14,858 candidates were missing from Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) 2022 examination. Malaysia’s Education Ministry will be digging into this matter to discover the reason. It is a national exam taken by students in Malaysia. It is equal to GCE O-level exam that is taken in Singapore. The ministry is trying to figure out the reasons why students are willing to miss the test. Ms Fadhlina said more than 90 per cent of SPM candidates were entitled to get their certificates, also she said that the rate are excessive than in previous years. She said it was not required to throw light on the rankings for the most outstanding -performing schools for SPM 2022. It was shown that the 14,858 first-time candidates did not appear for at least six subjects. According to what the ministry found out, the number of absent candidates in 2021 was 10,681, or 2.7 per cent of the 392,837 registered candidates.