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Title: ✧ J_Rho's VCE Journey ✧
Post by: J_Rho on January 28, 2019, 08:29:11 am
to skip to my 2020 journey click here

G'day

Officially starting Year 11 on Wednesday!!

Many people say that year 11 doesn't really matter which is true in some regards, I'm planning on putting as much effort into year 11 as I would year 12 so that I can see what my predicted study score would be 'as if I was in Year 12' as I am aiming for a 99.95 which I know is unrealistic but I believe if I aim really high its better than doing Year 12 going 'meh' and getting a 60.

My goals for 2019:
Study 24 hours a week (4 hours per subject)
Get up at 6 am every day (to maximise time in the day)
Exercise every day for the recommended 90 minutes
Aim for A+ on all SAC's and Exams.

In Year 9 and 10 I was averaging C's and D's in English and I really want to change that so I'm going to make sure i work especially hard on that and if you have any advice for me that would be fantastic!

My subjects for 2019 are;
3 & 4 Biology
1 & 2 Business Management
1 & 2 Psychology
1 & 2 English
1 & 2 General Maths
 I am still to choose a sixth subject and am tossing up between Studio Arts and Legal (any advice on choosing would be amazing)

Plans For The Future;
I'm planning on going to university and studying paramedicine or audio engineering or production lighting (sound tech or like live theatre)
Paramedicine is my main focus as I'm already doing production lighting and audio stuff with local theatre and I'm getting work working local music festivals.

Hoping to post weekly :)

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Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: Joseph41 on January 28, 2019, 10:20:30 am
I think your first thread is still available here:

https://atarnotes.com/forum/index.php?topic=182623.msg1088220#msg1088220

Let me know if you'd like for the threads to be merged. :)

As for Studio v. Legal, it's a good question! What do you see to be the pros and cons of each?
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on January 28, 2019, 08:00:26 pm
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In deciding whether to do Studio Arts or Legal Studies;
- studio is 'chill' compared to a content heavy subject
- I've always struggled in arts because it can be so broad (can't choose medium or topic)
- I've always hated learning about the constitution etc etc in earlier classes
- Legal would probably be easier as its 'black and white' like maths...only one answer compared to art where its interpretation etc
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on February 04, 2019, 08:03:01 pm
Summary:
and my first week is over!
My first week was only a three day week from Wednesday to Friday, however I got loaded with a load of homework and for some reason i feel like i actually have to complete it! I wish I was back in Year 7 when I took being able to do no work for granted!
But I'm glad I've started VCE like now i feel like my schooling is finally getting somewhere!

Classes:
Units 3/4 Biology is SO HARD! Like despite the fact I completed 1/2, 3/4 is just so intense!
Legal Studies...IS SO DRYYYY
BusMan on the other hand - is actually pretty cool
General Maths... gotta be my favourite class! I actually know how to math compared to all my other subjects being toats new
English, I've read and annotated 12 Angry Men and it's actually a really good play! Like definitely relevant to todays society still!
Psych, oh god don't get me started but my 1/2 teacher is absoultly wack - like he legit has no idea what he's doing! He walks into class and is like "um so yep we are gonna look at this and um yep ummmm heres a video and um so" Like he legit gives us no work to do and like he seems permanently confused!!

Work / Social;
I worked 26 hours life guarding this week which is good as - has given me time to not think about school!! And I've got some good mates at work who I can chill with! Plus I'll be making some REAAAL good money this pay day!
I hung out with my best friend and boyfriend after school for a few hours the other day and honestly I feel like suuuch a lousy girlfriend! I've barely seen my boyfriend - only 3 times since the new year :/
Also thinking about taking up ballet as a form of exercise...I've always wanted to become a prefessional ballerina but as my mum was a single teen mum money was a huge issue and i wasn't able to take classes...only now when i'm 16 have we got the disposable income to pay for things like ballet classes... and to be honest I don't know if I want to because i know I'll never be able to do it professionally but should i do it?? I'm still really bitter about the fact I wasn't able to start at a young age and that has affected any future I might have had dancing professionally. Honestly I'm feeling pretty shit about that does anyone know of professional ballerinas that started in their late teens??
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: appleandbee on February 05, 2019, 12:06:08 am

Also thinking about taking up ballet as a form of exercise...I've always wanted to become a prefessional ballerina but as my mum was a single teen mum money was a huge issue and i wasn't able to take classes...only now when i'm 16 have we got the disposable income to pay for things like ballet classes... and to be honest I don't know if I want to because i know I'll never be able to do it professionally but should i do it?? I'm still really bitter about the fact I wasn't able to start at a young age and that has affected any future I might have had dancing professionally. Honestly I'm feeling pretty shit about that does anyone know of professional ballerinas that started in their late teens??


Not exactly late teens, but Misty Copeland (first African American woman to be promoted to principal dancer in the American Ballet Theatre) started learning ballet at 13. From the sounds of her wiki page, she had a rough upbringing. Unfortunately, parental support and socio-economic circumstances are dominant factors in pursuing performing arts. In regards to feeling bitter, I empathise with you given that I started pursuing theatre after high school for similar reasons (family issues, socio-economic circumstances and lack of exposure-soccer was far more accessible so that's what I did, was quite good at it and dreamt to becoming a professional soccer player or long distance runner but didn't really happen). Didn't feel bitter towards my upbringing and circumstances but instead towards a system that privileged people that started young. When I started, I focused on playwriting rather than acting or theatre acting (as it's more realistic at that age), and merely took acting classes to understand the process as a writer (thankfully VCA allowed me to take them for free). From there, I took a few theatre-making masterclasses and got really good mentorships which opened up more opportunities. Similar thing happening with uni debating, the majority of people debated for many years in high school and quite a few even represented the state and country. Can't say that I'm near as good as them but being able to go to international majors was one of the most formative things that happened.

Trying to be professional ballerina in the late teens is probably similar to a lot of sports, although it could be slightly easier if you have contemporary dance or gymnastics experience. The socio-economic structures that are pervasive within the performing arts suck, but the barriers made me enjoy and appreciate it even more even more. I believe that various activities can still be enjoyable even you can pursue it at a professional level (may be even more so as it's without pressure). I understand your point that thinking about what could have been could make various pursuits less enjoyable, although I can still say I love watching soccer (and explored options to still play club soccer but can fit it in with my other commitments).

If we ever have kids, we make them alter-versions of ourselves that enrol them is sports/theatre/dance/music programs, hoping that they become what we could've been :p
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on February 15, 2019, 10:51:20 am
Summary:
Weeks 2 and 3: Over the course of the last two weeks I've been pretty on top of all my work but it's been busy enough for me to not have been able to find time to write this! I have a few upcoming SACs and have had a few assignments that i did well on, I went shopping with my friend to help her find shoes for deb and pick up her dress and last night my boyfriend tuned up at my house at half past 9 with a rose and chocolate 😍


Classes:
Units 3/4 Biology: Have  my first Unit 3 SAC next Friday!!!!!
Legal Studies: Have to prepare a Legal folio of recent cases by the 1st - 6 cases and 2000 words.
BusMan: got 100% on Chapter 1 test...have the Chapter 2 test on Monday!
General Maths: Almost finished Chapter 4 - Financial maths is SO BAD
English: Have had 2 assignments.. 1 was about '12 Angry Men's relevance in todays society' and the other was an aside from a juror at a point in the first 18 pages of the play (if you wanna read it or give me feed back i've attached them below
Psych: got 100% on my early start work on things like Phrenology, Heart vs Brain Problem and Ablation & ESB

Work / Social;
Legit have done like so little: I went to Fountain Gate with my friend and i am going shopping with my boyfriend on Sunday :)

Homework / To-Do
1. Business Managment Chapter 2 Summary
2. Maths Chapter 4 (Get Ahead)
3. Work on Legal SAC
4. Study for Bio SAC

1. Paint Nails
2. Wrap present for bf
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: pepper77 on February 16, 2019, 02:10:51 pm
Wow, that's a pretty great start to the year. Good luck with your SACs! I found that the questions on Bio tests were a lot of fun to work through (like, I found that even if I had no idea how to answer something, I could throw ideas out there and get marks as long as I justified them) so I hope you'll enjoy units 3/4.

my boyfriend tuned up at my house at half past 9 with a rose and chocolate 😍

That's so cute! Keep him ;D
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on February 25, 2019, 11:30:21 am
Summary:
Week 4 - Was a busy week but went by quite quick, but was pretty stressful as I wasn't confident i knew enough for mu maths or biology SAC's!
Starting on week 5 I'm going to be starting Sarah's Day 'Sweat it to Shred it" program!! Psyched!!


Classes:
Units 3/4 Biology: Had my first SAC...was on the plasma membrane - think i did reasonably well but will probably lose marks for my clarity of writing
Legal Studies: Still working on my Legal folio and have a legal foundations SAC (test) soon!
BusMan: got 75% on Chapter 2 test
General Maths: Completed Financial maths test...think i did really well
English: Have a SAC coming up - a creative peice on 12 Angry Men
Psych: Not doing anthing very interesting

Work / Social;
Worked from 7am till 3pm on Saturday, the local swim club was there so i didn't need to lifeguard so i got paid for doing not a huge lot
My boyfriend took me on a date on Satuday to an italian restaurant was so cute!
Sunday i bought a cute bikini from Ozmosis - it is ADORBS

Homework / To-Do
1. Business Management Chapter 3 Summary Q's
2. Maths Chapter 4 Finish
3. Work on Legal SAC
4. Maths Budgeting assignment
5. Work on English SAC
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: Joseph41 on February 25, 2019, 12:11:53 pm
Love this ongoing homework/to-do list. 👌
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on March 06, 2019, 02:14:58 pm
Summary:
Week 5 - I didn't start Sarah's Day 'Sweat It to Shred It' program :/


Classes:
Units 3/4 Biology: Still waiting on my SAC results
Legal Studies: Studying for SAC on tuesday
BusMan: Waiting on Chaper 3 test results
General Maths: Waiting on financial maths results...
English: Have a SAC coming up - a creative peice on 12 Angry Men as well as an analytical essay
Psych:

Work / Social;
Worked Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday - made like 400$ but no more regular work for me now that the outdoor pool season is over for the year!
Went to the Peninsula Hot Springs with my bf on Sunday was soooooooooooooooo nice!

