TWO MORE!

man. today was MA1505 finals.

it was a good timing, 1pm. need not wake up too early, and some time to do a bit of revision b4 the exams. but not too late that it slows down your thinking as well! (which kinda happened to my genes and soc paper luckily its mcq, and hoping it will not happen for my MATLAB exams).

in fact, this is one of the most well prepared maths exam/test that i went for in my life! usually i would be qt relax for maths papers, study the concepts right, MAYBE practise a few qn. den relax and keep my mind fresh for the paper. but somehow the stress of uni life sets in and im qt anxious abt maths la. rare anxiety. in the end i practised about two past yr papers which to most ppl would be a small number, but to me its qt all right/ a lot alr. lol.

doing the questions today wasnt easy. hmm. i think i took a little long to get it going and warmed up cos the first questions i did them rather slowly, which shouldnt be the case since they were v easy/simple compared to those at the back. however, i realised after the exams from my fren that i did one quesiton on inflexion pt wrongly!! OMG sian. i know the concept, but somehow then i din notice wad i shld do and did the wrong thing, when it is the standard of sec/jc only. zzz. too bad.

then moving on, the other questions werent easy as well and some, as expected, required tedious calculations! although i got most answers, i was not confident of some, and there are boung to be careless mistakes here and there.

before halfway through i was alr lagging behind. and in the end, i had 15 to 20 minutes to do three parts, which werent exactly possible. 7b, i stared and looked and thought and den decided to give it up after a while cos my brain wasnt processing it. i moved on to 8a which i completed but there were only about 5 mins left for the last question. and i din manage to do much of it as well.

thus in the end, i left the hall with ~9-10 marks undone and one wrong answer? thats without calculating the careless mistakes/ other wrong parts. hmm was a little bit sian-ed and dunno wad to think. wasnt really that sad cos getting some of the answers alr lifted my spirits a little. but couldnt really bring myself to be happy as i wasnt confident wad sort of a grade i would get for this. apparently i dun hear too many complains abt the time hahhaa maybe its just me that is slow.

anw, just to reflect there were many times when i stared at the question, and i dunno wad they asking? i knew how to do certain calculations, but perhaps i wasnt too used to them/ din practise enough to be fast in understanding the qn. in a test where we are racing against time, this is definitely a point worth taking note. hai.

i really dunno what to expect. maybe scoring well for mid terms is not too good a thing overall. cos of the mid terms, it gave me higher expectations, that have drifted away from me this afternoon. haha. for now i really dunno wad grade to expect. seriously. i can only hope that my slight advantage in mid terms can count for something, and that i have minimal careless mistakes in my calculations bah!

two more to go! i better get back on track and not be misled by the break i have ahead of me lol.