the BAC exam July 4, 2007

My brother has the BAC (graduation from high school) exam.
And it is amazing how things change since my BAC exam, 5 years ago.

The exam at Romanian literature that time, was quite nice…i had to comment on a “opera” and i did it so well that afterwards i found out that the teachers made xerox copies from my paper because they liked my commentary:) but it was normal since i loved reading and won essays competitions back those times…

At maths on the contrary it was really horrible…they gave a subject that even country olimpycs didn’t know how to solve and i was very pissed off because back those times i was very ambitious…but also now i am ambitious…so better call it a geek:P

This year, here are the subjects:
Romanian literature:

http://subiecte2007.edu.ro/bacalaureat/subiecte/proba_A/limba_si_literatura_romana/varianta_078.html

Mathematics:

http://subiecte2007.edu.ro/bacalaureat/subiecte/proba_D/filiera_teoretica/profil_real/specializarea_stiintele_naturii/matematicaM1_2/matematicaM1_2/varianta_003.html

At the Romanian literature all the subjects are “not nice”…acceptable but not nice, and the last one!! My God! it even appeared in the news, so it is not only my opinion,
the guys that made these subjects at Romanian literature are STUPID because they ask for too much from an 18 year old brain, for the last subject you need to have read at least half a library to solve it properly!! and also to have some maturity so…i think they should have given that subject to the ones that are graduating Romanian Literature university!!!

On the other hand, the maths subject is really easy…ok, for me but anyways, there shouldn’t be marks under 8 at least in good high schools, there is no reason to have lower marks!! The subject are quite accessible and “clean”, without traps…as they used to torture us back on my times…

the conclusion to this example, and also to the way things are going in the educational reforms (taking out physics classes and introducing religion and so on …) the conclusion to the last years on education in Romania, to all this analysis, from my point of view is that: For the future, the “big guys” want Romanians to know less “exact sciences” and more “fluffy stuff”…i guess this way it is easier to be “an easy” country in EU…
…end of story:-(