See ten-year series in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1970, “The Straits Times”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 11:",
"text": "Ronald is looking for someone who has a 10-year series of H.S.C. questions on pure and applied mathematics (from 1955-65) to lend or to sell.",
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"ref": "1993, Ng Wei Joo, Tan Seow Hon, “The Straits Times”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page Insight 26:",
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"ref": "1996, Evelyn Yap, “The Straits Times”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page Life 3:",
"text": "The 10-year series is a compilation of 10 years of GCE O and A-level examination questions and model answers, which students use to \"spot\" and mug for questions in their own examinations.",
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"ref": "2000, Sandra Davie, “The Straits Times”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page Review 36:",
"text": "They are not worried - because questions are designed in such a way that the answers will not be found in any of the textbooks, classnotes or 10-year series.",
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"ref": "2005, Yu-Mei, “When a ten-year series is not enough”, in Too Many Thoughts:",
"text": "The \"ten-year series\" is a phrase used in local parlance to denote assessment books collating Cambridge examinations from previous years. Students use the ten-year series as practice exams for the real thing.",
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"ref": "2009, Liyana Othman in Pearly Tan, “The New Paper”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 13:",
"text": "She said: 'Before the new syllabus was introduced, I think students relied heavily on TYS to get good grades. They're like mock exam papers and they prepare the students for the real thing, and the questions are quite similar.'",
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"ref": "2015, Yonas Ngaturi, “Tuition was not so bad”, in Youth SG, archived from the original on 2015-12-28:",
"text": "On top of the 10-year series and the thick booklet of other schools' exam papers we were assigned to do, I requested to get more English papers to practice my composition writing and comprehension skills.",
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"ref": "2016, Sim Kian Ho, “SPIRIT”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 1, page 56:",
"text": "Students are more exam-smart today. During my school days, there was no 10-year series. We just studied everything from textbooks, learned everything and enjoyed learning.",
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"ref": "2005, Yu-Mei, “When a ten-year series is not enough”, in Too Many Thoughts:",
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"ref": "2015, Yonas Ngaturi, “Tuition was not so bad”, in Youth SG, archived from the original on 2015-12-28:",
"text": "On top of the 10-year series and the thick booklet of other schools' exam papers we were assigned to do, I requested to get more English papers to practice my composition writing and comprehension skills.",
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},
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"ref": "2016, Sim Kian Ho, “SPIRIT”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 1, page 56:",
"text": "Students are more exam-smart today. During my school days, there was no 10-year series. We just studied everything from textbooks, learned everything and enjoyed learning.",
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