Test-Taking Strategies. ツ

Ayun. Nag-start na din ang Enhancement/Review Classes namin ngayong second semester in prep for the Boards next year. Yung feeling na nakaka-excite na nakakatakot na nakakamotivate? Alam niyo yun? Mixed emotions lang ang peg. Basta kasi ganun. Nakakaexcite kasi onting panahon na lang ggraduate na kami, nakakatakot kasi sabi nga nila, “You’ll be facing the real world" na, mas mahirap na, pero nakakamotivate kasi halos lahat ng nasa paligid mo e optimistic sa lahat ng bagay. Mas nakakagana pumasok araw-araw, mas nakakainspire mag-aral pa ng mabuti.  

Anyway, share ko lang yung natutunan ko sa topic namin ngayong araw sa enhancement, for future reference and sana makatulong din sa iba na makakabasa nito. :) 

TEST-TAKING SKILLS/ STRATEGIES.



My version of what I have learned last Friday. I hope this helps. 
Applicable to multiple-choice questions.

✔ WORD OF THE DAY: “REWORD!"
★ Formulate the question in your own words! 

You have to always remember the word, “REWORD". No matter how long the question is, you have to read it from the first to the very last word—do not skim or read to quickly. (Because, admit it or not, we all have the tendency to skim and read quickly once we see a loooong question, isn’t it?)

★ Eliminate only what you think is WRONG.

Stay focused on the REWORDed question and not on the background info. Usually, pag multiple choice question, maganda yung strategy na elimination. After mo basahin yung question, isa-isahin mo naman yung choices. For example, habang binabasa mo yung letter A na choice, i-cover mo yung B, C and D. After reading letter A, you have to decide whether to eliminate it if it’s wrong or leave it as a choice. And then, if ever you decide to eliminate it, WAG MO NA BALIKAN. If you know for yourself that the one you eliminated is a wrong answer, resist the impulse to go over it again.

★ DON’T predict answers upon reading the question!

While reading the question, prevent yourself from predicting answers even before finishing. Kasi may tendency tayo na habang binabasa palang yung question, may naf-formulate na agad na sagot sa isip natin (knowingly or unknowingly). What if may na-formulate ka ng sagot pagkatapos mo basahin yung tanong, pero pagtingin mo sa choices, wala naman dun yung na-predict mo? Malilito ka lang. 

★ If clueless about what the question is really asking for, take a deep breath. Don’t panic. Read answer choices to get clues.

Minsan, may mga tanong talaga na tricky kung baga. Yung tipong kahit ilang ulit mo ng basahin e halos clueless ka pa sa kung ano ba talaga yung hinahanap. Sa hinaba-haba pa ng question, hindi mo makuha kung ano ba talaga yung hinahanap at ang tendency mo is mag-skip ka nalang sa tanong na yun. Noooo. Never skip a question.  Resist the impulse to read and re-read the question. Mas matatagalan ka lang. Instead, you can look up the choices and maybe get some clues there. Once na makakuha ka na ng clues, then go back to REWORDING the question using the clues.

So there, sana makatulong din sa mga makakabasa neto. ツ

College Tips for Freshmen and students alike.

First day namin bukas. May pasok na naman. Haha. Pero excited na din ako. Last year ko na din kasi ‘to as a college student kaya sasagarin ko na. Haha. (Gah. I feel so old. >_< Meehee.)

Magsh-share na din ako ng sa tingin ko pwedeng tips for incoming freshmen and students alike.

•  Masaya sa college, pramis! Syempre bagong environment, bagong mga tao, bagong experience, halos bago karamihan. Kaya wag ka matakot magpakatotoo sa sarili mo, everyone respects individuallity in college.Mas meenjoy mo ang college life mo pag ganun.

• TIME-MANAGEMENT Sa college, matututunan mong madami kayong free time pag 1st and 2nd year niyo. Nasa sayo yan kung san mo gagamitin ang free time mo. Pwedeng sa leisure o kaya sa pag-aaral. Pero mas mabuti na 1st year palang, e marunong ka na sa time management. Kasi pagdating ng 3rd at 4th year, jan na yung halos karamihan ng major subjects niyo, at kung hindi ka marunong ng time management, ikaw din yung kawawa. Mahirap ang mag-cramming. Wala ding magandang resulta pag nagc-cramming ka. Pwede ka namang magsaya, basta ba alam mo kung pano gamitin ang oras mo. :)


• Don’t be afraid to try something new. Wag kang matakot mag-try ng bago ngayong college. Wag masyado maging mahiyain. Sa college, pinili mo kung ano yung gusto mong course, kung ano yung sa tingin mo e mag e-excel ka, yung sa tingin mo may talent ka sa field na yun. Kaya dapat wag mo sayangin. Sayang naman kung hindi mo ie-explore and abilities, talents, and skills mo ngayong college diba? 


