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I am now in the middle of my mid-year exam.
I am feeling very stress up now...I think I screwed up my previous papers...SS + A Math
I sort of 'studied' A math by doing practise for papers, but still not enough time to revise all topics. (20 topics)
Then I got a feeling 'haven-study-enough-yet' but no choice, no time to study, because I never do practise regularly.
to myself.
Then I keep on worring my other papers and I also worry to lose out to my friend. For the previous common tests, I finally excel better than him(used to be better than him, then he overtook me), then now I see him having no problems for his exams, it make me even more worried about him winning me.
Worst is I have tuition at tuition centre...then its spending my family around 300++ a month for tuitioning emaths; amaths. Now if I fail, how i 'dui de qi' my family and their hard-earned money??!?!?!
Then there is really really bad feeling of fear to lose out to my friend + fear of failing exams.
Someone help me remove this fear for me =( It is making me having no confidence at all....i feel i am a weakling =( -
Oh gosh, you are under stress.
As a student, I can understand the stress you are facing now. Stress can be dangerous and could lead to depression.
The peer competition you are facing now, is what we, as a student will faced.
Please do take care of yourself.
Maybe you can find some ways to de-stress during this exam period. Try going to the sea side and enjoy the sea wind for a while.
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as many have probaly emphasized the importance of practise for maths, what are you waiting for? the cow to jump over the moon?
you sit here and whine and fearing your friend would overtake you and you don't wanna do anything about it. do you ever pay attention in class? if you do did you clarify your doubts with your teachers/friends?
what i can advise you is practise more for maths. do it now rather than later. it will be too late. i assume you're taking your O's this year? its may now still have time if you really wanna push yourself. be a geek for 5months+ and you'll be thanking god for the outcome of your results rather than posting another thread whining on how badly you did and probaly have thoughts of attempting suicide.
as for SS you could try to spot questions. spot the chapters that would probaly have a higher possibility of coming out. concentrate more on them. as for the rest have a rough idea of it.
(Not really recommended for those who suck at spotting questions and those who don't do their "homework" by finding out questions tt came out from previous years)
and last but not least, good luck
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Only you yourself can remove this fear within you.Originally posted by Y_Shun:I am now in the middle of my mid-year exam.
I am feeling very stress up now...I think I screwed up my previous papers...SS + A Math
I sort of 'studied' A math by doing practise for papers, but still not enough time to revise all topics. (20 topics)
Then I got a feeling 'haven-study-enough-yet' but no choice, no time to study, because I never do practise regularly. to myself.
Then I keep on worring my other papers and I also worry to lose out to my friend. For the previous common tests, I finally excel better than him(used to be better than him, then he overtook me), then now I see him having no problems for his exams, it make me even more worried about him winning me.
Worst is I have tuition at tuition centre...then its spending my family around 300++ a month for tuitioning emaths; amaths. Now if I fail, how i 'dui de qi' my family and their hard-earned money??!?!?!
Then there is really really bad feeling of fear to lose out to my friend + fear of failing exams.
Someone help me remove this fear for me =( It is making me having no confidence at all....i feel i am a weakling =(
"We are defined by what we fear" -
sorry if i misread your post.
DID YOU SAY IN THE MIDDLE OF YOUR MID-TERM EXAM?
pray to god that the marker of your script haven't been sleeping for 48 hours and has been sustaining on with means of coffee.
studying last minute before the exam is basically just revision. if you're saying you have to start from scratch, ........
TS brain:
TS friend's brain:
lets just hope both of you got this yea? -
I see you have identified the main cause of your problem: you weren't consistent with your studies.
So I say take this as a wake-up call. If you do have homework over the June holidays, then do them to the best of your efforts. Either way, slowly revise over the June holidays. Your peers may mock you for this; to heck with 'em. You know that you need to be consistent if you plan to do well.
Whatever the case, see it this way: whatever happens in your mid-year will have no bearing on your O Levels. I know of people who screwed up their Sec 4 mid-year exams only to excel at the O Levels.... because they learnt from their mistakes.
