CJC Physics department, you suck so, so bad. |
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This post is dedicated to the "best" subject department in Catholic Junior College (CJC), ie CJC Physics. I believe I speak on behalf of my CJC Physics batchmates with what I am about to share. CJC Physics, you are the number 1 department in my heart, from the absolute bottom that is. Folks may assume one of the most popular subjects students offer in CJC is accorded unfettered attention (as far as quality of lecture notes and teaching methodologies are concerned) to ensure the underlying knowledge gets properly assimilated, but no and no. I have learnt so much, most notably how to be independent in my acquisition of requisite content, seeing as how the notes themselves were nothing but a sheer convoluted mess of charts and numbers which couldnt teach me jackshit, and I therefore had to fend for myself to even get by. Thankfully, external online resources and a whole lot of other school notes came to my rescue. As it is widely known, CJC's Physics notes are, let's just say, infamous for being light years away from the best, and this has been going on since time immemorial. Yet, nothing is done to refresh/improve them, like ever. Students are forced to make proper sense of the jargon-strewn pages transpiring within a voluminous binder, which, in other schools would have been succinctly shaved to less than a third. Ask any random Physics student or teacher in Singapore to have a gander at CJC's Physics notes, and they will almost immediately slam that binder shut, thinking: "May Lord have mercy on these kids". This is how bad the CJC Physics department is. Recently, I took my hour-long Physics Common Assessment 2 (CA2). Guess what, of all the uncanny coincidences in the universe, it was held right smack AFTER the last lesson of the day, which so "happened" to be a Physics tutorial. Instead of substituting this session with the test itself so our already fatigued selves could end things per the usual school timetable (plus there are those who still have CCA commitments right afterwards, hello), we were stuck in a lecture theatre for another 60 minutes attempting some mentally draining paper. Well bloody done indeed. Also, one might reasonably hope our Physics tutor would review material relevant to the impending test, maybe drop a hint or two - alas, no joy. He chose to proceed to a brand new topic. Then the results for CA2 came back. More than half of my class rocked U grades; overall speaking, the cohort performed equally shitty. I honestly wonder why. If a huge ton of the students are failing, whose fault is it, pray tell? Implying 50% of all students did not study borders on farcical. Perhaps the paper was significantly difficult, which in CJC, is a reality that almost never eventuates. That could only mean one thing: current Physics methods of instruction are utter crap. Summing up, the CJC Physics Department is demonstrably a culmination of poor administrative scheduling, inferior lecture notes, dismal pedagogy and lack of care for its students. Don't get me wrong, CJC's other subject departments aren't terrible; in particular there have been numberous plaudits going around for the Arts department. Physics though? Blech. |
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