Neutralisation

"Your marks are like neutralisation". Well, Enoch is right about this. My maths and English marks tend to neutralise each other out. More appropriately, they tend to balance each other out. I call this retribution to the means. It follows the principle of "for every good thing you get, you also receive a bad thing equivalent to the worth of the good". My recent exams marks are perfect examples of this phenomenon. My 100% in 4U mathematics is 'neutralised' by my 36% in English. Good grace, my English mark is terrible. If I do weigh my maths with my English, I do think there is a greater loss in the low English mark as compared to my result in mathematics. But what can I do? The past cannot be undone. 

However, despite all this retribution to the means, I don't think the belief of "you get back the effort you put in". Not for this English viva voce assessment at least (which is totally irrelevant). For that exam, I've neglected all my other subjects to prepare for it. Hours and hours on writing and notes, and I went as far as videotaping myself speaking to a 1990s model voice recorder like a lunatic. But what did I get back? 36%.............