Saturday 2 June 2007

Very-late task

Working Children

In many countries, especially developed countries, children engaged in child labor. The International Labor Organization (ILO) has estimated that 218 million children between the ages of five and seventeen work in developing countries. The vast majority,, over 80 percent, are working in agriculture and factory. Child agricultural and industrial workers frequently work for long hours in heat, haul heavy loads of produce, are exposed to toxic materials, and suffer high rates of injury from sharp knives and other dangerous tools. Their work is grueling and harsh, violating their rights to health, education, and protection from work that is hazardous or exploitative. People saw that healthy children had plenty of energy could do much to help their work. They thought that children learned new skills when they worked. In these ways, work can be good. But it is not good when it stops children from growing into strong, happy adults. Children need to play. They need to get enough sleep. They need to eat well. They need school.

In my opinion, children shouldn’t work and engaged as worker. They need their ‘time’ as children, play, school, and other ‘children’ things. Don’t push them into working ‘area’, because they do really need their time to grow.

Task

Sewage Disposal

Sewage disposal unit consists of three steps process. The process begins in settling tank, the polluted waters flows to it from the main sewer. There, the undecayed solids contained in the polluted water are left in the bottom of the tank and then removed and burned. After that, the water is distributed to the pump house. The pump house pumps the polluted water to the third step of the process which is the sprinkler bed. The sprinkler bed is a filter to stones and microorganisms which consists of brick and rotating arms. So this process can make water less polluted by removing organic material in the polluted water or we can call it purifying the water. Then, the purified water distribute back to the river through pipe.

Water Process

Distribution of the water in the house isn’t as complicated as we thought. Its an easy process. First, the water pump pumps cold water through the pipe from the underground. Cold water then distributed to cold water tank, while some of them is distributed directly to the house water outlets in the bathroom such as bath-tub, wash basin, toilet, and sink in the kitchen. The water in the cold water tank then transferred to hot water tank, to be heated. Then the heated water distributed through pipes to water outlets like bath-tub, sink, and wash basin.

Friday 1 June 2007

Water Process

Water Process in House

Cold water was supplied from main pipe in the basement of the house and pumped to several pipes connected to the water outlets. The water outlets are sink at the first floor, bath-tub, wash basin and toilet's flush in the bathroom at the second floor, and also the cold water tank at the rooftop. From the cold water tank, the water is transferred to the hot water tank to be heated. Then the hot water is distributed to sink at the first floor and also bath-tub and wash basin in the bathroom at the second floor.

Sewage Disposal Unit

Sewage Disposal Unit

Basically, Sewage Disposal Unit works simply. First, polluted water flows through main sewer to settling tank. In the settling tank, the undecayed solid is separated from the polluted water and stays on the bottom of the tank. Next, it will be removed and get burned outside. Meanwhile, the liquid or polluted water is flowing to the pump house. The pump house then pumps the polluted water to the sprinkler bed. In the sprinkler beds, the polluted water is cleaned by the brick work and rotating arms mechanism. Stones and micro-organisms are filtered in this process. Finally, the purified water is ready to be flown back to the river.

Wednesday 23 May 2007

Sewage Disposal Unit

A sewage disposal unit doesn’t work in a complicated way. First, sewage from main sewer is flown to settling tank through the main sewer. In the settling tank, the sewage is separated into two forms, the solid forms which called the undecayed solids waste and the liquid forms which called polluted water. The undecayed solids waste, which stays in the bottom of the tank, are removed from the settling tank and burnt outside, while the polluted water is distributed to the pump house. The polluted water is pumped from the pump house to the sprinkler beds, where the purifying water process is taken. At the top of sprinkler bed there are rotating arms which can sprinkle the polluted water into sprinkler bed. The speed of the rotating arm makes the polluted water that flows through become a jet. Then, the jet of polluted water is sprayed of the rotating arms to the brick work. The stones and micro-organisms are filtered in this process. After going through that final process, the purified water is distributed back to enter the river.

