Looking forward to it!Probably Methods and Specialist. Maths is really my thing, and it is a family thing to. One of my brothers did a Uni maths in year 12 and got a 5 point increment from it! My main issue with Methods is that I am in a class of 7 with no one really coming anywhere near my scores, so no competition, so I constantly make silly mistakes :-( . Fairly confident about all the others as well actually as I am tending to lead the class in basically everything.
Which subjects are you most confident for? :)
My hobbies are sport, particularly cricket, drawing, listening to classical music and sleeping.Aside from the sport (of which I am hopeless at), all the rest sounds like me once. Sleeping, of course, remains a hobby. :P What do you like to draw specifically?
Just have to wait and see, as the final exam looks pretty hard.Give it time. Things look easier in hindsight.
Aside from the sport (of which I am hopeless at), all the rest sounds like me once. Sleeping, of course, remains a hobby. :P What do you like to draw specifically?I like to draw birds, because they are really fun to draw. Sleeping is a hobby that most people enjoy, but I never seem to get enough of it :-) .
Give it time. Things look easier in hindsight.
I like to draw birds. I like the nice curves that they have, and they are really fun to draw. Sleeping is a hobby that most people enjoy, but I never seem to get enough of it :-) .Fascinating creatures. :)
Fascinating creatures. :)I think that birds are great! They are fascinating in their complexity, something you can't really understand until you see either birds really close up or slo-mo footage of a bird flying. I would really like to be sleeping right now, but schoolwork calls! :(
I think sleep is something most people don't get enough of! Haha!
Does anyone else love The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas? I'm listening to the Librivox recording of it right now, and it is awesome. I've already read it twice, and listened to it once before, and I would definitely recommend it to anyone!
>> me half-expecting heids to post splurge of text<<<<<<It'll come, just you wait. I introduced her to it...
Found out the scores of the people in the class above me at my school today. One of them got scores of 45, 46, 47 and 48, ending up with an ATAR of 99.35!!!! That is, I think, the first 99+ score anyone from the school, including my siblings, has got since 2000!!! Really great job!
Kinda worrying me about next year though ;P
Are you worried because of what you think you should achieve or want to? Or because you are worried about the expectations of others?A bit of both actually! :(
Improve the quality of AN postsSo... is this like a shameless plug for #PhilforMod2018End ? ;)
Make other peoples' Year 12 journeys better!
The absolute chaos of having to move house, Indian style, is ruining my chances of continuing to study. Pictures of the moving truck will follow, the packing was done in a way that you wouldn't believe in Australia. Anyhow, schoolwork has gone sadly by the board in the confusion of moving.Hope you find it once you unpack!
So... is this like a shameless plug for #PhilforMod2018End ? ;)Basically ;D Given that I didn't apply this year I need something extra to help when I apply next year :P
I'm only kidding, of course. Please don't think I'm teasing you.
Hope you find it once you unpack!You and me both mate! :P
If you think that I'm unwise to aim as high as I do or if any of these scores are unrealistic in your opinion please say soIt isn't unwise at all to aim so high - I think that's a fantastic attitude and I really hope you do get these scores (or even higher) so you get your scholarship. Anything is possible. It's all in your hands :)
Before the year starts I'm going to give myself something to aim at scorewise for this year. I'd probably like something better, but this is a combination of where I am now and therefore where I expect to be, if I work hard, at the end of the year. If you think that I'm unwise to aim as high as I do or if any of these scores are unrealistic in your opinion please say so, since I actually don't know properly the kinds of scores relate to different SSs.
Subject: Raw score --> Scaled (AN ATAR Calc)
English: 41 --> 40
T&T: 43 --> 43
Methods: 45 --> 48
Specialist: 32 --> 43
Chemistry: 35 --> 39
Physics: 42 --> 44
ATAR: 97.75
I'd be happy with this as it would get me into any of the engineering degrees, but I would like something over 98 to get a scholarship. This is kind of like a 'before Dec 15' idea, but it will also give me an indication of where to aim for.
(I don't even know why I'm posting this tbh :P )
Subject: Raw score --> Scaled (AN ATAR Calc)
I'd be happy with this as it would get me into any of the engineering degrees, but I would like something over 98 to get a scholarship. This is kind of like a 'before Dec 15' idea, but it will also give me an indication of where to aim for.
