chinese O lvl
Tuesday, 24 October 2006 @ 23:36:00
wow.
i didn't realize that it has been such a long time since I last blog.
It's the End Of Year.
Everything is over.
EOY exams were over.
Post exams events were over t0o- art fest.
Hmm.
The only thing that I'm looking forward to is the learning hub trip to NZ with the school.
However,
Before the trip which is from 8-16nov.
All sec 3s will be having the O level Chinese paper 2 examination.
Oh well.
It's just as normal.
Who wouldn't be nervous and anxious before a major exam that can be said as something that is considered life and death to us, students?!
Unless you are a genius or expert in Chinese.
I hate the new Chinese exam format.
It will only make failures and discourage more pupils to learn Chinese.
Even Chinese lessons nowadays- due to the change in exam format- are so dry!!!
Nobody is listening in class.
I don't think we need anymore Chinese teachers since MOE promotes "teach less, learn more"
It's a waste of resources.
The sudden change in format when we are in secondary school is killing many.
Since we didn't start with this format since primary school.
WE are not trained in a sense.
Chinese is not English.
It cannot be taught in the way English is taught.
If it can be thaught in the way English is taught then it would not be Chinese anymore.
Why is there a need to use English methods to teach Chinese?
I don't think it is effective at all.
Those methods are incompetent to teach Chinese.
Really. They are both totally different languages.
Totally different cultures and beliefs.
Why change the Chinese exam format to English format?
Why?
Whatever.
All I knew was...
I totally wasted my whole year of Chinese period because I didn't learn anything new at all.
No new words.
No new phrases.
Nothing new.
Everything we did was just crap.
Go through comprehension passages.
Analysed the passages.
and then analysed another passage.
"Oh it's testing your understanding and your standard"How much did we actually understand what the passages are trying to bring across???
Can our standard really be tested in such a way???
If one fail the Chinese paper does it mean that one's stardard of Chinese is lousy???
Is it really that way???
HA!
Enough of it.
Who ask me to be one in the suay batch who always faces educational reforms?
All these lame thingys makes me hate taking Chinese exams.
Yikes.
& I wake up to a beautiful day