So just do whatever you can for your mid-year and take it as a lesson on what you should do (and what you should NOT do) for your prelims and O Levels. -
You dont try to think so much just do what you needed to do...Seriously i know competition will make someone better..
Whats is wrong that your friend score better than you...As many people say your biggest enemy is yourself you shouldnt care how well your friends do..
And dont worried how well he get just do your part score well is more important your friends result wont happen in your result slip i hope you must remember..
And dont worry about your tution fees i know you spend alot of your parents money..And i know how you feeling if you score badly you will feel sorry that i waste so much money and i get this kind of results..But you did try to revise you did your part so whats wrong?
When during Exam period try to put your brains to concentrate more on your Maths or other subjects..But not waste your brain space by thinking how my friends will do will they win me Awww if they win me how -.-'''..
Anyway Wish you Score Well man Ts believe on yourself you can do it =P^^ -
I really donÂ’t understand, why do you need to compete with your friends? What about next time after you start working, compete with your co-workers, compete with your boss? When will these senseless competitions end? If you really want to compete then compete with yourself.
Sometimes, I really admire William Hung, “I’ve tried my best.” Well if I may add on “If my best is not enough for you then too bad.” Do yourself a favour, stop worrying about what others might think of you and stop comparing yourself with your friends. Stay clam and have faith in your abilities, at this stage nobody is able to help you if you let yourself fall.
Good luck!
(I also canÂ’t stand those schools that put up huge banners to boast about having achieving this award, or that award lah. How about spending more times to educate our children? SighÂ…)
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dun worry.. everything shd turn out fine..
i was in ur position 2 years ago.
i believe i was even worst off then u.. stress is good, let it be a constant reminder on wat u are lacking.
that time was midyear also..
i damn stress, results came back i failed my a.math f9, combine humans d7, and 1 science(forgot which 1)d7.
that was just 5 months b4 my O levels.
got 30 plus for my L1R5..
i also got a.math tuition.. cost a bomb. scared i waste my parents money also..
i think i mug quite a bit. still fail until knn. so panic.
chiong TYS, practice papers, etc.
prelims got quite good. can get pae place in jc. but still fail a.math f9..
expect to fail a.math in o level already so heck care.
o level come out i pass all.. a.math b3. dunno how also.
but if i can do it, i think u can do it also cos i slack quite a bit b4 midyrs.
hope this helps..
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i agree with fudgee that consistency is one of the most important factor when coming to exam. Some people may pass the exam with luck, but others may not.Originally posted by fudgester:I see you have identified the main cause of your problem: you weren't consistent with your studies.
So I say take this as a wake-up call. If you do have homework over the June holidays, then do them to the best of your efforts. Either way, slowly revise over the June holidays. Your peers may mock you for this; to heck with 'em. You know that you need to be consistent if you plan to do well.
Whatever the case, see it this way: whatever happens in your mid-year will have no bearing on your O Levels. I know of people who screwed up their Sec 4 mid-year exams only to excel at the O Levels.... because they learnt from their mistakes.
So just do whatever you can for your mid-year and take it as a lesson on what you should do (and what you should NOT do) for your prelims and O Levels.
Consistency is the most important factor of getting good grades.
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Hey u sec 4 this year?
Im in sec 4 this year..now in the middle of my mid years too
I flunked my Physics paper totally on my 1st day.As in like realy F9 that type liao.. My phy and Chem is like from sec1 till now hardly pass that type 1...I tend to be more at ease with my humans...
But i just tell myself that now that my Physics is gone case..i must put in my 200% effort in my other papers.I think this will give u a drive instead of a demoralizing feeling that will certainly be extra burden on you for the rest of the papers in the next few days..
Oh yea.Having my history and chemistry paper 2moro.I just gave my all in my preparation for my history, cause i know i will get another F9 type of grade for my Chem too
End of the day just make sure you do well in at least yr L1R5 6 subjects. Taht's my take...
