ExamS all Over aGain
You know what? I just Got back my ISAT results...
On the 2nd Day of Encounter Retreat,
I had my ISAT examination so I woke up at 6.30 and left...
But... i didn't even know what the paper was about.... didn't know what they'd asked... didn't know the format even...
And I didn't know the paper was so long.
It was a 3HouR paper.
During the examination, there were 100 questions.
it was supposed to start at 9.30a.m. but because of all the briefing and fill your name here, fill your I/C there, shade this number, altogether it took 1/2hour. So 10a.m. it started.
They said, if you finish early you can leave, but not during the last 1/2 hour.
And I thought...hmm ISAT must be something easy. I soooo wanted to leave early. I was wrong.
The paper was like marathon that never ended...
an endless uphill where you cannot see the top...
*exaggeration. but it was true to some extent...
After soooooo long of not having to take examinations, this was the hardest paper I did since I can remember.
Whoa. the paper so chim.
I flip flip flip... give me diagrams of wind movement, ice buildup on ship and temperature of air to analyse, give me poems to read and say what it meant, give me political diagrams and articles to read to say which type of systems does a given named government use, give me history and culture of why English people like the swiss use some Tonation that goes higher at the end of their sentences and other English people use it less often... give me bus diagrams and asks which is the shortest distance and which takes the least amount of time and which has the fastest speed, give me cartoons and ask me what it meant, give me economic structures of how society builds up and asks me which factor influences which factor, give me business models and ask me what is the most influential factor that changes production models...
This is one of the poems I had, just a jist of it in simple english... in my own words
Walk walk walk and come to a split path.
There's one that's not walked before and another always frequently travelled...
The less travelled one was not so nice, dark, bushes blocking the way...
And then the author chooses to go through the less travelled one...
And got a lot of problems...
and then he says that it made all the difference..
hmmm * i scratch head....
HAHAha. I'm bad a literature... give me a science question.
They gave me economics, social, cultural, business, language poetry, art, diagrams, charts, tax calculations...
In the middle of the paper, at about question 30-40 and my mind went blank... I read and read and didn't understand...
and I read it through once more... then
I still didn't understand.
I looked around* everyone writing so intensely and some were few tens of questions ahead of me already...
then I prayed.
then I read.
then I begun to understand the concepts, and understand the diagrams and understand what it normally take me super duper long to absorb if I ever did in the first place...
I'm totally not a reader... reading to me gives me bad headaches on many occasions... and always does when I read for a long time...
*maybe it's my eye sight...
*but maybe it's not cos I'm supposed to have perfect 6/6 left right eye.
But when I see articles with many words that are small, there will be times where I suddenly go cross eyed and the words start popping out... seriously. I don't know why it happens but it does... so I seldom read the newspaper... and especially long articles.
I remember I had a phone interview with a University recently. And they asked me do I read often? I said no... seldom. What's the last book you read? and I was dumbfounded for a long long quirky pause which felt quite weird. I ran through my mind desperate to find an answer... hAha
Then I remembered this book called Gift of Pain by Philip Yancey and Paul Brand. Whoa! I read a portion of it... it was really a good book. And I told them about it. *phew phew phew....
anw, back to the exam, it was really amazing that God did help me through it. There was a stark difference at a point while I was doing my exam, and when I prayed cos I was so blank and tired, and after that information poured in so freely as I read the questions... ...
and even though even the articles that had large amounts of text to read, I remembered what I read and could cancel out wrong answers and became so much more confident of choosing the more likely right answer...
and now, I thank God for these grades.
Now I remember how being a student feels like again...haha. I remember the feeling of not being able to answer questions, or being so lost... It's a nostalgic feeling.
But thank God for exams cos it's an opportunity for Him to help you.
On the 2nd Day of Encounter Retreat,
I had my ISAT examination so I woke up at 6.30 and left...
But... i didn't even know what the paper was about.... didn't know what they'd asked... didn't know the format even...
And I didn't know the paper was so long.
It was a 3HouR paper.
During the examination, there were 100 questions.
it was supposed to start at 9.30a.m. but because of all the briefing and fill your name here, fill your I/C there, shade this number, altogether it took 1/2hour. So 10a.m. it started.
They said, if you finish early you can leave, but not during the last 1/2 hour.
And I thought...hmm ISAT must be something easy. I soooo wanted to leave early. I was wrong.
The paper was like marathon that never ended...
an endless uphill where you cannot see the top...
*exaggeration. but it was true to some extent...
After soooooo long of not having to take examinations, this was the hardest paper I did since I can remember.
Whoa. the paper so chim.
I flip flip flip... give me diagrams of wind movement, ice buildup on ship and temperature of air to analyse, give me poems to read and say what it meant, give me political diagrams and articles to read to say which type of systems does a given named government use, give me history and culture of why English people like the swiss use some Tonation that goes higher at the end of their sentences and other English people use it less often... give me bus diagrams and asks which is the shortest distance and which takes the least amount of time and which has the fastest speed, give me cartoons and ask me what it meant, give me economic structures of how society builds up and asks me which factor influences which factor, give me business models and ask me what is the most influential factor that changes production models...
This is one of the poems I had, just a jist of it in simple english... in my own words
Walk walk walk and come to a split path.
There's one that's not walked before and another always frequently travelled...
The less travelled one was not so nice, dark, bushes blocking the way...
And then the author chooses to go through the less travelled one...
And got a lot of problems...
and then he says that it made all the difference..
hmmm * i scratch head....
HAHAha. I'm bad a literature... give me a science question.
They gave me economics, social, cultural, business, language poetry, art, diagrams, charts, tax calculations...
In the middle of the paper, at about question 30-40 and my mind went blank... I read and read and didn't understand...
and I read it through once more... then
I still didn't understand.
I looked around* everyone writing so intensely and some were few tens of questions ahead of me already...
then I prayed.
then I read.
then I begun to understand the concepts, and understand the diagrams and understand what it normally take me super duper long to absorb if I ever did in the first place...
I'm totally not a reader... reading to me gives me bad headaches on many occasions... and always does when I read for a long time...
*maybe it's my eye sight...
*but maybe it's not cos I'm supposed to have perfect 6/6 left right eye.
But when I see articles with many words that are small, there will be times where I suddenly go cross eyed and the words start popping out... seriously. I don't know why it happens but it does... so I seldom read the newspaper... and especially long articles.
I remember I had a phone interview with a University recently. And they asked me do I read often? I said no... seldom. What's the last book you read? and I was dumbfounded for a long long quirky pause which felt quite weird. I ran through my mind desperate to find an answer... hAha
Then I remembered this book called Gift of Pain by Philip Yancey and Paul Brand. Whoa! I read a portion of it... it was really a good book. And I told them about it. *phew phew phew....
anw, back to the exam, it was really amazing that God did help me through it. There was a stark difference at a point while I was doing my exam, and when I prayed cos I was so blank and tired, and after that information poured in so freely as I read the questions... ...
and even though even the articles that had large amounts of text to read, I remembered what I read and could cancel out wrong answers and became so much more confident of choosing the more likely right answer...
and now, I thank God for these grades.
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Now I remember how being a student feels like again...haha. I remember the feeling of not being able to answer questions, or being so lost... It's a nostalgic feeling.
But thank God for exams cos it's an opportunity for Him to help you.
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