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OUR HISTORY & IDENTITY:
CHINESE EDUCATION GENERAL
KNOWLEDGE COMPETITION
On the 16th of April, the Chinese Language
Society of Kuen Cheng High School
organized a Chinese Education General
Knowledge Competition. The scope of
the competition included the contents of
the Malaysian Chinese Education General
Knowledge Manual (10th Edition).
he competition was held on Zoom
Tand in the preliminary round, the
participants had to use Google Forms to
answer the questions given. There were
two categories, namely the senior and
junior category, each with a different set
of questions. Participants were also told to
join the competition in groups of 3.
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The competition started at 2:25p.m. after
a brief introduction and explanation on
rules provided by one of the committee
members. Participants were reminded to
have their cameras turned on at all times
and were allowed to carry out discussions
with their group members. There were a
total of 40 multiple-choice questions. The
participants were determined to win as
they utilized all 50 minutes of the given
time to answer the questions.
The results for the preliminary round were
announced just a few days later on the
Chinese Language Society’s Facebook and
Instagram page. For the junior category,
4 groups were chosen for the finals, while
there were only 3 groups for the senior
category.
The finals were held on the 23rd of April.
The junior category started at 1:30p.m.
with live question answering as the mode
of competition. For the first segment,
there were several rounds, each with
differentquestions for individual members
of the groups to answer, some being
multiple choice questions and some being
short answer questions. Group members
were allowed to help each other out but only
the selected member could answer. Each
question held 2 points. Participants were
given 1 minute to answer the questions, if
they failed to answer within the given time,
no points would be given.
A committee member acted as the host
of the competition, with another as the
time keeper. Some of the questions were
regarding the contributions of Chinese
education historical figures, some were
about education enactments and reports
such as the Barnes Report, Razak Report,
Education Acts over the years etc.
Then came the second segment of the
competition where the participant who
raised their hand first would be given the
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