Criticisms of the VCE

[kyzoo]

Do you really want to embrace your bad habits? Don't you want to change them and improve?

[crappy]

And please note that some of the posts here have been praising the VCAA, saying the system is as good as it can be - that's worshipping. Purely because they're blind to the flaws.

By that statement, I hope you live a good life. It sounds like you may end up giving yourself some sort of depression or other, everything has flaws. Soon you'll start complaining about university and its flawed system, the entire education system, the job market, trying to find a man for your life, the workplace, the husband, the government and taxes, pregnancy and hospitals, raising a child, childcare, going back to work, their schooling, the wave-particle duality of matter, gravity waves, grand unification theory, higgs boson, the big bang, God...

For everything else, there's MasterCard.

Yep I complain a lot. It's a bad habit of mine but hey, everyone has bad habits.

me too. but I know when to stop.

[kamil9876]

English skills are universal to all courses as many have shown so far.

It's more useful in a Pure maths degree than maths methods. (no sarcasm)

[Ahmad]

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[ninwa]

So tell me, is this creativity so important that we need it in the most important year of our schooling? Some people lack creativity. It's not their fault. Seriously, how does writing a story help me in Commerce?

Because you will need to write essays in commerce.

Because the best essays do not involve mere regurgitation of the textbooks, but rather show some measure of creativity, of original thinking, of innovation.

I don't know how you can dictate what university students need when you haven't even started.

People like me aren't allowed to exhibit weakness in this subject.

Refer to enwiabe's post, which tells the story of the fact that English never used to be in the top 4 but it was changed because universities were complaining about the calibre of graduates they were receiving.

Everyone else is allowed to have a subject in which they are weak, but it won't affect them as badly as it can go in their bottom two.

What a massively stupid generalisation. Already in this thread alone there have been two exceptions to that contention: for both Mao and I, our lowest study scores were 38. For both of us, that 38 was part of our top 4.

And I don't care if it sounds as though I'm bitching because frankly it's my opinion about the system. I thought this thread would be wonderful to vent my frustration but of course with wonderful contributors like ninwa and Mao, arguments are bound to happen.

Note that this thread was entitled "Criticisms of the VCE", not "my personal grudge toward the system which treated me unfairly therefore it is bad".

If you are suggesting that my contributions have been worthless, then go back and actually address my arguments. (But of course you're not going to do that because it does not further your agenda of making yourself out to be the victim.)


To everyone else: I'm sorry for my part in so massively derailing this thread. Arrogance is one of my pet peeves and I couldn't help responding to such a high level of it as exhibited in this thread. But anyway... /bows to Ahmad's decision