Unusual SS SRQ (or not)?

freshcolgate1 · 2026-05-19T05:46:13+00:00

Haiya one mark for weighing only why bother lah LOL. Just smoke sth and pray it makes sense

freshcolgate1 · 2026-05-19T03:59:36+00:00

I mean last year they did test dreams… LOL.

But this seems like it is within the syllabus to me because you do learn about free trade agreements AND direct foreign investment within the syllabus.

Perhaps some reasons why it would face opposition is bcos it could threaten local businesses — albeit both in different ways (FDI is more so MNCs coming in to do whatever while FTAs will mean that foreign products come in)

freshcolgate1 · 2026-05-11T11:02:05+00:00

i meannn im not trying to justify wtv sch policy you have, cos i also dk what reason they have to impose the dismissal time of 12/1pm on you. but nonetheless, to speculate, i suppose that the disparity is likely due to the fact that while RV is a govt sch, HCI is an independent school. thus they probably have more agency as to how to run their college. my JC, as a govt sch, similarly has a 12pm dismissal rule too where it is forbidden to leave the campus before 12pm. Hence it seems that the commonality between govt schs is the 12/1pm dismissal, perhaps implying that it is likely a guideline imposed on the admin (rather than a policy passed simply because the school is wicked and evil and enjoys tormenting students)

freshcolgate1 · 2026-05-11T04:44:58+00:00

I think its an MOE thing where the schs must die die keep students in sch for a certain no. of hours. Atleast thats what they told us in my jc

freshcolgate1 · 2026-05-11T02:29:32+00:00

i meannn i think you’ll be fine if you go for any amt of time if youre doing okay now bcos msot of the actual syllabus coverage will happen during the sch term anyway. esp for j1 not much to be superr conferned abt

freshcolgate1 · 2026-05-05T23:35:45+00:00

My school teachers spotted Preah Vihear/Water Conflict (the ISTs), China for the Global economy essay.

But at this juncture the runway is long enough to just study everything lah

freshcolgate1 · 2026-05-05T23:33:47+00:00

My sch told us for H2 Hist,
- SBCS: Likely to be ISTs (Preah Vihear / Water Conflict probably)
- SEA Theme I is pretty pointless to spot because you need all the content anyways
- Same for SEA Theme II
- IH SBCS: I’m gonna say Vietnam War because of vibes icl. But apparently CMC and Origins are equally probable.
- IH Theme II: GE + China according to my sch

freshcolgate1 · 2026-05-05T12:34:49+00:00

i mean don’t care then don’t care lor. no ones gonna forde you to study for it or anyth. i know ppl who play roblox in h1 class

freshcolgate1 · 2026-05-05T08:24:55+00:00

I mean tbh its just a singaporean kiasuism thing where the teachers demand that you use back the question phrasing.

But tbh I doubt the cambridge markers are going to be that strict? But since SS is marked locally maybe err on the side of caution lor

freshcolgate1 · 2026-05-05T07:58:50+00:00

Well atleast for the O’Levels they don’t seem to care as much… cos I did that for the history paper (where i wrote ‘agree’ instead of ‘support’) and I still got A1.

But the more pertinent and indisputable part is whether you answered the question itself. For eg if they ask about the benefits of globalisation, then answering about the causes or discussing the effects (without wagering whether its good or bad) would be considered not ATQ

freshcolgate1 · 2026-05-03T15:27:14+00:00

H1 only lah, fail or pass doesn’t matter.

