Critical+Analysis

__PROS__ =)

//Test/Streaming//
 * Easiest way to identify students with ability
 * Able to focus and channel more resources into grooming talented individuals
 * Students' intelligence stimulated from young
 * Talents are cultivated from young
 * Students grow up focused and career-minded
 * Highly effective
 * Motivate students to work hard
 * Fair way of accessing students
 * Allow students weaker in studies to pick up an alternative skill or talent besides studying

//Elective programmes/Sports school//
 * Groom students creativity and talent in other areas apart from academics
 * Provides students with special talents a chance to persue their passion
 * Provide future workforce for the industries that are highly specific and demending in skill

//CCA/CIP/Project work//
 * Groom students to become all-rounded talents
 * Trains the analytical skills of students

__CONS__ =\ //Cirriculum//
 * Children are put to education at such a young age, not given freedom
 * Stifling; students usually have to obey the norms
 * Great stress and pressure put on students amidst competition and acedamics
 * "Talents" discovered through academics does not equal to working well in society

//Exam/Streaming//
 * Practice of elitism
 * Discrimination based on intelligence
 * Some may miss out on more than others
 * Highly stressed students due to intensive competition
 * Parents become “kia-su” and send their children to tuitions and interest classes
 * Specific streaming causes students to develop arrogance and others, depression
 * Academic results might not have a direct link to a student's ability