Reflection on Term 2 Science

Hi Everyone,

Today, I will be posting on my results and reflections from the two terms and how I feel about it.

Term 1

Term 1 was a term where chemistry and the periodic table was tested. It was actually a very straightforward topic where we just have to know by heart the first 20 elements of the periodic table. At first everyone thought that was going to be a very confusing topic, but after a few lessons, we could understand the topic quite well already. The science teachers were also very innovative as the online lessons were used to educate us on the periodic table. We had to paste the first twenty elements on a plain sheet of construction paper. When I first heard of this task, I was worried as was scared that I would face many problems doing it. However, the teachers were very helpful and whenever we faced some difficulties, they would always be lending their helping hands to help us. This has not only allowed me know the number of protons, neutrons and electrons of the elements, but I also managed to memorize the elements by heart through this online lesson. In the end, I did badly for the term test. I did not do that well. I looked through my mistakes and found out where I had gone wrong. This would make sure that I would never have the same mistakes if they ever come out again.

Term 2

In term 2, we were taught biology and also acids and alkalis. This was the term where I had to miss out on science lessons for a period of time and I had the national school competition for my waterpolo CCA. The missing out of lessons were at first a very happy thing for me as I did not have to stay in class to listen to lessons but was given an opportunity to compete against other people from all around Singapore in my CCA. Later on I realised that the missing out on lessons had a very negetive impact on me. When my Science teacher explaining to the class on some matters, I was very confused as I had missed out on a lot. Therefore, had to stay back after school on some occasions to personally ask my science teacher on the topic which I had missed out on. The acids and alkalis was the topic that was very challenging for me. I could not understand this topic and faced many problems. There was also an online lesson where we have to get into groups of 4 to make a video on sexually transmitted diseases. From the making of the video, we had a deeper understanding of the sexually transmitted diseases and how they came about.

In the end, when I got back my term 2 test results, I found my term 2 results very disappointing actually, not because I did not work hard, but I did not work hard enough to memorise all the chemical formulas. This has resulted in me finding difficulty in some on the questions tested. As for the sex education, I think I did very well getting full marks for most of the questions. Despite all this, I am quite satisfied with my MCQ section marks. I scored 10/15, where some of the questions I just guessed the answer. I also chose science ace in term 2, and I am proud to say that I had gotten 5/5 ace points, due to the effort that I put into doing the posters and PPT documents, thus I chose science as my ace subject again this term, hope to max it out again.

In conclusion, I hope that I will be able to start the revision for my science test earlier, such that more of my time could be spent more meaningfully and also to prevent me from occurring circumstances where I have to try my luck and guess the answer.

Yours,
Ryan Ong