Final Results

Yea, final results are out. How did I do? Better than I expected. Not as good as most, but I'm not ashamed of what I accomplished this semester, my final semester. I'll be graduating in the second lower class, and I accept that.

GPA of 2.87, my personal best. But what I am most proud of, is the A- I got for my project: FYP and It's finally over. Actually, thanks a lot to Dr Haresh, I think he was quite lenient with the marking... I bet no one under other supervisors got such a high score.

Like I said, I did not expect much, I even expected to sit for the supplementary paper. No one, except those who have sat for the supp paper previously, knows how relieved I was, when I checked, and found out I wasn't one of the few unlucky ones.

My results, especially for oncology, came as a surprise. After knowing that I am not sitting for supp paper, I just thought, whatever, C is good enough, since for most of my coursework marks, I was around 50%-60%, even though I really worked hard.

Medical genomics, already expected a C, so no comment on that.

Oncology, I failed in my coursework. But to get a B-, I had to have at least 68.5/100 in my finals. How I ever achieved that, I have absolutely no idea. Maybe it had something to do with the 12m+13m of thinking questions?

Pharmacology, the study of drugs. I refered to my notes, and calculated all the marks for each question. What I got was the best case scenario. I was actually prepared to get a D. How terrible, huh? Guess our dear Dr Anthony is being generous with the grades too...

Virology, Dr Say must be crazy. His questions he asked were totally out of the blue, and came as a shock to practically the whole course. Same goes for when his results were announced. I think quite a number of my friends are still wondering, how did we ever get this?

The only disappointment came from Interpersonal Communications. I thought I did ratherwell. I guess Ms Catherine is just as strict as she was during PR class. An elective subject, and there were people who failed it... It's just kinda pitiful. I mean, it's an elective, why don't you just let us pass?

I do not know how to explain this 'phenomenon'.

• Was it the constant revision everyday in uni? I doubt it, otherwise, why would I have failed in my coursework?
• Was it the studying as a group? My group consists of people from different courses, and not a single one from my own course. So there was no group discussion for me, besides the one on where to go for supper.
• Was it the lecturers being merciful? Some of my lecturers are well known for being very liberal with the pen, meaning a lot of red marks. Figure that out yourself.
• Was it... I can come up with these three for now.

Oh well, I did do my best.

And I do thank my study group: Khai Shen (driver *lol*, QS), Kok Sheng (driver *lol*, CI), Ken (driver *lol*, CL), Kheng Hooi (CL), Sally (CL), Sok Yin (3E), Teck Wei (CI), Peat Ming (MH), Kim Leong (provided the mosquito coil *lol*, ME), Kim Lup (CI), Yi Gang (CI)... Did I leave anyone out? Although not everyone came everytime, it's still fun to study together.

Status: Completion of study.