Success In School Exams
16 March 2008
It has been over thirteen years since I left high school. At the time, it was a nervewracking experience with all of those nasty exams. I have never been good at exams, and when I went on to university, I tended to pick courses that were internally accessed.
Looking back, I find it surprising that the system was designed to knock out half of the students in the fifth form year (that's Year Eleven in the modern parlance). School Certificate - the first major set of examinations that most of us encountered - terrified even the smartest students. What would happen if we got a D or E for each subject at the end of the year?
In the end, I needn't had worried. The first subject that I failed was seventh form English. Who needs to know about Shakespeare and 17th Century Romantic Poetry in the workplace, anyway?
An Australian man is suing the school that his boys attended as the boys flunked the state's school examinations. The twins attended the school for 14 years and received special assistance during their time there. The worrying thing is that the father is a lawyer. He should be smart enough to realise that it takes all sorts of people to make the world go round. Some people are the academic type, some people aren't. His sons fall into the second category.
I hope that the case fails.