I've just gotten back my last paper yesterday and kinda thought abit about my results.
My results are generally quite okay, but GP still failed.
It is kinda weird that I've been doing many different things that I would never have done before.
I started to think about my own scores.
Never did it occur to me that I would one day really think back on my scores, to think on how much I could have done better, and kinda start comparing with others.
As usual, comparing with my class people is quite disheartening, but I sound kinda like a bastard when I tell people that I'm the average type in my class, when many of my friends that I try very hard to help is failing very badly.
Somehow for me, I must admit that I'm really an average student, seriously. (I swear this is not to mock anyone)
But what I'm gonna say is that I just put in a little bit more effort (in the correct way) and also understand instead of just plainly memorising.
I remember that when I'm like talking to my brother about A levels when I'm teaching him some things, I talked to him about the fact that in JC, in many subjects, the questions you do rarely repeats itself, and by repeat I mean changing some values only. It is totally unlike O levels, where out of 10 questions in the TYS, 9 is about the same.
That is where the understanding part comes in. I always remember my teachers telling me that A level is testing our concepts, and the ability to utilize them during exams. This, I feel, is very true, and to tell you the truth, the reason behind why I can do okay in JC (i.e. not failing much), is that i understand the concepts, and not just plainly memorise them. And therefore, with any variation of questions will just come the application of the concepts.
I remember citing examples in chemistry about all of the funny funny molecules that the examiners can give you, but if you can apply concepts, it will be a 'no problem' to know what happens in that molecule. (Something liddat, I hope you get the meaning)
Maybe this would be the time that practice ONLY will not get you anywhere.
But this is what I can say for my sciences and maths, but not for my Econs and GP.
Those two subjects are my weakest of all, making up my E and S respectively. But right now I'm like trying super duper hard to see how I can salvage of the situation, and I'm pretty determined to do it, and somehow become a Econs + GP pro!
Therefore, I'm very much pretty determined to start to get organised and be serious in my work! (If you guys think that I'm serious in my work, you've not known what's real serious)
I'll have to start to study like a mugger, sleep like a mugger, eat like a mugger, shit like a mugger and breathe like a mugger! (Okay, I don't know what I'm talking about here)
And A levels, here I come!!! RAWRRRRRR!!!
With that, I hang up my sign.
(R^3)CMI wrote some crap again... <3 8:41 PM