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 employers not fond of msian uni grads?, something to ponder on..

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malleus
post Oct 24 2013, 11:57 AM

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QUOTE(alaskanbunny @ Oct 23 2013, 11:42 PM)
i also merely pass during uni time... but from kindergarten all the way till college i had straight As.... probably lost interest or teenage puppy love broke my heart... anyway, i found out that in local unis, 1/3 of the class gets 1st class hons... and some of these students dont even have a single A or usually pretty poor results during high school.. not implying that all grads from local gov unis are not up to par, but it says something.. and these are from um, ukm, usm..
impossible for everyone to be rich, impossible for everyone to do well, impossible for a lot of things...
just sharing something i had found on the net..
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what you mentioned is actually very common in a lot of universities. take note that the method of learning and examination during primary, secondary schools and college is quite different when compared to university. hence the difference in results.

a person who merely passed in secondary school could be a top scorer in university and vice versa.

in fact, you even see this during the transition from lower secondary to upper secondary too (going from pure multiple choice exams to short question & essay questions)
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post Oct 24 2013, 12:18 PM

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QUOTE(Critical_Fallacy @ Oct 24 2013, 12:14 PM)
Are you hinting that statistically, students tend to do better in Soalan Aneka Pilihan (SAP) than in Essay-type questions (long answers) or Problems/Computational questions? unsure.gif
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no, I'm saying that there are those who do well in one, and there are others who do better in the other.
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post Oct 25 2013, 12:23 AM

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QUOTE(Critical_Fallacy @ Oct 24 2013, 12:30 PM)
True! thumbup.gif I'm generally bad at Soalan Aneka Pilihan (SAP) because the rest of the choices in some questions tend to distract my concentration. For example, "A" is logically correct, but "D" also seems acceptable... sweat.gif
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yup. and even more interesting is the computational type of exams that you mentioned above too.

Comp Sci that I went through had most of the exam papers in 3 hours. The first hour will determine if you're gonna pass or fail. In fact, one look at the paper will already tell you if you're gonna ace it, or struggle for just a pass. If you're still working on it by the end of the 2nd hour, chances are that you're gonna flunk it. Its just one of those courses where most of the subjects will have a really odd looking grade curve that plays hell when the markers tries to apply the bell curve to it.

 

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