EXAM IS OVER!! *hooraaayyyy

Finally the much-anticipated Term 3 exam which is my first IB major exam is over. I can't describe the relief and gratitude I feel after surviving the one week period of exam. What's more: now I have a one week holiday before school reopens for me next Friday. It's just the right time to blog again yeah?

Well just want to recount my experience before, during and after exam here. The timing for my exam this time is very weird as it began on the first day school reopened after the one month June holiday. You sure can imagine how hard it was to force myself to study during holiday. On top of that, I have some overdue assignments from Term 2 which I hadn't been able to complete by the time holiday started *sigh

In the end, I started working on my school works and studying for exam after my brother flied back to Singapore which was one week before school officially reopened. I can't thank God more for His help during that one week of studying. Somehow I was able to concentrate well despite of the daily World Cup temptation and frequent going out with friends. He has really blessed my time and multiplied it a hundred fold. I must also say that the last one week of my holiday has been a really FUN FUN one!

The exam itself is super tough. Despite of the fact that the materials to be studied are not that much, the intensity and degree of difficulties of the concepts to be grasped as well as the questions set by the teachers are incomparable to secondary school. To make things worse, I suffered a really bad homesick right after I arrived in Singapore. Somehow I really missed my parents, my friends in Bandung, and all the fun we had during holiday. The change was just too abrupt and I didn't have ample time to adapt back to Singapore mode.

I did my first three papers which include Physics relatively successfully. Chemistry and Maths papers, however, were much harder. Nevertheless, I knew that I had done my best and that God Himself will take care of the rest. Looking back, I realized that the homesick I caught was indeed from God. He wanted to use my homesickness to draw me back to Him. To tell the truth, I had not been close to God during my holiday in Indo. I often skipped my prayer time and quite time. Lesson learned: God can and will use anything to draw us back to Him.

Now what's in front of me is a few days of enjoying myself, one day of cleaning up my super messy room, and finally bounce back to school mode as EE, TOK presentation, and IOP are all coming closer :)