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Hell March II - Westwood
Die Waffen, legt an!!
The long awaited Red Alert 3!
Once again, I find myself in another rat race... Of course, it is necessary since Singapore is a meritocratic society, and qualifications count right? No. You're so fucking wrong. The examination system has undergone years, maybe eons, of painstaking finetuning. Yes much painstaking effort indeed. Painful on the part of the students. Why, you might ask. A fine question deserves the short and sweet answer: It's fucked. Comprendo senòr?
As time passes, students get smarter and the examinations begin to lose their viability. So when the cheers of students that aced the exams reaches a crescendo, the finetuning elements kick in to kill off the next batch of students. I have no problems with raising the bar over and over, but what really irks me is when silly, and almost retarded criteria are added. That would be a time-limit. True, the invigilators cannot sit and stare at you the whole friggin' day as you complete your paper. But what is happening now is the infuriating shortage of time that is killing students. You may have the knowledge and can probably ace the paper, but that oh-so-merry ticking of the clock cuts you off before your immense intelligence can be put to good use. I seriously doubt our future jobs require us to complete an essay or a calculation within ten minutes. Datelines are there, but they are relatively resonable and doable. Writing three essays, each with a shitload of pages, within an hour or two?
Time-limits are not the only irritating things that adorn this blasted system. Language is another major killing factor, and no I'm not talking about subjects centering on the analysis of a language. It's about how the idiotic questions are phrased with double-negatives and poor-phrasing leading to unclear meanings. How many times have you read a question and scratch your head wondering just what the fuck the examiner wants? Those are the situations I'm talking about.
So here I am once again, assimilating new and refreshing old knowledge about the inner-workings of organisms, the ancient-old art of counting now with GCs and fanciful equations, the chemical fundamentals of matter and the stupid things governments do to make you more productive(pay less, work more). And for what purpose? Curiosity? Future job security? Or living someone else's dream? None of the above. The Singapore examination system is about cramming tonnes of useless information, that you're not even the least interested in, into your brain and spit it out as fast as possible in the exam halls. Then they print a flimsy piece of paper with your name on it. After that, you go to university and then off to work. And then you wonder: just how the fuck does calculus and the myriad of enzymes you studied about fit into your job as a successful CEO?