Currently studying in TJC and only J1 and i cnt take it
already!
Tutorials and stuffs, and the lessons are v v v boring :(
And my class is a smart class, so it is v difficult to catch
up.
Does it really benefit me to be in a gd class? Cause it is
really giving me alot of stress, until i really feel like giving
up.
SAD :(
Like someone has said, it's a vicious cycle. For as long as you
stay negative, it's unlikely that you'll work hard enough in your
tutorials and for your exams. The results will definitely sucks,
thus demotivating you further.
But for as long as you refuse to give up on all the challenges
you face, I can assure you things can only get easier. You may
think your classmates, or even schoolmates, are mostly more clever
than you. But put more efforts into your studies and you may just
prove yourself wrong.
I was from JC too, now serving NS.
For my mid-year exam in J1, I got U for all my H2 subjects. My
percentile (ranking in the school) was barely above 30%. It's not
like I'm a playful person who can't be bothered to study. I wanted
to do well too, but the lectures are boring and makes me sleep, and
I don't understand a thing of what my tutors are saying in
classes.
I worked slightly harder but still, only just
barely managed not to get retained in J1. I thought of
dropping out of JC but eventually didn't.
And so I refuse to give in, refuse to give up, and decided to
put in my all into my studies. Still, by the block-test in April, I
improved little.
The June holidays came and everything became different. I now
had plenty upon plenty of time to study by myself without needing
to attend boring lectures and tutorials. I dig out all my lecture
notes and studied every single chapter all over again by myself. To
me, that works much better than trying to listern to
lectures or tutors.
Painstakingly, I made my own notes and made sure I understand
the answer to most of the question in the TYS, doing those
particularly difficult questions two to three times.
Miracle happened, and somehow, from being among the lousiest in
my college, I shot up to be the 6th in position of my school and
was among the most improved student in the mid-year exams.
I was so happy, and proud of my achievement that...I somewhat
slacken and dropped halfway down during the prelims (on hindsight,
the prelim papers set by our school was much tougher than the
a'level papers, so I was overly paranoid). Though by that time, I
was very kan chiong already and almost literally studied for 14
hours per day for that one month plus until A'levels.
In the end, I got a very satisfactory results for my A'level,
even to my own pleasant surprises. That is coming from someone who
has got 3 Us for his first major exam.
Morale of this long story? You give up, you die.
