This author is currently on hiatus for the ignoble cause of mugging. The public is advised to remain calm, as this routine protocol has been shown to have no effect on one's violent tendencies in 96% of cases.
| Saturday, January 27, 2007 |
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*drumroll + clang of cymbals* Wow, Mr. B.Lee took just one day to mark our Maths test, whereas Ms Tham (3O's maths teacher) have already delayed the return of hers for more than 3 days already, and counting. But the lack of suspense is just about the only good thing. The very first test of the year, and the class has screwed it up already. From the outset, the maths test looked like it wasn't too hard at first. Most of us breezed through the first page... ...and then we turned over to the second page. WTF. The final question, worth more than 10 marks, was chao difficult. The bonus question didn't help much too. The question was: "Find the highest power of 2 and the highest power of 3 which divide 536 - 1." What you're supposed to do is the keep on factorising it. I attempted to do it, and eventually even one whole line was not enough for the equation. According to the few people in 3M who actually managed to do it, the whole process is extremely tedious and takes more than 10 minutes, so if you make just one careless mistake along the way, GG. ALl that for a measly extra 2 marks. =.= Before i continue, though, i would like to state the fact that despite the following rants and complaints, i did achieve an A1, with a score of 32/40. Thus, you may wish to discount all my opinions of this test, in which case i would suggest you stop reading and close this browser window immediately. I don't want people spamming my tagboard with the argument that "You already got so high marks, why are you still complaining?" Apparently, the number of A1s in 3M (who is also taught by Mr. Lee) is double that of our class, but then again, the have derek and tiansheng, the two pro-est maths students in the entire level, in addition to 3 PRC students who are already learning university-level maths. And i think their test is easier, because even Ningyu said their was manageable. For us, the whole class was like "ARGH WE'RE DOOMED" at the end of the test. But Mr. Lee has much better theories regarding the disparity in results between the two classes. Out with the "3M's test is easier" theory! Out with the "Humanities class sucks in Maths" theory! In with the "It's all about attitude" theory! So Mr. Lee blames the class's poor results on our attitude, and was even so bo liao as to go spread the news to other teachers. During the Chemistry lesson, Mr. Loh suddenly said out of the blue: "I heard you all did very badly in your Maths test...better buck up your attitude arh." Well, Mr. Lee should buck up his own attitude first before expecting us to change ours and give him our respect. IMO, the test was rather unreasonable. For example, one of the questions was:  With the exception of those from Maths Quiz Training, i doubt any of us knew what f(x) meant. (For those who don't, it means a function in x.) Which was why out of the whole class, only julian (who is from MQT) got that question correct. Heck, even Wei Qi, also from MQT, didn't get the supposed answer because he didn't know that we were to find f(x). He ended up getting just 1 mark out of a possible 4 because he didn't specify the final answer, even though his method was correct. Considering that we need achieve 80% out of the possible total marks each term for an exemption from Maths for the final year exams, it will be really tough for me to be exempted this year. At least i scraped an 80% for this first test, but future tests look set to get way harder. This year, Maths is going to be utterly horrid. |
'Twas teh winnar at 12:30 am.
