan Malaysia is a pre-university examination taken by students in Malaysia. It was formerly known as the Higher School Certificate. The HSC was the precursor to the GCE A Level in the UK, and is still the name of the pre-university examination in some states in Australia.
  Since 1982, the STPM has been administered by the Malaysian Examinations Council, which, since 1999, has also run the Malaysian University English Test. However, national exams such as the Ujian Penilaian Sekolah Rendah and the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia are all set and examined by the Malaysian Examinations Syndicate. Both the MEC and MES, however, are under the Ministry of Education.
  STPM is one of the two major pre-university systems for admission to Malaysian public universities. The other is a one-year matriculation programme conducted by the Ministry of Education. STPM is not the only qualification accepted besides the matriculation programme and Malaysian Higher Islamic Religious Certificate. Candidates technically may apply for admission to degree-level courses with a variety of pre-university examinations considered equivalent with STPM, including A-Level.
context_section_description: As the national education in Malaysia is modelled after the educational system in England, the STPM pre-university programme is the sixth form of secondary education, referred to as "Form 6". The Ministry of Education selects secondary schools it considers capable of providing Form 6 classes.
  Students in Form Six are called sixth formers. Sixth formers in national secondary schools are usually distinct from other students in the lower forms such as wearing different school uniforms, usually given higher posts within the school's societies, often with lax enforcement of certain school rules and regulations and sometimes even holding a separate morning assembly and recess for sixth formers and also a separate co-curriculum activities in terms of uniformed unit, and sports.
  Sixth formers in most schools generally form their own association, officially called the Pre-University Student Representatives Council (formerly known as Form Six Association or the Form Six Society). These councils' main annual activity is the initiation of new Lower Sixth students during orientation.
caption: Examination performance letter of the STPM examination
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