This was a busy semester in the second half of Grade 10. Up until this week, most things have finally come to a close. This semester has been really busy. We had to take a lot of certification exams: the Ministry of Labor’s basic accounting exam, basic software application exam, TQC typing in Chinese and English, and PowerPoint. Apart from school, I also had a lot of things to do personally. Luckily, everything has wrapped up so far.
I’ve finished the accounting exam and the PowerPoint exam. The Chinese and English typing test is tomorrow. Thankfully, I passed the basic accounting exam. That was the subject I was most worried about, because my accounting isn’t very steady. It’s easy for me to make one careless mistake, and careless mistakes are the worst thing in accounting. For the practical part, one careless wrong character can, in serious cases, lead to an entire form being filled in wrong. The written part is safer, because there are a lot of questions, which spreads out the penalty for each one. Also, the Ministry of Labor published a question bank. If you go through it a few times, you can pass with a high score. Even if you never look at the question bank, it’s hard to fail the written part with basic accounting knowledge alone.
The written part of the basic accounting exam was as simple as I expected, but the practical part… it had unexpected questions, like the reversal entries. Many classmates who would normally have passed failed the practical part, which is a pity. As for me… I feel my score didn’t reach what I expected. I had estimated 90 for both the written and practical parts, but the practical part let me down with 85. I think I probably missed something somewhere, because I got the toughest question, the reversal entry, completely right orz. Speaking of reversal entries, they were really tricky. At first I didn’t know how to do any of them. Then I remembered the basic principle of adjustments and tried it with a “why not” attitude, and I got it right! Checking the results was also fun. I was at school when we heard the results were out. You could check them on the Commerce Ministry’s website. Anyone with a smartphone took it out, and those without one… just came to me and asked to borrow my iPad to check~ Then we spent almost ten minutes checking results during class XDD It was a full-on accounting craze! But honestly, I was really nervous checking the results for the basic accounting exam, because the teacher said students who hadn’t passed it would fail.
- Written: 91.25
- Practical: 85
Also, I think I’ve really improved. I’ve started to have goals in life and can stick to some things. I’ve always set goals for myself, or rather, rules. But experience tells me that doesn’t work… Still, in recent months I’ve found that I can resist my laziness. Maybe it’s because I got scared by a warning (I got 10 demerits for being late…). I used to get up very late, but I’ve now gone more than a month without being late! I leave the house around 7 every day. My current goal is to get up at 5 in the morning and write an article before heading to school, but I’m still working on that part… At least I’m not late anymore! I’ve also set myself a rule: on weekdays, I can’t turn on my computer until 9 p.m. I used to believe I had the “superpower of playing on the computer while studying,” but later I realized that once I turned it on, I was completely absorbed in the computer. Homework usually ended up as something to get out of the way first 0.0 So I made the rule that I have to wait until 9 to turn it on, and do my homework before 9~ So far in the last two weeks, it has worked, and there are many other rules about my life that I’m working hard to follow~ I hope to become a better me.
As for grades, the second of the two semester exams has ended, and the third is a month away. I don’t have the second exam results yet, but I think I’ve improved a little. I’m a bit sad that the improvement isn’t bigger, but I think I should develop a mindset of not worrying too much about grades. Otherwise, I’ll suffer. Even though I improve on every exam, I’ll always have a goal I haven’t reached. Worrying too much about grades leads to exactly that situation. I think the right mindset is: care about grades, but measure them by the average rather than by constantly chasing the next target. The pressure is too heavy otherwise. Improvement is worth being happy about. How much you improve doesn’t matter that much. As long as you learn something, that’s enough. As for rankings… it’s fine either way. I think I can get into the top 15 this time. For the third exam, the most important thing is not to be careless! In the second exam, many subjects could have gone very well, but my old bad habit came back… I made a lot of careless mistakes in programming, computer concepts, and business concepts… My Chinese score went down in terms of points, but that was expected. The Chinese exam this time was ridiculously hard. In the past, multiple-choice questions were worth more than handwritten answers, but this time it was the opposite. Luckily, I did prepare a bit for the handwritten part before the exam (character pronunciation, annotations, dictation, etc.). Otherwise, my Chinese would have been terrible.
By the way, a person needs to know their own limits. Someone really doesn’t know how to say it… It’s fine to like someone, but how can you be so confident about liking them? It’s not that we look down on you. It’s that your words reveal your ignorance. Setting aside your own problems, nobody in a relationship would dare say, “As soon as I confess, she’ll say yes.” Feelings change too much, and that kind of line makes it sound like the girl is begging you to accept her… = If you say that, even if the girl liked you before, she’ll never say yes to you… That alone shows your ignorance.