This is one of the great question I wanted to discover when I was doing A/L. Well, A/L is a competitive exam and everyone knows that. Although many students shine during their school period or O/L exams they don't shine in their A/L exams. This fact has many reasons behind it and I would like to discuss only few of them.
I'm writing this article in response to the following question in our educational forum.
Question: Why only few students shine in A/L?
Hi Insaf,
This is one of the great question I wanted to discover when I was doing A/L. Well, A/L is a competitive exam and everyone knows that. Although many students shine during their school period or O/L exams they don't shine in their A/L exams. This fact has many reasons behind it and I would like to discuss only few of them.
A/L is a totally different entity.
Understanding this idea is very important in order to get a good results in A/L.
Most of the students shine in O/L examination, but most of them don't get a good results in A/L final exam.
Because A/L and O/L is somewhat similar football and cricket.
Both games might need some similar skills like running, jumping etc. Also both games might need dedication, hard work, focus etc. But that doesn't mean that those who can shine in cricket will also shine in football.
In other words, you can get a good results in O/L by just memorizing most of the subject and without taking a big effort. But A/L is not like that. You need to have some of the basic skills of O/L. But you have to develop new skill sets like,
- hard work
- focusing only on studies
- subject analyzing skills
- consistency
- practicing past paper
- continuously identifying
- correct the mistakes.
To summarize what I said above, you just have to understand that O/L is not similar to A/L. Both are different entities and paths to become success in both O/L examination and A/L examination are totally different. So if a student think that he can get a good results in A/L because he has got a very good results in O/L, then that is totally wrong!
There might be many other reasons why A/L students get low results when compared to their O/L results. Feel free to discuss them below. I'm really interested to get your feedback regarding this.