Homework / To-Do
1. Business Management Chapter 3 Summary Q's
2. Maths Chapter 4 Finish
3. Maths Budgeting assignment
4. Work on English SAC's

I barely got any homework done :|
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on March 15, 2019, 08:01:47 pm
Summary:
Week i dont even know - I am completely and utterly exhausted....i made a study timetable tho!


Classes:
Units 3/4 Biology: Got SAC results!!! 50% haha fk
Legal Studies: Got SAC results back!! A+ (Very proud I was one of the 3 (?) that got an A+ out of maybe 20 students)
BusMan: Still waiting on chapter 3 test results
General Maths: Still waiting on financial maths results
English: Creative Oral Presentation on Monday...Still haven't started on it
Psych: our teacher is wack no one knows what we are doing

Work / Social;
Worked last saturday and today - running birthday parties at local pool...made like $80

Homework / To-Do
1. Business Management Chapter 4 Summary Q's
2. Maths get ahead in chapter 3
3. Work on English SAC!!! DUE MONDAY!! :o :-\

Joke Of The Week
Today at the bank, an old lady asked me to help check her balance. So I pushed her over.
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on March 23, 2019, 10:59:23 am
Summary:
Week 2 Weeks Till Holidays - got tuesday off woop woop
have a shocking cold took friday off
Wrote my boyfriends essay on music royalties for uni


Classes:
Units 3/4 Biology:

Legal Studies: County Court Excursion Next week

BusMan: Completed my Business innovation presentation...I think i went well but am waiting on results

General Maths: Finished all the work for the rest of the term

English: Creative Oral Presentation went okay... not my best work

Psych: Have an Edrolo SAC, April 1st

Work / Social;
Went go-karting on wednesday as a team building activity for SES


Homework / To-Do
1. Study for Psych SAC
2. English Analytical Paragraphs
3. Answer questions 1-5 Practice Exam questions Revision questions.


Joke Of The Week

Why are frogs always so happy? They eat what ever bugs them
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on March 24, 2019, 05:50:12 pm
Setting Goals:

Goal 1: 90+ ATAR
   - 90% on all 3 & 4 SAC's and Exams
   - Work through all Cambridge Checkpoint Questions
   - 15 practice Exams per subject (30 if the subject has 2 Exams)
   - Study 6 hours per 3 & 4 subject per week
- Study 4 hours per 1 & 2 subject per week
I will know I'm on my way to my goal when all those things are being done and when I get my ATAR on the 14th of December 2020

Goal 2: 4.0 GPA
   - Attend ALL classes
   - Complete all work BEFORE due date
   - Participate in class discussions
   - Study 4 hours per subject per week
I will know I've completed my goal when Term 2 interim reports are posted June 28th 2019

Goal 3: Raw 40 Biology Study Score
   - 90% on all SAC’s/Exams
   - Work through ALL Cambridge Checkpoint Questions
   - Do 20 practice Exams
- Study 6 hours per 3 & 4 subject per week
I will know I'm on my way to my goal when all those things are being done and when I get my study score on the 14th of December 2019


Goal 4: Get My Life In Order
(Be on top of everything in my life)
   - Follow a routine everyday
   - Read everyday
   - Exercise, run, meditate and do yoga daily
   - Do all my chores and keep room neat asf
I will know I've completed my goal when those things have become habit and are done EVERYDAY without fail

EDIT: Somehow missed one of my goal when copying and pasting from sticky notes & added dates to make them more SMART  8)
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: Joseph41 on March 25, 2019, 05:02:47 pm
^Is goal two there for high school or after high school?

P.S. Love your jokes. They're so bad they're good haha. 😂
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on March 25, 2019, 06:14:15 pm
^Is goal two there for high school or after high school?

P.S. Love your jokes. They're so bad they're good haha. 😂

High school but tbh it'll probably carry on after high school but idek what im doing with my life so im just focusing on getting through high school first!!  ;D
GPA is currently sitting at 3.71 (as of March 2019) so im working on getting it up to 4.0 by the June round of interim reports.

PS I could say im flattered but i know how amazing my jokes are  😂 8)
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on March 27, 2019, 03:05:56 pm
A Little About Me

I'm currently in Year 11 studying English, General Maths, Legal Studies, Psychology, Business Management and 3/4 Biology

I want to achieve my best in school and continue volunteering with the State Emergence Service and local theatre groups and hopefully one day become a a paramedic or become a well know Audio Visual Tech or Stage Manager. I'm so usure tho like i love working AV but it's not regular and doesn't pay as well as a paramedic


I lived in Melbourne till 2010 and now currently in Gippsland.
Volunteers as a emergency responder (junior) and theatre lighting and sound tech
I love love looove camping and late night drives
I want to travel the world (South America, Europe, India)
Try as many things as I can like skydiving and bungee jumping, overseas relief, abseiling etc
Addicted to reading books like milk and honey
Loves herbal tea.

When I was younger I wanted to be a primary school teacher.
When I was 6 I wanted to be a race car driver and a mechanic.
When I was 12 I wanted to be an actress.
When i was 13 I wanted to fly jets in the Air Force.
Since I was 15 I wanted to be a paramedic or a Outdoor Educator (Did work experience at Lord Somers Camp)

Over the past year I've considered going into the Audio Visual industry as a Lighting/Sound Tech as I've got experience from working paid gigs and and volunteer and I've really enjoyed it...Apart from the sexism I've gotten for being the only female technician in in the area which is so frusturating and the pessimist in me is waiting for the day I get turned down a job cause I'm female
Open spoiler if you're interesting in reading my experiences as a technician PS ain't very interesting
Spoiler
Lighting Tech / Load In/Out Crew for Summer Nights 2019
- Rigging and patching of lights, mics and speakers
(Worked with The Teskey Brothers, Saskwatch and Caiti Baker)

Lighting tech for a local theatre group
-Rigging and patching and operation of board (all stage lights) and domes (followspots/moving spotlight)

Tech manager for school productions
- Rigging and patching of lights
-Teaching new techs how to operate board and domes

Lighting Tech and Sound tech/mic tech for talent/perfomance nights
-Rigging and patching of lights
-Putting/Taking off mics on singers and actors
-Repairing mics
I'm currently working as a Pool Lifeguard and Party Instructor and am hoping to become a Swim Teacher.
Back with the paramedic thing I've been volunteering with VICSES for just over a year and a half and I enjoy serving the community so that what was led me to thinking I could be a paramedic and the more I looked into it the more interested I became and that ideas stuck with me since.
Like I'm heading with idea so far cause out of all my ideas it requires the highest ATAR (85+) but i really don't know where I'm going  ???

Some of you may have read this post on other parts of forums but thought I might collate it all and write a lil about myself! More to come...
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: Joseph41 on March 27, 2019, 03:25:40 pm
Nice to learn more about you! :)

What's the #1 country you'd like to travel to atm?
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on March 27, 2019, 03:30:44 pm
Nice to learn more about you! :)

What's the #1 country you'd like to travel to atm?

hmm thats hard but I think I'd go with Colombia...or maybe Peru...that's such a hard question! I wanna see everywhere!!
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: Joseph41 on March 27, 2019, 03:51:03 pm
hmm thats hard but I think I'd go with Colombia...or maybe Peru...that's such a hard question! I wanna see everywhere!!

So good! And yeah, I feel that for suuuure haha.
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: Evolio on March 27, 2019, 04:02:16 pm
Hello JadeRhoden!
How are you going with 3/4 Biology? I'm also doing that subject! What interests you about it?

Also, yes! You should definitely go to India! There are always amazing experiences!
 :) :)
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on March 27, 2019, 04:46:52 pm
Hello JadeRhoden!
How are you going with 3/4 Biology? I'm also doing that subject! What interests you about it?

Also, yes! You should definitely go to India! There are always amazing experiences!
 :) :)
Hey Evolio!
Ooft, 3/4....compared to 1/2 im getting royally f__ked by the subject like there is SO MUCH CONTENT. I really enjoy leaning about cells and how they function like its so interesting. Same with DNA like i really enjoyed learning about DNA
I've had 1 friend drop out cause they failed 1/2 and failed the first 3/4 sac and another considering dropping it under said circumstances.

Wbu, Why are you doing bio?? What made u pick it?
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: Evolio on March 27, 2019, 06:08:25 pm
I'm doing biology because I find it really interesting,especially because we can relate it to our lives.
Also, now, I really enjoy doing those application questions for biology because we need to put so much detail in and make sure we can gain all those marks! To me, it's like a game! Hahaha. We need to score as many points as we can. Also, there's so much to biology than just the content. It follows you everywhere.
 ;D ;D
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: Evolio on March 27, 2019, 07:05:31 pm
Thank you catpacksnapback!
Wishing you the best for your biology studies and beyond!
How are you finding biology 1 2?
 :)
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on March 29, 2019, 10:50:01 am
Summary:
Week 9 - Week went fast but slow at the same time... Didn't have any SAC's or assignments this week so it was pretty chill.


Classes:
Units 3 & 4 Biology: Teacher has been away 75% of classes this week so mainly working off Edrolo

Units 1 & 2 Legal Studies: County Court Excursion was great and very informative, we sat in on two different cases - a murder trial in the Supreme Court and a drug smuggling trial in County Court.

