State of suspense

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‘State of suspense’ for Brunei students

While students in UK, Malaysia, Pakistan & other centres which had given their candidates the login ID for My Results website (CIE Direct) had already known their results, a few thousands more in Brunei are being kept in the state of suspense by the local Examination Department.

Quoting a reply from Ministry of Education in the Weekend Bulletin 2^nd January 2010 regarding publishing results on a website; it stated that MOE will release student’s results via their personal email in the near future. The main concern here is what is near future definition for MOE? Is it November 2009 examination session results or June 2010 examination session results? This creates further suspense among the students.

MOE had previously introduced SMS results service starting from November 2008 examination session results, till it was criticised in the letters to the editor section of Borneo Bulletin. It was said that ‘SMS results was a money making scheme of mobile providers’. As of tonight, there is still no news on the SMS result service for November 2009 examination session results, so I am assuming that there is NONE. Usually, registration will be open roughly a week before the day result is out, but till today there is still no news about it. Few of my friends & classmates were asking me about the SMS result service just now, as they were eager to subscribe to it as it will enable them to know their results earlier.

As I move into social networking sites like Facebook & Twitter today, buzz was in the air about results. One tweet by someone which sounds like ‘My relative knows my result but he/she won’t tell me’. Another tweet which proclaims ‘RESULT OUT” turns out to be a FALSE ALARM for students in Brunei. One tweet from someone which sounds like ‘I called the school clerk & she said result haven’t out yet’ cleared the air & reduces the anxiety. However, another tweet that says ‘Result keluar esok?’ really will increase the anxiety come tomorrow morning. I say we relax 1^st then we continue to be in a ‘state of suspense’ tomorrow as this blog post is published tomorrow. So people have a good night rest before start scouring blogs, Facebook, Twitter, websites & another round of Result keluar tomorrow.

Lastly, CIE had advised students to not ask from them the results as they are unable to tell but instead go to your local center. CIE had done students around the world a lot of favour by introducing CIE Direct (myresults.cie.org.uk) to let the students know their results as soon as it’s released by CIE on the stated website. However there is a catch, you must have user id & password provided by the center otherwise NO PASSWORD NO RESULT. Hence, places like Mauritius & Brunei can’t get their results earlier or it’s EMBARGO TILL RELEASED OFFICIALLY.

Anxiety is in the air, pressures are building, clock is ticking for Brunei students as well as Exam Dept as it continues to be a ‘guessing game’ when results will be out & how to get it?

With sources from Facebook, Twitter, CIE website, Borneo Bulletin

This blogger thinks that students in Brunei should be doing mediation to calm their nerves down in times like this.