Saturday, September 15, 2007

Memory work

The Malaysian education system is all about memory work. From primary schools onward to the tertiary level, we’ve all been taught to memorize and only by memorizing will you score Aces.

I remember since primary, we students were taught to memorize essays. It was claimed to be the most effective way to score an A1 in the essay papers. We were told to memorize as much as we could in hopes that what we remember would come out as a question in our exams.

It’s like picking numbers for a lotto bet. If what they ‘pick’ comes out on the paper, they score a jackpot.

4 comments:

Darren said...

it may be just me, but there is little meaning in exams if all they test is our memory skills

zhen you said...

oh sorry... haha the post sounds kinda blur... wanted to say that memorizing essays doesn't help in scoring in exams or anything haha... sorry

Darren said...

technically, it does help in scoring A1's, that is if the question does come out in the exams :P but i seriously doubt this method would work in the real world

zhen you said...

hahaha all i can say is, I AGREE! @_@