Exam + Education

Now I'm entering a new module, FYI, my study is according to modules instead of semesters. Every module ends with an exam, which accumulate marks for the year end exam. With each module is about 6 to 7 weeks long, can you imagine how fast or often i have to sit for exam? And hence this is my source of stress.

I'd been thinking, as we grow older, we are subjected to more and more exams. The duration of study or preparation for exam shorten as we study higher level. Primary we have 6 years before UPSR, lower secondary 3 years for PMR, higher secondary 2 years for SPM. For my experience, 1 year of express classes to prepare for A levels. Now, 2 months + for end of modules exams. Not to mention my piano and violin plus theory examinations. For some moment, I thought the purpose of my life were to sit for exams.

Please understand that I'm not against exams. I believe in the purpose of exams, which is to assess our knowledge on the subjects. However I'm against the need of having to study unnecessary subjects, which waste our time and effort to attend class, prepare for it and sit for the exam. I still remember how i spend time memorising the facts for sports (Pendidikan Kesihatan dan Jasmani) definitions of values in Moral education, details in history, which i couldn't recall anything now. Now, in college, its depressing that there is still presence of invaluable subjects that we have to waste our time to attend, namely Career Guidance and Technopreneurship.

Could you imagine having to attend compulsory career guidance classes in a medical school? It seems like they thought us having difficulties in choosing the right profession. Honestly i think it should be done in the form of seminar but not wasting so much of our time. Techno class is like they are expecting us to memorise the facts of the components of business. I wish you can imagine how tough for me to prepare for the subject that i disliked so much.

I've been an object moulded by our nation's education system, but I've opinion and feedback on the system itself. I hope to have improvements on this matter, to make a student's life less miserable and more enjoyable. I hope.