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One more day!!! JUST ONE!!! RARH! omg. im loving it.

im not sure about u guys out there, but this EOY seems to be much less stressful than the previous CT1 and CT2 last year. Wonder why. Maybe because for this entire year, I've been making notes and making sure I know the concepts well instead of plain mugging which made me get a gpa of 3.73 last year. haha. i remember last year, i was soooooo stressed over geog i spent two whole days mugging everything memorising the whole stack of notes, knowing which page it was on, what was the exact phrasing and result? - 22.5/30 for ct2. i slept at 2 and i misread a 6m question. lol.

so this time, i decided to adopt a new approach, that is progressive mugging! haha. this was especially helped with the presence of DMP and although i have many more hours than most people, my free hours allowed me to either study or rest which meant that i could actually start studying for eoys 4 weeks before it actually started.

I actually did a timetable like most would do but once again i didnt follow it. But still I managed to catch up, doing stuff that are more interesting first so that i can do the less interesting stuff later on (such as memorising) when the pressure comes in and im actually pressurised to go memorise. But guess what, all the notes i made for bio, chem, history, SS... they all came in handy and to put it shortly, i saved much memorising work with the notes and now i not only understand the concepts, but save much more brain space which makes me more relaxed.

I think I've done well for all my papers so far and since i have some time today (not really... but i cant get started yet...) I can talk a bit about the papers...

ENGLISH:
It was an ok paper and I think I managed my time really well. They gave quite a lot of time so I decided to read the passage REALLY slowly and understand what it really means. For the questions, I think I answered them to the best of my ability and I can say that I think I will have no regrets whatever the result is. As for the essay, im glad that i managed to write quite a lot of content and i guess a bit of literary device and i guess it is once again the best that i can do given my limited abilities in my languages. So good job there. Hope to get a 3.6 grade.

SS:
It was once again an ok paper. The first question was a bit tricky but when I read the sources, I understood how democracy can help in citizen-armies and after that it was all quite easy as my notes and the SS lesson we had the day b4 literally flowed out of my brain. So once again, great job there. Think no problems getting my 4.0 grade with my high CA score as well.

Chinese:
Chinese was I guess the hardest paper I've taken so far and once again it is due to my lousy languages. But once again, I must count myself lucky for remembering all the words and yan yu and stuff. Also, I seemed to have gotten a few compre questions correct although im not sure cuz the answers vary greatly amongst people... But, I guess I did my best.

Chem:
Easy paper. Only regret is that I did not study steps to take for chromatography. Sigh. i think the bonus question was quite easy. No problems for 4.0 once again i guess...

Math:
Math today was ok. The paper was quite easy but i don't know why i had a bit of a headache and so i did slower than i used to. Maybe another reason was that I did not practice much math the day before because I had practiced quite a bit the weeks before and there was history. But still, managed to finish the paper with 30 mins left. Took a look at the bonus question and decided it was not worth doing so i checked my answers and found a few mistakes which i corrected one of which i found in the last minute and managed to correct it but handwriting a bit cannot read so i dont know whether teacher will give me the mark. still, think no problems getting a 70 mark which i need for 4.0.

History:
I always knew that this and bio would be the most critical papers i would be taking because the other papers were quite hard to change grade. Most would stay at the grade of the CA. I thought I did a great job given that I did not memorise any examples or elaborations for different questions like i did for sec 2. All I forgot to do during the test which I can think of now was that I forgot to provide an example for how medicine has increased the lifespan of people although i did mention about black death and SARS and compared it in my ending paragraph. I need to get 34/40 here so it's gonna be hard but I think I did a great job. Never thought I would write 3 and 1/4 pages for a SBQ and 1 and a 1/2 page for SEQ. Hand pain.

so last up is bio and phy. Physics should be ok cuz my CA is quite high. Think i only need to get around 55 for my 4.0 although i would be definitely be aiming for around 70+. A bit of revision of formulas should do and maybe practice. Bio just go through my notes again, try to remember the respiration and transport in humans stuff which i am most unfamilar with and maybe try out the papers or just read the answers of the papers.

ok. One day left. We can do it.

Patrick