Saturday, November 26, 2005

There seems to be an interesting situation happening...

The more time i spent studying on a subject, the worse i will probably perform for the paper...

It was Living with Maths paper yesterday. I think the paper was not that difficult. Some of the questions are so typical tutorial questions that i was flipping through my textbook and tutorial solutions when answering and literally copying the method and even explanation. Yes, it was opened-book. And so far, it is the only paper i have completed right on the dot. But of course, that doesnt mean i have all the correct answers, otherwise i would be a genius.

Anyway, if all things goes well, including getting method marks for some wrong answers i know i have, i think it is even possible to get 90/100. Ah yes, seems unbelievable, but that's only if i got correct for those took-me-quite-some-time-to-think probability, combination and permuations questions as well. However since it is easy, everyone should be doing well for it. But still, i hope to get at least A- for it to pull my CAP score up..

And as i was saying about the time spent studying, for EAP, I only spent less than 1 hour reading through the notes the night before. And seriously, writing the essay wasnt difficult. And since only a pass is required, it isnt that difficult.

Next, for Living with Maths, i only spent around 4-5 hours on it - reading through the thin textbook, tutorials and past year papers....

The next subject was probably Statics. I sort of gave up on it such that i only studied on the day before. Hence, spending total of around 11-12 hours on it. Despite completed only 3 out of 4 questions, i seriously hope i've got the correct answers, if not correct method for them. Surprisingly, i got the same answer for one question as other people who posted in the forum. It was about calculating friction coefficient. At first, i got 3++. Very odd. So i changed my steps a bit and got the answer as 0.17. Very big difference. And seriously, i wasnt good at such question before and i still believed my method was wrong somewhere but still got the correct answer. So in all, hoping to get at least a B for it.

Next was physics and maths. They tied. Spending about 32 hours on physics over 4 days and 25 hours for maths, i did equally bad for both. Physics was perhaps slightly a bit better than maths in a way. Ha, i cant help but putting my maths help sheet up....


Spent a lot of time doing it and it did prove useful during the exam. Though words are an average 2mm tall, some 1mm, i still can read them. But still, maths was the worst of all. After counting, i really got at least 40 marks gone. Failed the paper already. Now, im hoping everyone will do badly for it and i will be on par. Ha. Im EVIL. But hoping at least C+ for both.

See. The more time i spent studying on a subject, the worse i will perform for the paper...

Should i spend time on my last paper, Chemistry on tuesday?

Ha, it is a joke if i don't.

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