(I don't even know why I'm posting this tbh :P )
Before the year starts I'm going to give myself something to aim at scorewise for this year. I'd probably like something better, but this is a combination of where I am now and therefore where I expect to be, if I work hard, at the end of the year. If you think that I'm unwise to aim as high as I do or if any of these scores are unrealistic in your opinion please say so, since I actually don't know properly the kinds of scores relate to different SSs.
Subject: Raw score --> Scaled (AN ATAR Calc)
English: 41 --> 40
T&T: 43 --> 43
Methods: 45 --> 48
Specialist: 32 --> 43
Chemistry: 35 --> 39
Physics: 42 --> 44
ATAR: 97.75
I'd be happy with this as it would get me into any of the engineering degrees, but I would like something over 98 to get a scholarship. This is kind of like a 'before Dec 15' idea, but it will also give me an indication of where to aim for.
(I don't even know why I'm posting this tbh :P )
That colour combination or variations thereof has got to be the most popular one across Victoria lolYear 12 Jackets(https://i.imgur.com/gFeDue4.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/xlYvaUc.jpg)
That colour combination or variations thereof has got to be the most popular one across Victoria lol
No way! My school had...We needed the burgundy in the edging just because that is our sports colour, but basically we were always going for navy blue, and it came down to grey or burgundy sleeves, and they both looked pretty good, but the class went for the grey to set us apart from previous jackets from our school, and in doing so made them fit in with the more common jacket style that everyone else has... :P
... oh - the same colours.
Jackets look good, though, Marv.
We needed the burgundy in the edging just because that is our sports colour, but basically we were always going for navy blue, and it came down to grey or burgundy sleeves, and they both looked pretty good, but the class went for the grey to set us apart from previous jackets from our school, and in doing so made them fit in with the more common jacket style that everyone else has... :PThe decision between grey and burgundy sleeves also happened in my year level lol. I don't know why Reform (the company) even bother offering colours other than grey, navy, burgundy and white haha
Starting to think about maybe doing an exchange program in Uni with a uni in Canada/UK. Any suggestions, advice, experiences anyone is willing to share? Thanks heaps! :)I'm basically going to explain this now, since I was pretty rushed when I initially asked. I know that I'm just starting Year 12 and you can't do exchange programs (at Monash at least) until 3rd year, so some might think that this is premature, but something I saw on one of the University Journey Journals just starting up made me suddenly think about it and it sounded really cool, so I've been doing research a couple of years in advance. I want to go to Monash (or maybe RMIT if I have decided on the branch of Engineering I want to do before receiving offers), and so in 3rd year I want to do either 1 semester or 2 in the UK on an exchange program! If anyone has any suggestions, ideas, experiences to share that would give me a better understanding of what it would be like that would be great! :)
Good to hear you're doing well, M.K! I agree with your statement about the younger year levels. Time flies when you're in a panic about schoolwork, amirite?Thanks man! The weird thing is how fast this year is going, despite the fact that I'm not yet in a panic about work. I haven't even received notifications about SACs yet, my first one isn't for about 3 weeks still, while the other classes seem to have all had their first on. Anyway, this is how the first few days of this week have gone for me:
(Also, keep winning at volleyball. Volleyball is cool beans.)
Part of that is because they are the only two real sciences... :)(http://i.imgur.com/1QEkOnW.jpg)
Part of that is because they are the only two real sciences... :)What about Biology?
What about Biology?And psychology*
And psychology*
Wait a minute...Exactly, but it forgot bio, the squishy science that isn't quite a real science. Nearly, but there isn't enough maths :P
(https://i.imgflip.com/24sh9y.jpg)
Proof!
Proof from the scroll of truth!
