I'm feeling very haggard from O Levels.
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Presently, I am an O level student who is feeling the heat from O levels as well as the intense peer pressure.
I constantly meet students who are very hard-working and it also encourages me to do even better. I had been studying all year round, however, there were times when my results did not meet my expectation.
At the end, I do hope to achieve an aggregate score of 15 points from L1R5. I wish I could gain some tips on relieving the stress.
I managed to achieve B3 for chinese during the mid-year examinations and I still have 6 more subjects to fight for.
Please do give me your tips on the subjects I am studying for.
English, E/A Math, Combined Hist/SS, Combined Phy/Bio, POA.
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Do past years.
Then study.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_year_series
"Ten year series (TYS)" is a colloquial term used by Singaporeans, in particular students, to refer to official compilation books of examination papers in past years for the General Certificate of Education (GCE) Normal Level (N-level), Ordinary Level (O-level) and Advanced Level (A-level), approved by the Ministry of Education and University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate (UCLES).
In Singapore schools, these books are known to be used extensively by teachers and students both inside and outside the classrooms, in preparation for similar questions that may be asked in future examinations.[1] Most students review these past examination papers in order to seek to reveal applications of concepts as well as encounter the forms of various new concepts which would be covered in examinations but not explicitly in the syllabus.[2]
Critics of the education system claim this phenomenon to be signs of rote learning, that goes against the emphasis for creative thinking by the government in recent[when?] years.[3][4][5]
Until 2007 the term is not always truly literal since some of these books have compilations containing papers from more than two decades worth of examinations, which means that students will thus often be doing practice papers that are set even before they were born.[2] The Singapore Examinations and Assessment Board (SEAB) has since implemented a new rule limited the publication of papers to the past ten years, which resulting in a spike of demand for older ten-year series.[2] Ten-year series should not be confused with assessment books (books containing questions on specific subjects for students to practise), which serve as an additional practice, or as a form of enrichment. The latter are privately authored and sold in bookstores.[6]
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I tried using the TYS and it does help to a certain extent.
However, for subjects such as humanities, I have a little difficulty.
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use paragraphs.
note key points/ events.
then from there, expand/ mind map out from the topic sentence (key point) in answering.play the movie in your mind.
visual motion picture helps memorising capture. -
Tip for humanities: you must explain and link up your point clearly. Every little detail that bridges your point across, write them out.
I know this isn't a fantastic example, but I want to keep it simple for you to see. For instance:
Q: Why did John break the vase?
A: John broke the vase because he misfired his ball.
And you may NOT get your mark. We're missing a lot of bridging details in between. Why did John throw the ball? Why did John misfire? A CLEAR answer may be:
A: John was throwing a ball into a basket which was just beside the vase. As he was aiming from afar, he accidentally misfired and broke the vase.
Can you see how much clearer your explanation will be with all that details in between? So next time when you're explaining, think whether the examinor can understood the BIG picture.
But do not feel in unnecessary details. From the example, you don't have to write things like "humans are not perfect so he misfired..." Make sure they get the big picture, and see your point being brought across.
This pretty much applies not only to your Humanities, but to English, and any arts subject too, even as you move on to JC.
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Just read more and if you do not know the skills to answering, just crap up stuff relevant to the question, just don't crap up too much, you will minus marks
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after school go see teachers for consultation. or ask your clever friends how they study la