Thursday, November 16, 2006
Been super duper long since i last blogged here... the last time was March 2005, now its end November 2006... hmmz... ok... let me see...
Finally, the major A level papers are over!!!
hmmz... while i'm at it, let me try to recall about the A level exams... GP... i did this question: Does modern technology always improve the quality of people's lives? hmmz... i argued that it always improves the quality of people's lives, but there are certain times when it doesn't... In cases such as the freezing of ova from the potential mother, and ex vivo fertilisation, and mechanisation of work, and increased ease of transportation... and when modern technology doesn't, it places more load (and with increased complexity) on the people, it demands multitasking when not everyone is good at it... i hope this carries me some distance...
GP Paper 2 was a total SCREWUP!!! firstly, our good-for-nothing CJC GP department has never gave us any practice on a single passage paper (not that a single passage GP paper ever came out before), and THERE WAS NO TIME!!!
Let me begin... i started by looking at the AQ question to give myself a clue on what the passage is about (as always), but... took me 5 minutes to figure out what the AQ itself was asking... aha... then i started - bear in mind that at this point of time, i did not know that there was only 1 passage - IMAGINE THE SHOCK WHEN I FLIPPED TO PAGE 2 (page 1 was the instructions to candidates)...
After scanning through the passage (i never actually read them because its super time consuming), i went to do the questions... stun stun stun and more stun... ok la... the front was quite bad, but it got better towards the summary then it valley-ed back down... there were 3 parts to the summary question!!! the most i did was like two??? yar... conclusion: there were lots of surprises... the AQ was itself the biggest shocker of the passage, i think... no questions asked... just write what you think, etc... (couldn't really remember the question, but it was something like that...)So at the end of the paper, i did not really complete the summary and the AQ, spent about 3 seconds on each vocab question, and the hour after GP paper 2 confused...
Maths was generally ok i guess... paper 1 was rather tough, but paper 2 was not too bad... although my statistics part i have super low confidence... but well, the subject of Maths 9233 has been officially changed to History 9233 from 9th November 2006.
Physics was VERY bad... Paper 1 was normal, i had around 8 questions that i don't know how to do... Paper 2 sucks big time, with more than 50% of the questions i am highly doubtful of getting any marks, with another significant portion of the paper unattempted... yes, unattempted... in an A level exam!!! darn, benji is smart... paper 3 was not that bad, did question 1,3,5,6... 3 was known as the damn tough question, i dunnoe why i did it... but i didn't want to do temperature and waves cos i didn't revise anything for it... yep... oh well... Physics joined maths in heaven on 15 November 2006.
Chemistry... so far so good... Paper 2 was quite good.. 5 structured questions, i did 4 with good confidence... Paper 3 was ok for the core topics... but environmental chemistry was terrible... i thought water confirm won't come out because last year came out on 2 water topics, this year, Cambridge decided to make all 3 chapters come out... and soil, took up such a tiny portion!!! when i revised soil the hardest!!! gRRR... tomorrow's paper 1... MCQ... going back to school to revise (with rosel) later... i hope i do well, to get a B to cover up my poor physics performance...
super long post, but well this is to blog for the past 3 weeks of exams.. hehe...
Finally, the major A level papers are over!!!
hmmz... while i'm at it, let me try to recall about the A level exams... GP... i did this question: Does modern technology always improve the quality of people's lives? hmmz... i argued that it always improves the quality of people's lives, but there are certain times when it doesn't... In cases such as the freezing of ova from the potential mother, and ex vivo fertilisation, and mechanisation of work, and increased ease of transportation... and when modern technology doesn't, it places more load (and with increased complexity) on the people, it demands multitasking when not everyone is good at it... i hope this carries me some distance...
GP Paper 2 was a total SCREWUP!!! firstly, our good-for-nothing CJC GP department has never gave us any practice on a single passage paper (not that a single passage GP paper ever came out before), and THERE WAS NO TIME!!!
Let me begin... i started by looking at the AQ question to give myself a clue on what the passage is about (as always), but... took me 5 minutes to figure out what the AQ itself was asking... aha... then i started - bear in mind that at this point of time, i did not know that there was only 1 passage - IMAGINE THE SHOCK WHEN I FLIPPED TO PAGE 2 (page 1 was the instructions to candidates)...
After scanning through the passage (i never actually read them because its super time consuming), i went to do the questions... stun stun stun and more stun... ok la... the front was quite bad, but it got better towards the summary then it valley-ed back down... there were 3 parts to the summary question!!! the most i did was like two??? yar... conclusion: there were lots of surprises... the AQ was itself the biggest shocker of the passage, i think... no questions asked... just write what you think, etc... (couldn't really remember the question, but it was something like that...)So at the end of the paper, i did not really complete the summary and the AQ, spent about 3 seconds on each vocab question, and the hour after GP paper 2 confused...
Maths was generally ok i guess... paper 1 was rather tough, but paper 2 was not too bad... although my statistics part i have super low confidence... but well, the subject of Maths 9233 has been officially changed to History 9233 from 9th November 2006.
Physics was VERY bad... Paper 1 was normal, i had around 8 questions that i don't know how to do... Paper 2 sucks big time, with more than 50% of the questions i am highly doubtful of getting any marks, with another significant portion of the paper unattempted... yes, unattempted... in an A level exam!!! darn, benji is smart... paper 3 was not that bad, did question 1,3,5,6... 3 was known as the damn tough question, i dunnoe why i did it... but i didn't want to do temperature and waves cos i didn't revise anything for it... yep... oh well... Physics joined maths in heaven on 15 November 2006.
Chemistry... so far so good... Paper 2 was quite good.. 5 structured questions, i did 4 with good confidence... Paper 3 was ok for the core topics... but environmental chemistry was terrible... i thought water confirm won't come out because last year came out on 2 water topics, this year, Cambridge decided to make all 3 chapters come out... and soil, took up such a tiny portion!!! when i revised soil the hardest!!! gRRR... tomorrow's paper 1... MCQ... going back to school to revise (with rosel) later... i hope i do well, to get a B to cover up my poor physics performance...
super long post, but well this is to blog for the past 3 weeks of exams.. hehe...
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