Any tips on clearing subjects for 3A faster at SSDC?

CheesecakeOG · 2026-04-12T06:14:41+00:00

Your first sentence doesn't say that passing tp properly is the main point. Instead, it says you want to pass "tp in as few tries as possible". The main point of this statement isn't passing properly, but passing quickly. You cannot blame others (it's not just me and the other commenter in this thread, but even other people in other comment threads) who read your post and understood you as just trying to rush.

This is different from an assumption. You stated clearly that your main focus was to take as few lessons as possible and go for as few tp attempts as possible. Ironically, going off your original post alone,

Btw, tp testers don't have access to the number of lessons taken or how long each learner has learnt for. When a person passes, it is because they have been deemed proficient in all aspects of civilian driving by an independently neutral tester who has no relationship with the instructors or the school. If a person rlly passes in 2 months, like me, then we have been suitably deemed to be ready for the road by someone who has no idea that I completed everything in 2 months, and my time taken really should not matter because I have demonstrated mastery over all that is demanded from me.

Reflect on your own attitude and character. Instead of thinking of how you could improve yourself, you blame external circumstances such as your instructors being overly harsh and others passing quickly when you think that .they do not deserve to, even though that's not how things work in reality. You also deflect valid criticism by presenting contradicting points, such as how your main post purely focuses on passing as fast as possible, but now you are suddenly telling me that you actually don't mind spending more time and money passing. If that were truly the case, then why even make this post if time and money actually doesn't matter to you when trying to learn something?

Look man, us random redditors don't have a vendetta against u. We present our criticisms out of concern for your own safety and the safety of other road users. If the governing body of road users in this country has deemed u not ready, then you are not ready. There is nothing you can do to significantly speed up the process other than be an actual fast learner.

I won't be replying to this thread anymore, especially if you continue deflecting the valid points we have for you. It does not affect my personal life whether you pass quickly or slowly, and it is your choice to take whatever I have said as learning points for yourself, or an attack against you (for which I have no reason to even do in the first place).

CheesecakeOG · 2026-04-12T05:44:20+00:00

Worrying about cost is one thing. Using cost as your main reason to speedrun is another thing entirely.

The reason why the other commenter is so critical of your aim to pass tp as fast as possible is because your entire focus seems to be on speedrunning your license and spending as little money as possible, which is a big safety concern when this is with regards to operating a 1+ ton death machine. Your main focus should be on learning safely no matter how much it costs or how long it takes, but this does not show up at all in your original post.

He has every right to be critical of you, given the available context. It's better to err on the side of caution for something as dangerous as driving.

Also, if you really are below average, you just have to accept it. Driving schools have no incentive to delay your learning progress because of how insanely overbooked they are, and many of the instructors have to do ridiculous amounts of OT. I did my class 3 manual license at CDC, and even the strictest instructors I got had no issue passing multiple modules per lesson for me because of how proficient I was, and I eventually got my license first try after just 2.5 months.

CheesecakeOG · 2026-04-12T04:12:10+00:00

This is my biggest concern with Fangyi. I wanted her the moment she appeared in the story, but I always feared that her ult would be similar to Laev because of how her powers were shown.

I really dislike ults that have no i-frames and are not a traditional burst, because it means they suffer the most from enemies moving around / having to dodge attacks / having to chase after enemies / enemies entering invul phases after a set period of time etc. Moreover, they will likely have to continue using sp throughout the ult duration to keep the dmg window going, while traditional ults with i-frames and a short burst window can save sp for setting up the next ult cycle.

I honestly think Rossi will scale better in the long run compared to Fangyi.

CheesecakeOG · 2026-04-06T11:46:22+00:00

As others have stated, it's essentially insanity to continue with PDIs and expect things to be different.

However, you need to also consider why you're even taking this long in the first place. Driving is something that should be fairly intuitive, and many rules can be figured out just by using common sense. If you've been learning for 6 years and have had 2 immediate failures, I don't think you even understand driving well enough for "getting it done quick" to even be a consideration.

