rants&musings
Wednesday, September 29, 2004
with prelims come results. after 3 days of going through scripts, everything bar humanities because the humans teachers haven't finished marking yet, i hereby announce :
I FUCKED MY PRELIMS
no joke. only one A this term. and that's for emaths. but quite a high A1 though. finally managed to pass bio with a B4 after failing ever since the year started. looks like studying does pay off to some extent. screwed my SS and history by studying
TOPICS instead of
THEMES. totally pissed of with myself because of this little error. ended up almost failing SS. and SBQ which i was supposedly good at, i screwed up big time.
my work for amaths did pay off, but not as i expected. just one mark away from B3. but what alice long said is true to some extent. do prelim papers she distributed to the class and you get your B. and considering i finished 3/4 of it, i'm quite happy with the result. however, the B4 means that with the new post-prelim timetable, i'm under ms tan soak cheng. alice went to take the A1/A2 group. i have nothing to hate about ms tan but i've been with alice for the past 1.75 years, it's hard to adjust to a new teacher till the Os. oh wells.
and the worst part is, i get
NO study break. sucks big time. but at least this ensures i don't while away my time at home slacking. i need to work much harder for my O levels. very very much harder. if not, i can kiss bye-bye to my dreams of entering VJC. well, i'll probably be going to CJ for the first 3 months anyway.
-out~!
darryl was chasing the sun at 15:38.
Tuesday, September 21, 2004
i'm exhausted. totally exhausted. thank goodness the prelims are over. don't want to talk about it any longer (i think i'll bore you anyway). holidays wasn't much of a holiday as expected. went back to school every single day except friday. at least i think i spent my holidays in a worthwhile manner instead of just going out every day. ok, i did go out, but that's to school so it isn't counted :P
if i continue at this rate, i don't know how i'm going to do well for this prelims, let alone O levels. i don't have the mood to study any more. perhaps this is what 3 prelims does to you. it makes you so sick of studying that by the third prelim, noone can be bothered to touch their books except the muggers (and no, I'm NOT one of them). how i miss the slack days of sec 3.
-out
darryl was chasing the sun at 14:02.
Friday, September 03, 2004
prelims have begun.. language papers and science practicals are over. i realise that having so many prelims isn't working out. many of us seem to lack the motivation to study any more. perhaps we're just so sick of that exam hall. doesn't help that there doesn't seem to be any form of worry or anxiety.
having so many prelims only serve to make us sick of studying. considering many of us died terribly the first two prelims, it will be extremely hard to make good this one. having 3 prelims is an extremely silly decision. the sec 3s are lucky in a sense as they will not have PAE, they will go straight into JC after O level results, much like the PSLE.
pity everything has to be at our disadvantage. we're always the last year for system changes.
darryl was chasing the sun at 14:22.