RP - to some other meanings
Rubbish Poly
Retarded Poly
to some they may feel this way.
although i'm a poly student too. but it's in the passed. mayi used
to be my classmate..haha..she's a really hardworking classmate to
be with.
but like she said being introvert in RP will not be good.
now for the clarification part of some misconceptions of RP.
now, the value of RP diploma isn't very good - to be honestly
speaking.
but there's a trick to it.
if you want your RP diploma to be very
valuable- winning other peers in other poly CAN - Provided
you regularly join those competitions orgarnised in RP and emerged
Top, get testimonial from the competitions or photographs, inculde
them into your resume.
why competition is good for increasing you worth - in the working
society - if you have 1st hand experience and won awards, even if
you request for a higher pay compared to your peers, you are worthy
of the higher pay-check
quality = $ = higher salary
RP definately isn't recommended for those book worms.
why is that so?
1- no books for studying (so for those from elite schools, they
might not be able to blend into RP; i've got a friend who happens
to drop rp after 1st yr[1st sem] than now he's in jc yr 2
already.)
2- even if have, last min, when problems are published every
morning than you only are left with 30mins to chiong to library (rp
outsourced it to NLB to do the job) so it has a very wide variety
of books for students to choose from.
3- problems are to be solved within a short period of time, so it's
more suitable for those people who think faster and can related to
other examples.
4- presentation
presentation is to be done on a daily basis.
1 very crucial factor that is needed for general working life in
office environment and others as well.
persentation is about presenting WHAT
YOUR KNOW, HIDE YOUR WEAKNESSES, BRING OUT YOUR STRONG
POINTS. the same goes to job interview. you can only speak
the good stuffs and hide the bad stuff.
how to hide your own weaknesses will be another issue - dealing
with team work, to help you mask your weak point. Co-ordination is
also an important point to take note if you want to successfully
hide the weakness (of not knowing how to answer) from the
facilitator.
overall RP is good - as
in classroom, and to link to presentation.
it's also very relervent to working life.
Imagine - you are very hardworking in preparing the slides for
presentation BUT you can't sell yourself (bring the idea across to
facilitator during presentation) so you don't score.
some eat-snake kings & queens in different classes might be
lazy but they are able to get A* most of the time because they
carry themselves well.
Work
life - is about team work and presentation, if a
person can't even do well in this 2 things, than there's no point
in working in office environment.
1 particular important lesson which is
very valuable to me is that, from RP, i get to learn how to
actually prevent your own work from being used by other people
(very often people will claim credits for other's people
work)
RP is a good training ground to improve in terms of this
aspect.
As for improving presentation skills.
if you ask the right person, then you will get to improve your
presentation skills.
Doing the same thing everyday without improving and repeating the
same mistakes very day definately will not have improvments.
The idea of Presentation is to observe each other classmates'
presentation style and try to copy and make their's your own
style.
But often, when it's presentation time, many other different groups
will be playing games silently instead of really listening to the
presentation. (especially in the woodlands campus) back in the
tanglin campus, at least the silent gaming session during
presentation isn't that serious due to tight space. lolz.
