Parent from the East. My son goes to international school {IB curriculum} and his learning experience is very different from my local experience. My school experience might explain why our students scored high. We were trained to write exams at age of 6 ie grade one. We got tests in each subjects every month and two mid terms and 2 finals a year. We are well trained in doing a lot of questions in a set time. We did 20 years of past paper before we did the real public exam. Some of the school time were allocated to do MCQ of various aptitude test when we were in middle school. Very often when I glanced through my exam paper, I have seen at least two- third of the questions before. We were exam machine. When we practiced exam past paper, we set the exact time and wrote the answer as fast as possible. Remember, exam involve both knowledge and speed. My son definitely lacks this training. He wrote his first exam in Grade 9. He did not go through all past paper…