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Chinese Independant Schools in Kuala Lumpur and Selangor

Chinese Independent High School (华文独立中学) is a type of private high school that provides secondary education in Chinese language as the continuation of the primary education in Chinese national-type primary schools. Chinese independent schools separate their high school grades into two parts: junior high and senior high. Junior high (Junior 1, 2, 3) is equivalent to Form 1, Form 2, and Form 3; while senior high (Senior 1, 2, 3) is equivalent to Form 4, Form 5, and Form 6.

UEC (统考) was set up to unify the exams for Chinese Independent High Schools. The Junior UEC exam is similar to PMR. The Senior UEC exam is intended to be an equivalent to STPM and A-levels, and is recognized as such overseas in countries like the UK, US, Canada, Russia, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, India, and more.

Students at independent Chinese schools can still sit for all national examinations such as SPM. The subjects might be taught alongside the school’s own Chinese syllabus, or teachers might dedicate lesson periods to teaching the government syllabus.

There are around 60 registered Chinese independent high schools in Malaysia. Stated below are the Chinese Independent High Schools available in Kuala Lumpur & Selangor.

Chong Hwa Independent High School Kuala Lumpur 吉隆坡中華獨立中學

Chong Hwa Independent High School, Kuala Lumpur is one of Malaysia’s oldest high schools. Established in 1919 in Setapak, Kuala Lumpur, the school was a primary school. It became a high school when the school board purchased a piece of land of 24,000 square metres along Jalan Ipoh and decided to build the high school there. It has remained there ever since. The school adopts a dual-track school-running policy that emphasizes both the unified examination and the government examination, that is, students are required to participate in the national independent Chinese middle school unified examination and various government public examinations. 

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Confucian Private Secondary School 尊孔独立中学, Kuala Lumpur

Confucian Private Secondary School, is a Chinese Independent High School located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It is one of the oldest Chinese Independent High School in Malaysia. The school was founded in 1906 during British rule. 

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Kuen Cheng High School 吉隆坡坤成中学

Kuen Cheng High School is an independent Chinese Secondary School. It was founded in 1908 as a Girls’ School in Kuala Lumpur, the heart of Malaysia. To usher in the centennial of Kuen Cheng High School in 2008, the School Board made the transformational decision to convert the School into a co-ed instituition. These changes helped bring forth in Malaysian society remarkable progress in education. Today, Kuen Cheng High School is well-equipped, with modern school facilities & technology. Kuen Cheng High School follows closely the national education standards of Malaysia & practised a dual-track system. Teach both the required national curriculum of secondary education & the standard syllabus of the Independent Chinese Secondary Schools. Students must learn Chinese, English & Malay language. Examinations of Junior Unified Examination Certificate (JUEC), Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM, the Malaysian Certificate of Education), and Senior Unified Examination Certificate (SUEC) must be taking in specific order.

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Tsun Jin High School 吉隆坡循人中学

With the aim to educate and to equip the younger generation, the prudent predecessors of The Selangor Fui Chiu Association founded the Tsun Jin Primary School in 1913. In the early 1950, responding to the urgency to provide students with a holistic Chinese education and to pass on the excellent Chinese culture, the Tsun Jin Board of Governors thus endeavored to establish an independent Chinese high school. The high school section was officially in operation in 1955. Conducting independent Chinese Secondary School Syllabus with KSSM as subsidiary syllabus.

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Hin Hua High School 兴华中学

The School is located at the southern part of the city of Klang in the state of Selangor along Persiaran Raja Muda Musa road. It is an institution founded in 1947 by the joint efforts of parents, teachers and fellow students. Well-equipped with modern infrastructure such as a conducive nine-storey building launched in 2007 and state-of-the-art eClass Learning Platform installed in 2006. The 11-storey Science and Technology Tower completed in 2013 enables the delivery of the education embedded with humanities and technology. Senior and junior high school students must take the independent high school unified examination. In addition to the school’s internal learning assessment, choose other public (eg. SPM), students must take exam supplementary courses arranged by the school.

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Sekolah Menengah Chung Hua (PSDN) Klang 巴生中华独立中学

The school is located on Jalan Kota Raja, Klang, close to the Klang Railway Station, with convenient public transportation. The school is far away from the commercial center, with a quiet environment, a strong learning atmosphere and well-equipped facilities. It is a suitable place for learning.

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Kwang Hua Private High School 光华独中

Kwang Hua Private High School  established in 1956 is nestled within an old quiet and tranquil residential zone of Taman Eng Ann, Klang.

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Pin Hwa High School 滨华中学

Pin Hwa High School is one of the private Chinese independent high schools in in Klang, Selangor. The school was founded in 1923. The predecessor of the school was an evening school founded by local overseas Chinese. It has a history of 100 years since its establishment in 1923.

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