Tests and Teachers

A few quick updates, for those interested in the little mundane things.

I realize a lot of people aren't updating their blogs much lately.

And this (used to be) crazy-about-blogging-update-everyday person has closed hers down completely!

Apa jadi?

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My SAT 2 results are out!


I am pretty shocked.


When I came back from the testing centre that day, I was toying with the idea of cancelling my scores, because I knew I did very very badly.

I knew because, well, I couldn't finish the paper. With an average of 12 blank questions for each subject test, and I rush-answered a whole bunch of other questions.

I was expecting 500+ scores, man! I was obviously dreading receiving the results. I also regretted not signing up for the one in December, so I would have time to study for it.

I came home that day, was in a funky Mood during lunch, went to sleep (which is what I do when I don't want to think about something), woke up at 15-minute intervals and got this heavy, sinking feeling that no college would accept me.

Surprisingly though, other than a 670 for Biology, I think my scores were pretty okay.

That weird heavy feeling I got when I thought I couldn't apply to a lot of universities ('cause of my very bad SAT 2 scores) is gooooooone!

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Ms. Param is officially my favourite teacher EVER.

Yes, yes - of all the near 100 teachers I've had throughout my 16 years of schooling, I don't think I've ever had a teacher like her.

(And to think Ker Lei switched her initial class because she didn't like her Biology lecturer! Uh, Ms. Param la.)

When I gave her the teacher's recommendation forms before trials, she sat me down and spent 40 minutes talking to me about my goals, my dreams, things like that.

So I went back to college today, to get the recommendations from my lecturers.

I thought it was going to be very quick, y'know, like, get stuff, say thank you, then leave.

But she sat me down again, and spent - how long was it?- talking to me about my future, and politics, and NGOs, and changing the world.

You heard right - she believes I can change the world.

Ms. Param has this way of making you feel good about yourself, you know?

Like when you have full marks in one page of an exam paper, she'd write "good" and underscore it, which is obviously very nice to look at. And when you have a very good answer, she'd write "excellent!" and it makes you smile, y'know?

Or when you ask her what you got wrong, she'd tell you what you wrote was a very good answer that showed you did a lot of studying, told you that it was great that you weren't so single track minded, then go, "But there is a mark scheme for exams. It would've been an even better answer if you wrote..."

Even my parents have a very good impression of her from the parent-teacher meetings.


She spent a good amount of time talking this afternoon, so much so that my parking ticket almost ran out of time (and I had actually put in extra coins Just In Case).

Her entire family seems to be the environmentalists sort, I think her sister is a clean water advocate and does research on things like that, her bro is in NGOs, and all of Ms. Param's students would attest to her apparent passion for the environment.

I think that's way cool.

So. When I was about to leave, she wished me luck, reminded me to update her with news about myself, and went, "I believe in you!"

I think that's even cooler.

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Can you believe, it's been two weeks since our finals ended?

So fast!

Wait another 3 weeks, and the results will be out!