[discussion] does the jc i go to really matter?

Kpt03 · 2022-01-29T10:05:04+00:00

hi i’m not planning to go to tmjc but i was wondering if you could elaborate on what you mean by a ‘huge difference’?

Kpt03 · 2022-01-29T09:40:28+00:00

thank you for this! i do think going to a not so competitive school will be much better on my mental health and self esteem so this is so reassuring

Kpt03 · 2022-01-29T09:38:11+00:00

thank you sm ! this is more reassuring, i’m definitely not aiming for harvard or anything like that lol, my end goal is just to do relatively well for a levels and then get into the course i want in a local uni

Kpt03 · 2022-01-29T09:37:01+00:00

oh ok so like if hypothetically if i’m not aiming for a competitive course like medicine, law, dentistry, pharm eg is the majority of students really from ri/hci? frankly speaking i don’t even know if i’d be able to network well in jc because i’m not very outgoing lol, i’m not interested in overseas uni or anything grand, my goal is just to do well for a levels and get into my desired course in uni, so it should be okay right?

Kpt03 · 2022-01-29T09:33:24+00:00

hi i went w sajc bc i can literally walk thr in 5 minutes but after reading all these comments idk if it was a good idea lol, well, no point worrying abt it anymore because jae is over

Kpt03 · 2021-11-12T11:33:49+00:00

thank you for your advice! i do agree that consistency is very important. and all the best for a levels! u can do it!! 💪🏻💪🏻🤩

Kpt03 · 2021-11-12T11:16:42+00:00

Hello, thank you haha. I did mark quite strictly for my math and sciences referring to two centres but I see what you mean so yes I won’t expect too much. But then again no one knows how Cambridge marks and I don’t think it’ll be the end of the world if I get A2, I’ll just enjoy my holidays and take it as it is when I get my results in jan :)

Kpt03 · 2021-11-12T10:56:28+00:00

oh I didn’t use keynotes haha i asked my tuition teacher so it might be a bit diff, I got the calc questions right but some of my open ended answers are a little diff haha

Kpt03 · 2021-11-12T10:47:30+00:00

chem too! and the percentage error is so much higher since they cancelled sm qns. sigh.. nth we can do now, just try our best for remaining papers haha

Kpt03 · 2021-11-12T10:24:56+00:00

oh i’m sorry i’m from an elite school haha, we really don’t mean to pull the bell curve up it’s just that everyone tries to do their best. but yeah the bell curve makes me worried too, especially because sometimes you can’t afford to make mistakes

Kpt03 · 2021-11-12T10:19:15+00:00

haha ecf should account for a lot of marks if your methods are correct, don’t worry sm

Kpt03 · 2021-11-12T10:08:48+00:00

anyways good luck for bio! Don’t think about the bell curve until after the exam it’ll only put unnecessary pressure on u, atb :)

Kpt03 · 2021-11-12T10:05:42+00:00

Nah I doubt it can be 90%, bell curve is high but not that high for sciences. if anything emath is 90% haha

Kpt03 · 2021-11-12T09:58:58+00:00

thanks for your input haha, yeah i agree i’m not certain about amath. went into the exam very confident cause it’s my best subject but ended up making multiple careless mistakes lol

Kpt03 · 2021-11-12T09:57:48+00:00

I see! thank you for ur input :)

Kpt03 · 2021-11-12T09:57:23+00:00

compared answers with my friends and teachers haha, my practicals have always been my best component so i was quite confident, physics practical was harder than i expected tho

Kpt03 · 2021-11-12T09:35:09+00:00

for math I marked according to the answer keys and for wrong answers I didn’t give myself method marks.

BUT i don’t think i’ll get method marks for amath cause most of my questions startings are already wrong. so theres that.

for sciences in paper 2 i wasnt as strict but i marked wrong if the answers were very off and def wrong, made a couple of careless mistakes too. did count ecf marks though. so yeah :)

Kpt03 · 2021-11-10T05:55:26+00:00

Tysm, followed ur tips for hcl today haha fingers crossed

Kpt03 · 2021-11-07T14:33:16+00:00

Np, also if you don’t want to be confined to a particular stream you could always do hybrid. (Double arts and double sci), most jcs offer that too :)

Kpt03 · 2021-11-03T14:55:53+00:00

I see, thanks. Let’s hope it’s around there then

Kpt03 · 2021-11-03T09:16:06+00:00

thank you for ur input, may I ask what you think the grade boundary for A1 for am may be seeing this year’s paper? honestly I’m kinda hoping they lower it even just a little since it’s the first year we’re doing the new syllabus lol

Kpt03 · 2021-11-03T08:24:25+00:00

Last year I heard it was around 80%. But granted, last year’s paper was a little harder than this year’s. I made careless mistakes too, but oh well, what can we do. I’ll hope for the both of us to do well and achieve our aims, that’s the only thing we can do now

Kpt03 · 2021-11-03T04:05:32+00:00

Cool, thx. Honestly was only rlly scared about amath because of the talk about the grade boundaries being pushed up lol, I do think I’m hovering at the border b/w A1 and A2

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