r/SGExams

Hi everyone , throwaway account for the obvious but I'd love to hear your opinions. Sorry for being all over , I'm doing my best to convey everything.

-

My family is from the lower bracket so we never had much since young, the environment itself at the time was also bad due to instances of ab*se from my father. Thus, I was raised by my sibling to break the cycle by getting into uni and doing better ; being the person my parents could never.

I got into poly , did well and managed to secure a spot in business in one of the big 3 unis. I even managed to secure an internship from one of the bigger named companies for my first year, currently I've partially moved out to stay with my girlfriends family for the most part since I don't have a proper room at home. (shared with sister)

-

I've reached what I feel is the pinnacle of the Singaporean youth dream , going to the big 3 get a good internship and you're secured for life as they say. But I'm ending Y1 Sem 2 soon and I feel absolutely miserable , I joined business cause it was a general course , one that at least allows me to have a foot in the door for a multitude of industries. Even though the content itself isn't objectively super difficult, I found myself struggling , not with just the modules itself but rather; the internal turmoil of doing something I have no care for. This has led me to procrastinate and avoid the modules I dislike, which in turn got me my first D+ ever for mid terms. Honestly , I'm mainly staying cause of the embarrassment and shame I feel should I drop out. knowing I disappointed my poly teacher and perhaps family and friends who hold me with such positive regard.

-

Perhaps I'm just spiraling , but I feel like uni wasn't what I made it out to be. And that chasing something that wasn't mine but that of society has made me miserable. I just want to live a stable , peaceful life with my girlfriend. Just simple everyday , but even $4k jobs need a degree now for fresh grads and the dream seems bleak without a degree. I'm not sure what I should do, my gpa currently is 2.9 and I worry I won't even be able to last till graduation since my motivation is pretty much depleted. And if I get D+ for a few mods it might be the end.

-

Perhaps I'm just dulled from the lack of a reason to fight , or I'm just spiraling cause I've always cared about what others think. I'm not sure so , if y'all have any opinions etc please do send away. I'd love to listen and improve where I can. thank you.

hey guys did anyone receive a rejection email from smu law after the written test (for ref I took I my test on 27 mar)

im honestly quite disappointed I thought my answers were decent and I have solid straight As 😓

Called the SMU and NUS Hotlines, and here are the following patterns that I have found:

*SMU:*

- In SMU, Interview Dates have been delivered but only from the 11th, 13th, and 14th of April.

- They were unable to provide any further details

- Interview Dates run from the 11th, 13-18th April, but is unclear whether they include international students.

*NUS:*

- Invitations to do the Written Test would be gradually given out from the 6th-10th April and the Written Test will be on the 12th April.

- There was no explanation given on why this is the case unfortunately.

- If no invitations were sent until the 10th April, then it is confirm rejection.

Sorry if this may be spam :/ but thought that this info will be valuable

Hi everyone, I’m going to uni soon and currently deciding on my major. I'm in the crossroads btwn what I want to do (career aspirations) and the lifestyle I eventually want to have.

I hope to work in govt / non-profit health or social industries as these sectors are most meaningful to me based on my past experiences in life, volunteering and internship.
Ps. I do not want to sell my soul a the bank or feel so dreaded going to work everyday :"(

I hope to live comfortably, ie. travel 1/2x a year to Europe / SEA, ability to pay for my parents' living expenses + travel, BTO, have a car, (maybe) have a child, etc.

Along the way, I also discovered that the public & non-profit sectors have a significantly lower pay compared to private companies. In order to achieve this "balance", I need to learn about investments, financial planning, etc. just to be smart about money. However, through looking at the past reddit threads, many have commented about studying hard to get a good degree, aim for scholarships, work in big firms so ur paycheck is thick before u can invest well... So, a "meaningful career" and "good pay" are mutually exclusive ?

does anyone know what it's about..? is it like 2nd round interview, or is it just free and easy networking session while they observe how you interact with others?

has any senior gone for this in the past? (any reply is appreciated tysm)

I am an old guy who has retired from teaching (including tuition) but not maths research. Since my field of specialization is mathematical analysis (which contains calculus and S&S), I believe it is worthwhile to mention a possible improvement in the teaching of integration in JCs and MI.

