This'll be a short synopsis of what happened to me last week, and an attempt to study at the airport.
Okay, sigh...
Tuesday: GP and Chinese.
GP paper 1: I chose the wrong topic. I thought I could do the topic I chose, so i went on wth it... After narrowing twelve choices to three, I unwisely chose the worst choice among those three. The rest were really viable but oh, how regret only comes after you've decided and started on something... This is a consequence of reading the papers every day and trolling TOC (oops, haven't been doing that). I got a little too egoistic and thought I vould handle the question when in reality I couldn't. So it's probably either going to be pretty good because there's nobody for the marker to compare me to (since most people wisely stayed away from it) or it's going to be really bad because I didn't do a good job of writing my essay. The more I wrote, the more I felt that it was a bad choice... but with little time left, there wasn't any time to change topics and start on a new essay.
GP paper 2: Because my GP teacher said that the new marking scheme for summary would blah blah blah, and because of her advice to avoid generalisations... I found summary pretty difficult. Sigh. Then there wasn't enough time to complete AQ even though I thought i was pretty on task. Guess I should have written faster. Only compared one point, was halfway through another, and then hadn't even thought of a conclusion, much less write it.
Chinese Paper 1: Chose a different question compared to the two pro girls in my class again. Made me wonder if i'll die for essay again... especially when your teacher writes "see me!" in chinese in every single essay you hand up.
Chinese paper 2: Pretty hard. I think I got used to not doing open-ended cloze passages so I was drifting off in the last 30 minutes and didn't finish/know what to write for it.
Wednesday: Econs
I suppose if you are someone who gave up on econs and only read someone else's tuition notes and practiced a few graphs you won't expect to do well but still try to score..
Well...
I don't really feel like thinking about econs anymore =.=
Thursday: Math
I think I slept quite late before math. Then at 3am I got a runny nose and the tissue paper was full of red coloured liquid (my mucus tends to have the viscosity of water -.-)... then i was quite shocked. I guess it's because I rubbed my nose too hard before and the membrane just gave way. Shouldn't rub too hard next time.
Math was quite horrible. Enough said. Don't want to remember this one, too.
Friday: Bio
Got a shock when I saw that the time allocation printed on the cover page was only 1hr 15mins for a 60 mark paper. So I flipped open and in my worst ever illegible scrawl proceeded to attempt to do questions at a fast pace. But I still couldn't finish because for the second part of the essay question I couldn't think of points to spam and had to go slowly. And the adrenaline and my concentration was wearing off. I mean, how do I explain the role the structure of the Golgi apparatus has in its function? Sigh. So just when I thought of a last point and wanted to write it there wasn't any time left.
Then paper 1 was really sad as well because I finished the 20 MCQs in about 23 minutes (30 mins were given) and was checking through really slowly (brain dead by then)... then I spotted a mistake. I overlooked the word "gamete" and assumed it was somatic (normal cells)! So I was going to change my answer and then time's up. Arghh... every time I can get some marks, they always elude me...
Monday: Chem. Already explained what happened in the last post, so I'll talk about my preparation for it in the airport on Friday after the bio paper.
I ate lunch in RJ and went to the airport. Then I felt that the nice quiet environment in the MRT station would allow me to concentrate better. The only thing was the lack of tables, so I sat on a nice slab of granite and put my stuff on the cool stone and reclined and did some questions until some securityguard-looking woman came over to helpfully warn that $2 would be deducted from my EZ-link card if I didn't vamoose by the end of two hours in the MRT station. So I packed my stuff and tapped out from the place after 1+ hours. Was quite sad to leave because the architecture was really fascinating. Then I sat at Coffee Bean to do my MCQs (which were much tougher than expected and so took me 12 hours instead of an expected 8+ hours). The place didn't allow studying and put up "no studying" signs the last time I was there so I was somewhat angry with them then. Then on Friday there was a group of people studying at the airport.
I saw a VJ girl who studied with earphones on from when I came to about 7-8+ at night. Scary.
I met my Chorale seniors (a couple) and tried not to go over and spoil their great time together but since they asked me if I was awkward at one occasion I asked one of them over too see where I went wrong with my MCQ. She's like a nice big sister even though she's only one year older... I guess even an extra few months' difference do make one more mature (I hope).
The group of people over there were O'level students. I was quite surprised because I never bothered working that hard for my O'lvls.. Then I realised that one was still asking the other what a floodplain was (Geography elective) and the guy couldn't answer it very confidently. Oh, well... But more came to join their gang as time went by. And they stayed till quite late. According to S, the airport mugger who came to join me later, they were there every time he was there. Still, very scary...
Oh, and they absolutely don't look like sec 4s at all. They looked more like a bunch of J1s and 2s and I would never have known otherwise if I didn't see y old bio and physics and geog textbook lying on the tables.
...
Well, I guess i really don't like studying at the airport -.- I don't think i'm going back there again unless requested...
