A levels easier?... dunno, but u got to love korean dramas!!

Phew, finally a much needed break from the A levels. Hope you guys did/are doing well for the As....

Anyways, have you guys noticed that the A levels are getting much harder than previous years? The maths paper 1 was a warning already, then came chem paper 3, and maths paper 2. I mean, they aren't undoable lah, but can tell that they are harder than previous years. So i was thinking, how come we so suay.... Then i suddenly remembered an article that i read in The Economist at around March, which i went to dig up:

(Note: i lost the password that they gave me for the online subscription, so i cant copy and paste the article here. and im too lazy to type it out =P, so i ll just put a few abstracts in here)

"Shiny-eyed 18 year olds clutching paper proof of three top grades will no doubt appear on newspapers' front pages next week, when A level results are published. But they are unlikely to feel quite as jubilant as they would have done a decade ago. Every summer A-level results are met with scornful claims that the exams have grown easier. ... around a quarter of A-level entries are still likely to score an A...

Whether A level exams are really getting easier or whether, as the government says, the higher marks are down to improved teaching is hard to judge. Changing syllabuses and subject make it difficult to track standards over time. But even if they are not easier - unlikely as it seems - A levels are certainly too easy. Top universities with far more applicants than places say they cannot distinguish between the brilliant and the bright: all have anodyne [bland] batches of A grades....

... an officially-commissioned inquiry found in 2004 that A levels lacked breadth and challenge... The government rejected the idea [of scrapping the A levels], but recognised that A levels need to be reformed. It is looking at setting more probing questions and perhaps adding an A* grade, as at GCSES.

... And recently the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service said that the cleverest A-level students seemed less qualified than equally bright IB pupils"

Bleh, maybe they are responding to criticism like this and we have to bear the brunt of it. T.T. Looks like we're in for a rough ride next week. I think all the crap about A levels being easier than prelims is just that, crap.

On to more happy stuff, theres this korean drama on channel u 7 oclock that EVERYONE MUST WATCH!!!! its called goong, ye man wang fei, and its the best korean drama ever!!. (actually i dun know about that coz this is my first korean drama =X. But it is seriously really nice!). And theres this damn damn damn nice song that comes on whenever a love scene is played:



The actress is damn cute right??!?!?! haha. the chorus goes something like:

"sarang een gah yo geu dae nah wah gaht dah myuhn shee jahk een gah yo
mahm ee jah koo geu dael sarang hahn dae yo
ohn seh sang ee deud doh rohk soh ree chee neh yo
wae ee jeh yah deul lee jyoh~ OOH~
suh rohl mahn nah gee wee hae ee jeh yah sarang chah jaht dah goh"

Translation:

"Is this love? Do you feel the same?
My heart keeps telling me that I’m in love with you.
My heart is shouting to the world that I’m in love with you.
Why have I only heard it now?
The voice keeps telling me that I have finally found love."

wahhh so nice... okay im off bye~~