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Trendspotting.

Just finished doing my GP Prelim Post Mortem (I know I should've done it earlier)... Heres what I found out.

Essay

I think it just boiled down to one thing. Choosing the right question. When I look back at the compre questions I suddenly realised that certain essays I thought were difficult were actually quite simple. Not like the one I wrote, after writing one or two paras I discovered that I'd ran out of examples to use.

And I forgot to "unpack" the question. A simple strategy Mrs Toh taught us that I'd forgotten to use because I was extremely flustered by the paper.

Been doing some trendspotting... And results have shown that the most common topic is on "Medicine and Health", with 7 appearances in the 8 previous A Level Exams, followed by "Technology" and "The Arts" with 6 Appearances. Other common topics include "Goods" (as in morality), "History", "Geopolitics" and "Public Policy". And the questions are relatively more simpler than those set by JCs.

Compre

My compre sorta improved. I was really quite happy with the results. Following Aunty Elma's method really helped clear my mind. (Which was in a blur after the traumatic Essay Paper) Yeah I'm satisfied. I think if I use her method again I can advance to an A grade for compre.

My compo used to pull my grades up but this time it was thanks to the compre that I managed to scrape B. Essay was really quite bad.

Ok more trendspotting... Out of the past 8 A Levels, there were only two occurences of there being 2 passages for compre. The other 6 involved only 1 passage. Also, for the past two years, the majority of the marks out of the non vocab, summary and AQ questions came from paraphrase questions. (9 marks out of 35 to be exact) Of course 8 from AQ, 7/8 from Summary, and 5 from Vocab.

Its up to you what to make out of these trends. But hope it helped.

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Ok enough about A Level Stuff.

Found a pretty sweet site where you can watch anime. Its quite well structured, well planned in my opinion. (Despite it being a blog and all)

www.animerising.blogspot.com

Have no idea whether its illegal or not. Sure hope not. Cos there are really lots of anime there, and I'd like to try watching some of the series uploaded.

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Next post: EPL
Post after that: Movie! And random piano songs.
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