Luyện nghe bài hát I Will Not Let An Exam Result Decide My Fate

[Intro: Chaudhury]
Revolution on 107.3 FM
My is Tarek
Now listeners you may remember not too ago we had a spoken word artist by the name of Suli Breaks
Came down dropped a live session and a lot of you were excited that
I was excited morning when I opened up a package, had no idea what it was
it up, put it in the player, pressed play, and it totally blew me away
It's his brand new piece his brand new "The Dormroom EP"
I'mma have to let spoken word do it does best, and let it speak for itself
Brand new Breaks!

[Verse: Breaks]
now
There is a kid finishing parents' evening in a heated discussion his mother
Saying, why does he have to study subjects he will ever use in his life?
And she will look at him eyed, stifle a sigh, think for a second and then lie
She'll say something along the of:
"You know to get a good job, you need a degree and these subjects will help you get a degree, we never had this opportunity when I was younger".
And he will
"But you were young a long time ago, you mum?"
And she won't respond although he implies makes perfect sense that societies needs would have changed since he was 16
But she will ignore him, grip his hand sternly and drag him to the car
What she doesn't know is that she didn't ignore him to shut him up
She didn't lie because they are just returning him from parents'
And an in the hallway would look bad on her resume
She won't lie because she had just the last one hour convincing a stern face teacher that she would ensure that her child studies more at home
No! She lie simply, because she does not know any better herself
Although all her adult life, she has never used or
Pythagorean theorem, Pathetic fallacy, and does not know the of "X"
She will rely society to tell her child who has one of the mind in the school, is hyperactive, unfocused, easily distracted and wayward

Students!
How many equations, subjects and dates did you memorize just an exam never to use again?
How many "A" did you get, which were never asked for when applying for a job?
How many times you remembered something 5 minutes just after the teacher said: "Stop writing"
Only to receive your results a month later to realize that you were only 1 mark of the top grade?
Does that mean remembering 5 minutes earlier would've made you more for a particular job?
Well, on an application form it would
We all have different abilities, processes, experiences and genes
So why is a full of individuals tested by the same means?
So that means Cherrelle thinks dumb, because she couldn't do a couple sums
And if this issue is not addressed properly, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy
Then every school has the audacity to have policy on
Huh, the irony!

Exams are society's methods of telling you what you're
But you can't let tell you what you are
Cause this is the same society that tells you that abortion is wrong, but then looks down on parents!
The same society that sells products to promote nature hair, looks and smooth with the model on the box, half photoshopped, and has fake lashes and hair extensions
With pastors preach charity, but own private jets
that preach against greed, but are all fat
Parents that say they want "educated kids" but constantly marvel at how Richard Branson is
Governments, that peace, but endorse war, that say they believe so much in the importance of higher education and further learning
Then why increase fees every single year?
I believed Miss Jefferson when she took me into the office, that my exams would be imperative to my success
we were taught to always follow when Miss Jefferson led
Then I Jefferson out of the equation and learned to think for myself
I realized, we always taught to follow when misled
Huh, the irony!

Test us with tests, but the are never final
they never prepare us for the biggest test which is survival!
And what I suggest is fairly
So I don't expect everyone to understand
Except for the kid that knows it feels like to be worth no more than that D or that A that you get on results day
And the ones whose best stories were good enough for your English teacher
Because apparently you missed out key techniques
Did not follow the plan,
And the was too "informal" for him to understand
But then reference Hamlet and Macbeth
And you'd fight the urge to express your contempt by partially your fist with only your medius finger left protruding in the middle of your hand
And if he was aware that Shakespeare was known as the innovator of slang
Or the kid at the back of the class who
"Why am I studying that doesn't fuel my drive?"
But when confronted with a maths problem his eyes alive

So one is for my generation,
the who found what they were looking for on Google,
the ones who followed dreams on Twitter,
Pictured their future on Instagram, destiny on Facebook.
This one's for my "failures" and "dropouts", for my graduates, my shop assistants, cleaners and cashiers with bigger dreams,
My entrepreneurs, my world-changers and my dream-chasers!
Cause the of "Why I hate school, but love education" was not to initiate a worldwide debate,
But to let them know whether 72 or 88, 44 or 68,
We will not let exam results our fate

Peace.