On day of PE
Pe == Practical exam.
Let's not go straight into the topic of pe as of now, as it has been 1 of the more "happening" days ever since I got into Nus. (Can see my Nus life is very boring?)
Went to the sec sch I'm coaching for a "meeting" with the principal. It only took 5 min. Made me wake up so much early, losing precious time which could have been more effectively used for sleeping?(and studying as well) Apart from the meeting, saw something happened that I never seen when I was a sec sch player. The teacher in charge saw 1 boy had his hair dyed, so he told us he's sending the boy home. My reaction then was ok, it's his authority as a teacher and the boy is indeed in the wrong so I'm not going to interfere or whatsoever. But one of the other students, tried to be funny and commented that the boy had a different hair colour because he swam too much. The teacher was infuriated and wanted to send the boy back as well for his long hair. Apperently the boy further infuriated the teacher by talking more nonsense as the teacher escorted him out. So what happened later was that some HODs came down to the court with the boy, called in the other boys into a classroom to be lectured by the principal while 1 teacher trim the boy's hair on the spot. The boy was then brought into the classroom and immediatly given several canings. He is then suspended from volleyball trainings.
Qn 1: Is it a good idea to suspend the boy? From my point of view it is equivalent to giving him all the freedom to do whatever he wants over the entire duration of the holidays. Do you think he will really take it as punishment?
Lesson 1: Know what you can and cannot say to certain people.
As for the actual Pe itself, I actually discovered/ further substantiate what I know about myself in that short 1 3/4 hrs. 1. I am really a computer idiot: I could not login to the questions and network succesfully and had to rely on the TAs who were around to help me. Ended up starting later than my neighbours. 2. I am lazy: I did not practice on the program that we are using on for the pe at all before today. As such I had to force myself to adapt to the different commands and the mechanisms of the system, which I do not think is really helping my cause to get better grades? 3: I am hardworking and I do have at least abit of mathematics cells in me: Somehow I managed to solve the question and write out a working program which some were not able to. To be honest, all the practice I did definitely helped. But as the question was about pascal's triangle and some area of inner triangles whose name I cannot remember, it took quite a short time for me to sort out the method to go about doing the counting. So I guess my maths helped. 4: I am an idiot: There's this line which I did not take note when reading through the marking guidelines. "Program Design (modularity, choice of functions): 15 marks" In my program I totally did not make use of any functions, which could mean I will lose all of the 15 marks? Well...
Qn 2: Is it fair to students who cannot spot the method of finding the area when some other students may have already have a better knowledge of the pascal triangle?
Lesson 2: Read the marking criteria carefully before you sit for any exam.
It is getting abit long but this is going to be my last point anyway. Was looking through the forum at night and I was quite amazed/astonished/stunned/shocked by some comments certain people made. The background information is that our Pe is divided into 4 sessions as there are not enough manpower nor resources to cater to all the sutdents at one time. So there was a sutdent from a later session who tried to ask for the lab 1 question in the forum. There was quite a big backlash and certain words like "cheater" came out. I have to admit that I also heard from a friend who only heard from another friend about the point about having to use arrays for session 1. That is not particularly helpful anyway. But since we know that all the questions will be different, and there is moderation on a per session basis, what is really the big idea about later sessions people knowing about earlier questions? I remember reading a sociology article on which mentioned some western students commenting that asians are cheaters because we share resources and study past year papers.
Qn 3: So can we really label asians as cheaters? Or in the earlier context, people who try to ask for previous questions cheaters?
Lesson 3: Know what can be openly declared and what should remain underground. U can never break the law if you know how to go around it or do not get caught.
Ps: Its been a long time since I wrote something that makes more sense...
Let's not go straight into the topic of pe as of now, as it has been 1 of the more "happening" days ever since I got into Nus. (Can see my Nus life is very boring?)
Went to the sec sch I'm coaching for a "meeting" with the principal. It only took 5 min. Made me wake up so much early, losing precious time which could have been more effectively used for sleeping?(and studying as well) Apart from the meeting, saw something happened that I never seen when I was a sec sch player. The teacher in charge saw 1 boy had his hair dyed, so he told us he's sending the boy home. My reaction then was ok, it's his authority as a teacher and the boy is indeed in the wrong so I'm not going to interfere or whatsoever. But one of the other students, tried to be funny and commented that the boy had a different hair colour because he swam too much. The teacher was infuriated and wanted to send the boy back as well for his long hair. Apperently the boy further infuriated the teacher by talking more nonsense as the teacher escorted him out. So what happened later was that some HODs came down to the court with the boy, called in the other boys into a classroom to be lectured by the principal while 1 teacher trim the boy's hair on the spot. The boy was then brought into the classroom and immediatly given several canings. He is then suspended from volleyball trainings.
Qn 1: Is it a good idea to suspend the boy? From my point of view it is equivalent to giving him all the freedom to do whatever he wants over the entire duration of the holidays. Do you think he will really take it as punishment?
Lesson 1: Know what you can and cannot say to certain people.
As for the actual Pe itself, I actually discovered/ further substantiate what I know about myself in that short 1 3/4 hrs. 1. I am really a computer idiot: I could not login to the questions and network succesfully and had to rely on the TAs who were around to help me. Ended up starting later than my neighbours. 2. I am lazy: I did not practice on the program that we are using on for the pe at all before today. As such I had to force myself to adapt to the different commands and the mechanisms of the system, which I do not think is really helping my cause to get better grades? 3: I am hardworking and I do have at least abit of mathematics cells in me: Somehow I managed to solve the question and write out a working program which some were not able to. To be honest, all the practice I did definitely helped. But as the question was about pascal's triangle and some area of inner triangles whose name I cannot remember, it took quite a short time for me to sort out the method to go about doing the counting. So I guess my maths helped. 4: I am an idiot: There's this line which I did not take note when reading through the marking guidelines. "Program Design (modularity, choice of functions): 15 marks" In my program I totally did not make use of any functions, which could mean I will lose all of the 15 marks? Well...
Qn 2: Is it fair to students who cannot spot the method of finding the area when some other students may have already have a better knowledge of the pascal triangle?
Lesson 2: Read the marking criteria carefully before you sit for any exam.
It is getting abit long but this is going to be my last point anyway. Was looking through the forum at night and I was quite amazed/astonished/stunned/shocked by some comments certain people made. The background information is that our Pe is divided into 4 sessions as there are not enough manpower nor resources to cater to all the sutdents at one time. So there was a sutdent from a later session who tried to ask for the lab 1 question in the forum. There was quite a big backlash and certain words like "cheater" came out. I have to admit that I also heard from a friend who only heard from another friend about the point about having to use arrays for session 1. That is not particularly helpful anyway. But since we know that all the questions will be different, and there is moderation on a per session basis, what is really the big idea about later sessions people knowing about earlier questions? I remember reading a sociology article on which mentioned some western students commenting that asians are cheaters because we share resources and study past year papers.
Qn 3: So can we really label asians as cheaters? Or in the earlier context, people who try to ask for previous questions cheaters?
Lesson 3: Know what can be openly declared and what should remain underground. U can never break the law if you know how to go around it or do not get caught.
Ps: Its been a long time since I wrote something that makes more sense...
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