The exam starts tomorrow. It used to be called MCE when the language of instruction was still in English. It's a faint memory for me but I remember the 1st and last papers well.
Traditionally, BM is the 1st paper. I remember writing 3-4 pages of karangan. The answer sheet has a hole punched in the upper left corner & a string is used to tie the sheets together. On each, the student was supposed to write the index number & IC number. However I wrote them only on the 1st sheet but forgot to write it on the subsequent ones. If the sheets got separated, unlikely if fastened securely, then only the 1st sheet can be traced to me. Imagine the anxiety I went through for the rest of the exam lasting 3 weeks and another 3 months waiting for the results.
The last paper was Add Maths & it fell on the day AFTER my birthday. Unfortunately, my best bud came a-calling on my birthday, thinking Add Maths was a walk in the park for me, so we ended up chatting & going out for dinner. Didn't get home till about 9pm, which gave me just a couple of hours to revise.
I scraped thru with a P7 for BM, still enough to get into 6th Form and got a C3 for Add Maths, which dismissed the notion about the stroll in the park.
All the best, SPM candidates, esp to those in flood-hit Penang.
2 comments:
When I did my SPM, it was known as MCE and the medium of instruction then was still in English. I remembered scraping through the BM with a credit, too. That was a huge relief because I was doing my Australian HSC and failing the BM paper would have necessitated a re-sit, which meant that I was unable to enter Uni the following Feb. So, ya..lucky me.
Andrea,
For the fortunate few, the pieces just fall into place.
:P
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