UPU Tracker System

As student, competition to get placement in higher education is one of the important problems for them. Many efforts were taken by peoples to identify this problem among students in Malaysia. The purpose of this project is to develop webpage system for students who are interested to pursue their studies in higher education institute. It is important for students to have a decision supports tools in assisting them to make the right choice after finishing secondary school. Many methods already were used to capture the feedback from students regarding the feasibility of this project. These feedback captured were gathered and analysed accordingly. The results were positive. Students need assistance in deciding the right programme and university to further their studies. To ensure they choose the correct path to further their studies, it is important for students to have proper guidance. The system purpose can help students to make the wise choices which will reduce many problem faces by student and the university. Result we obtain from students and the university, its show the problem normally occurs when students make wrong choices when applying for the universities. Students do not know their strength and ability in learning because they do not have a proper system to measure their ability. Developing this system will minimize the problem that can because of the wrong choices in selecting the right programme and university. Before deciding to proceed with the project development to determine the purpose system whether it can give the benefit to the students and also university, the feasibility studies were conducted. The writing and development of this project is divided into two stages. In the first stage, data collection from the respondent was crucial to determine the usefulness of the project development to the students. The students at a secondary school were interviewed and given questionnaire to obtain their feedback and later analysed. The feedback received from students can be used to determine other factors that could affect the decision making process in choosing the right programme and university for them. Feedback from student had shown a good reason to proceed with the project development. From the questionnaire did indicate the numbers of students who do not have proper assistance or guidelines in making the right decision in choosing the programme and universities after finishing SPM examination. Interview also indicates students are lacking information regarding the programme that available in particular university. Majority of students choose the university and
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programme based on popularity and reputation. Students do not ever consider the availability of programme in that particular university. Students make decision without thinking the availability of the programme in the universities. From the project there are many significant obtains during the research process that involved students and universities. For students, the studies conducted provide them proper assistances and guidelines in the decision making process. Wise decision making process will give positive impact to students career path later. On the other hand, for universities the studies will help higher education institutions in by Malaysia reducing the number of academic problem student’s face. Results obtained from the survey indicated that wrong choices made by students when applying for programmes in university lead to low academic performance among them in Malaysia.