Thank you

Dear All,
Thank you so much for working together this semester. I really have great time in class, and also I really enjoy reading all of your essay. Please keep in touch in the future. You all have my contact. Good luck with your study.
Jati

Tuesday 22 May 2007

TASK 4 SEWAGE WATER DISPOSAL

Technology about water purification was discovered by the human hundreds years ago. One example of water purification technology is sewage disposal unit. Sewage disposal unit is consist of three main parts : settling tank, pump house, and sprinkler beds.In the first of purifying process with sewage disposal unit, sewage is flown to the settling tank from main sewer . In the settling tank, sewage component will be separated in two form. The solid form called undecayed solids will move into the base of settling tank and then will be burned and removed. Next the liquid component called polluted water will be flown into pump house. In the pump house, polluted water will be pumped into sprinkler beds. In the splinker beds polluted water moves to the rotary arm which can directs the polluted water to the filtering zone. In the filtering zone, polluted water will be filtered from microorganism and stones. The result of this filtering process is purified water and will be flown into the river.

Saturday 19 May 2007

Sewage Disposal Unit

Sewage Disposal Unit

Sewage disposal unit works in a simple mechanism. First, sewage from houses, factories, and other places flows through the main sewer to the settling tank. Then the sewage will separated into two forms, the undecayed solid waste and the polluted water. The undecayed solid waste which is settled at the bottom will be removed from the settling tank and burnt outside. Meanwhile, the polluted water is pumped from the pump house to the sprinkler beds. Next process, the polluted water is pumped out to the rotating arms, where polluted water is sprayed to the brick work. The brick work filters the polluted water from stones and micro organisms. The filtered/purified water can be safely flown to the river.

The Incredible Saman Dance

>> Definition Paragraph
The Incredible Saman Dance

Saman is the most popular dance in Aceh and the dance has become well-known abroad with the name of "Thousand hands". It has its origin from the Alas ethnic group and normally performed to celebrate the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad S.A.W. and other important occasions. Eight to twenty male performers kneel in a row on the floor and make different kinds of torso movements accompanied by songs, clapping hands, slapping chests, slapping hands on the floor, etc. The songs are praises to Allah or prayers. The dance starts with slow movements and increases its tempo gradually to great speed and finally come to a sudden stop. There are many different regional versions of Saman Dance.

Hot Water and Cold Water Supplies

>> Process Paragraph
Hot Water and Cold Water Supplies

Hot water and cold water is distributed to our house in a simple way. First, cold water is pumped from underground to the house through a main pipe. Then, this main pipe is branched in to three small pipes. Each pipe distributes the water to a specific part of house. The first pipe distributes to a sink in the kitchen, the second pipe distributes to washbasin, toilet, and bath room. The last pipe, distributes the cold water to the heater tank on the upper side of the house. This tank heats the cold water to produce the hot water. Lastly, the hot water is pumped to the sink, washbasin, and bathroom.

Monday 14 May 2007

Task 3

Definition Paragraph:


NATIONAL MONUMENT


Monumen Nasional (National Monument), commonly known as Monas, is a very famous landmark of Jakarta. Monas becomes famous because of several things. First, it has unique shape of lingga yoni, symbol of fertility on Hindu mythology. Second, this 137 meter height tower has 14.5 ton flame-shaped bronze layered by 35 kg gold on the top. This flame symbolizes the struggle of Indonesia people. Third, Monas is a cheap tourist’s object where visitors can watch diorama of Indonesia’s history inside, and see the beautiful scenery of Jakarta on the highest floor. Fourth, Monas is located at the center of Merdeka Square, strategically in Central Jakarta. So it’s easy to visit this landmark from all areas of Jakarta.










Process Paragraph:


HOME WATER SYSTEM


Actually, water system in a house used hot and cold water is very simple. First, water from main source is pumped into the house through main pipe. This water is called cold water. The main pipe is branched, so some of this water flows directly into sink, toilet, or others appliances, while another flows to main water tank to be kept. Then from this tank, water flow to heater tank. In heater tank, water is processed using electricity to become hot. Next, this hot water flows to washbasin, sink, and other appliances, except to appliances which don’t need hot water in used. Finally, people can choose what water they want to use.

Saturday 12 May 2007

Sewage Disposal Unit

The sewage management system consists of three stages. First, sewage from the main sewer is channeled to a settling tank. In this stage, the sewage is precipitate. After a while, the undecayed solids are left at the bottom of the tank and then the polluted water is distributed to the pump house. Then the pump house pumps the polluted water to the sprinkler bed. The sprinkler bed is a filter of stones and microorganisms, surrounded with brick work on its outer part, and on top of the filter are rotating arms. Polluted water is pumped to the top of the sprinkler bed through the T-shaped pipe and creating jets of polluted water in the air, which then fell to the filter inside the sprinkler bed. The polluted water was here purified. Then the purified water was flown to the river.





