Kuala Lampur, March 7 -- It perplexes. Every year the overall results of our secondary school leaving examination, SPM, only powers on even stronger. Come what may, pandemics be damned!

Yet, them passers find life hard to pass as they struggle for good and promising jobs

Repeat to reinforce. The kids are on paper smarter by the year, seemingly heading to the stratosphere of achievement! But the job market kids with them indefinitely. Horrors!

Exclamation marks abuse aside, the situation is dire.

If before it was easier to hit a datuk if you toss a rock randomly at a random crowd, now the probability is much higher to hit an ex-student with 8As.

But don't ask the random Malaysian high school graduate to calculate the differential betw...