Thank you for that post above, ffrulz. =) Arguably the most intelligent and factually sound post in this topic. Said everything I wanted to say in reply. If some people could just swallow their pride when corrected, maybe none of this would have happened.

Feynman, the recognition discussion stemmed from a misunderstanding. The topic creator made this topic to bring attention to a tuition center that prepares students for A levels in 6 months, though they are to register as private candidates. It is not an actual college or university college, and so does not have to adhere to MOE's guidelines of offering guided learning for a certain period of time.

What happened was that the user solstice818 brought up a very valid and good point about the validity of the institution [with reasoning of recognition of MOE], I mean, everyone would naturally be suspicious of something that's too good to be true, especially when it comes to potentially bogus educational institutions nowadays, so I honestly can't blame her in this respect.

However, it was all based on the assumption that it was a college, despite the fact that there was no mention of it whatsoever in the starting post, and then when the topic creator provided further explanation about why the six months thing wasn't "illegal" and corrected her assumption, she accused the topic creator of "misleading others". Everything went downhill from there. Granted, the topic creator was also partly at fault for not offering clarification earlier when the first "attack" began, and he could have handled the initial argument a lot better, but it appears that the argument has gone a lot further anyway.

Seriously, take a chill pill, guys. It was all just a misunderstanding. Suck it up. Some of you [yes, some, not one] were wrong, and when corrected, just admit you were wrong and make amends. Topic creator, maybe the whining would stop if you edit your post to make it clearer that it's a tuition center, even though to me, it was quite obvious from the beginning.

Oh, and by the way, AS and A2 are two extremely different papers. XD Regardless of what the "title" on the paper says. Your senior might have chosen to take both papers in one go [or maybe he/she was retaking AS at the same time as his/her A2 to boost the AS score], that might explain some confusion.

P.S. I'm also doing Law and I found the Law students not being mathematically-inclined statement pretty funny too. XP

This post has been edited by Glassy: Feb 25 2009, 04:14 PM