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Highway to success by Charles Dube
Emap online Form One intake registration has come and gone for the successful applicants, but leaving behind groans and mourns to the unsuccessful. The path has not been smooth sailing for many. Many parents, guardians and students alike have had sleepless nights. The system has not been favourable to them. They have found it difficult to accept the outcome.
Accepted, the programme has had a lot of hiccups and these have been beyond the school authorities power of jurisdiction.
In most cases the network has been a challenge. Some schools had problems in opening the portal hence delaying in selecting students who applied to come to their schools. However, from my view, there is a lot of education for the public to understand how the whole thing works.
There is a lot of mudslinging out there with school authorities accused of favouritism which is unfair to them as selection is strictly done on line. Technology is good but it has its own disadvantages. As people we should be conscious to the fact that schools have limited vacancies and cannot absorb all students who apply to them.
It is hard for the unsuccessful people to accept these sad realities.
Successful parents and guardians should make sure that they secure their places by meeting the requirements to avoid inconveniences of losing places.
From my understanding this online platform was designed to eliminate suspected cases of favouritism witnessed in some cases through acceptance from entrance tests, whether real or imagined the online measure was brought in to curb such nefarious activities.
However, as stated earlier on, the current system requires holistic approach from both the Government and the public. Through technology I believe the system can be verified and made easier for public usage. There is a lot of crying from the parents and guardians. Some go to the extent of shedding tears.
But they will be misdirected as school authorities are not to blame for the unsuccessful applications. They continue getting messages like pending, processed long after their preferred school have finished their enrolment.
Parents and guardians do not understand the meanings of the terms pending and processed. In short such terms mean the child has not been accepted in that particular school. Please bear with the school.
Questions like, “What are we supposed to do?” are very difficult to answer and cannot be addressed by school authorities. People need to run fast when it comes to children registration at schools. Delays cause inconvenience to both parties. All these are done in preparation for the opening of schools next year. Let the children enjoy at their new schools.
Reading during the holidays not for the examination you can consider the following points: The audience, when you are reading a non-fiction text, you’re got to think about the audience. The audience is the people who read the text.
The writer will always have certain groups of people in mind as their audience when they write e.g text and article, content and presentation can show who the audience are. Sometimes you can work on who the audience is by text content (subject matter) e.g an article about cars obviously aimed at someone who is into cars.
The presentation can also tell you who the target audience is, for example a book with a large simple font and lots of pictures is probably for children. I hope this information will help many students when they are grown up but still opt for childish books especially from the library. Language can give you plenty of it too.
The vocabulary (choice of words) can tell you about the target audience.
The purpose of the tear — Another big thing you need to work out about the texts you get is “What is the writer’s purpose? In other words “Why has the writer written this?” Why indeed. There are few common payouts of writing — purpose of the text mean the reason that it has been written — what the writer is trying to do. Non-fiction texts are usually written for one or more of those reasons. To inform — tell the reader about something.
Add to their understanding of a subject. To entertain — enjoyable to read. Make the reader feel something. Give the writer an opinion. Get the reader to agree with them. To advise — help the reader to do something. Give instruction on what to do to.
You also need to know about the tone and the style. The different tone that written text can use are like the different tone of voice when people speak e.g calm, angry and friendly. Personal writing sounds like the author is talking to you, when impersonal writing does not. Personal writing is written in the first person.
It uses “I, me, my”. The writing is all from the writer’s point of view. It’s as if the author is talking to you. Because its from the writer’s point of view, it’s often biased. This means it expresses the author’s personal opinion rather than being neutral. Personal writing shows the author’s emotions too.
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