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Instead, that free time should be used to allow students to pursue new skills, interests or even hobbies beyond what was being taught in school. He said that based on the students’ feedback, if the extra free time were used to focus on the more commonly perceived yardstick of success - which is academic grades -the stress does not necessarily decrease, but might “paradoxically increase”. The students added that they would be in worse shape than before. rather than just aiming for 90 marks for the whole syllabus”. The students told him that he would have to be careful because it would mean that everybody would be trying to “ace the remaining half (of the subjects). He had asked the students how they would feel if the Ministry of Education (MOE) decided to cut their subject syllabus by half. To illustrate his point, he recounted a conversation he had with some secondary school and junior college students and the answers they gave him were very revealing about the “culture behind education” in Singapore. SINGAPORE - Society needs to adopt a broader definition of success if it hopes to relieve some of the stress that students feel from being put through Singapore’s education system, Education Minister Chan Chun Sing said during a virtual forum on Monday (Aug 16). This way, society can be much more diverse and much more resilient, he added.Mr Chan said the definition of success in Singapore must be changed to allow students time to pursue other interests.

He based this on feedback students gave him, that they would use the extra free time to ace the subjects.Education Minister Chan Chun Sing said cutting the school syllabus may paradoxically increase the stress students face.
