GCE A Level Chinese Oral Examination

Team M044... First five students to be examined for the day were all from my class. Yes I'm talking about the horribly-done oral exam.

I'm the 5th person, I always seem to be the last, if not last few because of the way my full name is spelt-.-

The 5 of us were sitting at the void deck just before reporting to the sports complex. I seemed to be the only one who was so tensed up over the exam,. I looked at Claire -- she was dead calm, claiming that she had "given up already"; Marcus and Andrew (Ong) had the bochup expressions, they only read a bit from the 口试资料we had; Eugenia simply hoped that she would not read or converse too loudly. Simply being with them calmed my nerves by leaps (I wouldn't say bounds though), such that by the time we made that dreaded walk over to the sports complex, I was emotionally (more) stable.

I decided that worrying was not going to do me any good. There, outside the SMR, after my 4 classmates have vacated their chairs at the waiting area, I prayed a final prayer. "Faith" was the word. Trust God with the oral exam, I just had to give my all to Him and let Him take control, not attempt to handle it on my own as I had rashly done with my term exams.

I landed in front of the examiners in no time. ( I sound like a plane) My voice was unstable, there was silence all around me and I was trying to adjust my volume like what we usually do to our audio speakers.

Ok the passage was generally fluent yet not there, I read 泰国 as de2 guo2 and fei1 guo2. It just didn't occur to me that the country in question was Thailand. I got 异 and 导 mixed up. I had awkward pauses in between lines. Worst thing is that I started the first paragraph sounding totally unsure of myself.

The conversation. Ah, the conversation. The topic was totally unexpected.
"...Formula one 赛车... ..."
I knew I was doomed. I was done for. But somehow, by the grace of God, words actually came out from my mouth. I spoke. wow! That itself is a miracle. Haha. Although my points were simply 'not there' and the examiners were trying to suppress their laughter when I said Singaporeans must drive carefully on the roads and not think they're racing, or this will cause many road accidents. =.= Even worse, when they asked why it's held at night, I said it's because the kids were all at home and not watching the actual race so they will not learn about speeding on roads -.-

Oh, whatever.

Then I laughed silently with Claire and Andrew at the quarantine area until I no longer felt pissed with myself for screwing up my exam. We were laughing at Claire's mistakes. In fact this girl and I laughed about it all the way from the sports complex back to the void deck to the canteen where Victoria and Sheena probably thought we're nuts. Laughing so hard after a national exam.


If not for these four kids, I would have collapsed under all the unnecessary pressure placed upon myself, so I thank God for them! :) I've never laughed so much just before and after an exam.

My English is atrocious.