So yea for now the papers u have flunked..just don let it get to you alrite? The subjects you have screwed up?Focus on them in the June hols.Thats wad i will do... -
DeadPoet: competing din really come....last year i dun really care.
i think my friend affected me alot by keep on saying "yay, i win u..." make me damn pissed. so work a little bit harder in the previous common test and win him. now tio pwnz =(
christ: yes...after i post this, i really sped of to study n practise for my emath(tomorroow)..but i scare to practise because the more qtns i dunno how to do, it make me more scare....after this post i will go sleep to get my mind clear for tomolo...
i am prepared for the worst, which is panel meeting...haish
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When you are practicing you math, you are actually exposing yourself to a wider range of question that could be asked on a single topic.
There are more than 101 way to ask a question, but it's wheather did you know the correct steps of answering the question.
Maths is like a skill, if you didn't practice, i'll turn rusty. Keep adding Oil, don't let it rust. Try to spent at least 30~60 minute a day tackling some maths questions.
Do it slowly, and steadily.
Although Mid-Year exams are important, but the ultimate goal is to do well for your O Level. Nevermind if you didn't do well for Mid-Year Exam, remember that the ultimate goal is O Level. DON'T be disheartened by your friends' comment, you must keep your mindset positive at all time.
Even though you may have some disappointment on your grades, but make that be your lesson learned. Never never make the same mistake twice, this is what my maths teacher told me.
When you faced a very challenging maths question, challenge yourself to see if you can solve the problem or not. If you got the wrong answer, then try again. If wrong, then maybe you can seek help from your teacher or your peers. Perhaps you can post the questions here at sgForums and everybody will help you.
Remember this, Energizer's slogan is "Never say Die".
What's the point of mastery every chapter in Mid-Year and when O Levels comes you forget everything? Learning should not be rush, and learning to be exciting and explorable. It must trigger your inner self to seek for the answers, rather than being 'forced' to look for answer. -
dun worry dude.
mid year exam, but doesnt mean u can SLACK. it is a NO-NO.
try ur best.
if ur mid year didnt turn out well, dun be disheartened. start during the june holidays. den slowly, turn up the tempo of ur revision as u approach O level.
many pple dun do well during mid year. haha. -
i'm worse than u. today i sat for my poa paper, totally dunno how to do a single ques. cannot leave ans column blank so i end up copying the ques as my ans.. =.=" i'm so dead..
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POA every easy de.. >.<Originally posted by crucifiedx:i'm worse than u. today i sat for my poa paper, totally dunno how to do a single ques. cannot leave ans column blank so i end up copying the ques as my ans.. =.=" i'm so dead.. -
go for a evening jog in the park.
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prob is i've been missing out poa lessons. keep falling sick nowadays..Originally posted by Darkness_hacker99:POA every easy de.. >.<
don't even understand a single thing.. don't even have the notes.. -
Issit your teacher never give you? Why you have notes? Didn't your POA rep should reserved some notes for the absentees?Originally posted by crucifiedx:prob is i've been missing out poa lessons. keep falling sick nowadays..
don't even understand a single thing.. don't even have the notes.. -
I would suggest to u that u should not fear losing out to ur fren, but rather, u should fear lose out to youself.Originally posted by Y_Shun:I am now in the middle of my mid-year exam.
I am feeling very stress up now...I think I screwed up my previous papers...SS + A Math
I sort of 'studied' A math by doing practise for papers, but still not enough time to revise all topics. (20 topics)
Then I got a feeling 'haven-study-enough-yet' but no choice, no time to study, because I never do practise regularly. to myself.
Then I keep on worring my other papers and I also worry to lose out to my friend. For the previous common tests, I finally excel better than him(used to be better than him, then he overtook me), then now I see him having no problems for his exams, it make me even more worried about him winning me.
Worst is I have tuition at tuition centre...then its spending my family around 300++ a month for tuitioning emaths; amaths. Now if I fail, how i 'dui de qi' my family and their hard-earned money??!?!?!
