Sports
-politics and sports, science/tech and sports, interference with sportsmanship, ideals of sportsmanship (example: paralympics), commercialization of sports,
-learn names of high-profile sportsmen (check out local athletes: victoria campbell (chio!), mok ying ren (eww). Note the importance of how sportsmanship doesn't discriminate between local and foreign)
-viewed as: recreational (with friends), health purposes, obviously more important for the professionals

Family issues
-hasn't come out for a while, so high possibility
-marriage/divorce, possibly gender issues, threats to the family foundations, dynamics changed between parents and children (how they communicate/interact)
-factors affecting family: globalisation, changing highly competitive economic landscape (consider, though, how usually the confident MNCs are more pro-family than the anxious SMEs)

Media
-a variation comes out every year
-role, reliability, responsibility, censorship, privacy (which could be a separate topic), advertising
-new media (blogs, podcasts, citizen journalism, etc etc) can also be linked to issue of privacy

S&T
-nuclear technology
-which could come out with religion: which aspects of our lives where we need religion which science cannot fulfill?

Religion
-functions of religion and relevance to our lives

Arts
-T says just research on works of art and focus on functions of the arts are, and choose at least 3 types of mediums (e.g. books, painting, and something else)
-here's a useful local article on the development and growth of arts in Singapore

General Qs
-no pattern. random. adversities, success, money, batik, bling, don't come to class if you're late.

Local
-about 2 questions which Cambridge will zoom in on this little red dot.


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Education
-there may be a high possibility that it comes out only every odd year

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