hey there! i'm gonna be doing a part 2 of my o level results reflection. if you have not read my first post, please do so at this link: https://aavocadoo.blogspot.com/2020/01/reflection-about-my-o-level-results.html . this post is inspired by the posts on http://journeythroughtheolevels.blogspot.com/
i will be sharing my tips in a descending order of my results:
double mathematics --> pure biology --> tamil language --> pure chemistry --> english language
--> pure physics --> humanities (ss/history)
ELEMENTARY MATHEMATICS
for this subject, i had a teacher who was adamant on everyone in my class getting an A1 (i didn't in the end) so she gave 1 question a day, which became 2 full sets of papers a week during revision period. my school had us do mock papers in the afternoons so i plead you to do full exam timed practice in the afternoon (from 230 to 5pm) so that you will get used to the exam conditions and get accustomed to the pace you should do your papers.
towards prelims, you should be doing papers from top schools like Anderson, Bukit Panjang Govt High, Catholic High, Cedar Girls, Anglican High, MGS and CHIJ St Nick's. they give you a good stand of where you will stand at prelims and even at O Levels for the easier papers amongst these schools. for paper 1, you should aim to complete the paper in 1h30mins so that you have extra time to do the questions you find the hardest. these papers should be done outside your normal homework if your teacher were to give you during the revision period. by doing this before prelims, you will be used to drilling on papers everyday and even if you burnt out (which i did, just before the o levels), you will kinda know what to do. for paper 2, you have to ask your teacher to give you more PRWC (problems in real-world context) questions so that you can do the questions and fully understand the rationale behind a concept.
I WISH I DID questions that i was weaker in because i tend to neglect them and that costed me my A1 and i got an A2 in the end. practice on your trigo and geometry but don't even ignore the other topics because in the end, i found my paper 1 difficult because i didn't use common sense to answer my number patterns question.
towards the o levels, you should be used to doing papers for all subjects. for me, i did the full set of paper 1s in a day and marked the full set. then, i went through all my mistakes, which tend to repeat across the whole tys and then, i will do 2 paper 2s in the remaining days of the week. that cycle worked for me but you might not be used to doing papers this way so i will suggest this: you do 1 years' worth of paper in a day and then, mark all the papers for the day. write down the mistakes you made in a notebook so that you can refer to it just before entering the exam hall. make sure to do the tys at least twice on top of one round of prelim papers.
ADDITIONAL MATHEMATICS
for this subject, i used the same techniques as ELEMENTARY MATHEMATICS, but I just identified my weak topics, which were almost all the Sec 4 topics. hence, i used the whole june holidays to brush up on my weak links by practicing on exam questions every single day. thank god for that, i was able to answer most questions at the o levels except the sum and roots and circle questions. i implore you to keep checking your answers because I am sure I lost my marks due to missing steps (don't jump steps and show every single step that's on your mind though it takes up time). you have to practice on your questions and identify weak qn types and write them down in a notebook.
PURE BIOLOGY
it was the first time i got a distinction in sec 4 so take my advice with a pinch of salt.
