Touching on the topic of schoole hours, school should be on every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday. This is so that they can refuel on Wednesdays and Sundays. The problem when you do not need to go to school during weekends is that you do not do much work and you tend to do your homework last minute. Secondly, 1 week holidays should be at the start of February, April, August, October, a fortnight holiday should be on June and a one month December Holiday. These one week holidays are designed in such a way such that students get to refuel themselves more effectively as there is a one week holiday after every month juxtaposed to a week holiday after three months. June holidays are minimised to just two weeks because a month is too long. Post end of year exams should not strecth from a Novembers to December because it is too long and it should just be December long. Primary 1 to Primary 3 students will take morning shifts because they do have a lot of homework. Secondary school students should start school at 9am so that hey get enough sleep and A Level students should start school at 10am because they have a lot to study and so not to cause traffic jams if it was to start at 9am. This especially helps Malaysians who commute to Singapore Daily.
Next we touch on the things that happen in school. Firstly, 2nd language should not be made compulsory because English is the main world wide language, it is not an important language because many employers do not look at what you got for your second language. Adding on, living in a multi-racial country, when we speak in our 2nd language, we tend to interact with our own race. Recess should be 45 minutes long because there's not enough time to eat and relax in 30 mins. Your teacher dismiss you forn recess 5 minutes late and you queue for about 5 minutes, 10 minutes gone in all. Physical Education should be 2 hours per week and an hour per lesson. Back in primary school, Physical Education was only 30 minutes long and we usually did some warm-up and back to class we walked sadly. Physical Education should not be erased when the exams are coming, in fact it is better to have Physical Education when the exams are coming so that we can de-stress ourselves.
This is how teachers should teach their students. Firstly, they would teach them the basics and the students would make notes out of it. Notes should be done on A4 and filed into a file so that it is easy to edit the information because you can just throw away the paper if it's too messy or there's mistake. Homework should be given to them where the questions in the worksheet are is ascending in level of difficulty and they should inform the students on what skills is used to answer the question. Skills are such as visualisation when it comes to geometry and explanation when it come to the comprehension section. After that you are prepared to do other school's exam papers to prepare yourself for your exam. And the whole process repeats itself over and over again.
Last of course is exams. Firstly, they should tell us what we got for each subject in numeral form and not grades. For example if a "B" grade is 70 to 75, it is unfair for person who got 69 for subject A and 74 for 7 subjects juxtaposed to that dude who got 70 for subject A and 71 for the other 7 subjects. Secondly, we should know where our mistakes in our PSLE, O levels and A levels are so that we can improve ourselves or also debate with the marker as to why you deserve a mark for that question. Adding on, there should be a proper guideline as to how to mark essays. You can write two completely same essays and give it to two teachers to mark it only to realise that two different marks are given. Lastly, we should not have our papers marked by Cambridge because it's expensive and we get it back months later. Even though Cambrdige papers are known world-wide, it is better if it's marked in Singapore so that Singaporeans find it hard to migrate, thus solving the problem of diminishing local talents. All of these would ensure that we do not spend WASTED YEARS in school
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