you want some motivation? fuck yea you do.
i was in your situation last year. i literally only started
studying at about this time during sec 4. i almost retained my sec
3 , so i was doing rly rly bad. to give you a clearer idea of how
bad i was, i failed every single chem and maths test i had till
about mid-year exams.
i managed some ok results though, r4 10, r5 13 during o
levels.
your school will finish the syllabus soon? ill try to give you
some advice, unless things have changed drastically over the last
year.
For maths and science,
-do ten year series. (unless you are having new syllabus, im not
sure if your year is.) just to give you an idea of where you stand,
if you cant answer at the very very least 90% of the questions, you
suck and should start studying right the fuck now. circle all
the questions that you cannot answer. don't just
check the answer after you've answered and think you understand the
concept behind it, you need to ask the teacher why this question's
answer is like that. The students in the good schools have done
their TYS a few times over (thats right they literally have done
every single question in their maths/science TYS a few times over
the course of their upper sec life, im not fuckin kidding you) .
spend a couple of hours a day doing your TYS (you know which
subjects you suck at, so be smart about how you spend time on diff
subjects)
-get tuition if you can afford it.
-spend your fuckin weekends studying. you wake up in the
morning, sit the fuck down at your table, take our your
textbooks/notes and shit, bring out your TYS and start doing it
till evening or so. (you don't need no fucking computer breaks you
piece of shit.) if you think you suck at time management, bring out
a clock and time yourself as if you are having an actual exam. your
teachers dont say it but you are actually expected to complete the
entire TYS at least once.
the main idea is, at the end of the day, to be able to sit down,
and you say to yourself 'holy shit maths/science is fucking easy
what a joke subject i am taking' .
-your teachers know what they are talking about. ask your
teachers exactly how to get full marks for the open ended
questions. (the ones where you have to write a shitload of text on
foolscap).
remember this mainly applies to maths/science though, they are
easy as fuck to do on TYS when you have done the same question 4-5
times before. you should expect to have filled many many pads of
foolscap paper just by answering questions.
