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I fought one of the toughest battles in my life. My life was hanging by a thin thread.. but I managed to persevere and survive the killer week, albeit riddled with battle scars and now injured till almost beyond recognition.
Ok. I admit I exaggerate just that little bit.
But seriously, what were the cambridge idiots thinking? They squeeze 2/3 of our written papers into 1 week, when the whole exam is over only in 3 weeks. I'm sure they are sadists out to torture us.
E.maths, lit paper 1, lit paper 2, and a.maths all within 26 hours of each other. So much so that I did not have time to come online and please my fans with exam tips. But now, for some feedback:
- E.maths.
It was so easy even a sec 2 can take it and score an A1 for it. Having said that, it is NOT easy. They do norm level marking, so everybody will score in an easy paper. Screw up, and you die. Fortunately, and unluckily at the same time, I only made 1 mistake so far, which was the exact same mistake I made during prelims - shear factor.
- Lit.
Having just completed e.maths, I wasn't exactly in the right mood for lit. Neither had I studied enough. I went into the exam room not knowing exactly how I should quote, since '7 quotes' is supposedly all that is needed for an A1. I quoted quite a bit, and I hope I wasn't narrating or just rambling rubbish. Because I had no time to check through my answer. For lit, I have absolutely NO IDEA whether I did well or not.
- A.maths
ARGH is the word to describe it. The paper was easy enough for me to do very, very slowly and still have 20 minutes at the end. I went back to check an integration qn. From the RIGHT answer, i changed it to the WRONG answer. How exasperating can that be? My only hope now, is as Mr ALvin LIm said, they look at what you have cancelled away too. So I hope the cambridge idiots will look my cancelled answer, and presume that I have been set up by some sinister guy (since I wrote the new answer on a completely new page of paper alone), and award me sympathy marks. But I'm still glad that we don't get back our marks for O'lvl. I'll be happy if I get an A1.
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Have you ever thought - that within that 2 hours time span, whilist you may be just taking your time.. doing the paper. What you write within the 2 hours, would be all that matters for that 1 subject which you have taken for 4 years? That as you finish up, with your last FULL-StOP, as the seconds tick by... and the teacher says, "STOP". Your fate is sealed. What you get next year in March, on that slip of paper... 1 line on that slip of paper would have been set. No change. Not anymore. Would it be an A1? Or would it be an F9? You have no control over that subject no more, once time has completed her rounds. It is scary, isn't it? Yet we still have time... don't you realise that it is still ticking away every second relentlessly, and at the exam room it ticks away at the same rate too.. Then why does every second then seem so much more precious than every second now? The time for our O'lvls have not come to an end. It is still ticking by, slowly reaching the end. But whilist we still have time, let us grab hold and make use of it, so that when the time comes, we'll not wish that we could turn back time.
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Now. Many have wondered and thought it impossible when I said I don't study normally, only before the exams. They think - how is it possible then, that I can get good results? It is not difficult, really - the key is how you make use of your time just before your exams.
Firstly, the pre-requisite is that you understand all topics already. I'm sure that most people should have, by now understood almost all topics of every subject already.
A day or 2 before the exam, i'd run a quick re-cap by reading through all the chapters. Since you understand all the topics already, you'd have at least 80% of the knowledge, and while running through every chapter, you'll be able to reinforce your 80%, as well as patch up on other information which you may have forgotten.
Run an analysis of your subject. Identify the topic you're weak in. If you're not sure, look through all your past exam papers and practice papers. Find the topic you're weakest in, and read through the whole topic CAREFULLy again. This should be followed by practice for that particular topic until you're confident.
We have a 1-week break coming. Let's hope we'll all make good use of it.
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Now, to de-stress first: its time to take out my ps2.
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