its not easy getting him to open his book and study. he dives immediately into the activity and exercise books. he's not able to answer most questions as he doesnt have the info that one gets by reading the text books. he likes express revision books and notes that i print out but that is only useful if one has the basic info. its frustrating getting him to understand that.
we sent amir to a few revision camps. the bh didik camp is pretty good. amir took home some useful tips and how-tos.
nearing the exam, however, around the time of the second and third trials, he slowly picked himself up. he's doing consistent revision and exercises during the day (still not reading his text books, though) and going for nightly tuition classes. his trial results were much better compared to the results he brought home during year 4 and 5. if only he kicked off the attitude earlier on, maybe he'd be able to bring back As instead of Bs. but oh well...he needs to learn to buck up on his own.
the day before upsr commenced, i asked him to just go through briefly, go through notes for penulisan and for pemahaman. i asked him to stop reading at night, to read the yassin and do solat hajat first. if he has the time, then go through quickly and then get a good night's sleep.
the morning of the exam, i woke up early. i prepared breakfast for him even though he'll be getting breakfast in school. i went a biy overboard and prepared breakfast according to the exam of the day. for BM day, i made nasi goreng. for english, i made scrambled eggs and grilled burger buns and for maths day, i made tuna puffs. i didnt prepare breakfast for science day since i dont like science. hahaha...no, actually its because they'll be getting food after the last exam so amir just had a light breakfast before his science paper.
the school had last minute prep on the day of the exam. amir also had some of the tips i got from fb pages and online to go through before making his way to the exam hall.
there's really not much we can do for amir, except pray, provide books, notes and tips as well as a good learning environment. he needs to learn and study and do revision and exercises. i wish he did more and concentrated more and learned harder, but he did not so hopefully whatever results he gets, he will take that with open heart and strive to be better in his secondary school phase, insyaAllah.
