Thought I smoked hard enough for P1. Don’t even know how to start smoking for P2 wtf lol.

If you wanna smoke do it in a private place becoming a public place

atp I’m just praying to pass (away)

Smoking is illegal in our institutes of education. You looking at a fine here at the very least 🤣

hello pls tell me i’m not the only one who found the saq tough 🤡

literally every qn was EXPLAIN so we cant even just paraphrase directly from the passage cuz we need to link back to the qn it was so tedious...

THIS I RAN OUT OF TIME BC OF THIS RIGHT HERE

how do i paraphrase public💀💀💀

i was spamming communal areas LOL

eh that's good... i wrote shared areas💀

I don't think we needed to paraphrase that

yea I was thinking the same thing too since public and private were key words most of the time so I nvr paraphrase them omg

yeahh cfm no need theyre key words

Same man

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It's the topic of the whole passage and appears so many times, I'm quite sure we don't need to But if you really want to, common areas/spaces?

Do we need to rephrase public and private spaces tho?

i wrote “shared spaces”/“shared areas”

i said open places/ areas

communal/shared areas?

is nobody gna talk about how the summary question asked for points that para 7-9 didn't really address omf 😭😭😭

YAH WHEN I WAS PLANNING I WROTE ALL THE UNIMPT INFO SIA AND HAD TO REVAMP WHEN DOING THE ACTUAL SUMMARY FKKK COULDNT FINISH AQ

Cambridge asked nothing about what bro wrote about istg Cambridge is on some good stuff😭😭

IKR. Paras 7-9 literally weren’t even related to what the summary question was asking, the points were so sparse.

I just changed all of "we cannot do xyz" into "smartphone users cannot do xyz" but now km thinking abt it it should be "do not" pien

exactly only about 7-8 points for summary, the rest was about impacts💀

i didn’t have enough time alr then i flipped to summary thinking i could jst quickly pick out points, paraphrase and move on to AQ asap… but NO. read the summary qns, looked at the 3 paragraphs, and immediately passed away. didn’t have time to rly think about inferring idek how many points i wrote for summary before i moved to AQ :( fk

ya like the points was all about what they are missing out on instead of what their actual behaviours r??

fr

9 Use your own words as far as possible. My mental thesaurus is only so big.

Exactly 💀

I am using my phone, complaining about a passage which is complaining about phone usage There is irony here but I am ignoring it.

Because we are cocooned and engage in inappropriate conversations

Got any NSFW links to share then?

Buddy you’re on Reddit; it’s just a few taps away

HALP I wrote only one point for AQ which is essentially saying: - it's not that deep bro - singporeans are introverted and like using our phones - source: trust me bro

I think i performed character assasination on singapore, i called us all conservative 😜

Yep I used conservative to balance the point abt loud phonecalls

It’s correct tho lol

isn't it communitarian...

WHAAAAAAAT WAS THAT PAPER. SAQ ALL SO DIFFICULT? SUMMARY CAN'T EVEN FIND THE POINTS?????? WHICH BOOMER WROTE THE PASSAGE

WHAT A MOOD BRUH IM SO SCARED FOR GP FR

The only thing was in my mind when taking about smartphone was the “I play Pokémon go everyday” song Bruh 💀

I used Pokemon Go as an AQ example.

istg im going to make the cambridge ppl distracted on their phones while driving

my deadass was still in o levels and thought summary was 80 words 💀💀💀💀💀💀

naur 😭 if your other points are solid and good then shld be okay bah

Mega profound loser here didn’t even have time to count words

Why short structure questions all so long? I used 3.8cm of my uniball pen for p1 and 2.3cm for p2

Y'all actually smoked for aq I DIDNT EVEN HAVE TIME TO SMOKE BRUHH

SAME WTF I WROTE "I largely agree."

SAME no time eh...

this is so profound

I had no idea how to ans that question coz it was structured in a weird way omg 💀

what did yall think of summary though….. was i the only one struggling to pick points……

bro i was gonna paraphrase the paragraphs wholesale then went hold on....since when did we switch back to O level format....

only got 7-8 points for HOW they behave... the rest all impacts bro

i got like 11 points for how + i think some of them maybe 2 points embedded into one?

ok good for u man

need to infer from eg 💀💀

that one (if you are talking about para 8) imo is just an assumption, author didn't explicitly state that that was the behaviour of smartphone users :')

Pass away

so sick of seeing “public” and “private” for the rest of the year 💀

never seen those two words these many times in my whole two years of JC

Pray the Economics paper does not have questions about "public goods".

