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Raiders Of The Lost Temple

Miss Loi — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:15:39 +0000

The distant dunes stood like sentinels to a group of men as they toiled relentlessly in an arid landscape that stretched as far as the eye could see.

Humming an ancient tune on their lips, they thrusted their spades into the ground in unison, oblivious to the beads of sweat that shimmered on their sinewy backs.

POOONG!!!

The unfamiliar sound of striking something hard beneath the soft ground broke the monotony of the task, and the group upped its pace with renewed vigor.

Their leader rushed to a tent nearby when it became abundantly clear what they had hit was something more than just a mass of subterranean rock ...

Professor Loi! We have found Miss Loi's Second Temple!

Are you sure it's really The Second Temple from 2013 A.D.?

Yes I am sure! Miracles are already happening to some of my men as we speak!

Piscine Pi Pythagoras, despite having dropped out of school at a young age, has just helped us calculate the direct distance between two right-angled walls using some "theorem" he happened to think of on the spot.

Nazri Newton, who has never passed a Physics test all his life, is suddenly able to calculate the exact resultant vector of the force needed to hack a path through The Temple's ruins without damaging its delicate structure!

And our broken down power generator has just been fixed by Omar Ohm, who is scientifically and electrically-illiterate, without electrocuting himself in the process!

Now we have light!

Even as we speak, Abdul Al-Avogadro, who has been forced to drop Chemistry by his teacher many years ago, is now looking for boiling chips for his makeshift experimental setup to try to distill water to quench his thirst!

And Abdul still ... haven't found ... what he's looking for ...

OMG I think we've just made the archaeological find of the 30^th Century!

With that, Professor Loi and her expedition leader rushed out of the tent.

To be continued ...

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2012 GCE O Level Results - The Awakening

Miss Loi — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 15:22:21 +0000

Act II
Location unknown

For a long, long time, there was only darkness.

A possessive darkness that kept destinies shrouded behind an impregnable veil of secrecy.

For the ~~bochup~~ wise, tumultuous events from the past faded quickly from memory. But for many others, they implored the darkness to grant them a glimpse of their looming fate.

Just a glimpse for any desperate clue as to whether their hard work had paid off.

Whether that single unfinished question would prove to be fatal.

Or whether a corner has been turned.

And whether salvation was finally at hand.

But the darkness would not listen to them, and for a long while, it seemed that it would be eternal.

Until one day, when her eyes suddenly snapped open.

*hurried footsteps*

[Enter CHIEF DISCIPLE]

The Chief Disciple of The Temple appeared and rushed forward to the bedside.

Oh my High Priestess 教主! You have finally woken!!!

Where am I? WHAT TIME IS IT? WHEN IS JUDGMENT DAY???!!!

She screamed hysterically and shook the Chief Disciple frantically at a rate of 10 cycles/seconds.

Calm down! Calm down, my High Priestess! I can't talk properly when you're shaking me like a particle vibrating at a frequency of 10 Hertz!

After she slowly released her death grip on him, he took a deep breath and continued ...

My High Priestess 教主, after you passed out from exertion following AMaths Paper II, the rest of The Temple came forth with the remainder of the solutions before our disciples were finally liberated from their 2012 GCE O Levels.

And for a short while, they were glad, even though ~~Dooms~~ Judgment Day always loomed in the deepest recesses of their minds.

When the Day finally arrived on 10 January 2013, we were first greeted by grim news from MOE that, for the first time in a long time, overall results actually dropped compared to the previous year's.

Worse was to come, as more news filtered in of a ~~kelong~~ strange Bell Curve which cruelly left many despondent by expected results not turning out as expected and unexpected results turning out to be REALLY unexpected.

So what happened to The Temple's disciples?! Did they survive???

Slowly but surely though, positive news began streaming in to turn the tide.

For some, to reveal the full extent of damage caused by unfinished questions.

For others, to provide closure to the most anxious of fears.

And for most, to confirm once and for all their eventual salvation.

In the end, of our 2012 O Level batch of Temple disciples, 62.7% of whom first climbed the 38 Steps 上山 burdened with a failing grade of ≤ C6,

an astounding 92.2% of them made the jump to at least a B3 for BOTH E-Maths & A-MATHS,

with more than half (52.2%) scoring DISTINCTIONS for BOTH E-Maths & A-Maths.

In addition,

92.2% attained at least a 3-grade jump (yeap all who got ≥ B3 for both maths jumped at least 3 grades!)

