NH organised extra Chinese lessons for the 普华 Sec 4 students in the last week of school holidays. Nana said that they practiced on Listening Comprehension (LC) and was proud that she scored full marks for the practice.
Her LC exam was on 3 Jul. I was in JB for a Company event when she called me to tell me how difficult LC was. She said that everybody has different answers (and thankfully not that she alone had different answers from everybody else) and eventually concluded that she had about 4 wrong. That is 8 marks flying away. Zzzz. Her tutor was very encouraging and commented that 只是比别人错多了一两题. We want to be so positive too.
Her last hurdle is the Chinese Oral exam. The oral started on 4 Jul and the school scheduled the students in batches for the exam. Traditionally, NH had the 普华 students take the oral before the 高华 students. This year. The schedule was flipped. As a result, Nana would be taking her oral tomorrow, the last 2nd day of the entire period. Ya, majority of NH students are taking 高华.
Preparing for the O level Chinese had been a pain. I lost count of the meltdowns that she had and heartache at the pushing that I had to do. We had been chewing Chinese oral materials for the many days, increasing the intensity during the weekend.
Nana was supposed to earn extra bucks, helping out at Boo’s relative’s wedding last Sunday. She had to back out bcos of oral practice and Zaky took her place instead. He was very happy to earn the extra bucks as his social life becomes more colorful and he started the “no money” phase of his life.
What sacrifices Nana had made. She blamed the late schedule but also recognises that being scheduled late means that she could better spot the oral topics. Well, the oral topics don’t run far away. The examiners are creative in how they twist and turn the questions but it goes back to those same topics.
Her “compensation” for the sacrifices?
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