I'M AN IDIOTTT!
PD: Hi guys!
- Hi! -Hi!
- Hello. -Hello hello.
PD: Have you ever considered studying overseas?
Omg yes.
Yeah!
- I mean, - Of course.
Considered properly? No.
Dreamed? Yes.
Ya same.
Ok so-
Ok so funny story right,
also a sad story.
No wonder they got tissue here.
So right,
during NS right,
I actually applied to a lot of overseas universities.
Because I did law right,
Because I did law so I wanted to go to the UK law schools.
Then actually,
I got into King's.
Oh!
But then...
I got not enough money.
Oh man...
In all honesty I would say yes.
Especially in my field when I was doing theatre.
I felt like it would have been great to go to a different country
to experience their culture.
PD: Have you taken any other countries' exam papers?
New South Wales dudeee.
Oh ya ya ya ya ya.
Must shade the circle.
I don't know why schools made us do that.
It's like we don't have enough tests of our own.
- It's like we don't have enough tests of our own. - Is it like the gifted programme.
No it's not.
They just test you for fun.
TOEFL! TOEFL!
TOEFL.
Waffle?
They are testing your English proficiency.
Because they don't see Singapore as a native English speaking country.
I can tell you the story.
When I went America for holiday once,
a kid came up to me and asked me:
"If you're from Asia do you speak Asian?"
Sis.
PD: So in this episode of Singaporeans Try,
PD: you'll be trying the American SATs.
Before we came in,
the company was just called TheLocal.
I hope that it's like general knowledge.
I hope that-
- Ya I hope that- - Then at least we can scrape by.
I hope they don't gives us something that require some formula
that we don't remember anymore.
I can do algebra.
I cannot!
Algebra has got letters.
It doesn't make sense. It's math.
Math should have numbers.
Why is it letters.
BUT IT'S A B C D E F G X Y Z!
You think that one forms anything? No!
Actually I don't even know my alphabets.
Excuse me?
Is this a new Pokemon or what?
I have no idea.
I think it's like Machoke and Pichu combine together.
Got chance.
Huh?
What!
Their tactic is to use as many cheem words as possible.
Basically if we make Singaporean it will be:
"The mystery in the first line means what?"
Eh honestly they could have simplified it like that.
I keep laughing at the word:
"Analogous".
What- Anal!
No so some of them right,
is quite obviously no.
I'm going to tell you why I don't think it's D.
Only because I feel that D right,
it brings in a different concept altogether.
From the looks of it,
I think I'm more inclined towards B.
I think C and D are out personally,
C and D are out because none of it is mentioned at all
in the text or the passage.
For me my logical brain tells me the answer is
not A or B.
Nor D
Okay okay.
We write, we write.
Competitive suddenly!
- B. -B.
Eh!
Okay okay okay!
Explain why.
Because if I don't know the question right,
I will always put B.
To be honest I only understood the question
after finding out the meaning of analogous.
Okay analagous is again, like the word analogy.
So what they are saying is not exactly the same,
but more so what is similar.
Like parallel like that.
Parallel.
You can't say purine without saying urine.
Purine...ah...
SATs you know!
Question.
I'll be that fellow in the exam who suddenly smiles to myself.
True true true.
Purine.
Okay question.
This one like chemistry right?
Ya it feels like chemistry.
Correct.
This sounds like a tongue twister.
What is a purine?
Sounds like something very pure.
Maybe... salt?
Oh!
What's a pyrimidine then?
Um...
Salt and sugar?
Go for it sis.
I- You know what.
I know as much as you do at this point of time.
If it's 2 purines,
No space.
There's no space.
If 2 pyrimidines then there will be excess space.
Excess space correct.
So okay, I think from this diagram right,
I think C and D you can take out.
"If there would not be room for it."
Meaning it's
Big. Too big.
Right?
So basically my answer would be B,
because they say like:
"Implies a pair of purines would be larger than a pair consisting of a purine and a pyrimidine."
Correct?
Correct!
That makes sense.
I don't know.
My gut tells me A.
It's the only one that mentions about space.
Right.
Now the first part,
part A, sugar and phosphate,
is another thing right,
that is bringing a different concept altogether.
But that was what you said for the previous question.
Exactly. Now I'm thinking should it be A.
1, 2, 3.
- B. - B.
I got a feeling you're probably correct.
Ya okay I knew it.
Bringing a different concept altogether.
I was very convinced after Question 1
that it is the right answer. Ugh.
Oh I'm supposed to correct it.
Ohhh.
Okay I'm so bad at this.
I always leave it to Grammarly.
I would put the commas in.
I would say no change.
Wah in my head right,
there's no punctuation at all.
Georges Seurat's comma shouldn't be a thing.
Yes, yes.
After the role should have comma,
and then name and item.
It's Fauzi's
10-inch
RULER la. What the freak.
All thinking dirty the heck.
Ok I'm just going to go with B.
How I see it is that
when there is a comma,
then you can cover the name,
and the line would make sense.
So if I were to cover Georges Seurat's right,
"For example, I couldn't wait to view painter 10-foot-wide A Sunday Afternoon"
Which doesn't make sense at all.
