In The Name Of Allah, The Most Merciful..
Ashamed.
chemistry unit 4 and 5, was a total disaster. (unit 1 2 3 was, not dat good eeither)
i answered the paper like sumbody who had never learnt any chemistry for the past 2 years.
some are just simple questions, yet, i still cant answer.
i forgot. and the details where all jumbled up. mixed together. wic is wic.
yes, iam. i am ashamed with my self. for repeating the same thing, again, and again.
its not that i didnt study at all. i did study, but maybe its not enough.
i need to do more exercises. more. n more. much2 more.
n ofcourse, pray more. ask more.
clean my heart much more.
maybe my heart is so dirty until its hard for me to remember anything.
or, to take it the positive side,
maybe this is the way for Allah to "urge" me to work harder for Alevel.
maybe if iam in the comfort zone, ill be too comfortable, and, wat u call dat, lupa diri.
yes. cheer up. luckily its not A level, yet.
better cry now, rather then later.
but work now. rather then later.
"Nor say of anything, "I shall be sure to do so and so tomorrow"
Al-Kahf:23
p/s : soory i write in english, coz, i dunno y, i tend to write in english when im not feeling good. however bad my english are. wat do i care. hehe..
Allah has made us subject to the physical laws of the universe. He obviously has enabled man to operate outside those laws on occasions, but it seems most of the time, we have no choice but to operate on the physical level. Indeed, a part of solat is one such example.
I don't know you're level of studiousness, but I can ask this question:
Pray and do a little work,
or pray and do a lot of work?
I would guess Allah would be more willing to reward the latter. Allahu Alam.
Yes it may be tiring and at times irritating, but when you see progress being made, the 'buzz' you get from knowing you're improving, should drive you further forward. Gaining knowledge is, IMHO, a form of worship too!
May Allah(swt) energise you to well in your studies.
:)
salam, Mr Allan.
thank you for ur comment, and, ur doa. :)
i am not denying the fact that i have to work hard on achieving something..
nobody denies that.
its the law of nature. sunnatullah. those who work for it,will get it. (but ofcourse, with His will)
i did study. i even followed wat u recomendd, on having the chemistry syllabus as a guide.
this post was typed when i was feeling rather down after answering chmstry papers.
so, maybe the contents is not as rational as it shud be. hehehe..
but now, i'am ok.
yet, for now, i m not quite confident on answering chem unit 6, as i only hav a little time to progress so much..
ive consulted to a friend of mine who is good in chemstry. compared with her way of study, n my way of study.
it seems dat i have to change my technique of study. shud have a strong basic knowladge on organic. (wic, im lack of it).
(she studied smartly. but i didnt.
in my case, i have to study smartly too, and study hard.)
and, last but not least., lots n lots of exercises!
i'll try n use this one week of holiday to revise back my chemistry. n insyaAllah, ur blog will be used optimally.
;)
thank u again mr allan.
p/s :
- action speaks louder then words.
- i have difficulty on opening ur blog. erm.. y? maybe the connection in akasia is so slow.
Akum.
My method is 'generic' and your own personal way of studying will play a apart in how you study..
Usually, but not always, students end up studying smart based on a large amount of experience of studying. It's a skill that develops. So by studying more, you build up that experience and naturally turn onto 'smart study'. Hence part of my encouragement to you to study more.
It was wise of you to discuss study techniques with your peers. It can really open your eyes to better study & exam performance.
It's good that you mentioned "lots n lots of exercises" Edexcel word their questions specifically to see if you understood/can remember and apply the learning objectives in the syllabus, so doing past years papers is essential. If you can do PYP's well you should have no problem.
I know all my 'talk' is easy. I do sympathise with you. My life was quite a challenge when doing A-levels - frankly it was a nightmare, LOL, but from the nightmare came my great life now. :) :) Sukran Allah.
Wordpress has been a bit strange lately. http://intechemistry.wordpress.com
Hope to see lots of Q's from you there.
Best wishes.
"but from the nightmare came my great life now."
:)
Indeed u do know what ur talking about.
i cudnt thank more. or agree more. hehe.
there are, some of my friends who were really2 dissapointed n tense up with their chemistry (esp after unit 5) and got a little carried away. -- mood swing, no apptite, isolated themslf. n, have a great fear that they wont score in the actual A Level..
alhamdulillah, i had still been given the strentgh not to be like dat althou i am fully aware that my trial results will be in the "danger" zone.
6 month.
6 month.
have.to.work.all.out!
*closing eyes*
yes.
p/s: still cannot open intechemstry.
yaicks. silly me.
6 month??
6 weeks.
oops, now im starting to get all the goose bumps.
hehe.
My impression of U5 was that it did seem a bit on the 'hard' side. It is possible because of the way it was designed.
You could take what happened and see some positives in it:
a) You do not have a false sense of security about the level of difficulty of U5.
b) You know more accurately your strengths and weaknesses of U5 topics.
c) It was only the trial, not the real exam.
d) If the U5 paper was hard, it's possible the real paper should not be harder.
It's puzzling that you can't get through to intechemistry. Other students (and ex-students) have been leaving new comments. Try a different computer. Perhaps you need to configure your browser to recognise http://intechemistry.wordpress.com as a 'safe' site?
What happens when you try to connect to it?
Salam.
salam.
i still cant open ur site.
the connection is so slow.
been loading for a long time, but it was still blank.
(blogger is slow too, but perhaps wordpress is slower?)
its ok, luckily i'll be at home during my "chemistry study leave"..
If you like, sms me(so I know your number), and I'll sms u bak with my e-mail address.
You can then ask Q's via e-mail - seeing as you can't access the blog - if you wish.
I would like to post the Q's you ask on the blog for other stu's to refer to.
Sound ok?
salam mr allan,
at last i can access ur blog.
its rather about the connection here in akasia.
just finished unit 6.
i was quite scared at the beginning, but it was not as awful as i tot it is.
althou i know i didnt answer all correctly, some were just "hentam",
the feeling was not as awful as unit 4 n unit 5. because, i can choose!(i didnt answer the organic question. hehe)
despite dat, i had already done some silly, (very silly) mistakes. regarding to calculation.
both for the enthalpy change and da empirical formula.
(especially da question on empiracal formula.!)
i had a very wierd empirical formula.
had calculated again2 and again.
but it was still wierd.
so, i just ignored it.
arriving at the hostel, i just realised, that i used the molar mass instead the atomic number. o_O what a big loss! -_-
a VERY not-supposed-to-happen mistake.
a should be more careful. really careful.
i really do hope i can achieve my target on revising chemistry dis holiday. have to.