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Archives for August 2008

Dessert: Be Thankful For What You Have

A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet. He held up a sign which said: 'I am blind, please help.' There were only a few coins in the hat.

A man was walking by. He took a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words. He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by would see the new words.

Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized his footsteps and asked, 'Were you the one who changed my sign this morning? What did you write?'

The man said, 'I only wrote the truth. I said what you said but in a different way.'
What he had written was: 'Today is a beautiful day and I cannot see it.'

Do you think the first sign and the second sign were saying the same thing?

Of course both signs told people the boy was blind. But the first sign simply said the boy was blind. The second sign told people they were so lucky that they were not blind. Should we be surprised that the second sign was more effective?

Moral of the Story: Be thankful for what you have . Be creative . Be innovative . Think differently and positively .

Invite others towards good with wisdom . Live life with no excuse and love with no regrets . When life gives you a 100 reasons to cry, show life that you have 1000 reasons to smile . Face your past without regret . Handle your present with confidence . Prepare for the future without fear . Keep the faith and drop the fear .

Great men say, 'Life has to be an incessant process of repair and reconstruction, of discarding evil and developing goodness . In the journey of life, if you want to travel without fear, you must have the ticket of a good conscience . '

The most beautiful thing is to see a person smiling!!
And even more beautiful is, knowing that you are the reason behind it!

Do you like this story? Drop me a comment at the box below.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: amaztory, story

After 'O' levels: Single Intake For JCs (Junior Colleges)

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It was reported in Strait Times on the reasons for single intake, the start of Junior Colleges for 2009.

It was mentioned that the GCE 'O' level results will be out in early January so that all year 1 students can report for their respective JCs on 2 Feb 09. No more 1st 3 months of JC!

This also means the following:

  • Entry to JCs is now solely based on your 'O' level results
  • Preliminary exams results are perhaps not viewed as important since they would not be used for admission
  • Every student is admitted at the same time based on a common examinations, fairer ground compared to old system of entry by prelim results.
  • Attitude towards prelims might change since they are not used, hence the outcome is not important. (It was my first time in my life that some students have time to play sports after a prelim paper; well I don't mean to say that this is totally wrong, in fact it is perhaps a good form of break after a stressful paper. Never during my time did we have the courage to play in the midst of prelims, games come only after the completion of the papers)

So how did you fare for your prelims? Do you like this new policy of JC admission?

Leave me a comment at the box below.

Filed Under: Press Releases Tagged With: after o levels, jc intake, O Level students, prelims exams

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Filed Under: Press Releases, Tuition | Coaching Matters Tagged With: o level chemistry, O Level Programmes

Exam Question : Usage of Binomial Formula

Harry - a vivd reader of askalwayslovely.blogspot.com sent me an email asking about solving of the following question. He did it using trial and error. I believe it will take him some time. He felt that his approach was not the best so he emailed me asking for alternatives.

In fact for this question, there is a step by step way which will get us the answer in less than 8 minutes time.

Question: If the coefficient of [pmath]x^k[/pmath] and [pmath]x^(k+1)[/pmath] in the expansion of [pmath](2x+3)^19[/pmath] are equal, find [pmath]k[/pmath]

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Filed Under: A-Maths Tuition Tagged With: binomial, Exam Questions

What You Need To Know To Do Well In Plane Geometry - Part 1

Plane Geometry is the new topic added in the new syllabus. There are hardly any calculations but lots of proving to be done.
We know students dislike proving, be it in Plane Geometry, Trigonometry, Quadratic Equations, Differentiation . . .

To score As in your exam, you must be good in proving.

Plane Geometry has proven to be a challenging topic for many students due to the nature of the diagrams, questions. Many a times, students do not know when to begin, not to mention which theorems to apply. I am going to share with you in this post on the key concepts you need to know at your fingertips for Plane Geometry.

There are 2 basic shapes in Plane Geometry: Triangle & Circle

In Triangle,

  1. You must know the different Congruency Tests & Similarity Tests. These are extremely important in proving plane geometry questions. Teachers did not emphasize on this as students are expected to know these concepts well from E-Math. But I realize many many students did not like Congruency & Similarity as it involves proving (which is a very systematic approach of thinking) and hence many did not understand these 2 concepts well.
  2. Mid point theorem (This is not exactly your mid point formulae in Co-ordinate Geometry)
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    D and E are the midpoints of AC and AB respectively.

  4. Intercept theorem
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    When DE//CB, AD/DC = AE/EB

I will be adding on specific properties for circle in my next post. If you like to be updated, subscribe to my feed by clicking HERE

Filed Under: A-Maths Tuition Tagged With: plane geometry, properties of circles, proving, similar triangles

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Filed Under: Cool stuff, Press Releases Tagged With: o level chemistry, O Level Programmes, simplechemconcepts event

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