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New BK Study Guides

The Malayan Christian Schools’ Council last December launched two new SPM Bible Knowledge (BK) Study Guides with the hope that they will attract more students to take the BK paper in the SPM exam.

The guides, authored by Goh Kim Guat, were launched at a meeting graced by Elena Cooke, the doyenne of BK teaching for the last 50 years. The former principal of Bukit Bintang Girls’ School is still teaching the subject from her home. The new guides are the fruition of many years of laborious work. Over the last few years, the council, together with the Teachers’ Christian Fellowship, has been heavily promoting BK as an SPM subject out of a concern over the declining number of SPM students sitting for the paper.

Their efforts have visibly paid off as the number of candidates taking BK has increased from an alarming 20 in 1995 to 600 in last year’s exam. The new guides will provide the impetus for the revival of BK, a popular subject in the 1960s where thousands – Christians and non-Christians alike – sat for the paper then.

The council is aiming to get 1,000 candidates to sit for the paper in this year’s SPM exam. In preparing the guides on Luke and Acts, the council made a radical move to change the study text from the Revised Standard Version to the modern, student-friendly Good News version. The new guides are interestingly and innovatively written and laid out in a readable style. In fact, they contain such a wealth of knowledge that they can be used as Bible commentaries, and so well-written that any student with commitment could take the subject by just going through the notes and exercises contained within.

The guides are available at most Christian bookshops. For more information, call the council at 03-7956 5310.

 



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