Units 1 & 2 Business Managment:Still waiting on results for Business Innovation Presentation

Units 1 & 2 General Maths: Been writing out notes for linear equations and playing Tetris in class

Units 1 & 2 English: Practice SAC (Essay) on the 1st

Units 1 & 2 Psychology: Have an Edrolo SAC, April 1st - Class wants to postpone till the 2nd or 3rd as 90% of the class is doing deb on the Saturday/Sunday and won't have time to study


Homework / To-Do:
1. Study for Psych SAC
2. Study For English Practice Essay


Joke Of The Week

My friend told me an onion is the only food that makes you cry, so I threw a coconut at his face.
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: MB_ on March 29, 2019, 11:41:14 pm
Units 1 & 2 Legal Studies: County Court Excursion was great and very informative, we sat in on two different cases - a murder trial in the Supreme Court and a drug smuggling trial in County Court.
Those cases both seem interesting, what made you find the experience informative?. I remember doing something similar when I did Legal Studies and recall being a lot more interested in the County Court case than the Supreme Court case as the SCC was going over some very boring details at the time of attendance.
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on March 30, 2019, 02:58:03 pm
Those cases both seem interesting, what made you find the experience informative?. I remember doing something similar when I did Legal Studies and recall being a lot more interested in the County Court case than the Supreme Court case as the SCC was going over some very boring details at the time of attendance.

It's one thing to sit in a class room and learn from a textbook but being able to see cases take place really consolidated my understanding - for example in the Supreme Court we were there for both the prosecution and the defences opening statements and the defence counsel explained to the jury the burden of proof/presumption of innocence and that they had to believe he is guilty beyond reasonable doubt.

In the County Court we watched the prosecution cross-examine one of the accused, and found it really interesting but at the same time not as the barister who was cross-examining was getting very annoyed and flustered at the responses one of the accused were giving (had a very strong alibi).
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on March 31, 2019, 07:15:00 pm
UPDATE
Got a B on my English SAC
Really proud of this as I've never gotten higher then a D in English in my high schooling  :-\

Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on April 01, 2019, 07:00:01 pm
Summary:
Week 10; Monday -
Am going to have a go at posting daily so here goes...
Had 2 practice SAC's (Biology and English) and 1 Test (busman) today and had a doctors appointment - today as a whole was not bad but a lil stressful...kinda...like 20% stress

ALSO!!!
Got a B on my English SAC
Really proud of this as I've never gotten higher then a D in English in my high schooling  :-\


Classes:
Units 1 & 2 English: Think I went really well on my Essay
Units 1 & 2 Psychology: didnt really do much the teacher just sat there and was like um so sac is tomorrow?? yeah...sooo.... uh...
Units 3 & 4 Biology: Got 63% on the Biology practice SAC - made some rookie mistakes on the multiple choice
Units 1 & 2 Business Managment: Did nt end up having Chapter 4 test today
I also got my poster on Corporate Social Responsibilities done today
Still waiting on results for Business Innovation Presentation

Homework / To-Do:
1. Study for Psych SAC
2. Watch Edrolo Video on Signalling Molecules

Joke Of The Day
What’s the best thing about Switzerland?
I don’t know, but the flag is a big plus.
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: Bri MT on April 01, 2019, 08:20:35 pm
Congrats on your English mark!  :)


Do you know why you scored higher this time? 
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on April 02, 2019, 08:05:15 am
Congrats on your English mark!  :)


Do you know why you scored higher this time?

thankyouuuu
Um tbh I'm not too sure - my friends think its cause I have a different teacher this year (I previously had the same English teacher from year 7 - 10)
But idk, maybe Im taking it more seriously this year??
Actually i might have figured it out I read the text 3 times instead of the usual half arsed read cause i HAD to

READING THE BOOK HELPS KIDDOS 😂
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: Joseph41 on April 02, 2019, 11:29:28 am
thankyouuuu
Um tbh I'm not too sure - my friends think its cause I have a different teacher this year (I previously had the same English teacher from year 7 - 10)
But idk, maybe Im taking it more seriously this year??
Actually i might have figured it out I read the text 3 times instead of the usual half arsed read cause i HAD to

READING THE BOOK HELPS KIDDOS 😂

Dedication pays off. ;D
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: tocoolforschool on April 02, 2019, 03:15:09 pm
I haven't read through all your posts to see if you decided on studio or legal
but my advice is don't do legal, it's the most insipid class you will find...at least studio will probably be enjoyable which will make it easier to learn and get you higher marks!
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on April 02, 2019, 04:28:01 pm
I haven't read through all your posts to see if you decided on studio or legal
but my advice is don't do legal, it's the most insipid class you will find...at least studio will probably be enjoyable which will make it easier to learn and get you higher marks!

Haha I'm in legal - its okay-ish however i do wish I'd gone into studio but with that said im trying to make the most of legal.
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on April 02, 2019, 08:06:28 pm
Tuesday 01 April 2019
Got 71% on my Psych SAC :((

Also If anyones interested i make a new playlist every month!! (So if you wanna find some new music toats check out the link 🤙🤙🤙)
https://open.spotify.com/user/generatedsnow/playlist/4myxAZ44yLNuV85xslVK8D?si=MSrN6tUPTvuFfKrkRxaPOw
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: Joseph41 on April 03, 2019, 10:54:27 am
^Broken Tracks - River Blue. 😍😍😍
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on April 04, 2019, 09:44:14 am
UPDATE
I am generally a very modest and humble person but I feel that perhaps I have earnt the right to brag a lil.

Throughout my high schooling I've been pretty bad at maths, In year 9 I had a great teacher and was getting better and was understanding what I learnt...then came Year 10 where our teacher would give us the questions he wanted us to do and whenever we asked for help he waould say look in the textbook - we would and if we didn't understand he'd say read it again if we still didn't understand he would write what was in the textbook on the board without explaining it...

I was averaging 20% on tests and HATED maths.

Now you might be wondering what I want to brag about - for the first time in my schooling I got over 50% on a maths test.
 
Now this mightn't seem like much of an achievement until I tell you that I got
100%

And you know that mightnt be 'something to be proud about' cause 'math is easy' but coming from me I'm pretty darn proud.
Anyways thats my lil brag, hope everyone's having a fabulous day!
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: Joseph41 on April 04, 2019, 09:50:03 am
Yessss! That's fantastic - has made my morning a little better. ;D Awesome work!
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on April 09, 2019, 08:09:57 pm
MY HOLIDAY HOMEWORK LIST!
before I annoy you with my list, that i don't know why I'm posting  - letting y'all know
I'll still be posting over the holidays!! WOot WoOt! Bet ya'll excited (lol no)!! Will post on Friday :D

Yessss! That's fantastic - has made my morning a little better. ;D Awesome work!
Nawww thankyouuu  :D

☐Read and Annotate Year Of Wonders
☐Edrolo Biology Videos – Take Notes

   Signalling Molecules
   Stimulus – Response
   Signal Transduction
   Rate of Photosynthesis
   Purpose of Celullar Respiration
   Glycolysis
   Krebs cycle and electron transport
   Anaerobic cellular respiration
   Enzymes & Coenzymes
☐Crimes Against Property Revision Task
☐Edrolo Psychology Videos – Take Notes

   Understanding the brain
   Neurons
   Nervous system
   Divisions of the brain
   Cerebral cortex
   Brain development
   Brain injury and plasticity
   Parkinson’s disease
☐Year Of Wonders Character and Theme Maps
☐ Legal Studies Notes
(Make sure I have notes on all these)
   Principals of justice
   RECKS (pg 9)
   How law is made (video)
   Types of precedent
   Parliments and the courts
   Common law
   Civil law
   Criminal law
   Table 1.1 and 1.9
   Victorian court heirachy
   4 features of a crime
   Burden of proof & standard of proof Presumption of innocence
   Types of criminal offences (youtube.com/watch?v=x8AjGxUw0ol)
   Participants of a crime
   Key elements and defence of theft, burglary and robbery
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on April 14, 2019, 09:19:16 am
8/04/19 - 14/04/19
Week 1, Term 1 Holidays


Been a hectic week - worked Sunday, Monday, Wednesday and Friday, I finished the Biology part of my list and the first 2 sub topics of my Psychology list, and my friend passed away on Wednesday, went to my boyfriends house for lunch yesterday and am going down to SES to give the vehicles a wash and general equipment maintenance.

With this being said - works been good; ran a birthday party on Sunday and Mon, Wed, Fri I was lifeguarding the inflatable which long story short means I spend 4 hours swimming up and down a 25 metre pool making sure if a kid fell off they wouldn't drown, it's safe to say my legs had a good workout.
My Biology notes are a good and am ready for Term 2.
Am currently writing this cause I'm procrastinating about writing Psych notes haha and i wanna go back to bed - it's not helping its 9 am and i'm still in my pj's YAY FOR LAZINESS!

10 Things About Me
1. Where Do You Like To Go When You Eat Out?
Fast food wise definitely Subway - meatball sub with salami, beetroot, pineapple, onion and cheese with ranch sauce - dont dis it till ya try it it's FLIPPING amazing
Or the pub; all round great choice

2. Do You Like To Cook?
UM YES - my family is vegan and I love trying to make veganised versions of things like mac and cheese (it's so good it can pass for real mac and cheese and its legit just potato, onion, chickpeas, carrot, nutritional yeast and salt), and i recently made a 'meaty' lasagna with textured soy protein as the meat.

3. Could You Live Without The Internet?

Honestly probably - it's amazing but I'm sure if i didn't have it I'd be way more productive and healthy with that said the internet is a really useful tool

5. What Would Your Perfect Day Be Like?
Spending a day with my bf, cooking food with loud music, maybe with some wine and talking about stupid stuff

6. What’s On Your Bucket List?
Go skydiving

7. Do You Have Any Trips Coming Up?
A trip to the fridge???

8. What Is Your Favorite Hobby?
Cooking?? Surfing?? Camping?? One of those 3

9. Do You Have/Have You Ever Had Any Pets?
Yes, I've had 2 dogs - a border collie named Pippa (we gave her to someone else cause she kept biting my brother) and currently a greyhound named Pearl.

10. Do You Drink Coffee Or Tea?
Tea, tea, teateateateateateateateateateateateateateateateateateaTEAAA
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on April 21, 2019, 08:47:48 pm
15/04/19 - 21/04/19
Week 2, Term 1 Holidays

Been a hard week - worked Wednesday and Friday, went to my friends funeral (this was the hard bit) on Thursday and did PR (public relations) work Thursday night and Friday morning.

