Scrap the CCTs. I don't think so.

Speak the alphabets - C, C and T together among rafflesians and you'll get a moan or a series of complaints. Yes, common class tests ARE abundant, like it or not, and for many reasons cannot and will never be scrapped. No matter what.

First of all, I would like to point out the fact that CCTs are like a recap for the topics that have been studied in the term. Rafflesians all have a busy time schedule, throw in the extremely informative lessons that they have, they tend to forget what they've learnt very easily. With the CCTs around, students would be forced to study for the high-weightage paper to prevent themselves from failing. This drills the many weeks of lessons into their heads and (hopefully) stores it there. Some may complain that this is difficult to cope with, but for the better good of students, CCTs cannot be scrapped.

Next, CCTs would be good training for rafflesians, who would be taking their 'A' levels at the end of their 6 year raffles programme course. As it is now, there are only two major papers each year for RI students, the mid-year-examinations and the end-of-year examinations. Based on a report sent from RJC in 2007, RI students are not doing well in their 'A' levels due to the fact that they lack experience sitting for maror pen-and-paper examinations. Therefore, if only two examination papers are set each year, the results would drop even more tremendously. Therefore, with CCTs, there would be more training for students so that they can be prepared for the 'A' level papers.

Therefore, as much as each and every students want CCTs to be scapped, I think that we should stick to the current situation as it is now. CCTs bring more benefints, albeit it may be stressful to students with busy schedules. Right now, the results of this system has brought about the outstanding performances in RI(JC)'s 'A' level results. Why change a winning strategy? CCTs should not be scrapped at all costs.

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Drugs may give a bad impression to those who come across the word, however, it is not all that bad, and I think soft drugs like marijuana should be legalised.

Soft drugs, as most of us know, are harmful. But they might be useful in some ways. For example in pain killers, medical marijuana is sometimes used to relieve pain. The marijuana that is available on the black market is somewhat the same, just that it hasn't been processed and legalised yet. If drugs can be used for medical use (sometimes patients get addicted while receiving treatment and request doctors to prescribe them with marijuna to "relieve pain"), why not legalise it as well?

Next, soft drugs can be closely related to gambling as well. Both cause addiction, and both started out as something illegal. However, gambling is now legalised and the oppurtunity given to the privilledged who can afford to go casinoes. Therefore, soft drugs can also be legalised in the same way. Giving only the privilledged oppurtunity to smoke soft drugs.

Sometimes the solutions to curbing illegal sale to soft drugs is staring right at our faces, just that most people are too afraid to carry them out...

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What is and exposition?

There are many forms of writing an essay about a particular topic, like argumentative essays and such. One type of essay would be expository essays.

Firstly, on how expository differs from all other types of essays, is that it is trying to explain and expose (the name derives from this word) a particular topic. Not only does an expository essay tries to win the readers favour, it is also striving to PROVE to the reader why so-and-so is true. With the help of well supported evidences and analogies, the writer must explain clearly to readers the truth, leaving the least hint of suspicion in their minds.

To write an expository essay, there must first be a well in placed structure. That is, the introduction, body and conclusion of the expository essay.

In the introduction, the thesis statement and a brief overview will be presented. The thesis statements explanation coupled with evidences will all be presented in a single part of the essay we all call the body. This will be the key to winning the reader to the writer's side of the argument and to explain thoroughly what the topic is about. The essay will then end with a conclusion to sum up what has been written and end off well enough so that readers would get an impactful feeling of the essay, further solidifying their views of the written topic.