Time flies…. O Levels Started its war against us on the 20th October 2008 and all of us were fighting our own battles…. Let me provide u with the list of subject codes that I am taking…
· English Language 1127
· Mathematics (Revised) 4016
· Additional Mathematics (Revised) 4038
· Biology (SPA) (Revised) 5094
· Science (Phy/Chem) 5116 : 5116/01 MCQ ; 5116/02 Physics; 5116/03 Chemistry; 5116/05 Practical
· Combined Humanities 2192: 2192/01 Social Studies Elective; 2192/05 Literature In Chinese Elective

The following is the overview of the various papers that I took:

5116/05
The practical this year was relatively much harder than the previous yrs…. Even those in the tys(Ten Year Series) wasn’t as hard as these… In the Physics section, we were asked to make deductions and to suggest a method to improve the experiment… This has never happened in the past tys qns!!! In the chemistry section, we were asked to make 4 conclusions on the experiment that we did!!! WHAT? Am I having the correct paper??? This has never been in any of our practices…. NVM, I decided… it was only 4 marks… Hmmm… My minimum for this paper should be 20? Out of 30? I Hope…

5116/03
This Chemistry paper seems to be mocking me…. The qns are soo easy… So as long as u studied, you should be able to ans. It …. The qns are very different from the tys qns as this is a new syllabus but not as difficult as I had expected it and the teachers made it to be… I hope that for this paper my minimum wld be 60 out of 65…. Which means a secured pass of A1 …? At least….

1127/01
This paper as u all know, is split into 2 sections, Section A and Section B
In the first section, I chose the qn Greed. My Greed is about wanting a lot of dolls which ends up in a family divorce. Here goes my story line.
Orientation:
Me – a 4 yr old kid; mother – full time housewife; father – the sole breadwinner of the family; stayed in a condominium
Problem:
My greed of wanting a lot of dolls
Sequence of events:
- Dad brought us to the shopping mall
- I saw a nice doll
- Demanded parents to buy
- Mum agreed, dad disagreed
- Started an argument and quarreled with mum in public
- The quarrel lasted for a week
Climax:
Parents divorced due to my greed
Resolution:At this age of mine did I realized that my greed 10 years ago had brought me a broken family. If only I had not been so greedy……… If only

Section B
We were supposed to write a report to our principal stating how we were going to organize an outing for our own class to celebrate the end of school year. A lest of previous year complaints were given to us and we were suppose to organize this year’s activity, avoiding the previous year complaints…. These complaints includes not good value for money, started too early and lasted too long, too tiring, meals not provided, have been to the place before and parents being worried about lack of supervision.
With all these requirements, I wrote a report, suggesting to the principal that I wld like to bring my classmates to the Singapore River, with teacher and core member’s supervision, where meals and transport are provided. The budget was fulfilled when each student pay $12 for both their meal and transport, short time frame with late starting time.

1127/02
This EL Paper 2 Comprehension has its theme on Cats. Questions were rather literal, except for a few but it isn’t an easy paper, I must say. I managed to get around 18 points for summary, tried doing paraphrasing till I managed to squeeze all the points into 150 words. Hope to get an A2 for my English? But can I?

4038/01
The Additional Mathematics Paper 1 this year was expected to be a killer paper as all the teachers didn’t know what kind of thinking questions would come out as this year was a brand new syllabus. So, my teacher, Mr Choh, took a strategy of pumping us with lots and lots of school papers to familiarize us with the different types of questions that may come out for the examination. I must say that this preparation, if we had done the papers faithfully, was far adequate to help us to pass this paper without any hindrance. If we had not been given all the past papers, the questions that come out for this year’s O Levels would not be a breeze for those of us who did the papers faithfully… Like me…. I must admit that this paper was much easier than expected, but I dare not make any conclusive remarks about the paper 2 that is yet to come…. I hope to obtain at least a 70 upon 80 for this paper?

4016/01
As for the Mathematics Paper this year, the teachers are not able to predict what other tactics Cambridge would come out with in terms of the way they would set the paper. Though some of the things like Locus is not in our syllabus, we are still required to know basic construction skills. Hence, Mr Choh gave us a lot of school papers to allow us to have a clear picture of what kind of questions could come out for this year’s examination. All I could say is that if we have completed at least 50% of the papers, we would be able to pass the paper with flying colors as I felt that this paper was testing us on our basic in Mathematics. Questions like express 3hrs and 41 minutes in hours…. Please lah! Give me a break! I hope to achieve a 72 out of 80 for this paper…. Possible? I think so….

4038/02
As compared to paper 1, The Additional Mathematics Paper 2 was relatively tougher. Although I must admit that with the vigorous training given by Mr Choh, the paper 2 was still do-able for me. I managed to finish the 2 and a half hour paper in 1 and a half hour, leaving myself with one hour to check my ‘careless mistakes’…. Would there still be any more? I highly doubt so…. So, I feel that I would be able to achieve a 89 out of 100 for this paper…. Should be a reasonable gauge…..

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