for biology, i basically read the textbook and used the syllabus learning outcomes as a guideline to make notes. there is a lot of fluff you need to know for prelims but not for the o levels so after prelims, you have to redo your notes, which will model after the learning outcomes in the syllabus and you should also write the answers to the ten-year series questions in your notes. what i did was to do at least 20-25 years worth of o level questions, which i bought from the bras basah complex and read from the reference section in the national library headquarters. by doing these questions, you will know the style of questions cambridge is likely to ask and also, some schools are very lazy and copy and paste questions from the old o level papers (not in the tys). by doing all the different questions, you should look at the answer key and take note of the points they want you to write. all these should be in your compiled notes so that you can easily refer to them outside the hall. for practical papers, you should look through the textbook and find the different practicals listed so that you kinda know the steps and the reason behind the step. for bio, you should understand first and then, memorise using acronyms, especially for the human biology parts because it is all within you. what i did was to memorise using the visualization of my body parts and think through the full body systems and its functions. i know it sound gross but what you remember tends to be trivial or absurd so it works! while preparing for the actual o levels, i didn't do much mugging for this subject because it was just getting used to the concepts and also, youtube videos help you to visualise the conceptual questions like the cardiac cycle graph (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJi3G_kf8yA&t=114s)
TAMIL LANGUAGE (NOT HIGHER AH)
I got a B3 overall and a Merit in Oral/Aural, which was quite shocking in a bad way because I tend to get A1/A2 in school so please don't be complacent at your O levels and whack points randomly. Make sure to use some common sense to link your points when speaking in front of the 2 examiners. There will be emphasis on your pronunciation of words because Tamil teachers are very particular about your pronunciation and how you bring about your point. To prepare for your O Level Tamil paper, make sure to do your TYS as many times as possible, especially if you take the May/June paper. The questions are very repetitive so take note of the question types so that you can quickly study, just before exam starts. For Paper 1, memorise the formats for email and take note of every single word in the essay question because according to the SEAB marking scheme, the examiners will check if you explained each word properly to meet the requirements of the questions. If you want to boost your language marks, make sure to include some திருக்குறள் and பழமொழி in your essay, which should be explained to the context of the question. Be familiar with all question types because if not, your essay will not as coherent as you feel it will be because the topics tend to be quite random. When writing essays, make sure to explain the question in relation to you, your family, you school, your neighbourhood, your nation and the world. You have to read the TYS comprehension passages and make essay plans for potential essay and oral questions. 2 weeks before the O Levels, make sure to do timed practices for Paper 1 every single day and for each day, do an essay and an email on a different topic so that you will be able to think quickly during the actual exam itself. Before writing each essay, do an essay plan with shorthand examples to jog your memory whilst writing the essay.
PURE CHEMISTRY AND PURE PHYSICS
same as PURE BIOLOGY, but make sure to do as many planning questions as possible so that you will understand the rationale of experiments. memorise formulas and know how to use the formulas and laws in questions. for these 2 subjects, the practicals tend to be quite hard, so you have to bank on your planning marks, which's quite easy to score in. do your topical tys every single day and ask your school teacher to mark and ask them for consults to clarify your mistakes. whilst doing your topical tys, make sure to do some questions in prelim papers every day. i got a B3 for both because i did some practices (both tys and prelim papers) very last minute like a month before o levels so i urge you to start on practices right away. even though it can get damn tiring, you MUST do practices every single day and make sure to learn from all your mistakes (including keywords).
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
same as TAMIL LANGUAGE
Paper 1: purchase the Present Perfect magazines, read the magazines and find relevant points that you can use to support different types of essay questions. Find some common idioms and phrases that you can use to boost your language marks in essays. Know the appropriate ways to use the idioms and phrases so that you won't be penalised for wrong usage. You'd rather use simple words to explain your points than use complicated words in the wrong form
Paper 2: practice 1 paper a week from June Holidays onwards (on top of homework) so that you can make sure to be flawless in your comprehension skills
Oral: look through news articles to be aware of the current affairs in the country and the world and also Present Perfect magazines for ideas
LC: just dig your ears HAHAHAHA and do the paper. Just before going into the exam hall, listen to British radio stations to be used to the accent because some of the people in my school didn't understand what the persons were speaking during the LC paper.
HUMANITIES(SS/HISTORY)
I can't really help you for SS because it is my worst subject and I don't want to screw up because of my tips but from what my A1/A2 friends did, they did their notes early on in the year and also nearer to O levels to recap their content. For History, I focused on the Sec 3 book and made notes for content extensively on the Sec 3 book. I totally ignored the Sec 4 book because ain't nobody got time for that. I did a timeline for both Sec 3 and 4 SBQ topics so that I can back up my SBQ inferences with contextual knowledge. Take note that CK will pull up your SBQ marks and make sure to add relevant details so that you can be sure to attain full marks in an SBQ question. For SBQ, just make sure to remember your formats (the main gist of what you need to write) but don't stress over the formats because you can just write in your own words as long as your different aspects of the format is covered. For your notes, start doing it from NOW!!!! if not, procrastination will kill you at the actual exam. Even if you don't complete either of your humanities papers, don't be scared that you will fail as long as you did your best because I did my best and jumped from E8 to C5 in the end.
