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•3 thoughts: What comes to mind about when you see the word "science of learning"?

•2 questions: What do you want to know more about?

•1 metaphor or simile: What can you compare learning to?

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Note: Say It the Right Way is made compulsory for Sec 3 MTL.

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Option 1

2 levels before EOY (e.g. T4W1, W2)

1 level on the last few days of EOY (e.g. on EOY LC day, plus 1 more full day just for oral)

Pros:

We can avoid eating into Term 3

Having 1 more level (3 days of oral) is tiring.

Cons:

EOY will have 1 more day. This will mean 1 less day for T4 before EOY.

Option 2

3 levels before EOY (e.g. T3W9, T4W1, W2）

Pros & cons are the reverse of option 1.

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Which of the option would you prefer (read details below carefully)

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To drop one Unit from the textbook, to make time for giving feedback to students on Project Work

Please share any concerns.

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Support skipping 1 unit for Sec 1 & 2 only

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CL: these are made compulsory (ticked ones)

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Please share your concerns.

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Think about our department/unit's common teaching strategies and resources that we are using (CPDD/in-house) for various components. What strategies should we retain (effective) and what strategies should we refine?

Use of AI

Blended Learning (Quizizz, SLS)

Differentiated Instruction

Reading Programme

Other T&L strategies

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2024 Dept PLT: Sec 2 & 3 Project Work

Any comments/suggestions?

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2024 CL PLT: Intensive Reading with Flipped Learning
学思达——精读

Any comments/suggestions?

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Extensive Reading

Any comments/suggestions?

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Any comments/suggestions

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1) What we have done well
2) Things we need to work on

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1) What we have done well
2) Things we need to work on

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中四

——对于新题型 “实用文” 一定要加强训练

——加强写作审题练习

——写作前要有知识储备

——预习及复习

低年级

——阅读跟进，积累词汇

—— 培养小组协作学习的习惯

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1)
A. Project work 比较有探索性
B. WA3议论文写作提供参考资料/新闻，可以帮助学生准备

2)
A.需要多一些电邮写作和记叙文阅读技巧练习
B. 议论文写作全篇难度比较大，可否从段落入手，到中四再尝试全篇写作
C. 词语、句子教学，还是要继续进行，不能太放手给学生 （ EOY中三在语文部分的表现非常差）

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2E well done
作文方面给学生提供提示，大部分学生内容比较完整，能使用一些写作手法。

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［中三］Things need to work on:
1）让学生定期默写，加强语感与认字能力
2）在年中安排试卷一和试卷二模拟考试

［中二］
💓WA3让学生有机会启动、训练除了语文之外的综合能力。

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好：
1）调动自主学习
2）多小组活动，互相竞争与学习
3）阅读课外活动
可加强：
1）提前做口头报告和片段缩写训练
2）增加词语考查
3）增加趣味活动
4）审题训练

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1）模拟试卷很重要，要继续练习。
2）校内高华口试和O水准会考口试，建议来年以O水准口试复习为主。

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多一点考试技巧的操练
因为没有年中考试，可能每一个学段，可以有一个统一的计时语文考查练习

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1) Oral - dapat menerangkan dengan baik dengan memberikan penjelasan dan contoh yang relevan.

2)
3E & 1NA
P1
- Mengenal pasti kehendak soalan bagi karangan dan penulisan fungsional.
- Pemberian karangan contoh - Kaji gunung cerita & kritikan yang membina berdasarkan contoh karangan
- Penulisan proses
- Pemilihan watak & perwatakan (tic-tac-toe)

Karangan Ekspositori/Perbincangan
- Mengenal pasti kehendak soalan
- gunakan strategi
OPEN-IBuKU-CLOSE

2NA
P2 - kosa kata
make a connection between text and vocab
understanding the context

kefahaman - kurang memahami konteks

1. Meningkatkan pembacaan (strategi)
2. kefahaman mendengar -

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1)
A. 详教和略教，让教学更有重点
B. 坚持习字和听写，给学生打基础
C.考前划复习重点
D.写作给引导问题/鹰架

2）
A.中一Project work的设计可以更简化，建议让学生独立完成。中二中三再考虑协作
B.科技的使用可以降低比重，可以侧重读资料和表达呈现。

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NA WA3 有挑战性。建议简化，内容和

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NA WA3 有挑战性。建议简化，内容和课文相关，科技部分可以降低，可以让学生用PPT上录音功能或是让学生在班上呈现。

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Project Work as WA3 - Able to provide students with authentic learning experience as they sharpen their 21cc competencies.

