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

In the second meeting of my Mathematical Methods One class for the first week of the first term, we had the diagnostic exam, as announced the previous session.

To my surprise, and as with the other teachers of this course, is that even though at the start we requested for a smaller maximum class size for this course of twenty-five, there were thirty plus students in each of our rooms during the test.

This included the students that have just enrolled during those first days of the start of the term, which is why the count during the week before classes started was lower.

This means there are actually more new students enrolling up to this week from those who were initially accepted (based on the entrance exam) than the numbers week or so before classes started suggested.

It’s good for the school in that there is more revenue to be had than was originally projected.

The bad news that goes along with this is that there might be more teachers needed than have been hired for now.

Instead of just putting all the MM1 classes for the freshmen at one time slot and all the Basic English classes for the same students on the next time slot, as was primarily planned, we might have to resort to juggling the students again like we did two school years ago, when both subjects were available to the students on both time slots.

As for my proctored group, there was one student who was not present the meeting before, and who asked during the diagnostic test if it was only an evaluation. Obviously, he didn’t prep for it at all.

Not that he probably would have liked it anyway if he copied and got into the “accelerated” or “honor” class even when the best “diagnosis” for him would have been in another section that requires a different pacing.

Although there are also good and bad points to a usually excelling student “playing dumb” which I could elaborate next time.

Session 1131 diagnosed low. Class dismissed.