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Originally Posted by Unregistered
Grading without a bell curve does not mean it is less strict. That depends on the marking standard doesn't it.
A bell curve makes exams more competitive but it does not relate to the individual peformance of a particular candidate.
The focus overseas in on maximising one's potential, while the focus in NUS is to rise among your peers. The reason why many think NUS will always be better (I feel) is because of the Asian "my child is smarter than your child" way of looking at life. It may be a simplistic view, but it does resonate with each country's culture.
Granted NUS only takes in the smartest of each cohort and the bell curve makes examinations there very brutal. |
whether one maximises one's potential is a personal choice that can be done in singapore or overseas.
People on this forum seem to like to paint overseas graduate as more exposed and
NUS /Local grads as plain academics. But the truth of the matter is that an overseas education does not equal maximising one's potential. The truth of the matter is there are many overseas graduate who went there just for the degree and some maintain a singapore lifestyle all through their undergraduate years. Of course those who went overseas for the experience, making that deliberate decision will have a likelier chance to maximise one's potential.
So really, it is silly that people on this forum keep playing up the overseas education and that everyone who goes overseas has the same great experience of maximising one's potential. Sad truth is that there are a large number of people who went over to get a degree.
For those who still don't believe in this, I challenge you to go read up on local graduates who are national sports athletes at the elite level while balancing their studies.(just one of the many examples_ If these people are not maximising one's potential , then I don't know what is.