• Be friendly. :) Masaya kapag madami kang kaibigan. Kaso minsan nakakainis lang na tatawagin at ile-label ka pang FC e nakikipagkaibigan ka lang naman. Sakin, pabayaan mo nalang yung mga taong ganun, madami pa naman jang pwede mong maging kaibigan e. Sa college madami ang makikilala mo at kadalasan, sila yung mga magiging kaibigan mo for the longest time. :)  It pays to be friendly kung yung mga makikilala mo e yung mga totoong kaibigan. 


• ADJUSTMENT. Pagpasok mo ng college, for sure madaming bago jan. Bagong experience, bagong kaibigan, bagong school, bagong environment, at kung ano-ano pang bago,  kaya sa una, mahirap talaga ang mag-adjust. Di tulad sa high school, sa college iba ang schedule, minsan may 1-2 hours kayong vacant bago ang next subject, palipat-lipat ng classrooms, paiba-ibang kaklase sa bawat subject at paiba-iba ding buildings. Pero unti-unti, masasanay ka din. 


• College is a continuation of what you have learned in elementary and high school.
  Kung tutuusin, last stage ng pag-aaral sa buhay estudyante ang college (kung wala kang balak mag-masteral at doctoral degree). Lahat ng natutunan mo nung elementary at high school ka e magagamit mo din naman ngayong college, kasi back to basics din lang sa una. Tulad sa subjects, minor subjects ang Math, English, Filipino at PE. Pero unang-una sa lahat, wag mong kalilimutan ang subject na tinuro na satin ng ating mga magulang simula pa nung bata pa tayo, GMRC (Good Manners and Right Conduct). Matanda na tayo, alam na natin ang tama at mali. Sa college, bihira na tayo pagsasabihan ng mga profs natin kung ano ang dapat at hindi dapat gawin kaya dapat, we should be responsible enough for our every action. Sabi nga nila, respect begets respect. Di ba?


• INDEPENDENCE. Ngayong college ka na, mararamdaman mo na ang independent life. Hindi katulad nung elementary at high school na maaga pa ang curfew at madami-dami pa ang bawal, ngayong college eh mababawasan na siguro ang bawal at curfews mo. Pero tandaan lang na sa independence na binibigay satin ng parents natin, kasabay niyan ang pagiging responsible sa lahat ng gagawin natin. May tiwala ang parents natin sa atin kaya binigyan tayo ng independence, kaya dapat lang gamitin natin sa tama. Nasa sayo din naman yan e. 


• SMILE! :) Be confident. Wag mong kakalimutang ngumiti. Ma-re-realize mo na madaming reason para ngumiti ka ngayong college. Madaming excitements at bagong experience pa ang maf-feel mo. Simula palang yan! :)

Sige, sana makatulong tong tips ko sainyo. :)

Goodluck sa mga freshmen students na magsisimula palang ng college life! Enjoy! :)

Goodluck din sa last year namin in college. :D 

Midori Days (Day 2: Two People's Feelings)

It's day 2. :)



Midori wakes up early the next morning to cook breakfast for Seiji while he’s still sleeping, completely forgetting that she’s attached to Seiji and drags him around the house. (Haha. :D Poor Seiji, he bumps his face on the way down--what a way to start the morning for him--=P)



When Midori opens the ref, she founds note from Seiji's sister telling him to drink the beer (looks to me like a threat. haha. :D ). She gets an egg to start cooking but  ha! it fell on Seiji's head! hahaha! :))



Midori seems to be pretty accustomedalready to being Seiji’s right hand as she helps him put on his right shoe and reminds him not to forget his things. (cute. :) )

As Seiji makes his way to school, Midori pops out with a brand new dress that she made which reads “I love Seiji”. :D She's pretty much proud of what she'd done--she' asks Seiji how does she look and Seiji looks pretty embarassed. Haha. (I'd say he's just shy as well as embarassed---beats me, I'll bet it's the first time he experienced having his name on a girl's t-shirt. XD) 

At school, a rumor had spread that Seiji injured his Devil’s Right Hand when he punched through an incoming Yakuza car. When he entered the classroom, we see that his seat is isolated from the rest of the class, his seat is right beside the window (his classmates probably put it there, to avoid him as much as possible)---he says nothing about this but I'm sure it's quite sad having minimal friends at school coz most of them are afraid of him and his "demon right hand".

