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What I learned from my classmates’ and my ULBS Presentations

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Welcome back to another weekly blog post folks. As the final ULBS draws to an end, our favourite teacher Pn Monica decided to give us a blog topic on that instead of writing about Charity Concert which happened yesterday. So let's jump straight into it.

ULBS, if I'm not wrong, is a way for teachers to gauge how well a student is able to speak fluently, i.e. (in other words, not e.g. -which means example.) how smoothly you can talk in front of a group of people, in this case, your classmates. This year, we were not given the courtesy of selecting our own topics, which for me, is very sad, since I wanted to talk about videogames and how amazing they are. All of our ULBS were based on past year questions on Dear Mr Kilmer.

To summarize most parts, it was pretty interesting to say the least, as I did not really read through Dear Mr Kilmer in detail and have zero ideas on where the evidence to certain questions would be. Certainly opened my eyes on this one. Besides, I got to learn many different and creative ways the examiners would set up the questions, even before the times where HOTS wasn't implemented. Shocking.

After we did our presentations, Pn Monica would give her opinions, and ask for the other students' opinions too. This would help us spot our numerous mistakes and pointless details in our answers, and as a result, helps us answer better in the actual exams.

That's all for this blog post folks. Have a nice Sunday.

Cheers,
Chua.

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