JMSS 2021 Entry

[suppp321]

omg yes i did one on one tutoring and spent SO MUCH time going through the 3 science textbooks and i regret it so bad bc barely anything was in the test. i didn’t study much for the maths part but w the essays, i would try to write one a day to practice.

[Jazzy_jules]

hey y’all, i’m new to atarnotes.

i did my interview on wednesday and i was wondering how long were ur interviews? mine was like 17 mins and the two ladies i had were super nice, but one didn’t talk much as she was just taking notes. she asked some tricky q’s here and there though.

I did my interview on Wednesday as well mine went for around the same length of time as you, like 17-20 mins? But I had male interviewers.

[Jazzy_jules]

I have a pretty irrelevant question now, but how hard did everyone study for the exam? Did anyone do tutoring and if you did was it any help? I’m asking because I have a lot of friends who went to tutoring and studied for hours and still didn’t get past the test. Just want to know if it makes a difference.

Well I did tutoring in the past, so my basics and everything would be better than most, I quit a while back. For the JMSS exam, I didn’t go for any special tutoring or anything, I kinda just flipped through my old textbooks and reviewed trigonometry cuz I’m bad at it and winged it. I didn’t decide to go to the exam until the last minute.

[why_cant_it_be_follow_the_butterflies]

I have a pretty irrelevant question now, but how hard did everyone study for the exam? Did anyone do tutoring and if you did was it any help? I’m asking because I have a lot of friends who went to tutoring and studied for hours and still didn’t get past the test. Just want to know if it makes a difference.

I did a bit of tutoring but it was more focused on exam strategies and getting used to the way the exams are set out, definitely helped me (and even if I don't get in it's still important to be able to take exams well so I'm glad I did it). I didn't spend ages on it tho, I did like 6 weeks of it with a few weeks break (COVID rescheduling) between the end of it and the exam.

[Jazzy_jules]

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[ihavenolife:(]

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[MAN0033]

Insta-Instagram. I studied pretty hard during the last months. I would study for the maths and nr a lot as I had those tests and I found them very easy. I use to go two tuitions where I submitted essays and we did tests. I found one of the tuitions very easy so I quit that and stayed at James an which was harder. I usually practiced essays one a week and I averaged higher than 86%. I often neglected the essays thinking there would be no essays. I usually went through the science year 9/10 book this helped quite a lot. I feel that the info I learned was a bit irrelevant and the test was much easier than expected.

[suppp321]

yeahhh i wonder if it's just this year where the exam was sorta easy

[suppp321]

ugh im freaking out. i feel like my interview was too short, MINE WAS UNDER 20 MINS

[Jazzy_jules]

ugh im freaking out. i feel like my interview was too short, MINE WAS UNDER 20 MINS

I think everyone’s was

[why_cant_it_be_follow_the_butterflies]

ugh im freaking out. i feel like my interview was too short, MINE WAS UNDER 20 MINS

mine was about 20 minutes too, I don't think it'll matter too much how long it was, provided you made a good impression - just luck of the draw a bit as to what questions you got and how long you could talk about them for.

[suppp321]

hmm i feel like there was one question which i could've definitely talked more about, but let's see

[Hellothisisme]

I’m sure you did fine. In the end, they don’t care about how much you say, just whether or not your answers and points were good.

[Hamish55]

When I look back and recall, I think I  could have done much better in my interview and expressed my views more clearly, but it was overall a good interview experience.

[aaron6785]

man this chat isnt very helpful anymore    haha   im pretty sure most of us feel the same that we could have done better       honestly cos it's a first time experience noone knows what to expect    and of course we feel we could have done better         cos we would have been pre nervous    i feel like those who just took things chill are the ones feeling more confident rn       and those who weren't wish they took their time and were more calm ig?