This sets the stage for my next post (full of random info).
Okay, sigh...
Tuesday: GP and Chinese.
GP paper 1: I chose the wrong topic. I thought I could do the topic I chose, so i went on wth it... After narrowing twelve choices to three, I unwisely chose the worst choice among those three. The rest were really viable but oh, how regret only comes after you've decided and started on something... This is a consequence of reading the papers every day and trolling TOC (oops, haven't been doing that). I got a little too egoistic and thought I vould handle the question when in reality I couldn't. So it's probably either going to be pretty good because there's nobody for the marker to compare me to (since most people wisely stayed away from it) or it's going to be really bad because I didn't do a good job of writing my essay. The more I wrote, the more I felt that it was a bad choice... but with little time left, there wasn't any time to change topics and start on a new essay.
GP paper 2: Because my GP teacher said that the new marking scheme for summary would blah blah blah, and because of her advice to avoid generalisations... I found summary pretty difficult. Sigh. Then there wasn't enough time to complete AQ even though I thought i was pretty on task. Guess I should have written faster. Only compared one point, was halfway through another, and then hadn't even thought of a conclusion, much less write it.
Chinese Paper 1: Chose a different question compared to the two pro girls in my class again. Made me wonder if i'll die for essay again... especially when your teacher writes "see me!" in chinese in every single essay you hand up.
Chinese paper 2: Pretty hard. I think I got used to not doing open-ended cloze passages so I was drifting off in the last 30 minutes and didn't finish/know what to write for it.
Wednesday: Econs
I suppose if you are someone who gave up on econs and only read someone else's tuition notes and practiced a few graphs you won't expect to do well but still try to score..
Well...
I don't really feel like thinking about econs anymore =.=
Thursday: Math
I think I slept quite late before math. Then at 3am I got a runny nose and the tissue paper was full of red coloured liquid (my mucus tends to have the viscosity of water -.-)... then i was quite shocked. I guess it's because I rubbed my nose too hard before and the membrane just gave way. Shouldn't rub too hard next time.
Math was quite horrible. Enough said. Don't want to remember this one, too.
Friday: Bio
Got a shock when I saw that the time allocation printed on the cover page was only 1hr 15mins for a 60 mark paper. So I flipped open and in my worst ever illegible scrawl proceeded to attempt to do questions at a fast pace. But I still couldn't finish because for the second part of the essay question I couldn't think of points to spam and had to go slowly. And the adrenaline and my concentration was wearing off. I mean, how do I explain the role the structure of the Golgi apparatus has in its function? Sigh. So just when I thought of a last point and wanted to write it there wasn't any time left.
Then paper 1 was really sad as well because I finished the 20 MCQs in about 23 minutes (30 mins were given) and was checking through really slowly (brain dead by then)... then I spotted a mistake. I overlooked the word "gamete" and assumed it was somatic (normal cells)! So I was going to change my answer and then time's up. Arghh... every time I can get some marks, they always elude me...
Monday: Chem. Already explained what happened in the last post, so I'll talk about my preparation for it in the airport on Friday after the bio paper.
I ate lunch in RJ and went to the airport. Then I felt that the nice quiet environment in the MRT station would allow me to concentrate better. The only thing was the lack of tables, so I sat on a nice slab of granite and put my stuff on the cool stone and reclined and did some questions until some securityguard-looking woman came over to helpfully warn that $2 would be deducted from my EZ-link card if I didn't vamoose by the end of two hours in the MRT station. So I packed my stuff and tapped out from the place after 1+ hours. Was quite sad to leave because the architecture was really fascinating. Then I sat at Coffee Bean to do my MCQs (which were much tougher than expected and so took me 12 hours instead of an expected 8+ hours). The place didn't allow studying and put up "no studying" signs the last time I was there so I was somewhat angry with them then. Then on Friday there was a group of people studying at the airport.
I saw a VJ girl who studied with earphones on from when I came to about 7-8+ at night. Scary.
I met my Chorale seniors (a couple) and tried not to go over and spoil their great time together but since they asked me if I was awkward at one occasion I asked one of them over too see where I went wrong with my MCQ. She's like a nice big sister even though she's only one year older... I guess even an extra few months' difference do make one more mature (I hope).
The group of people over there were O'level students. I was quite surprised because I never bothered working that hard for my O'lvls.. Then I realised that one was still asking the other what a floodplain was (Geography elective) and the guy couldn't answer it very confidently. Oh, well... But more came to join their gang as time went by. And they stayed till quite late. According to S, the airport mugger who came to join me later, they were there every time he was there. Still, very scary...
Oh, and they absolutely don't look like sec 4s at all. They looked more like a bunch of J1s and 2s and I would never have known otherwise if I didn't see y old bio and physics and geog textbook lying on the tables.
...
Well, I guess i really don't like studying at the airport -.- I don't think i'm going back there again unless requested...
This sets the stage for my next post (full of random info).
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