Singapore has one of the leading educational system in Southeast-Asia. It exposes us to two main language, English language and out Mother tongue. It also have Mathematics, Science which consist of Biology, Physics and Chemistry. Integrated Humanities which include History, Geography, Literature and Social studies. Some schools also have computer studies, philosophy, Arts, Music, etc

Learning is easier when you are young, therefore, from young, schools try to provide a wide-range and variety of subjects so as to further increase our knowledge capacity as much as possible. However, is it really necessary to have so much subjects? Must we really crammed our brain with so much information everyday? Why isn’t there any freedom for the student to choose the subjects that they like?

Some say that we must at least know the basic of the subject. What is the use of primary school when during the secondary school, we are still learning the basic?

I feel that the objective and purpose of primary school is to learn the basic of all the subjects. So, when we reached secondary school, we will be able to choose the subjects that suit us and further develop on it, instead of continuing learning subjects that you have practically no interest in. If the student has lost the interest in a particular subject after learning it for six year in primary school, no matter how much you force he, he will still not do well in that subject. If we let him focus on the subjects he like and is interested in, he would be able to handle the subject easily and will be able to learn more things about it.

Firstly, when he has interest in the subject, he would most probably have a strong basic in it and it will be easier for him to compress and store the information that he is learning. Thus, he would not have so much stress on him as he would not be worrying for other subjects that he knows that he is going to fail in and will not be wasting time practicing it again and again but to no avail.

Secondly, if we force a student too much to master the subject that he has no interest in and is weak in, he would reach his limit and reject the subject completely. He would be sleeping during the lesson of the subject and will be completely ignoring it. He would be wasting his precious time on it. He would not hand in his homework since he did not listen in class and he would also fail in him examinations. This becomes a vicious cycle causing him to not be able to accomplish anything in the end because he does not further his knowledge in both the subject he likes and the subject he does not like. If he is able to not take the subject that he has no interest in and focus whole-heartedly in the subject that he is interested in he would then be able to further his knowledge in that field and maybe be a professional in that field when he grows up.

A person is grown to be good in some things and bad in others. In conclusion, I feel that he should go about improving the things he is good at instead of improving the things he is weak in.