Day 5
Perchance the worst subject ever, and probably the most useless subject in the universe: Pendidikan Moral. A subject where one can easily obtain an A and subsequently rob a bank. Once you are detained, you may flaunt you have obtained an A for your Moral, and that disciplinary isn't any of your concern.
Since it's a closed paper, nobody has seen or has any idea about how the paper would be, but we roughly know how the paper is. As expected, you have to regurgitate all the nilai you have memorised and then you have to give lots of rubbish and lies to ensure you get an A for your moral.
Well....what can you say? It's Malaysia.
Day 6
Additional Mathematics: everybody's nightmare. You cannot survive this paper without some critical thinking, and of course, a usable calculator. Paper 1 is the easier paper, where the questions are short and pretty direct and critical thinking is less needed. However, I notice that this year the paper 1 questions are very tricky. You have to peruse them, carefully read all the words in each questions to actually understand what the questions require. The questions are very tricky and some of my friends have been tricked and hence lost of marks.
Paper 2 is special. First of all, the topic that is not supposed to be tested in paper 2 came out in paper 2, catching everyone off guard. And the question isn't simple either, you have to simplify the seemingly complicated expression and then you have to solve the next equation using the simplified expression you are supposed to do.
Secondly, I'm pretty surprised there's a wrong diagram in the paper. For a question pertains to integration, the graph is wrongly drawn. The y-intercept should be higher than the position drawn. But I guess they could shrug it off by saying: "The diagrams in the paper aren't drawn with scale, as stated in the information for candidates'. Yes, they aren't drawn to scale, but at least they need to be correct lest it discombobulate students.
Day 7
Physics is the first science paper. Paper 1 isn't a big concern since it's an objective paper. Surprisingly, there's one question with two answers, and one question with no answers. During melting point, naphthalene do not increase in temperature and it's molecules do not experience an increase in kinetic energy. The latter one is often deemed incorrect but it's not. Although the kinetic energy does increase, the increase is insignificant and therefore the existence of it is ignored. All the heat absorbed is used to break the molecular forces between the naphthalene molecules, not to increase the kinetic energy. Apparently, many are confused by this, and yes, for this theory, principle of conservation of energy applies where all heat is absorbed to break the molecular bonds and no heat is lost to oblivion.
The second problematic question is the one concerning about critical angle. I'm surprised that the person who set this paper made such a basic mistake. It's almost laughable.
A question about XOR gate shocks all of us because it isn't in our syllabus. But it's 1 mark so....no fuss.
Paper 2 is fine, nothing really surprising about the paper. Paper 3 is the biggest shock. The experiments are...weird and unexpected. Question 2 is really astonishing too because it was already tested in paper 2, so I have no idea why it's being tested again in paper 3.
