Underestimate

Never underestimate a MCQ paper which could turn your life (or grades) upside down. The Multiple Choice is usually the free kill in most papers. Any person who has taken O'levels before would know that it is easy to walk in and swipe all forty marks. That is for the decently prepared. Today, well, we just all thought A'levels would be like this. Yes, it should have been. TYS papers were noob friendly and they are exact copies of past year papers. So what happened this year?

I never felt time compressed so tightly. Even prelim papers somewhat seemed simpler. Towards the end of the paper, I had eight blanks (unsure, or have no clue) and eight exact minutes. I scrambled for them, yes the time that was slipping off the edge of the tables. I think some people found it okay, I found it slightly worst than okay. It wasn't very very hard, but it was not a difficulty one would expect from an A'levels noob friendly MCQ paper which most people actually aim for full marks.

Again, the whines, wails, shrieks,roars of candidates was again another spectacular sight. Nothing to be proud of, but it at least says something-we're in this together, whether we like it or not. (yes, everyone will be seated into that ridiculous bell like thingy where we get generated for relativity). An interesting, but not new concept. I didn't bother to stay for post paper discussions, (which in this case, would only plummet hopes).

At least one thing I am clear about and it somewhat makes me feel better. Some people may actually blindly blame it for not really studying for the past few days. Chances are, that minimal time would probably be ineffectual. I am confident that even with that extra time of mugging I would not be able to churn out the answers for some alien resembling questions. When you expect to walk into a comfy little room filled with all your good pals and buddies, you realize that not only unfamiliar faces greet you, but also one eyed monsters, aliens and Martians from the moon. The past few days, I would just have spent the time getting to know my friends better, I would have not bothered about strangers, let alone monsters, demons and aliens.

I seriously have no clue of how I did. All I knew that it was a mad rush for time, and it ended swiftly. True it has reduced the chances of an A significantly, (somewhat). It is not exactly a huge disaster but certainly it wasn't that "hey full marks" feeling. Either way, I hope it will be tossed somewhere in the middle, not too remote, not too sad.

Anyway, the penultimate is over and now the final is on tuesday. A long weekend ahead to slack. I don't intend to study for MCQ!