How great is the Hong Kong Educational Situation?
Form March to May, secondary 5 and secondary 7 students need to attain HKCEE and HKALE respectively. Students need to pay many efforts in order to get a good grade. However, what can students learn or earn at the end of the exams?
Some students blame that these exams bring them great pressure. Some students think that they cannot show all their talents because these public exams only focus on their academic results. Some elders claim that attaining public exams is a great experience for students.
It seems that the Hong Kong educational system cannot fulfill people wants. Firstly, the system is too examination-orientated. In current educational system, primary school students need good academic result to enter a good or EMI secondary school; secondary school students need to use their public examination result to enter a good university,
Besides, in recent years, the educational system shift to a more interactive way which require students to do many group projects, study outside classroom, presentation, etc. No matter students pay how many efforts on these activities, academic result is still the main course of our educational system.
In face, people say they want an all-round developed next generation. However, most of the people distinguish smart and stupid people refer to their exam results. That is an inconsistency. Students still have 24 hours a day but they need to fulfill more desire form their parents, teachers and society.
Nowadays, public examination result may not be objective enough to distinguish good and bad students. Many employers complain that university graduates do very poor job after they are employed. Are they responsible? Are they good at communicate with others? All these qualities cannot be seen in a score sheet.
At the very beginning, people study because they want to know more. They want to have better knowledge and quipped themselves well. But, nowadays, students only target at good mark in exam. How can students study happily and meet the goal of education under this situation?
Thus, what can we do to improve the Hong Kong educational system? The first action is changing people・s mind. People should not demand high-mark scorers in exam only. What our society need is an all-rounder but not the one who only good at one aspect.