Water Distribution System

In the picture we can see a water distribution system in a two-story house. The water distribution in this kind of house is quite simple. Water from the PDAM is pumped to a water tank at the top of the house and then from there the water is distributed throughout the house. The first destination is the kitchen that located on the fist floor. The second is the bathroom’s stuffs on the second floor. The last is the cold water tank that connected to the hot water tank. In the hot water tank, the cold water from the cold water tank will be warmed. When the water is warm enough, the water will be distributed to the bath and wash-basin in the bathroom, and to the sink in the kitchen.



Parai Tenggiri Beach

One of the most beautiful beaches in Bangka is Parai Tenggiri Beach. It is one of Bangka Island’s prides. It is located in Sungailiat district. The visitors can find various forms of boulders in this beach, which add its beauty. This beach is very ideal for swimming, sun bathing and relaxing. It also has the most complete facilities in Bangka Island such as luxurious hotels and water sport facilities. The calmness and fresh sea wind will greet the visitors when they arrive there. The beauty of this beach makes the tourists feel comfortable to stay.

Monday 23 April 2007

Sewage Disposal Unit

Sewage cannot be disposed directly to the sea or river so the water that contains sewage must firstly be purified using a sewage disposal unit. The process in a sewage disposal unit starts with the polluted water being flown to the settling tank through the main sewer. In the settling tank, the undecayed solid is separated from the polluted water and stays on the bottom of the tank where it will then be removed and burned. After that the polluted water is flown to the pump house where it will be pumped to the sprinkle beds. At the top of sprinkler bed there are rotating arms which spray the polluted water that flows through the rotating arms to the filter. The filter is made of bricks at the outer part and contains stones and micro-organism with which the polluted water is purified and finally ready to be directly flown to the sea or river

Tuesday 17 April 2007

Sewage Disposal Unit

Sewage Disposal Unit, a system to purified water, consists of some stages. The first stage is where the water flows from the main sewer to the settling tank. The purpose is to remove the undecayed solids from the water. Next, the water goes to the pump house which pumped the water to sprinkler beds. The rotating arms make jets of polluted water. After that, the water is filtered to separate the stone and microorganism. Then the purified water is flowed back to the river.

Monday 16 April 2007

Pengumuman

Semua Mahasiswa Academic Writing harus mengikuti ujian Mid-Semester dan Akhir Semester.
Thanks
Jati

Sunday 15 April 2007

Methane Extraction from Househod Waste

Extraction Methane

We can make methane gas from our household waste like our pup, garbage, dry branches and leaves, and etc. Firstly, we must put the waste into one kind of tube that we called ‘warming bed’. After we put into the warming bed, the water will be fertilized and the residue from fertilization, which is methane source, will go to the dirt part. In the dirt part, the methane source will be divided into dirty methane gas and the garbage which is no longer contains methane. The garbage can be taken from ‘release cap’ in the bottom of dirt trap. Then, the dirty methane gas will go to ‘gas indicator’. This indicator contains water which will be given with dirty methane gas and then the liquid will be separated into dirty water and methane liquid. Because of the mass difference, the methane liquid in the top of the water and this liquid will flows and divide into two pipes. The first pipes bring the methane liquid into the ‘pressure release’ which contains water. The water in this tube will contain methane liquid and methane gas will be produced when the temperature rising to the methane‘s boil point. The other pipe will bring the methane liquid into the ‘gas holder’ which contain tap so methane liquid can flow.

Working Children

Nowadays, we can see many underage workers in our surrounding. We can see in the streets, and public facilities. Commonly, they work as lift laborer in the market, or as streets beggar. This affair can be happened because family’s economic conditions which can not handle family’s needs so the family’s child must take a job as breadwinner beside father. Even, there is some child who quit from school because they want to maximize their income from their job.

Until now, there are many regulations which forbid the existence of working children in Indonesia. Yet, many people doesn’t know or realize the regulations because lack of socialization to people from government. In addition, government look like do not care to this affair. Irresponsible acts of government can make the future of children forced to work in Indonesia will be just a not coming dreams. Even, they can risk their life because their works is dangerous. Based on sheet from PUBH in 2005, there are 200000 working children have bad injury when do their work, from the entire world.

