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| Thread ID: 59892 | 2005-07-16 02:38:00 | Youngest Microsoft Certified Professional - 9 Years Of Age | vinref (6194) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 372570 | 2005-07-16 02:38:00 | Well, either an MCP qualification is really easy to obtain, or this kid (seattlepi.nwsource.com) is really smart and hardworking. I did try for an MCSE once, but gave up (couldn't grasp the idea of striping and raids at the time), so I suspect it is the latter reason. And I bet you thought every kid in Pakistan was carrying an AK-47 (nah! that's in the US schooling system!) or being indoctrinated into killing people (nope! that's in NZ, Aust etc with kids playing violent video games!). |
vinref (6194) | ||
| 372571 | 2005-07-16 02:47:00 | Kids can concentrate. Some of them can concentrate for longer than two seconds, too. Unfortunately, the process of getting such a "qualification" is just behavioural training. Pigeons can do it. It is not education. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 372572 | 2005-07-16 02:49:00 | Apparently playing Video Games is good for your health: www.theregister.co.uk Graham's right. When I started my Diploma, I had to give them the answers they wanted, but not the answers that myself and my class-mates knew were the _real_ answers. Long story short.... |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 372573 | 2005-07-16 03:44:00 | When I did my MCP I discovered 80% of the students in my class (who unlike me were their as their work paid for it) messed about not paying too much attention because they intended to do it all off the "braindumps" on the net. So it doesn't surprise me at all. Now real world skills...... |
pctek (84) | ||
| 372574 | 2005-07-16 04:53:00 | When I started my Diploma, I had to give them the answers they wanted, but not the answers that myself and my class-mates knew were the _real_ answers It's often sad but true. In one of the papers in Maori Studies I did for a B.Ed degree I got an A+ (99%) for which I didn't study at all except for 25 minutes in the car park before the exam. I just knew from some of the few lectures I attended what they wanted to hear, and wrote a whole lot of drivel accordingly. Wonders! :rolleyes: |
Greg (193) | ||
| 372575 | 2005-07-16 05:40:00 | Still, this kid was only 9 years of age when she got the MCP, and from a background where English and stability are not the best. I am still impressed. Now I am waiting for the time when they present a monkey with an MCP. |
vinref (6194) | ||
| 372576 | 2005-07-16 06:22:00 | Dear Greg: what is a Maori and why does one study it? Yanks wanna know.... |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 372577 | 2005-07-16 06:36:00 | what is a Maori and why does one study it? Are you yanking our leg, Joe? [Yanking our leg:- having us on, teasing, etc] |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 372578 | 2005-07-16 06:36:00 | why does one study it? Because this country has been hijacked by a poisioness politacal correctness. Pity more people dont have balls and tell them where to shove that crap. Roll on a National Government, The time is now. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 372579 | 2005-07-16 07:23:00 | Could say the same for Labour/National etc. | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
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