Yesterday's papers were satisfactory, today's papers were not.

Chinese paper 1 wasn't too bad. At least I had my Chinese Dictionary, unlike some people, and I'm not referring to the scholars, they probably don't even need to look at the paper.

During the break I was dragged off by Reuben and Russell to an 'empty area' to study for Geography. I was confident for this subject and the first question from Russell was how much forest was destroyed by Forest Fires in Kalimantan. I gave him the answer with the years included, and Reuben was immediately shocked as he did not expect to remember the years. That information was from the notes, so he took the textbook and asked me the diversity of the Rainforest in Kalimantan. 380 species of birds, 10000 species of plants, then Reuben pressed for more and I gave him 3000 trees and 2000 orchids. He went "and?", and I was wondering what else there was. Then it suddenly popped up. Of course the smallest squirrel in the world at 11cm in length, unique in Kalimantan. And both their jaws dropped. I did not memorize that, I was just fascinated by that fact, which was why it got into my head.

Well, memorizing Geography in detail caused me to spend too much time on one question, which led to less time for other questions and resulted in me failing to complete the paper. I had all the facts in my head, I just couldn't write fast enough, and that's one of the reasons why I think that time limit is unfair as some people don't have the writing speed. But how are you supposed to prove that you didn't use that time to think about your answer and end up with only 5 minutes to write?

Today's first paper was Social Studies, and I thought Maths was first, so I took out my calculator and Flexicurve, after which Ming Xuan asked me why. haha. Social Studies, just like Geography, was a paper of writing constantly throughout the time given. And again, I did not finish writing, but like Geography, I was at the last paragraph, so I won't lose too much for that.

Then I went below standards for E-Maths. The question paper stated in bold to "Complete Section A on this question paper" and "Complete Section B on the writing paper provided". I did not read that part and thus did Section A on the Writing Paper. It was only at Question 7 that I realized I was supposed to do it on the paper itself. When I reached Question 7, I was stuck and decided to skip it first. Then I realized that I had come to the end of the 2 sheets of writing paper that I was given. And no one else had asked for extra paper. This was not right as I was not the fastest in my class. There was also a lot of blank space between each question on the question paper. Then I turned back to the cover page and found out that I was supposed to do it on the Question paper. Hence, I spent about 10 minutes copying my answers over. I had done my working on the question paper previously for question 7, so I had to take that off.

The rest of the paper was ok until the Graph. I've lost 6 marks there, 4 marks for Question 7, 2 marks off a Triangle Question and 2 marks for the 3rd question as I had made a careless mistake while copying my answers over… I might get some working marks as I was told by my friends that I had been going the right way, but I had not been sure and thus left the answers hanging.