You see, I've got cca tomorrow so I'm doing a TGIS instead, but today is TGIF for many returning students as they received their 'O' levels result. The 2nd best in the school history according to the principal. And being my first batch of 'O' levels students (I taught one of the class for 4 months) and came to realise a few things.

1.) Ms Goh (Sok Hwa) wasn't lying to me when she said she believed that I could score A for my 'O' level chemistry 10 years ago when I did badly in Chemistry prelims because I see students going from E8 to B3 and heard of those who went from F9 to A1 in Physics. It's really achieveable.

2.) That despite hearing tons of complains about the absymal standard of English in year 5 cohort, the graduating batch, their peers, manages to score over 75% distinction in English language.

3.) That this batch of students achieved 100% passes in Physics, a feat not seen in Maths, Chemistry and Biology and we had over 75% distinctions rate compared to about 65% for the other two sciences. Whoever said Physics was difficult got to be kidding. (In fact, the distinction rate for Physics was even higher last year compared to this year according to P's powerpoint slides)

Here's some photos taken for this joyous occasion for most.


Singing the school song one last time


Queueing for his results slip


Interviewing the >= 8 A1 students


Ecstasy


Joy


"Hi Mum, I made it!"


Old friends


The end marks a new beginning...

There's one more thing I learn today too...

4.) The fact that A1 is merely an okay grade for Higher Chinese
Going around asking about your student's grades for chinese is a rather self-humiliating activity considering the fact that I got a mere B3 for the same subject 10 years ago. The conversation goes something like this without fail as proven by me and Mr Tan Jin Song.

Teacher:" So how's your Chinese grades?"
Student:" My Chinese? Okay lar"
Teacher:" So what grades do you mean by okay?"
Student:" A1 lor"
Teacher struggling to prevent self from strangling student

A1 - Excellent Okay, just okay
A2 - Excellent Not so okay because Dad will nag and tempted to retake
B3 - Very Good Dissatisfied, seriously thinking of repeating Chinese in 'A' levels
B4 - Good Unacceptable, grounded for a month and forget about ang paos
C5 - Satisfactory Poor, disgrace to parents
C6 - Fair Lousy, disgrace to ancestors
D7 - Dissatisfactory Awful, considering transfer to other schools
E8 - Poor Disastrous, considering migration to other countries
F9 - Fail Armageddon, the universe as you know it cease to exist