excuse - some comments for A-level students

this is not belong to "title a day"

before everything, let me quote a psychological fact: people like to change the world's explanation, to fit their mind-set, instead of changing their mind to suit the world. that is why excuse created. or, people like to point out their failure is due to the world, but not their own.

today read a newspaper article, saying that, since the "mother-tongue" education policy, student ability toward the "foreign-tongue" (English) was degraded.

it is not so fair discussion for the policy. yes, everyone knew that the policy will degrade the foreign language ability, in the trade off for the more understanding in other subjects, like science, economy, literature, etc. so, people also look for the other subjects average performance as well. if the average grade of english was down, but the average grade of others were up, the policy should be claimed as successful.

And now, many students complain about the the policy instead of himself lazy. (from now, himself is pointed to general "self", and does not contain any sexual discrimination.) think about before the policy established, A-level students also complain on the selection system, but never for himself disability. Now, the policy is a social-created new rescue, to cover their weakness and facing the disability. one student said, "the other schools got C as their lowest grade (for english), but my school, C is the highest grade." Can this sentence is a defense? or a argument for the policy? why he cannot be the one who got C-grade? does he ever ask himself like this? no, all he wish is the social failure instead of himself failure.

and most A-level students feel unfair that they cannot get enrolled in the coming university semester, because of the fail of english, the limited places of university, the teachers are so bad in his school, even of their lower quality compare to the others. well, following this feeling, mark-six lottery-owners should also feel unfair for no luck. there is just 10K places for 35K students, students not get a place is completely normal! for those dis-satisfied, no matter how good you are thinking for yourself, there are at least one-third of students better that you. so, except feeling regret for wasting time in the past 1.5 years, nothing you deserve to feel.

at last, getting a degree is not such a big deal. just like Cert-level students feels the exam is so important but when they are in A-level, the past is nothing. did Mr. Lee care for the degree? did Mr. Gate care? Oh, they should, when they are not successful, since they need an explanation for their failure! same theory applied to most people in HK. people need an excuse for their failure, and the reason must not be themselves, it must be th society make them fail, so they have no choice but fail, a typical Mr.Q's philosophy.

Compare statistic for A-level candidates
we can see the average grade of other subjects did not improved obviously. that is , the policy fail. and the reason may be, student become more lazy as they did not put more time on english, when other subject can save time. however, taken Chinese as answering language is just 10% to 20%, the improvement/dis-improvement may not be reflected.the only chinese answering statistic should be released.

all in all, A-level students, no matter you are good or not, take responsibility toward yourselves, especially when you are fail.