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my h2 maths student scored a 'b' for her a levels!!! :D

considering that she got a sub-pass in her mid-year exams, and got a 'd' for her prelims, that's fabulous. and i only tutored her from late july to end october.

i attribute her success to herself, really. she's so outstandingly hardworking during the few months i tutored her; i could feel her steady and fast progress through the weeks. she would drill herself on topics she wasn't sure, and would be very focussed during the tuition. then, whenever she had to grab some materials from her room, she would scamper up the stairs and return back to the table in double quick time! very standard one, i go to her place to solve her questions on the spot (i must be quite crazy to be able to solve *most of the* h2 maths questions, albeit at a damn slow pace, 2 years after hitting the books!)

if you're seeing this (i doubt so haha), congrats to you, once again :D

how i wish all of my other students are as conscious of their urgent situations. if they are to get to where they want to be. then they won't be dawdling around and take their own sweet time to grab the book, or take out their pens... i always have that urge to tell them to hurry up, but never did in the end. how much time would be saved, anyway? it's just that the action sheds some light on their attitude towards the exams :O

but come to think of it, maybe they don't really wish to get a perfect score? or that they don't really know how far they are from the required standard, hence they don't think they're in dire straits. actually they're not in dire straits, yet. but it'll be quite late to stoke the engines after the mid-year exams. and i have to bury them with work before their school teachers do.

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this year i got 2 o level students, hopefully i can push them to get a1s. but deep down inside i know it's gonna be very very hard hahaha. but it's still not impossible! if they put in as much effort as my star student mentioned above, can be done!