Sunday, October 31, 2004

Yawn. Skipped amaths to study with marcus yesterday. Went funan after that. Then had tea at coffee club at wisma with Cheryl and Johannes. Not much going on in life nowadays.

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Emaths is a really boring subject. Getting the A1, however easy it may seem, is tricky. Some things to watch out for:

1) Study your angle properties and trigo. These are normally the most difficult questions, and can catch you off-guard is you become overconfident.

2) Take a good look at the probability questions. I got overconfident, and lost 2 easy marks in the prelims. It does count for alot, since I hear the A1 mark for this year is 96%, though it's probably crap comng from Dimitra.

3) Read the question. Often where most people make careless mistakes. This may include probability(where one ball is replaced blah blah), Angle properties(Read the angle correctly) and other stupid questions.

4) Get your s.f right. Not much here, really. But in Emaths, if they don't penalize people on small things, everyone would be getting full marks. So, in paper 1, leave everything to exact figures, or fractions. paper 2 SHOULD have instructions on the front, so follow those. Also, if they tell you to take pi as 3.14, take pi as 3.14. I tried to be clever before. Now I have to try being stupid.

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Coming soon : English tips from an English pro-wannabe.

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Meteor: pronounced "Mee-tee-yor" or "Mee-tee-yer"?