Done with Year One
I'VE FINALLY FINISHED MY EXAMS!!
HURRAY! :))
One year just whizzed past, exams are over and it's holidays again.
Somehow or rather, this year was quite an experience for me, where i had the taste of university life. We are taught to be independent, or rather forced to be independent, and no longer being spoon-fed by teachers that we had experience for my past 12 years of schooling. Independent means making the right choice in attending lectures (because attendance is not taken except for foreign students), handing up assignments, studying for tests, doing tutorials, taking down your own notes, taking initiative to ask questions, etc. Well, i wouldn't say i've done all those listed above, but i have done most of it.
Few months after school started (which was in aug08) the momentum to study wasn't quite there yet. I took things lightly and went out quite often after my lectures because tests wasn't very frequent over here and if there are tests, the marks are not included in the finals. Because our final exam is like A-levels, where one exam will determine the hard work paid off for the year. Anyway, things had a different turn when it was nearing prelims (prelims in feb, and at tt time it was jan). I started to get nervous, and realised that i don't have that much time left. So i gave myself a goal, to finish going through at least once of all the topics for the modules before taking the prelims.
And then it was prelims (feb), i told myself that i should take all modules to have at least a feel of what the real exam would be like. But then i took four mod except for poa. Because i really wasn't able to finish going through poa so i gave up and decided not to go for the exam the night before. Then overseas revision and local revision started full force and my whole of apr was gone. Results took quite a long time before they were ready to be collected. And my results were econs 51, pbf 16, maths 58, stats 83. My full units were not very well done at all. So during the days where i am free, i would head down to bishan cc to mug. Initially for the first few times i went there alone to mug, but subsequently, i had the company of wt to mug tgt with me. We studied as much as possible, and kept snacking the whole time, had tea breaks, more or less to kp us awake throughout the whole day from 0930-1800 or 0930-2130. And i could safely say that studying at cc was much productive than studying at home. Though every morning i had to snooze the alarm clock a few times before i get my butt out of the bed. Btw i have to thank wt who was always the more punctual one and would reserve the seats before the tables were fully taken :)
Now to the last lap, which was the juggling of time to study for each modules. It was not easy, really. Because for full units it was mainly theory and i had to spent quite sometime to memorise the things inside. So i ended up choosing topics to study.
7May09 POA was my first paper, and also the mod tt i dislike the most. So as u can expect, for the past few months, i seldom revise it other than having lectures. So i sort of struggled through those days before my exams and kind of regretted not studying earlier. It's only towards the end when i started to get a hang of the mod, then it's exam time.
So on that day of my first day of my exam (all my exams are held at expo) things were kind of cocked up due to the temperature thing. Message weren't well passed, there was only one seating plan on cardboards loosely pasted on the glass, things were getting chaos outside, most of the first years were lost because it was our first time taking exams there. But luckily we still were able to get in early. The moment i stepped in and saw the hall, i thought to myself "goodness i've nv seen such large scale examination before". There were 3045 seats in total in the hall, so i guess you can slowly imagine how big the place is. haha. I sat at the third row from the front. And then soon afterwards i settled myself down, the exam started. After the exam, i was kind of dejected, because i've prepared myself for cashflow long qn and it did not even came out at all. And this was the first time because all along, CF long qn always comes out.
Then the following day 8May09 i had my Stats 1 paper and i sat at the 2nd row from the front. Luckily they set up more seating plans which helped facilitate the crowd outside. Anw after doing the paper, i felt that it was more difficult than prelims. I didn't have as much confidence as what i had for prelims.
During the weekends, i managed my time btn my last three mod, but i spent more time on maths on pbf. I had Maths on the 12May09, and i sat at the first row (been seating infront for the last 2 papers). I found the paper easier than prelims.
Had one day to study before having pbf paper. So as usual, i went down to bishan cc to study with wt.
Had my Pbf paper on the 14May09. And so coincidentally my seat and daph's were side by side haha. As for the chapters that i've studied, out of the four qn tt i've picked to do, i studied 3. But there were abt 3 sub-parts which i didn't had any idea how to do. And for the last qn, i just did it with my general knowledge. I was quite drained after the exam since it was a 3hrs afternoon paper. So after dinner at Crystal Jade with my family, i went to take a nap before waking up to study for my econs. But then, i couldn't wake up and slept all the way till the next morning. sigh. The next morning i panicked, because my econs isn't gd at all and i have not revise finish my notes and tutorials yet. But i had no choice but to just look though and refresh my memory from the notes tt i've made.
On that very faithful day 15May09, last paper, (i finally sat at somewhere in the middle) the moment i saw the qns, i knew i wasn't able to do well. The things i rmbed, i had them partially mixed up. So yar i dun think i'll need to elaborate any further. I just hope i'll able to do slightly better than pass.
Yup that's all that i've summarise for my whole week of exams. I'll update on my past and post exam activities soon :)
So ppl, date me out because i don't want to rot at home hahas.
