Wednesday, July 20, 2005

IS evaluation results are out!

The IS evaluation I took on my birthday are out! My principal announced the results during the staff meeting today after all the important agenda had been covered. At first she told us the pass rates (which I'm not going to announce here because... I'm not going to) and out of which four people got As. And before she announced who got As, she took the liberty of bringing my name as an example of the usage of MS Excel... when I first joined the school, I had to mark five classes' worth of mid-year papers which I tabulated the results in great detail using the spreadsheet program. By accident I showed it to my deputy principal who told me to give a copy to the principal. The principal used it as an example of how I managed to identify the question which brought the students' grades down, and discovered that the topic was not taught by the previous teacher. Anyway, it was obvious after that I had passed, but I didn't expect to get the highest score of 93%.

No, I'm not gloating here. I think nothing of my ability of MS Excel, mainly because it's such an easy program to use, and looking back, although it seemed like a silly subject, I had to do a short course of the software back in university (it covered three software: MS Excel, MS Access and Autolisp), I learnt a lot from it for which I am thankful for because I've been heavily using the programs I learnt eversince. But I'm glad that I passed, because that means I won't be glumped into a boring basic course which I can easily take over as a trainer, and I suppose the IS guys don't hate me enough to spite me by putting me into that basic course. Haha!

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