I bet you must be wondering what on earth I am talking about. I’m sorry. This post might be a bit random but I just reminisce about my rather tranquil secondary school years now that I am already an eighteen-year-old in a tumultuous phase of my life: the Pre-University years.
I have to admit that I am bored to death with studying (that includes mugging, although I have to confess that I have never mugged in my entire life before) and am questioning whether my chosen post-secondary option is what suits me the best.
I have a reason for this boredom—I have…
been there,
done that,
and now, I am supposed to do this??!God knows how world-weary, or rather, exam-weary I am. All those 13 years of full-time schooling (one year of kindergarten, six years of elementary school, three years of junior high school, and another three years of secondary school since I moved to Singapore) and now what, another two years of junior college? All I can do now is to succumb to fate.
Already, I didn’t do pretty well for my O-levels due to tedium and complacency (as I have worked very hard for my Sec 5 prelims). Now, an even bigger examination is coming. I am worried sick, you know. I am worried that I won’t eventually get a sterling A-level result for me to enter the Law course in the University and clinch a decent scholarship.
Somebody please tell me how many Normal Academic students go the JC route to University. I am not disparaging those Normal Acad students out there; we are not morons, it’s just that we need that extra time to absorb. This is a myth I have to dispel.
Yes, it’s true that when I was in NJ for the first three months, I was the only Normal Acad student there and yes, even now that I am in SA, I am still the only Normal Acad student but it doesn’t prove that Normal Acad students are not bright enough, does it?
I reckon the main reason why Normal Acad students prefer any post-secondary education but not JC because they are fed up with national examinations. Hey, we have to take the “N” Level at the end of our Sec 4, and the “O” Level a year after that. Taking national exams twice within such a period of time is dreary, you know. Even as I am writing this entry, I must really agree that two national exams are wearisome but taking three (with the A-Levels, that is), is suicidal.
Arrgh!
I am not some GCE exams hardcore fans yet I am still going to sit for my “AO” papers at the end of this year and my “A” papers in 2008. I really doubt my own passion to become an erudite person. Nevertheless, did anyone ask me to go to a JC? Nope. So, too bad, Perdana. It is the choice you made and now, better make the most of it! We shall see how will my I fare in March 2009 when I receive my A-Level results.
In spite of that, I have this pride for being among the rare Normal Acad students who go to a JC. There is an added prestige to it. Haha. I can never let my stream down by not acing my A-Levels. I was one of Singapore’s top students for the 2005 N-Level exams, for goodness sake. Under-performing at the A-Levels is the cardinal sin. I kid you not. Look at the screenshot below for proof that I really was studying back then. Haha.
taken from http://www.moe.gov.sg/press/2005/pr20051219.htm
By the way, speaking of the O-Levels that I have just completed last year, now I realized how fortunate it is that I scored 10 points for my L1R5 despite the fact that it wasn’t my best shot. It’s a long story, I know. Ask me in person. If you even do care about asking in the first place, anyway. I can’t cry over the moon, wishing I could turn back the hands of time to write a better composition for my English and to ameliorate my answers to the Humanities papers at the O-Levels. It’s utterly futile.
Anyhow, I guess my going to SA is a better way for me. I just read two of my NJ friends’ blogs and hell, I can see that they do not quite like it getting back to NJ. Check out http://jianlard.blogspot.com/2007_03_01_archive.html and http://pompyrompy.livejournal.com/101610.html.
In any case, I just hope that my friends from 07A02 (PAE) can learn to adapt and regain their love for NJ. They deserve the best education and NJ is where they have chosen to be in. NJ, listen hard, you better make my friends feel at home, or else…
Haha, of course I was just kidding! How can I threaten a school like that? I just hope my friends, wherever they may be, be it Polytechnic, RJ or VJ, etc, can excel in their studies because as a student, it is our raison d’être to study hard.
I shall leave you here for now. Good luck!
Love,
Perd.
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