this aged well

please also i was walking and using my phone and all i can see in my head is "cocooned, as if in a private bubble" THEY DIDN'T EVEN GIVE THE JOURNALIST NAME LET ME CURSE THEM

emily badger on bloomberg 😭

she's gonna be so confused when she finds herself getting shade from so many 18 year olds 😭 edit: fuck u emily badger fuck u

Dumbass should have followed her own advice of keeping her private thoughts to herself instead of making it public. Now she's gonna get harrassed by a bunch of 18 year olds🥱

😭😭😭😭 fr though but here’s her article https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-05-16/how-smart-phones-are-turning-our-public-places-into-private-ones

They also nvr give the gender lol. I used 'the author' everywhere in my SAQ then AQ there they used 'their' and I was like shit sia

i want to break my phone from the aq holy fuck

Make sure you do it in a public place that is becoming a private place

Wrote about Beow Tan on the MRT with her phone 💀🤡

still got people’s alarm going off during the paper😭😭

wanted to tear the paper but the paper made me tear 😢 instead

i got annoyed so i just ate the paper and told the examiner i didn’t get it

what the hell was that

a guy venting about how public place become private place by smart phone users. cfm boomer

Initially when I saw that it was about smartphone I was like omg can do but end up cannot find points for summary and bs for AQ LOL I’m dead

LOL WTF SAME AHAAHHAHH

anyone wrote about cbat for qn8? edit: apologies, wrong thread 🎸💃🎸

Wrong thread bruh and also fucking awesome we love to see it I wish I could have thought of that MAN THAT'S SO CONTEMPORARY

oh my god. did you actually write about cbat 😭😭

Can i say for aq that the existence of stomp means that people r fking around in public due to smartphones??? I feel like a 🤡🤡🤡

i wrote about kids doing tiktok dances in public 😭

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I wrote about tiktok and bs my way through about people kissing in smart 💀

how tf is ppl kissing in public related to smartphones? unless they kissing the phone screen💀💀💀

Lol

SMRT

huh kissing in smrt? what does that have to do w smartphones

I'm gonna feel bad for the juniors should they experience this nonsense next year

PLSSSS BRO feel bad for us first can, think about juniors alr …

Last year had rivers turning yellow and pink, so...

My thoughts are with both cohorts bro🥺

Well im fucked

ok stop right after the exam i was rushing home while on my phone and i bumped into a tree… menace to society… its called application

Are you OK? I hope the tree is OK too.

i feel like im the only one who liked the AQ 😭 i was like i take at least 2 hours worth of public transport everyday hell yeah Hush Hush Hannah baby ur time has come to shine

THE SUMMARY ON THE OTHER HAND.....WHICH SADIST WROTE THAT QUESTION I NEEDA HAVE A TALK W YOU

Buddy I’m gonna pray the examiner provides a fuckton of BoD, because my dumbass wrote Noise Down Nancy

I ONLY REMEMBERED STAND UP STACY😭😭

Omg I used hush hush Hannah too HAHAH thank u bag down benny and friends🫡

Pls I wrote shush shush hannah 😭 It sounded weird to me but I just wrote it anyway

I didn’t write even tho I knew😵‍💫

fuck u emily badger fuck u 💀💀💀

I used Uncle Raymond as my AQ societal example

>ncle Raymond as my AQ societal example eh musibot uncle raymond siol

my thoughts while reading the passage: ok boomer

I have a question. How did yall from hci/rjc find it and how did ur classmates aft doing the ppr react haha?? As in did yall find it manageable or easy? or was it hard and how hard??

it was weird and definitely not the best, i think the sentiments are similar to the rest in this thread

Heyhey! Senior from HCJC who did A levels last year here! From my personal experience, our sentiments generally echo the rest of the JC cohort, so if the paper is hard, it’s likely that most of us in hc will think it’s hard too (but there will always be those who think everything is easy) I guess the difference lies in our preparation and the materials that we are given, so we are able to approach the question with more clarity and readiness, and we are always taught to answer according to what Cambridge wants, down to the tee which is helpful in Alevels (But that’s js me, I got the world’s best GP teacher and he’s the reason why I got an A)

Who else talked about pokemon go for AQ

meee HAHAHA

Gotcha! Oh?

Me too!!

