My Academic History(Version 1)
I was doing pretty well in P1 to P3. In P4, gradually deccelerating but come to 1 of the paper(I forgotten test or exam). I score over 90%. I labelled myself as SMART. Disappointally, in P5, my test keeps getting 26/50 to 28/50 until it finally cannot take it and dropped to just failed. I was slightly an average in class. Oh yeah!
Finally, come to P6, My Maths has a steep drop, I think the gradient is closed to infinitely…I get 3/50. When I start getting such an awesome result, I begin to tell my very first lie. I tell my mum I get 10/50(at least 2 digits, look nicer). Follow by second lie. I tell my tutor I get 10/50. I afraid they found out(I never tell lies and do not have such genes..heee) so I am very hardworking. I practising my Maths quietly, solving all questions all by myself no matter how difficult they are. Sometimes, 1 question can take me over a few months to finally get the solution all by myself. I asked my sister, wow they give me all the aliens methods(algebra). Forget it, I solved it by myself. I am shy, I never ask my tutor any questionssss. can you imagine how shy am I when I tell you that even aunt, I never dare to call ‘aunt’. Of course, I skipped and practised other questions, then come back to the difficult questions again and again. I unconsciously build up a Never-say-Die Attitude. Finally, PSLE prelim I score over 60%. Since my 1st test in P6, I get 3/50. I failed all the way till Final Prelim, all below 20/50….wow, but of course above 10/50. Otherwise, I am a dead meat before the PSLE. My mum and definitely will wacked me until my butt burst if they know I tell lies and failed so badly
I am so lucky that when come to Mid-year Maths Exam, I have chicken pox, I don’t need to take the Exam. Therefore my report is so BLUE. My lies was kept. I finally keep going till my PSLE. When the result is announced, my teacher was surprised I get A. No one believe that I can do it!
No one knows the secret until I confessed after my diploma. I changed!
If you don’t create 3/50, you don’t have to tell lies. Everything there is cause and effect. Therefore, I learnt to do prevention before unnecessary thing happened. Not wait for it to happen then cure. It needs more energy to cure than to prevent. Therefore…Prevention is better than Cure.
Failing is just the begining of a test to test us how persistence are you. If you keep going, ‘Fail’ will eventually give up on you. You begin to Passssssss then Succcessss.