And i have officially gotten all my work done (except finish reading Year of Wonders)
5 Things About Me
1. If You Were Stranded On A Deserted Island And You Could Have Only 1 Item, What Would It Be?
A good book

2. Do You Prefer Cats Or Dogs?
Dogs! 🐶

3. What Did You Have For Dinner Last Night?
Went to a vegan asian restaurant (Gong De Lin) in Melbourne

4. What Do You Do For A Living?
Work as a lifeguard and party instructor

5. What Is The Best Pizza Topping Combination?
This is tough and it depends on my mood but generally and Aussie pizza (ham, bacon, cheese, egg) with pineapple OR a capricosa with no anchovies but with pineapple

Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: Bri MT on April 22, 2019, 10:33:04 am
That sounds very intense. Hope you're able to take some time off to recuperate if that would help at all

Congratualtions on getting your work done :)
I haven't been to any of the vegan restaraunts in the city but I've been to Oh My Greens in Melton and that was really nice. Do you know what type of book you would pick?
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on April 22, 2019, 03:10:10 pm
That sounds very intense. Hope you're able to take some time off to recuperate if that would help at all

Congratualtions on getting your work done :)
I haven't been to any of the vegan restaraunts in the city but I've been to Oh My Greens in Melton and that was really nice. Do you know what type of book you would pick?

Type of book....probably a good crime novel - Agatha Christie most likely
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on April 30, 2019, 12:23:10 pm
Courses
Namely Law & Criminology, Juris Doctor and Paramedicine


I didn't know were to put this so I thought I might put it here and I'm hoping it'll get a lil attention to help me answer some questions. Ever since I was 9 I wanted to be a lawyer but gave up when I realized I needed a 94 ATAR and come on lets be realistic I don't think i can even get a 90 - recently I've decided or realised I won't live with myself if I don't try so i'm looking for advice

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Laws and Criminology
Bachelor degree (honours)/Bachelor degree

ATAR requirements
98 - Lowest Selection Rank to which an offer was made
94 - Monash guarantee for 2019 entry

Subject prerequisites
All applicants must satisfy the following prerequisites or their equivalents.
English
English Units 3 & 4 with a study score of at least 35 in English (EAL) or 30 in English other than EAL

How do students achieve a 90+ ATAR?
How hard is it to achieve a 94?
What kind of study habits do students who achieve a 90+ ATAR's have?
Is it unrealistic for me to have this ambition (on getting a 94+)?
Does any 90+ students have any advice?
Can you transfer into a law course?
Are there any other pathways?? (I've looked but it's confusing)
Does hard work actually pay off?
Has anyone here gotten into a law degree with a <90 ATAR?
How can I make my dream real?

Quote
Juris Doctor
Professional entry master degree

Qualifications
An undergraduate degree (or equivalent) with at least a Grade Point Average (GPA) of 5.0 on a 7 point scale, or qualification/experience or satisfactory substitute that the faculty considers to be equivalent.
Or
An undergraduate degree (or equivalent) with at least a Grade Point Average (GPA) of 4.0 on a 7 point scale and LSAT score of 150+ (taken within 5 years prior to applying for admission).
Or
If, in addition to a bachelor degree (or equivalent) the applicant has incomplete studies in a law admission degree course, a minimum GPA of 5.0 on a 7 point scale in the law studies, with no fail result in the final year, is required. Credit for prior studies, up to a maximum of 48 points may be awarded.

English requirements

English language requirements are met by an applicant having studied in an institution where English is the language of instruction and assessment for the entire institution and have satisfactorily completed the equivalent of one years full-time (two standard full-time semesters) of either:
a university undergraduate award program; or
a program that has been assessed as being taught at an equivalent level to Monash University undergraduate study; or
Postgraduate study as specified above

Minimum English language requirement:
IELTS 7.0 overall (no band lower than 6.5)
TOEFL Paper-based test: 587 with TWE of 4.5
TOEFL Internet-based test: score of 94 overall with minimum scores: Writing 24, Listening 20, Reading 19, and speaking 20.

Whats LSAT? Is that like the bar?
Whats IELTS? WHats TOEFL?
Can you do a law degree and then Juris Doctor? You can't can you?

Quote
Paramedicine
Bachelor degree

ATAR requirements
82.8 - Lowest Selection Rank to which an offer was made
70 - Monash guarantee for 2019 entry
70.95 - Lowest ATAR to which an offer was made

Subject prerequisites
English
Units 3 & 4: a study score of at least 30 in English (EAL) or 25 in English other than EAL
Maths
Units 3 & 4: a study score of at least 22 in Mathematical Methods (any) or Specialist Mathematics, or a score of at least 25 in Further Mathematics

Is a 30 study score average? Is it easy to get a 30 in English?
Is it more realistic to focus on getting a 70? Is my ambition to become a lawyer futile?
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: Bri MT on April 30, 2019, 02:34:46 pm
IELTS and TOEFL are tests to see how well you can communicate in English. If you study your undergrad in English you're not required to sit either of these.
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on May 03, 2019, 02:45:25 pm
Term 2, Week 2; 29/04/2019 - 03/05/2019

It's Fridayyyyyyy, woop woop!!
This week has been tiring, and so unproductive but over the weekend I'm going to catch up on lost sleep and get on top of my work; Mainly get ahead in Maths and studying for my Legal Studies SAC (attached below).
Nothing very important happened this week except for playing around with ATAR calculators and stressing about the fact I don't know what I want to do with my life.
Law? or Paramedicine?
Who knows?
Not me.

If anyone can direct me to threads about 90+ ATAR's and 50 study scores I'd be so grateful.

Now you see my friend and I were playing around with ATAR calc and realistically I could get;
English: 30
Further Maths: 45
Legal Studies: 45
Biology: 30
Which estimates I would get a 84.00 ATAR
But for me to achieve the kind of ATAR I wanted (90+) I would have to get higher in English (like a 40) and like a 50 in Further... like please tell me if I'm being realistic - I suck at writing essays like really really suck so any tips or threads about getting better at English please point me in the right direction.

You might have noticed I'm considering only doing 4 subjects.. will I be shooting myself in the leg if I only do 4 subjects?
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: JR_StudyEd on May 03, 2019, 05:10:08 pm
Thought I'd pop in for a visit. Year 11 treating you well so far?

stressing about the fact I don't know what I want to do with my life.
Too relatable. And I'm in Year 12! I reckon some uni students still don't know what to do either!

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If anyone can direct me to threads about 90+ ATAR's and 50 study scores I'd be so grateful.
I may be beaten to it, but I have these two AN links saved to my bookmarks and it may be of use to you.  :)

https://atarnotes.com/forum/index.php?topic=184166.msg1105331;topicseen#msg1105331
https://atarnotes.com/how-to-get-a-99-atar/
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: Seamus Wong on May 04, 2019, 01:20:09 am
Term 2, Week 2; 29/04/2019 - 03/05/2019


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You might have noticed I'm considering only doing 4 subjects.. will I be shooting myself in the leg if I only do 4 subjects?

Definitely would do another subject
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on May 04, 2019, 07:23:52 am
Definitely would do another subject

How many subjects do you think will be best? I'm trying to decide whether I should do less and focus really hard on them OR do more and perhaps do less good at them.
Thank you :))

Thought I'd pop in for a visit. Year 11 treating you well so far?
Too relatable. And I'm in Year 12! I reckon some uni students still don't know what to do either!
I may be beaten to it, but I have these two AN links saved to my bookmarks and it may be of use to you.  :)

https://atarnotes.com/forum/index.php?topic=184166.msg1105331;topicseen#msg1105331
https://atarnotes.com/how-to-get-a-99-atar/

Year 11 is fairly cruisy, except for my year 12 subject - slowly becoming more and more stressed about it.
Thank you so much :))
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: Joseph41 on May 08, 2019, 04:28:17 pm
Hey Jade. What do you see to be the pros and cons of doing 4/5 subjects as it stands? :)
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on May 09, 2019, 01:49:40 pm
Hey Jade. What do you see to be the pros and cons of doing 4/5 subjects as it stands? :)

Pros: Less subjects more time to really get good at the few subjects (then ok at many)
Cons:but then again a particular quote is always stuck in my head "If You Want Something Done, Ask a Busy Person To Do It"
and teachers are suggesting you do 6 so then you use your 'free time' more productively.
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: Joseph41 on May 09, 2019, 01:57:19 pm
and teachers are suggesting you do 6 so then you use your 'free time' more productively.

Not sure I agree with this bit necessarily. Sorry if you've covered it already, but remind me what the other subject you'd be considering is?
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on May 09, 2019, 02:24:57 pm
Not sure I agree with this bit necessarily. Sorry if you've covered it already, but remind me what the other subject you'd be considering is?

If I was doing 6 I'd pick up either Methods or Literature
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on May 11, 2019, 09:32:30 am
Term 2, Week 3: 06/05/2019 - 10/05/2019

Classes:
Units 3 & 4 Biology: Immune Response Lectures
Units 1 & 2 Legal Studies: Had a SAC on Thursday
Units 1 & 2 Business Management: Still waiting on results for Business Innovation Presentation & have a chapter test on Monday
Units 1 & 2 General Maths: I am an exercise behind :( I hate Number patterns and recursions SO MUCH
Units 1 & 2 English: Practice SAC on Monday
Units 1 & 2 Psychology: Um...we watched a movie in class all week

Homework / To-Do:
1. Get ahead in Maths
2. Print out study designs
3. Legal Edrolo Video Notes
4. BusMan Edrolo Video Notes
5. Psychology Edrolo Video Notes
6. Biology Edrolo Video Notes
7. Legal Homework
Read pp.96-98 Take notes under each sub-heading. Pay particular attention to the differences between civil and criminal law.
Read Legal Brief 5.1 on p.98
Complete activity 5.1 below this.
Read pages 99-100: Complete questions “Breach and Causation” 1-3.

Joke Of The Week
I called SeaWorld the other day, before I got through to SeaWorld, I had to say "Jump through the hoop! Do a flip!"
They said my call may be recorded for training porpoises.
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: Comet striker on May 12, 2019, 01:31:27 pm
called SeaWorld the other day, before I got through to SeaWorld, I had to say "Jump through the hoop! Do a flip!"
They said my call may be recorded for training porpoises.
God damnit,  I have no idea why this made me laugh so much but it did.
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: Joseph41 on May 13, 2019, 01:16:57 pm
God damnit,  I have no idea why this made me laugh so much but it did.

