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LIFE OVERSEAS: Test of self-discipline

LIFE OVERSEAS: Test of self-discipline

PREPARING FOR EXAMS: Keeping your nose to the grindstone is key

EVENTS: A Long Short Walk to promote road safety

EVENTS: A Long Short Walk to promote road safety

BE SAFE. BE SEEN: The event was in memory of 13-year-old Zenani Mandela‚ Nelson Mandela’s great-granddaughter who was killed in a car crash

WRITING TIPS: Penning impactful openings

WRITING TIPS: Penning impactful openings

A STORY without an impressive or thought-provoking opening is effectively ineffective, so to speak.

LIFE OVERSEAS: A chapter closes

LIFE OVERSEAS: A chapter closes

MEMORIES: The writer helps in the production of a yearbook as she finishes high school

NATIONAL SPELL-IT-RIGHT CHALLENGE: Bigger than ever

NATIONAL SPELL-IT-RIGHT CHALLENGE: Bigger than ever

YOUNG spellers, rejoice — the RHB New Straits Times National Spell-It-Right (SIR) Challenge returned for its sixth season last weekend and started off with the new written preliminary rounds.

LIFE OVERSEAS: Culture of love

LIFE OVERSEAS: Culture of love

ACTS OF KINDNESS: An Irish record label gives back to the community

EVENTS: Delicious start to a career

EVENTS: Delicious start to a career

EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING: A graduate trainee programme grooms future leaders for the consumer goods industry

EVENTS: Charity run raises RM18,000 for Hospis Malaysia

EVENTS: Charity run raises RM18,000 for Hospis Malaysia

SPORTING ACTIVITY: University students and employees take part in a social responsibility programme

PROGRAMMES: Young talents play football in Cardiff

PROGRAMMES: Young talents play football in Cardiff

INTERNATIONAL EXPOSURE: Malaysian children train with Cardiff City Football Club

WRITING TIPS: Analysing poems

WRITING TIPS: Analysing poems

THE poetry section of the English Literature International General Certificate of Secondary Education examination tests the ability of students in applying analytical techniques they have been taught to pieces of writing that they have not studied.

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