Saturday, August 05, 2006

I HATE A-LEVEL!!

Last year, I failed.
This year, thousands of them failed...
Every year, in August, students in Hong Kong who took part in the A-Level exam will receive the result of whether they have an offer in university or not. In Hong Kong, the A-Level (Advance Level) Exam is a public exam for all local students to get into uni. However, it's really really hard and tough.....for every subjucts u hv to sit for 6 hrs per day.....n even u get all passed or even higher result, it doesn't guarantee that u'll hv a degree, many students have very satisfying result but still got no offer, what the hell is going on there??
The main reson is...too little uni quota and too much competition. There are 8 uni in Hong Kong and every year in average at least 60000 students took part in A-Level, only 10% of these students can have a place in university. Moreover, there are other competitors from Mainland China, Taiwan and other countries, local students therefore become so struggled.
And somehow, the education system is not fair enough. Why judge a student just by one exam? Many student pay money to learn the exam skills, they r not gd at academic but exam skills instead!! What a irony. And some of my fds r really clever n study hard but just accidentally sick or not performed well on the exam day. They therefore can't get into uni, sooooo unfair !! It's like wasting two years struggling for noting!! Really makes us desperate......
I hate public exam...I don't know there're how many students still hv to suffer under this old, stubborn, harsh education system, n i don't know if anyone gonna change the system. However if they continue to follow the step, what they trainned for the society are the mechanical students, but not the real talented, interactive one.
What a shame.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The value of achievement lies in the achieving. If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. You've already got something when you are fighting.

Peter Podcast said...

Your blog is looking great and your writing is good too.
Exams are something I've never dealt with.
We had continuious assessment when I was at high School...
Guess that was lucky for me?
Some people are really good at tests but not much else.
PS I'm very sensitive to lavender. It makes me really sick.
Weird Hey?