Mr Clan Freedumb agrees with me because I'm right. Kidding.
To answer his question:
However, when you people are arguing about this issue, i can't help but wonder if we're looking at the wrong angle here. I got to ask you people. What is your objective?
Do we want more Bruneians to pass their exams? Or are we trying to raise the standard of english in Brunei?
The angle I am looking at is that to find a way so that examinations are marked and designed to cater for more meristocracy (Typo! I mean meritocracy! Thanks Knob!). If they fail, let them fail fairly the exam designed for all. Not because they failed the exam designed for the "high ability students".
While you're at it, also read Zul Funkmasta's latest post also touching on the same matter.
One glaring suggestion I most strongly agree with is this:
I would encourage the revision of the English syllabus from the roots – Primary level.
And don't say the current system works. Because it does not.
iammaurina 
I think you mean meritocracy.
I find this amusing: “If they fail, let them fail fairly the exam designed for all. Not because they failed the exam designed for the “high ability students”.”
I am no authority on English Examinations, so I would like to know just why it is that you have so much faith in the IGCSE English exam. In what ways is it more accessible to the average student than O-Level English? Can it really guarantee lower failure rates? If not, then the fact that they failed in an exam “designed for all” rather than in an exam for “high ability students” is really only just a detail – they failed anyway!
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My faith in the IGCSE English Language comes from my own experience when I sat for the exam, what I have learnt in my Teaching English as a Second Language course, and my discussions with lecturers who have taught English Language in Brunei for half of their lives, native and non-native.
Okay let me ask you this. Imagine you are one of 100 people to go on a horse race, and you have to start from the beginning. The horse track have thumbtacks laden on it. Twenty horses have special horseshoes built in them that enable them to run till the end. You and 79 other horses, do not have those built in horseshoes. Yet your entire performance is judged according to that. Unfair is it not?
Now imagine again a similar race. You still do not have those special built in shoes made for running on thumbtacks. But your entire performance does not depend on whether you can run in this race or not. There is another portion to this race, you must swim in mud. That you can do, and so will all horses as long as they have the muscle power, and that can be obtained through training. Then your performance is judged according to how well you can do both portions of the race. Fairer?
GCE and IGCSE is just like that. Like in the race with one portion, the GCE O’Levels can only benefit those who are borned and deemed to be high ability, the ones with special shoes. The IGCSE, has many other dimensions to its marking scheme and the way it is designed, like the other race. It weeds out all your skills and judge you accordingly. Not just because you did well in one dimension.
It does not guarantee lower failure rates. That is a superficial thing to be paid attention to. It, on the other hand, guarantees that those who has enough muscles from enough training, will pass, regardeless if they have or do not have the specialshoes. If that is just a detail, then it is a detail worth looking at!
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