80.4% attained at least a 4-grade jump

78.4% attained at least a 5-grade jump

And so my High Priestess, despite a slight drop in this year's national results compared to last year's, our 2012 batch of disciples actually managed to improve upon last year's supernatural results.

It was as if the long reign of darkness ended that very moment, revealing everything it had stubbornly concealed till her awakening.

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I'm so happy for them! I must congratulate each and everyone of them for doing themselves and The Temple proud! Bring me to them now!

The Chief Disciple sighed.

Unfortunately, my High Priestess 教主, it's a bit too late for that now, for Judgment Day has come and gone a month ago from this very day.

No ...

It was then she struggled to contain her tears.

Please don't be sad my High Priestess.

Be comforted that all of them are at a better place now, carried like dandelion seeds by the cool Spring breeze to blossom into young adults with aspiring dreams - be it surrounded by handsome JC boys and pretty JC girls or being finally liberated in Poly from their childish uniforms and toot toot hairstyles.

We can only hope that a small piece of The Temple continues to reside within their hearts, as an enduring memory of their short stay here at one point in their lives.

The annual post-Judgment Day message

What about the *Second T ... ?

Hush! That can wait.

We'll talk about it after you have fully recovered - there's a lot of work to be done.

Moreover it's Chinese New Year now!

o.O

Both of them then turn simultaneously to face the camera, traditional 拜年 movie-style.

祝大家

新年快乐
心想事成
万事如意
年年考第一！

劇終
The End

*sound of fire crackers*

* The REAL reason this blog post is late by a month :\

The GCE O Level Judgment Day 2013 Party Happening On Thursday!

Miss Loi — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 13:52:53 +0000

Every December, a great dance party is held at a beach in Sentosa.

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Where, over two nights, a host of international DJs spin wicked mixes of anthemic trance tracks to masses of ~~scantily-clad~~ revelers indulging in a hedonistic celebration of ecstasy (some of which may be ... umm ... questionable).

Of course, with a minimum entry age of 18, this party is out of bounds to all but the oldest of O Level students - most of whom will instead be heading to another more happening party held barely a month later each year ... where most of them will end up jumping up and down continuously like siao cha bors in massive displays of unbridled and unquestionable ecstasy.

The Party of A Lifetime

As announced by the organizer S.E.A.B. Productions, Judgment Day 2013 for GCE O Level 2012 students will happen on Thursday 10 January, 2pm.

And as always, Miss Loi's Temple shall look forward to your gigantic leap of joy in an afternoon of pure ecstasy.

Meanwhile, here's a list of pre-party open houses (note the changes in timings for HCI/NJC/TJC in the comments) to keep you occupied before the main event. And should you feel like it, do leave a soothing message of encouragement at the Judgment Day Event page.

Till Thursday, Good Luck!!! 幸運を祈る!!!

O 2013, 2013, What Wilt Thou Bring In 2013?

Miss Loi — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 15:26:19 +0000

Give Miss Loi a call

If 'tis to thee the Light speaks
And thou art already sick and pale with academic grief
So that we may verily Hear Thy Cry
In time to save thee from The Crucible of thine exams
Before Things Fall Apart!

Though the above may sound gibberish to some of you, Miss Loi & all at The Temple would nonetheless like to wish all

A Very, Merry, Happy New Year!

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GCE A Level 2012 Oct/Nov H1 Maths 8864 Paper 1 Suggested Answers & Solutions (You Are Not Forgotten)

Mr Loi — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 15:05:25 +0000

We've been asked on our Facebook wall.

We've been repeatedly asked on this blog's comments sections.

Errr ... we've even been pui-ed for this

Lest you feel forgotten, abandoned or unloved, let me assure the H1SD Maths Generation that you were never far from my mind while I toiled through the H2 solutions as well as my tuition classes in the past days.

Ok 废话少说, here's the stuff you've been waiting for.

Click the button and grab it here!

Latest version:

1.1:
Q9(ii) - added "the advertised price decreases as the car's age increases in a linear fashion" in response to this.
Q11(ii) - corrected the typo "insufficient evidence" to "sufficient evidence" in the concluding statement of the hypothesis test.

2012 GCE A Level H1 Maths 8864 Paper 1 suggested solutions & answers

Access it here if you're having trouble accessing it on Facebook using your state-of-the-art smartphone

As usual, please leave a gentle comment should you spot any mistake in this set of suggested solutions.