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good discussion platform for teachers to improve professionally and to standardise marking.

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to standardise marks deductions for emails across all level

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WA paper: to allow all teachers teaching that particular level and stream to vet WA paper 2 weeks before WA, before handing over to ST or HOD for final vet.

exam paper: to have a team to vet instead of only ST or HOD.

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1. What concerning trends do you observe in students' performance and learning in class?

2. How can we address them and support students' learning better? (any new tools/pedagogies learnt?)

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This year we refined our Sec 3 Project Work task by incorporating the use of AI (ChatGPT) to enhance the content building. What went well? What are some concerns that we should address for 2025 Project Work and 2024 Sec 1 & 2 Project Work?

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How would you like to be supported in your PD journey?

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How would you like to be supported in your PD journey?

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Peer Observation

Other relevant PDs

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How can we better our processes as a department?

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Thoughts Sem 1 Programme/Expectations for Sem 2 Programme

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Thoughts Sem 1 Programme/Expectations for Sem 2 Programme

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Festive Celebration

CNY

Hari Raya (vendor-run)

Expectations for upcoming Deepavali celebration?

CPES/CPEF Sec 2 Theatre Performance Exposure

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[2024]

Sec 2 & 4 Oral Exam were conducted in T2.

Sec 2 - Online submission for reading + videos for preparation

Sec 4 - Unseen (Use previous year O/N level materials)

Any thoughts?

Proposed plan for 2025

Sec 4 (T2)

Sec 2 & 3 (T3)

Sec 1 (T4)

Any thoughts?

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中三
❗ 对于新题型 “词语替换” 一定要加强训练
❗ 多一些写作练习
✔ 写作前有准备课
✔ 课前预习

中一二
❗ 多一些朗读练习，提升语感
✔ 课前预习、习字、听写（听写可以 DI）

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What went well.

1. Students developed their Research and Content Creation skill using PEEL method.

2. Collaboration and Engagement – ​​This project gives more collaborative environment as students could focus on discussing and developing ideas together.

Challenges

1.Language Usage- Performance of ChatGPT in Tamil is not good.

2.Translation Delays - Initially the students posted their questions in English and then translated them into Tamil, the project completion time increased. Moreover, the detailed step-by-step guidance provided, but they needed teacher assistance to complete the process.

Concerns and Proposal

1.Simplify the guidance for the project to make instructions more straightforward.

2.Teachers must know how to handle the project platform and the purpose of the project. This is helpful to guide the student into their project.

3.Consider different AI platform that better suitable for our needs. Its aims to minimize the spent on teachers time and students to complete their projects independently.

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1. Sec 2 & 4 oral exams can conducted in Term 2.

2. Sec 2 is fine, but Sec 4 would be on Friday means will finish the exam before 6 pm.

3. Proposed plan for 2025

Sec 4 oral split into two days, (prepare two oral packages for day 1 and day 2) or conducted in the MTL intensive program in the first week. (Like,Mock exam P1, P2, P3 (LC & Oral)

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During WA2 exam for 2NA and 2Exp, the HTL students were sitting in together. Due to the HTL students making unintentional noises (like table/chairs moving around or anything else), it caused distractions for the students taking the exam.

May i suggest for the HTL students to sit in another class while the students take exams? To prevent distractions for students during exams in the future.

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arrange for 4E students to coach 4N students during the period between O Level & N Level Oral

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Strengths – the idea and context itself (of using ChatGPT) is future-oriented, making it highly useful and relevant for students in the near future

Concerns – the process involves too many steps for students to follow, especially the editing part where they must add or remove information based on ChatGPT's prompts. students often lack deep prior knowledge on these topics, making the editing segment particularly challenging. imo, editing requires a separate skill set that many students, especially those with lower abilities, struggle with. they find it difficult to provide relevant ideas beyond what ChatGPT suggests, further complicating the task in general

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imo, we need more chances for teachers to collaborate. sharing in meetings can also help — for example, discussing tools that teachers often use and why. successful lessons, where students understand, should be celebrated, no matter how they're achieved.

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while I believe the vendor-run approach was beneficial (Hari Raya), as the main in-charge, I was uncertain about how the festive team should operate. despite it being vendor-run, the students' performance significantly enhanced the celebration. it helped that the students were very self-motivated and took initiative on their own to think of their dance steps. perhaps, one area that we could work on was the duty delegation - especially for events like CNY and Hari Raya, given their varying scales, a discussion prior to the celebrations to clarify roles and responsibilities beforehand would be better.

