Was talking to one of my students over MSN just now. She said something that shocked me....
Me : How is your exam? Confident?
Student : Sld be ok.. except Maths
Me : Oh why??
Student : It was tough. Some of us cried after the paper.
I was shocked to hear Sec 2 students crying over the Maths final year examinations. I have heard of students crying over their PSLE, O levels and A levels. To a certain extent, I can understand why they cried over these major exams.
But to cry for a Maths Sec 2 exams, this just blew my mind off. To me, final examinations are important but we take it once every year. And by the time we are in secondary school, we should be veterans in taking exams. Therefore, we should be pro in handling exams. We should not be crying over exams.
On 2nd thought, we cry in sorrow at times when we feel lost over something or someone. This thing or person must hold special and important significance to us. The thought or feeling of losing the thing or the person makes us feel hopeless and powerless. Also, we may cry because the efforts we made have not paid off or are not appreciated.
For the students to cry over their Maths paper, it may be because they may have worked hard for it and were upset that that their hard word was not paying off. Or they may think that this Math exams is quite important and were upset that they are not doing to do well.
As a X-Maths teacher, I am quite happy to see the students taking such serious attitude towards their Maths exam. Shows that they are keen in their study.
As a mentor of life, I hope they can also learn from this set-back and grow in character. In life, we will surely meet obstacles and failures. After the tears and feeling low, we need to examine where we go wrong and make efforts to overcome them. i.e We need to learn from our mistakes so that we can build upon it to achieve success.
I do hope that the students will learn from this exam and be growing not just in their knowledge of Maths but also in their attitude towards life!
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probably it will be impt for sec2 cos it's a time where students are streamed to the subjects that they'll be doing in the next 2 years.. affecting their O levels and possibly A levels/ poly/tertiary studies if you look at a longer term.
Hmm, yeah it can be quite stressful during your Sec 2 streaming days. Guess I did not consider that.
I remember when I was in sec 2, I wanted to go to Pure Phyiscs / Pure Chemistry / Chinese Literature combination. Becos of that, I have to score good results for Chinese, Maths & Science. So I had to work real hard in these 3 subjects.
Thank God I manage to do well in these 3 subjects and got into the class.
I cried when I got my PSLE results...and now im sec 2...Ya...Its cos I worked very hard for it and didn't do well.Ppl cry cos they feel great disappointment with themselves..
Thanks "Adifferentanonymous" for sharing your past.
It is true that we do let ourselves down once a while and we feel disappointed. But the important thing is to move beyond the disappointment and learn to see what we have not done well and learn to improve ourselves next tiem.
But of cos, sometimes, we have done our best and yet we still fail. In such cases, it would be good if we can take comfort in our effort and not feel dismoralied by the results
YanChern here WaiMun
hrmm.. i'm lyk onli sec 1 and to hear that sec2 maths is diff.. scares me terribly cos my maths results are like so wadever.. haiz.. but i will really try my very best to pass lah.. hahas...
GBU and TC bye!
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