. TIMSS 2011 revealed the same trend with science decreased to 426 points, 45 points lower than the score in 2007 (IEA, 2012). Besides the poor performance in international studies, we also have not achieved the 60:40 policy. The Higher Education Planning Committee aims for 60% science stream and 40% art stream students at upper secondary school. This issue is clearly evident when only 20% of the 472,541 students who sat for the Malaysian Certificate of Education or commonly known as SPM (a national examination taken by all grade 11 students in Malaysia) in 2012 were science-stream students. The decrease in the number of students in the science stream is alarming. At tertiary education, statistics indicated that