Serious 238 A-Level Chemistry Exam Scripts Stolen In 2017! MOE Now Then Tell Us! Ng Chee Meng Where?

[JohnTan]

SINGAPORE: A total of 238 students from four junior colleges who sat for their GCE A-Level examinations last year had part of their H2 Chemistry answer scripts stolen in the United Kingdom, before the papers were delivered to the examiners.

As a result, the final grades for the students were derived through a projection, the Singapore Examinations and Assessment Board (SEAB) revealed on Friday (Feb 23).

The students, who received their results on Friday, are from Anderson JC, Anglo-Chinese JC, Hwa Chong Institution and Nanyang JC.

The stolen scripts were for Paper 3, which consists of free-response questions and carries a weightage of 35 per cent of the entire H2 Chemistry examination.

The H2 Chemistry exam consists of four papers – Paper 1 which has multiple choice questions, Paper 2 which has structured questions, Paper 3, as well as Paper 4 which is a practical assessment. The 238 students make up about 3 per cent of the 8,843 school candidates who took the A-Level Chemistry exam at H2 level last year.

HOW THE PAPERS WERE STOLEN


The exam scripts were stolen on Nov 16 in the UK while they were in transit from Cambridge Assessment’s office to the examiner for marking.

A parcel containing the scripts – 60 each from Anglo-Chinese JC, Hwa Chong Institution and Nanyang JC, and 58 from Anderson JC – was stolen from a locked courier company van, along with seven other unrelated parcels

Read more at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/new...papers-stolen-238-students-from-4-jcs-9984934

 

[Rogue Trader]

Stupid parcel thieves must be kicking themselves for stealing something so worthless

 

[Hangover]

They cry because Singapore education system teaches them to study and forget after emails?

 

[Hangover]

SINGAPORE — Collecting their A-level results on Friday (Feb 23), 238 students were told that their exam scripts for one of their H2 Chemistry papers had been stolen while being delivered to an examiner for grading in the UK, the first time such an incident had occurred.

However, the affected students from Anderson Junior College, Anglo-Chinese Junior College, Hwa Chong Institution and Nanyang Junior College were still able to collect their results as they were graded based on their performance on the other three papers.

http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/238-level-chemistry-exam-scripts-stolen-last-year-seab

 

[JohnTan]

And yet with over 200 exam papers stolen, we've achieved the 2nd best A-level results in history. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Ministers Ng Chee Meng and Ong Ye Kung for their leadership, without whom this set of fine results would not have been possible.

SINGAPORE: A larger percentage of students who sat for last year’s GCE A-Level examinations scored at least three Higher 2 (H2) passes, with a pass in General Paper or Knowledge and Inquiry, according to results released by the Ministry of Education (MOE) and Singapore Examinations and Assessment Board (SEAB) on Friday (Feb 23).

According to the press release, 12,502 candidates took the examinations last year. Of those, 93 per cent – or 11,624 students - received at least three Higher 2 (H2) passes, with a pass in General Paper or Knowledge and Inquiry.

This performance is an improvement from the 92.6 per cent achieved by the 2016 cohort, and just shy of the record 93.1 per cent achieved by the 2015 cohort.


Read more at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/new...e-students-score-at-least-3-h2-passes-9984582

 

[sweetiepie]

my uncle say steal exam paper got use meh steal lunch better mah.

 

[Hangover]

my uncle say steal exam paper got use meh steal lunch better mah.

Your uncle told me that Singapore is don't deserve to be the most transparent country in Asia, the affected students only knew their options on the day of results-release. No MOE staff need to be responsible?

https://www.transparency.org/news/feature/corruption_perceptions_index_2017

 

[JohnTan]

Your uncle told me that Singapore is don't deserve to be the most transparent country in Asia, the affected students only knew their options on the day of results-release. No MOE staff need to be responsible?

https://www.transparency.org/news/feature/corruption_perceptions_index_2017

Theresa May and Sadiq Khan should be held responsible. We should demand compensation!

 

[sweetiepie]

Your uncle told me that Singapore is don't deserve to be the most transparent country in Asia, the affected students only knew their options on the day of results-release. No MOE staff need to be responsible?

https://www.transparency.org/news/feature/corruption_perceptions_index_2017

my uncle say like that quite transparent liao. he say if not they can even anyhow give fake transcript based on the estimated student performance and sweep under the carpet. he also say they never mention those students that did badly who laughing now this one not transparent enough.

 

[halsey02]

How can anything be locked be stolen?...sound like our CPF ha ha ha ha..maybe? for example like from CPF to MOF....ha ha ha ha...

 

[rushifa666]

In other words the exam is just a scam. Since we can anyhow guess, might as well just take one paper instead of 4