October 30, 2017, 06:29 PM 
Exams are extremely stressful.
To be frank, which functioning 16-year-old enjoys the process of preparing, mugging and sacrificing for the O-level exams?
With social media and memes (which save dreams) though, a little humour helps to make things alright.
Done by kids who are probably desperately wanting to break free from the exams, these following memes will provide you with a bit of a chuckle -- even if it has been a long time since you took the O levels.
1) E. Maths: Reservoir-Running Nurul
Most of these memes began from E. Maths Paper 2., where question 10 in particular set the trend.
Part of the question required candidates to calculate fictional character Nurul's running route around an unspecified reservoir.
Perhaps it was due to the differences of how some measured it -- some with rulers, and others figuring out that it could be done with strings --after the paper was done, many students vented about it:
DEAR SEAB,
— Jonice with chen❤️ (@_nyommzz_) October 25, 2017
MY FAT ASS ONLY KNOWS HOW GAIN WEIGHT DONT ASK ME TO KEEP FIT OR COUNT CALORIES I LOSE WHILE EXERCISING #olevels #olevelmath
walao nurul i your fitness trainer ah #olevel
— saint nabil the colonised (@saintn4bil) October 25, 2017
nO NURUL WHAT U NEED to do is jUst embrace the fat life screw your moderate-intensity aerobic 😩😩😩 #olevelmath
— ysabelle¹⁷ 🍓 (@lovetocarat) October 25, 2017
FREAK NURUL MADE ME USE A RULER TO MEASURE HOW MUCH U RAN
— 🤞 (@seahJH) October 25, 2017
Screenshot via ellysabrina01's Twitter
Naturally, the memes followed:
the birth of Q10, O level Mathematics Paper 2, 2017. (please credit me if you want to use) #olevel @NurulOLevel2017 @olevelmemes pic.twitter.com/Hh1Nlw7UIF
— Bondi Beach Shark (@SharkWithOLevel) October 25, 2017
Some even created an account to roleplay her, such as the one below:
Please help makcik to measure.
— Nurulolevel (@Nurulolevel17) October 25, 2017
Thank you sayangs.#olevel#olevelmath pic.twitter.com/BeykW5LS5D
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2) E. Maths: STD Triangle
Remember kids, use protection, stay safe and don't go finding STDs.
Unless it's the area of a triangle on your O-level paper, literally named STD.
Wah, now triangle also can get STD
— hello 2018 (@olevel2017) October 25, 2017
turn your audio up #olevel pic.twitter.com/aoiC3GDJ2W
— nicolololo (@nicolelo_g) October 25, 2017
Why find area of triangle STD , when i transmitted the disease from getting by Maths paper #Olevel
— Joshuaaa 🌙 (@JoshuaaaCts) October 25, 2017
STDs are commonplace nowadays. Heck, now even triangles have them (Cambridge-certified). Spread the word and help keep your loved ones safe. pic.twitter.com/wQWQwgGvQ4
— OlevelSTDTriangle (@OlvlSTDTriangle) October 25, 2017
3) English Listening comprehension: Teotihuacan't
Listening comprehension was quite stressful for some students due to the rain and thunder, but they had more things to make fun of as well.
For example, the last question in which the speaker talks about the ancient city of Teotihuacan had things that were easy to laugh at.
For example, the spoken passage described a huge palace covered with images of creatures that are half-bird half-butterfly, which led to this meme being used:
https://twitter.com/olevelhelp/status/923489859146100736
The name of the city wasn't spared either.
https://twitter.com/olevelhelp/status/923491411592228864
Simi sun temple moon temple i was rubbing my temples when i heard those smh
— o level memes (@olevelmemes) October 26, 2017
I teotihuacan’t do this anymore
— o level memes (@olevelmemes) October 26, 2017
4) English listening comprehension: Stuntman Mark Reilly
The story of a stuntman Mark Reilly who led a crazy (fictional) life and career didn't do too much to impress the candidates:
https://twitter.com/trevforshort_/status/923468149667766272
https://twitter.com/c1ndeee/status/923464536228634624
Why didn't mark rielly get eaten by a fking shark off bondi beach or smthing #olevels #olevelmemes #englishA1
— Olvl God (@nippon_painter) October 26, 2017
— o level memes (@olevelmemes) October 26, 2017
Mark Reilly should have just bang the tree and died so i have no problems for my LC #olevels
— yoonmin ❤️ (@rescuer_gellll) October 26, 2017
And of course, he too gets a role-play account on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/thatstuntmanguy/status/923486361310466048
5) Social Studies: The Chinese-Malay-Caucasian-Indian child
With more papers to go, we foresee that the reactions won't stop anytime soon, such as the Social Studies paper on Oct. 30:
This meme was derived from the paper -- the original speech in the thought bubble was edited over the original.
— Olvl fitness tracker (@olvlfitnesstrac) October 30, 2017
If you are wondering what the original speech bubble contained, several tweets suggested that the comic had the couple attempt to register their child for all four races, due to the mixed ethnicity of the parents.
Hilarity ensued.
chinese-malay-caucasian-indian baby can be named muhammad dylan s/o lee
— o level memes (@olevelmemes) October 30, 2017
Can I also be Chinese-Malay-Caucasian-Indian please?
— Mark Reilly (@MarkReillyOlvl) October 30, 2017
Chinese-malay-caucasian-indian singapore families wanting the privileges from all the races #olevelmemes
— Batman With Memes (@batman_OGBELL) October 30, 2017
https://twitter.com/Janhuix/status/924816393215778816
SS Paper was alright despite.. ya know.. me not study anything. Now let me introduce you to my Chinese-Malay-Caucasian-Indian child #OLevels pic.twitter.com/tqLgAUIdAE
— Daylight (@AIBJ95) October 30, 2017
In any case, given this year's shenanigans, we're sure everyone will be hardcore praying to the bell-curve god, a popularised fictional deity that came from the statistical method that is used to moderate the grading of students.
https://twitter.com/trubellcurvegod/status/923183333621637120
Or just, you know, crying.
https://twitter.com/olevelhelp/status/923842976177995776
#olevel #olevels pic.twitter.com/XJd5NzHbky
— Bondi Beach Shark (@SharkWithOLevel) October 29, 2017
Hang in there, kids.
Whatever you do, we encourage you to donate your textbooks, rather than throwing or burning them.
BYE i hope i don’t retain pic.twitter.com/pk2sJpcB87
— O Level Help (@olevelhelp) October 30, 2017
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