Now to attend to the pile of comments *rubs eyes*

All the best for your remaining papers! Freedom (or the SAF) is near!

GCE A Level 2012 Oct/Nov H2 Maths 9740 Paper 2 Suggested Answers & Solutions

Mr Loi — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 13:41:42 +0000

Hello again everyone and I hope the first week of your A Levels has been good to you so far.

As for me, no thanks to my sister, my eyes are really, really popping out already o.O

Click the button and grab it here!

Latest version:

1.1: Q6(ii) - rewritten final answer in set notation, since question asks for "the set of values of x̄".

2012 GCE A Level H2 Maths 9740 Paper 2 suggested solutions & answers

Access it here if you're having trouble accessing it on Facebook using your state-of-the-art smartphone

As usual, ~~all yim yim jim jim scrutinizers~~ please leave a gentle comment should you spot any mistake in this set of suggested solutions.

Meanwhile, the work continues ... *listens to Bon Jovi's IT'S MY LIFE playing in the background*

All the best for the rest of your papers!

GCE A Level 2012 Oct/Nov H2 Maths 9740 Paper 1 Suggested Answers & Solutions

Mr Loi — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 13:09:46 +0000

It's my annual hello to all of you again.

While my sister has churned out her O Level A/E-Maths solutions with much fanfare, here's my little contribution to all our A Level comrades this year.

Click the button and grab it here!

Latest version:

1.1:

Q6(iii) - amended working step n = lg1000/lg2 to compare 2⁹ = 512 and 2¹⁰ = 1024, in order to comply strictly with the "No Calculator" requirement in this question.
Q11(i) - improved descriptions of the tangents (sorry couldn't write straight that night *sigh*)

Access it here if you're having trouble accessing it on Facebook using your state-of-the-art smartphone

As usual, ~~all yim yim jim jim scrutinizers~~ please leave a gentle comment should you spot any mistake in this set of suggested solutions, which was produced well after my last class at the end of my tiring day *rubs eyes*

Now go revise your

AP/GP
Integration by parts/substitution/ Volume of revolutions
Summatioon (Method of Difference)
Complex Numbers (Argand diagram)

All the best for your Paper 2!

GCE O Level Oct/Nov 2012 A-Maths 4038 Paper 2 Suggested Answers & Solutions

Miss Loi — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 08:17:26 +0000

Act I, Scene 5
Miss Loi's Temple, The Temple Gates

TWAAANG! ...

*hurried footsteps*

[Enter CHIEF DISCIPLE]

The Chief Disciple of The Temple appeared and rushed forward to kneel on one knee before the High Priestess.

My High Priestess 教主!

Your ... hair! Your ... face ...!!! *points trembling fingers*

I know it's Halloween Eve but ...

The Hagged High Priestess

*cough cough*

Yes I know.

These consecutive O Level Maths flying daggers throwing cum solutions cum comments replying have greatly affected my 元气 and taken a toll on me.

And it's not helpful when they scheduled a lethal AMaths/Chemistry Terror Tuesday to tekan our disciples, especially that 8 am AMaths paper which caused me to miss many hours of my beauty sleep.

*cough*

My beautician is going to have her work cut out for her after this!

So my High Priestess 教主! Do you still have energy for one more paper? I heard it's quite easy ...

This time the air suddenly went deathly still as she closed her ~~panda~~ eyes and seemed to pause for an eternity.

When she began, she pounded on her guzheng like never before, churning out frantic, angry mathematical notes that rocked the very foundation of The Temple, and sent a wild tempest that whipped through the streets of Novena - causing leaves to fly around like kinematic particles with numerous turning points, and cups from the nearby Gong Cha stall to bounce off the floor like modulus graphs (the floor being the x-axis).

And so, her unearthly tune went faster and faster and faster ...

twaaang! twaaang! twaaang! TWAAANG! TWAAANG! TWAAANG! TWAAANG! TWAAANG! TWAAANG! TWAAANG! TWAAANG! TWAAANG! TWAAANG! TWAAANG! TWAAANG! TWAAANG! TWAAANG! TWAAANG! TWAAANG! TWAAANG! TWAAANG!

... until, one by one, the strings of her musical instrument began snapping and her fingers started to bleed *ewwwwe* ... until the following shot out:

Click the button and grab it here!

Latest version:

1.1: Q3(iii) & Q5(iii) - removed the + c in the definite integrals
1.2: Included the short & sharp alternate segment theorem method for Q4(iii)

Access it here if you're having trouble accessing it on Facebook using your state-of-the-art smartphone

N.B. As usual, please, please leave a comment should you spot any mistake in the solution.

