Began the exam week today with analytical skills exam. Taking it rather easy and started revising for it only on Sunday and since logic is more or less innate, studying too much for it will not help. Nevertheless, i had a good preparation today prior to the exams. Went through the past year questions in the morning and had a good nap after lunch so that I can have a clear mind during the exam. After that went to Kuan Yin temple to pray and went to Sim Lim to buy mouse and toto (haiz, din strike again) before slowing making my way to school for the exams.
On first look of the exam script I was quite surprised with the format. 14 MCQ constituting 70% of the paper!!! That's nothing close to the past year papers and some of the questions are rather hard and getting them right is just a matter of chance. It was a 2 hour paper but soon after the 1hr mark people started to leave. Most probably they must have given up on the paper and believed that logic would not strike them within the next hour or so. On the other hand, I more or less finished the paper in an hour an a quarter but decided to stay on to critically analyse each question again. Each MCQ is five marks, so there's plenty of incentive to do so. It was a worthwhile stay as I managed to sort out some thoughts and analysis and even spotted some mistake in the last 10minutes. By the end of the 2 hour mark, the examination hall was 2/3 empty. That didn't mean that I'm less clever than them since I need so much time to finish but rather that I was just more determined. It's impossible to solve all the question but every correction or inspiration is an bonus isn't it. Since it's more or less a test of luck, it's hard to gauge how good or bad I did but at least I did my best by staying on till the last minute. Hope that my prayers were heard to give me high "tyco index" today.
What's over is over. 1 down, 3 to go. 5 days to FREEDOM!!!