Absolute zinger. I'm going to use it in future hahaha.
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on May 16, 2019, 07:30:14 pm
Term 2, Week 4: 12/05/2019 - 17/05/2019

Classes:

Units 3 & 4 Biology: I'm so lost we are talking about T cells and B cells and I THOUGHT DENDRITES WERE IN THE BRAIN
Units 1 & 2 Legal Studies: Started Civil Liability Unit
Units 1 & 2 Business Management: Got a B for Innovation Presentation
Units 1 & 2 General Maths: All up to date HAVE A TEST TOMORROW :"(
Units 1 & 2 English: Doing character maps on Year Of Wonders
Units 1 & 2 Psychology: Still watching the movie cause teacher kept accidentally making the movie go back to the start (its a 3 hr movie...) and he said oh well thats good cause then you can take notes

Homework / To-Do:
1. Legal Edrolo Video Notes
2. BusMan Edrolo Video Notes
3. Psychology Edrolo Video Notes
4. Biology Edrolo Video Notes


Joke Of The Week
I went to a seafood disco last week…and pulled a mussel.


Jade's Goals to a 90+ ATAR
My goal is to achieve a 90+ ATAR.
I want to achieve this so I can get into BLaw/Criminology or BParamedicine and achieve my dream career.

Action steps;
4.0 GPA
Be committed to learn and focus in every class
Take notes and actively listen
Attend Every Class Everyday
Put phone airplane mode in class (No texting)
Complete all homework the week/day you get it
Use a Study timetable
Don't talk to anyone until homework is done for the night.
Study 3 hours per 1 & 2 subject and 7 hours per 3 & 4 subject a week

Aim to achieve 100% on Maths assessments
Study an extra 3 hours the week before assessment
Maximize study time
Revise all notes every Sunday
Test yourself regularly with quizzes and flashcards
Study 3 hours per 1 & 2 subject and 7 hours per 3 & 4 subject a week

Aim to get 90% on all assessments
Write and essay/part of an essay every Friday morning (get feedback from teachers)
Study an extra 3 hours for assessed subject the week before assessment
Space it out over the week (don't cram)
Revise all notes every Sunday
Use flashcards to test yourself
Study 3 hours per 1 & 2 subject and 7 hours per 3 & 4 subject a week
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: mango8 on May 16, 2019, 08:17:17 pm
Units 3 & 4 Biology: I'm so lost we are talking about T cells and B cells and I THOUGHT DENDRITES WERE IN THE BRAIN

Hey Jade!! Haven't commented here yet so thought I'd say hello. How are you finding Year 11? And lol same I did Psych last year and we learnt about neurons and dendrites then. Oooh I just saw you're doing Psych too YASS it's the BEST!!! Of course having the most amazing teacher helped a lot! What movie are you watching? Great job on your Business Management mark!!

Why is Criminology/Paramedicine your dream career? And I'm really liking those smart and specific goals you've set yourself, a Year 12 may just be having to take up some of that and use it too ;)

lobster joke!!
(https://i.imgur.com/KgjWxW1.jpg)
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on May 19, 2019, 10:24:15 am
Hey Jade!! Haven't commented here yet so thought I'd say hello. How are you finding Year 11? And lol same I did Psych last year and we learnt about neurons and dendrites then. Oooh I just saw you're doing Psych too YASS it's the BEST!!! Of course having the most amazing teacher helped a lot! What movie are you watching? Great job on your Business Management mark!!

Why is Criminology/Paramedicine your dream career? And I'm really liking those smart and specific goals you've set yourself, a Year 12 may just be having to take up some of that and use it too ;)

lobster joke!!
(https://i.imgur.com/KgjWxW1.jpg)

Hey Mango8!
Thank you, That's a brilliant joke BTW.
Ever since I was very young I wanted to have a career in law and I read all the books in my local library on law but when i got older I realized how difficult it would be and I gave up on the idea untill recently I was like if I never try imma regret it.
I'm also a VICSES volunteer and I love volunteering as a first responder especially the medical/casualty handling side of things and I enjoy helping people.
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: Joseph41 on May 20, 2019, 10:52:36 am
Units 1 & 2 Psychology: Still watching the movie cause teacher kept accidentally making the movie go back to the start (its a 3 hr movie...) and he said oh well thats good cause then you can take notes

What a stitch-up. 😂

What's the movie, btw? I remember watching (read: being in the room for) The Truman Show and Mean Girls in Psych 1&2.
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on May 20, 2019, 11:08:09 am
What a stitch-up. 😂

What's the movie, btw? I remember watching (read: being in the room for) The Truman Show and Mean Girls in Psych 1&2.

Haha, we are watching Boyhood
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: Joseph41 on May 20, 2019, 11:08:42 am
Haha, we are watching Boyhood

Never heard of it - what's it about?
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: brothanathan on May 20, 2019, 12:40:01 pm
I know this might be off topic, but would it be manageable if you don't do U1 of Psych and enter U2?
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on May 20, 2019, 04:45:35 pm
I know this might be off topic, but would it be manageable if you don't do U1 of Psych and enter U2?

Our school is very you must do this many subjects and when it comes to VCE they are don't necessarily help in the way where a student could not do U1 but then do U2 - the same with our school lets u do one 1 & 2 subject in year 10 but this doesn't mean you can do one less subject in year 12 instead they say you still have to do 6 i think it is and the one u did early is a 7th

Never heard of it - what's it about?

Its a movie hat was made over 12 years i think and it follows this family and their son Mason Jnr as he goes through Erickson's 8 Stages of Development but the movie only about the middle so Stages 4 to 6...it's an alright movie to watch but the 'jumps' in time are sometimes hard to notice and you're like ???what just happened???
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on May 24, 2019, 10:27:58 am
Term 2, Week 5: 20/05/2019 - 24/05/2019

Happy Friday Everyone!
After everyday this week feeling like a Friday it's actually FRIDAY!!!!!
How has everyones week been??
My week feels like its been a DRAG but also totally stressful - we had WOW day (Wear Orange Wednesday) which is a day to support VICSES volunteers and I made SES themed cupcake and i had to make 80 for our unit dinner which was insane cause I only have 1 cupcake baking tray and 5 hours to make, bake and decorate, 80-fucking-cupcakes oh including a separate half a dozen diabetic friendly ones buuuuuuuuuuuuut it was fun cause my bf helped me 😍
I should stop procrastinating and hop off AN so I can actually get my study done 😂

Classes:
Units 3 & 4 Biology: SAC ON MONDAY!!!!!!! AND MID YEAR EXAMS ARE IN 18 DAYS
Units 1 & 2 Legal Studies: Just finished Negligence now starting on Defamation - Received SAC score.... 60% :'(
Units 1 & 2 Business Management: Working on our business stall SAC - We are selling Mocktails on Thursday
Units 1 & 2 General Maths: Started Univariate Data; Also waiting on test results for Number patterns and recursions unit
Units 1 & 2 English: Annotating Year of Wonders and answering Character Questions
Units 1 & 2 Psychology: Finally finished the movie - watching Edrolo videos and taking notes

Homework / To-Do:
1. Study for Biology SAC
2. Work through maths exercises

Joke Of The Week
I don’t play soccer because I enjoy the sport. I’m just doing it for kicks.....ba dum tss
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on June 03, 2019, 06:33:05 pm
Term 2, Week 6: 27/05/2019 - 31/05/2019

And JadeRho has rose from the dead! Sorry for the late post (doubt many of you will have missed me tho 🤣)
My week was...okay
Honestly it was very long and full of horrible period cramps (i know i know TMI)
SES training was alright we went over winches and pulley systems used for working at heights and casualty handling, and bonus my bf surprised me with some M'n'M donuts 😍

Classes:
Units 3 & 4 Biology: SAC was easy but not easy all at the same time and I'm crazy curious of my result (I believe I at least would have gotten 70%)
Units 1 & 2 Legal Studies: Have a Civil Liability SAC on Defamation and Negligence Case Studies and I have to make a folio of them.
Units 1 & 2 Business Management: Mocktail stall was successful; we doubled our money so it was alright.
Units 1 & 2 General Maths: I was 1.5 marks off 100%...but 93% is pretty darn good tho
Units 1 & 2 English: Writing a paragraph on a theme from Year of Wonders
Units 1 & 2 Psychology: Watch edrolo the teacher says, watch edrolo

Homework / To-Do:
1. Study for exams
2. Work through maths exercises

Joke Of The Week
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?

Update
Feel free to check out my June playlist (If you dont like Lewis Capaldi dont bother looking at it 40% of the songs are his xD)
https://open.spotify.com/user/generatedsnow/playlist/45u0aoX9SAWPblg0POqSef?si=Pl4FV5wUSpeVtrDTpnKbvA
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: PhoenixxFire on June 04, 2019, 08:28:19 pm
Joke Of The Week
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
I simultaneously love this and am annoyed.

You have your mid-year exam for bio next week correct? Are you feeling prepared?
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on June 05, 2019, 05:00:13 pm
I simultaneously love this and am annoyed.

You have your mid-year exam for bio next week correct? Are you feeling prepared?

Yeah the exam is in Monday and at the moment I'm feeling pretty good, pretty prepared - I'm currently going over my notes and making sure i know how to explain it all (rather then have notes that are just words on a page that don't mean much).

I have an English exam as well and its a Text Analysis and I am so nervous - I have always struggled with essays and this year my marks are going down (idk whether im getting shit or teacher is marking me harder).

All my other subjects I'm pretty confident about and business....im tryna keep an open mind but its so boring and i really wanna drop it

YAY for exams  :'(
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: brothanathan on June 05, 2019, 05:12:30 pm
Yeah the exam is in Monday and at the moment I'm feeling pretty good, pretty prepared - I'm currently going over my notes and making sure i know how to explain it all (rather then have notes that are just words on a page that don't mean much).

