Degeneration
I was whining about exams to Ray last night (instead of studying for exams, ugh) and I'm now convinced we degenerate when we enter the life on an undergraduate. Well, I certainly have.
I feel miserable about having 4 papers 2 day, 9am & 1pm, no time for lunch. I complain about sleeping six hours a day and studying the whole day. But,
In Secondary School and Junior college, I woke up at 6am everyday to reach school by 7am.
I had ccas and got home at 9pm.
Now CCAs are optional. I can skip CCAs if I please (mostly!) Lessons start at 10am.
Worst, during O/A levels, we usually had 2 to 3 papers a day. Exams lasted for 3-4weeks. We had an average of 2-3 papers/subject. At O levels, I had 10 subjects. At A Levels, I had 4 subjects-3 Econs papers, 2 Math papers, 3 Lit Papers, 2 History Papers.
At O levels, I memorized the entire handbook of Chinese words, from 1A to 4B (only way to pass.), memorized a million things from the Chemistry TB, alkalines, organic chemistry structures, precipitate colours and what nots, memorized the entire first movement of Beethoven's first symphony... Come A levels, we had 10 whole topics of History to understand (fine, I risked it by studying about 7), SIX lit text, macroeconomics and microeconomics together, studied additional economics theory for Econs S... and didn't study for History S.
I used to understand what the Law of Comparative Advantage was, Terms of Trade, AD/AS... now I don't.
I used to have to memorize my statistics formulas, be it confidence intervals or hypothesis testing..there're cheat sheets now.
I used to be able to study so many things... now I can't remember anything from the financial accounting notes.
I used to enjoy reading my Econs Textbooks, now I skip as much as I can, and give up half the time.
We used to get stressed over preliminary exams and when they were over, it's time for O/A Levels. Now there's one big exam.
So what happened? It all seems so far now.
And as if I haven't degenerated enough. Last night, using my bed as a desk, I sat on the floor to study. I thought that would prevent me from lying down on the bed and sleep...
...I just slept on the floor.
I feel miserable about having 4 papers 2 day, 9am & 1pm, no time for lunch. I complain about sleeping six hours a day and studying the whole day. But,
In Secondary School and Junior college, I woke up at 6am everyday to reach school by 7am.
I had ccas and got home at 9pm.
Now CCAs are optional. I can skip CCAs if I please (mostly!) Lessons start at 10am.
Worst, during O/A levels, we usually had 2 to 3 papers a day. Exams lasted for 3-4weeks. We had an average of 2-3 papers/subject. At O levels, I had 10 subjects. At A Levels, I had 4 subjects-3 Econs papers, 2 Math papers, 3 Lit Papers, 2 History Papers.
At O levels, I memorized the entire handbook of Chinese words, from 1A to 4B (only way to pass.), memorized a million things from the Chemistry TB, alkalines, organic chemistry structures, precipitate colours and what nots, memorized the entire first movement of Beethoven's first symphony... Come A levels, we had 10 whole topics of History to understand (fine, I risked it by studying about 7), SIX lit text, macroeconomics and microeconomics together, studied additional economics theory for Econs S... and didn't study for History S.
I used to understand what the Law of Comparative Advantage was, Terms of Trade, AD/AS... now I don't.
I used to have to memorize my statistics formulas, be it confidence intervals or hypothesis testing..there're cheat sheets now.
I used to be able to study so many things... now I can't remember anything from the financial accounting notes.
I used to enjoy reading my Econs Textbooks, now I skip as much as I can, and give up half the time.
We used to get stressed over preliminary exams and when they were over, it's time for O/A Levels. Now there's one big exam.
So what happened? It all seems so far now.
And as if I haven't degenerated enough. Last night, using my bed as a desk, I sat on the floor to study. I thought that would prevent me from lying down on the bed and sleep...
...I just slept on the floor.
Chengwei looked out at 9:00 pm
1 Comments:
haha well the difference is 2 years for a levels and 13 weeks for nus...
add to that lectures that go on throughout the whole day
although there were 2 or 3 papers per sub for a/o lev u onyl studied based on number of sub
and yea uni studenst are lazier :p the chase for grades isn't really there anymore
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