Before, During and After Exams

Time to move on... not from anything bad to anything better... more of something Good to something Great. My exams ended and that concludes the first Academic year of Poly Life, I thought it was really fast. There is a photo below of what i look like during the exams, cannot resist then go have a look first =p! I know time pasts so fast that we discover that we have actually gone through a lot, experienced a lot and learnt a lot. True enough, we all did, this includes me and my friends and family dah dah dah. Below is what I went through during the exams.
To be honest with you people and myself, I really did not feel much stress during the exams. Before the exams was the period of stress ( or maybe not ). But with systematic goal setting and strategic planning, I did get most of the stuff I learnt into my head and it was sufficient if not more than enough for exams. Before the exams, we people hanged out a lot in the LCH (Leo Club House), all thanks to people like Jer and YJ who were willing to open it and “Host” us after class to sleep, slack or study. I treated it as my second nest in school. Being consistent in lecture, class and tutorials was so important and it counted a lot towards revision. I was stress but it was reduced by the fact that I did understand most of my stuff that made me real glad and quite satisfied. The best part is what I expected and what came out were quite in line and similar, there was no unexpected thing, whatever I spotted also came out, that made my 2 hrs easier as well. Only 1 paper stressed me, CIP. I know there shouldn’t be any excuses to be made by me during exams but yea I have a reason for not studying hard for that paper. First, was not consistent in reading up and knowing the stuff (who the hell will do so, it’s a really dumb subject with not much of a use if we were to memorise is all, reading through is ok). Second, I was sick. Right after Bstats, I had Sore throat, then it sorta went away, 90% gone then the flu came the next day, fuck, it was irritating, survived through micro somehow, thankfully that paper I was damn damn ready. Why must real physical sickness come during such important periods, especially right after love sickness, or maybe it was a symptom of love sickness since Valentine’s day was near and I got no GF. After that, went home and to relax and sleep for 3 or 4 hrs, the whole afternoon to do all that… intended to cram and study at night as I wld usually do during exams, but felt real shitty, lethargic and weak. Studied the bare minimum of 2 full chapters that I was sure that was going to come out and it did of course and then went to bed ard 12 + or 1 then woke up early morn ard 7+ to go through the rest, din even feel well and nth much went in also. That’s how I ended up shitting on my paper with my “guessed-theory” instead of “sure-theory” throughout half or less than half the paper. That threatens me of getting even an A not to mention an AD. Screw it. Last paper was OB, still felt just a little fucking sick to study but at least the law of diminishing marginal sickness did help, no actually it was the barley and luo han guo that helped me feel better. I had to struggle through no matter what, last paper gotta redeem myself. Went through all chapters, confident of the first 6 chaps, last 2 were the most impt chaps and was my least confident chaps, studied those in the morning 2 hrs. Luckily, damn damn luckily, whatever god helped me, the ones that I felt was important and memorized really well, came out AGAIN! I was like shit heng I knew how to answer them. First look at the questions boosted my morale, felt my sickness was gone and write quickly and vigorously, hand cramped up, hand became too fierce and injured itself you see, then did complete everything with what I felt was my utmost best. Looks like my exams ended on a good note … TA DA! Fanfares were playing through my head after the paper, then the song WIN by Brian McKnight came to mind, it was a inspiration throughout my period, exam period I mean.… EXAMS ARE OVER!!! Hoho I really felt mixed emotions, I was sick yet I could do still do well and nvr looked down but still pushed on and kept the thought that exams for such modules only came once, I wanna do it well, I can only do it well once, so must prepare well for it and just put in my best effort spending just a fraction of my life dedicated to learning the stuff that will have a certain impact be it during and more importantly after the exams, how am I gonna apply the knowledge, must use it more in life! I wasn’t only studying for the exams, I was studying for my life, the knowledge I gained was applicable in life and yea I realized if I learnt it well, grasp it, know it, applied it, my life could improve. So I din think of taking exams for the sake of exams only but much more to applying it later on when there is a need to in life. This itself made it easier to study as it caused my mind and feelings to be programmed in a way that “if I study, I gain pleasure through learning and that will help in life”, so why not!

Haha read so much about me and my experience during this exam, quite weird right, I know, it didn’t happen to you but please do reflect on your own experience and see what things can you pick out that really made a impact. Be it weeks before the exams that influenced your preparation, during the exam itself or after your exams. This reflection is another keynote to tell me what to do during the next exams and what to improve on ( make sure dun get sick). Hope you people like what you read and I truly thank you all for reading it =). I also wanna thank God, the universe and watever being that is out there listening to my prayers and answering to help me for my first year. Also wanna thank all the teachers, without them, education will be a little more tougher, with them all seems easier (most of the time). It has truly been a blessed one. The law of attraction and expectancy will work its magic! Will blog on my “What’s next” the next time =)!