Streaming, exams are OK

13 May 2019

Article featured the Straits Times-Singapore University of Social Sciences survey where 60 per cent of millennials felt that it was appropriate for students to be routed into the Special, Express and Normal streams in secondary school. Similarly, eight in 10 of the respondents complained that the Primary School Leaving Examination creates a lot of stress for students, but at the same time, 73 per cent said the exam should stay. When asked about these findings during the focus group discussions with two groups, it emerged that it was their parents who are stressed out over exams and streaming. Millennials, themselves, saw examinations as an appropriate way to stream students. SP’s Diploma in Human Resource Management with Psychology student Liang Ge Song opined how streaming allowed him to discover that he is a kinesthetic learner.

[The Straits Times]