Thursday, January 11, 2007
NCAE Crap.
Fuck NCAE [National College Assessment Examination].
All seniors out there, you probably know what I'm talking about. I mean, every senior in the whole Philippines is practically cramming for this one heck of examination, which sole purpose is to determine whether you really fit your chosen course or what.
Okay. I'll lay down the cards. It has its pros and cons. Everything has. I mean, there are always two sides in a coin.
And with the DepEd's side, I have nothing against it. Yes, it's better that as early as now, we could determine our abilities and see where we could excel. It's practical cause: (1.) it saves money; (2.) it saves time; (3.) and it could somehow prevent the increasing rate of underemployment.
And with this nationwide examination, the DepEd is spending billions. Talk about saving money. Yeah, it's for the pag-asa ng bayan's future, but what about those children who can’t even manage to have decent classrooms, chairs, books, etc? How about our underpaid teachers?
Okay, here is my point [It's not that I'm really against it, but I'm a bit disappointed and discouraged.]: it practically robs a student the opportunity to pursue the course that he/she wants to take. I mean, every one of us has different levels of intelligence, and their examinations would evaluate that so-called intelligence. But then, we have different specifications when it comes to intelligence. Okay, given that there's no failed or passed in this examination, but the evaluation written on your form would somehow affect your course. Surely, there would be schools, which would consider the result of your examination. What if you want to take a science-related course and it so happened that you failed the science examination? And then the school that you chose would not admit you to their program, would that mean that you have to give up wanting to pursue that course? Under the circumstances, it would really be you to blame cause you did not study, right? But under some circumstances, we can't help to fuck things up if it's really meant, right? And if the results would force you to take a course that you really don't want, how are you gonna finish it if you're not even interested with the program?
*Sigh.*
But then, it's already here. I just hope it would amount to something useful someday.
