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What National Examinations Reforms should be made and how may technology be leveraged?

This paper argues for reforming National Examination using a three prong approach and they are 1) monitoring examinations where issues of politics, practicality, security, fairness, accessibility etc. are addressed while enhancing test items with multimedia (animation and sound ) technologies 2) coordinating playful and stimulating teaching and learning tasks through well managed inter-agencies (Singapore Examinations and Assessment Board SEAB, Ministry of Education etc.) implementation and public engagement and 3) portfolio of performance tasks, as an agricultural educational instrument to promote creativity and problems solving, through artifacts of mastery learning and lifelong learning. References are made to http://www.cito.com/ based in Netherlands, one of the world leading testing and assessment companies where the author prototype some demonstration examples using open technology tools such as customized Simple Machines LLC Forum , Open Source Physics tools (Wee and Ning, 2014), and Blogger etc