People from 5B and 5U, how was the Princeton Review test ? If you say it was hard, you must be joking. The one I sat for was harder. I'm talking about the finals at Cititel Mid Valley on 2007/10/06.
Just curious to try it out, I went there and met another girl from the afternoon session, Audrey Wee Li Huey (also a representative). And then, with another few more people, we sat and talked until the examination - er, quiz, began. Many of us were there early, so the talking was bliss.
Sitting for the Princeton Review Finals quiz was tiresome. A hundred questions, fifty math, ten general knowledge and the rest of them English - sixty minutes, and a freezing boardroom. Honestly, my toes shook. And on top of that, many didn't finish the examination. None of us knew all the answers, by the way - there were surely some guesses. With one of my teachers, Pn Siti Kartini (the head of the Math and Science panel) there to see us in, I had a little more courage. Before the quiz started, she lent me a pencil and a pen. Awwww...
So after that we got to know what the Princeton Review is all about. It's the examination board to prepare Malaysian (and other international) students for the SATs - that is, if they do want to do undergraduate courses in the States. I had absolutely no idea about that one. So I listened. In the middle of everything, a teacher from Sekolah Sri Cempaka - a private school - got up and said that her representative (I forgot his name) was Sri Cempaka's top student. The very fact that she said it, she was so confident that he would loot the RM3000 TPR subsidiary. And he did.
At this, I looked on to the other representatives. There were very few government schools - us (Convent Bukit Nanas), St John's Institution, and Bukit Bintang Boys' School. The rest of them were private or international schools - Sekolah Sri Garden, Fairview International School, International Islamic School Kuala Lumpur, Sekolah Sri Cempaka, Sekolah Sri KDU, to name a few. And all of these schools were already doing preparations for the SATs !!! Surely these schools would have an edge over us, so people would say this was not a fair fight. But for government schools, two of us did pretty well - for the lower secondary category, Bukit Bintang Boys' School took home the consolation. I took home the consolation for the upper secondary category. RM 300 TPR subsidiary, that's what. Trust me, it was tough.
When I came back to school and told them the good news, they wanted to have some prize-giving thing. Hey, I didn't ask for one. All I wanted was to make my mark in the first session of the TPR quiz series, and I did, and I thank the Lord for it. Even if it was superficial compared to the top three prizes. Chances like these are hard to come by, I guess.
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