20 Years of Mathematics

2004

Certificate of Abacus Mental Arithmetic (珠心算).

2006 (P1)

Rank in Form: 2 / 140

2009 (P4)

First time scored 100 / 100 in Mathematics.

Attended a summer course in the mathematical olympiad offered by a secondary school.

2010 (P5)

Didn't study for the exams, as in the past four years.

Rank in Class: 32 / 38

2011 (P6)

Studied for a little for the Internal Assessments (呈分試).

Mathematics was, as usual, the highest-scoring subject.

Rank in Form: 8 / 38

2012 (S1)

Admitted to Christian Alliance S C Chan Memorial College.

Switched to English as the MOI to study mathematics.

Rank in Mathematics: 75 / 142

2013 (S2)

Didn't realise that studying mathematics needs practice and revision.

Rank in Mathematics: 119 / 139

Rank in Class: 38 / 38

Rank in Form: 109 / 139

2014 (S3)

Met a good mathematics teacher (Mr Yip).

Started to do practice, corrections and revision for mathematics.

Rank in Mathematics: 45 / 139

Rank in Class: 3 / 32

2015 (S4)

Met another good mathematics teacher (Mr Chan). He was energetic, kind and able to engage everyone in the lesson.

Chose Chemistry and Geography as electives. Terribly bad choice for Geography.

Studied M2 problems in Geography lessons.

Went to the CUHK info day, and attended the admission talk by Prof Leung from the Mathematics department.

Decided to drop Geography and chose M2, thanks to the cheer-up from Mr Chan.

Rank in Mathematics: 13 / 138

Rank in Chemistry: 41 / 60

Rank in Geography: 30 / 30

2016 (S5)

Met two other good mathematics teachers (Ms Chui for Core Maths and Ms Ho for M2).

Dropped Geography and chose M2 as an elective.

Applied to EPYMT programme offered by CUHK (Towards Differential Geometry), thanks to the recommendation from Ms Chui.

Won High Distinction in Mathematics in SSSMC by PolyU.

Decided to study mathematics at the university and be a mathematics teacher.

Rank in Mathematics: 14 / 131

Rank in M2: 2 / 8

Rank in Chemistry: 47 / 55

2017 (S6)

Rank in Mathematics: 10 / 128

Rank in M2: 2 / 8

Rank in Chemistry: 46 / 55

Rank in Form: 61 / 128

2018 (DSE)

Mathematics: 5*, M2: 5*

Top 3 Choices of JUPAS: CUHK Mathematics, UST Mathematics, CityU Mathematics

2018 (Yr1)

Admitted to The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Bachelor of Science in Mathematics.

GPA: 3.06 / 4.00

2019 (Yr2)

Social events and COVID period. ZOOM lessons.

Started studying philosophy and programming.

Wanted to take a mathematics education course but there was no vacancy.

Wanted to try a career in data science because it's trendy and I could work from home.

GPA: 3.38 / 4.00

2020 (Yr3)

Fully ZOOM lessons.

Started studying data analytics, machine learning and Python programming.

Took real analysis courses and thus understood that it was impossible for me to further study pure mathematics.

Met different exceptional teachers (Prof Leung, Dr Kwo, Prof Lui, Prof Tao, Prof Wong)

Applied to 22 interns. Got 2 offers.

Jul 2021 - Aug 2021: Data Engineer Intern

GPA: 3.10 / 4.00

2021 (Yr4)

Took courses mainly in Computational Maths and Applied Maths.

Sat the political philosophy lectures by Prof Chow, a very exceptional educator.

Self-learnt SQL, Power BI and Excel. Equipped myself well to get a data science job.

GPA: 3.10 / 4.00

2022 (Graduation)

Graduated with a mathematics degree at my dearest university, with second upper honours.

Computational Big Data Analytics Stream. Minored in Philosophy.

GPA: 3.16 / 4.00

2022 (Work)

Applied to 15 interns. Got 2 offers.

Jun 2022 - Aug 2022: Junior Data Scientist Intern

Applied to 8 jobs. Got 1 offer.

Sep 2022 - Jul 2023: Data Analyst

2023

Realised that I didn't want nor enjoy programming and data science as a career.

Decided to switch my career to become a mathematics teacher.

Applied to 16 schools. Got 2 offers.

Happy to start my dream career since 2016.

Refreshed my memories in DSE mathematics.

Learnt how to explain mathematical concepts to students better.

2024

Admitted to The Chinese University of Hong Kong again, PGDE in Mathematics