When he told me that his school gave him a mock Maths exam paper on Monday and that he was the FIRST to HAND IN his paper, I was a little skeptical as to how well he would perform. In fact, right after looking at my expression, he said, “Sorry Mummy, I didn’t check before I hand in the paper again.”

Me: “Why?”

Keatkeat: “Because I have never been the first to hand in any paper before. I want to feel good being the first.”

Today, his teacher returned him the paper….

Oh well, let’s see if it pays off:

 

I am so happy that the teacher gave Keatkeat’s class a trial test on how the Maths exam paper scheduled on 31 October 2011 would be like.

From this I will know what are the areas Keatkeat need more practice on before he tackles the ‘real thing’ at the end of the month.

Yet, when I looked at the paper, *sigh* …. it confirmed once again that it is his personality problem.

Carelessness:

Lack of concentration and being overconfident often lands him in this type of situation.

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Presumptuous:

The moment he saw this question, he assumed that it is a number bond. He did not bother to look at the arrow nor the numbers provided beside the arrows. When he could not see his ‘assumed answer’ in the multiple choice, he just pick any which he fancied.

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Laziness:

Since Primary One, he has been lazy to do the working for number pattern. He would ALWAYS look at ONLY two numbers in the whole line of number pattern and if the difference between that two numbers is +4, he would assume that the whole number pattern is based on that addition. *sigh*

He simply refused to check if the other numbers on the number line were a difference of +4 as well. Lazy! Assuming! *shake head*

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Over complicate things:

He feels that the empty box given is too big for ONE answer and so he chose to write two numbers in the boxes. *faint*

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Lack of Concentration Stamina:

It has become a trend for Keatkeat that he would ALWAYS get the last question on the last page of the paper wrong! *faint*

He often loses concentration-stamina faster than a falling metal ball towards the end of every paper. If he ever gets 99/100, I would not be surprise that the last point was lost in the last question of the paper. *sigh*

Because he did so well, he deserved a reward. We went out the whole day on today, forget about exam, forget about revision, forget about school work. Just play and enjoy fully for a day. He well-deserved it! *smile*

Well done Keatkeat! Hope you do as well as this for your Actual Maths Exam Paper end of this month. *fingers crossed*