July 27, 2010

Prelim Results, Study Order

English: 66%
Comments: Not bad, considering I didn't even get the format for situational writing correct. 31/50 for my Comprehension and Summary, 22/30 for my Composition and 16/30 for my Situational Writing. Assuming I had gotten 21 for Situational Writing with the correct format, I'd get A2 at least.

Elementary Mathematics: 56% (+5 moderation, makes this 61%)
Comments: No idea. I keep either making careless mistakes or just flat out not understanding the question - it's too stupidly simple that it's complicated, oxymoron much. For example, I know how to calculate for interest questions, but I simply don't understand the goddamn question.

Additional Mathematics: 67% (+10 moderation, makes this 77%, my only A1)
Comments: Awesome! 3rd highest in class for Additional Mathematics - surprisingly my best subject despite being my worst one last year. Lucky I didn't drop it.

Chemistry: 44% (+5 moderation, 49%, fuck)
Comments: Well, shit. I should've studied more. I can't drop this subject for sure.

Biology: 62%
Comments: See Chemistry comments.

Geography Core: 53%
Comments: I actually don't care, I hate this subject. I should've gone History Core Lit. Elect.

History Elective: 54%
Comments: I didn't do SBQ. Lol. 19/25 for Essays, 8/25 for SBQ - because I skipped the last 2 SBQ questions.

Social Studies: 56%
Comments: I'm pretty bad at this subject.. must mug!

Best L1R5: EL(B3), Geog(C6), Combined Humans(C5), EMath(C5), AMath(B3) -> 26

Best L1R5 after Moderation: 23 (-3 from +15 marks total)

Hm.. looking at these results, I have to study the subjects in this order.

1. Chemistry (44%)
2. History Elective (54%)
3. Social Studies (56%)
4. Elementary Mathematics (56%)
5. Biology (62%)
6. Geography Core (53%)
7. Additional Mathematics (67%)
8. English (lolwut)

-Haruhiist

July 9, 2010

Mid-Prelims

No motivation to post, but anyway it's mid prelims now.

So far, I've done the History Elective exam, Social Studies exam, E Math and A Math Paper 1s, Chemistry Paper 2 and English. This means I have Geography Core, E Math and A Math Paper 2s, Biology Paper 1 and Paper 2, Chemistry Paper 1. Which isn't much left if I think about it, I won't be studying for either mathematics although I'll be doing a bit of practice. Geography... I'll just look through my notes a bit. As for Chemistry, I'll read through my guidebook and do a MCQ paper or 3 from my Ten Years Series. I'll study for Biology.

But that said, I've been pretty lucky so far. For my Social Studies exam, I was pretty sure the teachers were going to try and screw us lazy faggots who only studied Venice over, and they'd put it in the SBQ since it was pretty much confirmed it'd be in the examination. Who knew that they would end up putting it as one of the SEQ questions anyway, although the questions were relatively difficult compared to those from the other chapters. And why I'm lucky? Because despite thinking that Venice wouldn't come out, I studied it anyway. Thankfully I didn't study the Singapore topics, which I knew would come out, since one was in SEQ and the other was in SBQ.

Similiarly for History I decided that I'd just study one chapter and hope for the best - End of World War I. I didn't expect myself to be so lucky as to get that as an SEQ, and I'm also pretty damn lucky I didn't bother studying Naziism which was my other plan - they put that as SBQ. I skipped half of the SBQ questions though, I focused on the Essay and although I had some extra time left after finishing my History essays, my hand was too tired (literally couldn't properly hold the pen) to do any more writing.

Add. Maths was okay, I feel sorry for all those who studied (I didn't) and still ended up skipping more marks than I did. Darren was quite sad, but honestly I don't feel that sorry for him. Dornel, kinda. Joshua.. yeah.

I've been playing League of Legends recently, it's like an addiction. I play like 4 games a day (averaging 40 minutes each, shorter than DotA) and often play with Rael and his level 30 friends - although I have to say one of them is quite a dick to enemies and sometimes teammates. The game itself is fun, it's much more intense and faster-paced than DotA - something I haven't touched in awhile (already a week I think, last time I only played two games to appease Merrill and Jon Wei - the latter has already started playing LoL). However it's annoying that the teammates tend to either not talk or be uncooperative, usually both now that I think about it. Worst thing is, it'll be switching to the Garena servers soon and I expect many leavers when it transfers over.

Well, that's a long post.

-Haruhiist

July 2, 2010

Anime Summer

Watching Ookami-san, Amagami SS, Campanella, Highschool of the Dead, Strike Witches 2 and that OVA thing, Aki Sora: Yume no Naka.

Haven't posted in awhile, feels like I'm starting to lack the motivation to keep this up even to act as a diary of sorts. I don't particularly feel like typing all the shit out either since when I come home I just feel like relaxing and this isn't very relaxing.

-Haruhiist