Local student here, was from a RC also. Just want to share that in Singapore there's a culture for students to whine and complain about how tough the tests is, how they don't care and don't want to work for it -- then secretly work hard behind the scenes. I don't get it, but this is so true I think it was made into a meme on sgag sometime back.

Also, I rmb having a junior who keep telling us how he's struggling in class, TA not helpful, asking prof but prof explain he don't understand. He reached out to few of the seniors, we took it quite seriously and tried to help him to find other seniors in his faculty to be able to help him. Guess what? I briefly saw his transcript when he was trying to apply for award for exchange programme, his cap was like 4.7. He was struggling because he was worried for losing first class -.-, turns out he's in different league from many of us.