Enter his classmate Ayase in the picture--when she enters the classroom, she butts in on two people talking about Seiji's right hand being injured and tells them just to ignore Seiji as she describes him as someone " who thinks beating up people somehow proves that he is a man" and tells him mean things in front of his face and everyone. (You just wait Ayase, soon enough you'd see Seiji's other side and definitely, he'd prove you wrong.  I'm really looking forward seeing your face when you realize how wrong you are in saying those things--I bet you might l in love with Seiji,too. :D) Seiji screamed at Miyahara for spreading such rumors which led to a minor confrontation between a Seiji and Ayase.

During recess, he's on the rooftop and guess who's mad about the current flow of things? Midori of course. :D  She complains on why his classmates would put his desk on the corner of the room like he's some beast and she's annoyed with Ayase. Just then, a group of delinquents from another school came trying to pick a fight with Seiji. Since he is unable to use his right hand, Seiji decides to avoid the delinquents. Ayase stepped up against the delinquents thinking she could handle them like how she handled Seiji earlier, but then one of the delinquents just slapped her and tried to drag her away. (That's for you being a meddler when you should've just stayed away. >_<)



Ayase's obviously shaken and afraid as she's dragged away by the delinquents, no one in the crowd tries to help her as they are afraid of the too. They were just about to reach the school gates when Seiji came to Ayase’s rescue.



Even if his right hand is technically not usable because of Midori, he beated all of them as Ayase stands there with guilt evident in her face. (Don't get me wrong wrong, I'm just annoyed with Ayase because of her earlier behavior, it seems to me like she  judges Seiji just because of the impression that he fights a lot and is a bully at school--without even bothering to know his other side. Maybe it's early for me to be annoyed with her, but still.... :D Maybe that'd change in the next episodes.. Heehee. =) )



When the fight's over, Ayase stammers something like "don't put it in your head--that she wasn't about to thank Seiji for the act" when Seiji cut her short, retorting not to flatter herself, he needed the excercise anyway. ( ha. Seiji sure knows how to retort on someone's nasty comment. Why can't she just thank him?XD I wonder.. :D)

After school, Seiji, depsite being injured by the encounter earlier, had planned to try going to Midori’s house again. They found a note in his locker telling him about the challenge, and found himself heading off to save Miyahara who was kidnapped by a bunch of delinquents.

As Ayase was going through the locker room, he notices some teared up paper lying in front of Seiji's locker and she picked it up, sensing trouble.

She saw what Seiji was up to and decided to chase up to give him a piece of her mind about fighting.

Seiji arrived at the designated place, but eventhough the gang started to beat him badly (poorr Seiji. :() he did not fight backwhich eventually bored them away. They untied Miyahara and left the scene.  When Miyahara asked why he didn’t fight back, Seiji replied that its so that the delinquents would no longer go to their school and bother anyone. Miyahara was so touched that he started crying and told Seiji how great a friend he is. Ayase overheard this and was touched. (See Ayase? :D Seiji is gooooood and has a soft spot in him. :) )

The next day, ayase moved her desk next to Seiji and explained her way through it. Haha. (I'll bet she's starting to like him. :P)

Seiji and Midori ended going to Midori’s mansion after school the next day. The maid was about to turn Seiji away again but Midori’s mother recognized Seiji from the many pictures Midori kept in her music box and invited him in. --------Turns out Midori’s real body was in a coma.

(Ohmo. Haha. If this happens in real life I'm sure I'll go nuts, hahahaha. Where'd you find somebody in a coma but turned out that the person in the coma is in you right hand?!? :D)

Seiji suggested that Midori try and make contact with her real body and see if she would return to normal, but when he pulled back the blanket they both realized that Midori’s real body wasn’t wearing any clothes. Both of them are embarrassed, Seiji closed his eyes and stretch his right arm out so Midori is range of her body.



As Midori bumps into her boobs, her mother and maid returned and saw what appears to be Seiji taking advantage of a comatose Midori. (Haha. What a great timing. =P) It's quite funny seeing how Seiji tried to explain himself, saying that he isn't a pervert and seeing an army of angry maids chasing after Seiji.