Throughout this whole year, I have learned that I am a very outgoing and I stick to my beliefs no matter what other people around me say. There have been many instances in which I have had to stand up for myself like times when my peers around me were pressuring me to do things which I did not believe in. And these moments have rendered me a stronger person mentally instead of bringing me down. I have achieved numerous goals like making the SEASAC team for badminton and joining the SEAMC team. I have pushed myself to achieve these goals by constantly not giving up and I am extremely proud of these endeavors.

I did not get good grades at the start of the year because I did not adapt to the higher expectations in time. However this again did not push me down and I improved my grades in almost all my subjects. This shows that I am determined to push myself to be able to achieve my goals. However, I never worked towards my maximum potential and I know I could have put in a lot more effort than I did. For example for the end of year exams, I only started taking it seriously a couple weeks before the exams started. This caused me to try and cram all the topics and this seriously hindered the amount I was able to take in.

This showed during my exams when my grades were not as good as I know I could have gotten. Certain subjects like econs and science I scored well because I understand the subjects and they are easy for me to learn. There were some topics like additional maths and systems, which I know I needed to put in the extra work but I avoided because I was intimidated by them. This showed when I scored terribly in both subjects.

In the future I aim to avoid this by making sure I start to prepare much earlier. I am also going to spend extra time on the topics I know I am bad at instead of  overly doing the subjects I like.

I feel that after getting the paper 4/6 I am terribly dissapointed with my grades as I expected a lot better from this paper. I got a 84% which is not what I expected. Most of my mistakes were extremely silly mistakes like not reading a question and not drawing clean lines. One of my mistakes I made because I did not round a recurring decimal properly. I could have easily gotten 5 more marks without the silly mistakes and this makes me very angry. I also did not phrase my answer properly and even though the meaning was there for me, it was not clear to the marker.  One more thing I noticed is that I was missing certain key words from the answers and in the future I will try to memorise them so that I can utilise them in the future.