after so long...i can finally announce i've completed 2/3 of A lvls!! yeah!! this calls for some celebration..rite? WRONG!
papers this year have been very very unique as compared to the papers of prev years..hence highlighting the fact that blindly memorizing answers from the TYS will NOT help in preparation for exams, no matter what your teacher tell you (of cos there is a small measure of help by memorizing..)
maths this year has been nothing short of surprising.after practising my ass off on integration (by parts, substitution, area, volume, trapezium rule and MORE), cambridge decided to make a fool out of me by...not testing me on anything remotely near the extent i've practised.so much for the sleepless nights and huffin and puffin in the afternoons tryin to rack my brains up..ofcos different ppl have different expectations, and ultimately different views on how well they did for the paper.personally...i think it sucked but still do-able...i hope..
maths paper 2 was worst.stats was kinda..unpredictable and qn27 (i'm sure every1 remembers qn27..) was so dumbly phrased i spent a good 5 minutes tryin to figure out what was actually being said.needless to say the completion of that question was far frm satisfactory.the most aggravating thing is...i've spent nights not sleeping well (u really dun wan me to repeat my adventure with my mum, rite? vincent can fill you in..haha) jus because i was totally freaked out for my maths...and somehow i felt my efforts are wasted...down the bukit timah canal in fact
econs was the most screwed.throughout the post prelim period every single econs teacher in NJ stressed the importance of wages and labour market.there's even a very nice question in the prelims jus for wages...and Ms Ong nicely said "prelims is to prepare you for 'A' lvls" yeah rite!! after spending an entire afternoon on wages...i was totally stunned when i flip that stupid piece of paper that lousy afternoon...NOTHING ON WAGES!! hardly anything on market structure (a whole evening!!) and lots of macro (phew..).the sucky thing is i didn't finish the paper! hell...i was so engrossed in the externalities question i kinda pushed the "literary download" button in my head and kinda...shitted everything out for that question to the extent it was as long as my gp essays..and needless to say i only had 20 minutes left for the last question (where i was supposed to hav 45 mintues?)...screwing...ain't it?
physics was equally up to the unpredictable mark.i was totally in panic mode b4 the paper cos..after 3 days of 3 hrs slp per night and rather fervent download of information...i could hardly keep my eyes (and brain) operating to prepare physics...the paper, however was fairly attemptable. whenever someone asks you to do alot of tys questions...DO SO! physics paper 1 came out 3 exact questions frm the TYS...and a couple more based on similar concepts...what a gift! atlast my efforts (however last minute) ain't gone to waste.paper 2 was...in weijie's own words...easy on the surface but underlying-ly tricky..adding spice to the already unpredictable mix..
guess now i owe my brain a good shut off...so i'm off to bed! can't wait to get my hands on the mp3 player.finally can put that $ i got for my bday into good use..eh?haha...
nites peepz..i more week!
peace~!