Like I said, we started our practicals recently and so far, I'm not impressed.

Science practicals were already a disappointment but, computer practicals were even worse.

First of all, I love computer practicals. Not because it's easy for me, but because I love seeing my technologically challenged classmates.

Well, this time, our syllabus for the practicals was blogging, Google translate and Google maps. Blogging is fine but the other 2 topics are useless as it is. Mostly because any idiot knows how to use it. All you have to do is type in words in a search box. And, Google is smart enough to correct spelling mistakes too, so... those topics are just meh.

Plus, for all topics, we had to use the internet. My school's internet is pretty similar to what I get at home and I can barely make do with that. But in school, the speed is divided over 20 - 30 computers. The original internet plan is around 500 Kb/s - 1 Mb/s but when it's divided into 25 computers, it's barely 20 Kb/s - 40 Kb/s.

That makes it tough to even log into blogger for the practicals. I'm not saying the school should spend thousands on internet but, at least conduct the practicals in groups of 5 or something.

Then, we started the practical. Well, some of us did. Others were just waiting for their stone age PC to run Internet Explorer, since they didn't have Firefox or Chrome. It wouldn't kill the teachers to install at least one good browser...not like it takes that long anyway.

So, we were given topics. What topics? Blog. Google map. Google translate.

Nothing else was told.

Then, we found out that we had to WRITE the practical exam. Now, writing for science practicals is fine, there are observations. But, what do you need to write for a computer practical exam? Then, she told us we had to write the steps. Steps for what exactly, I still don't know.

There was no real assignment. We just had to do what we can using our topic and write down steps of how we did it. She didn't even check what we had done. Just took our papers and pushed us out of the room.

If the practicals for the board exam are going to be the same, the board really is retarded. The whole point of having practicals, is to prove that we know how to do stuff. Why make the students write what they did when they can just show? I mean, we don't have to write the procedure for science practicals either.

And, Google map/translate is not a good topic for practical exams. Seriously. A 5 year old can use that nowadays. Maybe the teacher thinks we're just really REALLY bad at her subject which is really ironic because she doesn't even know what scratch is. (I can't use scratch that well either, but she has no idea what it is)

So, hats off to the school for finding such great teachers. And hats off to the board for making us write the procedure of our practical exam. And hats off to whoever thought Google map and Google translate was a good practical. (Kinda makes it tough for me to believe that Indians are considered to be good at computers)