Malaysia’s education weaknesses

Malaysia’s education: Can it get worse?  I believed by my own perspectives there are significant weaknesses in the system.

            Students often are required to memorize facts and formula in their classes.  Often teachers gave a lot of facts and formula for students to memorize.  The students will then be tested with the memorizing skills through multiple choice questions and short answer type of questions.  All we see is students who are really good in memorizing facts or formula while do not know how to apply their skills to solve tomorrow’s problem.

       Another related problem is students are often asked to learn how to write exams instead of learning. How many parents send their children to tuition centre hopefully they can do well in exams?  How many teachers teach their students how to write exams instead of passing knowledge to the students?  No doubt doing well in exams are important, but it should not be overlooked since doing well in exams does not guarantee one’s success in their lives.

            Ranking system is another big problem.  Students are ranked each year among their grade and they are placed in classes from the highest score students to the lowest score students.  Another problem of the education system is the huge amount of school works being assigned to students each day. Students are required to do lots of homework.  Homework is good, but too much does not make you smarter.  In fact, it is taking the time away from them to study and to do other outdoor activities.