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[repulsewarrior]

the children could not understand the question. aint that something?

Did YOU understand it??

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Students taking the exams had complained that the essay question, which referred to the effects the economic crisis has had on Cyprus, was too difficult.
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its an assay ffs not a theorem in maths which can only be one answer.

the reason why it is the cause of the problem is something you did not understand. this is the system that created you and the people before you as well. and you wonder why we have the problem for 60 years.

For an 18 year old??? At a time that PHD holders could find it hard to write an essay on this topic?

Regardless, the reasons the students failed it's because they don't give a shit about exams anymore.
It is not how it used to be reading 18/24 one years syllabus to succeed in the exams. What for? School doesn't worth it anymore, and neither is College education. College education in becoming teachers used to be the number 1 option before, today there are more than 1000 unemployed teachers.
anything the new generation might try at school will only lead to one thing:Unemployment. So what's the point???
Furthermore the exams grade weight is only 25% of their final grade. If their other 3 grades are 60-60-60 then they pass by just writing their names in an empty exam sheet...
Neeeeext

...true, well said.

[repulsewarrior]

young Cypriots nowadays sound and look like idiots.....In the past when a Cypriot went off to college he already had taken courses in high school for the first year of college. Almost all of the ones I knew were well ahead in Physics, Chemistry and Math.

...i can't judge the youth generally in Cyprus today, but talking about what was, this is true in any case.

[Nikitas]

The vast majority of French students of English today failed to translate the simple English word "cope". And that proves what about the French education system or the quality of French students or teachers?

The report was all over the net, with lots of English glee at French incompetence etc. Sound familiar?

[Lordo]

no it does not. thats one language to another. this is about their own country at present. if they cannot articulate what they see at their level of language just goes to show how shallow your education system is. you are not teaching these children to think to analyse or to conclude. you are just filling them with myths and lies.

[Pyrpolizer]

no it does not. thats one language to another. this is about their own country at present. if they cannot articulate what they see at their level of language just goes to show how shallow your education system is. you are not teaching these children to think to analyse or to conclude. you are just filling them with myths and lies.

If it were so, then they would write an essay full of myths and lies you idiot,that would not only get the teachers' approval but also give them top grades.

[Lordo]

no it does not. thats one language to another. this is about their own country at present. if they cannot articulate what they see at their level of language just goes to show how shallow your education system is. you are not teaching these children to think to analyse or to conclude. you are just filling them with myths and lies.

If it were so, then they would write an essay full of myths and lies you idiot,that would not only get the teachers' approval but also give them top grades.

thats the prublem as my yanke friends would say. they were not asked to repeat the lies.