...GP...

It was like blogging for 3 hours -- except that its slightly more tiring and u're under the pressure of having to write fast. But my thoughts seem to flow through well. Lucky me. When i blog, my mind is always thinking about what to write after this line. And since people always tell me not to blog as it is time-consuming, i still blog --only quicker. This seems to translate into Gp when i saw the question i want to do -- "Hosting major sporting events creates more problems than benefits.Do you agree?"

I could brainstorm four silly points and elaborate and come up with dumb examples -- all this in 15 minutes of planning. Btw, before today, i never planned fully for any other essays that i've done. Then after the planning, it was down to writing intro and content and evaluations of the things i talked about. Trying hard to go in depth but i think i failed to do that. Coz never before today hv i even thot that i have written any essays with depth. My essays were all superficial. But amazingly, i wrote 4 pages. Never have i wrote a 4 page entry lah!... i mean essay. But rongzhu eventually pointed out that the line spacing was large.(did u guys notice that?) Haha... well, nevertheless, i felt that i "blogged" alot. Hope the marker dun get turned off by long entries like some of u guys who may find my entries berjela-jela (Malay for very very long). Whahahaa... joking. Was happy after essay.

Paper 2 was manageable also. 5 minutes before the end, i was scared i didnt have enough lines for AQ. Could only squeeze in 3 lines of conclusion. THere's only one passage -- hence, the ease. The questions were ok. GOt one part they talked about controversial sentences and explain the language used to maintain open mindedness and so on. Haha... it reminded me of the 2 controversial entries i wrote the other day and the kind of language and words i used so as to make it SEEM as though i was being open minded. Lol. Gave crappy explainations for them. WHen reading questions and text, answers were forming in my head. It's like when i blog, i never seem to be able to stop thinking of what to write -- thus the long entries.

Here's a walkthrough of how i did the paper 2-- in case some small kids typed
"success+tips+ paper 2+gp +completing the paper in time". I read the AQ question for an idea of what the passage is about. Saw tt there's only one author's name. Flipped open the insert and there's only one passage! cool. I wrote what the AQ requires me to do on the question paper. I wrote "AQ :benefits .... war inevitable... writer's reason... If war is avoided, will the gain outweigh the loss?"

Then i read the summary and marked out line 1 - 51 using Alista's method of using # . haha. I saw her did that and thought it was cool. Then i wrote on the margin the points i need to find for summary. "SUMMARY: reasons war inevitable... benefits..."

Went to the short questions and for questions which has citations in it, i highlighted the quotes in the passage and wrote in brief the question requirement on the insert. Like for question 1, i highlighted the quote, and wrote "Qn1 : reasons why war inevitable.." . I did it for all the questions.

It took me 5 minutes to read all the questions, highlight all the quotes and vocab words and rewrite all the questions in brief on the insert. Fast huh? I never did this before today but time practices in school and at home made me discover this quicker way. By this time, i already sort of have an impression of the whole passage without having to "unpack" the text lah! To think that my GP teacher used to spend so many periods just to "unpack" the text.

I used the next 30 minutes to do questions straight away while reading the passage first time. Like when i first read the first para, i saw Qn 1 on it. So while reading, answers formed in my head and i simply wrote down. Answers seemed to fall like the heavy rain yesterday. In the past, i used to crack my head for the "perfect answer" but i always end up failing to complete the paper or having to rush towards the end. So now, i simply wrote whatever that "pops up" in my head. haha... like blogging lah... (But as u can see, i blog rubbish, so guess how i answered my questions?) While reading on, i wrote the meanings of the vocab i highlighted so there's no flipping back and forth and having to look for words.

Exactly 30 minutes later, i finished the short qns and vocab. Never before hav i accomplished such a feat. 1030 - 1055 was for summary, i told myself. So i planned out my summary on the rough paper. Split the paper into 2, one for why war is inevitable and benefits of war. As soon as i got 10 points, i immediately wrote my summary. No rough summary in pencil and counting the number of words before transferring it into the booklet. In the past, i always did that and it took too much time. TOday, on THE day, i decided to do sthg i never did try before and i really hope it's a risk worth taking. Finished summary a couple of minutes earlier. Kind of had a couple more points but decided not to worry bout them coz one, i've got no time and two, i ran out of words(i didnt do draft remember?).

AQ was fun. I actually planned for it. The last remedial lesson, my gp teacher told me tt AQ also must plan. Plan wat to write ... the thesis... make sure all requirements are met. Ur Ev and EX and have as many text reference as possible. I did exactly all that and knew exactly how my AQ will develop after 10 minutes of rough working. So the next 25 minutes or so was writing AQ... managed to squeeze in examples even! Haha.. i never squeezed in examples to support my arguments before lah! Not once! And i never wrote a long entry for AQ so having a lack of lines kind of shocked me. Nevertheless, i decided to shorten my speech -- leaving 3 lines for conclusion.

My conclusion was stoooopid! I was bored. So i wrote sthg like, "In conclusion, i find the reasons which Woolgar raised was largely convincing. We no longer need more wars to lead to the birth of sporting events like 'Olympics' and the world cups -- we already have more than enough of it."

Rather stupid way to end but, i just wanted to put across the idea that war will play a reduced role in future. Haha... after that... got a few more minutes... i relax lah.. Wrist so pain.

Was preety happy about GP. But the thing is, i never got anything higher than a C6 in this 2 years. I never got anything higher than 30 for essays. And i never got more than 4 marks for summary and more than 4 marks for AQ. Having done so many things for the first time today, i expect nothing more than my usual grades. Which was why i brought nothing but my pencil case today and a couple of notes(which i threw away b4 paper starts).

See how thought flows freely in my entry today? lol... i must say that blogging kind of helped me today. Ive been blogging for like almost a year now and writing seems like so much fun than ever before. It's more fun knowing that people actually read what i write. Though not word by word (like duh.... i wun do that if i read normal ppl's blog..) , knowing that ppl actually come to my blog with the intention of reading makes writing fun. Voyeuristic nature of humans? Maybe.... but i think such claims are rubbish.

Well, i guess enuff of lengthening my entry. Hope u guys found gp okay. Coz if ALI can say it's ok and that he thinks he can get C6, i tink ur As are guranteed plus chop. ali...... haha... All e best for next week. Physics and chem. Die.