Student "edition" found at {csi dot journalspace dot com}.

Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

First class for the first period of the first day of the first term of the new school year is Mathematical Methods One.

I couldn't do much in the class, because we have the diagnostic exam tomorrow (first time in two years we're implementing this again) and then there will be the shuffle again among the students of all three classes.

All I imparted on them, in case they wanted to study up for the diagnostic, was the title of the standard textbook for the subject.

Thankfully no one asked if the divisions will be according to the similar scores in the diagnostic. Or is it already an unspoken understood concept?

Anyway, one difference between what we did two years ago and this year is that back then, the diagnostic exam was given at once on the first day of classes, without any warning on the part of the students.

This time around there is the possibility that if they study a bit too much for the test, they might be placed in a section whose pace is a bit above their natural abilities to cope.

On the other hand, the English One teachers, instead of having a diagnostic test like they did two years ago also, just relied on the scores of the incoming freshmen in their entrance exams, and those that have a slight dip in the communication proficiency with respect to the others were automatically enrolled in an additional Basic English subject, before they can take English One.

We Math teachers had the option of also coming up with a Math Zero subject, but we decided against it, since it seems to conflict with the reason why the MM1 class already meets for six hours a week, if they need more exercises like the M0 class.

For my part, it's still an experiment, and I will be able to note by the end of the term if the diagnostic has been successful from the number of passing students in all of the sections laterally, given how the teachers will be going at different paces depending on the scores of their students in the diagnostic.

Session 1127 got a low score in the diagnostic exam. Class dismissed.