Rethinking one’s way of teaching, studyingBy Teng Hon-yuan 鄧鴻源This year’s Advanced Subjects Test, the second round of the joint college entrance examination, was held on Friday and Saturday last week. Their main problem with the test was that its scope was too broad and the test was too subjective. Instead of denouncing the test questions, it would be better to spend more time understanding the new trends and reformulating one’s approach to teaching, Yeh said. In other words, the test questions for Citizenship and Society are not too difficult. Secondary-school education in Europe, the US and Japan does not only focus on textbooks: Students often read extracurricular books they can discuss in the classroom.