HURRAY! :))
One year just whizzed past, exams are over and it's holidays again.
Somehow or rather, this year was quite an experience for me, where i had the taste of university life. We are taught to be independent, or rather forced to be independent, and no longer being spoon-fed by teachers that we had experience for my past 12 years of schooling. Independent means making the right choice in attending lectures (because attendance is not taken except for foreign students), handing up assignments, studying for tests, doing tutorials, taking down your own notes, taking initiative to ask questions, etc. Well, i wouldn't say i've done all those listed above, but i have done most of it.
Few months after school started (which was in aug08) the momentum to study wasn't quite there yet. I took things lightly and went out quite often after my lectures because tests wasn't very frequent over here and if there are tests, the marks are not included in the finals. Because our final exam is like A-levels, where one exam will determine the hard work paid off for the year. Anyway, things had a different turn when it was nearing prelims (prelims in feb, and at tt time it was jan). I started to get nervous, and realised that i don't have that much time left. So i gave myself a goal, to finish going through at least once of all the topics for the modules before taking the prelims.
And then it was prelims (feb), i told myself that i should take all modules to have at least a feel of what the real exam would be like. But then i took four mod except for poa. Because i really wasn't able to finish going through poa so i gave up and decided not to go for the exam the night before. Then overseas revision and local revision started full force and my whole of apr was gone. Results took quite a long time before they were ready to be collected. And my results were econs 51, pbf 16, maths 58, stats 83. My full units were not very well done at all. So during the days where i am free, i would head down to bishan cc to mug. Initially for the first few times i went there alone to mug, but subsequently, i had the company of wt to mug tgt with me. We studied as much as possible, and kept snacking the whole time, had tea breaks, more or less to kp us awake throughout the whole day from 0930-1800 or 0930-2130. And i could safely say that studying at cc was much productive than studying at home. Though every morning i had to snooze the alarm clock a few times before i get my butt out of the bed. Btw i have to thank wt who was always the more punctual one and would reserve the seats before the tables were fully taken :)
Now to the last lap, which was the juggling of time to study for each modules. It was not easy, really. Because for full units it was mainly theory and i had to spent quite sometime to memorise the things inside. So i ended up choosing topics to study.
7May09 POA was my first paper, and also the mod tt i dislike the most. So as u can expect, for the past few months, i seldom revise it other than having lectures. So i sort of struggled through those days before my exams and kind of regretted not studying earlier. It's only towards the end when i started to get a hang of the mod, then it's exam time.
So on that day of my first day of my exam (all my exams are held at expo) things were kind of cocked up due to the temperature thing. Message weren't well passed, there was only one seating plan on cardboards loosely pasted on the glass, things were getting chaos outside, most of the first years were lost because it was our first time taking exams there. But luckily we still were able to get in early. The moment i stepped in and saw the hall, i thought to myself "goodness i've nv seen such large scale examination before". There were 3045 seats in total in the hall, so i guess you can slowly imagine how big the place is. haha. I sat at the third row from the front. And then soon afterwards i settled myself down, the exam started. After the exam, i was kind of dejected, because i've prepared myself for cashflow long qn and it did not even came out at all. And this was the first time because all along, CF long qn always comes out.
Then the following day 8May09 i had my Stats 1 paper and i sat at the 2nd row from the front. Luckily they set up more seating plans which helped facilitate the crowd outside. Anw after doing the paper, i felt that it was more difficult than prelims. I didn't have as much confidence as what i had for prelims.
During the weekends, i managed my time btn my last three mod, but i spent more time on maths on pbf. I had Maths on the 12May09, and i sat at the first row (been seating infront for the last 2 papers). I found the paper easier than prelims.
Had one day to study before having pbf paper. So as usual, i went down to bishan cc to study with wt.
Had my Pbf paper on the 14May09. And so coincidentally my seat and daph's were side by side haha. As for the chapters that i've studied, out of the four qn tt i've picked to do, i studied 3. But there were abt 3 sub-parts which i didn't had any idea how to do. And for the last qn, i just did it with my general knowledge. I was quite drained after the exam since it was a 3hrs afternoon paper. So after dinner at Crystal Jade with my family, i went to take a nap before waking up to study for my econs. But then, i couldn't wake up and slept all the way till the next morning. sigh. The next morning i panicked, because my econs isn't gd at all and i have not revise finish my notes and tutorials yet. But i had no choice but to just look though and refresh my memory from the notes tt i've made.
On that very faithful day 15May09, last paper, (i finally sat at somewhere in the middle) the moment i saw the qns, i knew i wasn't able to do well. The things i rmbed, i had them partially mixed up. So yar i dun think i'll need to elaborate any further. I just hope i'll able to do slightly better than pass.
Yup that's all that i've summarise for my whole week of exams. I'll update on my past and post exam activities soon :)
So ppl, date me out because i don't want to rot at home hahas.
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