Wednesday, June 28, 2006
The Exam Journey Part 3 - The Finale
HRM:
- The 3 questions that I prepared answers for.. came out.. all 3.. so I could answer all the questions required. First miracle!
- I prepared 3 answers to 3 questions. But only 2 of the questions came out. So my first and second prepared answers was put to good use.
- However, 1 question that came out was linked to the 3rd answer I prepared. So for now, only 1 question left to be answered.
- Here is the funny thing, I couldn't sleep the night before the exams so I decided to look through 1 more topic. Then again, I thought that i did not have the time to read through 30 pages of lectures notes.. so I just took a look at the student answer for a particular question which scored 70% and memorised some few key points and then the exact question came out. So all 4 questions answered.
The thing for me now is that, I know God was with me in my exams, whatever the result is.. I'll give thanks.. Anyway, in the beginning, the opportunities to score for my exams were not even visible but God made it happen.. so what else can Ido but to give thanks..
The thing
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
The Exam Journey Part 2 - Faith & Deed
For my Human Resource Paper (before the camp), I need to answer 3 out of 10 questions. There were 12 topics in the entire syllabus.. and by faith (and strategically), I chose 3 topics to study. No choice, no time. Questions of any kind may come out from the 3 topics.. by faith (and strategically again).. i chose 3 questions of my choice, prepared an answer for each and memorised for the exam. No choice, no time.
For my International Management (after the camp), I need to answer 4 out of 10 questions. There were 4 topics and many sub-topics in the entire syllabus.. I chose 3 sub-topics to study. No choice, no time. Questions of any kind may come out from the 3 sub-topics.. then i chose 4 questions of my choice, prepared an answer for each and memorised for the exam. No choice, no time.
The odds are, if the questions I prepared did not come out.. that's it!! But the funny thing is, I don't remember having the feeling of "that's it" but more of like "I think the questions will revolve around what I study"
Well, throughout the year.. I did prepare notes after most of the lectures.. so it didn't take a long time for me to prepare the answers to my questions for both HRM and IM. (I was thinking.. this is like when we have the WOG in our memory, God can use it to speak to us anytime.) But memorising 6 essays sucks..
The Exam Journey Part 1 - Responsibilities vs. Exams
Just finished my exams not so long ago..
All 4 of my papers are well -spreaded from 9 May till 14 June. I thought I had a lot of time to revise and be very well prepared for them.. haha.. but then.. Wrong!! because:
- I was involved in camp committee.. doing communications.. which required at least 2 months or so preparation before the camp..
- Then during camp, it is so difficult to study man.. all the fun.. haha.. i tried though..
- North had a restructuring; new group, new challenges, new responsibilities, new directions.. aiya.. everything new la..
But in my heart, I really wanted to do much much much (i think you get it) better for my papers in comparison to last year.. I thought that since this year my papers are so well-spreaded, I have more time to prepare and may score for my papers (last year, my paper was one after another within the time frame of 1 week) but then again, I cannot afford to spend all my time studying and forget about other areas too.. so I thought "aiya.. wasted la.. try again next year.. sob"..
But then I remembered how God blessed me in my O'levels and Polytechnic years.
- I was a 30+ pointer.. never score about 55% for 95% of the papers i took since sec 1.. haha.. I asked God for 18 (L1R5).. haha.. God gave me 17.
- Barely make it through the first semester as an IT student (Wrong choice). However, my results improved every semester in comparison to the last.. manage to get some As.
So then, I decided to pray, "God help me to study what is necessary for the exams". Then I started preparing".
