KUALA LUMPUR: The Dual Language Programme in schools has been showing encouraging results.
This is as the number of students passing the Bahasa Melayu, English, Science and Mathematics subjects in the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia examination increasing every year.
Education Minister Fadhlina Sidek said, from 2021 to 2023, Bahasa Melayu recorded the highest percentage of passes.
"The achievements of (SPM) candidates under the DLP classes is excellent for Bahasa Melayu. In 2021, 97 per cent passes, increasing to 97.8 per cent the following year and 97.9 per cent in 2023.
"English also showed improvements, with a 96.8 pass percentage in 2021, and 97 per cent in 2022 and 2023," she said in a written reply in the Dewan Rakyat.
Fadhlina was responding to a query from Datuk Dr Ahmad Marzuk Shaary (PN-Pangkalan Chepa) who wanted to know how effective the DLP was and what action the ministry was taking following resistance to the programme being carried out in some schools.
She said for Science, there was a 91.6 per cent pass rate in 2021 and this increased to 92.8 the following year, though there was a slight dip to 92.3 per cent in 2023.
For Mathematics, while there was a slight drop in pass percentage from 91.4 in 2021 to 90.5 in 2022, last year's results showed a jump to 92.3, which was even more than two years before.
Fadhlina said her ministry was constantly taking proactive steps to solve any possible problems that may surface in carrying out the DLP.