Quality in question


THE quality and accuracy of school textbooks have again come under scrutiny.

Recently, a tuition teacher Boo Soon Yew alleged that the diagrams shown on pages 156 and 159 of the Physics textbook for Form Five were the opposite with regard to the direction of deflection of the galvanometer.

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