{"id":508,"date":"2009-09-18T23:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-18T23:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laimayleng.com\/blog\/?p=508"},"modified":"2024-09-06T16:45:32","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T08:45:32","slug":"magic-pill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/magic-pill\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic Pill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, without fail I will have a some last minutes students year 6, Form 3 and Form 5 signing up at my tuition centre. I shan&#8217;t complain since its generating income to me.<\/p>\n<p>What frustrates me is definitely not the sudden flow of  money but the attitude of Malaysian youth.<\/p>\n<p>What are the expectations of such youth attending classes 2 or 1 month before the major examinations ?<\/p>\n<p>It has become a norm for me when a new student enroll in the subjects below, I perform an assessment.<\/p>\n<p>Year 6 &#8211; Math, a timetable quiz<br \/>Year 6, Form 3 and 5 &#8211; English, sentence writing comprising of words such as eat, eats, ate, eating<br \/>Year 6, Form 3 and 5 &#8211; BM, free style essay writing with minimum words of 120<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, most last minute intakes fail miserably during the assessment. So, where should I begin in my lesson? Should I teach or revise? Revision is of no use. That&#8217;s a fact.<\/p>\n<p>I wish I have a magic pill for these students. They come and go like the wind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, without fail I will have a some last minutes students year 6, Form 3 and Form 5 signing up at my tuition centre. I shan&#8217;t complain since its generating income to me. What frustrates me is definitely not the sudden flow of money but the attitude of Malaysian youth. What are the expectations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-in-a-days-work","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1271,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions\/1271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}