Common Tests (Part IV)

Geography, my last paper for the Mid-Year Examinations. The seating plan in the hall is a little different today. Students taking English Literature and Chinese Literature have to sit at the far left of the hall, where 3BN was sitting for the past few papers. The students taking Chinese Literature have to sit on the first few vertical rows, followed by the students taking English Literature. As for students from 3HM to 3MD, we were sitting at our original seats. 3RP arrived a while later and they were seated at 3GR’s original seats.

The duration for the papers were also different. The duration for the Chinese Literature paper was 1½ hr. The duration for both the English Literature and Geography papers was 2½ hr. The students taking Literature started their paper before the students taking Geography, yet the students taking English Literature ended their paper at the same time as the students taking Geography!

The Multiple Choice Questions were straightforward, and the answers could be spotted easily if one did revise. The Structured Essay Questions (SEQ) were quite all right. The case study for Floods, Droughts and Volcanoes did not appear in the paper. Climatic zones, Deforestation and Earthquakes came up for the SEQ.

Well, I dwelled too much on Plate Tectonics while revising, I can almost list out all the key words when describing a plate movement, e.g. continental plate, oceanic plate, subduction, mantle, oceanic trench, mid-oceanic ridge, volcanoes, island arc, fold mountains, earthquakes, constructive plate boundary, destructive plate boundary, conservative plate boundary etc. Gosh, have I been studying too hard for Plate Tectonics? Will it be my fault if I did not fare too well for the other topics (maybe it‘s San Adreas Fault :P)? Hot water may be steaming out of my head like a geyser then…

Luckily, Factors influencing weather and climate was not tested, or else, I might do slightly badly, maybe a whole lot worse.