Results doesn't represent anything

Hello, welcome to my website and in this tab, I will talk about academic and my point of view on the issue. This is my first academic post, so please let me share more about my academic background.

Let’s start…

When I was in kindergarden, I do not like to study, I just find it boring and had no interest in it. When I promoted to Primary 1, school starts to give us homework which I hated the most because we need to finish when we get back home and hand in the next day. Moreover, there will be alot of homework especially every friday and before March (1 week), June and September (1 week) holiday. During this period of time (during holiday), I normally never do my homework and I will always cry during Monday morning because i do not want to go schoo and get scolding from teachers.

There was one time when I was in lower primary, I was running late because i was crying and dont want to go school when my mum trying her best to pull me to school. I tried to grab anything along the way to school. When we were outside the main gate, I was shouting and crying, the whole school is at parade square having the morning assembly looking at me outside. As my mum dont know what to do to make me to in the school, my mum threw my school back over the main gate and make me go in and take my bag. That’s when school teachers came over and pull me in. I’m still shouting anc crying. LOL! This is how bad I dont like to study and go school.

When I was taking my PSLE, I only studied when my mum is at home and she asked me to. What I did was just open my book and did nothing, stare blank at the book. Or write something useless in the book. Below were my results,

Till now, I think I did not that bad even though I was going to Normal Technical (NT). LOL! Because I only failed my English and passed the rest.

I remembered clearly the day I got my PSLE result. The moment I received my result, I dont know how to feel because when I look at the overall score, I falled by 8 points. At the same time, I was abit surprised that I am promoted to Secondary school. So, consider pass or fail my PSLE?

When I was walking back home alone, I was thinking to myself, what will happen when I show this to my parents? Will they bite me? Will they scold me? Was abit worried about it. Before dinner time, my mum and dad came back from work, so they asked for my result slip. When I was taking out my result, I was very worried. But to my surprised, my mum never scold or bite me. My dad only said, keep working hard. Nothing much. Again, because both my parents never study when they were young and they dont know much about academic stuff. After all these, I was very happy and went to play PlayStation.

Right now, I feel that deep down their heart, they were very sad, heart broken and feeling very helpless because they dont know what to do to help me.

Things changed when I was in secondary school, I continued to do what I did in primary school. And to my surprised, I was 5th in the class during secondary 1 year end exam and I managed got the medisave scholarship. So I think to myself, actually studies is not that difficult afterall. I will continue to study. When I was in Secondary 2 and 3, I got first in the class and got the medisave scholarship for both years. Guess after getting As for examination, the feel is quite shiok. And I continue to study for my N Level.

I never really scored all A because I only focus on Math and Science. My languages were very weak as you can see from my blog :)

At the same time, I feel that no matter how well i score for my N level, i still need to ITE.

When I was in ITE, I continued to study for all my exams. I graduated with a Grade Point Average (GPA) of 3.855. And in my final year, I got Tay Eng Soon Scholarship.

During my 2 years in ITE, I had lots of fun with my friends and also there are really helpful teachers waiting to help you. Back in my time (2005-2006), ITE means Its The End. I feel that if your aim or goal is clear throughout the 2 years course, ITE is a good place to study and build the knowledge for the next phrase which is Polytechnic.

After my 2 years in ITE, I went to Singapore Polytechnic (SP) for 3 years course. Again, everything repeats again, studies for examination. LOL! During the 3 years, I consider myself very lucky to met some friends who willing to help and teach me whenever I need them. And not forgetting, some lecturers and staff who helped me behind my back. I graduated in SP with a GPA of 3.422.

With my result, I was very lucky (again) and surprised that I managed to have a slot in Nanyang Technological University (NTU). Before school starts, I told myself I will try to graduate with an honours and go for overseas exchange programme.

But things not that smooth and easy in NTU, during the first semester, I continued to do what I normally did for exam, and thought I can score high. End up, i just passed all my modules, with a Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 2.37. After the first semester, I thought to myself, guess this time round, its really different ball game. I cannot continue to do what I normally did for exam and expect the same result. From the second semester onwards, I tried to study as hard as possible (I feel I never study this hard from PSLE to Polytechnic). End up, I never get to graduate with an honours or go for overseas exchange programme. But at least I managed to pull up my CPGA? LOL! Actually not much different, its still a normal degree no matter what.

Right now, I am working as a private tutor. From someone who dislike study to someone who teach. So, I feel that academic results does not means anything about someone’s future. When a young kid dont excel in his/her studies, does not bad he/she will turn into a bad person or will do something bad. Moreover, does not show that he/she cannot study well in the future. There are some people who pick up learning later in their life.

As of my age now, I am quite surprise that there are still many individual who focus on academic results at a young age. I do not think that result represent any thing about our future, result do not show anything about us.

Do not get me wrong, examinations are important, results are important as well. But I feel we should not take it too serious and hard if the result turn out to be not what we aim for.

As for students, I strongly believe that no one study to fail or study not to get an A for their examination. Just that you need to work something out, try different ways. You need some time to figure out. Dont always do the same things and expect different result.

What i learn from all these years of studies? When you really want to help yourself, you will definitely find a way and there will someone or some people be there to help you.

Cheers!