Elijah's Life Experiences

Allow me to introduce my pal and Ngee Ann Primary School classmate, Jarrod Paul Dharmaraj , who has contributed the following essay on "Incident of cheating at the exams" - my version was published earlier .       John was both a copycat and a lazy boy. He loved to play computer games and never gave a thought about his schoolwork. He spent most of his time glued to the computer screen. The PSLE was drawing near, and John had not even started revising for the examinations. As his Mathematics examination drew nearer and nearer, John started to get anxious. Finally, he decided to take desperate measures ; he was going to cheat!       A day before the examination, the teacher asked John, Tom and Jake to go to the staff room to collect some books. When they were there, they picked up the books from the teacher’s table. Suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, John saw the examination paper on the table. He purposely dropped his books, asking the others...

I am particularly proud of this essay I wrote when I was in Primary 4  (10 years old) at Ngee Ann Primary School - received my personal best score for this one, entitled "Incident of cheating at the exams" .     John was a lazy boy. He would always play computer games and watch television. One day, before his English examination, he began to panic as he had not revised for it. John took out his textbook and copied some notes down on the palm of his hand.     The next day, when the English examination had started, their form teacher, Mrs Ong, left the examination hall and the stern-looking Mrs Lim entered. As John was writing on his paper, he encountered a difficult question. No matter how hard he tried to think of the answer, his mind remained a blank state . Just then, an idea brewed in his mind, "Why not copy the answers from the palm of my hand?"     Before copying, John scanned the whole place like a robber on the lookout for men in b...