Hi all. In the O level, a student who does the ten year series dilligently even say 2 months before the exams would be able to get a A2 or better. While i am fully aware that last minute studying is a no no for the A levels, will dilligently doing the A level TYS ( ten year series) be enough for getting As and Bs? Or will they only allow you to pass?
Thanks.
do prelim papers from other schools as well as your tys
do prelims 1st then do tys, but make sure u have time for tys
This is how I pulled my student from E to A:
Do the whole set of 2008 prelim papers, with understanding and time constraint.
Hi,
Be familiar with the types of question that are asked. Make a checklist of concepts and skills for each subject. For H2 maths, you may take a look at my site:
http://wenshih.wordpress.com/checklist-of-concepts-skills/
Thanks!
Cheers,
Wen Shih
Originally posted by eagle:This is how I pulled my student from E to A:
Do the whole set of 2008 prelim papers, with understanding and time constraint.
E to A ? OMG.
Essential but not compulsory if you have been attentive in class.
I used to be from RJ, but spent my entire first year in Raffles Players (thats their drama team) preparing for a production. Well I cant blame drama entirely since I was a lazy bugger that slept/ slacked during most of my lectures, read comics or books from our great library. Thanks RJ for stocking every single Sandman book.=(
But anyway, I barely made it to JC2, and thats when I realised I barely knew anything from JC1. Me and a bunch of my friends basically whacked the Red Spot ten year series (the one with all the model answers) starting from June all the way to the A-levels.
We didnt touch a single prelim paper. Whats the point of doing prelims? They are generally harder than the actual A-level papers and only serve to depress you even more. If you're a male, you have to serve NS, no point using your prelim results to apply to a University. Its only your A level results that matter.
Just keep working away at the A-level TYS. After a while, you'll realise that questions will begin to look extremely familiar. For my year, one of the physics questions was really really wierd, and about 50% of my class couldnt get it. But it was ludicrously similar to a question that had come out several years before, so I stuck in the formula from the previous year, and lo and behold, I got my answer =) Pretty much the same for Maths.
End result after going through each TYS 3 times before the A levels.... Straight As. Did I understand 50% of what I was doing? Not really. I was blindly applying formulas to questions that looked familiar.
I'm not proud of what I did =) At the end of the day, the only way you're going to remember something long term is if you understand it. Its may now... get cracking on your TYS yeah? ;P
Hi,
Examiners are also humans who may run out of ideas for setting questions :P
It is possible for the keen learner to obtain copies of the old TYS by Dyna (on FM and MC) and make an observation of the question trend over 27 years (say 1983 - present) to see almost all possibilities of assessing candidates :)
Question types may resurface again in future exams, just like fashion trends.
Thanks.
Cheers,
Wen Shih
I will say have a go at these TYS papers. They must have some value in them after all.. Good luck for your exams!!! :D
Thanks everyone. it feels like the O levels all over again.