What's The Point?

the school tells us prelims in june and eats up our entire june holidays by starting the exams on the 3rd week, and warn us not to enjoy the holidays, and then next thing we know, we get slapped hard on the back with mock exam papers. CONSTANTLY. might as well they tell us exams start from like end of april to end of june.


let's digress for a while,

What is holiday?

1.	a day fixed by law or custom on which ordinary business is suspended in commemoration of some event or in honor of some person.

2.	any day of exemption from work (distinguished from working day).

3.	a time or period of exemption from any requirement, duty, assessment, etc.: New businesses may be granted a one-year tax holiday.

4.	a religious feast day; holy day, esp. any of several usually commemorative holy days observed in Judaism.

5.	Sometimes, holidays. Chiefly British. a period of cessation from work or one of recreation; vacation.

6.	an unintentional gap left on a plated, coated, or painted surface.

–adjective

7.	of or pertaining to a festival; festive; joyous: a holiday mood.

8.	suitable for a holiday: holiday attire.

–verb (used without object)

9.	Chiefly British. to vacation: to holiday at the seaside.

someone please tell me if my school and even comprehend such a simple word they use? apparently not, to them holidays are for countless remedials and the continuous thrashing of our minds with incoherent popups of mock exams. crescents like the top sch and they dont even adopt our schedule, so what does having 3 prelims mean? they stick with their still childlike innocence of "more exams = more prepared" that is totally passe . they just push us with the ideology of study hard... labour isnt everything in reality, work hard can only get us that far, so why not they let us use our brains for? our intellect! studying smart is also another integral factor of school.

yet, they turn a blind eye.. and also, physicality is practically useless in the examination halls, its not like we'll freeze to death or anything.. train our brains and not our endurance, we already have a croos country team for that.

Zach said, concept determines attitude which determines behaviour, yet, almost nonchalantly, the school jumps to the last step, the final lap. we soon adopt the zombie study technique and mug for nuts. i have never and i repeat never seen them emphasizing the reason for the correct attitude to study nor the concept to doing well.

okayk i can admit they've done stuff to motivate us, only in the last year. so what happened to the previous 3 years? we've spent time honing the attribute of most enduring student and obtaining the wrong attitude towards study. if intensifying the work standards every year, i sincerely doubt that the primary school students who come to CHS in a few years time would survive. 10bucks say that they would rather take a step back in time and suffer in building up singapore into a strong economy.

im in no good mood to post about yesterday, i shall save it for later