First Shot: A Commentary Discussing the Scraping of CCTs

I agree that CCTs should be scraped.

First of all, students are stressed by every CCT that they have to take. My personal experience (as a Sec 3 student, no less) says that I get tensed up due to nervousness before every test. This nervousness would usually make us perform worse than expected, and there would be pressure from parents to do better next time. Secondly, CCTs often contain erroneous questions. This would cause students to waste time finding answers which never existed. I still remember a certain Chinese CCT for which I spent 10 minutes trying to find the answer to a 2 mark question. However, in the end, it was 'an erroneous question' and I had lacked the time to properly answer the rest of the paper. This shows that erroneous questions would make a test an unfair platform to gage the students' standards, and given the frequency of it occuring in a CCT in comparison to a normal Class Test, this further shows that CCTs have a need to be scraped.