Ooookay, so I've been gone for a really long time, oops. I will try my best to keep to a regular schedule from now on. We're almost at the end of the term, and I can't believe it! These past weeks have zoomed by, mainly because of the stresses associated with a piling up of SAC's. I also have tennis tomorrow, which I'm really looking forward to, but I probably won't play well because my ankle swell at recess today when my leg slammed into a cold cold concrete pillar
. I'll talk about individual subjects below (mostly complaining about SAC's), but I wanted to share this economics debate that I did.
So basically, my teacher asked me (since I'm Eco Club pres) whether I'd be interested, and heck yeah I was. It was just a normal debate, but with economic issues as the topics, and instead of the matter being 40% like normal, it was 60%. It was a pretty fun day, and my school entered 2 teams (me, a friend, and another friend were one team). We versed PLC for the first round, and were gracious enough to be in the presence of the author of our textbook, so my friend was just fanboying over him. We managed to win by a point, and versed Fintona for the next round. This was a pretty good debate too and we managed to win this as well. That meant we were in the semi-finals (unexpected because we just prepared literally the night before for the debate). It was a close debate but unfortunately we lost by a point.
Alas, our school's glory was reignited since our other team, who also got into the semi's, managed to win and got to the finals, where they won!
Legal: We just had our SAC on AoS2 on Wednesday. Everyone basically did badly because we felt we were really rushed for time and weren't given enough time especially due to the mark allocation, which consisted of 2 two markers, a five marker, a six marker and a ten marker. Basically everyone agreed even 5 minutes extra would have made all the difference in the world. But hopefully since the teachers know the time restriction, they'll mark accordingly. Anyway, this is the only subject we've finished Unit 3 in and made a start on Unit 4. We started learning about the Constitution yesterday, which was something we covered last year as well, so it's something I'm looking forward to as I found it interesting.
Economics: We also had a SAC for this like 2 (maybe 3) weeks ago. I guess I'd be really really nitpicky if I said I wasn't happy with my result because it helped me maintain my rank 1... I feel bad because one of the multi choice I got wrong was related to something our teacher explicitly told us about, but I interpreted the question in a different way.
We started AoS3 right after going the SAC, and oh boy, we've moved so fast we've finished Unit 3 today. While I am behind in eco because I had to revise for the Legal SAC, thankfully AoS3 is only one chapter (albeit it being 30 or so pages). But, we have another SAC for it in less than 2 weeks.
Accounting: Soo, even though the replacement teacher provides a great source of entertainment, everyone wants our normal teacher back. He literally goes over exercises in the workbook and spends maybe 5 minutes teaching us the actual content. After doing the SAC 2 weeks ago, I felt pretty confident as I looked at similar questions and my responses were basically the same as the correct answers. Come today, when we get our SAC back, he's marked me and the rest of the class down. There was a question on saying one use of stock cards, and he essentially gave everyone 1 out of 2 marks because we all only gave one answer instead of two... We all asked the other accounting teacher to re-check this, so hopefully that will get fixed. But other than that, we have a massive SAC for this in two and a bit weeks too, rip.
Methods: I'm not even going to talk about the last SAC, it was that horrendous. In terms of content, we've basically covered integration, and are preparing for, are you ready, another SAC in two weeks! I've really gotta catch up on this since it's my most neglected subject.
English Language: Just when I thought I couldn't get any more SAC's... We have a SAC next week! But I feel confident and prepared for this. I wrote a formal AC on Wednesday night and last night, and gave both to my teacher to mark over the weekend. In terms of content, I shouldn't be too bad since the SAC is just on formal language, and has the same format as the first where we only have short answer and an AC. Our teacher has also started teaching us how to structure and write the essay, which I am finding the most challenging by far.