Saturday, January 25, 2020
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
reflection about my o level results
hi there! it's my first post on this blog and i am bomb-blasting this post with my results and what i think about it.
context: i am an average-performing student in school compared to the rest of my other friends (or is it just karma i got the lowest amongst all my friends, even my jc friends whom i dsaed with into my school). i typically get an r5 below 20, which may sound decent to some but to me, i was neutral. i couldn't feel much about the results because i know i am quite terrible in some subjects. with my grades, i was scared i couldn't make it my dream school so i took a leap of faith and entered the dsa route. i just didn't know what i was doing and randomly applied to the newly launched tamil language elective programme by moe. i applied to my current school and i got into the school, despite my poor track record in my mother tongue competitions and the only thing i could show to the interviewees was my model essays <face palms>. since i got my offer, i needed 20 points exactly to get into my school like any dsa offer but i wanted to get way better than that for o's. so, after putting in so much time into my studies, i got an overall score of 20 points for my last prelims. i was scared to my wits because i don't know that even if i were to put NARUTO RUN ENERGY load of hard work, i thought i would get the same results. i was quite demoralized looking at the 20 points on my report book. i didn't know what to do but to put in more work so that i can at least meet the dsa offer at the bare minimum. so, in the last 3 weeks towards o levels, it was just werking my booty off so that i can get the results i very much desired for the past 4 years. the last 3 weeks was basically staying back in school with my close network of classmates aka friends and mugging the shit out of the syllabi i was studying for. then, came the ACTUAL O LEVEL EXAMS. the day before, i was doubting myself if i could really get below 20 because that was how scared i was about the exams. with such a bad mindset, i took most of my papers. thank god i had such a good network of friends to get support from because if not for their help (last minute studying outside the hall), i don't think i would have even got to where i am today. SOOOOO.... ON TO MY RESULTS>>>>
my results: i got 17 points raw and 13 points net (after CCA and TLEP bonus points), which i was happy about when i received my results because i didn't see my name on the top students' list (4 distinctions and more) and started bawling my eyes out, even before getting my results (what a drama mama... HAIZZZ)
english: B3. i was quite happy with it because i never got higher than a B4 in school exams. trust me, my school papers were about the same standard as o's except for paper 2, where the english department always whacked us with harder order thinking questions. the o level paper 1 went badly because i didn't manage to complete the essay i was so passionate writing about my sister being a positive impact to my life, despite her being bipolar -- word for word what i wrote in the essay HAHAHAHA!!! then, LC went even worse because the angmoh accent was incomprehensible for me at least so i whacked the answers and after comparing my answers with my classmates, i felt even more horrible because we had totally different answers. moral of the story: don't compare answers with your friends, unless you want to constantly doubt your answers throughout the exam period.
emath: A2. i was quite sad because i expected an A1 for it coz I got A1 for an (easily set and a horrible motivation booster) prelim paper. i thought i did the paper to the best, like around 87-89 marks in overall but i guess the benchmark is higher since the national distinction rate is so high for math (blame the math tuition out there HAHAHA just kidding).
amath: A2. i was ecstatic with that because i got a C5 for prelims so it was an improvement. i credit my amath grade to my ever so monotonous amath teacher, mdm tang (she is a legend). she was a ninja warrior making us do 26 practice papers throughout the whole year on top of tys. she was crazy in giving us revision papers but thank god for her 3 day 1 set of paper routine, i got that distinction. actually, you won't need tuition to pull up your grades for double maths. just need to practice until you know every single type of question they is most likely to come out for the o levels. please, i implore you to continue doing amath prelim papers even till o levels because there were similar questions in the o levels that were not in the tys.
