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SEKOLAH MENENGAH JENIS KEBANGSAAN

JIT SIN
(SKK)

ADDITIONAL MATHEMATICS PROJECT

NAME : TAN CHAI XIAN

CLASS : 5S3
TEACHERS NAME : MR. KHAW KIM SENG
ANGKA GILIRAN : PM015A073
NO. KAD PENGENALAN : 991126075412
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Contents
No.

Title

Page number

Acknowledgment

Introduction

Aim

Objective

PART 1

5,6,7,8

PART 2

8,9,10

PART 3

10,11

PART 4

11,12,13

Further Exploration

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10

Reflection

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Acknowledgment
First and foremost, I would like to thank my Additional Mathematics
teacher, Mr. Khaw Kim Seng as he gives me important guidance and

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commitment during this project work. He has been a very

supportive fi gure throughout the whole project.
I also would like to give thanks to all my friends for helping me and always
supporting me to help complete this project work. They have
done a great job at surveying the results and sharing information with
other people including me. Without them this project would never
have had its conclusion.
For their strong support, I would like to express my gratitude to
my beloved parents. Also for supplying the equipments such as the
computer to complete this project. They have always been by my
side and i hope they will still be there in the future.
Last but not least, i would also like to thank all the students for helping
me collect the much needed data and statistics for this.
Not forgetting too all the other people who were involved directly
or indirectly towards making this project a reality.
I thank you all.

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Introduction
Assessment is an important component in the learning process and promotes learning by
motivating student to improve their performance and academic achievement. Through
assessment, a teacher is able to know the performance of students in the tests and could
compare the performance of the students in different tests. Knowing the performance of the

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students and the level of difficulty of the tests can help a teacher to plan its teaching strategy
to improve the students performance. The level of difficulty of the tests can also be adjusted
according to the ability of the students. The mean marks and the standard deviation are
usually used to show the performance of the students and level of difficulty of the test.
Besides,composite index can also be used to show the students performance and the level of
difficulty of the test.

Aim
The aim of this project is to apply the concept of statistics in knowing the students
performance in a test and the difficulty level of the tests.

Objectives
1. Calculate the mean and standard deviation of the marks of the students.
2. Calculate the composite index of the marks.
3. Use the mean mark,standard deviation and composite index to compare the students
performance and the difficulty level of different tests.

PART 1
I have collected the marks of a English in the 2015 Mid Year and Final Year
examination for 50 students in our school, SMJK JIT SIN. I collected them
to obtain information of students achievement and level of difficulty of a
certain subject in two different test.
The table below shows the results obtained :

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No.

Name

Mid Year Result

Final Year Result

of English

of English

Lim Xin Yun

83

76

Tai Zi Yun

83

77

Lim Hui Yee, Junnie

75

70

Lim Pei Yee

76

68

Hoong Yeng Xing

78

71

Tan Su Zhi

79

65

Brian Ethan Tan Yan Guan

63

58

Yong Jinn Ern

66

60

Beh Jie Tai

60

52

10

Teoh Jing Yi

60

55

11

Lee Yee Shian

77

80

12

Goh Shu Ming

78

83

13

Lee Liau Yen

71

67

14

Lim Sze Ying

73

65

15

Lee Cyn

76

63

16

Chng Ee Jia

79

67

17

Eugene Ong Way Han

83

90

18

Chan Wei Hang

89

92

19

Toh Sin Jie

90

91

20

Tan Khai Wen

86

88

21

Ng Wen Shien

87

67

22

Ong Yu Qi

86

70

23

Tan Yong Keat

88

89

24

Goh Ying Ying

70

65

25

Sim Rou

67

61

26

Ooi En Qi

68

54

27

Tan Jia Yan

66

58

28

Ooi Weng Hong

65

59

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Soo Jun Yao

63

49

30

Ng Pei Cing

90

93

31

Cheah Pin Jun

87

85

32

Lai Shu Xian

88

91

33

Yew Bi Sheng

83

83

34

Ooi Wan Sze

64

61

35

Voon Shin

65

67

36

Ng Yong Kang

74

62

37

Ang Zhang Kai

86

87

38

Ng Fei Qian

79

69

39

Tay Ming Xin

93

90

40

Tham Zheng Lin

58

42

41

Tan Shuen Her

54

40

42

Heng Yiik Shen

55

42

43

Sarah San Yie Ying

78

74

44

Heng Yong Wei

87

90

45

Tan Li Huey

66

67

46

Tai Zheng Wei

53

43

47

Ang Pei Wei

69

65

48

Su Rui Qi

91

89

49

Kim Wan Xin

65

56

50

Khoo Tian An

92

87

Total

3762

3493

PART 2
Mid Year Examination
Total Students : 50

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Formula of Mean :

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fx
f

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Calculation of mean of Mid Year Examination Result :

Mean

3762
50
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=
=75.24
Formula of Standard Deviation :

Calculation of standard deviation of Mid Year Examination Result :

Standard Deviation

289
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=
= 75.636

Final Year Examination

Total Students : 50
Calculation of mean of Final Year Examination Result :
Mean

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3493
50
=

=69.86

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Calculation of standard deviation of Final Year Examination Result :

Standard Deviation

=
= 70.93

PART 3

255
503
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Based on the Mid Year Examination and the Final Year Examination marks of the 50 students
respectively, I have grouped the marks according to the grade.
Mid Year Examination :
Grade

Marks

Frequency

80-100

18

70-79

14

60-69

14

45-59

30-44

15-29

0-14

Grade

Marks

Frequency

80-100

16

70-79

60-69

16

45-59

30-44

15-29

0-14

Final Year Examination :

PART 4

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The following table shows the students grad which is equivalent with the index number. The
frequency of grades that is grouped at the page 12 is considered as the weightage at the
following table.
Mid Year Examination
Grade

Weightage

18

14

14

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Final Year Examination

Grade

Weightage

16

16

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Formula of Composite index

IW
W
=

Composite Index for Mid Year Examination

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52
25

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=
= 2.08
Composite Index of Final Year Examination =

1(16)
Mid Year Examination

Final Year Examination

Mean

75.24

69.89

Standard Deviation

75.636

70.93

Composite Index

2.08

2.56

Range

93-53=40

93-46=47

Comparison Table Between The Mid Year Examination And Final Year Examination for the
mean, standard deviation and the composite index.

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Conclusion
Mean of Mid Year Examination is higher than Final Year Examination.
Standard Deviation of Final Year Examination is lower than Mid Year Examination.
Composite Index of Final Year Examination is lower than Mid Year Examination.

FURTHER EXPLORATION
Mid year examination shows a better achievement of the students.
i.

Final year examination shows the questions are more difficult.

ii.

Final year examination shows a bigger range marks of the students.

REFLECTION
By doing the project,I found out that statistics can be used to show students performance in
any subjects.As a students ,I will know if my fellow friends are as good as me in English.
However,I shouldnt feel proud of myself as there are other subjects that I need to
concentrate and put more effort in it.

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