I am on course these two days. Ah, i really loved this course. It’s on Basic Systems Thinking held at Civil Service College. The instructor is really a jovial guy and he is one of those rare facilitators or lecturers that could actually keep me awake for 8 hours! I always fell asleep during lectures/tutorials during the Uni days. I find most of them boring. Usually, 80% of what was being taught went into one of my ears, and 60% went out via the other ear.

Entertainment aside. What’s best about this course is, it has NO EXAMS! Things will be real different if there are exams right? I would most likely spend a huge chunk of the time ‘memorizing’ and taking down whatever the instructor says without actually deciphering what he really meant. That was the trouble of the education system during my time. It has trained all of us to be exam smart- to the point where we ace in studies, got the best grades but seriously lack in creativity and human skills.

Right now, i noticed that most of the exams had evolved over the years. The new examination styles are crafted in such a way that there’s no way a student could regurgitate whatever they have memorized.

One of the famous styles is:

The Open-Book concept

I detest this to the core! The exam papers are real tough. Open book concept sounds like a godsend exam for people who simply cant memorize things for nuts since secondary 2 like myself. Ah-hem. But, what’s the use of open book when there’s nothing you can refer?? I used to bring in all the tests papers, thick textbooks into the examination halls for open-book papers, but 99% of the time, there’s not enough time to even touch those resources. It takes me 30 seconds to find the page that i want to refer and another 5 mins to digest the information. Those minutes are important in the exam!!

Aww.. i think i still prefer close book examinations. They seemed to be easier.

Stumble it!