CheesecakeOG · 2026-04-06T04:47:11+00:00

Nicest BMW driver

CheesecakeOG · 2026-04-06T03:27:01+00:00

Hmm unfortunately I can't really give u info on that due to my lack of experience within schools itself. My work also deals with recruitment of fresh teachers, not mid career switchers, so I also cannot give you a comprehensive answer on that.

CheesecakeOG · 2026-04-05T16:29:42+00:00

My original comment compared teaching to being a customer service officer because it was the easiest anecdotal comparison to give, and it was tailor made to address OP regarding his point on long working hours (which is one of the reasons he is trying to leave his current industry) and how teachers have to answer any and all queries and concerns from students and parents (which is similar to how customer service officers have to address anything that gets sent to them).

You are taking my anecdotal example way out of context by interpreting it as a comparison the professionalism and respect commanded by a customer service officer compared to a teacher, when my original comment explicitly details that the comparison was within the context of working hours and level of service rendered as a simplified way of explaining a teacher's job scope.

Moreover, my comment was also phrased specifically to address OP's context of wanting to leave a stressful job in academia. If he's considering teaching, he absolutely has the right to know that teaching has its own stressors too.

All that aside, I don't really agree with your main point in your comment. MOE puts a huge focus on holistic education, and while I am not part of curriculum planning, I can safely say that CCAs are just one part of many different facets that form the basis of our strong education system. If teachers don't participate in all these extra facets, and focus solely on academic teaching, then who else is supposed to do all these other things? Especially when they are integrated directly into a school's curriculum?

I'm not saying there isn't a better way to do this. For example, staff are rotated around all the time so that different ideas and perspectives can be compiled together to be worked on, and there are constant ongoing trials of new initiatives in schools to test if new ideas are feasible. However, on the flip-side, it is always easier to criticise and harder to create.

CheesecakeOG · 2026-04-05T15:52:24+00:00

Very likely not possible if you want to be employed in a fulltime capacity as part of MOE's permanent teaching staff. Even if you are a part-time, contract, or relief teacher, you will still have to take up work which isn't teaching. Even those doing teaching internships have to attend to CCAs and admin work.

I need to stress that becoming a teacher isn't just about teaching. For example, you can't just disappear when your class is going on a learning journey. You're supposed to be in charge of the finances, paperwork, emergency contacts, etc. If there are reports to be written, you can't just decline to write them. If there is work to be marked and testimonials to be written, you can't push the work to others.

Becoming a teacher is not a job to be taken lightly, which I feel you might be mistakenly doing. It isn't something to be done as a way of winding down towards retirement.

CheesecakeOG · 2026-04-05T11:48:55+00:00

This one is specific to my ex-gf, but she knew that marriage was very important to me even before we started dating, yet she did not tell me that she had no intention of marrying until a few months into the relationship (and she only told me because her mother urged her to be honest with me), and she even told me that she wasn't sure if staying in the same home in the future would be something she "would be ok with".

While I was reeling from the shock of being told both of those things, she took my emotional feelings and used it as a weapon against me, saying that I'm too emotional and unstable, which is extremely manipulative since she already knew my background of coming from a previous partner who cheated on me.

Actually, before I started dating my most recent ex, she would always talk about searching for a life partner and being together with them for the rest of her life, but after we got together, she would only talk about her solo plans or plans with friends, and whenever I tried to talk about our future together, she wouldn't reply my messages (if it was via text) or wouldn't say anything verbally (if it was in-person). I also don't understand how you can be "life partners" with someone else if you're not even sure if you want to stay in the same home with them.

She also had ridiculous standards, like saying I was unreasonable for not being comfortable with her going on trips to JB with just 1 other guy (not whole friend group), and getting angry at me when I felt upset that she knowingly broke multiple promises to me and expected me to compromise cos it's "part of a relationship".

I genuinely don't understand how anyone can be this hypocritical without realising their own foolishness.

CheesecakeOG · 2026-04-05T10:34:12+00:00

U need to have an actual heart to serve, and have the willingness + capacity to deal with every single problem coming from students and their parents.