To the best of my knowledge, integration formulas like

int f'(x) (f(x))^n dx=(f(x))^(n+1)/(n+1)+C, int f'(x) e^(f(x)) dx=e^(f(x))+C, int f'(x) cos(f(x)) dx=sin(f(x))+C, ... , int f'(x)/(1+(f(x))^2) dx = tan^(-1) (f(x))+C

only appear in the H2 Maths syllabus after 2010. However, since such formulas can be easily derived via the simple substitution u=f(x), teachers are just making things messy for students. So it is not surprising that certain H2 Maths students cannot integrate 2xe^(x^2) or sin^3 2x cos 2x wrt x.

How can teachers improve their teaching of integration? The first step is to teach differentiation properly!

joining the idk how many posts of people asking and freaking out abt uni apps LOL 😭 poly student here btw

i applied to ntu the moment applications opened, with my 5th sem gpa being in the 90th percentile of my top choice and my final sem gpa still falling within the 10th and 90th percentile, the other 2 choices my gpa cmi but js try try ah

i applied to sit a few days before applications closed to aviation management and hospitality and tourism management, and received an email for an interview for aviation management like 2 weeks ago w the interview being only a few days after they sent the email BUT I WAS OVERSEAS and just got back a few days ago 😭 so i emailed them immediately and they noted the request for interview date change the next day, but the last email was on the 27th of march and i haven’t heard back since

my mom has been begging me to call them or go down to campus to ask abt it even tho i don’t think that’s necessary i don’t want to seem desperate 💀

chat am i cooked

Hi so im just gonna go straight into this, My girlfriend and I were hanging out at a study corner near my home. We weren’t doing anything illegal nor disruptive. It was after school in school uniform we were just sitting close to each other and leaning on each other’s shoulders. Yk? normal couple stuff. However, 2 police officers happened to walk by and they glanced at us and walked off, just as they walked past my table they suddenly stopped and asked us “sorry, how old are yall?” and “what school are you from” they didnt ask us for any ic numbers or names just those 2 things and after we told them they said “okay” and walked off it was a super short interaction.

Now im worried that they will report this incident to the school and we are both in deepshit. Can someone reassure me or tell me whats likely going to happen.

I know a lot of you will think “probably just another stupid pda sec sch couple” but i promise we are more mature than that, ofc our actions probably dont say it but we did nothing wrong. Ive been worrying about this incident the whole day so can somebody give me some peace of mind.

hello my friend and I took the smu written test on 14mar and its been one month since they updated us about anything. is there still hope , and did anyone who took on 14mar get updated for interview?

and why was the test on waging wars aaaa did you guys deem bob guilty? (27 mar written test)

I am a uni Year 3 student, and will be Year 4 next sem. Reflecting on my uni life so far, it was really hectic. I was constantly busy, and most of my time was spent studying and grinding, applying for internships, going for interviews, etc. I barely had time for myself and often not enough time to sleep.

This sem however, I am somehow more free than before. I expected it to be quite intense, as I am doing a part time internship with 3 mods, but it turned out to be more manageable than I thought. As a result, I tend to spend more time relaxing, watching shows and going out with my boyfriend and family.

Even though I enjoy doing those, I always have this nagging feeling that I am wasting time, and that I should be doing something more productive, like preparing for my career, studying or doing online course. Whenever I take a break to relax, I can't help but feel guilty and disappointed in myself afterwards.

I know that this mindset is unhealthy as everyone needs time to rest, but I just can't shake it off. Its weird that I have always craved for more free time for myself, but now when I finally have it, I end up feeling disappointed in myself and blaming myself for resting.

I feel like its also because my course is quite competitive, most people around me are constantly working hard, improving and grinding for their careers, filled with drive and ambition. All these makes me feel really pressured and question whether I should be doing the same as them to keep up, as I will fall behind if I don't.

At the same time, I also feel sad and tired at the thought of going back to the nonstop grind and hectic lifestyle. So it feels really contradicting, whatever I do, I feel uneasy and blame myself.

