Driven To Change Family’s Fate, Fisherman’s Daughter Aces SPM 2025

ARAU, April 3 (Bernama) -- Determined to lift her family out of hardship, 18-year-old Nur Diana Zahirah Yusni of Kuala Sanglang poured her heart into her studies and scored an impressive 9As in the 2025 Sijil Peperiksaan Malaysia (SPM) examination.

The third of four siblings, she said, seeing her 50-year-old fisherman father, Yusni Mat Yusop, rise at dawn to sustain the family taught her discipline and drove her exam success.

“I am determined to change my family’s fortunes, support my father, and help improve my parents’ lives financially. My mother is a housewife, and my father, the sole breadwinner, leaves for the sea at 4 am and only returns the next day.

“There were times when he was gone for two or three days. Even when he was sick, he still went out to sea to support our family,” she told reporters after the Ziarah Rahmah programme by Fisheries Development Authority of Malaysia (LKIM) chairman Muhammad Faiz Fadzil at her home today.

Nur Diana Zahirah, a Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Sanglang SPM candidate, credited her success to practising past papers and attending extra classes.

She hopes to become an English teacher and plans to further her studies at the Teacher Education Institute.

Meanwhile, 48-year-old Rozini Radzi said her daughter has been eager to learn since childhood and determined to excel in her exams.

Nur Diana Zahirah received RM1,000 from LKIM, RM500 each from the National Fishermen’s Association (Nekmat) and the Perlis Fishermen’s Association (Pelaris), as well as a food basket from the Southern Perlis Fishermen’s Association.

-- BERNAMA