JC1 STUDENT FARE BADLY DURING YEAR END EXAM-WHAT'S NEXT??
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I think we can do all with a little strong guidance now and then, even in adulthood. Quite often when we are mired in the middle of a difficult situation, we are not necessarily able to lift our eyes off the ground and see the sun behind the clouds. For children who have perhaps not taken so many hard knocks in life, it may sometimes be difficult to see beyond the short term pain. In such a scenario, it would do well for the parents to provide some guardrails and give the kids a little bit of a push in the right direction.
There was a time after my ‘O’ levels when I could have made some pretty disastrous decisions, but my folks stepped in and was very firm about what I had to do, and to this day I am thankful for their wisdom and willingness to put it on the line. The old Chinese adage of the ‘Old having eaten more rice’ has its application here. When you have been through the tough times and come through it, that is the wisdom you can share with your children.
I also believe that one is salvageable at any age, although it obviously gets harder as one gets older. But your children are your children, I think one does not have the option of giving up.
So here I disagree with insider. You’ve got to do what you think best for your child. Kids are more mature these days at the same age, but experience is experience, and if you ain’t got it, you ain’t got it. -
JC1 is a bad year for a lot of folks. Its a quick transition, you are having fun at the start of the year, and the subject material can be overwhelming. We’ve been through that, we know what it is. The point is, many JC1 students survive to be good/excellent JC2 students. Just help them through the difficult transition and don’t let them give up, chances are, they’ll be fine.
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Quoting from \"The World is Flat\", by Thomas Friedman
Bill Gates: \"30 years ago, if you had a choice between being born a genius on the outskirts of Bombay or Shanghai or being born an average person in Poughkeepsie, you would take Poughkeepsie, because your chances of thriving and living a decent life there, even with average talent, were much greater. But as the world has gone flat, and so many people can plug and play from anywhere, natural talent has started to trump geography.\"
Thomas Friedman; \"The sense that our kids have to be swaddled in cotton wool so that nothing bad or disappointing or stressful ever happens to them at school is, quite simply, a growing cancer on American society.\"
\"I don't care to have that conversation with my girls, so my advice to them in this flat world is very brief and very blunt: \"Girls, when I was growing, my parents used to say to me, 'Tom, finish your dinner -- people in China and India are starving.' My advice to you is: Girls finish your homework -- people in China and India are starving for your jobs.\"
Kinda funny how just as the westerners are waking up to the idea of hard work and pushing their kids in schools, we seem to be getting complacent and heading in the opposite direction. -
being preoccupied with computer games during holidays could prove to be a problem also
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let’s have a support group discussion here, and share tips/ opinions on how to motivate JC1 repeat students to get better grades, and ultimately pass JC1 promo and do well for ‘A’ levels…
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is it ok for jc1 repeat students to relax until orientation is over, and when the proper lecture/tutorial starts, before getting into the "study" mode?
it would not be too late, right? -
lobo:
Errr......is it ok for jc1 repeat students to relax until orientation is over, and when the proper lecture/tutorial starts, before getting into the \"study\" mode?
it would not be too late, right?
the year is short, and subject matter, plentiful. Better keep on top of things, if one does not want to suffer later. -
oh goodness, hope there would not be a "deja vu"
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oh well, maybe the repeat of jc1 for 1 year can be taken as a sort of ‘sabbatical’ or ‘break’ or ‘gap year’, and hopefully all turns out well…
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How to motivate JC1 student to study instead of just laxing away ?
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