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most of the time, the instructions provided are clear - outlining what needs to be done :) (yay!) however, the issue lies in the scattered locations of these resources. it’d be beneficial to centralize and compile all documentation on one platform… if feasible. to combat this problem, i 'favourite-ed' most of the sites under my bookmark tab.

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Since oral constitutes a big part of students' assessment, it makes sense to consider making oral practice more regular, just like email writing practices.

Currently, teachers only conduct practices near the oral exam.

We should consider integrating 1 oral practice per term into our SOW. It can be 1 question per practice (e.g. the PEEL question)

Kian Wee

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What is DI to me:

DI is something that i think helps students greatly in a different way

How is my DI journey so far?

Using DI is great for students, but it is time consuming as teachers need time and alot of planning.

What are the challenges faced?

Like mentioned above, it requires alot of planning which leads to more time consumtion

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1. What is DI to you?

An intentional effort to encourage collaborative learning. For eg,

to consider students' different abilities when grouping them for project work.

DI for some classwork, ie allow more help for LPL (maybe refer to tb or smt)

2. How is your DI journey so far?

refer to Q1

3. What are challenges you face in adopting DI in your classroom?

sometimes it's not as straightforward as it is for teachers to differentiate students' abilities, esp for a new class. we need more time to understand our students.

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1. I tried my classroom DI. But sometimes time could not achieve the result. DI is mainly helpful for LPL students. still, I am learning to do DI.

2. Mostly I used the ICT platform for DI which sometimes worked but did not work. because students have difficulty focusing on MTL.

3. Time constraints - DI requires important planning and preparation time to create varied materials and activities.

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1. DI to me is using different approaches, with different amount of support, to help students of different abilities reach the same end goal. (e.g. giving LPL students more helping words to complete an essay)

2. I have tried letting students with LPL students in G3 use dictionary for spelling/dictation. However, it turns out that MPL students also needs that added support.

3. a) It is time consuming to put additional resources to give LPL students added support.

b) On the other side of the spectrum, it requires a lot of creativity to decide what kind of "middle-ground" support I can give to the MPL students.

c) It is also hard to not label students after categorising them by subject proficiency.

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1. What is DI to you?

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2. How is your DI journey so far?

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impact on student engagement and learning outcomes.)

3. What are challenges you face in adopting DI in your classroom?

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1 different approaches according to the different abilities of the students.

2 Group discuss. The HPL students helping LPL. LPS students learn relatively easier contents.

3 There are some students with very poor foundation who lack interest in learning. In addition, it is not enough time to use DI in class time.

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DI is important in a classroom. However, to truly implement DI in a classroom requires proper planning and execution. I’ve tried DI in my class before, (eg.) for understanding a text – whereby students of HP are asked to decipher certain meaning and MP/LP choose the most appropriate phrases that best explain the text that has been given to them. Honestly, DI is like preparing 2x of a lesson plan and it takes a lot of time in the planning process. It is feasible when we have more teachers coming onboard and sharing resources, but if it is a solo job, it gets very taxing and not sustainable. Teachers will get tired.

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1. DI is to help everyone move one step forward toward the learning goal using varied approach.

2. I did differentiated roles (Masters and Disciples) to all my classes, they are to sit in together to support and learn from each other. Besides, I also DI my questioning. I asked HPLs more challenging questions.

3. I feel that there are more students who have difficulties in recognizing Chinese characters nowadays. Sometimes the gaps can be big. Shall we work together as a dept to simplify some of the texts in textbook to support these group of students, so that they will be more motivated to learn as the texts are more friendlier to them?

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Trends in students learning. During oral lessons, students wish to have current issues as topics for discussion. They would be willing to share video comments as part of their oracy skills.

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We can add some relevant and interesting video clips from external sources in line with the themes of our teaching.

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DI to me: It' something not new, but new to me in a different school environment with students of varied academuc achievements and different diverse family backgrounds.

DI Journey: Not as smooth for conducting classroom teaching. But it's not impossible to carry it out because I am still learning DI for my classroom teaching.

DI challenges: Require many time to prepare lessons to cater for different groups of students's academic achievement. (HA / MA / LA).

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Sec 3 project work:

A very good move to use Chat GPT and AI to sharpen students' oracy skills. Students look forward to learning new technological tools to enhance their learning in a more new enriching ways.

Sec 2 & Sec 4 oral:

A good distribution of assessment conducted in Term 2. So, less stress to conduct oral for other levels in Semester 2.

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I welcome peer lesson observation for continued growth in teaching and learning. Many valuable teaching moments could be shared across different medium of MTL classroom teaching.

