GP Common Test

Start of common test today. First paper GP. Got to school slightly later but made it through the gates in the nick of time. After assembly, which was at our exam venue due to wet weather, arrived at Discussion Room 3. Yeah.. my personal examination venue for the whole duration of the examinations. As usual. Turned out that Mr Siraj and Mr Ong, my former secondary school teacher, were invigilating me. Paper started at 8am exactly and I looked at the first question.
Immediately there was a great urge to start writing as everything I had memorised last night and earlier this morning came to mind. " 'A globalised world presents more opportunities than challenges'. Do you agree?" stared back at me.
However, I tried to hold back the urge and read through every question to see if there was any other question that I could do better. Finally I settled down to plan my essay for Question 1.
One of the reasons I finally settled for that question was of course that I had done some researching on globalisation both this morning and last night and was thus more confident of writing a good essay. I even memorised some stats and facts which might help. Another reason was that the question was quite straightforward with not many pitfalls as I see it. The only pitfalls that I could see was that the scope might be too narrow and the arguments are not linked to challenges and opportunities but just rambling off pros and cons of globalisation. Both of which, I can quite safely say, I did not fall into. At least, I did try to cover a wide scope discussing various countries across the globe and linking my arguments to how they were opportunities or challenges. I also remembered and tried to keep my sentences short so as not to make mistakes in sentence expression, which have been quite frequent in my recent essays, resulting in low language marks. Thus, not able to score very well on the whole for P1. Hope this helps to increase my P1 grades.
Hmm... can still rmb my points quite well. Started off with a definition of globalisation in the intro of course. Slipped my mind a little but thankfully, after some thinking managed to recall the gist of it and came up with a good enough definition. Then started off with opportunities.

Point 1: Globalisation enables greater interaction between people from various countries across the world. Thus, this helps in the understanding of different cultures and greater knowledge of the world as a whole. Then I cited examples of sporting events such as the 2010 World Cup and YOG.
Point 2: Due to greater convenience in transporting of goods and people across borders, businessmen can relocated their businesses abroad so as to reduce cost and thus retain greater profits.

Challenges
Point1: Globalisation results in increasing income gap between rich and poor countries. Where richer countries draw resources and revenue away due to increasing development.
Point 2: Living in a globalised world results in events in one country afffecting other countries very quickly. Cited SARS.

Hopefully the points and examples are valid.
Gonna work hard over the next past week to be this confident of all my other papers.Cheers!