As a '96 spm candidate myself, I think my batch mates are all too spoonfed. Wired by the school's system to have a stubborn and non-critical thinking. All die die follow the manual only. I personally have no problems sitting for this paper. I didn't know the change of format beforehand. I was shocked when I received my paper but critical times demand critical thinking. Think out of the box and create your own format = voila. They already said its a higher thinking order set, means think out of the box la. I think this is quite a good challenge for spm leavers to face the real world.

So when you go out working your boss ask you settle a problem you die die follow what is taught to you, or read the manual and die die follow it? If this is an effort by ministry to create a batch of teenagers with critical thinking I think they're doing Malaysia something good now.