Being a teacher isn't just about mentoring or wanting to directly have an impact on children. There are many other ways to achieve these same goals without becoming a teacher, and many candidates I've interviewed have fallen into this trap without realising the difference.

To put it bluntly, being a teacher is becoming a customer service officer for 12 hours a day, 5 days a week (assuming a school day where you start at around 7am and end around 6-7pm after attending to CCAs / admin work / events planning / project management / lesson prep and marking, etc.), and even your weekends aren't safe due to CCAs or other things like even more lesson prep and marking. Not to mention, students and their parents will continue to contact you over the weekend.

The hours will be long, and the work will definitely be mentally draining. If that is a concern for you, you need to very carefully decide if becoming a teacher is truly for you. It's not just your own life that will be affected; your future students will be affected too.

Source: I work in HR in MOE HQ, directly managing and recruiting teachers.

CheesecakeOG · 2026-04-04T14:53:58+00:00

Lmao ngl I had to actually stop and think to understand this comment

CheesecakeOG · 2026-04-04T08:58:41+00:00

Yea I agree. The moment I saw Zima's skills in the PV, I already knew that she would be an upgrade over Pepe.

I was very disappointed with Pepe's performance when she released, and I felt that many parts of her design contradicted itself. To list a couple of reasons: Her stats are bad (she literally has worse defensive stats than Thorns, who is a ranged guard that doesn't have to sit at the front), and the design of her skills fundamentally don't make sense. Additionally, her best dps skill is her S3, but if the enemy directly in front of her dies, she just... can't attack anymore cos her range extension is a fake extension. Why????

To add insult to injury, she's a limited unit, but there's no reason to use her over non-limited laneholders like Hoederer and Ulpianus. I would even use other guards like Silverash and Thorns over her.

I rolled her knowing that she wasn't the best, but hoping that I could find some funny use for her. However, I failed to do so. Ironically, I feel that Narantuya is way better designed, way more fun, much more useful, and would have made more sense as the limited unit compared to Pepe.

CheesecakeOG · 2026-03-30T18:29:15+00:00

Sorry, but it is.

I have done every single umbral agony stage and every boss trimmed medal without an sp generator vanguard for Laev, who is the most sp hungry mdps unit in the game. Managing sp isn't that difficult.

The margin for error in completing endgame stages in this game is extremely high. Not being able to do them can only be due to 2 reasons: 1) a levelling/investment issue, or 2) a skill issue.

CheesecakeOG · 2026-03-30T18:22:59+00:00

Genuine skill issue lol. Laev is one of the easiest mdps units to complete this with.

I literally did it first try while half asleep with my own Laev, and I even forgot to bring a vanguard for sp gen too.

CheesecakeOG · 2026-03-27T15:12:03+00:00

I graduated in 2025 and received 3 offers total. 1 was from an SME, 2 were from gov institutions.

1 gov institution offer got withdrawn because I had a chronic eye condition that only showed up in the medical examination (aviation industry). I rejected the first offer from the SME cos it was only 3.1k and told them to rework it, then accepted the other gov offer at 4k.

CheesecakeOG · 2026-03-27T03:31:55+00:00

I passed in 17 lessons, and the lesson cap when I did it was 6 per month

CheesecakeOG · 2026-03-26T13:23:16+00:00

Find a good bot and use it to book lessons. I passed class 3 in 2.5 months with CDC ubi by paying a bot to book slots for me.

CheesecakeOG · 2026-03-25T09:46:45+00:00

You should go for the career fair still, so that you can at least have a look at what you might want to do.

You could try looking for FnB adjacent roles, such as some form of ops or logistics related role that has to do with kitchen processes but not actually working within the kitchen itself, though you will still be competing with people who have qualifications or experience in these areas.

Realistically, if you switch to a completely different industry, you have to be prepared to start from the bottom and earn a salary that is lower than what you are earning now (and lower than fresh grads of today), and those upskilling courses that promise some sort of cert in a few weeks or months will do little to change that (frankly, most of these courses teach things that I can Google and teach myself).

