Fri 08.06.18
The end of Week 8, and I thought after last week this week would be easier. Boy, am I wrong. While Legal Studies and Chemistry toned down in terms of homework and study, Methods is so laborious (as usual), the Psychology research SAC is draining and English... oh English...
We've begun Integration for
Methods, but not before we received our SAC results, and I am so, so pleased. I received 115/120 and Rank 1
Only 5 people in our class got over 50% (which is unfortunate)
Anyway, it was back to 3-5 exercises per week and plenty of theory and homework, yet I still enjoy the subject the most so much???
We conducted our
Psych experiment on Tuesday, and while the conduct went well, the results were... off. I figure you know what we did next. Next Thursday is the final report write-up, but I'm not sure about anything about the moment. I received feedback to lengthen my already 400-word introduction by possibly another hundred or so words. Our method is already 300 words long and discussion is a predicted 500-words... I'm not going to be able to write this all up in one period!
Yesterday in
English we presented only a fraction of our POV on African gangs. I literally wrote the whole thing up the night before and so I had no time to memorise. So I winged it (someone who didn't even know me laughed at me and I wanted to slam a table) and I faltered many times, yet I still received good enough feedback. On Wednesday I received my results for Language Analysis, and I was more surprised than anything. I think I was more happy with the result than for Methods, despite it being my lowest SAC score over the year. I hadn’t completed the analysis yet I tried to incorporate as much of the criteria in there, and this gave me equal rank 1 in the class!!!
Alongside, we received a booklet with tasks for Exam revision, for the practice exam in the last week of term. This includes language analysis essays, Medea or After Darkness text response essays, planning responses, sheets of essay components, etc. All this with the POV draft being due in the background. Without the long weekend and the Friday off (and half of Wednesday) next week, I wasn't sure if I was able to last. In other news, we played Kahoot in
Legal and I didn't know Emojis could work as your name. Nobody figured out who the watermelon was until the 20th question. Who won? The watermelon.
Something that doesn't concern me at all yet I'm so stressed with is
Further Maths. The classes had their Recursion and Financial Modelling SAC yesterday afternoon and today, and I get stressed hearing about it. It's a 70 page long SAC of 11 stages that literally tells you to manage a person's financial life from birth to death. It's been the talk for the last few days and EVERYONE is confused. Some come to me for help but it's too hard for me to comprehend. Basically, the teachers sent their SACs to VCAA last year and were told to make them harder, but they made them TOO hard. As far as I know, nobody got past 85% last SAC. They are also unstructured and require a lot of writing like English, except with calculations. People say it's because of ME (see why in signature) and if it is because of me, I'm genuinely so sorry. Back to this SAC, only one person I've asked reached stage 11 (but didn't finish), two reached stage 9, and the rest only reached stage 7 and 6. Someone told me that during reading time, people were actually crying in the corner. I was so concerned for them. After reading time, they haven't finished reading the third page. I have a lot of friends in Further. I couldn't believe it this year. The best move of people were to do Further last year or to have dropped it transitioning from Year 11 to Year 12. The SACs also really disadvantage the EAL kids and is really unfair. They should petition to VCAA.
In other news,
I'm not ready for the GAT. I received results from the Practice Writing tasks and I received 7 out of 10 for both. It was average as it sounded like 60% of students received the same score. My friend literally wrote 7 lines for the second writing task and got a 7 (maybe he would've gotten 10 if he wrote 3 more lines?). Also, everyone was literally at the reception paying and bringing their notes for the formal as this is the last day
I still need a shirt. I've also planned to attend five open days (Swinburne, La Trobe, RMIT, ACU, and Melbourne) and I hope it will be good.
Today was also a good day overall. Weirdly, each period I had to wait at least 1 minute to wait for a teacher, especially my first period, where the teacher came after 14 minutes. It was short of a 'If the teacher doesn't come in 15 minutes, we are legally allowed to leave.' I'm also not good with people at all, yet I managed to talk to a lot of people today and I'm glad
I'm so awkward and shy or over-hyped in real life. I also barely go out with friends as I was always so uncomfortable - I'm more of a family person. But I seemed to improve my social skills as I actually wanted to head out to dinner in the city with some friends that I'm comfortable with today, but today is my dad's birthday and my parents wouldn't let me go. Wasted "opportunity"
I was going to tell more about myself and my goals, but the post is getting too long I think. I'll do it next week when there's only two and a half days of school. I didn't think this post would've been that long, but it's good as it indicates that I'm more invested in this journal. It's no doubt that I'll be updating it regularly now