I agree to a large extent that singapore education system produces unthinking students who lack individuality and creativity.

Since the start of our journey in education in primary school, we have been spoon fed by our teachers with the necessary information required to take the exams. Students just have to memorise the notes which are given to them, thus their exam result does not reflect on their critical and innovative thinking, only on their ability to memorise large amounts of information. therefore the exam is a competition for those who have a good memory, and not those who have the skill to think innovatively. However this is not the main point as when these students join the workforce in the future, their ability to memorise large amounts of information will not help them sustain their job in a company or business. Although some exam questions require critical thinking to answer, they are only a few of these questions, and different people have different opinions, so when the teacher marks the question the amountof marks awarded is based on the teacher's point of view, resulting in loss of marks.

There is a subject Project Work that students in JCs have to participate in, it is supposed to help students develop critical and innovative thinking to do their project. However, since they have to submit many drafts where teachers look through and provide extra ideas to enhance the project ideas, it is therefore a project that the teacher and student take part in. Not allowing the students to develop original ideas on their own.

Project work also requires Group discussion to develop creative ideas, thus they are dependant on each other to come up with ideas, lacking indivuality and this hinders their growth to become independant and develop self thinking.