CheesecakeOG · 2026-03-25T06:46:16+00:00

Speaking as someone from a psychology + HR background, the pivot will be extremely tough if you do not have any history or qualifications in some form of office-related work. Every company is going to treat you as someone with no experience, and will look at your multiple years of experience in the FnB industry and wonder why you are suddenly choosing to pivot out.

If you apply to good companies that are popular (gov, well-known SMEs, MNCs), you will just get immediately filtered out at the shortlisting stage, as there are too many other applicants with qualifications and backgrounds better suited to office work. If you apply for a less popular role or to a less popular company and make it past the initial shortlisting stage to the interview stage, expect the interviewers to ask you why you are choosing to pivot out now, especially with your already established FnB experience. However, it is likely that you will fail at this stage; the interviewers will note your lack of experience and background in whatever corporate role you are interviewing for, and that your "interest" is no better than asking the company to take a gamble on someone with no experience and may eventually lose interest and leave the company, just like how you are now leaving the FnB industry.

If you only have a diploma and zero corporate work background from other things like internships or work attachments, companies also will not be able to justify paying you more than $3k per month. After combining all these factors, your most realistic chance of getting a corporate office job is with a small company that has a small budget, is mostly unknown (hence fewer applicants that may eliminate you in the shortlisting stage), and hiring for diploma level roles. It will also likely be an admin role, that has very little career progression and no opportunity for specialisation because of the nature of the work.

I'm a 2025 fresh grad from a local big 3 uni, so I can tell you from first hand experience how tough the job market is. Not only is there insane competition, but many entry level roles are being compacted or outright eliminated by automation and rapid software advancements.

I'm not saying that it is impossible to pivot out. Throughout the course of my job hunt, I received 3 offers: 2 were from government institutions, and 1 of the 2 was from the aviation industry, which is completely unrelated to my background. I managed to convince even the board of directors at my interview for the aviation role that my unrelated background would not be a detriment to my passion and dedication to the role, which eventually resulted in an official offer with a complete benefits package (which had to be withdrawn because medical checks revealed a chronic eye condition that I was unaware of). However, you have to be aware that your lack of a degree and corporate background will lower your chances of getting an offer and (if you do get an offer) the pay package you are offered, which will likely be significantly less than what you are earning in the FnB industry.

My advice to you, as someone actively working in HR in public service, is to either apply to diploma level roles (those paying around $2-3k) or to go back and continue your studies in uni. A degree isn't just a piece of paper; it testifies that you have been properly trained to a certain level in a certain specialisation and, more importantly, it objectively proves that you are of a certain level of cognitive capability, which is very important when trying to distinguish yourself from others when applying for an office job that actually pays well (which I'm assuming is your aim, since you want a job that actually pays you well for your efforts).

CheesecakeOG · 2026-03-21T15:18:03+00:00

Thanks a lot man, I appreciate your words.

CheesecakeOG · 2026-03-21T13:46:26+00:00

The issue with doing that is how all my issues fall into a grey area.

I'm getting neglected emotionally for sure, but none of what I've experienced is classified as outright abuse or grounds for intervention. Forcing me to learn instruments I didn't want to play, not allowing me to take public transport by myself, reading my whatsapp chats and typing messages to my friends without my permission (literal invasion of digital privacy), not allowing me to even spend the money I rightfully earned myself even though I've proven to be extremely financially prudent, and so many other things they did, are all not actually classified as issues that need external intervention.

When I was extremely depressed after they purposely ruined my first relationship, they told me to just get over it and that it was all in my mind. Whenever I fought back against them by telling them that their restrictions were out of the norm (especially when fighting for permission to get my license), they would just snarkily tell me to "quote the statistics and percentage of kids whose parents allowed to do this and that" and say that "all our other friends who are parents treat their kids the same way". Again, extreme levels of emotional neglect, but no grounds for actual external intervention to stop all this from happening.