Then there is really really bad feeling of fear to lose out to my friend + fear of failing exams.
Someone help me remove this fear for me =( It is making me having no confidence at all....i feel i am a weakling =(
Do u know u are giving urself undue stress by competing with your friend? I know its inevitable that among friends, they tend 2 compete in studies, but studying for A-Levels is already hard enough, without having to worry about other things like what results your friends get.
I would say that its only the Mid-year. Just try your best, and whatever the results u get back, do not despair. Instead, use it as a motivational tool, and start studying from then on. Do not attempt to start studying only after ur Prelims, especially if you are the type that needs time to absorb whatever things you have learnt. During my time, most of us only start 2 wake up and study after our Prelims. I do not encourage u follow in our footsteps.
You can start studying bit by bit after your mid-year exams, so that when your A-levels are near, you need not cramp the whole book, but instead just flip through the chapters and parts u think u are not so strong in. Also, go approach your tutors in subjects you are weak in. Do not fear embarassement, or scare they think u ask stupid questions. I was like that during my JC days, and as a result, I realise I didnt know a lot of stuff, and nearly died a horrible death during my A-levels.
All the best for your A-level. Remember, the only person u must beat is not others, but yourself. Do not compete with others, but try 2 push urself 2 get better grades. And ask for help from ur school, as well as private tutors. They are there to do their job, and that is to help u. -
He's saying A Maths.. not A level wor.Originally posted by nanren4ever:I would suggest to u that u should not fear losing out to ur fren, but rather, u should fear lose out to youself.
Do u know u are giving urself undue stress by competing with your friend? I know its inevitable that among friends, they tend 2 compete in studies, but studying for A-Levels is already hard enough, without having to worry about other things like what results your friends get.
I would say that its only the Mid-year. Just try your best, and whatever the results u get back, do not despair. Instead, use it as a motivational tool, and start studying from then on. Do not attempt to start studying only after ur Prelims, especially if you are the type that needs time to absorb whatever things you have learnt. During my time, most of us only start 2 wake up and study after our Prelims. I do not encourage u follow in our footsteps.
You can start studying bit by bit after your mid-year exams, so that when your A-levels are near, you need not cramp the whole book, but instead just flip through the chapters and parts u think u are not so strong in. Also, go approach your tutors in subjects you are weak in. Do not fear embarassement, or scare they think u ask stupid questions. I was like that during my JC days, and as a result, I realise I didnt know a lot of stuff, and nearly died a horrible death during my A-levels.
All the best for your A-level. Remember, the only person u must beat is not others, but yourself. Do not compete with others, but try 2 push urself 2 get better grades. And ask for help from ur school, as well as private tutors. They are there to do their job, and that is to help u.
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Relax lar. Whether you can do well in life later on depends on who you are, not how many points you scored in some paper. -
Ytd..my chem paper....my whole level GG-ed with me
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Try to take 4 five minutes breaks during a 2 hr study revision.
Research have shown that if a person study for a period of time he will only remember the beginning and the ending part of the lesson hence when you take the 5 mins break, you are relaxing and when you get back to your work you will be fresh . take half an hour break every 2 hrs study session.
Gd lukz fer your xam !
"No Pain No Gain " -
While last-minute mugging can get you through the earlier stages of one's education, this is not my recommended mode of study for tertiary level. That you have found yourself short in handling your exams is a good indicator of your inadequacy. Good that you have discovered this early coz it means you have time and opportunity to change your study strategy.
The key to handling tertiary studies is consistency and regular studies. Seting aside time to revise your work everyday will be the best. And the best thing about this is that if you do it on a daily basis, you don't have to study for hours! In fact a few minutes per subject will be sufficient coz you do it everyday! Just go through the topics covered in the lecture & tutorial each day to make sure you understand them. You don't have to master them. At least make sure you can follow them. Intensify your revision only nearer the exams so you can focus more fully on them. The key is : FAIL TO PREPARE, PREPAR TO FAIL! Good luck!