Discovery Methods

My school has daily asssembly for all students and teachers. We need to assemble according to classes and forms at designated places.
I am in-charge of Form 1,2 and 3 classes.
After morning prayer, we will check the students phisical appearance and discipline problems.

The Form 3 students are going to sit for their PMR exams next week. I notice that they are not bothered about the exams. They are not interested to prepare for the exams. My school has arranged classes to help them about techniques of answering questions.

School counsellors also give various types of advice for them to be well-prepared.

In my school days, my tceachers seldom gave such advice. We were in the dark about the exams format. We were not told about where to look for answers. We did not have extra classes also.

Yet we were able to obtain good results. Why?

I guess the methods used by my teachers involved a lot of discovery activities. We needed to look for answers ourselves. We needed to write or to make notes about reading materials by ourselves. So we were trained to be independent and self-reliant. indirectly we were more creative when facing problems in exams.

I suggest that teachers in schools should use more discovery methods in classes. Then the students will be more creative and self-independent.