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I decided that I shall blog what about each and every prelim paper that I take, so that when I receive my grades, and compare with what I felt about the paper, I can hopefully know what I need to improve on. So pardon me if posts for these 2 weeks are super boring. Exams aren't fun you know...

I had no paper this morning, but I had dental appointment. It was to do filling for one of my tooth. Then later, the dentist said that actually there's another decay behind, on the same tooth, so I'll need 2 fillings. Argh!

The process was painful! I had to go to another dentist and she kept "drilling" at the tooth to get all the bad decayed bits out. It was not excrutiatingly painful, but was more of unpleasant pain. Very weird and uncomfortable feeling. I was clutching the side of the chair throughout!

In the afternoon was the first prelim paper after the holidays. Wait, what holidays? Apparently I was studying too much (but not enough to finish studying anyway) to even have time to play! Irritating exams. Luckily my brother's also having his O level prelims at the same time, so at least he didn't play and distract me throught the 1 week holiday.

As for the Maths paper, it was ok I guess. But I didn't do as well as I would have liked to. I didn't know how to do 18 marks. Probably get a few working marks out of those 18, but it's quite a lot, considering the paper is upon 85. Haiz... I'm aiming for an 'A'.

After the paper, I met Melissa at the bus stop. Turns out that she finished the whole paper one hour before the allowed time, and I bet she knew how to do every single question. I only managed to scribble the last few lines of the last question at the last minute! Didn't even have time to go back to the questions I skipped. *I can see my 18 marks flying away...*

For the last question, she said she did the "or" option because it seemed more fun. According to her, the "either" option was almost the same as the lecture example so she didn't do it! Argh! How does she do that? I'm aiming for an 'A' while she's aiming for full marks. I wish I had her brain!

Anyway, I don't know if I should keep comparing myself with her. Only makes me pale in comparison, a lot! Maybe I should be happy getting my average grades and do "average"ly well. Don't aim for 4A's anymore, cos it's really tiring to keep trying to climb up, achieve even higher and higher grades (even though that's not happening) and in the end make myself so tired. But then I guess I'll regret it when I don't do well, so I better do my best now. Haiz...

Studying is tiring work!