O level social studies

• somedragon_2012

  7 Oct 12, 16:44

  hi, for those taking olevels social studies this year, may i know what are your views towards the topics that may come out this november? will venice come out? many schools are spotting venice but unfortunately, my sch dont. 

  do post your predictions and your school's carefully thought predictions ^^

• Rockatron

  15 Oct 12, 22:34

  Hi I'm taking my O levels this year as well, and many of my friends also decided to study Venice, but I once heard my teacher said not to study Venice, although it's content is so much lesser than the other themes. Nevertheless, I think I will be studying Venice also in case it really comes out.

• eac

  15 Oct 12, 23:38

  History of Tikam-Tikam

  

  
  

  “Tikam Tikam” is a vocabulary from the Malay language "The Guessing Game".  The literal meaning is random pick and in old days, it was a traditional game where people get to pick random numbered tickets and have a chance to win prizes... 

  "Tikam-Tikam" was a very popular game in the 1960’s, 70's and 80’s which kids enjoyed playing. 

  
  

  The game was usually found in provision stores and stationery shops. Small slips of papers were folded up and pasted onto a large cardboard. A number was written on each piece of paper. 

  
  

  The prizes you could win were numbered and displayed above these slips of paper.

  For about 5 cents, you get to pick from one of the many pieces of paper. 

  
  

  The prize you win would be the one with the number corresponding to that found on the paper. Prizes included things like marbles, small toys, and soft drinks. 

  
  

  Tikam-Tikam is Fun!

  
  

  Let's Tikam it!
• somedragon_2012

  16 Oct 12, 00:01

  @Rockatron thanks for response, i decided not to study Venice, dont really understamd and dont really have much resources from school to do it. Nevertheless, goodluck for your O's! Cheers.

   

  @eac after olevel.

• Rednano

  16 Oct 12, 20:45

  TIKAM (tee-kum)
  To tikam means to choose randomly. From the Malay phrase "tikam-tikam".
  
  Commonly used among primary/ secondary school kids who need to answer multiple choice questions (MCQs) or guess the topics that come out in exams.
  
  "Aiyah, the MCQs si beh difficult, man. All donno how to do, so I just tikam all the way, lor."
  
  "Eh, you choose which topics to study for Social Studies?"
  "Tikam lah. If study the topics come out in exam, heng hoseh good lah! If no come out, jia liat liao, anyhow tikam-tikam hantam bola answer."