Wow, guess I’m really too lazy to keep up a blog — can’t be bothered to set time aside to write.
Just some quick thoughts on recent school issues.
First of all, the promotional exams! Not quite what I’d hoped for, but I guess a AAABB isn’t anything to be sad about. B for KI (screwed up my promos badly, combined score of both short passage-analysis was lower than the one i got for a single short passage analysis in the block tests) and Chinese (oms my Chinese standard really drops quite fast without practice).
Decent grade for math (considering all the careless mistakes), a little unhappy with my chem score (a meagre 74.6% D=), but I guess I did rather well for physics (although I COULD have been more careful), making — I think — the top 24 for the exam.
Not sure where to go from here, spent very little time revising for the exams; 5 hours for chem, 4-5 for math and around 3 hours for physics total (including time for practice papers). Not sure how long I’d spent on KI — I think more like 2 hours or so, and none at all on Chinese.
Ah well, 2 more block tests to find out a revision method that works all the time.
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Amidst the rush to complete our PW, and the worrying about Chinese A levels, we had a CT session with our civics tutor today. Not really sure if it can be considered a CT session — was really more like her coming in for 15min, emoing about how the class doesn’t like her, and leaving.
Some people got rather worked up about this issue afterward, while most people didn’t really care (right after she left, the class promptly whipped out laptops to resume PW work).
To be honest, I don’t think we all dislike her that much; felt she was overreacting. Most of us simply don’t care. She’s not the best CT, but certainly not the worst either. We wouldn’t mind a better CT, but if this have to remain this way, so be it. Wonder where she got the idea that the class hates her so much.
I guess I wouldn’t mind having a change of CT. Firstly, and most importantly, she doesn’t teach me at all. The only time I seem to see her is when she takes my attendance (or comments that my hair is too long). She’s also kinda too strict and formal (just the feeling I get from her).
She’s very strict with discipline issues (never let anyone off with long hair/missing collarpin and even pink shoelaces), but that’s part of her job. I think the main issue is that she doesn’t tell anyone when she issues demerit points. She’ll just smile at you and go “your hair is long” or “nice shoelaces” and the next thing you know, whee! 1 demerit point!
Her CT sessions feel overly formal, and noone wants to speak up at all. I hear that her econs lessons are the same. When you compare this to each of our other tutors (whose lessons we can sit in comfortably and participate enjoyably), I guess we’d all secretly wished we had any of our other tutors as our CT.
True, we can tell she tries very hard, and cares about us. Probably too much, thinking about it. Perhaps she would be more approachable if she behaved -ah- differently.