I have an English exam as well and its a Text Analysis and I am so nervous - I have always struggled with essays and this year my marks are going down (idk whether im getting shit or teacher is marking me harder).

All my other subjects I'm pretty confident about and business....im tryna keep an open mind but its so boring and i really wanna drop it

YAY for exams  :'(

Poor you, I finished my exams last week hehe. I have a peer who's dropping Eng Lang for the norm English. I suggest you might want to do the opposite. Assuming you're competent in Psychology and Legal Studies. From my exam experience, there are some aspects of Psychology and Legal Studies.
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on June 17, 2019, 12:14:31 pm
Term 2, WHAT WEEK ARE WE IN: 11/06/2019 - 14/06/2019

7 exams. 4 days.
my mood? YEET

Exams:
Biology: Was hard bro, one of the questions i just wrote "the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell"
Legal Studies: Was stupid, so stupid, so so stupid - finished it in 20 minutes
Business Management: it was bullshit; it looked my like our teacher put a bunch of summary questions in there and then we had write about what "Alex the vegan designer" would have to to do to set up/manage her business
General Maths: I left my calculator at home (HAHHAHAHAHHA) so did it by hand. Completed it with 5 min to spare
English: I couldn't even be bothered we had to analyse a piece on drum lines and protesters
Psychology: Received more confirmation the teacher is dumb - the exam was an Edrolo one on AOS 2 despite being given a revision sheet for AOS 1 stuff even tho the exams supposed to be Unit 1....and it took all of 15 minutes to complete
GAT: All I'm saying is that i wrote my second piece on how the GAT is NAPLAN re purposed for a different audience. Finished with an hour to go yucky

Anyways, posting this on the Monday back (my dreaded birthday) I get to annoy you all with 2 posts this week!!!! Ive been super tired or slack with posting i dont even know how many posts i missed (two???)
Only things that have happened is i got 54% on my bio sac (I THOUGHT I DID WAY BETTER) and 69% on my Legal Exam... i attempted to make myself a birthday cake at 3 in the morning THE FONDANT GOT CRACKS IN IT HOW R U SUPPOSED TO FIX THATTTTTTT if you want pics i will post a link to my facebook post tonight :)
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on July 16, 2019, 12:55:14 pm
Term 3 Week 1
Term 3 Goals:
1. Get a 4.0 GPA
2. B+ (89%) Average in all classes
Holiday Summary:
Worked lots of shifts at the pool
Did my swimming teacher course
Went out on lots of SES jobs during the weather event
Been doing lighting for Lyric Theatres "Young Frankenstein" (only 4 more shows to go!)
How has everyone set out their maths bound reference??? Idk how to set mine out
ALSO I want to do Deakin Accelerate: Law next year alongside my year 12 studies... has anyone done this before? Any tips? What kind of marks do I need to get into it?
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: Bri MT on July 17, 2019, 03:32:45 pm
Term 3 Week 1
Term 3 Goals:
1. Get a 4.0 GPA
2. B+ (89%) Average in all classes
Holiday Summary:
Worked lots of shifts at the pool
Did my swimming teacher course
Went out on lots of SES jobs during the weather event
Been doing lighting for Lyric Theatres "Young Frankenstein" (only 4 more shows to go!)
How has everyone set out their maths bound reference??? Idk how to set mine out
ALSO I want to do Deakin Accelerate: Law next year alongside my year 12 studies... has anyone done this before? Any tips? What kind of marks do I need to get into it?

irt bound reference, I think the best way is to just start and see whether it works well for you or not - I'm assuming you can rip out the pages and start over if needed. I liked having a different topic on each page & some people collate examples of hard questions at the back which imo is a good addition.
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: caffinatedloz on July 26, 2019, 10:26:01 pm
Worked lots of shifts at the pool
Did my swimming teacher course

Wow- cool job! How did you get the gig? Did you have to do the training first?
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on July 27, 2019, 08:03:42 am
Wow- cool job! How did you get the gig? Did you have to do the training first?
Yeah, its a pretty cool job. I am currently a lifeguard there, and they were advertising swim teaching positions so I was like to my boss "I'd be interested in doing that" and he was like awesome and so i went as did my course which involves about half theory and half practical with a 'fitness assessment'.
I'm not yet an accredited swim teacher as I need to do some experience hours and then someone assesses me while i teach a real lesson to see if i'm competent.
It sounds like a long process but if swim teaching is what u wanna do - it won't feel long at all.
Just like how a job shouldn't feel like a job - you should love going to work
Sorry for that super long blurb, hope it helps

Your journal has been a good read so far!
Looking forward to an update :)

Thankyouu
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on July 31, 2019, 11:14:12 am
Dear anyone who completed a uni extention...
I want to apply for the deakin accelerate program but...My last report was trash (See marks below)
1/2 English - E+, C+, B, B
1/2 General Maths - B+, A+, B+, A+
1/2 Legal - A+, D, C, C+, A
1/2 Psych - A, C, C
1/2 Business - B, B, C+, E+
3/4 Bio - averaging 50% on SACS
What marks did you have at school when you applied for a uni extention subject?
What kind of academic documents did you use?
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on August 10, 2019, 07:32:32 am
This was posted a while ago, but I was just wondering if you actually have mid-year exams for 3/4 subjects? I thought it was just the end of the year exam.

Our school makes us do mid-year exams to "prepare us for the experience of end of year exams" they don't count towards passing or anything though they just go on our report.
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on September 03, 2019, 12:17:27 pm
Term 3, Week 8
Its only Tuesday but considering I haven't posed here for a very very long time I thought I should get back into it.
Fun fact about me
This weeks fun fact is that I have a 3 year old rescue greyhound
Subjects
English: Preparing to complete a reading and comparing task on The Secret River and I'm Not Scared
General Maths: I was a way for a few days the other week and missed out on like 4 hours of maths classes and as a result i got 70% on the test :'( :'(
Business Managment: I have a product rebranding assignment due this Thursday
Legal Studies: I had 3 assignments due last week so this week is chill and filled with textbook questions
Biology 3/4: Completing the practical investigation SAC for the last few weeks of Term 3
Psychology: *sarcastically says* Watching Edrolo videos woop woop!
Goals
4.0 GPA: GPA reports come out this Thursday
140 hours (driving) by June 2020/1.5 hrs a week: Havent driven anywhere this week
$15k by December 2020: Havent worked this week
15,000 steps a day: as of midday i have only done 3,168 steps
Plans after vce
Courses: I want to study paramedicine and law (JD) at Monash or MelbUni
Career aspirations: Paramedic, Lawyer, AV Technician (Rigger/Tech)
Gap Year: Considering doing a gap year with the ADF but I'm not sure...Has anyone else done this or known someone whos done this?
Interests
Some of my interests include; surfing, photography and yoga (sounds cliche but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )
Extracurriculars
SES: I'm an active SES volunteer; if you dont know what this entails click the spoiler below
What the SES do
Storm Response: Basically if your house is damaged during a storm we will come and complete a temporary repair untill you can get it properly fixed. This might include tarping holes in roofs or propping up walls that are at risk of collapsing as well as removing trees that have falled across roads and houses.
Community Education: Connecting with the community - educating about when to call the SES, and how they can stay prepared for emergencies
Flood Rescue: Rescuing people from flood water, helping people evacuate and sandbagging around buildings if flooding is iminent
Search and rescue: SES are often called upon by the police when someone has gone missing to help search for them
Road Crash Rescue:Extracating patients that have become trapped inside their vehicle as a result of an road accident
Theatre: I also volunteer as a lighting technician with multiple local theatre groups to help put on productions
Joke of the week
Two hunters are out in the woods when one of them collapses. He doesn't seem to be breathing and his eyes are glazed. The other guy takes out his phone and calls the emergency services.
He gasps: "My friend is dead! What can I do?" The operator says: "Calm down, I can help. First, let's make sure he's dead." There is a silence, then a gunshot is heard. Back on the phone, the guy says: "OK, now what?"
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: Snow Leopard on September 03, 2019, 04:47:28 pm
4.0 GPA: GPA reports come out this Thursday
Does your school give out regular GPA reports?
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on September 03, 2019, 04:51:15 pm
Does your school give out regular GPA reports?
We get one about week 8 of every term :)
Does your school do this too?
The only thing I'm worried about though is the format - in previous GPA reports they base your GPA on 4 things; Organisation, Behaviour, Effort and Grades
However this coming report will be based on 5 things; self-motivation, work ethic, organisation, resilience and curiosity/inquisitive.
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: caffinatedloz on September 03, 2019, 05:10:10 pm
Yeah! I think it would be super cool if teachers focused more on work ethic, organisation, resilience ect. and less on the marks for specific tests. Our school has introduced "learning maps" that come with comments about our learning, alongside a grade for each task. We get one learning map for each subject each semester but it is updated throughout.
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on September 03, 2019, 05:20:24 pm
Yeah! I think it would be super cool if teachers focused more on work ethic, organisation, resilience ect. and less on the marks for specific tests. Our school has introduced "learning maps" that come with comments about our learning, alongside a grade for each task. We get one learning map for each subject each semester but it is updated throughout.
Wow, learning maps sound like a really useful way for school focussed self-improvement! Our school introduced "what makes an effective learner" profiles about 12 months ago and are now basing our GPA's on the 5 main things that make someone an effective learner. I think it will be cool to see our GPA's based not only on our grades but rather on how effectively we learn.


Nope, my school has an online portal with our grades for each subject on it as well as other features such as our timetable, websites such as edrolo etc and submissions of assessments. Our parents can check this and we get a report each semester.
It's quite interesting though to see how different schools make their reports in different ways.

