Dear Cambridge Examiners,
Your brilliance and creativity have never failed to awe us, especially so during the 2008 A Levels examinations. This is a plea for your leniency for we are really not as stupid as our answers seem to imply. Those careless mistakes were made in, umm, delirium. You have always been known for your open-mindedness and generosity and we seek comfort in that. May you strike the lottery and your marriage proposals all succeed.
A Singaporean student still recovering from the shock of A Levels---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The sense of liberty wasnt as fulfilling as I thought it would be, pretty much due to rather big disappointments at the
stupid careless mistakes that I made. And the level of preparation was much lower than two years ago, with the added burden of sky high expectations. Studying for A levels is such a harrowing experience okay, realising your concepts are wrong just a few weeks before, nightmares causing insomnia, trying to understand all the mind boggling more-susceptible-to-nucleophilic-attack-vs-electronegativity and first-degree-price-discrimination-is-allocatively-efficient-but-decreases-society's-welfare through smses and emails. Nevertheless, you can feel the love all around. How we keep one another going and giving encouragment and explaining stuff to desperate calls at the opportunity cost of your time, especially Yizhen, Susu, Kai, Ms Lee, Mr Chok. :P
A Levels mark the end of our school life like forever. University just wont be the same anymore and we will be entering a very different phase of our lives. People are just moving on so fast and it seems like we are forever on their tails. And you feel so lacking in direction after days of mugging as top priority and your responsibility in actually planning out your career path from now is quite petrifying. Perhaps the only consolation is that there are dozens of people on the same boat as you and that somehow makes everything easier to bear.
Okay this sounds real depressing. I am supposed to be happy! In a way I am I guess. Havent really sink in that A Levels are really over.
To those with the last few papers remaining, all the best! Just a little more fuel and thats it. (:
