Take a typical sec 2. He did not make it to the finals for projects day. For passing prelims, he gets 5 marks. Semifinals is a total of 30 marks. HOWEVER, if he did not pass in to finals the capped marks is NOT 35, it is 25. This is because those people who get 21 or above for semi-finals make it to the finals. So, in other words, it is impossible to get full marks for semi finals and still dont make it to the finals.
In this case, lets take it he gets 20 for semifinals, adding the 5 marks form prelims, total 25marks. Now, doing a little math, you will know that he needs to get at least 40 for his ace to get promoted. This is still possible to get promoted.
However, 1/4 of the whole cohort only gets around 16 for semifinals. In this case, adding the 5 marks from prelims will get them 21 marks. They need to get 44 for ace to get promoted. Losing 6 marks for ace is not difficult. Considering we have our studies to focus on, CCAs until 7pm for 3 out of 5 working days, and on those days reaching home at 8pm. To get enough sleep one needs to sleep for at least 7 hrs. Lets say students have to get up at around 6am, then he will have to sleep at 10pm. 2 hours for homework, ace, dinner, entertainment.
You cant possibly leave out entertainment, without entertainment, life is seriously meaningless. And by entertainment I mean family bonding too. However, 1 hr spent on entertainment should be enough.
Getting back to the topic. For the 3 days of CCAs, total makes it 6 hrs of home-life. For normal days, lets say students reach home at 3. 7 hours for homework, ace, other school related preparations, necessities, Entertainment. 2 days for free days per week. 14 hrs + 6 hrs. That leaves in 20 hrs for homework, ace, necessities, in other words, lesser than 1 day. Plus saturday and sunday, make it another 20 hours for studying and school related stuff.
That leaves it around 2 days to complete 1 week of work. Having so much stuff to work on, and thats excluding random activities that may pop up and CIP hours, how is it possible for a student to lead a healthy life?
The Hwa Chong syllabus is already much faster than normal schools, we still have to deal to two extra subjects, independent studies and oral communication. How is it possible? The math I have done is already assuming people as robots, people will tend to forget, procrastinate(even if it is just for a few hours, it matters a lot in this kind of schedule). And when you do not get promoted, you go to the O level class. Thats equal to getting mocked by the whole school. It is not simply getting transfered to another class.
I suggest that we could tweak the system a bit. Instead of stating the criteria as C5 for oral and B3 for independent studies. Why not just let it be 3.0 for overall msg? This will work so much more better.
I hope someone considers.
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