Now, what we can do to help them are minimalism the amount of underage workers like giving scholarships to children from poor family and giving economic aids to poor family. Government must be responsible and not closed their eyes to this affair because their acts will make international party give our country bad opinion. This problem will ashamed our country in the eyes of international

Friday 13 April 2007

Water Process in House (task 2)

This is how the water goes to our house. Water from underground is pumped to reach the top of the house. Water goes into the sink and roof where the cold water tank is. Through the pipelines, water is flown to the bath, wash basin, and toilet without any process. From, the cold water tank, water is also flown to the hot water tank to be heated. From this tank, hot water is flown to the sink, wash basin, bath, and toilet. And water is ready to used.

Sewage Disposal Mechanism

Sewage from factory which contains dangerous materials needs some treatment before flown into the river safely. The method to treat the sewage is Sewage Disposal Mechanism. First of all, the sewage will be flown to the main sewer. From the main sewer, the sewage will be flown to the settling tank where the sewage will be separated in two forms. Solid matter which is sediment at the bottom will be removed and burned. Through the pump house, the liquid sewage which means polluted water from the settling tank is flowed to the sprinkler bed. In this bed, water is pumped by the hydraulic and water will reach the surface of the sprinkler bed. Then, water will be rotated by the rotating arm. The polluted water is filtered by contacting stones and microorganism with the water. Finally, this clean water can be flown to the river.

Monday 9 April 2007

task 4

Nowadays we can extract methane gas from household waste with some simple steps. First, the waste from household was accumulated in the warming bed. From this warming bed, the waste will be separated for two kinds of usages, as a fertilizer, which can be used directly without any further process, and as a main material for the methane extraction. For methane extraction, the household waste goes directly to the dirt trap. The dirt trap will cause the methane separated from other contents of the waste. Then, the methane, which is in liquid phase, flows into gas indicator. Here, the methane is checked whether its gas is still produce or not by seeing the bubbles in water. After that, the methane gas flows into two pipes. The first pipe distributes the gas to a pressure release tank in order to decrease the pressure of gas, while another pipe distributes the gas to the inner tubes (with weight on the top of it) in order to increase the pressure of the gas. At the end of this pipe, there is a tap which controls the output of the extracted methane gas. Methane that comes out from this tap is ready to use.

Sunday 8 April 2007

Sewage Disposal Mechanism

Sewage cannot be thrown directly in the environment. Because of dangerous material that contain in the sewage, it need some treatment before its waste. In a Factory, there is method name Sewage Disposal Mechanism to treat the sewage. Sewage Disposal Mechanism in a Factory is doing in a few steps. First, sewage from the factory will be flown to the main sewer. From the main sewer, it is flown into the settling tank for a while. In the settling tank, this sewage will be separated in two forms. Solid matter from the sewage will be sediment under the settling tank before it’s removed and burned. The liquid matter is flown to the pump house by some kind of pipe. Then it is flown to the sprinkler bed. The sewage entered the sprinkler beds from the bottom to the top. On the top of the sprinkler beds, there is some kind of t-shape pipe names rotating arm. When the polluted water reaches the rotating arm, it will be sprinkler so the water can be spread in the surface of sprinkler beds and flown into it. In the sprinkler beds, there are some kind of filter made by layers of stones and microorganism. When the polluted water came through, it will be filtered so the water that came out from the sprinkler beds will pure and free from dangerous material. After that, the pure water can be flown and join into the stream of river safety.

TASK3

TASK 1 DEFINITION PARAGRAPH

Bogor Botanical Garden

Bogor –my hometown-has many interesting place and the most famous place is Bogor Botanical Garden. Bogor Botanical Garden is large area ( cover more than 80 hectares) of the original rainforest that contains more than 15.000 species of trees and plants, 400 type of palm, 3000 orchids, and 50 different varieties of birds and bats. The bats can be easily detected by the noise they make while competing for space under the canopies. The gardens officially opened in 1817 by German–born Dutch Botanist, Professor Casper George Carl Reinwardt and were used to research and develop plants and seeds from other parts of the Indonesian archipelago for cultivation during the 19th century. This site was also used by the Dutch for introducing tropical plants from other parts of the world into the region and served as a training ground for specialists in tropical botany., providing excellent specimens for scientific study.. Now Bogor botanical garden is known as a great natural recreation not only for Indonesian people but also tourist in around the world and the most important Bogor Botanical Garden reputation as a major center for botanical research makes people in all part of the world give their respect for our country.

