NUSHS Script checking!

Sorry for the long hiatus, but I’ve always had commitment issues. I returned to write once more after I witnessed firsthand the entertainment potential of upkeeping a blog. As NUSHS students may know, this after exam period is stultifying. All I do these days is watch videos, play maplestory, and go to facebook. It may sound fun, and it often is, but you soon get very bored.

Now, on the meat of my message. I need to write. I really need to write. My grasp of the rules of grammar is now tenuous at best, courtesy of my long hours spent online browsing through the retarded ravings of illiterate trolls. The best method to counter this dreadful disease is writing, and I have done no real essay writing for the past 2.5 years. This dreadful atrophy of my writing muscles must stop.

This past week was NUSHS’ script checking week. That is, Thursday and Friday ( 13/5 and 14/5) were NUSHS’ script checking week, as Monday through Wednesday were school holidays ( not complaining!). On Thursday, I received the results for Math, English, Bio, and Physics, in that order.

My Math results were disappointing, to say the least. I got 59/65, which is the second lowest score I have ever received for a Mathematics test paper. Worse, the crown of 1st in class for Math (which I expect as a matter of course, as Lim Jeck and JA are not in my class) was taken from me by a girl. A jockish girl, no less. Oh well, live and let die…...

English was 36.5/50. I cannot understand why I always do badly for English. I read widely, I have a fairly large vocabulary, and I have (or had, before I began my self destructive net-surfing) an intuitive understanding of grammar. I found Eragon to be a trainwreck of a book, and understood that Twilight was a deranged compilation of Stephanie Meyer’s vampiric wet dreams. Surely I can score more than 80% on a simple exam?

As you may imagine, I was pretty disillusioned when the Biology script checking started. My two favorite subjects came back with crappy results – what could I possibly expect from Biology, the one science that I actively detested?
Quite a lot, apparently. 64/80, or an A. My sole explanation for this remarkable score was that I was overconfident for my other subjects, so I neglected them in favor of revising Biology. Awesomely enough, mugging apparently does pay off.

Finally, the Physics script checking began. I was quite hyped up for this one, as I thought I stood a reasonably good chance of scoring above full marks for the exam ( as there was a bonus question ). Tragically enough, my overconfidence was my downfall. 86/100 – A+, but nowhere near 1st in class. *Sighs*

On Friday, I received my Music test results (test, not exam), and my Chem and Chinese scores. For music, I expected to do well – I’d spent 3 hours the previous day memorizing every song likely to come up for listening, but I was still surprised by my score – 151/150. Epic win.

The next test paper to be returned was chem. The day before, my mother had spoken to Ms Kong, and when the conversation drifted over to my chem scores, Ms Kong said that I should have done better. Oops. Anyway,61/80. Worse than Bio.

Finally, the killer. The dread demon that held me under the sword of Damocles for untold days, its hour come round at last, was slouching toward Bethlehem to be born. CHINESE!!!!!
As it happened, my score wasn’t so tragic after all. 38/70 +15/20 +78/110 = 126.5/200. I scraped through with a B-! Actually, my paper 2 score (78/110) wasn’t bad at all. This seems to be a trend for me – doing badly for paper 1 and doing well for paper 2. Last year, my paper 2 result was actually 76.5/90, which was an A+. I need to do something about my Chinese compositional writing skills.

Oh well. Using Ansel’s CAP calculator, and assuming that all the CA stuff will equalize itself, I got a GPA of 4.5/5. Not too shabby.