The post before A levels end…
November 17th, 2006 by juneteng-samanthaNext week I am going to finish my A levels exams.
It lasts for four weeks and now three weeks are down.
I still have Further Maths Paper 2, Math S and Physics S to go… which are the hardest among the four subjects that I am taking.
Well, before the exams, I always had this feeling that I have gone through Prelim which is supposed to be harder than A levels, so A levels should be quite easy and thus less stressful. However, some papers have proved me not…
Gp, not to mention, a headache to me. Because of my poor English that I needed to work extra hard in order to ensure, not a pass for this subject but a pass for A LEVELs!!! To improve myself, I had planned that I would try my best to do well in my four subjects in J1, at least to get a strong foundation in J1 work, so that I can concentrate on Gp in J2. (Actually part of the reason was I would prefer to do the rest of the work rather than Gp, so I chose what I like to do first..) So in J2, I put a lot more efforts on Gp. I went for GEL lessons (which in fact helps me a lot), I copied examples from newspaper (Can you imagine, last time I did not even bother to read newspaper, now I started to like to read news about the world), I did research for essays and AQs etc etc So now it came to the last Gp exam that I hoped does prove that my efforts are worthwhile. The essay was pretty ok, because the question that I did was straight-forward. However the problem was too many people attempted that questions, so.. maybe I can pass but cannot score.. The comprehension, haha, was about FREEDOM.. It followed previous year style which gave us one passage only. (most of the time the teachers gave two passages for comprehension practices) The AQ was, "How far do you agree with the author’s views? How free do you want to be?" Oh dear..
It seemed that the style they set the questions has changed. Maths and Physics especially. I do not know the rest because I am not sitting for those papers. The change in Maths, frankly, did not affect me much for I had learnt many techniques of tackling and answering the Math C challenging questions from Further Maths. However, the change in Physics has given me the greatest shock ever. The paper 2 was a killer. So many things I realised that I did not focus on, the teachers did not too.. I got a bit worried that I did not know enough for this subject, yet I seldom have this lack of confidence in Physics. I complained to brother, trying to get his affirmation that this paper was indeed hard but I couldn’t. Well, I blamed a lot on the teachers for they did not focus on what has come out on paper 2 but then I realised it was not going to help much, I just hoped that everybody has the same feeling that the paper was tough so that I will not fall out of the distinction range. Actually the teachers in the whole Singapore did not really focus on those which have come out in the paper.
Chemistry was pretty ok, except that I was a bit dumb in the sense that there were some questions were super duper easy that I did not able to decipher and answer. This situation happened in FM paper 1 oso… but I think it is better in FM…
Well.. just hope that the rest of the paper will turn out ok…
Everything is in God’s hand.
Haix.. one bad thing has happened.. I am sick!!! Haix… I feel miserable for not being able to sleep well at night, furthermore I have to sit for exam. However, with God’s grace, He has seen me through the exams. At least I was not sleep halfway during the exam or not being able to see and think carefully. This is what I am really thankful of.
On the way of preparing for the exam, I did not have the mood to post something. Therefore I did not write about hostel’s celebration night and some other things that had happened.. Think I’ll continue next time…