Heyo... the time has come for me to succumb myself to the epitome of procrastination hidden behind a thin veil of “trying to find motivation” aka vce journal. I have been stal- *cough* reading, I mean reading a lot of journals, I thought I should also do a favour for my fellow stalkers out there by providing more content to stalk
Okay, anyway so... I completed year 10 this year (AYO FELLOW ‘21ers) and now on school holidays. Honestly, I don’t have much planned aside from binging some anime and reading some books.
I am an anime fan (aka an intellectual haha jks
hence the name rose coloured life from hyouka 💜. I also dabble in some Kpop, although, haven’t listened to much recently. I also loved to read (I read like the entire series of Sherlock Holmes when I was 7 so fITE me- weird flex, but ok), but haven’t been reading that much aside from sporadic instances of reading three books in a week hehe.
I have a habit of being very inconsistent with everything which I’m trying to improve but we’ll see. I’ll give a brief overview my opinions on the subjects that I’m doing next year.
1) Bio: since this is my only 3/4 subject I’m nervous since the amount of content was a big jump from units 1 and 2, plus the competition. For the end of year exam I got a decent mark but I feel slightly disappointed since the mark could have been better but tbh I knew it was going to be average as soon as I started the exam. I have this tendency to compare against other people which I know isn’t the best for my mental health and the mark was another reminder that I have to work harder - but at the end of the day I should compare my progress against myself and not others... but I have to work on this.
2) English: This year English was a pretty bad start - by that I mean very bad (the oral presentation was
) but I think I slowly build myself from up there. The exam for this semester was on comparative, which is not my strongest suit but I managed to get an dead on average mark haha. I wanted to do maybe literature but our school doesn’t offer that so English it is. I think I can manage this subject as long as I keep up with the workload. We are doing creative at the start of next year and I already handed in my rough draft so I’m feeling satisfied with my work so far.
3) Chem: Our school offered an elective this year (year 10 Chem and physics) but I didn’t do it since I was scared of physics and I regretted that when we started commencement. But, now I think I’m okay now since I realised that the prior knowledge we have on a subject doesn’t really matter a whole lot as long as you have a strong understanding by the end. Also, the teacher is nice.
4) Psych: tbh this is pretty fun and the content so far seems purely on memorisation so not too bad for me. I did the elective for this subject this year and there seems to be a lot of overlap which is easier I guess. I also did pretty well on the exam so yayy. I did want to do 3/4 for this subject tho, but the teacher said that doing two science subjects is hard (while there are other people doing two science subjects... loll.) This is a pretty good indication that I have to do better and wow them away but from experience I know this is unlikely.
5) Sinhala: I am debating on whether or not asking my teacher if I can do the 3/4 for this next year since it’s my mother tongue. In my honest opinion, I think I’ll do better since there’s only one more subject to balance compared to 4 more but who knows. Aiming for a 45+ in this one.
6) Methods: ahhh methods, you love to frick me up when I need you the most don’t you? My exam was pretty good I think (was still disappointed tho cos COMPARING IS FUNN!1!1!) but then we had a progress test... I wouldn’t say I’m the strongest maths student but I thought I was decent. Lo and behold I was below the average ahahaha yayayaya.(I didn’t even have to make it sound bad with this one, it already was
oh well... I realised that the reason why I got a lot wrong was because even though I knew how to do the method.. I didn’t understand the whys and other nitty gritty stuff... oh well I’m planning on improving.
Also another disappointment this year: I didn’t get an invitation for the presentation night
maybe next year I guess.
Ahh wow... this turned out to be longer than I planned... sorry and good luck on your holidays friends!!