tamil: B3(merit). i got my mtl results in june and decided not to retake in the end because i wanted to prioritise my time on my other subjects. this subject's results especially broke me because just an hour ago, my school had called me to inform that i got through the dsa route and got the spot in the school. and for a person taking tamil lang and lit h2 at a levels, this set of results are atrocious but i am quite settled with my feelings about this subject because i would credit my B3 to my sleepy head oral examiner who i guess didn't get what i was trying to say! it's your loss that you fell asleep while i was talking technical details you didn't care about (OOHHH BURN) -- not really but it's also my fault lah coz i didn't do well for LC.
biology: A2, my only science distinction! i was super happy with bio because paper 1 was bad -- there were people in my school scoring full marks and look at me (making careless mistakes that could have allowed me to get full marks also);
paper 2 was quite unexpected because there were some novel questions like for genetic engineering, which didn't appear in about 20-25 years at the o levels (yes, i was that crazy guy who did so many papers for bio and neglected the rest of my subjects) but thanks to my kinda ineffective teacher, he spotted the kidney dialysis question in prelims (almost word for word but same points). i got out the exam hall so distraught, i thought i flunked bio also (after my horrendous chem paper, which i will tell you later on). i didn't feel i did the paper to the best of my ability because i was in a hazy state doing the paper and it just seemed i made many careless mistakes in the paper like even the 1st question and my dumb brain chose to do the enzymes essay question, instead of homeostasis even though i knew how to do it. practical for bio was a breeze compared to my other 2 sciences because i had expected the paper to be as hard as the 2018 practical paper (it was way easier but don't assume the difficulty of paper in any year because the papers do not follow any sort of trend). so in the end, all my fears was for nothing and shoutout to my mavis tutor for biology, mr imran ibrahim! he was such a saviour because he just helped me to streamline exactly what i needed to study for the o's. salty thing is i got higher than what he predicted my bio grade would be for my o's based on my school prelim grades.
chemistry: B3. i was honestly expecting a C5 despite getting B3 for prelims because i felt i did way better at prelims (i found prelims easier and a more fun paper to do) <nerd mode>. i made so many careless mistakes in paper 1 -- took the paper as a joke, i felt so guilty for making careless mistakes. after the exam but since it was the last paper, i wasn't bothered and passed the qn paper to my teacher; rather i just felt relieved the holidays started after 330pm on 15 november 2019. paper 2 went terribly for the amount of effort i put into practicing for the paper. i felt so bad after that morning paper because i didn't complete the data-based question (i did it last with 20 minutes left till the exam was over); i didn't give proper explanations in my answers compared to prelims so i thought my chem results are gonna be jialat also. practical went better than expected because i had low expectations -- to pass. for all major examinations, i failed all science practicals (bio, chem and phys) so there was nothing much i was expecting but what i hated about my year's practical was that TITRATION WAS A PLANNING QUESTION!!!! it was the most unexpected thing on earth. i knew something unexpected would come out because after 10 years, the combined chemistry practical had redox titration but for pure, titration was a normal part of experimental data collection but never in my mind did titration cross my mind to do planning (even the revision questions my school had compiled for planning didn't have any titration questions). other than that, the practical paper was fine.
NOW COMES THE LAST 2 UNEXPECTED RESULTS!!!
