Apart from the occasional meetings, retreats (which are meetings in disguise), remedials for underperforming kids and consultations, the year end holidays has began since two weeks ago.  Had a very packed schedule and rest of the days were spent preparing for whichever events that were supposed to take place, and revising on my statistics which I had put aside since my college days (which is almost ten years ago).

It seems like yesterday that I studied in TJ. Whenever I attempt 'A' level questions, I always recall my own college days, and I always feel fortunate that I have such fond memories. In comparison to what my students are currently doing, my college days weren't half as happening. Having said so, I think it was optimal for someone like me, who needs time to reflect on what I had learnt and it was really in these two years that my mathematical ability was raised significantly. Not that I was taught more advanced topics (like how I always spam my SMTP kids with university Math stuff), but I was able to understand the content within the syllabus thoroughly and build a foundation which allowed me to advance smoothly into university Math.

The 'A' level syllabus has really evolved over the years. Statistics, for instance, was revamped and the topics covered were quite different from our old Math C syllabus. And I wonder, how much sense do the kids make out of the Binomial, Poisson and Normal distributions when they know nothing on expectation and variance. Even the chapters on discrete and continuous distributions are out. With the use of GC, I wonder if they appreciate the reason for doing approximations.

Next year I'm going to teach my very first batch of 'A' level students and see them through the 'A' levels. I am not sure if this is going to be my one and only batch of 'A' level students in HCI. I feel quite uncertain about what I want to do after my four years bond with MOE. Four years, and I see one batch of students from Sec 3 in Nanyang, all the way to C2 in HCI.

Whatever it is, I shall try to survive next year, which is likely to be hell with new responsibilities and job scopes.