TASK 2 PROCESS PARAGRAPH

The distribution water in our environment especially in our house is quite easy to be learned. First water from water source, for example ground water or aquifer, is pumped in pipeline system by water provider like PDAM in Indonesia to customer house. Next water in house pipeline system with cold condition move in three direction. First direction is sink in lower part of house, two others direction in the upper part of house. Second direction located in upper part of house are toilet, wash basin,and bath. Last direction also located in upper part of house is cold water tank .In this tank cold water can be storaged or move into hot water tank. Cold water can be converted into hot water. The hot water can used in bath and wash basin. So people can choose water condition for they need.

TASK 2

CHILD LABOR :

Unexpected condition

Industrialization era not only gives many advantages but also gives problems. The most serious problem is childs forced to be worker in factory and manufacture. The International Year of Child claimed that more than fifty million children below the age of fifteen working in varios jobs under hazardous conditions They usually do simple task and support their parents work, for example in shoe factory, textile factory, and cigarette factory. Although they can support their parents, child labor only gain little money for their contributions.

Child labor grow in unexpected condition, it means that children labor must barter their childhood with something that they should not have know in earliest stage of their life, working world. Child Labor lose their play time with their friends and it makes their social intelligence development very poor. Child labor also lack of education especially formal education, like kindergarten level, primary level, junior and higschool level also college level. The lack of formal education make their intelligence to anlyze and solve the problem is below average normal child in same age. Consequently they can’t compete others person who have formal education to get job and can’t make their life better. The last unexpected condition is child labor usually live in unhealthy environment, inadequate food, decentless shelter, and lack of clean water. These unexpected condition must be faced by child labor to stay alive.

The quantity of child labor is increase every year and sure it is bad news, not only for underdevelop country but also develop country . The effort to eliminate child labor expansion come from the International Labour Organization, sepecial agency of United Nations and founded in1919. This organization has introduced several regulations among its members,including a minimum age of sixteen years for admission to all work, a higher minimum age for specific type of employment , compulsory medical examinations, and regulation of night work. Although these regulations was made to solve child labor problems, The International Labour Organization can’t make ILO’s members enforce these regulations because the member nations have strategical and political policy in their nations. Moreover that is important if all of part of the world aware and care about labor child problem and give contribution to minimalize it.

TASK 1

TRIBUTE to BOGOR

I am very proud become bogor civil, not only I was born in there but there are many reasons that support my statement.

Before I tell my reasons, I will give some good information about Bogor City . Bogor, formerly Buitenzorg, city in western Indonesia, on western Java Island, near Jakarta. The city was founded by the Dutch in 1745.

The first reason is Bogor city has a presidential palace that is named Bogor Palace. Formerly this building is the Dutch Governor Genereal resident This building records much important event in Indonesian history. The last event is marriage ceremony Susilo Bambang Yuhhoyono- Indonesian number 1- oldest son on 2006.

The second reasons is Bogor city has famous botanical garden, Bogor Botanical Garden. This site was first used by the Dutch for introducing tropical plants from other parts of the world into the region. In 1817 it was converted into a botanical garden and served as a training ground for specialists in tropical botany. A large area of the original rainforest on which the garden was founded has been preserved in its natural state, providing excellent specimens for scientific study. The garden also has outstanding collections of palms, bamboos,orchids, and ornamental trees. Now, Bogor botanical garden is known as a great natural recreation not only for Indonesian people but also tourist in around the world.

The last but not least, I love this city because although Bogor city small in area’side but this city has give big contribution for Indonesian, not only in economy sector but also contribute in Indonesian Culture, and the biggest thing that Bogor city contribute in Environment campaign to make our world always ‘green’.

TASK 1

TRIBUTE to BOGOR

I am very proud become bogor civil, not only I was born in there but there are many reasons that support my statement.

Before I tell my reasons, I will give some good information about Bogor City . Bogor, formerly Buitenzorg, city in western Indonesia, on western Java Island, near Jakarta. The city was founded by the Dutch in 1745.

