April 21, 2022

The Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education Examination starts tomorrow. The Secretary for Education, Mr. Yeung Yun-hsiung, specially posted on social networking sites yesterday, calling on enterprises and citizens to use flexible hours to work as much as possible in the first two weeks of the HKDSE examination, avoiding the busy time of 6:30 to 8:30. This will allow candidates to travel freely when they go to the examination room.

Looking through the information, it turns out that at this time of year, both the Secretary for Education and the Chief Secretary for Administration will come out to speak the same words and make the same appeal.

If it’s routine, change it; if it’s social values, fix it.

A DSE candidate is generally seventeen or eighteen years old, adult or close to adulthood. In a public exam, in addition to testing knowledge, it also tests life. How to deal with this exam? In addition to the preparation in the warm book, mental preparation is also very important.

Because the test site is generally not compiled in the school you are studying, it may even be a school in other districts that you have never heard of. Those who are serious regarding the test will go to “stepping the line” a few days in advance to see if you will take a ride from home. what car? Where to change trains? How long will it take? How is the road condition? How far are you going to get off? …Many candidates will even choose to take a test walk in the morning during the exam to ensure that they are safe.

That is a lesson in life. It will test your attitude, your preparation time, and if there is an emergency such as a traffic accident, it will test your IQ, EQ and resilience. This lesson is to teach you that life is impermanent, and you are obviously very warm. It may be that you regretted your test paper because you took the wrong car.

We often tell our children: Studying is not regarding getting grades. One test cannot determine life and death, so please combine words and deeds. If an exam requires the whole society to make way for it and the whole human race to stop for it, it is no wonder that the next generation of self-centeredness will be taught.

The exams are being exposed, and all reworkers have to give way. What kind of values ​​are these? The government can recommend increasing the frequency of public transport, but it should not ask everyone to “quiet and avoid” like the emperor’s patrol. The world should not stop for anyone. Candidates going to unfamiliar exam rooms to take exams are actually part of their studies. What’s more, nowadays society is affluent and transportation is convenient. If troubles really happen, raise your hand and jump on a taxi, there is always a way to save it. Why deprive students of life lessons early?
Qu Yingyan