That's cool! Yes, I agree that it is definitely interesting seeing how other schools do things!
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on September 13, 2019, 01:33:24 pm
Term 3, Week 8
Decided its time for a post  8)
Summary
Man i think ive woken up everyday this week and thought it was Friday! I am 110% ready for the term to be overrrr! Any one else like this?
Subject To Do
English: Plan essay for monday & write practice essay
General Maths: Man...i missed like 2 days of school a few weeks ago and i am STRUGGLINGGG to catch up  COMPLETE EX. 9A TO 9G
Business Managment: Chapter 13 Questions
Legal Studies: Complete two civil case studies & prepare for remedies SAC
Biology 3/4: Complete SAC & Notes
Psychology: Finish watching edrolo
Goals
4.0 GPA: I currently have a 3.6 GPA :(
140 hours (driving) by June 2020/1.5 hrs a week: Havent driven anywhere this week
$15k by December 2020: Working 10 hours this week
15,000 steps a day: as of midday i have only done 6,393 steps
Extracurriculars
SES: Doing a PR event today!!
Joke of the week
If a child refuses to sleep during nap time, are they guilty of resisting a rest?
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: Ionic Doc on September 13, 2019, 02:29:52 pm
Term 3, Week 8
Decided its time for a post  8)
Summary
Man i think ive woken up everyday this week and thought it was Friday! I am 110% ready for the term to be overrrr! Any one else like this?
Subject To Do
English: Plan essay for monday & write practice essay
General Maths: Man...i missed like 2 days of school a few weeks ago and i am STRUGGLINGGG to catch up  COMPLETE EX. 9A TO 9G
Business Managment: Chapter 13 Questions
Legal Studies: Complete two civil case studies & prepare for remedies SAC
Biology 3/4: Complete SAC & Notes
Psychology: Finish watching edrolo
Goals
4.0 GPA: I currently have a 3.6 GPA :(
140 hours (driving) by June 2020/1.5 hrs a week: Havent driven anywhere this week
$15k by December 2020: Working 10 hours this week
15,000 steps a day: as of midday i have only done 6,393 steps
Extracurriculars
SES: Doing a PR event today!!
Joke of the week
If a child refuses to sleep during nap time, are they guilty of resisting a rest?

YES i can't wait for this term to be over!
Honeslty the teachers at my school have decided to ambush me and now i have like multiple SACS happening next week  :'(
Also i know how u feel about catchin up ! I missed like one lesson of bio and now i feel like i'm learning a completely different subject lol.

Anyways great update, nearly near the finish line (for this term)

 ;)
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: caffinatedloz on September 13, 2019, 03:11:25 pm
Also i know how u feel about catchin up ! I missed like one lesson of bio and now i feel like i'm learning a completely different subject lol.
MOOD
I missed three days and my class covered two whole topics!
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: Snow Leopard on September 13, 2019, 08:56:05 pm
Man i think ive woken up everyday this week and thought it was Friday! I am 110% ready for the term to be overrrr! Any one else like this?
Yep
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on October 05, 2019, 04:54:05 pm
Lately I've been majorly lacking in the motivation department - I am OVER year 11 and I just want it to be the summer holidays!!
HURRY UP SUMMER
So I was reading back through my journey journal and trying to find motivation and I found the goals I set in March - one of them being raw 40 in Bio HAHAHAH what a cracker...I don't think it's possible to get that with my terrible SAC scores but I really really really wanna be dux in year 12 so im aiming for that sweet sweet 99 ATAR.

Black writing = not changed
Red writing = revised and edited

Goal 1: 99+ ATAR
Goal 1: 99+ ATAR
 
- 95% on all 3 & 4 SAC's and Exams
- 2 Practice Exams a week
- Study 6 hours per 3 & 4 subject per week

Goal 2: 4.0 GPA
Goal 2: 4.0 GPA
- Attend ALL classes
   - Complete all work BEFORE due date
   - Participate in class discussions
   - Study 4 hours per subject per week
I will know I've completed my goal when Term 2 interim reports are posted June 28th 2019

Goal 3: Raw 35 Bio Study Score
Goal 3: Raw 35 Biology Study Score

- 95% on Exam
- Do 20 practice Exams
- Study 6 hours per 3 & 4 subject per week

Alas I'm not more motivated and i have a stack of Bio practice exams and  Business and Maths homework to do.
If anyone could direct me to advise me of something motivational that would be amazing.


Also how hard is LOTE by correspondence in Year 12 if you have a general knowledge of the language??? I don't think I wanna do HHD tbhhhhh is HHD any good????
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: Nature on October 05, 2019, 05:18:43 pm
You have some great goals but obviously it is easily said than done. In regards of a LOTE in Year 12, having a general knowledge is not enough if you are wanting to achieve a high score in my opinion. But if you are willing to put in the work, depending on the LOTE, the scaling could pay off. Just want to reiterate that doing a LOTE in Year 12 will take up a lot of your time unless you go to a language school or it is your mother language.
Other than luck, best of luck for your studies and I look forward to hearing from you again as you progress through the year.
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: caffinatedloz on October 07, 2019, 08:19:00 am
Lately I've been majorly lacking in the motivation department - I am OVER year 11 and I just want it to be the summer holidays!!
HURRY UP SUMMER
BIG MOOD
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: YussifK on October 07, 2019, 11:37:05 pm
G'day

Officially starting Year 11 on Wednesday!!

Many people say that year 11 doesn't really matter which is true in some regards, I'm planning on putting as much effort into year 11 as I would year 12 so that I can see what my predicted study score would be 'as if I was in Year 12' as I am aiming for a 99.95 which I know is unrealistic but I believe if I aim really high its better than doing Year 12 going 'meh' and getting a 60.

My goals for 2019:
Study 24 hours a week (4 hours per subject)
Get up at 6 am every day (to maximise time in the day)
Exercise every day for the recommended 90 minutes
Aim for A+ on all SAC's and Exams.

In Year 9 and 10 I was averaging C's and D's in English and I really want to change that so I'm going to make sure i work especially hard on that and if you have any advice for me that would be fantastic!

My subjects for 2019 are;
3 & 4 Biology
1 & 2 Business Management
1 & 2 Psychology
1 & 2 English
1 & 2 General Maths
 I am still to choose a sixth subject and am tossing up between Studio Arts and Legal (any advice on choosing would be amazing)

Plans For The Future;
I'm planning on going to university and studying paramedicine or audio engineering or production lighting (sound tech or like live theatre)
Paramedicine is my main focus as I'm already doing production lighting and audio stuff with local theatre and I'm getting work working local music festivals.

Hoping to post weekly :)

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1& 2 English:
1 & 2 General Maths:
1 & 2 Legal:
3 & 4 Biology:
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1 & 2 Psychology:

Hello, please watch what you say next time when posting... a 60 might be considered a great score for some one who is disadvantage like me.. a 60 is pretty good at a crappy school.

60 is considered a good score.. a 60 is basically getting average scores in all your school subjects.
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on October 08, 2019, 06:45:50 am
Hello, please watch what you say next time when posting... a 60 might be considered a great score for some one who is disadvantage like me.. a 60 is pretty good at a crappy school.

60 is considered a good score.. a 60 is basically getting average scores in all your school subjects.

Hi YussifK,
I understand being disadvantaged because of a crappy school and I apologise if what I have said has upset you. I strongly believe you can do anything no matter who you are or of your circumstances and in your case, the school you go to.
I believe that if I went 'meh' and just cruised through year 12 I feel like a 60 would be within reach whereas if I worked my ass off I might have a chance at a 90 ATAR.
If anything I am deliberately having overly high expectations of myself, hence viewing a 60 as meh because I personally believe that I wouldn't have put in my best effort to achieve an average score and potentially misleading myself that I might even have the chance to get a 90+ ATAR.
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: YussifK on October 08, 2019, 07:38:49 am
Hi YussifK,
I understand being disadvantaged because of a crappy school and I apologise if what I have said has upset you. I strongly believe you can do anything no matter who you are or of your circumstances and in your case, the school you go to.
I believe that if I went 'meh' and just cruised through year 12 I feel like a 60 would be within reach whereas if I worked my ass off I might have a chance at a 90 ATAR.
If anything I am deliberately having overly high expectations of myself, hence viewing a 60 as meh because I personally believe that I wouldn't have put in my best effort to achieve an average score and potentially misleading myself that I might even have the chance to get a 90+ ATAR.

I believe you would achieve  such score cause you seem very bright... I was a little hurt via the fact that I’m disadvantaged... and the highest atar last year at my school was suppose to be 76 but for some reason it became 70.(I don’t know how though)

People at my school are aiming for 50+ 😭 it worries me so much... I actually hope one day you achieve such amazing score🙏 (You would)
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on October 08, 2019, 07:53:08 am
I believe you would achieve  such score cause you seem very bright... I was a little hurt via the fact that I’m disadvantaged... and the highest atar last year at my school was suppose to be 76 but for some reason it became 70.(I don’t know how though)

People at my school are aiming for 50+ 😭 it worries me so much... I actually hope one day you achieve such amazing score🙏 (You would)

You can achieve anything you set your mind to - you can get the score you want even if your disadvantage as I'm sure you've heard VCE rewards hard work not smarts
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: YussifK on October 08, 2019, 07:56:24 am
You can achieve anything you set your mind to - you can get the score you want even if your disadvantage as I'm sure you've heard VCE rewards hard work not smarts

I was just reading through your post... and I’m so happy for you... YOU GOT a B in English congrats.

One question: if average 70+ percent in all my subjects what would my study score likely be...
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on October 08, 2019, 08:57:29 am
I was just reading through your post... and I’m so happy for you... YOU GOT a B in English congrats.

