No more TYS

Irritating student (I shall call that person from now on) slept in my class again. I've been asking him time and time again to get some form of Ten Year Series (TYS) so that he can do some practice, but he'd been delaying for months. I think at least for 3 months. I'm not sure what he's so busy with.

Irritating student is more alert today, at least he is not openly yawning. He just sleeps while I look through his working. Sometimes it feels like a chore teaching people like that. It's very very draining on my energy level teaching someone who is an energy sucker - it feels like I've finished a 4 hours class at the end of the 2 hours lesson.

If I'm financially free, I will NEVER teach such students. It's a waste of their parent's tuition money and my time. I wonder what good will come out of it in the end.

Enough whining....I noticed that the market do not sell TYS anymore. That's a bit troubling. I thought that perhaps the publishers are a bit late to consolidate the papers for publishing, but in this time period and there's still no signs of TYS - there must be something seriously wrong. Perhaps with the change of the new syllabus for O'lvls, there are not enough years to publish a TYS, hence they stopped publication. But, even if the older syllabus are not entirely relevant, a good part of it (80-90%) are still very useful as extra practice for students sitting for the O'lvls.

With this new move, there are really only two ways to get such practices:

1) From bras brasah complex, look for 2nd hand bookstores. If I'm you, I'll hurry and get a copy before it runs out

2) From 'old-fashioned' tutors like me, who had the foresight to store up before the whole supply runs out. I had 20-30 yrs series even, for certain subjects. I shall take good care of those books, since they are a rare commodity now.