Good morning~ ! Such a lazy Saturday as always. But I can't slack off for the upcoming 2 weeks, have to study for exams. And next week papers are all the heavy subjects which will be using my left brain to the max. I hope I don't go bald memorizing all the formulas and diagrams o.o
Anyway, I'm gonna write a blog post about this one interesting paper which is *drumroll* ADD MATHS. Yeah, this was my first encounter with a paper that literally made me had my mental breakdown during an exam. AND I HAVE NEVER EVER GAVE UP ON A PAPER DURING EXAM BEFORE IN MY LIFE.
Add maths paper was on last Thursday 10/5/2012. It had two papers, Paper 1 and Paper 2. I thought, hey, maybe if I did notes and understand the sequence of the formula, I can probably scrape through and get a C-. So I did some reading and notes based on my textbook. I started my revision at 9 p.m. and finished by 12 midnight because my eyes were already aching. And my so called 'speed revision' ended up with me only understanding 2 chapters and the paper is gonna ask questions until CHAPTER 5 ! I knew I was dead for this paper.
Thursday morning, I had this grey cloud hung right above my head. I knew today wasn't gonna be a great day, and it turned out to be not a great day but a DREADFUL DAY =_= Right before assembly, I speed read through chapter 4 and 5, hoping that my brain would have instant photographic memory which was impossible to ask for. And then we went up to class and I still manage to scrape a bit more on logarithm with Iffah's help (THANK YOU !) before sitting for Paper 1. It was a 2 hour period paper and Alhamdulillah, Paper 1 was kinda okay. There were some rough spots but Paper 1 was mainly about chapter 1 and chapter 2 which I did notes on :)
Then we had our recess for 20 minutes. Oh yeah, forgot to mention that I had bread as breakfast. What's the connection between bread and Add maths right? Well, I usually have rice for breakfast. Yeah, typical asian (Y) But my mom was in her mogok-to-cook mood so she just prepared bread and eggs for breakfast. And surprisingly, my tummy didn't grumble for food during Paper 1. My hypothesis : my body was just too shocked with Add maths. Which was so HYPOTHESIS ACCEPTED. I had nuggets during recess just to fill in my tummy and avoid having gastric.
And then my nightmares begin, PAPER 2. I was scanning through the paper and suddenly there was this weird feeling which overtook my body. I suddenly felt NO MOOD TO ANSWER THE PAPER ._. When the exam started, everyone was scribbling down formulas and writing down answers but I was staring blankly at the paper and then stared blankly at the class. I didn't know why I did that ! Even Lisa noticed that I was staring blankly and not doing anything which she said was really un-me. I just gave up on Paper 2. If it weren't to be exam, I would have send in my answer sheet empty. The questions were like alien language to me and I answered everything without my brain calculating a single thing. I just poured out and mixed in every single formula that I knew and I didn't give a damn care of what the answer will turn out to be. I finished answering about an hour (because I wasn't doing it properly :| ) and had to wait for another 1 and a half hour for the exam to finish. It was a torturing wait because everyone was squeezing their brains and eyes out while I was randomly drawing lines on the rough paper with my black pen. Truthfully saying, I FELT SO DUMB ! It must have been my first mental breakdown with an exam paper. I would usually fight and not give up if it were a tricky question but with Add maths, hands down on the first question. I'm targeting a 0/100 for Paper 2. Yeah, don't need to be so shocked there. I was already pasrah when I send in the paper.
Conclusion is, Add Maths was the most depressing paper ever :O
P.S. I have to put on hold the 30 Day Drawing Challenge. Too much to study... But I hope I get more inspirations for the drawings during the hiatus :)
Nadia Kiyoshi ♥