Honestly, do yall think I should push myself back to the grind? Have yall experienced such conteadicting feelings before, and how would yall deal with it?

hello i received my discovery day invite for ple this afternoon and i was wondering if anyone else on here has received it too!!

your post body must contain at least 200 characters blah blah blah blah

Hi to keep it short

Did A levels in 2023 as a student, PCMe

Want to retake now, am applying

but am wondering about the subjects needed to take

Can I just take

PCM + GP or must I take PCMe + GP

or if can i use

PCM + GP + my H1 from my first exam in 2023?

for

university admissions

Im currently a J1 this year in a mid-tier JC arts stream and I am currently in the midst of enrolling in tp law & management with hopes to enter into NUS or SMU law. however im currently met with a lot of sceptism because apparently NUS Law is almost entirely dominated by JC kids and so far there has virtually been no record of Poly students entering NUS law. A short summary of the reasons that led to my drop out: Im strong in languages and humanities but currently in jc I have to take a range of broad subjects completely unrelated to law and humanities, like H2 maths, econs, mother tongue and pw. im quite discontent with most of my subjects and the fact that I have to clench my teeth and muscle through them to score AAA/A for As which I suspect would leave me burnt out before I can even complete my A levels. school hours are egregious not to mention cca commitment in this school is unacceptably high, 2nd month of j1 and im coming home at 5.30pm average. Im in arts but my timetable is somehow worse than the science students?? anyway so what are my post-poly law prospects? am i bounded to just SMU and SUSS law even if I get a 3.9+ 4.0 gpa? and is it true NUS would rather pick a 69 RP student over a 3.92 GPA student? Yes I got an A1 for english O levels

back last yr I got into bio chem tech cuz my nlvl did so well I got straight As even tho I did nothing to deserve it, I was deadass watching porn out boredom in September when everyone was supposed to study or just teaching myself random ass subjects like express maths and physics cuz of how bored I was. I was passing just bc of shit like "eh, I saw the same question with different numbers 3weeks ago"

but that beside the point, I was just doing jackshit lol

then cuz of that I thought "wah ite should be the same" and slack for 3 terms, I was playing crk for like 5hrs a day while scrolling on TikTok 😭

I kept regretting after I come out of the lab or the lecture hall cuz I never listen in class, I was playing games during lecture 🙂

where my gpa was 2 then 2.064 then the next term woke me up I saw my gpa go down to 1.958 I got so scared I started putting in effort into my studies so now in Apr my cgpa is 2.386

I wanna say I'm glad I woke up bruh

my last term gpa which is Jan 2026 term was 3.33

when my classmate heard Abt it he was like "I can't compete with u bro" lol gotta say I love that feeling and lowk forgot how nice it is to receive my results and get A

I did the maths, If I get straight As this term I get to boost my gpa up to 2.655 so yay soon I have minimum poly requirements

luckily I still got until 2027 December

random thing but Imma invite my friend over to my house for cake if I get gpa of 2.9 at the end of this yr

ok thanks for listening to my yap session guys

TW: su*cide ideation

I don't come on here much but I am genuinely at my wits end. I am a student who has just graduated a particular institution and is moving onto sp in a few days. Except that I really genuinely can't do this anymore.

These past few years have been horrible for me, especially the past few months, because of some events which I don't really want to talk about here, I have constant thoughts of k/ myself, constantly wished I never woke up the next day or that something bad would happen to me. And prior to these events, it didn't help much with the environment I had in school and all the work I had to do.

I just feel like I have been so out of control of my own life for these few years. I have these grand plan of things I want to do in my head once I have time but I always always never have time because of school and during hols, I would be so mentally drained from the semester to even do anything. Everyday for the past 3 years, I have been constantly living for the future. Everything that I do literally. And it's all for the goal of getting into the course that I want in poly but now that I've reached this point, I genuinely just don't feel anything at all and if anything, all I feel is regret. I sacrificed so much of me in exchange for a grade that if I could go back in time and undo all of this, I would probably just dropout in my 1st or 2nd year.

I don't even recognise the person I am now because I have neglected so much of my personal interests and hobbies that I litterally don't even feel like anything at all. And at one point in time, for 5 months straight I would just wake up, eat, sleep, shower, do my work and just repeat because every single term I genuinely just cannot find the time for myself.

And yeah you guys might think it's a time management issue but I really don't think so. I was constantly working with people who didn't put much effort into their work which meant I wld have to cover for their part all the time on top of my own work for diff modules and this was happening almost every term. What i regret most on top of all of this is all the time i had missed out with my parents because I was always too busy with my school work and projects because I had to meet deadlines.

I genuinely need this year to get a grip and think about why I'm even doing all of this. Previously it had been for my parents because I wanted to make them proud frm my studies but like honestly if I were to continue for the next 3 years without having much time for myself and to do the things which I have been planning for the longest time, I really don't think I'm going to make it.

