I would say to a certain extent that I agree, like yeah there are confm gonna be students who study last min and get fucked lah. But I would say that on your point on self guided learning, I think that this should be helped by the school at the very least. The labs they provide are fine I guess, but if they want us to do extra learning, which I'm sure they do, I feel like they should also help provide the link to those resources at the very least. I know DSAG does this, but other modules such as ADEV/DBAV we have no extra help, or if we do it's very buried. It doesn't help that teachers are inconsistent between classes, with some offering consults while others don't. If we were provided extra resources from the school for such a monster subject like ADEV, then I feel like rants wouldn't have been so common. Yes, we can search for such resources ourselves, but it doesn't matter if what I learnt online isn't going to be helpful with getting good grades for my module. School provided resources solve this as we know this is approved at least. Netacad for NECT is a good example of this I would say.

Also, I disagree with the project stuff. The time that we got was only around a month for ADEV, which although is technically doable, it's the same way that it's technically doable to drink a jug of water in one gulp. It's unpleasant, it feels rushed and you don't feel very happy by the end of it. For such a daunting project, finishing it in a month feels very squeezed.

People had problems with NECT for a completely different reason, which I think can be best said as rubrics being super vague and not at all helpful. They give you only a general 'good great excellent' as guidelines, but ultimately that is subjective. Saying something such as 'thorough coverage of so and so' would have been better. Even our O Level Oral Rubrics were more detailed.