If you worked hard, then everything will be fine.
For all you VCE takers out there, including me, this motivational quote is for you. With the exams coming up in less than half a year, and sacs coming at you at full speed, there may be a few of you that may be struggling to keep up. But whilst sacs and school and exams are important, what is important is that you have tried your best.
Let's say that you are in a sac and you suddenly have a mind blank, or have a panic attack, or have a really bad headache, in those particular moment, you can't do anything to change it. However, while you may not be able to get the full potential of the marks you could have gotten for that sac, if you have worked through that circumstance to at least answer a few questions, or attempt all, I would say that is working hard. Because despite your circumstances that hindered you from working at your fullest potential, you have worked hard at trying your best to finish the test. I have had personal experiences of mind blanks happening during a sac, which is part of the reason why I'm writing this - to comfort myself, and while I came out of the sac upset at not being able to answer questions to my fullest potential, I also came out knowing that I tried my best and I can't do anything to change my marks.
Whilst it is not preferred, it is totally fine to do badly on a sac, learning something from it is what is the most important and it is a learning process. What I have learnt from my mind blanks is that I have to stop panicking if I come across a question I do not know, I have also found out that to fight against these mind blanks, I have to get myself used to the pressure of the tests under timed conditions, which I do so by timing myself doing practice sacs. This has benefited me greatly.
Another thing, if at the end of the year, you come out of the exams beating yourself up because you know you screwed it up or something along those lines, and find out your atar and study score have been affected by it. Don't worry. You may not have gotten the ideal atar or the ideal study score you wanted, but you have to admit that you went into that exam hall and tried your best despite screwing up some questions here and there. Just this one atar would not affect your whole life. There are other pathways that can get you to where you want to be, and if you want to go to a certain university, there are also colleges. One thing I know for sure, once you have chosen your path, whether it be university, tafe, college, gap years, or work, your atar isn't really going to be needed anymore. In job interviews, employers typically look at job experience, the qualities the candidate has, they also focus on community work and volunteer work. You'll still be able to get jobs, graduate from universities or other tertiary education institutions.
You will be fine as long as you know you tried your best in those circumstances. Because life always moves on and I know at the end of the day, I am going to try my hardest at VCE and even if it may not produce the results I hope for, I'll still live.
Motivational paragraphs to encourage me, and hopefully encourage people too. I was just feeling down because half a year has gone by so quickly and it has not gone the way I wanted it to. Writing about my feelings has always been a way to motivate me and help me with my stress so I did this.