Inter-Primary Maths and Science Competition

This is posted by LL ☺☻

Yesterday, Wei Jue, Stephen and I went to St. Andrew's Secondary School to take part in the Inter-Primary Mathematics and Science Competition.

There were 40 MCQ questions, 20 of which were Math questions and 20 Science questions. We were given 40 minutes. The Maths questions were do-able but I could not answer most of the Science questions (I put 'C' for those which I had no inking of the answers). After the competition, we proceeded to the refreshments, comprising beehoon, fishballs, hard-boiled egg halves, nuggets and fruit punch. I did not have much time to eat as the special event was slated to commence 30 minutes later. The special event was more like a running event where we were given questions and had to find the answers (about God?!) from the walls and flooring in the school hall.

Before the prize presentation, we were elated to be informed that our school was one of the top 3 schools (out of 32 participating schools) which got into the grand finals, the buzzer round. It was held on the stage. There were 6 tables separated into 3 groups, with one computer for each group. The mouse of the computer was the buzzer but it had no sound; the word 'Team A/B/C' would appear on the display depending on which team pressed the buzzer first. Then, the team members would use the microphone on the table to say the answer. The 1st team to answer would get 5 points if the answer was correct, and 2 points would be deducted for a wrong answers. For wrong answer, the remaining 2 teams could answer - if they answered correctly, they would get 3 points, if answered wrongly, they would lose 1 point. My team could only do the Math questions but we were usually too slow with our answer. Whenever any Science question was posed, we would wait for the other teams to answer hoping they would get marks deducted for giving incorrect answers. At the end of the buzzer round, Team A had 23 points, Team B (my team) had 10 points and Team C had -2 points. We emerged Team 2nd and won a trophy each! Wei Jue also won another trophy for being the Individual 3rd. Haha, now our teacher Mr Ng could brag about our achievements again ☺ :P