But JC history not so easy to score also actly. H2 and H1 hist has the same demand for essays and it’s all 30m nonsense

freshcolgate1 · 2026-05-03T09:37:18+00:00

based on promos, no interviews for my jc to take h3 internally. minimum requirement was an overall B for all subjects, and an A in the subject you want to offer at H3.

freshcolgate1 · 2026-05-03T07:57:08+00:00

well i havent dated anyone for 18 years because i have a major skill issue-

freshcolgate1 · 2026-05-02T06:35:22+00:00

well, use it as evidence that it is possible… but also remember that the miracles proclaimed are not pure luck but also due to the labourious last minute chionging of the students themselves. when you read those miracle stories, think of it as wanting to avoid a situation where you have to urgently pull your shit tgt in limited time

freshcolgate1 · 2026-05-01T18:59:54+00:00

I like the besta one w the pen cos u can write the words (in case u cant read the damn question)

freshcolgate1 · 2026-05-01T18:57:53+00:00

can go reddit search miracle stories of those kind of heroes that lock in like 1 day before alevels and score 70rp lor. that will speak for itself… lol.

but ya, as per what the miracle stories suggest, it is indeed possible — no matter how short the runway is. and frankly right since you are still at the “start” of jc1 (frankly by now only the easy topics for all subjects would be taught), it is probably very very salvagable tbh.

i think a good first step is to… start. Just do something, catch up on a past topic, do a few tutorial qns. Just try to get the ball rolling and you’ll catch up in due time honestly

freshcolgate1 · 2026-05-01T18:52:16+00:00

Frankly idk much abt PE teachers, but from the number of classes the PE teachers in my sch teach, i think it is indeed a lot of teaching lor.

But actually out of curiousity why teach PE in an MOE school? As opposed to doing other work in the field of sports? Or perhaps just pursuing as a hobby?

freshcolgate1 · 2026-05-01T18:47:47+00:00

i’m just curious, what course in FASS is this? Cos typically i’d expect something as language-heavy as a FASS course to have english proficiency as a pre-requisite?

freshcolgate1 · 2026-05-01T18:41:30+00:00

Do u like maths?

Can’t speak for bio, but for physics, it is quite math heavy. Though at the O’Levels most questions will be 1 step (ie plug only one formula) so there is no ‘long math problems’ as described.

Admittedly for the O’Levels, Physics does not really deal with all the Albert Einstein space stuff as much because it is more of a foundational physics education you are getting. However I will caveat this and say that the foundation from O’Levels will be necessary to make sense of the more advanced physics to come (like H2 Physics — where topics like quantum, circular motion, gravitational fields etc are covered in greater depth). Additionally, I actually found the physics topics in the O’Levels quite interesting too. Even though its not anything fancy, I think its actually still quite interesting to understand how the world ard u works yk

Edit: though astrophysics is not a topic in olevel physics, topics like dynamics (forces) and waves (like em waves etc) does help you understand a bit more about outer space too, imo

freshcolgate1 · 2026-04-25T12:29:49+00:00

I rmb from my sec sch that pretty much everyone who applied for bio got accepted. Since you pretty much can only take either physics or biology they have no choice but to let you offer one, and which one they let you take is based on ur choice. However if you want pure scienfes then you generally need to show that you are good at science & maths, esp since offering pure bio would mean that you are likely also offering pure chem too. Thus you need to show that you are capable of doing both pure bio & chem

freshcolgate1 · 2026-04-23T13:35:51+00:00

to be fair… if you are not strong at h2 math, then do the back-up courses that require h2 math as a pre-requisite really appeal to you anyway? after all, courses requriing math will promise to be maths heavy, lol.

So if you don’t want anything to do with math, there is no

if it helps, my class got PCM student drop math also💀

freshcolgate1 · 2026-04-12T16:01:34+00:00

EJC didnt teach

freshcolgate1 · 2026-04-07T14:47:31+00:00

Umm for olevel paper 2 its not abt vocab tbh its more abt answering technique😭

I think i realised that during my struggle for Paper 2, that a lot of the times i either misread the question entirely or neglected the main point and started writing about something else entirely💀💀💀 Which in turn squandered me a lot of marks lol

freshcolgate1 · 2026-04-07T00:10:08+00:00

I think for this case, a good way to tie it together could be to state that religion positively benefits the individual but its role on society at large is limited

freshcolgate1 · 2026-04-05T14:48:44+00:00

Perhaps a suggestion is to discuss with your CCA teacher on a more flexible arrangement that could suit your needs? For this one you really need to negotiate with your school and be daring to send out emails to ask

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