Academic Achivement
I'm quite happy today, a rare occurrence. The reason for this is the pleasantly surprising nature of the results of my mid-year common tests.
Far be it from me to brag (well actually, I suppose I am a little bit arrogant sometimes. It's a character flaw, shared by me, Thierry Henry and Steven Gerrard), but I really do feel I deserved this.
Take my maths, for example, I got a 72%. Good God, was I surprised. I told Johann that this was the first time I had passed a maths test in the college, and I was telling the truth. Last year was a horrific nightmare of failure to grasp concepts and constant failures period. It was bad. Even the sympathetic Mr. Chow couldn't help much. I remember getting an E for my promos last year and just sinking into a pit of misery.
But this turnaround...it speaks of something new.
I scored a 61% for Economics, not bad at all. Also my history. I got 60%, a C! Which is a great mark for a subject as fiendish as history. And I got second in class too. Not bad, eh? Considering I've never taken O Level history or even actually studied for the test.
I'm being serious. I'm a procrastinator. I remember being thoroughly miserable near the tail-end of June this year, trying to study but then just giving up. I told Ms. Cheng that I spent three days to study history, when the truth was I only picked up the text half an hour before the exam began. The truth would have hurt me, I'm sure.
I'm no genius, but I did work really hard during classes for history, so maybe that helped despite my non-studying during the holidays. And history is a skill good journalists should be able to ace- the answering of a question is not unlike researching and writing an article after all.
Well, there's just the Lit left. I'm beginning to hate Lit. I've realised you can never score well in Lit- either you get the concept or you don't. It's a lottery, it's a gamble. Hopefully I would have gotten it during that CT, I distinctly remember the questions as being easy to answer. I really want my tests to be a success, I've gone so long without academic achievement I've nearly forgotten how it used to taste.
That's the point of this post. It's just so nice to be able to celebrate something which you thought you had lost.
A modest goal- just pass all the CTs. I set that goal before I took them. But a goal that was thoroughly impossible last year could be cleared with room to spare this year. That's remarkable, for me.
This is me, this is where I belong. The Arts stream. The writers, the thinkers, the creative masters. The results of the tests have just proven it once and for all, put my doubts to rest and helped calm my parents. Forget science- I'm going to ace my Arts, or die in the attempt.
Hope I can catch Talisa, by all the gods that girl is an absolute monster. Topping the class in Maths, Econs, History and soon-to-be Lit as well? A worthy rival. She's just lucky we didn't have a GP test- I'd bet my Liverpool shirt I can top her in at least that.
Finn Solomon 11:38 AM
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Sulaiman Daud a.k.a. Finn Solomon a.k.a. Dark Solomon, emo boy.
Liverpool FC die-hard. Rafael Benitez is my master.
Arts Student of Tampines College
Fortunate member of the best academic class in Singapore- 06A05
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Fairly liberal Muslim
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