zsteve (99.95 ATAR): "Ask Me Anything!"

[clarke54321]

Hey zsteve,

Thanks for answering all these questions! 

Did you continually have confidence in your own abilities? If so, how did you maintain this?

[TheCommando]

How much did u study in yr12 and how?

[amigos]

What was your typical 'school day' like?

[rocksonchan]

Are you single? 

[dan0038]

Hey my questions are the following:
1. How far ahead did you go with each study (like were you done with the book exercises by end of unit 3? )
2. How many exams did you do for each subject?
3. What rank were you in each subject by the end of unit 4?
4. How did you start working for atarnotes?
5. How many tutors did you have for year 12?
6. How uni maths?

[Sconey]

Did you accelerate subjects in Year 11?

Did you work ahead on the holidays?

[KANYEWEST]

Hey Steve!
My question to you is regarding motivation!
In all honesty- what are the few things that kept you motivated- throughout the year? (any motivational quote, or something you would recommend?)

Thanksssssssss!

[Aaron4477]

How early did start end of year exam study/preperation and what did do. Like how many pratice exams per subject and did u only do pratice exams to prepare

[GalacticProcess]

Hey Steve!
I have a few questions. (I am not sure if any of them have already been answered and if they have, skip them)
1. Did you accelerate any subjects in year 11?
2. Did you go through any periods when lack of motivation (possibly due to drop in marks?) impacted your results? If so, how did you overcome this?
3. What marks did you get throughout the year (SACS) to achieve a 99.95 ATAR?
4. Would you say your school was competitive or fairly relaxed?
5. Was your social life impacted because of VCE (friendships, parties, get-togethers, etc.)?
6. What were your study habits like? Did you study everyday and have a set routine or did schedules fluctuate?
7. Did you play any sports throughout VCE?

Sorry for asking you so many questions but a 99.95 ATAR is so fascinating and there are so many things to ask haha! Once again, if you feel as if you have already answered a question, please skip it. 

Just another question... how will these questions be answered? Will you post on this thread?

Thanks a lot for doing this by the way! 

[captkirk]

Question-
1-you know how in vce science subjects you have thick 300-800 page textbooks which you cover in a whole year. eg (biology, physics and chemistry).
In university the textbooks are much thicker. Do you basicly go through the whole textbook in a semester (5-6 months)?

2-A simple uni question that I've Been thinking for a while.
For science lectures, you know how you have to write notes, does the lecturer person just buzz through the PowerPoints? If they do this how do you write down all the notes? What happens if you missed a fair bit??

3-Is UoM science any good? I've heard some people say it's not great. I'm just assuming these people are Monash students who try to make UoM look bad.

4-UoM or Latrobe for science

Thankksssssss!…

[asdf666]

If i have done badly in my sacs, and i only have 1 left for each subject is it possible if i do well in the exam can i change my scaling?
One of my teachers told me i could, while others have said it docent work that way!
what do you think??  

[jh18316]

Hey Steve,

Just wondering if you have any tips and tricks for me to revise for my end of year exams.
also what advice would you give me for my Physics SAC's?, finally how did you go about making your summary sheet for physics?

Thank you so much in advance 

[Gogo14]

Hey got sum questions for uuuu!!!!
1. On average how many hours did u study vs should study in yr12?
2. How often do u run and usually how far?
3. what motivates u? Like what pushed you to keep going through vce and achieve high?
4. What in ur opinion separates the good studnets from the outstanding ones? Esp. In spesh, phy, meth and chem
5. Where do u want to be in 5 years time careerwise?
6. Best parts about uni life?
7. What is ur biggest regret looking back at vce?

And lastly....

8. What is the secret ingredient to doing so well

/15 marks
Thanks!!!

[captkirk]

ANother question..

1-Are university science exams hard? I'm assuming it would be because you need to know/remember lots of information. But if this is the case, wouldn't it be very hard to get a H1?

2-what breadth subjects did you do/are you doing? Are these subjects easy or hard?

[zsteve]

Well, time to get cracking

Hey, got a few questions:

How many students are there doing the same degree as you?

Several thousand students in Science but it's a very very broad course, which means just because they do Science too doesn't imply that we have anything in common. I'd say there are a good 200+ people going down a similar path to mine (depending on how you measure similarity), i.e. people doing applied maths OR biochem. People doing applied maths AND biochem? LOL AFAIK I'm the only one #feels

Do you know how many students there are doing Bachelor of Biomedical Science and how many of them usually try out for a postgrad degree in MD?

There are roughly 400-500 students enrolled in BBiomed at UoM and my guess is that 80-90% of them will apply for MD or Dent. Definitely most of them! Apparently the atmosphere in the biomed cohort is very med-oriented (hence the name I guess).