Final Year of Secondary School - Update 2 (A Day Before Common Test 1)

How time flies, it's already the 7th week of Term 1 this year. I just got into Secondary 4 and oh well, the first Common Test of the year is just round the corner, i.e. tomorrow.

What have I done during the past 7 weeks? With reference to the previous post, I failed my Chemistry assignments and got very disappointed, and decided to buck up on the subject once more. I succeeded. I got back my first position again, with the score of 30 out of 35, which is around 85.71%. For Additional Maths, my weakest subject, I got 13 out of 20, which is 65%. This score, may not be very impressive, as I'm sure many of you guys can score distinctions or maybe A2, but to me, it's a very great achievement as I've been week in the subject all along.

However, I failed my Mother Tongue, English and Elementary Maths. For Mother Tongue and Elementary Maths, the main cause is the poor time management. For English, I've no idea why. Almost everyone in the class failed the subject. I'm very worried that my 'O' Level results will turn out to have all As or Bs, but English, a D7, E8 or even F9.

I didn't really do well in my Geography or Social Studies either. I know it, although I haven't got those papers back, yet. But I expect myself to get F9 for Social Studies and maybe at least a fail for my Geography.

The problem of my English, doesn't have any specific solution. It's hard to solve too. My Composition skills are good, but I'm worried that those scores will get pulled down by Paper 2.

I'll update the blog again once my Common Test 1 results are out. Till then, see you.

Final Year of Secondary School - Update 1

Hey again everyone. This blog will be reused for personal updates. :)

This year is the final year of my secondary education. Once October comes, will be Graduation Day, then following shortly after will be the GCE 'O' Levels. As a result, this year is a tense one. Probably more tense than 4 years ago for my PSLE (thats when I created this blog, year 2007).

I realised, my Chemistry skills have slid down, and I mean by alot. Today I got my assignment marked and returned, and got 19/55, which is, obviously a fail (34.5%), and I'm one of the lowest in the class. What has happened? I've no idea. Normally I'm one of the top scorers in Chemistry, but now, why did I fall from such a great height? Did it happen because I turned my focus to A-Maths? Seriously, why?

Now I have to buck up on both A-Maths and Chemistry. Initially I thought Chemistry would be a breeze, but I was wrong. I had problem answering questions in the Chemistry TYS from the start of this year, compared to last year, when I can complete the entire page with few or no errors within 5-7 minutes!

I'm redoing the assignment. Really. To do well for my Chemistry again. I want to get high scores. I want to achieve my personal goal of getting a L1R5 of above 15 by CT1 and at least 13 by MYE. Of course I have to balance my other subjects as well, but now, the main focus is on both Chemistry and A-Maths. I have to improve!