"If I ruled the world and everything in it, sky's the limit
I push a Q - 45 Infinit
It wouldn't be no such thing as jealousies or B Felonies
Strictly living longevity to the destiny
I thought I'd never see but reality struck
Better find out before your time's out, what the fuck??"

darn it.

my confidence suddenly drops. y? on a paper tt was so bloody easy, i slipped.

phy prac was way too easy. i did the capacitor qtn first. i actually flipped back n checked the number of pages coz most of my stuff was complete by 30 mins. n i had the other half of the hr to go. i mean u couldnt ask for anythin simpler. the oscillation was a little irritatin coz i encountered couple of instances where the wood were not positioned correctly n the cylinder didnt roll straight, actually didnt matter but didnt feel rite bt it. n wats more as the oscillation continued, the period seemed to go shorter, requirin us to pay more attention. i had to abandon the stopwatch couple of times n start over again coz i had lost count as it was too fast. as tt happened more, i grew frustrated. so the timing was off in many cases, i'm led to believe. so when there's a tiny error, usually it doesnt make a diff. but when u log it. ah. tt's when u see how big a tiny reaction error will cost u. combination of my frustration n impatience led the first graph to look like some weird graph. i was quite pissed then. so it didnt help when i calculated later on the constants, which not surprisingly came out very weird. n these kinda things, u know its wrong. same thing happened wit the calculations part for the second exp. i got some weird answer i didnt hav any other way to mend. only later did i find out the error. i was lookin at x all the time. so much so it totally slipped my mind tt -kn was the gradient n x co-ordinate. i felt like pullin head apart when i realised after the practical. i failed to see the obvious!

this is one practical, under normal condition of sch life, i probably would hav scored full, if not very very close to full marks.
but A level condition got the better of me. time tickin down, frustration n my irritability. i obviously was quite pissed at myself for fumblin at such crucial stage.

as my classmate Jonathan reflected later on, i totally agreed with him. i rather have made this mistake in prelims than in the actual A Levels. but theres comfort in knowin tt those components make up very little of the whole practical. if juz excludin those, i'll still manage to get decent marks for the practical. but tiny slips like tt can acccumulate to bring u down quite harshly.

if i was supposed to get A or B overall for phy n ended up gettin a C or somethin. then i think i know why.