Controversial Statements: Round 2 - School (SCRAP THE CCTS!!!)
School is a place for education, but let's introduce a couple of controversial statements and see what we get...
The Class Common Tests (or CCTs) are currently an integral part in the life of a student. However, I feel that these tests are redundant and therefore should be scraped. In this essay, I will prove that the CCTs are unnecessary to help a student to learn and revise his lessons, give the students too much stress and also give students less time to spend with their families, and therefore, that CCTs should be scraped.
The CCTs are a method used by teachers to measure a child's proficiency in a certain subject. They help a student to find out his weaknesses in a particular subject and can be argued to help a student improve in the long-run. I, however, would beg to differ.
Firstly, I feel that the CCTs are redundant in that they do not help a student to revise his work very effectively. Usually, students are forced to study in order to do well for his or her examinations. However, it is very common for students to simply study what they need or the bare minimum to do well in the CCT and forget all of the information immediately after that. The purpose of teaching students is to equip them with life skills that they will be able to use later on in their life. Lessons can simply be taught with the teachers finding ways to help students remember or revise the information they need, and not through the ineffective CCTs that students are forced to study for and therefore, CCTs should be scraped.
Secondly, CCTs give students too much stress. Coupled with peer pressure from today's "kiasu" (afraid to lose) Singaporean society, the pressure from adults to do well in examinations can lead to students feeling extremely stressed and depressed, especially if they do badly. Examples can already be seen in Singapore, where some teenagers, in extreme cases, commit suicide after doing badly in too many examinations. Also, in today's hectic society, the students also have to manage their Co-Curricular Activities on top of all the studying, giving even more stress. Since CCTs provide this kind of negative and unnecessary stress for the students which might negatively affect the students, they should be scraped.
Lastly, the CCTs, or rather, studying for the CCTs, takes up too much of a student's time, and gives him extremely little time to interact with his parents, or even to exercise. A student who is forced to study in order to do well is usually holed up in his own study room, with no time to go out and have fun, lest he be distracted and do badly in his CCTs. He will also have a lot less time to exercise and as a result, might become very unhealthy. Since the CCTs take up to much of a student's time, most of which could have been spent on something better, like interacting with friends or family and exercising, they should be scraped.
In conclusion, the CCTs should be scraped from the annual school programme. It is true that they might help students improve, but most students simply study to pass, forgetting a majority of the information after they are done, thus making this only true in the short run. The CCTs may also negatively affect a student by giving him too much negative stress and can also affect his health (not exercising) or even his social life (not interacting with friends). Due to the amount of negative effects the CCTs have on students, we should scrap the CCTs.
(586 words)
Oops! I think I overshot the word limit by a bit too much - please excuse me, I just dumped whatever came to mind to form this essay and it seemed logical to me... and Mr Yuen (our SS teacher) said we should have 4 points in our essay, so there they are!
Dantwz
Scrap the CCTs
The Class Common Tests (or CCTs) are currently an integral part in the life of a student. However, I feel that these tests are redundant and therefore should be scraped. In this essay, I will prove that the CCTs are unnecessary to help a student to learn and revise his lessons, give the students too much stress and also give students less time to spend with their families, and therefore, that CCTs should be scraped.
The CCTs are a method used by teachers to measure a child's proficiency in a certain subject. They help a student to find out his weaknesses in a particular subject and can be argued to help a student improve in the long-run. I, however, would beg to differ.
Firstly, I feel that the CCTs are redundant in that they do not help a student to revise his work very effectively. Usually, students are forced to study in order to do well for his or her examinations. However, it is very common for students to simply study what they need or the bare minimum to do well in the CCT and forget all of the information immediately after that. The purpose of teaching students is to equip them with life skills that they will be able to use later on in their life. Lessons can simply be taught with the teachers finding ways to help students remember or revise the information they need, and not through the ineffective CCTs that students are forced to study for and therefore, CCTs should be scraped.
Secondly, CCTs give students too much stress. Coupled with peer pressure from today's "kiasu" (afraid to lose) Singaporean society, the pressure from adults to do well in examinations can lead to students feeling extremely stressed and depressed, especially if they do badly. Examples can already be seen in Singapore, where some teenagers, in extreme cases, commit suicide after doing badly in too many examinations. Also, in today's hectic society, the students also have to manage their Co-Curricular Activities on top of all the studying, giving even more stress. Since CCTs provide this kind of negative and unnecessary stress for the students which might negatively affect the students, they should be scraped.
Lastly, the CCTs, or rather, studying for the CCTs, takes up too much of a student's time, and gives him extremely little time to interact with his parents, or even to exercise. A student who is forced to study in order to do well is usually holed up in his own study room, with no time to go out and have fun, lest he be distracted and do badly in his CCTs. He will also have a lot less time to exercise and as a result, might become very unhealthy. Since the CCTs take up to much of a student's time, most of which could have been spent on something better, like interacting with friends or family and exercising, they should be scraped.
In conclusion, the CCTs should be scraped from the annual school programme. It is true that they might help students improve, but most students simply study to pass, forgetting a majority of the information after they are done, thus making this only true in the short run. The CCTs may also negatively affect a student by giving him too much negative stress and can also affect his health (not exercising) or even his social life (not interacting with friends). Due to the amount of negative effects the CCTs have on students, we should scrap the CCTs.
(586 words)
Oops! I think I overshot the word limit by a bit too much - please excuse me, I just dumped whatever came to mind to form this essay and it seemed logical to me... and Mr Yuen (our SS teacher) said we should have 4 points in our essay, so there they are!
Dantwz
posted by Dantwz | 4:46 PM
3 Comments:
Hello Nol!!!
'scraped', I think it should be scrapped.
Otherwise, what an excellent essay!!!
Thanks (K)No(w)l(edge)!!!
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