physics: B3. honestly, i expected a C5/C6 because amongst the 3 sciences, i hated physics the most and i scored the worst in it too (i guess passion translates to grades?). paper 1 went ok because it was quite expected, i just memorised as many answers as i could from my tys and prelim mcq practices and it came out for o levels. i did better than how i did for prelims but still, it is a low score for others. paper 2 was abysmal. i finished the paper just as the central presiding examiner told everyone to stop writing. basically, had no time to check and i knew the paper was quite hard for me -- i lacked practice, which is crucial for physics. i only looked at answer schemes side-to-side my question papers and did my tys and prelim paper practices my school teacher gave. i know this is a bad habit but it kinda helped me to understand exactly what the examiners wanted us to write for answers. in my prelims, i scraped by with a C5, even with tuition at mavis. with consistent practices we went through in tuition lessons, it eventually became a habit for me to take note of keywords required for most answers. then, there is practical: i just hated the practical with passion -- it was quite dumb. i didn't know how to set up the practical set up and even had to ask the teacher to set up for me. then, i knew i was in deep s**t. even with the teacher's help, i didn't know how to continue so i just whacked the data and draw a random graph, which was eventually wrong. then, the spring experiment is even weirder so i didn't care about the practical in the end of it. i knew it was an ultimate flop so i just put in more work for the other papers so as to compensate for my horrid practical marks (around 14/40). for physics, just practice questions every single day with a strict time limit and learn from your mistakes and you will do just fine.
lastly, humanities (ss, history): C5. i was quite satisfied with the grade, though it was my worst grade at the O's. the social studies paper was plain disastrous. i spotted the wrong topic for essay and i whacked the essay. then, for sbq, i didn't do the whole issue properly -- no proper skills applied basically. i bet you if i were to study the whole syllabus properly, i would've got a B3 for O's because i think i got below 20/50 for the paper. i didn't understand the purpose of ss so i guess my grade explains it well enough... that paper really affected my mood for the next paper in the afternoon, which was amath paper 2. basically, i was crying while studying last minute for amath (flipping thru tys and practicing last minute with it) -- i am an emo person HAIZZZ. bless my soul! then, came history - it helped me pull my grades to a pass at least. i put in so much effort for the paper but even then, i was almost going to skip the paper because i was distraught by how "horrible" my bio paper 2. so after my bio paper 2, i just asked my classmates to explain the full syllabus in 1 hour and thank god for that! they basically gave me the basis for my essay and we did the asia essay in class before as timed practice so it went fine. also, stalin's purges was quite ok because i had done a similar sbq by st nicks 2018 so it was fine! in the end, i didn't complete both my humanities paper (i didn't finish my essay for ss and 3 paragraphs for assertion in history elective) so don't worry. just do your paper to the best you can!
i hope you liked the post and please do comment if you can!
context: i am an average-performing student in school compared to the rest of my other friends (or is it just karma i got the lowest amongst all my friends, even my jc friends whom i dsaed with into my school). i typically get an r5 below 20, which may sound decent to some but to me, i was neutral. i couldn't feel much about the results because i know i am quite terrible in some subjects. with my grades, i was scared i couldn't make it my dream school so i took a leap of faith and entered the dsa route. i just didn't know what i was doing and randomly applied to the newly launched tamil language elective programme by moe. i applied to my current school and i got into the school, despite my poor track record in my mother tongue competitions and the only thing i could show to the interviewees was my model essays <face palms>. since i got my offer, i needed 20 points exactly to get into my school like any dsa offer but i wanted to get way better than that for o's. so, after putting in so much time into my studies, i got an overall score of 20 points for my last prelims. i was scared to my wits because i don't know that even if i were to put NARUTO RUN ENERGY load of hard work, i thought i would get the same results. i was quite demoralized looking at the 20 points on my report book. i didn't know what to do but to put in more work so that i can at least meet the dsa offer at the bare minimum. so, in the last 3 weeks towards o levels, it was just werking my booty off so that i can get the results i very much desired for the past 4 years. the last 3 weeks was basically staying back in school with my close network of classmates aka friends and mugging the shit out of the syllabi i was studying for. then, came the ACTUAL O LEVEL EXAMS. the day before, i was doubting myself if i could really get below 20 because that was how scared i was about the exams. with such a bad mindset, i took most of my papers. thank god i had such a good network of friends to get support from because if not for their help (last minute studying outside the hall), i don't think i would have even got to where i am today. SOOOOO.... ON TO MY RESULTS>>>>
my results: i got 17 points raw and 13 points net (after CCA and TLEP bonus points), which i was happy about when i received my results because i didn't see my name on the top students' list (4 distinctions and more) and started bawling my eyes out, even before getting my results (what a drama mama... HAIZZZ)
english: B3. i was quite happy with it because i never got higher than a B4 in school exams. trust me, my school papers were about the same standard as o's except for paper 2, where the english department always whacked us with harder order thinking questions. the o level paper 1 went badly because i didn't manage to complete the essay i was so passionate writing about my sister being a positive impact to my life, despite her being bipolar -- word for word what i wrote in the essay HAHAHAHA!!! then, LC went even worse because the angmoh accent was incomprehensible for me at least so i whacked the answers and after comparing my answers with my classmates, i felt even more horrible because we had totally different answers. moral of the story: don't compare answers with your friends, unless you want to constantly doubt your answers throughout the exam period.
