More marking woes

As the marking progress, my heart sank. there were too many instances of lacking in maturity in the students' writing. Facts presented were fragmented and words used were those more suited for a secondary 2 composition! In fact many essays were like secondary 2 compositions!

Discussion with other teachers including those from other JCs lead us to one conlcusion, students never read. They are not familar with the ways geographers present facts and ideas. As such all they have are naive ideas and very layman way of presenting. Too many are just going for the quick fix... memorise a few key points and hope for the best.

DRQ 2 and the essays clearly revealsed that many have only very superficial knowledge of the subject matter. Two months to the prelim and I think many still have problems passing the promos! Is there HOPE?

Gays and gals, if you are reading this... this is the worst mid year exam I have ever encountered, and i mean it. I have taught all graduating students in PJC (expect for the 2004 batch) and 5 batches in CJC and this is the worst! We are really not even at promos standard.

In a sense I am very fed-up. You are more concern with been entertained in class, sms, talk to your friend etc, everything except studying. When I ask you to read an article, half chat with their friends, 1/4 on the phone and the rest falling asleep. You are the only group with air-con tutorial room but you don't seem to treasure.

I am to be blamed because I have been too nice to you, trying to be tolerant and accept that all of you have your own sets of problems and priorities in life. However, all that the problems will not go away if you fail your As, just add another problem! .. aiyah.. sigh!