Hello, I am a O level student who just received my results 2 days ago. My combined humanities elective is combined SS & History ( got an A1 for it ), so I don’t think I can offer any advice on Geography.


But for SS’s SBQ, best is to include cross-referencing of sources to gain marks for utility and reliability questions. And also to infer if the provenance [ author / artist ] of the source is bias or not. Your child’s / your teacher most likely had given him/her/you some examples of the answers of certain popular SBQ questions. You probably need to remember the format of the answers for certain questions. BTW, a basic inference question should come out for the O level exams, since it’s been the pattern for years, or so I’ve heard. So must be familiar with this type of question. It’s worth around 5-6 marks!

And must remember to give evidence from the source provided and explain it.

For SEQ, I think reading your notes from your teacher & textbook would help. Memorising of model essays may help too, but I didn’t try that, so am unsure of it’s effectiveness. Treat the examiner like they don’t know the topic and write your essay :x

Hello parents


I received my O level results 2 days ago and I got 11 points. After deduction of CCA points, it’s 10 points.

I’m considering to go into the science stream of Nanyang JC or Meridian JC, but both JC’s cut of point is 9.

Would I stand a chance getting into either one of the JC?

My results are:

English - B3
Combined Humanities - A1
Mathematics - A2
Add. Maths - B3
Chemistry - B4
Science ( Physics/Bio ) - A1
Chinese - A1 ( regretted a lot on not taking HCL haha… )

Also, Catholic JC is also a choice for me as it’s COP is 10 points, but I’m not a Catholic and fear that I may not fit in with the crowd. I’ve also heard that there’s morning prayers & other religious functions which I do not think I may be interested to attend. Is it compulsory for me to attend these functions if I got into CJC?

Thank you for reading this and sorry for being so blur >_<