RESULTS AND THOUGHTS
WARNING THIS POST IS REALLLLLLY LONG AND IM NOT KIDDING. IT’S MORE OF A PERSONAL REFLECTION FOR MY MID TERM TEST RESULTS SO FEEL FREE TO SKIP.
Today is the 2nd week of school (or 14th week of school, to be exact) after the June holidays and it’s when the actual teaching and learning begins. The 1st week was full of taking back results for the mid-term test we had the week before the 3 week June holiday and chatting about what to expect this term and minimal teaching.
SOOO results. I would say i’m not entirely pleased with myself and expected to get better results for certain modules and some really surprised me. Here is a summary:
CLEANROOM: 55/75 = 74% = B (one more mark to B+ .-.)
BIOCHEMISTRY: 43/50 = 86% = A
BIOMATERIALS: 38.5/50 = 77% = B+
BIOMECHANICS: 58/100 = D+
BIOFLUIDS: 76/100 = B+
BIOSTATISTICS: 83.5/100 = A
Note: These results are not final and each carries a different weightage of about 20% to the overall grade of the module. The grades that i’ve put at the side are just a guide for me to gauge my final results so i know what to expect.
Let me talk about each result and my thoughts about it. Here comes the long ass part so just skip this if you don’t want to read my recount and reflection.
CLEANROOM: I was expecting to get an A. I mean i’m not mad with my B but i genuinely thought i would score an A for it because I felt like my answers were well-answered and it was one of the exams that i felt confident in as i was well-prepared and memorised the content thoroughly. I will say that i am disappointed and i will definitely work better for my assignment and the upcoming semestral exam that is 50% weightage to make up for this blunder that i do not understand.
BIOCHEMISTRY: This was one of the unexpected ones. After the exam, I was not confident that i did well and expected a B because i could not answer one of the long answer questions properly and it’s the highest marks in the whole paper. I managed to write something for it because i read the part before the exams and had a slight impression so i just wrote that down and prayed for the best. When the paper came back, i was awarded 5/6 marks for it and it did not feel good. It felt as if i was cheating although i didn’t, but i just felt like i didn’t deserve the 5 marks because i smoked through it. That being said, I will work on my memorisation skills, prepare earlier and study everything for the next test instead of trying to spot chapters because it’s always good to be prepared when the materials are already provided and it’s not even that much. JUST STUDY.
BIOMATERIALS: This was definitely an unexpected one because i did not prepare for it well at all. I was expecting myself to fail or barely pass because i only read through the content once hours before the exam. During the test, I smoked my way through some short-answer questions with some common sense and guessed several MCQs cause i had zero clue. When the teacher showed the list of results, i thought i read it wrongly because the person above me scored 53 and the one below is 91 (but i’m definitely not that cause that’d be a miracle with my half-ass answers) and so i was seriously thoroughly shooketh with my 77.
BIOMECHANICS: This is my low point this semester. I was underprepared and was rushing to finish tutorials until wee hours in the morning but i could not. When i opened the paper, i was overwhelmed and could not think of the method to do for some questions and had to skip here and there until i thought of it. Definitely need to start earlier and be more consistent with my studying. Last minute work is never good for me (except for some miracles).
BIOFLUIDS: I was quite disappointed cause i thought i could get A worthy marks. I thought that i would only be getting 1 question wrong but i had some careless mistakes here and there and that caused me to have B+ marks. I have to be more prepared for this too. I only did the past year paper and tutorial before the exam and that’s definitely a no-no for the upcoming one.
BIOSTATISTICS: This is my pride and honour hahaha. I felt rather confident after this paper as i was well-prepared and my cheat sheet served me well. Although there were a few questions that i felt iffy about, I felt like i could get at least 80 marks (which is A ). When i got my marks, I saw that i got 79.5 and i was like NOOOOO cause that’s just 0.5 marks away from A and i was kinda disappointed in myself. Then the teacher said they will round up to 80 and i was like yay but not really cause it’s not what i actually earned. Moreover, my classmate sitting beside me got 81 (that was the highest) and it just didn’t settle well with me cause i felt like i could have gotten an 80 or more. Not to gloat or anything, but i was just like “ogei nvm” in my brain cause 79.5 is already considered good considering that only 3 people scored above 70 and my classmates who are scholars did not do well, so i felt kinda happy but not really HAHA. ANyways, after the teacher (mi luv) went through the questions and we were checking our marks, i realised that she missed out on my 4 marks and so I got 83.5 (which is rounded off to 84) WOOHOOO and i was really happy this time because i worked hard in class, paying attention to mi luv, answering her questions and being 10000% present 95% of the time. SO basically, i’m really proud of myself for getting this mark and my investment in mi luv’s lessons really paid off haha. I’m not joking, i really love this teacher HAHA idk why but to me, she’s a cute old lady that teaches well in her own slow-mo manner and alot of my classmates don’t like her but see where that got them HUEHUEHEUHEU my investment in mi luv proved to be gre8t okai i shall stop gloating hehe.
OVERALL FEELS AND CONCLUSION:
I should be more consistent with my studying and start earlier. Do my work conscientiously and properly. Do my tutorials on time so i can clarify any doubts during lesson time way before the exam period. I CAN DO DEEZ!
- Li