emath: A2. i was quite sad because i expected an A1 for it coz I got A1 for an (easily set and a horrible motivation booster) prelim paper. i thought i did the paper to the best, like around 87-89 marks in overall but i guess the benchmark is higher since the national distinction rate is so high for math (blame the math tuition out there HAHAHA just kidding).
amath: A2. i was ecstatic with that because i got a C5 for prelims so it was an improvement. i credit my amath grade to my ever so monotonous amath teacher, mdm tang (she is a legend). she was a ninja warrior making us do 26 practice papers throughout the whole year on top of tys. she was crazy in giving us revision papers but thank god for her 3 day 1 set of paper routine, i got that distinction. actually, you won't need tuition to pull up your grades for double maths. just need to practice until you know every single type of question they is most likely to come out for the o levels. please, i implore you to continue doing amath prelim papers even till o levels because there were similar questions in the o levels that were not in the tys.
tamil: B3(merit). i got my mtl results in june and decided not to retake in the end because i wanted to prioritise my time on my other subjects. this subject's results especially broke me because just an hour ago, my school had called me to inform that i got through the dsa route and got the spot in the school. and for a person taking tamil lang and lit h2 at a levels, this set of results are atrocious but i am quite settled with my feelings about this subject because i would credit my B3 to my sleepy head oral examiner who i guess didn't get what i was trying to say! it's your loss that you fell asleep while i was talking technical details you didn't care about (OOHHH BURN) -- not really but it's also my fault lah coz i didn't do well for LC.
biology: A2, my only science distinction! i was super happy with bio because paper 1 was bad -- there were people in my school scoring full marks and look at me (making careless mistakes that could have allowed me to get full marks also);
paper 2 was quite unexpected because there were some novel questions like for genetic engineering, which didn't appear in about 20-25 years at the o levels (yes, i was that crazy guy who did so many papers for bio and neglected the rest of my subjects) but thanks to my kinda ineffective teacher, he spotted the kidney dialysis question in prelims (almost word for word but same points). i got out the exam hall so distraught, i thought i flunked bio also (after my horrendous chem paper, which i will tell you later on). i didn't feel i did the paper to the best of my ability because i was in a hazy state doing the paper and it just seemed i made many careless mistakes in the paper like even the 1st question and my dumb brain chose to do the enzymes essay question, instead of homeostasis even though i knew how to do it. practical for bio was a breeze compared to my other 2 sciences because i had expected the paper to be as hard as the 2018 practical paper (it was way easier but don't assume the difficulty of paper in any year because the papers do not follow any sort of trend). so in the end, all my fears was for nothing and shoutout to my mavis tutor for biology, mr imran ibrahim! he was such a saviour because he just helped me to streamline exactly what i needed to study for the o's. salty thing is i got higher than what he predicted my bio grade would be for my o's based on my school prelim grades.