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Although last minute urgent stuffs need to be adjusted and changed due to unforseen circumstances, sometimes it could create tremendous amount of stress. Teachers need time to prepare for the changes or adjustments if need be. Not that we are complaining about work, but we need time to adhere to the changes and often will eat up our rest time.

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CNY and Hari Raya school presentation and performance:

Well done organizing committee. Good job!

But can be improved to include other interesting line up of programmes over the years.

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1.       DI is an approach for continuous learning where strategies are applied to support and level up learning based on various abilities. For e.g. Teaching of expository essay, where Student A is clueless about the structure and ways to write the essay while we have Student B who ace expository essay writing. Learning has to go on without limiting student B’s learning and supporting Student A’s weakness.

2.       My DI journey comes in mixed forms, different questioning techniques for students of various abilities, group work or worksheets using DI strategies. DI is well received. But we have to be careful not be too obvious so that we will not demotivate students in the attempt to provide the support.

3.       DI worksheets require effort. When all hands are in, we can then have more worksheet resources on DI.

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Peer observation

If possible teachers are allowed to observe other departments Lesson. Example,CL teacher can go to ML lesson TL teacher can go to CL or ML lesson. It will help to learn different teaching styles.

Teachers PD development

Each department can share one effective lesson in the department meeting time. ( Termly once we take turns )

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1. DI is to cater to the different learning needs of our diverse profile of students.

2. My DI journey has been trying out different teaching methods to engage my students be it in designing worksheets, teaching instructions, teaching materials (powerpoint).

3. challenges is in preparing suitable teaching resources due to no. of lesson preparations each year and time constraints during lesson enactment.

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1. What is DI to you ?

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MTL festive celebrations were well organized this year and it gives students opportunities to keep in touch with not only their own racial festivities and also other races celebrations. Racial harmony is a cornerstone of our social fabric and we have to continue this tradition of celebrating them.

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1. What is DI to you

DI to me, means preparing different learning materials and activities tailored to the varying learning abilities and progress of students. For example, in writing practice, students in the HPC group tend to have stronger self-learning and expression abilities. Therefore, I often use Padlet to allow these students to freely express their views, supplement each other's ideas, and learn collaboratively. For students who are weak in CL, such as those in my 3E class, I adopt the "I do, we do, you do" approach. I first demonstrate the writing process, then guide them through it collectively, and finally let them imitate and practice the writing independently.

2. How is your DI journey so far

For my HPC students, they have a lot of chances to learn independetly, and most of them can complete the work. For weaker students, some of them can be benefited from the DI, espectially who has the motivation for learning.

3. What are chanllenges you face in adopting DI in your classroom

Students with strong learning abilities and self-motivation tend to learn increasingly faster, while those with weaker self-motivation fall further behind, widening the gap between them.

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Please raise your concern below, if any

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trend. over reliance on AI.

Students tend to use Chatgpt to generate their compo instead of using it as a tool to help them.

Compo writing should be done in class. Perhaps can be done similar to WA to give students topic to prepare on.

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1. DI cater to the different interest learning profiles and needs of our students. It helps them to be more motivated and wants to learn.

2. It's useful to understand the different learners' ability to pair them or group them to help the weaker ones learn. Something I will need to do more consciously is to stretch the stronger ones.

3. DI is rather time consuming and needs to be intentionally and constantly practised for it to be perfect to cater to all learners.

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more discussion of level/ stream on pedagogies, strategies or resources used.

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Hi! I would like to get your input on MT Fortnight.

1. Structure (Are we sticking to this structure? Areas to improve)

- Sec 1: Vendor Run activities

- Sec 2: Cultural Theatrical Performance

- Sec 3: Vendor-run + Cross Cultural Sharing

- Sec 4: DJ activity

2. Theme

* Sec 1: Traditional Games

* Sec 3: Wedding

3. Date

* Sec 1 & 3: Post-exam activities

* Sec 2: By Term 2

* Sec 4: MT Intensive

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Sec 2 CPES

I personally enjoyed the performance every much. For students, some do and some do not. Nevertheless, the exposure to theatre experience was quite an eye opener to all students.

Festive celebration

Students performance was very well done, lots of effort and time spent to rehearse and practise. Deepavali vendor run was quite good. Students were engaged and I have learnt quite a lot of new knowledge about Deepavali too.

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need to clarify EOY exam script format expectations across different streams.

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Proposal: Splitting MTL internal deadlines

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Proposal: Splitting MTL internal deadlines

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This year, there was a major stress point at end of Term 3, partly due to late submissions of papers.

To spread the stress, the above plan is proposed.

Please share any thoughts below.