Sunday, August 31, 2008

Exam mentality

Senthil said
Back home, the mentality is very different. The attitude is, if it is not going to help you in your grades, don't bother wasting your time.


Awhile ago when I was surfing around a Malaysian forum, a student asked
"My teacher said understanding theory is more important than practicing problems in SPM physics, do you guys agree?"

You can almost infer that the students doesn't agree with his teacher.

It's true that doing sums help you a lot in exams. But saying that it's more important than theory is like saying that scoring exams is all that matter.

I still feel though that there's nothing wrong with this. It's just sad. Not wrong.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

It's the same here in US, isn't it?
People care about the homework and assignments because they count towards our grades.

Anonymous said...

i cant help but agree with u.

but i guess u can say that there's more freedom to explore in the US than in malaysia

i remember back in secondary school, i went into science stream not because it was my interest, but because arts stream was basically frowned upon.