Sunday, 20 April 2008!
HandWritten on; 19:01
Hello!
Bet everyone is mugging bio! xD
And as usual, i'm the only one thats free enough to post something thats as random as this...
Anyway, as you people are mugging bio, do you all know exactly how much bio are you all mugging? If you don't, here are the calculations:
Okay, starting off with the no. of pages of the 6 chapters we have to mug for tomorrow's test, we have...
Total no. of pages : 164
Now, we then make a gross understimation of the average no. of words that we need to memorise in each page...say...50. Then we'll have:
Total no. of words to memorise : 8200
but usually, 50 words only constitutes a paragraph or around 2 points on a page, hence, we make a less gross underestimation of say 150words/page. This will amount to:
Total no. of words we really have to memorise :
24,600Here, i would like to pause for a while and pat Oon Ming Liang (and all those who memorise the notes front to back, word for word) on the back, for its really quite an achievement, to memorise so many words, and then to forget the same amount a minute after the test tomorrow.
Now, lets take into consideration the time taken to mug those words. Assuming we only take 1 hour to mug, we have to memorise 6.8 words per second to sucessfully finish mugging. This is usually impossible. Thus, lets make a more logical assumption of memorising 20 words/minute...This alone, we will need a stunning
20.5 hours to memorise every single word. Considering the fact that 20word/minute is too fast, and some can only memorise 10 word/minute, that will double the time to
41 HOURS!! Now, that certainly shed some light to Oon Ming Liang and Soon Yu Ming's erratic actions these few days.
But the problem arise when we next consider the probability of getting an A, or even B grade for Biology tests in HwaChongInstitution. which is onli a miserable
0.667% (2 out of 300 get B or above for the last test)
Hence, is it still worth the time and effort? Do you really care about the 24,600 words that u have to memorise? Those are perhaps, the questions we have to think about when we stare blankly at some randome DNA double-helix structure...
zz...ran out of crap to write...so thats all for now!
tata!
coolsh!t
