So this problem has been bugging me since yesterday and I would like to use this opportunity to practice my speech writing...

Teachers...they like to ask questions that sometimes you can't help but say no...
eg.
Teacher: Would you still take HMTL despite the fact that you won't get a bonus of -2 marks and plus the fact that you still had to continue taking MTL in JC for an extra 1 year?

Now i can say,almost 80...no...90% of the HMTL students would say a 'no',why?
Because it's not worth wasting time on it!!!

I mean,why would you bother to make your life so difficult by choosing HMTL which gives a high amount of pressure but no rewards in the end instead of taking up MTL whose standards are lower and had a better chance of scoring a distinction?

So in other words...the teachers basically wants us to take up HMTL because of the passion within us,not the rewards given...which I think is rather unfeasible or worst...unrealistic.

Why do I say that?Because many of us Singaporeans,besides being 'kiasu' and 'kiasi',majority of us still has got one more thing-->Reward-Driven

So let the School be Business Industry,the subjects be Investments and the grades be Profit/Losses

Anyone who enters the business industry,all they want is to maximize the profits,so that they would not lose out as with more profits,they are able to invest on the things they wanted...

So now because of a slight miscalculation(which is the people who did not get distinction for MTL last year),they are now left with 2 choices:to continue investing on a high risk product(HMTL) or let go of it and continue with a more stable investment(MTL)

so now the problem is,what if this high risk investment promises no extra profits as compared the other investment?Any business man/woman who has common sense,would have let go of it immediately,since it's just a "high risk,no high profit" investments!

So isn't it right to say that teachers sometimes asked stupid...or even redundant questions sometimes?

Before I end my words,I would like to ask you all,"With the teachers asking a question that only leads to a 'no',should we even approach them with regards to the subjects?"