locked and loaded
2007-11-05 7:34 p.m.
yes finally finally the written papers are over, done with, final.
this day couldnt have come any sooner.
however i suppose it was too much to ask for our last written paper to end off with a flourish.
bio paper was a flop.
such silly questions!
where where where was the spider in the food web?
did we have to put that in ourselves?
why were there no menstruation or fertilization questions?! i studied so hard for those!
due to a tip by SOMEONE who said that those questions were the ones that would come out in essay.
oh oh and the topics that SOME PEOPLE told me had been removed from the syllabus, like alcohol and selective reabsorption, were RIGHT THERE.
good thing i was never a really trusting person and read through those sections all the same.
and, like dora said, there was a graph question.
not many, just one, but one that took up a lot of time!
what is the POINT of setting a graph question in a bio paper? a waste of marks, really.
but overall i was quite pleased with the fact that the paper was rather decontextualized because i hadnt really finished studying.
yes i realize im a bundle of contradictions.
so anyway now that i am free to ponder upon the jc/poly question without mentally slapping myself and telling myself to get back to studying, i have come up with a strategy to deal with this problem.
i would go to poly only, and ONLY, if i do very very well in o levels.
sound weird?
yes i know it does.
blame it on the ironclad mindset of the people who believe that poly is below jc. yes yes i KNOW poly has made huge advances and all, but like i said this kind of mindset is IRONCLAD, set in stone.
i shall explain myself through a simulated conversation.
p.s. these are just SIMULATED conversations, figments of my imagination. dont sue me over anything.
*represents thought process of The Typical Person.
'hello.'
'yes hello.'
'you a student?'
'yea.'
'oh. jc or poly?'
'poly.'
'oh.' *poly? one step up from ITE* 'so how many points did you get for o levels?'
'i got 6/7/8'
'OOH.' *talking to a bigshot here!* 'so why did you go to poly?'
notice that people will NOT immediately ask you why you went to poly and will naturally assume that you couldnt get into jc. the second question on the typical person's tongue would be o level results, which would be your chance to go into your long and boring reason for going to poly when you could have gone to jc.
now, in an alternate scenario, if you DONT do very well for o levels and yet go to poly, this is what would happen.
'hello.'
'yes hello.'
'you a student?'
'yea.'
'oh. jc or poly?'
'poly.'
'oh.' *poly? one step up from ITE* 'so how many points did you get for o levels?'
'i got 16/17/18'
'oh.' *probably couldnt get into a good jc* 'so have you any interest in roadsweeping, by any chance?'
and then there is that THIRD scenario, what you SHOULD do if you really scored 16/17/18 for o levels.
'hello.'
'yes hello.'
'you a student?'
'yea.'
'oh. jc or poly?'
'jc.'
'oh.' *jc? oooh. an academic.* 'so how many points did you get for o levels?'
'i dont see how that's any of your business.'
