E Maths

Prelim's finally started. During our holidays that is. Most people don't like the idea of it being too draggy, but for me, I think otherwise. We have a break tomorrow, and we will only be taking Social Studies paper on Wednesday. I think this is cool. It gives stupid people like me more time to prepare for my humanities.

Generally, today's Mathematics paper was pretty all right. Paper 1 was rather easy, except for a few careless (and i mean careless !!) mistakes that cost me at least 5 marks (out of 80)!!

Paper 2 (I felt) was indeed challenging. It's mind sapping !! Compared to past yr's VS Prelim papers, i think this year's one's really tough. I do no have sufficient time to finish the paper, and also due to skipping of some questions, I have already lost approximately 15 marks (out of 100).
During the exam, I was like half dead. Imagine a 4 and a half hour paper (there is a 1 hr interval between paper 1 and 2) to secure 180 marks (which works out to scoring 2/3 marks in a minute). It's no simple feat.

During paper 2, I spent an hour (out of 2 1/2 hours) only completing only four questions (out of 10) ! My, wasn't I nervous? Had to rushed through the rest of the paper within the next 1 1/2 hrs ! Even so, most answers turned out to be funny numbers... (I'm sure most Sec 4s feel insecure too?)

Now for some self-delusion, to make me feel better. I think losing 20 marks out of 180 isn't that bad right? But I was told to get an A1, I need to score at least 91% in the O Levels. How true is this?

Oh yeah, on my way to the examination hall this morning, I was poundering over this question:

Is 0.99999999999... = 1 ?

Here's the theory though:

Let x be 0.99999999999...
Hence, 10x = 9.99999999999...
10x - x = 9.99999999999... - 0.99999999999...
9x = 9
x = 1

So, Is 0.99999999999... = 1 ?