Thursday, December 11, 2008

7,707 Failed the CPE Because The Exam is Too Difficult

And the Minister of Education should simply have bell-curved the results to make 5,340 more students pass. This would have brought the pass rate to 90% which is probably a more reasonable number. The other 10% could have been offered a seat in a vocational school to become great manual workers as I suppose we would like great plumbing jobs to become standard in Mauritius in the future.

And students should be given many opportunities to switch streams throughout their lives. In the meantime it's a good idea to have psychometricians start working immediately to bring the exam to the right level.

4 comments:

Sanjay Jagatsingh said...

Sa pe kontinye mem, non?

akagugo said...

Expect this form of functional illeteracy to become more common as more and more lose the habit of reading. Like Donald.

akagugo said...

What about some wow-food at school, served by children themselves, and cleaned up by themselves?

akagugo said...

The UK, with the May-led Brexit, is moving backwards by cutting spending on all social services. With predictably disastrous consequences.