The tune ended as abruptly as it began.

With that, the High Priestess ~~Merlion-ed~~ spattered a spray of blood from her mouth before collapsing to the floor.

On seeing this, the Chief Disciple rushed forward to cradle her in his arms.

My High Priestess 教主! Are you alright???!!!!

With a trail of blood flowing from her trembling lips, she gathered her last ounce of strength for the following words.

No ... more ... maths. Till ... next ... year.

Gan ... batte ... to ... all ... for ... your ... remain ... ing ... papers.

NEVER ... STOP ... LEARNING.

*goes limp*

来人啊! 来人啊!

[EXEUNT]

End of Act I

GCE O Level Oct/Nov 2012 A-Maths 4038 Paper 1 Suggested Answers & Solutions

Miss Loi — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 11:05:30 +0000

Act I, Scene 4
Miss Loi's Temple, The Chamber of φ

TWAAANG! ...

*hurried footsteps*

[Enter CHIEF DISCIPLE]

The Chief Disciple of The Temple appeared and rushed forward to lay prostrate before the High Priestess.

Oh forgive me! My High Priestess 教主!

I did not anticipate the unprecedented traffic that descended upon our website last Wednesday night!

弟子该死! 弟子该死! *slaps own face*

She paused her guzheng playing, and glanced momentarily at the Chief Disciple.

*sigh*

The two EMaths papers last week were apparently so easy to the point that the A1 cut-off mark is now firmly believed to be well into the 90s.

That had led to a massive "how many marks have I lost/can be saved" marks-counting exercise, resulting in comments that took me three nights to go through (and still continuing )

Such is the mess of our academic 江湖 these days.

Suddenly the heavens opened, and a thunderstorm pelted the Temple's ornate roof.

My High Priestess 教主! I have incoming news from the AMaths front!

Something about EMaths sine rule & a distance traveled by a particle ...

Yes I know ...

Once again, she began to play her guzheng faster and faster ...

twaaang! twaaang! twaaang! TWAANG! TWAANG! TWAANG!

... until the following shot out from within the strings of the musical instrument.

Click the button and grab it here!

Access it here if you're having trouble accessing it on Facebook using your state-of-the-art smartphone

N.B. As usual, please, please leave a comment should you spot any mistake in the solution.

Next, she threw out another swarm of daggers ...

Now for Paper 2: Here's a list of possible topics that may appear for tomorrow's AMaths Paper 2.

Polynomials & Remainder Theorem
Logarithmic & Exponential Functions
Further Trigonometry esp R-Formula
Curves
Maxima/Minima Problems
Quadratic Equations & Inequalities (Discriminants etc.)
Plane Geometry aka the 阴阳眼 eyesight test
Coordinate Geometry
Integration: Area of region under curve
Integration/Differentiation of Partial Fractions
Modulus Functions
Increasing & Decreasing Functions

Last important tip for today, tomorrow's an
8AM Morning Paper!!!

ALL THE BEST for AMATHS PAPER 2 & GANBATTE!

[EXEUNT]

GCE O Level Oct/Nov 2012 E-Maths 4016 Paper 2 Suggested Answers & Solutions

Miss Loi — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 13:04:45 +0000

Act I, Scene 3
Miss Loi's Temple, The Great Hall of Salvation

TWAAANG! ...

*hurried footsteps*

[Enter CHIEF DISCIPLE]

The Chief Disciple of The Temple appeared and rushed forward to kneel on one knee before the High Priestess.

My High Priestess 教主! ...

Yes I know!

twaaang! twaaang! twaaang! TWAAANG! TWAAANG! TWAAANG! TWAAANG! TWAAANG! TWAAANG!

... until her eyes turned white and her hair turned frizzly ...

Click the button and grab it here!

Latest version:

1.1: Q7(a) Corrected the value of p to 7.47.
1.2: Q7(b) Amended the y-axis to begin from −1 as required by the question.

Access it here if you're having trouble accessing it on Facebook using your state-of-the-art smartphone

N.B. As usual, please, please leave a comment should you spot any mistake in the solution. After doing the paper at such a speed (admittedly, with some help along the way), the High Priestess is going to faint soon!

Meanwhile ...

My High Priestess 教主! Mass dumping of EMaths books is being spotted across the state!

Post O Level fate of EMaths books
[source]

[EXEUNT]