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.