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Friday, July 22, 2005
today is a good day. because i am teh goodFACE. haha. those are my results for the second commontest. and surprise surprise! the F this time isn't maths! it's Fcons, whee! how queer, to get a spectrum of grades that's evenly distributed across the whole gamut. kinda like a normal distribution curve. eek.
so anyway, we looked for mr booth after school for our PC marks, but couldn't really engage him because he was in the middle of some sort of discussion with mrs leong and mr macconnell. hung around the staffroom for sometime and then decided to go to the canteen because ms tan was there and perhaps she would be able to enlighten us on our marks, since she said she knew them. maybe we shouldn't have been so anxious, since her cryptic remarks to brian and me that "we did well" really did portent good things. but you know, just to be sure we didn't want to get our hopes up too high. just as we were about to give up, we saw mrs leong walk into the canteen which would mean that mr booth was free. so we decided to go back up again, and i guess perseverance really is a virtue.
in any case, i am proud (or maybe not that proud, in the light of science/humanities students that read this too) to announce my first A in rjc! (ok quite sad, just when my time here is about to end, more than a year and a half after entering.) it's pretty ironic too, since i made Lit the sacrificial lamb this time around considering the little time i had left, opting instead to focus on the other 3 subjects. in fact, i only studied for Lit on the morning of the paper (thank goodness it was in the afternoon), and i was almost late, needing to take a taxi from bishan MRT, but everything turned out well i guess.
on the contrary, even though i devoted more time to econs and history, results weren't that satisfying. i Failed the Former, and only barely improved a grade for the latter. didn't work too much on math, but the improvement in 2 grades (and almost 3) was delicious enough for me, (then again, you couldn't really go anywhere but up) so i shan't complain. GP was quite the disappointment. even though i stuck to my "Bs or more for GP" policy, a 4 is horrible and nothing to shout about! especially since i got a 2 last term. essay was decent, as usual. it's the comprehension which kills me. i think i need to do more exercises on that, especially AQ.
all this gives me hope though, as i thought i was a goner on sunday night just before school reopened. these aren't fabulous results, i assure you that. and this had better not be the best i am capable of. i don't think it is, though the progress is much too slow. i genuinely did not spend a lot of time this round, therefore the slight improvements here and there niggle at me. i'm not sure whether to consider them as manifestations of industry (or at least, the delusions of it) or just plain dumb
tyco luck. cf my woman warrior script, which was originally marked as 17 and later mysteriously changed to 18. things like that bother me.
can't rest on my laurels (if you could even call them that). now that i've pushed the boundaries (i had to, i was trapped enough by rubbish standards), i've got to get higher than 70 for Lit the next time around. i need to get B for history. i need to get at least a C for math. and i don't want to fall on the wrong end of mrs tan's ABC econs treat. i don't want to have delusions about myself. i'd be thrilled to get ABBA or better for the prelims, but i doubt possible at this point in time. ABCC would suit me fine for now.
anyway, nasty says hi through my blog. heh.
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8:48 pm
th time!