Monday, April 04, 2005
After the release of the O-levels result, we heard from our teachers several times that our school did not do so well for the O-level exam especially for English.
In my opinion, this is because there are little hands-on activities like practical or experiments. Take English and Social Studies for example, English cannot actually do practical or experiments like sciences.
With experiments, subjects like Biology, Chemistry and Physics could be understood easily and at a faster time. English, like Chinese, needs to be ‘drilled’ in to our mind and that is why most students find them boring and ‘dry’. So when it comes to tests, we often did not do so well.
Personally, I think that this problem could be solved if there is less teachings and more hands-on. Instead of lessons by the teachers, the school could ask us to do project or research on the topic after the teacher teaches finish. To improve in our English, we could also read more newspaper and storybooks.
On the whole, I think that as a school, we could improve our standard in O-levels and N-levels if we try to turn every lessons more interesting, easy to understand and more unforgettable.
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Sunday, February 27, 2005
In my opinion, 5-day workweek has done more harm then good.
5 day work week is meant to let families get together so that we could spend more time together but even if we are given a ‘off’ day on Saturday, our parents who is not working under the government will still have to work.
Even if there is the 5 day workweek, students also have to come back to school for CCA if that particular CCA have to join competition like SYF. On the other hand, it benefits those students who joined the uniform group, as they do not have to wake up in the morning to attend their CCA.
Teachers who want to finish the topics on time could not hold remedial class over the weekend thus they need to push everything to be done finish by the weekdays. They give extra homework and sometimes have to teach about 2 topics in just one-week time. If the student could not digest it, there is not much time for them to repeat the lesson too.
In additional, tests are given almost everyday. With the extra homework, CCAs, tuition and enrichment classes that school organised, there is not much time for us to study and finish all the homework.
Personally, I think that this 5 days workweek haves its own joys and woes. It depends on how we see it and how we manage our time.
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Wednesday, February 23, 2005
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