Students transition to a common curriculum in Bahasa Malaysia.

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The traditional system heavily favored memorization for high-stakes standardized exams. The Ministry of Education has been actively phasing out certain centralized primary and lower-secondary exams in favor of School-Based Assessments (PBD) and Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) questions to encourage critical thinking.