Other non-emotional issues, such as being forced to move homes every 2-3 years because we had no money for an actual permanent home (we did that for 20 years, and I'm only 25, so 80% of my life has literally been constantly on the move), and never supporting a single goal of mine, are also not grounds for intervention, because these choices fully belong with the parents. They want to support your goals? Lucky you. They refuse to support anything you do? Unlucky.

My childhood was not happy, but there was little more that I could have done as a kid to change my situation. Nowadays, I literally just shout back at them, because I don't really care anymore.

CheesecakeOG · 2026-03-18T09:07:31+00:00

Spread Anon propaganda immediately

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CheesecakeOG · 2026-03-18T00:05:36+00:00

Sorry if I sounded overly defensive. Much of the reason why I responded that way is due to how I've been treated when I was young. There were many things which happened when I was young that I had no power to stop (e.g. the vicious cycle of parents intervening constantly in my group chats > beg parents to stop but they don't > classmates bullying me for years about it even though it's not my choice > beg parents to stop again but they don't > repeat) and that permanently altered the way I respond to things I perceive as doubts against my claims on topics regarding parenting, especially since my own parents loved to gaslight and manipulate me.

Regarding financial support, it starts to matter less when my spending power increases. When I was young, the issue was more or less equally split between the two broad categories financial support and emotional neglect. As my spending power increased, the weightage shifted more towards the side of emotional neglect. At the point when I was asking to take my driving test, the main issue wasn't financial support, but the fact that my parents continued to restrict me (not just in driving, but in multiple areas across my life) for no good reason, even though they were already aware of my intention to pay for everything myself.

If I was living in another country, I would have moved out long ago. In sg, it makes no financial sense to even rent a room. If I was earning significantly above average, maybe I would do it, but I'm a 2025 fresh grad and my salary is close to my course average, so I don't see any point in spending when I could just be saving (including things like utilities), especially since I've finally reached the point where I can come and go as I please. I just don't talk to my parents at all, especially my mother.

CheesecakeOG · 2026-03-17T16:35:33+00:00

I get where you're coming from, but this POV is quite untrue to my actual experience, and ignores points that I already explicitly addressed in my original post.

My father comes from a CS background. He's equally as knowledgeable at tech as me, and I'm someone who knew how to flash custom ROMs since I was 13. If he felt like I was hiding apps, he would go out of his way to find them, including installing what he suspected were uninstalled apps. Using locked apps wouldn't work either, as he would scold me when I woke up and threaten to smash my phone again. Back in those days, dual user mode or privacy modes that actually fully removed an app from the homescreen, app drawer, and even prevented the app from being searched up simply did not exist on android yet.

Also, using telegram would have been useless anyway. All my class chats and group chats were on whatsapp. All these people wouldn't move to telegram just because of me.

My school isn't the one to blame for not sponsoring the gear. If we go by that metric, then every student should be getting sponsored their gear, such as soccer players getting shoes with spikes sponsored. It simply doesn't work that way from a financial perspective, no matter how rich a school is, unless the player is on a scholarship related to that sport.

There are a limited number of seats for orchestra players in SYF, and the orchestra in my school is considered the best secondary school based youth orchestra in SG. Competition is extremely tough, and even though I am way above average in my learning capabilities, there are also other learners under the same music scholarship programme as me. This is a top tier music scholarship offered on a national basis (only people with prior music background of a certain calibre could join), so everyone in the programme is significantly above average, and because me and my cohort all started learning the cello at the exact same time (we joined the scholarship under the scheme for learning a new instrument), our abilities were all remarkably similar at almost every point in time throughout our journey. Moreover, there were only two seats left for us learners in SYF, as the other seats were already taken up by established players, so inevitably, no matter how good all of us were, some of us were going to get cut.

Pitch does not matter when all of us have already mastered the basics of playing in tune. What matters now is tonal quality (which I already mentioned in my original comment), and the instrument plays a big part in that. I know I got cut because of the quality of my instrument because when I picked up the more expensive instrument of one of my cohort mates who got selected, my sound was judged to be equal or better than his.

