Form 6 Registration 2010
May 6, 2010
Now that you have made your berry berry big decision of studying in Form 6, you ought to be eager to start your time as a Lower 6 STPM students in your respective schools. However, this raises many questions. Even simple questions as “what to bring” becomes a headache to you. Don’t worry, BerryBerryEasy is here to guide you on what to do (minimum) to register yourself on registration day. For those who have not received your offer letter, do check with your friends to see if they have gotten it. Make sure you are not left out due to postal errors or other issues. Also, some schools require you to print it online. So do check online too and print the offer letter if possible.
STPM Form 6 (Lower 6) Registration Guide for Year 2010
Typical questions asked (FAQs):
- What to bring for the registration?
- Do I need to pay on the spot?
- Is orientation very important to attend?
The following mini guide will be useful to answer all questions.
1) What to bring for the registration?
- Offer letter for Form 6 (Surat tawaran)
- Identity card (Kad pengenalan)
- Some money for registration and other fees (dependent on school)
- Some money to buy your respective school’s stationery (some schools make this mandatory)
- SPM results slip (Slip keputusan SPM)
2) Do I need to pay on the spot?
- It depends on your respective school. Typically they will not stop you from registering even if you do not bring the money to pay on the spot. But it is a good practice to bring some money along to pay the fees if required. We won’t be writing out how much to bring because the required amount won’t be the same for each schools once you factor in miscellaneous fees.
3) Is orientation very important to attend?
- Yes, do not skip your orientation session. It should fall on 10-14th May 2010 for most schools. So make sure you attend them because:
- You can get to know your future classmates before school session starts.
- You’ll know your way around the school as some schools can be really huge.
- You can also check out the school’s facilities.
- In short, do attend your orientation session.
- For Upper 6 students reading this, please remember that ragging of new lower 6 students is outlawed. Do not ‘bully’ your juniors as this could get you into trouble. So be a nice senior and help your juniors to fit in. A little kindness will go a long way.
If you have any other questions, do drop them as comments. We’ll try to answer and update this registration guide. Do drop by Berry Berry Easy frequently too for notes and tips for STPM.
This is also Berry Berry Easy’s 100th post!!! A big milestone for us. 
Pros and Cons of Studying STPM
December 12, 2009
What should I do after SPM? Should I study STPM? – These are the few frequent questions which we get from students be it from face-to-face talk or via e-mails.
Pro and Cons of taking STPM
Most Young Berries would think whether to take STPM or not. This is one of the major decision that most young berries need to make after the SPM examination. This is a berry berry tough decision.
First of all, young berries must know how the STPM system works. STPM is currently an exam-based system, where students can only score through studying hard. STPM grade are one of the toughest examination with berry berry wide syllabus (for example, Biology and Chemistry STPM have 25 chapters and 35 chapters respectively !!!). This means that on average until you take your STPM examinations, your Chemistry teacher needs to complete a chapter! Besides the student, the teacher also needs to be berry berry tough person! Also, if you do badly you might not even enter a public university.The two main reasons for most Young Berries who studied STPM are:
- not able to afford private schooling
- and/or have faith in the local education system.
In year 2011 (tentatively), the Malaysian government will implement a new system of “modular system” which is much easier. Young Berries will then need to complete projects (subject-based) and attend colloquiums. But the con is these projects require young berries to spend most their time on research and preparation, which it may or may not justify the knowledge gained. These projects may be tiring and leaving young berries no time to revise.
Present day (2010) Pros and Cons of Studying STPM
| Pros of Taking STPM | Cons of Taking STPM |
| In-depth learning. | Wide syllabus. |
| 15 experiments/projects need to do for each science subject. | Time consuming. |
| Widely recognise (accepted by NUS and NTU, Singapore) | Tough examination. |
| Save money | Spend most of the time on revision. |
Berry Berry Easy would also like to invite all readers who have had experience studying STPM to share your thoughts on this matter. We will include your comments/ideas in the post. For SPM-leavers who are still undecided, you may also discuss this issue with us (dropping comments will be sufficient).
