Critical Reading & Sentence Completion

Today we went to ITMS lab for Mr. Yu Jin’s reading class, which was from 14.00 till 16.00. Siva, Chee Wee and I started to walk to IMTS lab earlier than usual because we heard some gossips from our fellow friends from section 2 that we will have some kind of mock tests on critical reading. After arriving there, I chose a seat that was under the humongous air-con so that I won’t feel super duper cold air blown out from it. Just as Mr. Yu Jin stepped into our class, someone shouted out – Mr. Yu Jin, you looked handsome! I couldn’t help to laugh in my heart because for me, I guess that was a kind of sarcasm (NO OFFENCE >.< ).

Anyway, we were told to do McGraw Hill's computer tests. After 279 seconds, there came the atmosphere of silence and horror. Everyone glued their eyes on their computer screens. At first I felt panic, but somehow I just asked myself why am I panicking? Then I reminded myself that it was just a stupid self-assessment exercise. I moved my eyes as fast as possible while reading the passages without understanding them (applying what Mr. Yu Jin had taught us -- skim & scan). I still remembered one of the longest passages was something about Herming… or whatsoever thing like that. That was the one that made me lost my confidence in answering all the questions. This is the first thing I realized: NEVER LET THOSE LONG PASSAGES make you lose your confidence!! OR lose your mind…

Besides that, you must also train yourself to be pro (good) in ignoring all the things around you. This was what I experienced this afternoon. When I was reading one of the passages, a pair of couple in green was sitting in front of me, kept on doing something intimating (NO OFFENCE >.< ), and Teng C.L. felt frustrated too, I guess, because I don’t know whether he is pro in ignoring people or not… Anyway, thanks to Mr. Yu Jin because he helped us to stop them from being intimating the others.

Ok, now talking about my result of the assessments. Shao Shen got 550/800; I got 520/800. I’m quite satisfied with my result as it was my first time to do SAT Critical Reading and Sentence Completion. From the whole assessment, Shao Shen and I think that we should do the sentence completion part faster so that we have more time in reading those frigging passages.

In conclusion, it was a tiring afternoon sitting in front of the computer screen for two hours.


** Equation of the week -- coherence = core + hence (X)
coherence = consistency + sensible (kind of X)
coherence = unity + sentence cohesion (V)