Saturday, February 18, 2006

I am in school once more, staring into the computer screen.

A boring day, right after a midterm test.
Somehow, i hate MCQ tests. Not a test of knowledge, but a test of luck. A test where one with great knowledge can succumb to bouts of carelessness and pure stupidity.

Where nothing is given for effort, only the results matter. The ultimate satire at the common belief that effort should be rewarded. You can solve a problem to the last step, miss a negative sign, and get totally 0 for the question. Conversely, you can just bluff you way through, make a fortunate guess, and get full credit for the question.

Is this justice, is this fairness? Well i believe this is the ultimate mockery of fairness. But again, the world is never fair, not to mentioned the fact that the education system has never earned my praise, for various reasons that somehow, i do not have the heart to pen down now, for it will disillusion me even more.

MCQ is so depictive of todays society. Only the result matters. It doesn't matter how you got there. Effort, knowledge, process? To hell with it. Just play the educators' game and make sure you know the rules well enuff to win in it.

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