Somehow, I don't think it makes sense for us Secondary Fours to go back there to practice full-time in school anymore - surely a longer holiday break is well-deserved for us after all the hell at Muggers' Paradise*? Unfortunately it seems to be a big NO - we are enlisted to perform exactly one month later, at Victoria JC Auditorium, 7pm on 28th November! The O level break isn't justified - we won't get any fun out of it, neither would we have time to search for holiday jobs, FTW(for the win)!
If I can help it, I'd skip any guitar practices, since I already have my credit for the stuff I've done for Guitar Ensemble. But if I do that, all becomes very political. If I remember right, I remember Mrs NC Koh saying that we Secondary Fours promised her to perform for this public performance. Yeah, tell me more about promises - I don't remember ME making any such promise from the start, though I don't know about the others.
Enough for all that ranting - time for some serious business with GCE "O" Levels?
O Level Combined Humanities(History Elective), 28/10/08, 2.00pm
This one's a tough nut to crack, but it was yet another morale booster for the rest of the examinations that came later on. Ah finally, though the League of Nation's appeasement policy wasn't justified because it accelerated World War II when it was supposed to prevent war in the first place, my midnight oil certainly was justified. Hell, something that I studied for until 4am the next day past midnight surely must have been justified - the stuff just became second nature at the exam hall, so I just wrote and wrote: 3 pages for Source-Based Questions, and 1 1/2 pages for each of the 2 Structured Essay Questions.
O Level Physics Paper II, 29/10/08, 2.00pm
The moment I finished the paper, I thought - drats. How on earth did such unexpected questions come out on the paper? The size of an atom - the fundamentals - I forgot Chapter 1, of all things! A couple of mistakes could've been avoided easily, had I been more on my toes for Physics paper. So, for those future O Level candidate wannabes, better watch out - I've been there down and dirty on that paper and now, there goes my A1 for this paper...
...unless I work really hard this time round for Paper 1?
O Level Elementary Mathematics Paper II, 30/10/08, 8.00am
Morning paper. That's one thing you've gotta be thankful for whenever you sit for any paper - one thinks most clearly in the morning than in the other times of the day! In my opinion, this paper can be better utilised when sent to primary schools to raise their standard by a little, in my opinion, as compared to putting it in front of our desks in the O Level exam hall. Or better yet - use the question booklet as rough paper to fold paper aeroplanes.
O Level Biology Paper II, 31/10/08, 2.30pm
Just thank the Lord they gave me this paper! Having aims to become a doctor, this paper is fundamental to my ambitions - so this is the most dangerous one of all the papers, in a sense that if this paper goes wrong, my ambitions and future can be jeopardised at any moment during the exam period...
Just thank the Lord that these stuff didn't come out for this paper:
- Mitosis and meiosis
- Excretion(includes kidney and functions, as well as dialysis machine function)
- Enzymes
- Genetic diagrams
- The heart and cardiac cycle
- Genetic engineering
- Down syndrome(trisomy 21)
- Nervous system and reflex actions
- Impact on Ecosystems(eutrophication and bioaccumulation)
Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good - His love endures forever!
However I, too, must still be on my toes - who knows, they might just test us on this very topics that Paper II failed to test us on. Another great morale booster - I'm one step closer to helping God spread His gospel through getting nearer and nearer to studying medicine!
Granted that I shouldn't start getting complacent, I have to hit the books again, so stay tuned for next week's post - O Level Crisis - Week 3!
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