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                                                                                             Before     starting,     always  be  grateful     responded     with,
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        TC hin e s e             national     pride      enable     students                 rules: contestants              “Be               because it is part of
        school      system       worthy of praise.       and teachers to                     have     to   finish                              our roots.”

        in Malaysia has          Hence, on the 12th      ac k n o w le d g e                 answering within            grateful
        come about only          of June 2021 from       the    contribution                 45 minutes via            for having              In         another
        through     blood,       1pm to 2pm, in          by the Chinese                      Testportal; anyone                                interview,      Lai
        sweat,  tears,  and      conjunction with        community        to                 who exceeds the             Chinese               Choo Rey from
        the sheer political      the Online Co-          in d ep en d ent                    time limit will be        education               JR1Z1        stated
        will of the Chinese      Curricular Carnival,    Chinese     schools                 disqualified.  With                               that he found the

        community in this        the Kuen Cheng          since          their                that,    the   quiz       because it              questions    tough
        country to defend        Chinese    Society      inception in the                    contest  started  off      is part of             as they were very
        their      mother        held a quiz on          19th century.                       smoothly.                                         co mpli c at e d .
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        This  achievement        in  Malaysia.  The      Participants were                   Participants strove      In an interview, one     also said that he

        by         Chinese       objective  of  this     given an 83-page                    as hard as possible      of the participants,     wanted to join
                                                                                             to complete the          Huang Jing Kang          this   competition
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                                                                                             45  minutes.  Soon       that his experience      wanted to increase
                                                                                             after,  the  Chinese     in the competition       his knowledge on

                                                                                             Society members          was eye-opening,         the subject. In his
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                                                                                             winners would be         un d er s t an ding      he remarked that
                                                                                             chosen in line with      of the history of        he discovered that
                                                                                             the scores.              Chinese education.       Chinese education
                                                                                                                      He added that he         had an abundance
                                                                                             Towards         the      decided to join this     of history from this
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