Management and Technology in Knowledge, Service,
Tourism & Hospitality – Lumban Gaol, Mars & Saragih (Eds)
© 2014 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-00133-6
The relationship between academic self-concept, parenting styles and
academic achievement of remove class students
Uavarani Shanmugam & Fonny Hutagalung
University of Malaya, Malaysia
ABSTRACT: Remove class students and poor academic achievement has been always an issue in the education
system of Malaysia. Remove class students are the students from national type schools, SJKC (Sekolah Jenis
Kebangsaan Cina) or SJKT (Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan Tamil) schools who failed to obtain at least Grade C
in the subject Bahasa Malaysia Comprehension or Bahasa Malaysia Writing or in both papers