'Test' in test

After had learnt the entire syllabus, finally we end it with a test. The test is about the entire topic we cover start from paraphrasing, summarising, citing, synthesizing and write the essay.

We were provided with two articles from different sources. We need to write a new essay about the topic sentence given and use the idea from both articles to write it. All the information are given in the article but what we had to do is, find out, and use all the technique such as paraphrase, summarise, synthesise, using citation, to ensure that we were not copying or plagiarism others work.

We were given about 1 hour and 30 minutes to complete an essay. All the sources need to cite and put it in references part. The most challenging part in this test is, we had to memorise all type of references style since we do not know which one will be used as our article sources. Difference source have different style such as books, journal article, newspaper, magazine, all of this have its own style of writing the reference.

Basically, the article is talk about Genetic Modified Organism (GMO) that has been used in agriculture field to increase the profits and production. other that its help in provide better production, it is also give more advantages to the crop which is it is prove that more safe to consume and environmentally friendly rather than other product that did not used GMO technique. Research found other alternative for the plant to resist external intervention such as insect attack and climates change. This finding was helping farmer reduce their capital for buy pesticides and it help to reduce use of pesticides on crops. Indirectly, risk of eaten chemical food can be reduced and risk to the environment effect of chemical usage in pesticide can be minimized.

Honestly, I am a bit frustrated because I cannot do well in my test last week. Since it is already done, I just hope that all my effort for this semester will be rewarded. It may not this time, but maybe in next task. Let bygone be bygone.

“Keep going. You're almost there and remember, the sun is most beautiful as it's going away.” 

― Yasmin Mogahed, Reclaim Your Heart