Friday, March 4, 2011
I have been telling everyone in this world, but noones seems to believe me.
ionno about the other colleges but the GP system in VJ is screwed.
omg general paper is supposed to test your general knowledge no?
that means that it should cover an extensive base of subjects, from nuclear to politics to afghanistan to obama to sociology to human to ethics to everything and anything.
what the school / my GP teacher taught me was that we have to memorise this list of information.
subsequently you choose a question in the paper that pertains to the same topic you memorised - like environment to "Environmental degradation should be the last thing developing countries worry about."
and wala, you regurgitate everything onto the script and passes the stained essay back to the examiner.
Before i went to JC, i thought that i'd love essay writing in GP lessons.
because it's a platform for me to express my views coupled with what i know about this world.
i was told that this was wrong, like terribly wrong.
at times i was told directly to MUST WRITE about kyoto's protocol and lolwhat.
it's so frustrating when someone tells me that what i've written is wrong when it's supposed to be a "general paper".
my thoughts on "general paper" is that there is no right or wrong, its entirely based on the way you argue and use your points.
isnt that supposed to be the way?
always say that us youths are politically apathetic and softspoken.
it's more of like we are deprived from freedom of speech and that we are always shot down by the perceived "know-all" adults.
this is not something that i should be proud of, but i've not touched a single page of those GP notes, and they are even in such good quality they qualify for resale.
because, i know that the british value what we think.
and not what we were SUPPOSED to think.
i didnt exactly finish my AQ, and i have no idea how i did for my compre.
but what i do know is that i need a rather good essay to score in GP.
i did, and i am not flaunting it.
i am just mad at how the system functions, and how pointless it is.
if a mediocre guy like me who fancies reading thriller novels can do well in GP when others who vomit the "ideal" answers cant get fantastic results, something is wrong. (not with me but the way things work here)
and i'd always been the borderline pass for GP in VJ and I almost always failed the content section.
hey my grammar is not good, really. i re-read this couple of times to rephrase them.
and screw the GP system, i am glad i wrote what i'd wanted to.