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 dropped a live session and a lot of you were excited about that
I was excited this when I opened up a package, had no idea what it was
Opened it up, put it in the player, play, and it totally blew me away
It's his brand new from his brand new "The Dormroom EP"
I'mma have to let spoken word do what it best, and let it speak for itself
new Suli Breaks!

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

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

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

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

So one is for my generation,
the ones who found what they were for on Google,
the ones who their dreams on Twitter,
Pictured future on Instagram, accepted destiny on Facebook.
This one's for my "failures" and "dropouts", for my unemployed graduates, my assistants, cleaners and cashiers with bigger dreams,
My entrepreneurs, my world-changers and my dream-chasers!
the purpose 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 not let exam results decide our fate

Peace.