SPM Students Suffer

It is proven again and again that the ordinary people ultimately suffer when the policy-makers and civil servants are inept.

This is a simple case of examination time-tabling, (or mis-time-tabling) The SPM is a major national exam, affecting thousands of students.

Let's see - this is the schedule for Nov 18:

Add Math Paper 1 8 - 10 am
Add Math Paper 2 10:30 - 1 pm
Moral Education 2:30 - 5 pm

Good job, civil servants.

In the first place, how can the Additional Math Paper 1 and 2 be scheduled on the same day? With just half an hour apart between the two papers? This makes a mockery of why there should be Paper 1 and 2. Essentially, it is 4.5 hours of straight math. My gut feel is that the people organizing the time table have never taken Math seriously nor are they good at it. That's why they probably do not know that Math requires Thinking and Concentration.

Worse, in the afternoon the students have to sit for the Moral Education paper. This paper can be organized to another day (19th Nov), as somebody has suggested, without any clash.

This is another example of how citizens suffer as they go about their daily lives when the civil servants do not think. I can think of countless other examples, starting with how traffic is organized, but that will mean writing until the cows come home.

Please-la, THINK, THINK, THINK!