I used to be from RJ, but spent my entire first year in Raffles
Players (thats their drama team) preparing for a production.
Well I cant blame drama entirely since I was a lazy bugger
that slept/ slacked during most of my lectures, read comics or
books from our great library. Thanks RJ for stocking every
single Sandman book.=(
But anyway, I barely made it to JC2, and thats when I realised I
barely knew anything from JC1. Me and a bunch of my friends
basically whacked the Red Spot ten year series (the one with all
the model answers) starting from June all the way to the
A-levels.
We didnt touch a single prelim paper. Whats the point of
doing prelims? They are generally harder than the actual A-level
papers and only serve to depress you even more. If you're a
male, you have to serve NS, no point using your prelim results to
apply to a University. Its only your A level results that
matter.
Just keep working away at the A-level TYS. After a while,
you'll realise that questions will begin to look extremely
familiar. For my year, one of the physics questions was
really really wierd, and about 50% of my class couldnt get it.
But it was ludicrously similar to a question that had come
out several years before, so I stuck in the formula from the
previous year, and lo and behold, I got my answer =) Pretty much
the same for Maths.
End result after going through each TYS 3 times before the A
levels.... Straight As. Did I understand 50% of what I was
doing? Not really. I was blindly applying formulas to
questions that looked familiar.
I'm not proud of what I did =) At the end of the day, the only
way you're going to remember something long term is if you
understand it. Its may now... get cracking on your TYS yeah?
;P