well that was weird.

Physics and Chemistry were horrible, while maths was the best paper of them all.

I know, I'm confused too.

I had predicted that physics would go ok, chem would go less ok and maths would go really bad.

however, it turns out i was wrong.

Let's see what exactly made me think that way, and why i was wrong.

A good starting point for deciding how a paper will go is looking at how strong i am at that subject.

• I like physics, and I'm (mostly) fine at it as long as i don't need maths.

• I find theoretical chemistry a chore to study while practical chemistry is really fun, and i tend to get good marks in chemistry thanks to me spending all my chemistry time in labs.

• I find maths very hard to wrap my head around, especially the type of maths you tend to encounter in a school environment.

this leads very well into the next point to consider:

another very good method of predicting your performance in a future paper is to look at your performance in past papers.

so, how did past papers go?

universally bad.

this is most of the reason why i was scared a day before the physics exam; liking a subject guarantees nothing, and if you hate the very thing people are gonna grade you on, good luck bucko.

Alright we're going off-track, we need to get back on topic.

one more metric to look at to predict your performance in a paper is to look at the extent of preparation you did.

on its own, it's not very good, however it's very good as a supporting metric; and very powerful when you want to compare your performance across subjects.

so how much time did i dedicate for the three subjects?

• for physics, i started preparation a month ago, and final preparation was two days before the english exam and two days after the english exam.

• for chemistry, it's almost the same as physics; two days before english exam, and two days after. however, i also had one day between the physics and chemistry exams where i did some more chemistry stuff (however, it doesn't count as a day since i remembered nothing i studied that day).

• for maths, it was two days after the english exam. that's it. once again, the day before doesn't count since it didn't help anyway.

Alright all of this supports my prediction; but what went wrong?

To be perfectly honest with ya, i have no fucking clue.

i started writing this in the hope that i'll probably come across the solution with a retrospective look, but as it turns out, sometimes life just decides to turn everything upside down, with no reason other than "why not?"

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alright i think i'll start adding dates to all my entires, since i've already turned this into a diary with how often i post on it and what kind of content i post on it.

i don't remember the dates of all of my previous posts, so if you don't see dates for some of the older ones this is why.

this post was written on March 15, 2022.

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