The first reason is Bogor city has a presidential palace that is named Bogor Palace. Formerly this building is the Dutch Governor Genereal resident This building records much important event in Indonesian history. The last event is marriage ceremony Susilo Bambang Yuhhoyono- Indonesian number 1- oldest son on 2006.

The second reasons is Bogor city has famous botanical garden, Bogor Botanical Garden. This site was first used by the Dutch for introducing tropical plants from other parts of the world into the region. In 1817 it was converted into a botanical garden and served as a training ground for specialists in tropical botany. A large area of the original rainforest on which the garden was founded has been preserved in its natural state, providing excellent specimens for scientific study. The garden also has outstanding collections of palms, bamboos,orchids, and ornamental trees. Now, Bogor botanical garden is known as a great natural recreation not only for Indonesian people but also tourist in around the world.

The last but not least, I love this city because although Bogor city small in area’side but this city has give big contribution for Indonesian, not only in economy sector but also contribute in Indonesian Culture, and the biggest thing that Bogor city contribute in Environment campaign to make our world always ‘green’.

Friday 6 April 2007

Announcement

On the 6th of April, I have corrected 40 on-line mid term tests with comment. Please check your result.

I have received 5 'first paragraphs' on Television and gave respond, please check and you may have to continue to the 2nd paragraph or rewrite your 1st paragraph.

Monday 2 April 2007

Sewage Water Purification Management

Sewage water purification consists of three parts sewage management that starts from main sewers. Firstly, from the main sewer, sewage is distributed to a settling tank. Here, undecayed solid materials are left on the bottom of the tank and separated with polluted water. Then the polluted water is pumped to pump house. After the polluted water passed the pump house, it is distributed to a sprinkles bed. In this part, the polluted water from pump house are flowed up to jets and rotated with rotating arms. Then the polluted water is filtered from stones and microorganisms, so it will make the water more purified. Lastly, the purified water from the sprinkles bed enters the river.

Sunday 1 April 2007

Sewage Disposal Unit

Dangerous liquid sewage from the industry can be processed through purification process in the sewage disposal unit. Generally, the sewage will flowed into three main parts of the sewage disposal unit. First, the sewage from the main sewer flowed into the settling tank. In the settling tank, the undecayed solids from the sewage will stay in the tank base. Then, it’s removed and burned. Then, polluted water from the settling tank is flowed into the pump house. Then the polluted water is pumped from the pump house to the sprinkler bed. In the sprinkler bed, the polluted water is flowed to the rotating arms. Then, the polluted water is sprayed rotationally to the top surface of sprinkler bed. Then, it’s purified by the filter which contain stones and micro-organism. Finally, the purified water is safe to be flowed into the river.

Friday 30 March 2007

Essay writing

I have put a topic to be discussed about television, please visit www.lc.itb.ac.id/jati/e-learning.

Thursday 29 March 2007

Model Essay

Examination not assessment
In the past two decade, the use of formal examinations has become less frequent in many countries. The educational systems in some societies however are still dominated by formal examinations. I believe that, to a certain extent, examinations can give an unfair assessment of a student’s ability. Even thought examination result has been used extensively as a means of assessment in the past, there are times when they do not appear to reflect a student’s ability accurately.

Firstly, examinations can be unfair in several ways. For example, that whole career of a candidate depends upon what he or she does on a certain day and hour of an exam. If the candidate is ill, or if he or she has had some emotional trauma, these factors could have a negative effect on the student’s exam results. Furthermore, some students do not perform well under pressure and require a longer time to reach useful conclusions. Even though they may have studied diligently and know the subject matter thoroughly their performance does not reflect their ability. For these students, examinations appear to be unfair.

Yet, some people believe that examinations make people work hard. They assume that in order to do well, students need to work throughout the course as they know they will have to prove themselves at the end.

However, in many ways, exams have the opposite effect; some candidates merely cram so that they can perform quickly for the demands of the tests. Other forms of assessment such as course work and oral presentations are a more accurate reflection of how hard students work. In the assessment of their ability, students diligence, initiative, deductive reasoning and organizational skills are considered, which are important indicators of ability but are rarely tested in a formal examination.

In conclusion, even though formal examinations have been used in the past, they should no longer be used as the only means of assessment because they can be an unfair indication of the student’s overall ability. In the long term, other less formal means of assessment such as course work or oral presentations are a more useful indicator of the skills required in adult life and, therefore, a more accurate indication of a student’s ability.