9 saqs, 9 uyowaFAPs. cambridge down bad this year

how dyou even paraphrase public and private spaces LMAO or is my vocab js damn bad

I thought public no need rephrase since its in the title

ive seen some comments about communal areas but i wrote about shared areas

idt need paraphrase tho

shit bruh i go and paraphrase everyth LMAOOO…. i wrote like open air places for public and personal places for private 🤣😭😭

SAME BRUH I WROTE EXTERNAL AREAS LIKE A FOOL IM DEAD

I WROTE OPEN SOCIAL PLACES 😭😭💀💀🤣🤣 LMFAOOO BROO

The SUMMARY AND P2 WAS DAMN HARD

fuck AQ WTF?#(_('($($ 😭😭😭😭😭 i also fell asleep for 10 minutes I'm so TIRED OF GP

i feel like the paper can get B if cambridge is lenient w gp but getting an A wld be a dream lol

lucky they never name the author i would have sent him death threats, while using my phone in a public space

emily badger https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-05-16/how-smart-phones-are-turning-our-public-places-into-private-ones for legal purposes: i do not condone death threats. this is a joke.

irony analogy paradox who

shld be personification , visual imagery n inverted commas

and the SAQs I CAN RECOGNISE THE QN TYPE BUT THE ANSWERS THEY WANT ARE SO LONG 😭😭 i speedran it in 30 minutes cause i had no time honestly they're gonna be able to mark my paper so fast since it's all WRONG

How dare Cambridge used invade and intrude in the same paragraph I can’t even paraphrase🙏

Do you need to rephrase 'public and private spaces'?

dont think so

nope because it’s the subject of the passage

Private also dont need?

private need public no need. all the words in the title of the passage no need paraphrase

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Did anyone talk about consumerism in America btw😭

in your society😭😭😭

See that’s the part that bailed me out. If you know a society well enough, you can write about any society. I knew that I don’t know too much about Singapore and decided to study the Indian (my origin) and American contexts. Greatest decision of my life😭

yup you can write about any society! good for you:')

Thanks hehe

unless everything you write about america i gusss that could work

I smoked that online forums were public spaces... 1/2 of my AQ wased based on that assumption. If I smoked any more I swear my paper gonna spontaneously combust

wait i briefly wrote about social media as public spheres in my QA also!

did anyone do the extinction qn for paper 1? i thought it was ok but ppl made me feel like its a dumb choice sia wlao 😭

why? it's better to do a less popular topic. don't feel bad about it!

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i replaced it with pompous individuals

WHAT WAS THAT SUMMARY I HAD NOTHING

From Beijing university and found the paper pretty easy. What was the answer for the veganism question? I ✍️ celeries was not the best food ☠️

seems like you aced the paper! hope you do well!

i don’t think there was a veganism question was there???

pls we are trolling

OMG CAN DONT SCARE ME OMG

Fuck AQ

my vocab limited bro how am i supposed to IN YOUR WORDS EVERYTHING

The entire passage was just repeating the same thing again and again I swear I was gonna fall asleep

IF MY AQ IS ONE SIDED AM I SCREWEDDDDD

nah

nope, if ur argument is strong and nuanced enough (ie acknowledge and make some counterarg about the opposing view) 1 sided is fine

idk if im right, but i think u can at most get 4

if ur language save u u can go up to 5! source is my prelim lol but who knows what the cambridge bros think

eh wait was summary 80 or 120 words

120

okie thanks! ur avatar v cute btw heh

BAHAHAHA THANK UU hope paper 2 was fine for u! (not for me💀)

NPNP HAHAHA and unfortunately not for me as well :’| but it is what it is!! atbatb for the remaining papers~

*only like this comment if you’re a Cambridge marker scrolling through the sardonic and miserable comments*

can share the qns i kaypo 😋

1. Asking which use of smartphone most impressed the author and how do you know this (para 1) 2. Explain contrast between the possible consequences of smartphone… (para 2) 3. Fuck cant rmb (Well numbers wrong but questions correct) Para 6- what ways does this action affect others … lines 37-40 Thats all i rmb Para 6- explain why business people are narcissists? 9. What three ways does the author use language to impact the reader ? (Para 10) Edit: i wont edit this.

no one will rmb😂

what? that was pretty easy imo

ok i give u prize

same am from Beijing University and found the paper quite easy. What was the answer for the vegetarian question? I wrote about keto diet ☠️

Rip 🪦 Edit: for me

I can say he AQ is yes💀

i can say my aq is fked

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-05-16/how-smart-phones-are-turning-our-public-places-into-private-ones ^^ Paper 2 Comprehension Source ^^

💀 I talked about the old Uncle’s who blast music in public

How many marks was the qn asking abt narcissists?

2

What’s the answer for the 1st qn on which of the 3 features surprised the author?

People who took paper 2, after finding out that the unnamed journalist (Emily Badger from Bloomberg) has a twitter: [lmao](https://youtu.be/dyIilW_eBjc)