(EDIT: Stole this from the meme of the month thread. Creds to Sine. ;3)
Exactly, but it forgot bio, the squishy science that isn't quite a real science. Nearly, but there isn't enough maths :P
Exactly, but it forgot bio, the squishy science that isn't quite a real science. Nearly, but there isn't enough maths :PAs someone studying a degree that is based around what is essentially an advanced extension of Biology, I can tell you that the only squishy thing about it is the wet specimens in the labs
Why would maths be a required for a field to be a science?As our Methods teacher is constantly reminding us (and our Physics/Chem teacher), anything that isn't based on maths isn't a science, since science is a branch of maths. Bio is sort of a science, but not quite a pure science. It is chemistry that has been built on by observation. I'm digging myself into a hole here... ;P
As someone studying a degree that is based around what is essentially an advanced extension of Biology, I can tell you that the only squishy thing about it is the wet specimens in the labs
This is a great reason why not to eat a meal whilst surfing ATAR Notes.Nice...
bio yesI would agree that bio is more of a science than psych, and in reality, when I'm not joking around, I really do think that bio is a science.
psych no
:D
This is a great reason why not to eat a meal whilst surfing ATAR Notes.Wait till you read my uni journal and I've started learning about sputum and airway clearance techniques ;)
Wait till you read my uni journal and I've started learning about sputum and airway clearance techniques ;)
This is a great reason why not to eat a meal whilst surfing ATAR Notes.
Wait till you read my uni journal and I've started learning about sputum and airway clearance techniques ;)
*spits out pasta*When you're quite finished spattering my journey journal with regurgitated food and pasta... ;)
*spits out pasta*Whoever said physio wasn't an attractive degree? ;)
When you're quite finished spattering my journey journal with regurgitated food and pasta... ;)I'll never be finished, Philboi ;)
Future:
T&T SAC on Thursday, a Methods test rescheduled from Thursday to next Monday, and next Thursday a SAC/excursion to Luna Park for Physics!!! :D
So how was the trip to Luna Park and how did your SAC go?The Luna Park trip is this coming week, so it hasn't happened yet, but the T&T SAC was pretty good. It was quite easy, just a couple of things I wasn't sure about, but I think that on the whole it was pretty good.
All round it's been a pretty good week, with the exception of the poetry in English and getting an email from Distance Ed saying "why haven't you handed in the first five weeks of work, you're getting behind, blah blah..." when their tech wouldn't let me on to the site until 3 days ago! >:( I hope everyone else's week has been even better! :)How is specialist with DECV going? I've been curious as to what your impression would be.
How is specialist with DECV going? I've been curious as to what your impression would be.Thus far it hasn't been too bad, with the exception of the start of this year, which was a fiasco. However, I do feel like they under-prepare students. For example, I don't find their work and exams hard at all, whereas the textbook is difficult. Sadly, when I don't have a teacher I have no accountability and am totally un-motivated, so I really don't do as well as I probably should, but I don't think that this is 100% my fault. I just don't think that they are a great school.
I did philosophy DECV and I know lots of people who did Japanese through VSL, but I think both of those are quite difficult to do without face-to-face, immediate-feedback kind of teaching. Spesh I don't do, so I'm not sure what it'd be like. I'm actually imagining it wouldn't be bad, and since I'm reckoning that you would be very capable, maybe it isn't an issue. Hmmm. So, what do you think of it?
Thus far it hasn't been too bad, with the exception of the start of this year, which was a fiasco. However, I do feel like they under-prepare students. For example, I don't find their work and exams hard at all, whereas the textbook is difficult. Sadly, when I don't have a teacher I have no accountability and am totally un-motivated, so I really don't do as well as I probably should, but I don't think that this is 100% my fault. I just don't think that they are a great school.I think the same way. It was hard for me to stay motivated. However I really love the learning style of distance education, so I enjoyed it. But definitely, when you hit a wall it's seemingly impossible to actually bring yourself to do work.
School's going OK at the moment, trying to improve my motivation and accountability, as well as trying to improve my attitude, which has been quite bad of late. If anyone has advice about how to improve attitude towards school, pls help! :)Legit same hahaha good luck!
Haven't posted for a while, so here goes again:Congrats on your fantastic mark in T&T!
Since I last posted, we've had a T&T SAC returned, and I got 96% which I was pretty happy with. It wasn't a really hard SAC, but I got the top mark in a class of 22, so I was pretty happy with that. We also did an English SAC, and it was terrible. The teacher knows that I do better on structural questions, and there was one on the SAC, but for some reason that I cannot understand I didn't do it. I had a total freeze for 20min without writing anything, just because I couldn't think of anything. I don't even know what happened to me, but I feel like the SAC went really badly. We also won our first Teacher vs. Student game of the year, netball. Otherwise, not much has really happened since I last added to this. We've got a Chemistry SAC tomorrow, but after sport that afternoon we have holidays, really looking forward to that! Anyone going away over Easter?
