I should be studying right now but I was JUST going to when I realised,
Tmrw's the release of Chinese Os results!
Good luck to everyone who's getting back their mother tongue results, be excited heh :-)
& to those who don't take chinese or mother tongue........
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So in the light of the special day tmrw for my juniors and many others, I thought i'll just blog about my O level chinese experience: doing the exam, getting back my results, going through it, deciding to retake or not etc.
Anyway my blog's quite dead so yup opportunity for revival and maybe offer my 2 cents for people who wants it -l o l-
Prepping and doing the exam:
My school really prepared us for the papers, and although it was relatively torturous, I think it REALLY helped me. We had intensive chinese week, which is basically a week of just doing papers non-stop everyday. As in, not continuously 24/7, but daily. We would do like sets and sets and other school papers (including comp and email writing). It was tedious for us la (DUH) but even more so for the teacher (YES they had to mark). Why did I think it really helped? Cause many people don't really take chinese lessons and homewk seriously (like me lol) and I really am not in touch with chinese, like in terms of writing and vocab... damn shitty haha. I don't pass up homewk unless my tcher damn pissed of or.. so yeah you get my drift. So the intensive week was really my saving grace :')
After the exam:
I was damn happy. Like for real. I didn't feel extremely good about the paper ( i never do for chinese haha) but I found it manageable :-) Although I knew that there might just be a possibility that I had to retake... deep down there was this part of me that was determined to not do chinese for Os ever again. I just knew it
Results day:
I rmb waiting with my schoolmates, waiting for our results. We were fretting like crazy HAHA good ol' times :')
I rmb telling my friend smth like:
"Eh if God want me to retake let me get E8 then if he dont want then give me A plsssss"
I was really hoping to get like a distinction, not for like pride but more of the fact that i don't have to think about whether to retake or not :-(
I GOT B3 haha
Retake or not?:
The moment I got B3 I knew God wanted me to decide, like it's right smack in the middle :-(
I was a bit disappointed but I knew I did my best. I got Merit for oral, which was not surprising cause i screwed oral up. My teacher wanted me to consider retaking cause he felt like I can get an A. but I really didn't want to retake cause Os was so near, and not like my other results v good that I can afford to spend time on Chinese. Also, I threw away everything in my mind that was Chinese related after the papers HAHA so I was rusty already. Plus, with the Chinese intensive week + I gave my best + never take with the other HMT students; I would think it's the best I can get.
Just imagine taking at the end of the year with the HMT students..........
In the end, I didn't retake. It really wasn't an easy decision because I had 6 subjects (dropped pure sciences to comb sci to secure my A), and I had a DSA offer so I had to use my R5.
BUT I really don't regret it :-)
I mean, Chinese was really like a distraction, v extra. HAHA maybe not to a major extent but in some way it was. Also, i mean if you already gave your best and had all the help you can get then maybe that's the best you can get? I didn't think I would be able to jump another grade up, and I didn't wanna waste my time trying :( In a way it motivated me to study even harder for my other subjs, cause I knew I had B3 for my Chinese already.
SO YUP!
For all those who are getting back your results tmrw, all the best :-) If you didn't do that well, or not up to your expectations, plsssssss pls think twice and thrice if you should retake! Don't regret any decision you make :-)
Hope this post has helped some one out there in a way or another, if not, thank you for reading anyway :-)
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Till then x
