One morning, we were asked to go to the lecture theatre to take an aplitude test organised by the Prime Minister's Office. Most of us were reluctant to do it but we had no choice anyway.
Upon doing the aplitude test, we realised the questions were intriguing and definitely not the usual academic questions of college life. I could not complete the aplitude test on time.
Probably about a couple of months later, after my disastrous Promotional Examination results, we received our aplitude test results. Surprisingly, I was one of the 3 who did exceptionally well in it.
All 3 of us were relatively poor students of a top college. My civics tutor Mr David Khor was surprised too.
The Prime Minister's Office issued invitations to the 3 of us for the Public Service Commission (PSC) scholarship talk.
PSC scholarships are one of the most prestigious scholarships for Singaporeans. Letters were sent to Victoria Junior College to ask the principal to allow us to take 2 "Special" papers on top of our
4 core subjects. The college was skeptical about our abilities to cope. However the 3 of us did not want extra pressure and decided not to take up the "Special" papers, much to the relief of the college,
and therefore forfeiting eligibility for the scholarship.
