Thank you for the link AbbY, I cross-checked the various papers and didn't seem to find any clash that would be... disastrous.
Actually, the other day I was having a conversation with my dean and he said the exact same thing. He said that the BC would be implementing it from next year (didn't mention if June or November session). He said they're doing this to cut down on the recent retake culture.
I did ask him regarding students who wanted to appear for subjects that the school does not offer. He told me that he wasn't sure exactly how this new policy was going to be implemented.
Though I'm curious, why not give Math through your school too? I'm pretty sure it is offered there. Just register through your school instead of registering privately.
Well, shit? Oh god, I hope that's not true.
I did study Math during A1 but sadly my grade for the finals was U. So my school struck me off the rollcall. But I do have reasons to *justify* my failure to obtain a passable grade:
Unlike my friends I was assigned to a class which had a male teacher who is very old. And I am sure you know old people aren't that efficient and good teachers, in Pakistan especially. The teacher is especially famous around in LGS. My brother and friends' friends who had done A'levels had told me to change my section if I ever get put in that sir's class. So I did as they said, went to the principal on two different days during the first week when we could get sections changed. I waited for a whole 2 hours each freaking time even though I was the earliest person because freaking favoritism god damn it! On both occasions I was turned down with "Sorry beta, we change the sections of students to give them better teachers. But I can't transfer you to Sir Amjad's class because there are no empty seats." Sir Amjad is the most famous Maths teacher in our school. But guess what? She lied to me both times. I asked my friends if there were free seats and they said without doubt there were, more than a few seats. And I was so pissed off that she turned me down and I had no hope of getting my section changed now. Our principal is very famous for her brash behaviour and she is called many names in our school like "Faiqa Don". My school's whole student council hurls abuses to her because she is that bad and same goes for the policies she has for school. But moving on, a class fellow of mine went to the principal to get his section changed to Sir Amjad's class and his was changed, during the fourth week, way after I went. He told me that Faiqa did it because she knew him personally and that there were guys behing him who wanted their sections changed to Sir Amjad but they were turned down. Okay. Then my neighbour transferred to JT from LGS Paragon a month after mid-term ended and she gave him a choice to select his teachers. WTF?! While everyone else was put into sections randomly. He chose Sir Amjad, and voila, he's in. I was all wtf at that again. Oh btw, I forgot to mention that she promised me and had written my name in her notebook to transfer me to Sir Amjad's class whenever there are free seats. lol, right!
Sir Taji essentially taught like this. Picture that there is a blank board with Sir Taji next to it and a young kid on the verge of learning alphabets. Sir Taji would write the english alphabets on the board and say "seekh lo".
He did one basic, starting question from an excercise all the while skipping steps in between and telling the students to do rest of the exercise. When someone asked him to do this specific question or explain it he would say "karo, aa jae ga".
So that spoiler above was my story, here in this spoiler are the impressions of some people on Sir Taji who was my teacher:
- One day when I was in class Sir Taji asked the students: "Whoever has taken Add. Maths, raise your hands!" And those who had taken Add. Maths did so. When he took a good look he said: "Yar, unhon nay saray nikammay mujhay hi denay thay?" Yes, this actually happened. How would I have known that taking Add. Maths was a prerequisite to A'level Maths? Most of the students there had taken Add. Maths so they got a headstart.
- Saif-ur-Rehman the student who graduated this year and who got two world distinctions in Maths and Add. Maths himself said: "Yar mujhay Sir Taji ki samajh bilkul nahi lagti. Khud kar kar kay Maths aur Further Maths ki humnay."
- My brother and neighbours of a close friend of mine told me to change my section if I was ever in Sir Taji's section because according to them: "You would only suffer if you study from Sir Taji".
- Most of the people I had talked to in Sir Taji's class had taken tuition and/or they went to academies that's why the class got a generally-talking good result. Unfortunately I was unable to study from the tutor I studied my O'level Maths from since he was busy and I could not go to academies since like I mentioned before, I live very far away and I had no driver to take me anywhere. Not to mention my timings e.g. I have to sit free for 7 1/2 hours for 2 1/2 classes on thursday. Going back takes about an hour so on Thursdays I reach home after 5 p.m. and everyday I have to sleep since I come back on a rickshaw. Because if I don't I get sleepy during classes and teachers scold me. So academies were a no-win situation for me.
- A classmate of mine told me that when he went to academy for Maths last year that there were around 25 boys there as well. He went on to tell me that: "Udhar sub students Sir Taji kay thay."
Anyway, he was an awful teacher. At two different instances (months apart btw) about 65-70% of the boys went to complain about Sir Taji and they were paid no heed. Worst thing was that the principal wrote down their names and told about this to the teacher. And everyday in class started and ended with the teacher humiliating those boys. Pretty nice, right? He went personal as well most of the time. Going as far to call a "tum mental ho?" continuously for a month.
In short everyone hates him, badmouths him and majority of the students are taking tuitions. I couldn't take tuitions during A1 and neither did I study Add. Maths so yeah. For e.g. my school on thursday starts at 8:00 and ends at 4:00 though I only have two classes totalling 3 hours.
I went to class everyday promising myself "I am going to something today, anything. No matter what". Every day I did that. But I didn't learn shit. I even started to dislike the subject because of him.
My story is something like that. I got lied to by my principal two times, had to study from a teacher that doesn't teach and my struck of the rollcall but those fuckers are still taking money for it. Hahaha, great job! At least I have scholarship so it's not that bad. But still.
So, AbbY should I call British Council and ask them about this policy? I have emailed BC and CIE though, but who knows when or if they are even going to respond.
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