Thoughts about SA1

By now, most of you should have received all your SA1 results. Are you happy with them? Did you score fantastic results?

It is no use to cry over spilt milk. Whatever was done is done. The truths speak for itself. Although it was a tough exam, they are all still of 'pass-able' standards. Thus why did you not achieve what you thought you should achieve?

I hope that everybody so some self-reflection - meaning you think about what had gone wrong or what had gone right for you during this exam. If you are not getting what the results you thought you should be getting, ask yourself the following questions:

• Did I prepare myself thoroughly for the exams?
• Did I spend enough time revising, or did I play, watch too much TV or surfed the Internet for too long?
• Did I repeat the same mistakes which I had made in the class tests and homework?
• Did I pay attention in class? What/who is stopping me from doing so?
• Did I do the homework?
• Did I understand the homework?
• If not, did I clarify with the teacher?
• Did you do your very best?

After you have gotten the answers to the above questions, ask yourself how or what you can do to improve on them. The main learning point from this lesson is to learn from your mistake, do not repeat them and take steps to improve on them.

Your route to the PSLE is like a football game. Right now it may be half-time and you may have let in some goals. However all is not lost yet. You still have a chance to score goals in the later half of the game and emerged as the winner.

Do take some time during this coming school holidays to revise your work. Treasure this holiday break as it is a time for you to catch up before learning about more new things in the next semester.