it's been a week since the IB result came out... all the effort (and cursing) finally paid off.... i passed the minimum cut off point of 35 by two points...u guys do the math...here are the details on the result...numbers in the bracket are the marks that i aimed previously...
higher level subjects - mathematics - 5 (5)
chemistry - 6 (6 or 7)
physics - 6 (7)
english b - 6 (6)
standard level subjects - malay a1 - 7 (6)
economics - 6 (6)
extended essay (physics) - B (C or D)
tok essay - C (B)
extended and tok essay bonus point - 1 (1)
total - 37/45
so this is it... i am sure IB graduates and current students understand about these details... for the rest, you don't have to because you will never understand what IB is really about... its a hell of a program! at the beginning of the program my aim was 40 or above...however, struggling towards the end, i had to admit that 35 is already considered as huge success for me...below are some of my 'luahan hati' on the details...
mathematics hl....i think this subject is extremely hard due to the option that mr. masukor had chosen...it was calculus....my head was spinning like hell covering this chapter... i even had difficulty to differentiate the word converge and diverge...haha... honestly, i took serious attention on math like 40 days before the first paper starts or 50 days before the math paper...i started from the scratch of core chapters and then with the most difficult one - series and sequence option....i would say maryam and lingges helped me a lot understanding this chapter... so all in all i think 5 is good enough with my very limited contemplation on math...the fact that there are only few of students that took math hl and some of them did not manage to score tells me that i should be thankful with 5... thank you mr jg, miss ellie and mr masukor!
chemistry....this is total frustration! at first i aimed for 7 but during the last paper, i mis-looked one whole page with like 7 marks questions....i only realized about it at the very last minute of the exam when the examiner was collecting the paper... the examiner forced me to send the paper while there was an IBO guy sitting at the back, maybe laughing at me... it was too late and i only managed to scribble few words that i think can contribute 1 or 2 marks...counting the questions that i purposely skipped, i think i only scored half of the total marks... from that moment i knew i can never get a 7....6 is enough for me since i covered the two option chapters by myself with a little help from mr lawrence from the private tutor class with camy (only for one chapter though)...thank you mr michael, mr siva n mr lawrence!
physics...my most favourite subject of all.....i really like physics because it can be explained and it is closely related to our lives....but i am a bit disappointed with 6 because i was aiming for 7... not to show off but i think miss chuah also was expecting a 7 from me since i was the among top students in her class.... over-confident maybe is the cause and i think i was too focused on math during the exam week... i admit i did not study much on physics, not as much as i did for small evaluations...moreover, the questions that came out mainly about environment, which i hentam-ed most of it... but at least, i don't have to cover physics for my first year in uni...chemistry too!haha...thank you miss ellie!
english b....honestly, i really don't think that i am good in english.... i never, and i mean NEVER, take english seriously since i was in primary till now...to me english is just a language and it is not that important to me....but it is!muahah....most of students covered this subject only for 5 months and i think i covered less than that because i kept skipping the class....however, i stopped the habit about a month from the real exam and i would say mr. ong had done an outstanding job giving me tips and guidance...even he knows that i skipped a lot of his classes....i guess, movies helped me to understand english better because i watched a lot of movies towards the end of IB... thank you dr. melissa and mr ong! (he is from malaysia but now he is a dutch)
malay a1...aku blaja subjek ni pon 5 bulan gak...ujung minggu je pon...itupun aku rase kelas 4 jam sebenarnya aku blaja 2 jam je....rehat la..ngumpat la...hahah....mula2 aku ingat bm senang je tapi sebenarnye susah gak mende ni....sastera plak...da la aku menci gile sastera ni...cikgu2 kat kmb mmg tolong banyak la bile nk buat IA sume...aku rase dorang men letak markah tinggi je utk dak2 sri kedu terutamanya budak2 berpikiran logik cam aku ni, takde nilai seni langsung...haha...terima kasih daun keladi cikgu roslindawati, panjang umur saya belanja makan nanti!
economics...one of my favourites.... personally, i think this subject is easy....even i had difficulty during the first semester coping with the subject itself, and also coping with the 'skema' teacher...haha....i still remember she always jot down attendance even there were only 5 of us before ru ann left....but i like the teacher... i have not so many comment on econs though except that i gebang-ed all the way during the exam...oh yeah, during the exam, i made a silly mistake...i wrote my answer in full page then i realised that it was not the correct page... i had to re-write (or re-gebang?) the whole answer in other page...i wasted about 15 minutes for that silly mistake...haha...thank you miss harjit and mr. das!
