PETALING JAYA: A diagnostic test to determine if a five-year-old child is ready to start primary school is not the problem. “Even if you remove this diagnostic test, the problem remains that not all six-year-olds will be ready to enter Year One next year. She also wanted to know how schools would cope with two different age groups, with two different development milestones, in the same classroom. Financial advisor Siti Afiqah Mansor, 31, said that without this diagnostic test, parents would not know if a child was really ready. National Teachers Service Union of Malaysia (NUTP) secretary-general Fouzi Singon, meanwhile, said it was a good decision to scrap the diagnostic test.

Source: The Star January 27, 2026 22:39 UTC