Sunday, December 24, 2006

 

Interesting New AJC Website

Anon alerted me to the fact that the new AJC website design that had been under development secretly since long before June holidays this year is finally up.

I was looking around the website, and notice certain "interesting" content on the site.

Look at
http://schools.moe.edu.sg/ajc/academic/results05.htm
PW 2005 Results

84.5% of our cohort of students achieved at least Band 2, against the National Average of 76.9%.
100% of our cohort of students achieved at least Band 3.

There is censorship of data. From my knowledge, less than 10% of students actually get band 1! This was conveniently left out and not mentioned on its website. Also, 2 A & 2 AO (with General Paper) passes: 95.0%
Wow! Fantastic school! 1 out of every 20 students fail. That similar to 1  A Level failure per class. And that is when AJC "draws from top 5%~15%" of Secondary school graduates? Talk about value addedness =D.

Also compare the 2005 results with that of 2004's

Notice how 3 A & 2 AO (with General Paper) passes and 3 A& 2 AO (with/without General Paper) passes have been quietly left out in 2005? Another case of censorship and not letting your potential students who visit the website to find more about AJC not know about AJC's failure? What an honest website.

Lets go over to this.
I find it amazing that under the Outstanding Achievements of AJ Graduates section, you can see that those achievements or awards were hand over to these AJ graduates many years after they have graduated? Can their achievements be linked directly to effort or success of AJC? I think not. If I become very successful 10 years down the road, will the Pre-School, Primary School, Secondary School, Junior College, NS Platoon Commander, University that I went to claim credit and advertise that they had "produced" such a successful individual like me? In some cases, this is all just bullshit.

Even AJ's AV Technician winning the Best Service Award can be advertised by AJ on its website. This is thick skinned to the core on the part of AJ.

And what's this?
So far I received uncountable copies of the exact same email, asking me to sign up with them, pay a small fee so that I can get this membership card. What a good idea to get people to buy a worthless piece of card that means nothing. There is absolutely no mention on the use of the card in those emails. I'm better off buying a Maplestory pre-paid card. Roughly the same price too.

And also this bunch of "under construction" pages. Whee. Notice how every aspect of JC education is seem by AJC as their "Niche" areas. Please make up your own damn mind. Or is it that AJC is equally bad at every of those aspects?

Wah, on the subject of under construction, someone here must really be sleeping. Knock knock! Wake up!

And here comes my favourite section. I shall post a corrected copy of the list of facilities here.

Teaching & Learning Facilities
red Some classrooms with LAN points, visualisers & LCD projectors
red Science laboratories with life science equipment
red 5.5 (one of it was half a room with < 10 terminals) computer laboratories
red 5 lecture theatres
red 800-seater auditorium with AV room (while a cohort is around 900+ people, leading to people sitting on stairs and floors)
red Study benches located at any empty common areas
red Air-conditioned examination hall
red Air-conditioned (noisy) reading room
red Library & media resource centre housing zero variety of materials & PCs (Only two shelves of english fiction books, half a shelve of tapes, etc)
red ElementZ North Cluster Science and Technology Centre (ElementZ only use the AJC campus. AJCians won't be and can't make use of it.)
red Wireless network at selected locations within college (that doesn't work)

Sports & Recreational Facilities
red Competition-standard athletics track
red Soccer field
red Weight room (with 100% rusty handles and arm grips)
red 4 netball, 3 basketball, 3 tennis, 3 badminton courts
red Multi-purpose indoor gymnasium (There is a multi-purpose hall, but where got gymnasium?)
red Abandoned Rock-wall (used once in a blue moon by ODAC members only)
red Dance studio & special rooms for a few CCAs (Many CCAs do not even have their own activity/storerooms)
red Air-conditioned student's lounge

Other Facilities
red College messaging system for enhanced communication (This refers to PA system that every government schools have)
red Camera surveillance system at selected area to prevent students from using the air-con remote in classrooms when teachers are not around (There was a camera in my classroom, and the Operational Manager later move it to point at the Air-Con Remote Storage Box to frighten students from using the Air-Con when teachers are not around. The camera was dutifully ignored, and nothing happened. Are those real cameras?)
red Spacious parade square (Its an extended carpark)
red Galleries showcasing our vision, mission, values and history (Wow, what a useful facility)
red Garden fountain (That is seldom turned on?)


Finally, here

Count the total number of CCAs there are. It is roughly the same as the number of Clubs and Societies CCAs in RJC.

Comments:
nice post lol... the real AJ revealed :P
 
o705 and a heaven haven been updated in a long time. hint hint
 
Censorship of data? or selective reporting?
 
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