extended essay and tok essay...at first i heard that it is very difficult to get a high grade for science extended essay... but i was reluctant (or lazy?) to change my subject that i still proceeded with physics...my supervisor was mr simon...i did the experiment with no reference from any book and i just did it with my own way...i finished the ee early because i did not want it to bother me... same goes to my tok essay... i think i finished it in the first semester!haha...however, when january batch's result came out, all of us have to re-check (literally, re-do) our ee and tok essay... imagine this, we had to open back our ee's and tok essay's files and references despite the fact that we were already burdened by the 2-years-to-6-months-cramped malay a1 and english b...everyone was cursing.... miss ellie and mr masukor honestly confessed that my ee will never obtain an A...but that did not affect me at all since i was not hoping any bonus point from ee and tok...miss ellie helped me a lot with my ee and i think almost entire of the ee was miss ellie's idea... i realised that i did not do one of the most important procedures during the experiment - insulation to prevent heat lost -.... this is what you get when you are lazy to even open a reference book and copy 100% the procedures that clearly states that any experiment related to heat must be followed witn an insulation procedure...i guess logic alone is not enough to write (or again, gebang?) 4000 words...haha....mr azhar and mr shaw checked my tok essay....personally, i trusted mr azhar more than mr shaw even my tok teacher was mr shaw... maybe i didn't really understand what mr. shaw said during the consultation and surprisingly, during the tok classes as well.... tok classes means play bingo with nada, that's it...
so, total points that i got is 37... even i passed the cut off point but i am not very happy....i could have done better if i start to be serious a bit earlier and i think i can add 2 more points to become 39... other thing that does not allow me to be happy is the fact that there are some of my friends that did not manage to meet the cut off point... honestly, i am very sad, not to them of course but sad to the condition...they have tried their best but still....argh....i really hope that all of us can pursue our studies overseas and stun those foreigners...like we always do.....37 is nothing without 'the 15'...
note of the day - IB is hell....but it is really something...
yep! soo true... 37 is nothing if not all can fly..
ReplyDeleteAttention loser, haha.
ReplyDeleteI'm grateful that y'all felt sorry for those who didn't made 'the dream' happen. But screw you, you'll never know what it's like to fail.
Like what we all learnt from BTN, "those who never took drugs before would never have, not even the slightest idea of what drugs are like to those drug addicts, but they keep talk shit."
At the moment, some of you failed though most made it through, but that doesn't neccesarily guarentee any of you to win the race of becoming a successful person, no.
Quoted, "...they have tried their best...", I believe y'all all did. Not to mention all the Qiams, your good deeds and additional prayers to seek for God's help and guidance.
Having said that, I strongly believe that all their efforts and prayers, and every values that they learnt and developed over the past two years wouldn't go wasted.
According to your situation before, passing IB might be the only way to go overseas and probably contribute back to the society through your sponsorship, yes congratulations you took the right path. But to become a successful person in life, there are thousands of ways.
So stop with that nuisance, "nothing if not all can fly bla bla bla" thing, all of you. It's not like you people can do anything about it, though you pled/offer them to ask you people's help.
lalalalalaa~ LOL
reply to budak getah...
ReplyDeleteso i see your comment is mainly about the few last sentences of my post, which are the minor parts of the whole purpose of the post...i like your analogy about the drug taken from the btn course...but the assumption that i never take drug really bothers me...its like you treating the failure in IB (if u failed) as an ultimate failure...it is not the end of the world and i never said that in my post...its the real life that we are dealing with over here and i think that you are not very clear about the fact that failures and success comes and goes....there are times that we are cheered with our achievements and also, times we have to face when things do not go in our way...but what matter the most is how you face the failure and return to arrange the puzzles back...i too had encountered several serious failure and they affected my life so much...so, basically i took some ice too...
by the way, thanks for your comment reminding (not telling) me that there are thousands of ways to be successful person in life...i do know that and i just care about my friends (maybe that includes you)...
Hrmm, I recognize that signature sign-off, looks very familiar...
ReplyDeleteBtw, this is Dante, if you don't already know me. I just had to write a reply cuz I was reaallly buggered about this whole thing.
Anyhoo, rubber boy seems to be a bit ticked off about Hakim's final statement. It seems to me that you (rubber boy) misunderstood Hakim's intentions.
It is a fact that when IB came to an end, it would most likely be a bittersweet victory. Emphasis on BITTERSWEET. We all knew that some would do better, and some would do worse. Hakim was one of those who did better and he has every right to be damn well happy about it. On the other hand, some of his closest friends did not.