Ya I got a bad feeling for this.
- B. - D.
Our first difference.
Different answer.
Okay okay.
Oh you're right.
Eh! I'm right.
Oh my god!
- Awww. - I love cats too.
I hate this so much!
This is really copyrighting 101.
I think because they used "ridding" right,
I would vote for it being "scaring" after.
But if we-
Okay if we substitute "not to mention" with "and".
"... damage the art and scare off visitors."
Right.
Because the subject is the rats.
You- Ya I think-
Ya ya ya you're right.
Let's say if I remove right,
remove the "damage the art" part right,
basically what I'm saying is:
"For centuries, cats have guarded this famous museum,
ridding it of mice, rat,s and other rodents,
that could
blank, for scare, off visitors."
And so by saying that I have already answered the question.
"... that could scare off visitors."
C.
God bless me!
I don't have to quit.
I don't have to lose my job friends!
Are we getting to the math part?
Oh dear god.
What the mad man.
Wah it's a power question.
My teacher made us memorise the powers.
Every time she comes into class,
she'll randomly pick out one person right,
and make them recite the power of 2s.
Wait but why is this important in this equation?
Because 8...
* is actually 2 to the power of 3.
2 to the power of 3x.
I think I got the answer.
Because my answer is on the MCQ.
You know the feeling whereby-
Ya ya ya!
You write the answer then you confident ah.
Then the next moment you look at the MCQ,
eh where's my answer.
That's the worst feeling.
That's really the worst feeling ever.
Then you do a lot of workings already.
"The value cannot be determined-"
Oh!
Actually, that might be the answer!
How do we get real numbers from it?
I don't think it's possible!
There isn't-
Alright, it's D for me.
- I think it's D. - D.
- A. -A.
How?!
Okay yup.
Well nope.
Whatever she said I don't understand.
It's okay you don't have to.
I really don't eh.
My failure in math is really quite serious.
Math with calculator okay.
This is where it gets hard.
Oh dear.
I don't even know how to use a calculator anymore.
Wah very long never hold this thing in my hands already.
You must understand that for me right,
it's like almost 15 years ago eh.
Oh shit!
Alrights~
What the f-
Okay nope. Thank you.
The answer is B.
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Wah.
What!
Next.
Next question please.
- Bro... - Walao...
I haven't even read the question
I see the diagrams and everything I want to die.
Okay they gave the formulas.
Ya.
- Clever, clever. - So I think it's doable.
Okokokokokok.
Doable.
Doable. Okay.
Where's pi?
How to put over 3?
How to put the power of?
Eh no no no delete.
Then you press this.
Oh.
You're welcome.
Help me!
I really don't know how to use this calculator!
Calculator is supposed to make our lives easier,
but it seems to make your life harder.
It's like application of formulas right.
And they gave you the formulas there,
so I think this is keying into the calculator
and making sure you don't key in wrongly.
Ya.
Oh I know what this topic is called.
Because we used to make fun of it.
It's called "mensuration".
Because it sounds like menstruation.
Ya ya ya.
Now I remember.
Some more from boys' school.
Oh mensuration~
- D. -D.
Oh I did this on my own.
With the exception of her help on how to use calculator.
Yeah!
So this was really application.
Still got it.
Yay!
Finally.
I failed.
Yay we finished our SATs John!
I got 1 mark.
What do you mean.
I got finished by the SATs.
PD: So what do you think of the American SATs?
Wah it's actually much harder than I thought it would be.
I think our mindsets are not student mindsets anymore.
We just want to get things done and over with.
Yeah we are less cautious.
Yeah.
I think apart from the carelessness,
I think generally it was okay.
Right?
I think the SATs-
Like John had mentioned,
SATs are supposed to be university entrance exams right?
But...
the questions seems to be about the secondary school curriculum for Singapore.
Because a lot of overseas schools-
A lot of overseas countries don't do A Levels.
Ya.
After high school they go straight to college.
PD: Do you think that it is more difficult than Singapore's exams?
I think the math is actually doable.
If you know how to use the calculator.
And if you know your formulas.
The English ones I think
is about nuances.
And I think um...
It's challenging, it's challenging.
Ok I guess in terms of difficulty right,
ya Singapore's one is more difficult.
At the same time,
Singapore's one is also more straightforward.
this one the catch is also
the phrasing.
They try to confuse the takers as much as possible.
I would like to say for university entry right,
based on what I remembered.
And the trauma which I tried to lock away in my head
and that is the A Levels right.
The SATs were definitely way easier.
A Levels was insane!
You give us A Level questions now
- and then you- - Cannot.
You put-
Sorry.
The calculator you gave us is wrong.
They give us graphic calculator.
You know what's a graphic calculator?
Your calculator can draw graphs eh.
Have you thought about that?
No. You only think about yourself.
It's okay, it's okay.
We are past that phase in our lives.
Leave in the comments below if you want to see
the rest of them suffer doing A Level examination papers.
Quote this guy.
Just quote this guy.
Huh?!
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I'm a failure.
I'm so proud to be a failure.