Recent outcome of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2018 showed that Malaysian students still not at par with their peers in the region and rest of the world. Even though there was slight improvement in the PISA 2018 compared to PISA 2015, Malaysia still ranked in the lower segment of the chart. Reviews from the relevant literature indicated that curriculum, teaching quality, teacher welfare and parental involvement have great impact on students’ performance in schools. With the year-to-year huge investment in education, Malaysian government needs to answer to the taxpayers with such not-so-promising outcome. This article could serve as a reference to the relevant Malaysian authority for the improvement of the Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (STEM) education in the future.