chemistry: B3. i was honestly expecting a C5 despite getting B3 for prelims because i felt i did way better at prelims (i found prelims easier and a more fun paper to do) <nerd mode>. i made so many careless mistakes in paper 1 -- took the paper as a joke, i felt so guilty for making careless mistakes. after the exam but since it was the last paper, i wasn't bothered and passed the qn paper to my teacher; rather i just felt relieved the holidays started after 330pm on 15 november 2019. paper 2 went terribly for the amount of effort i put into practicing for the paper. i felt so bad after that morning paper because i didn't complete the data-based question (i did it last with 20 minutes left till the exam was over); i didn't give proper explanations in my answers compared to prelims so i thought my chem results are gonna be jialat also. practical went better than expected because i had low expectations -- to pass. for all major examinations, i failed all science practicals (bio, chem and phys) so there was nothing much i was expecting but what i hated about my year's practical was that TITRATION WAS A PLANNING QUESTION!!!! it was the most unexpected thing on earth. i knew something unexpected would come out because after 10 years, the combined chemistry practical had redox titration but for pure, titration was a normal part of experimental data collection but never in my mind did titration cross my mind to do planning (even the revision questions my school had compiled for planning didn't have any titration questions). other than that, the practical paper was fine.
NOW COMES THE LAST 2 UNEXPECTED RESULTS!!!
physics: B3. honestly, i expected a C5/C6 because amongst the 3 sciences, i hated physics the most and i scored the worst in it too (i guess passion translates to grades?). paper 1 went ok because it was quite expected, i just memorised as many answers as i could from my tys and prelim mcq practices and it came out for o levels. i did better than how i did for prelims but still, it is a low score for others. paper 2 was abysmal. i finished the paper just as the central presiding examiner told everyone to stop writing. basically, had no time to check and i knew the paper was quite hard for me -- i lacked practice, which is crucial for physics. i only looked at answer schemes side-to-side my question papers and did my tys and prelim paper practices my school teacher gave. i know this is a bad habit but it kinda helped me to understand exactly what the examiners wanted us to write for answers. in my prelims, i scraped by with a C5, even with tuition at mavis. with consistent practices we went through in tuition lessons, it eventually became a habit for me to take note of keywords required for most answers. then, there is practical: i just hated the practical with passion -- it was quite dumb. i didn't know how to set up the practical set up and even had to ask the teacher to set up for me. then, i knew i was in deep s**t. even with the teacher's help, i didn't know how to continue so i just whacked the data and draw a random graph, which was eventually wrong. then, the spring experiment is even weirder so i didn't care about the practical in the end of it. i knew it was an ultimate flop so i just put in more work for the other papers so as to compensate for my horrid practical marks (around 14/40). for physics, just practice questions every single day with a strict time limit and learn from your mistakes and you will do just fine.
lastly, humanities (ss, history): C5. i was quite satisfied with the grade, though it was my worst grade at the O's. the social studies paper was plain disastrous. i spotted the wrong topic for essay and i whacked the essay. then, for sbq, i didn't do the whole issue properly -- no proper skills applied basically. i bet you if i were to study the whole syllabus properly, i would've got a B3 for O's because i think i got below 20/50 for the paper. i didn't understand the purpose of ss so i guess my grade explains it well enough... that paper really affected my mood for the next paper in the afternoon, which was amath paper 2. basically, i was crying while studying last minute for amath (flipping thru tys and practicing last minute with it) -- i am an emo person HAIZZZ. bless my soul! then, came history - it helped me pull my grades to a pass at least. i put in so much effort for the paper but even then, i was almost going to skip the paper because i was distraught by how "horrible" my bio paper 2. so after my bio paper 2, i just asked my classmates to explain the full syllabus in 1 hour and thank god for that! they basically gave me the basis for my essay and we did the asia essay in class before as timed practice so it went fine. also, stalin's purges was quite ok because i had done a similar sbq by st nicks 2018 so it was fine! in the end, i didn't complete both my humanities paper (i didn't finish my essay for ss and 3 paragraphs for assertion in history elective) so don't worry. just do your paper to the best you can!
i hope you liked the post and please do comment if you can!
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