Now, You(rubber boy) think that he has to sympathize with the rest. YOU seem to think that he is being arrogant abot it. YOU think that he is putting down the people that didn't make it. YOU got it all wrong dude.
Being compassionate for others is not, in any way, arrogant or stuck up. Consider this, if he really didn't care about those who did not make the passing point, he would have just wrote about his own victory, and not even mention them, now would he?
Of course there is nothing that Hakim can do to help them, but he can help by telling them it isn't the end of the world. And that there are many other ways to go from here. Those simple words do more good than you can imagine. The human mind is a fragile tool, and the slightest of words can either make or break a human being. Motivation and friends help. Alot.
For Example, Irfan, one of my closest friend in class, did not make the cut-off point. I have not heard from him since, but I can understand why he chooses not to come in contact. I don't understand EXACTLY his emotions and feelings but because I am close to him, I respect his moment of silence at the same time, helping him if he needs help. Again, I can offer not direct assistance to his situation but I can assist in other ways.
In conclusion, I think that you (Rubber Boy) are the arrogant one. Your ego is so massive that you refuse to receive help, in any form. You see sympathy as an easy way of getting one of the hook. Your view on sympathy and compassion is distorted. Not everyone in this world is an evil-double-talking-back-stabbing-asshole.
I know for a fact that Hakim is a good guy and he means well.
And screw you (Rubber Boy) for not having the balls to show your real name. If your actually one of Hakim's friends/acquaintances, that makes it even worse cuz now, your even more of an asshole for talking bad about him, you coward prick.
and me too, couldn't help but to bug in once again. First of all, if you people got offended because I called him a loser, I'm truly sorry for that. I thought I was just being naughtily-friendly when I said that. No offense.
ReplyDeleteAnd I'm not interested on introducing myself, so did you Mr. Dante. It's not like if I state my full name here, you'll figure out who I am, because I'm not from your school anyway. I came across this blog through Google, how's that?
And I think you Mr Dante, you should sit back and relax a bit. It all make sense now that non of you understood what I was trying to say.
Did I mentioned anything about the owner's blog being bad or something? Coz as far as I'm concern, I didn't.
I'm just concerned about those people who didn't made it through. Do you think those people would enjoy people to pity them because of what they've been through (especially their friends who made it), which other didn't? I'm not talking about the other kinds of failure that you people had been through.
I'm talking about the feeling of not meeting the C.O.P of their finals. It's true you people might be able to nurture their current feelings, but to what extent?
To the extent that you could donate your points so that all of you could fly? nope. To the extent that all of you are willing to not fly because of the spirit of 'the 15'? absolutely not. To the extent that you could lend some of your pocket money for them to probably resit their failed paper? Pathetically, no.
And you are so true about it Dante. But did he ever mentioned about failing the tests is not the end of the world? In fact, he said it after I first commented on his blog, that there are thousands of ways to become a successful person.
And I don't understand the connection between the funny drug example and the feeling of failing in IB is an ultimate feeling of failing? No I never said that! dizzzzzzzzzzzzy.
What I'm saying is that, the things that they've been through those 2 years is enough for them to tell that 'failing IB is not the ultimate failure', there's no need to state the obvious.
But I presume some of you might even judge me as being such a bothersome here. And I'm telling you not to pity them because there's nothing to feel sorry about.
Because they will definitely choose other paths that will (by God's will) lead them towards success. Which reminds me again, of the owner's blog misunderstood me of treating the failure in IB as an ultimate failure, of course not.
Did my words meant something like that to you? If it does, then sorry, my English has broken a lot ;)
Again, I'm just saying that you people should now just focus on your own business, and walk straight ahead towards the path that you choose to become a successful person, instead of looking back at those people who didn't made it through because they all have probably started their journey towards the ultimate success.
again, I'm sorry if what I said offended any of you. You people really gotta chill and read things twice :)
salam...
ReplyDeletejust wandered around n saw ur page.
well, if u think that IB is over, think again. u still have to do physics, chemistry n english (unless if ur getting transfer credits for chem n physics of course!). i think u must have been informed about the english requirements in UBC n i must say that they are very tedious! haha believe me, u'd be very thankful when u know that u learned a lot when u were in IB.
going to see u this coming september! =)
hye hakim!!
ReplyDeletehmm, to budak getah..
i think the 1 who never take IB can never talk bout it..
coz only da 1 who experiences it knows how IB is..
so.. back off!!
neway, hakim..
gudluck n all da best in ur uni life..
i think u can get thru it afta u managed to get through IB..
n dont forget us here..
who are still Sri Kdu IB victims~
p/s: hope we can make it as well!!
do pray for us k!