Congrats on your fantastic mark in T&T!Thanks, man! Congrats on your MotM, btw :)
Hopefully your English SAC wasn't as bad as you thought. Sometimes it isn't. I thought I'd completely botched my practice SAC - had the supervisor playing videos, people taking, and not the correct time allocated. I ended up not being able to write a whole paragraph and felt sick afterwards. To my surprise, I pulled an okay mark. Here's hoping the same happens for you.
Hope you did well on your chemistry SAC too!
I didn't go away this Easter - family came to me. How was your Easter weekend?
Best wishes!!
snipThank you! I was very surprised. I'll try to contribute more in the future haha.
First week is done, so here is the update:
Had 3 SACs returned last week, the Chemistry, Physics and English ones. Really happy with the Physics and Chemistry SACs, 88% for both of them, but much less happy with the English SAC, with 21/30 :'(
Had our school athletics carnival last week, and it was pretty fun, had some time to have some fun with my mates, so in the end my last aths carnival ever was the best. Specialist is not going as well as I would have liked, still about 4 weeks behind, had one weeks work returned with 33%, and the SAC is coming up in 2 weeks. On the plus side, it is calculator-allowed and doesn't include anti-differentiation, so I'm pretty happy about that. In Physics yesterday we burned out a power-pack, short-circuiting it in a (failed) attempt to observe a magnetic field around a wire, there was a puff of grey smoke that looked pretty cool, but stank to be honest. Ah well... I'm rambling again. On the whole, the first week back (and a half) went pretty well, sorta looking forward to this term, hopefully it continues to go well.
Went to a couple of the AN VCE lectures, got to meet legends @zsteve and @insanipi, great to meet you guys. Massive shoutout to the people who run those lectures, a great job was done. Really good job from Luke and Stephen in the Chem and Methods lectures, keep it up guys!
^Really nice to see this updated again! :) When are you back in the country?Right now, actually. Got home at 11:30 last night, getting today off school as I only got up 10 mins ago. :) Good to be back!
I found my spectroscopy etc. SAC to be fun. (Yes, I found a SAC fun...) So hopefully you have a similar experience with yours.Spectroscopy has been the most fun part of the course so far, it's really fun! I'm actually looking forward to the SAC for once. For the Practical Investigation (I'm assuming that that's what EPI is?!) in Physics I'm dropping cars down a ramp from varying heights and measuring how far they go to discover what affects the distance they will travel, change in height, mass, etc. It's going pretty well at the moment.
What are you doing for your EPI?
OK.A couple of points. this is the first time that I have read through anyone's Journal fully...I'm glad you enjoyed it and well done for the courage to read it. :P
It's actualy awesome.
#1... What are your key takeaways from Ransom/Invictus?
#2... Going back to the start... Do you have family background in India, or just friends?
Just nosy. You can ignore if you wish...
#3.... Mind=Blown!. Yertle is Marvin K mooney!
I need to keep up to date here!!!!
btw, congrats on 500 posts!Thanks Bro!
Thanks Bro!First I measured the top of the ramp, and then dropped them all from the top.What are you doing for your Prac?
Oops. Actually read the post rather than just glancing at it... :-[ :-[
Do you just drop the cars from the very top of the ramp, or use a ruler to measure the height?
Re: English marks, have you asked your teacher why you're dropping marks? Sorry if you've covered this already haha.I have complained about it a couple of times, and never get a satisfactory answer. There is never any serious reason given that I can understand, and that makes me quite mad. I just wish I knew why I lost the marks. But I will try again.
I have complained about it a couple of times, and never get a satisfactory answer. There is never any serious reason given that I can understand, and that makes me quite mad. I just wish I knew why I lost the marks. But I will try again.Definitely can relate. You must be used to getting the "well, it was really good but we don't want to give you full marks because you'll get too complacent" BS too!
Today was our school Talent Show, and 7 out of 8 Yr 12 guys took part in a medley of the songs "Sweet Child o' Mine", "Eye of the Tiger" (which I'd never heard before, but it's awesome), "Shooting Star" and "What does the Fox Say?", and it was awesome. We didn't even get an 'honourable mention', but everyone liked it, I hear.
