hellos. results was numbing. it was so expected. just that i actually passed my chem, which was totally unexpected. i was so sure i was the 5% that failed chem. oh wells, some other poor fella took my U-grade i guess. it's so average to the extent that i'm not sure if i can get into FASS at all. guess i'll be still be taking SATs, my mum seems pretty keen. hoping that a decent score would help me get into SMU, and use it as a backup. and she expects me to study hard for it :( bah. more studying. and i thought i was done with it. sigh. oh wells. i shall set my goal now. am aiming for 2000/2400! though it seems quite unattainable. if i actually attain it, i'll reward myself with... urm.... the prada phone! sounds like a good deal right!(am feeling too lazy to take it now. haha.) but anyway, i'm going to give architecture a shot. it's still my first choice. my grades should be able to make it. i have to pass the interview and aptitude test! which is crazy.

oh, i just googled for past year questions for the aptitude test for archi. it scares me.
got it off someone's blog. and that person probably didn't get in.

qn 1 was designed to test my abilities to be creative and build a model. it went like.. ok, blahblah, crap about thinking out of the box, and re-thinking again to challenge creativity blahblah, then design a 3-dimensional model, making use of the white, orange and black A4 construction sheets given, that best explores the two ideas of “rhythm” and “contrast”.

qn 2 is about asking you to draw a city/building, space or a furniture that best illustrates “creative living”.

qn 3 wanted me to write in no less than 50 words describing how my design has associated with “creative living”.


what kind of questions are these?! question 3's easy. but 1 & 2's weird/unconventional. i'm not sure if i can think of anything under stress! really hope i can think of something then!

one more example:
Question 1: we were given a passage and i found it on the web--

The city of Sophronia is made up of two half-cities. In one there is
the great roller coaster with its steep humps, the carousel with its
chain spokes, the Ferris wheel of spinning cages, the death-ride with
crouching motorcyclists, the big top with the clump of trapezes hanging
in the middle. The other half-city is of stone and marble and cement,
with the bank, the factories, the palaces, the slaughterhouse, the
school, and all the rest. One of the half-cities is permanent, the
other is temporary, and when the period of its sojourn is over, they
uproot it, dismantle it, and take it off, transplanting it to the
vacant lots of another half-city.

And so every year the day comes when the workmen remove the marble
pediments, lower the stone walls, the cement pylons, take down the
Ministry, the monument, the docks, the petroleum refinery, the
hospital, load them on trailers, to follow from stand to stand their
annual itinerary. Here remains the half-Sophronia of the
shooting-galleries and the carousels, the shout suspended from the cart
of the headlong roller coaster, and it begins to count the months, the
days it must wait before the caravan returns and a complete life can
begin again.

from: The Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

Based on the given passage, explore the idea of opposition. By using your idea, construct an abstract object using the materials given to you. On the base of your model, write down the opposing qualities that you have chosen. (or something to that effect =p)

the materials given were 3 pieces of white A4 cardboard and a piece of A4 transparency for the model's body, and another thinner sheet of A4 paper (white for those applicants in my room, red and blue for other 2 test venues) as the base.

Question 2
Draw, on page 3, your vision for Singapore in future. You can draw a city/building/furniture/object, as long as it is in a futuristic time frame.

Question 3
In not more than 50 words, describe Singapore's future, using your idea from Question 1.


i'm losing hope now. sigh. this sucks :(

oh, and the interview's straight after the test i think. BAHHH. this isn't helping at all. i have to gain some archiknowledge! this is frustrating!!!

oh! if anyone knows of an amazing crash course that pulls your SATs grades all the way up, (or actually any that helps) let me know k! heard something bout it, but no one knows where it is!

yawns. sleepy. goodnight.