One of the things about doing Form 6 is that you lose about a year of your life just waiting for results and admission into university. After the exams in Form 5, there is about a 5 to 6 month wait for your results and a place to do Form 6. So Form 6 is really just slightly more than a year and a half, although with the waiting it becomes 2 years. And then, after the exams in Form 6, there is again about a 6 month wait for your results and a place in university, and public universities usually begin their terms mid year. So my friends who went to college and did A-levels would all graduate at 21 or 22, whereas I would only graduate at 24. That was just the way it was.
Since there was a long wait until my results and admission into university, I decided to temporarily teach in a school, I heard that they gave preference to Form 6 students waiting for results to give temporary teaching positions to. I had to go for an interview, and one of the questions asked of me was whether I was willing to teach in a school on top of Gunung Tahan. I had no idea whether there was really a school there, but I knew that Gunung Tahan wasn't an easy mountain to climb, you needed climbing equipment. So I told the interviewer that if he gave me climbing equipment sure, I would teach there.
I didn't know it then, but I discovered that the best way to pass an interview is to be completely honest. It has worked for me every time since. I got the job in a normal school in Kuantan.
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