Nihao, fellow nerds!
(don’t pretend you aren’t a nerd. Why else are you reading about some random dude’s VCE journey on a study forum?)We’re nearly halfway through the year and I thought I’d arrive fashionably late onto the VCE Journey Journal threads. As the famous saying goes, the early worm gets eaten by the bird, so I do like to put things off. But I figured it’s about time I made this. Hope you appreciate the bad pun in the title - it’s supposed to say ‘delightful’
I guess we should start with a self intro? Hi, my real name is not Remy so of course that made sense for a username. I’m in the final year of my 12-year prison sentence. My school is ranked about 10th in the state if you go from the bottom of the list, and until 5 minutes ago, I was a long-time accountless lurker of ATAR Notes.
Onto VCE now — last year I did a 3/4 early, which was Portuguese. I thought doing a subject early was very smart of me but after coming onto ATARNotes turns out this is apparently the norm.
This year I’m doing another 5:
• Russian
• Chinese SL
• Mainstream english
• Maths methods
• Global politics
I think you might have picked up a theme with my subjects.
I like languages. Luckily for me the scaling for them are also really nice, so of course I made sure to do way too many of them for VCE. Sadly VCAA has a restriction that says you can do at most 3 LOTEs, otherwise I would’ve done another.
I originally planned on doing EAL or Eng Lang, but my school runs neither, and I decided against doing distance as I already have 2 external subjects. Global Politics because, well - I like politics. As for methods, I was initially planning to do French, but due to VCAA’a restrictions I had to withdraw. Didn’t know what else to do, so I chose maths to keep options open.
I got a raw 42 in Portuguese last year, which far exceeded my expectations. My school hasn’t had more than two 40+ study score in YEARS, unfortunately for them I did it through VSL so they got no credit. This year, I’m also doing Russian and Chinese through VSL.
My aims for this year are:
Russian: 35
Chinese: 35
English: 35
Methods: 30
GloPol: 40
ATAR: 90+
My second aim is to become the dux at my school. Our average ATAR is usually 50-something and historically our dux gets around the low to mid-80s. I would love to change that, and maybe inspire the younger year levels to work harder at school too.
As for future aspirations and uni courses, the dream course is Bachelor of Global Studies at Monash, with media communications as the backup plan. The ATAR for global studies is just above 90 and I get a shit ton of SEAS (SEAS calc says I need an 81), but I want to get in without any adjustment factors as it’s kind of cheating, and unfair for other students who don’t get SEAS but have also worked hard.
That’s quite the information dump so I’ll end it here. I’ll try to update weekly, but knowing me monthly would be a more likely estimate.
Thanks for reading