However, the English creative SAC I got really mad about because I only got 80% (marginally above the class average) despite the teacher only putting positive feedback on the response! >:( This always bugs me with English, I always get given 70s or 80s, but there's never any reason given. The comments always say "Good job" etc., never anything negative, but I never get the really good marks. I've basically given up caring about English, I just hate it. That's all I can say about it. *shrugs*
Uh-huh. 8 guys, and 13 girls. That's it. It means that there is less competition, which is sometimes good and sometimes sucks.
Woah- are you saying there are only 8 guys in your year level?
That sounds pretty annoying. How can one improve without some criticism as feedback? My English teacher is the opposite, rather than say what we've done well, they like to point out all the flaws. So I can be a bit disheartening if you don't do well, and confusing if you do do well. :P
This is basically a description of the most valuable thing I did today.I was fully expecting that when I clicked on to it and it was very satisfying that I was right haha
playing against a @J41 doppelganger which was cool.They're taking over...
OK, so it's been a while since I added to this, so here goes. The Methods SAC went well on the Wednesday, and terribly on the Thursday, and I got home feeling confident that I'd failed, which was massively discouraging given the score I've been telling myself I might be able to get. It was a really bad week for me, just having 2 really bad SACs and my laptop packing up all in the same week, and it's been really hard to bounce back. In the end I got most of the marks for what I wrote, so I ended up with 62%, much better than I expected, but finishing my expectation of no. 1 ranking. :'( My Physics Practical investigation was returned this week as well, and I got 89% which I was really happy with. That's been about the only bright spot in the past fortnight, basically. Things are certainly not looking good at the moment.
Cross country was today, and I came second, which I was pretty happy with, but now I'm feeling terrible after it. >:(
Anyway, VTAC preferences are all up now, and I figured I should probably do an update for this. I'm still quite unsure about exactly how achievable my goals are, but at the moment here are my preferences:Preferences from VTAC1. 2800328091 - Engineering (Honours) (Monash University, Clayton)
2. 2800328271 - Engineering (Honours)/Science (Monash University, Clayton)
3. 3200332711 - Engineering-Chemical (Honours) (RMIT University, City)
4. 2800328451 - Science (Monash University, Clayton)
5. 2800329401 - Civil Engineering (Honours)/Architectural Design (Monash University, Clayton)
6. 2800328671 - Mechanical Engineering (Honours)/Industrial Design (Monash University, Clayton)
7. 3400210741 - Engineering (Honours) (Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn)
8. 3400211141 - Engineering (Honours)/Science (Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn)
RANTI hate the pressure and expectations that are around me. I don't think that anyone quite realises the pressure that I have to deal with. I've had quite a few older siblings who've all done pretty well, and all at the same school, so a) my family expect me to do well, b) I've grown up expecting to do well, c) the school expects me to do well because of my surname (I'm pretty sure that that was the only reason they offered me Spesh), and d) all of my friends (and enemies) at school expect me to do well, so when I don't top the class I get laughed at. THIS IS TOO MUCH PRESSURE FOR ONE HUMAN BEING AND I HATE IT! I'm not even sure if all of this is deliberate or whether I'm reading too much into it, but I'm constantly feeling like there's no way I'll ever do well enough to fulfill all the expectations that people have for me. I just want to get out of here!
RANTI hate the pressure and expectations that are around me. I don't think that anyone quite realises the pressure that I have to deal with. I've had quite a few older siblings who've all done pretty well, and all at the same school, so a) my family expect me to do well, b) I've grown up expecting to do well, c) the school expects me to do well because of my surname (I'm pretty sure that that was the only reason they offered me Spesh), and d) all of my friends (and enemies) at school expect me to do well, so when I don't top the class I get laughed at. THIS IS TOO MUCH PRESSURE FOR ONE HUMAN BEING AND I HATE IT! I'm not even sure if all of this is deliberate or whether I'm reading too much into it, but I'm constantly feeling like there's no way I'll ever do well enough to fulfill all the expectations that people have for me. I just want to get out of here!
Also great to meet up with @technodisney, it was awesome meeting you!