Time flies. 6 years in primary school, 4 years in secondary school and 3 years in polytecnhic.. 13 years… It does’nt seem to be long, but its not short either. I met different types of people, being through different kind of problems. Experiencing happiness, boredom, sadness, stress and many more. Imerging from a teengaer to a young man, “maturity” is one thing for sure. I myself believed that i have matured alot during this 13 years. Those of you who had been through with me during my primary and secondary school life will see how “different” i am from those years.

One of the  important things that i learnt is “You reap what you sow”. Putting in effort is important. I seen smart people that were able to understand things in  a very short amount of time, they can absorb and understand fully e.g. some codings in just 10 minutes. I really admire them. And for me, in order to reach their level, i had to spent 40 minutes. I, myselfbelong to that “not so smart” category. Some of you may not know, i am not able to understand and absorb things as fast as others. In fact, i think i spent 4 times longer then others. So, the final product you see in me, is not what i am initially, its what i am, after putting in 4 times effort. This is one thing, that i had learnt during my polytechnic life. So, i think its a matter of effort put in.

I learnt another important thing from one of my friend. He is “DAMN” academically strong. I have been thinking, why some people can do so well in exams, while i cannot? So i decided to ask some of very academically strong friends, and guess what? the answer i get from them is similar. The advice that i get from them is “Study over and over again until can even dream of it when you sleep” I found out from most of my “smart” friends that even though tomorrow is just a history test, they studied again and again. Not just one time, its five or six times. I tried this method, and this really WORKS. So i found out that examinations is not a matter of how much you know, but how much you prepared it.

Lastly for today’s post, i learnt what is “to get what you want, ones must sacrifice. Let me give an very “history” example: many many lifes are lost before a dynasty is developed. So applying them to exams, i realised one had to sacrifice time and effort in order to get good results. And one thing that my friend point out to me is. ” Study smart, Not Hard”
I agreed with that totally. I tried studying very hard but in the end, i did not get the results that i wanted. Do you encountered this problem as me? The reason of this is because i  did not study smart. Basically, that friend of mine said preparing examinations actually playing mind games with the teacher, and he adviced me to always shortlist questions that are most probably have the highest chance into coming out for examinations and focus on them more. But of course, not neglecting others as well.

Also, when preparing from examinations, do not just study from the book. I realised that my school always give tips for examinations. And because of those tips, most of the students will expectedly get good results. But however, i remembered one thing that my maths lecturer, “Mr Khoo” said. There is always a curve. Which means, its impossible for everyone to get good results. There will be moderation to make sure everything is a curve. That was contradicting right? Then why give us tips? I also don’t know why… So when studying for exams, e.g. one of the tips that teacher give is that “dhcp” will be coming out for paper. Instead of just learning from the book, only the definition of what dhcp is? study out of the book, like which port dhcp uses, how it works etc. I think that will differientates your papers from others.

Till now, i still could not totally grasp on the tips my friends gave me for studying for examinations and i am still learning from it. But, i would like to thank them for sharing with me those valuable tips that discovered. Thus, i am sharing it with all my friends, and i believed that those tips that we discovered will help us in future. If you have any different tips, advices, or comments, questions, problems, please discuss it here. Lets all help one another in future. Like the saying “Two brain is definitely better then one brain” Lets Share and benefit!