I've written in to sp and asked if deferment was possible despite not having started on the course yet and they responded that it is but provided I had a doctor's letter/memo.

I hadn't seeked help during my lowest moments and breakdowns because I just didn't think anyone would care enough + even if they did, I didn't want to be labelled with like mental illness because it would just make me think about it more and make me feel worse abt myself if that makes sense? I tried explaining how I felt to my teacher once because I had been late on multiple occasions frequently because I cldnt fall asleep the nights b4 frm thinking about things + sometimes because I was covering someone else's part for the proj because they did it half heartedly but all she cared about was just me showing up to class on time and not asking me like how I was mentally. And then proceeded to say that I just had time management issues lol. So honestly I didn't see any use of reaching out whether to her or the counsellor so I just dealt with all these other issues by myself. Hence, I don't really have any record with the school about my mental wellbeing and basically they can't really provide me with a memo for the deferment in poly.

At first I was thinking of gg to the polyclinic but frm my friend's experience as well as other reddit posts I've seen here, they all say that the process was q slow and it wld take weeks until the next apptment.

I also thought of gg to my family gp but I highly doubt that they will give out a memo or letter abt my mental state and that I wld benefit frm a period of rest directly and would just prob intro me to a mental health clinic, psychologist or psychiatrist etc. Hence, I jst wanted to come onto here and ask for recommendations on where I cld seek help and preferably not too expensive although I do understand that private therapy is a bit costly in sg.

I also did contemplate on dropping out if all this doesn't work out but like that wld be the last case scenario I guess. Like I really really am still interested in this course but I just need a break so that I can come back more prepared + also I don't want to have a record when like I reapply next year fr the same course with my gpa, it wld show that I dropped out the year b4 cus like idk mayb it wld make them consider me lesser?

Anyways, if u made it to the end I thank you very much for reading this 🙏

Hi guys this is like kinda random but i just received NTU’s invitation for TAISP interview. I only applied for NTU merit-based scholarship and did not rlly hear from them but now i receive this invitation which is just tmr idk what to prepare bro😭😭i have no portfolio related to the field nor do i know alot abt AI. Do anyone hav any tips on how to prepare for the interview like what are the questions asked and what do they look out for so i can know if im too cooked tysm🙏🙏

Hi, J2 student here. For some context, never really been a strong student in JC. As expected, I flunked my recent CA1s and I really feel like I should get it in order before my prelims and As. I think the big issue of the reason I did so badly this time round is because I’m way too tired to clock in additional study hours during my week. Of course, my laziness and my lack of effort in studying is also a reason and something I should improve on, but my sleepiness has been affecting my schedule more than in J1. For context, I usually try to sleep latest by 12 midnight and wake up at 5.30-5.40 in the morning because I live quite far away from school. 12 is the absolute limit I’ve set as my sleeping time because that’s the only way I can manage to fit in at least some time after school timetable to do homework, study, etc. My body constantly feels fatigued which messes with my concentration and I can sleep for almost 16 to 17 hours on weekends if I’m undisturbed. Any tips on how to manage this slightly better?

Hello all

Dos anyone know how hard it is to get into debate in jc

i have no experience but i have experience public speaking and a bit of mun

is it beginner friendly? idrk what to expect

Advice is welcome thanks 😎

ive been thinking about dropping h2 chem for a while and went to look at some course prerequisites to check which courses i would be ineligible for and there is surprisingly little. the only things that require chem specifically is medicine, dentistry and pharmacy. most engineering and science courses only require h2 math and one science which can be bio chem or phys. even chemical engineering at nus doesnt even need h2 chem. i just want to check if im missing something since majority of posts and google searches say that h2 chem is a prerequisite for many engineering courses.

So basically I got 69 RP for my A levels and applied for the Nanyang Global Leaders Programme Scholarship, and my second choice was NTU-USP. I went for an interview with NBS like about 3 weeks ago and they got back to me saying I got the Nanyang Merit Scholarship. While it is a great scholarship itself, I wanted to be part of the NGL programme really really badly, and I was wondering if it is possible to appeal to be accepted into NGL scholarship, or do i have to ‘take it or leave it’ the Nanyang Merit Scholarship? Please do advise, thanks.