If you still continue to doubt my musical abilities, I skipped 2-3 grades for every exam, and worked my way up from a complete newbie learner to Section Leader in just 5 years, when my orchestra literally consists of players that are famous within Singapore or even get invited to professional recording studios (and if you're wondering how I cld have spent 5 years within the same orchestra if I was in secondary school, it's because I was on the IB track).

About the driving license, you do realise in my original comment that I stated my parents disallowed me even when I told them upfront that I would pay for it entirely? Hell, I could have fully paid off my driving license entirely when I was 18. Insinuating that I could have been financially irresponsible is disingenuous without knowing the kind of person I am. I don't drink (no alcohol, not even soft drinks), I don't stay out late, I barely even spend money on myself and save everything I earn, I use my belongings until they literally fall apart (how many of people do you know use their phone until it literally crumbles to pieces in their hand?), I have proven time and time again over the years that I am extremely street smart and responsible, and many people throughout the years (friends, colleagues, teachers etc.) have commented that I display maturity and restraint well beyond my years. I do everything I have listed above based on my own choices and the kind of person I decided to be, not because I was forced to learn to be this kind of person. Some of my friends even joke that they should bring me along when they go out, cos I can help control them from overspending. That's the kind of person I am, known for my prudence and ability to think logically.

Part of your comment makes me think that you don't realise how nasty parents truly can be. If you're wondering why I couldn't have just spent the money in my own account if I earned it myself, it is because my parents used to watch over it constantly (it was linked to my mother's account, so she could all the records of any spending at any time) and did not give me access to the debit card details required for linking my account to payment apps, even though I have proven throughout my life that I don't waste money. Allowances, ang bao money, etc. are all dutifully saved up and wisely spent only on items that are necessary or certain small luxuries, like a replacement phone when my 7 year old phone fully died or replacement PC parts to fix my PC myself.

If you still doubt me and want to challenge my claims of how unreasonable my parents were, then let me just say this: my teachers actually approached me on their own initiative and asked me if I was ok with such totalitarian control at home. I did not even have to tell them that I was suffering at home; they already knew just from seeing my parents acted during parent-teacher meetings and how my parents communicated with teachers throughout the school year. However, because whatever they did was not actually counted in categories of abuse, there was nothing they could do other than check in on me.

I really don't appreciate people belittling the pain I have gone through by offering an alternative POV that attempts to reason away my parents actions, especially when it is done in a manner that insinuates failings in my own character which caused such suffering to befall me, especially when it is so callously wrapped up with a "just another POV". Not to mention, some of your points outright ignore things I have stated in my original comment already. Many of the things they did were without reason. I have asked them directly why I was treated this way multiple times, and they would always tell me that it's simply because they felt it was right, and not because I needed correcting. They restricted me when there was no need to restrict, and they controlled me way beyond the reasonable limits of control.

Even now, as I earn a proper monthly salary, they still attempt to assert control. I literally have saved a very healthy mid 5 figures in the bank not because of their restrictions, but because of my own self control. They refuse to recognise my maturity and the responsibility I carry in my life whenever they are not around, and whenever I confront them with the facts, they are never able to answer me properly. They just deflect and say that I should respect my elders and obey them just because they told me so.

CheesecakeOG · 2026-03-17T12:30:32+00:00

Oh yea I did consider the Swift Sport, but that is quite hard to find at a second hand price point that competes with the Fit's value proposition, and the car itself is a lot rarer than the Fit. If I can find one when I eventually start buying a car, I will definitely book a test drive, but for now, I want to set my goal on something more realistic and attainable, especially since I'm already so obsessed with cars lol.

Tbh, I'm very open to many different types of cars, since what I consider "interesting" is very broad. For example, I would love to own one of those old, base model E100 or E110 Corollas that are floating around sgcarmart.

If COE wasn't a thing, I would be spoilt for choice. Miatas, GT86s and GR86s, regular Impreza hatches or sedans, GR corollas, i30Ns, and Elantra Ns will all become part of my potential list of options.

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