// Minimum effort, maximum results.

As I am sitting in the comfort of my office and typing this behind my supervisor's back, thousands of 19 year olds across this island quake with fear in their seats while awaiting The Paper that will decide their entire life (or so they say).

I feel so... Powerful. Hahaha nah I just thought of how I was like on 7 January. Drong (as usual) was babbling on and on about how well ACS(I) did and all, but for the first time I was actually paying attention to him haha.

IB is scary stuff. I mean, who knew that choosing an IOC extract feels as though you're choosing the next path of your life? Especially being the only girl in the room with an already-accepted Oxford candidate and a man full of blackheads pointing to the painting of the Last Supper and saying, "Welcome to the Last Supper. Now, it is time to spin the Wheel of Fortune. Where will it take you? Where will your destiny lie?" and starts flailing his arms around the 10 envelopes on the table.

Seriously, who was the idiot who made us study 40 extracts (40 lines each) of plays, novels and poems, but on the day of the exam provide us with a random 10, out of which we have to pick a random 1? Damn stupid right. And that's just 1 tiny part of English A1, which is just 1 of the 6 (excluding TOK and EE) subjects we study.

I don't even want to start on the number of assignments, presentations, essays, projects, portfolios and science practicals we have to do, on top of having CCA, CIP, and studying for class tests, midyears, finals and the actual exam. It's a wonder that we actually still have a life. Actually I think I died and like, God sent me back to Earth or something. Haha.

So, all you A Level losers people, if you think JC life sucks, please try IB. After doing a thousand drafts for just one innocent-looking essay; losing countless amounts of sleep trying to figure out the 'wonders' of AutoGraph so you can derive the formula of limits and differentiation; writing Chem reports every week... You'll probably finish PW in a couple of weeks, easy peasy simple pimple.

Okay, IB isn't that bad. It's really tough, but you get a lot more value out of it than what you pay the school every month. And you (okay, I) kinda appreciate education on a much higher level, cos it's not about studying hard all the time. It's studying smart.

Minimum effort, maximum results. That's what IB at ACS(I) is really all about. So I'm actually pretty glad I chose IB over A Levels. Cos the education there gives you an edge over everyone else. Plus, I won't be just another A Level student sitting amongst the rest of you guys now, hoping against hope that somehow, even with the common three H2s and one H1, I'd still be someone special.

// Minimum effort, maximum results.

As I am sitting in the comfort of my office and typing this behind my supervisor's back, thousands of 19 year olds across this island quake with fear in their seats while awaiting The Paper that will decide their entire life (or so they say).

I feel so... Powerful. Hahaha nah I just thought of how I was like on 7 January. Drong (as usual) was babbling on and on about how well ACS(I) did and all, but for the first time I was actually paying attention to him haha.

IB is scary stuff. I mean, who knew that choosing an IOC extract feels as though you're choosing the next path of your life? Especially being the only girl in the room with an already-accepted Oxford candidate and a man full of blackheads pointing to the painting of the Last Supper and saying, "Welcome to the Last Supper. Now, it is time to spin the Wheel of Fortune. Where will it take you? Where will your destiny lie?" and starts flailing his arms around the 10 envelopes on the table.

Seriously, who was the idiot who made us study 40 extracts (40 lines each) of plays, novels and poems, but on the day of the exam provide us with a random 10, out of which we have to pick a random 1? Damn stupid right. And that's just 1 tiny part of English A1, which is just 1 of the 6 (excluding TOK and EE) subjects we study.

I don't even want to start on the number of assignments, presentations, essays, projects, portfolios and science practicals we have to do, on top of having CCA, CIP, and studying for class tests, midyears, finals and the actual exam. It's a wonder that we actually still have a life. Actually I think I died and like, God sent me back to Earth or something. Haha.

So, all you A Level losers people, if you think JC life sucks, please try IB. After doing a thousand drafts for just one innocent-looking essay; losing countless amounts of sleep trying to figure out the 'wonders' of AutoGraph so you can derive the formula of limits and differentiation; writing Chem reports every week... You'll probably finish PW in a couple of weeks, easy peasy simple pimple.

Okay, IB isn't that bad. It's really tough, but you get a lot more value out of it than what you pay the school every month. And you (okay, I) kinda appreciate education on a much higher level, cos it's not about studying hard all the time. It's studying smart.

Minimum effort, maximum results. That's what IB at ACS(I) is really all about. So I'm actually pretty glad I chose IB over A Levels. Cos the education there gives you an edge over everyone else. Plus, I won't be just another A Level student sitting amongst the rest of you guys now, hoping against hope that somehow, even with the common three H2s and one H1, I'd still be someone special.