Provincial Exams

Today's weather:  High = 34 Low = 27

Sunny and humid

 

Students are writing their provincial exams, and I just happened to "check in on things" and to "take note" of anything of interest while students were doing the exam.  As of 2007, the BC government no longer releases past provincial exams to the public as they used to.  Instead, they rely on "secure exams" and repeat so-called anchor questions from year after year.  Meanwhile, there is a sample exam question bank available online for students to do their studying from, but it bears little resemblance to what is actually being tested

 

Overall the exam wasn't too hard, but the questions I thought were rather strange.  Nonetheless, myself and a few other teachers took down some detailed notes and those notes are being added to the question bank that we've developed over the past several years since 2007.

 

Actually, the provincial exams are no longer required for students back in BC.  They are still required for offshore schools, as are the ones in China were we teach.  Unfortunately, I think the whole thing is a waste of taxpayer dollars, but that's just one of many reasons why I don't pay tax back home.