One question: if average 70+ percent in all my subjects what would my study score likely be...
Rank matters more than scores but check out the links below as they may be able to help you more then I :)
Check out this link:
https://twmpublications.com/statistics
And this thread:
https://atarnotes.com/forum/index.php?topic=138501.2565

I beleive you could acheive a super good ATAR and be the first in your school :)
Because even if you have useless teachers or you classmates don't care about their education or whatever your case might be the ATARNotes community is here to help you suceed. There are threads for marking essays and subject specific question/tips threads which I'm sure you'll find useful.
I come from a rural school with some pretty interesting teachers and consequently I have to pretty much teach myself the content (so i understand where you're coming from) but whoever you are or whatever your circumstance is; if you put in the hard yards you'll reap the benefits :D
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on October 09, 2019, 08:57:48 am
Week 1 Term 4
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Update #1
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tl;dr: im stressed and broke
Man I haven't even finished Year 11 and I'm stressed about Year 12.
Stressed about content.
Stressed about the subjects I've selected.
Stressed about exams that are over a year away.
Stressed about doing well.
Stressed about whether imma fail English
Stressed about how to keep a work/school/social balance
Stressed about being broke and wishing I could afford ATARNotes topic tests.
Stressing because I have the mentality that you need to have extra resources to succeed.
Like I've made it my goal to become dux but like the other students who I beleive are my 'competition' have extra resources and it's frusturating me and my parents are like education is important but not important enough to help you pay for extra resources.
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Should I do 4 or 5 subjects in year 12 ????
I'm not a strong English student so im worried that a bad english ss will really really badly affect my ATAR (hence why maybe I should do 5 so that could help that?)
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: Geoo on October 09, 2019, 07:36:22 pm
Hey J!
I feel exactly like you at the moment, and I can definitely relate to your biology struggles (just did my 1st prac exam and got 47%....), so I know that everything feels like just too much at the moment but try to remember that it is almost over!

In terms of if you should do 4 or 5 subjects, it is really up to you. Doing a 5th won't make much of a difference to your ATAR as it only adds on 10% and it just means more work. Personally for me, I am doing 4 subjects as I know I can try and focus on them to get the best scores that I can. So just think about the extra work load for something that won't make too much of a difference.

English is such a struggle for me too! I don't have alot of money, so a youtube channel that is based on VCE english has some great videos which you should check out to see if you find helpful. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkH6-sgIxWjGb0kAaybyzew

Hang in there and good luck!
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: YussifK on October 09, 2019, 07:42:09 pm
Hey J!
I feel exactly like you at the moment, and I can definitely relate to your biology struggles (just did my 1st prac exam and got 47%....), so I know that everything feels like just too much at the moment but try to remember that it is almost over!

In terms of if you should do 4 or 5 subjects, it is really up to you. Doing a 5th won't make much of a difference to your ATAR as it only adds on 10% and it just means more work. Personally for me, I am doing 4 subjects as I know I can try and focus on them to get the best scores that I can. So just think about the extra work load for something that won't make too much of a difference.

English is such a struggle for me too! I don't have alot of money, so a youtube channel that is based on VCE english has some great videos which you should check out to see if you find helpful. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkH6-sgIxWjGb0kAaybyzew

Hang in there and good luck!

May I ask....why don’t you study what has been learnt for your biology sac... get Atar notes topic test.... ( the best advice I got my teacher was before an upcoming sac... ask what’s important to study and show he/her what Kind of question should I study from the atar notes topic test... you will be on your way to good marks 70+
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: Geoo on October 09, 2019, 08:04:02 pm
May I ask....why don’t you study what has been learnt for your biology sac... get Atar notes topic test.... ( the best advice I got my teacher was before an upcoming sac... ask what’s important to study and show he/her what Kind of question should I study from the atar notes topic test... you will be on your way to good marks 70+
My SACs were alot easier than the exams, so the content in them isn't in enough detail for me to do well. I haven't got the topic tests from atar notes but I am using the ones from NEAP. Honestly what is making my marks bad at the moment is my study technique. I didn't revise before I took the exam, so my knowledge was quite rusty, so I am currently trying to mend those holes by going over notes and rewriting things I forgot or didn't know. But thanks for the advice, I think preparing really just varies between people and what their experiences are.
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on October 10, 2019, 08:45:13 am
May I ask....why don’t you study what has been learnt for your biology sac... get Atar notes topic test.... ( the best advice I got my teacher was before an upcoming sac... ask what’s important to study and show he/her what Kind of question should I study from the atar notes topic test... you will be on your way to good marks 70+
With all SAC's completed for the year I am testing and developing my understanding and working out gaps in my knowedge as it would be useless to revise the topics your confident in.
I took my first praccy exam (2017 neap) for Bio and got 41% as I wanted to see how I'd do with my current knowedge and to figure out where the largest knowedge gaps were. From there I've written down the study design dot points that cover the questions I'm struggling to get marks on and am focussing my study on that :)

Hey J!
I feel exactly like you at the moment, and I can definitely relate to your biology struggles (just did my 1st prac exam and got 47%....), so I know that everything feels like just too much at the moment but try to remember that it is almost over!

In terms of if you should do 4 or 5 subjects, it is really up to you. Doing a 5th won't make much of a difference to your ATAR as it only adds on 10% and it just means more work. Personally for me, I am doing 4 subjects as I know I can try and focus on them to get the best scores that I can. So just think about the extra work load for something that won't make too much of a difference.

English is such a struggle for me too! I don't have alot of money, so a youtube channel that is based on VCE english has some great videos which you should check out to see if you find helpful. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkH6-sgIxWjGb0kAaybyzew

Hang in there and good luck!

Thank you so much Geoo, I'm worried that English wil really really negatively affect my ATAR but if I didn't complete HHD I could use that time to focus on English. I have come across Lisa's Study Guides in the past but glanced over them - I'll be sure to check it out!
What Enlgish texts are you studying next year??
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on October 12, 2019, 12:24:48 pm
Week 1 Term 4
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This week was generally uneventful however I did have a Legal outcome on Remedies which I did not study for (oops) I think max score imma get is gonna be a 65%  :'(
I also have an English outcome on Monday which I am SO nervous for!! But thank god our teacher gave us the prompt on Friday so I can write an essay and plan it and try and recreate it on Monday....why is comparative writing SO HARD!?
I also have a maths assignment to catch up on  :-\ yay for falling behind and not being able to catch up
I also got my score for my biology SAC...I thought I did really good but only got 75% because I didn't put enough background reference in my intro and my discussion wasn't long enough :'( which means I need at least an 85% on the exam to have a chance at pulling a 35 ss
Other than that my school week was preeeetty uneventful....so heres a joke: A slice of apple pie is $2.50 in Jamaica and $3.00 in the Bahamas. These are the pie rates of the Caribbean.
Also any song suggestions for this months playlist????
Hope everyone's week is going great so far!!

Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: caffinatedloz on October 20, 2019, 05:03:21 pm
I also have an English outcome on Monday which I am SO nervous for!! But thank god our teacher gave us the prompt on Friday so I can write an essay and plan it and try and recreate it on Monday....why is comparative writing SO HARD!?
I know, right!?

I also got my score for my biology SAC...I thought I did really good but only got 75% because I didn't put enough background reference in my intro and my discussion wasn't long enough :'( which means I need at least an 85% on the exam to have a chance at pulling a 35 ss
Good luck!!

Other than that my school week was preeeetty uneventful....so heres a joke: A slice of apple pie is $2.50 in Jamaica and $3.00 in the Bahamas. These are the pie rates of the Caribbean.
That's awful.  ::)

Also any song suggestions for this months playlist????
It's sPoOky sEasOn, so I reckon the "A Series Of Unfortunate Events" themesong has gotta be on there. Also billie's All The Good Girls Go to Hell is pretty creepy.

Hope everyone's week is going great so far!!
You too!
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: Geoo on October 28, 2019, 10:40:31 pm
How's it going jade?
What are your feelings towards the bio exam? Do you feel prepared?
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on October 30, 2019, 02:23:04 pm
How's it going jade?
What are your feelings towards the bio exam? Do you feel prepared?

Hey Geoo! I am feeling super unprepared for the exam even though I know the content I am struggling with working my responses in trial exams to gain full marks and demonstrate my knowledge. To an extent I am considering redoing Biology next year because HERE I COME UNDER 15 STUDY SCORE!
How about you? How are you feeling?
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: Geoo on October 30, 2019, 02:52:24 pm
Hey Geoo! I am feeling super unprepared for the exam even though I know the content I am struggling with working my responses in trial exams to gain full marks and demonstrate my knowledge. To an extent I am considering redoing Biology next year because HERE I COME UNDER 15 STUDY SCORE!
How about you? How are you feeling?
That really sucks! I know how you feel at the moment, I have done about 16 exams an was never able to get above 70% aside from 1, so that really wasn't promising. I went into the year wanting a 45, but know all I want is over 35. I know the content and can recall is quite well, but my expression in the SA questions is just terrible..... I generally get close to full marks multiple choice which is good just the SA's is where it gets me....
I have kind of come to terms with it, so I am actually not feeling to stressed and quite calm whilst still just trying to study anything I can. I feel more disappointed than anything else, as I feel all my hard work throughout the year going down the drain. Other than that I feel fine, just waiting to get it over with, ripe of the band aid. ;)
I don't think you will get a 15 :P I definitely think you will do better than you think! I wish you luck and lets just be thankful that it will all be over soon...

 
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: Ionic Doc on October 30, 2019, 06:16:19 pm
That really sucks! I know how you feel at the moment, I have done about 16 exams an was never able to get above 70% aside from 1, so that really wasn't promising. I went into the year wanting a 45, but know all I want is over 35. I know the content and can recall is quite well, but my expression in the SA questions is just terrible..... I generally get close to full marks multiple choice which is good just the SA's is where it gets me....
I have kind of come to terms with it, so I am actually not feeling to stressed and quite calm whilst still just trying to study anything I can. I feel more disappointed than anything else, as I feel all my hard work throughout the year going down the drain. Other than that I feel fine, just waiting to get it over with, ripe of the band aid. ;)
I don't think you will get a 15 :P I definitely think you will do better than you think! I wish you luck and lets just be thankful that it will all be over soon...

 :-[ you just explained pretty much exactly how i feel jeez.
It's so difficult to express my self in short answer questions :-\
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: pugs on October 30, 2019, 06:43:16 pm
omg following onto all of your comments above ^^^ i'm struggling with short answer as well !! it's so frustrating when you know the content, but you're not sure what aspects they are looking for :(
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on October 31, 2019, 10:05:52 am
:-[ you just explained pretty much exactly how i feel jeez.
It's so difficult to express my self in short answer questions :-\

That really sucks! I know how you feel at the moment, I have done about 16 exams an was never able to get above 70% aside from 1, so that really wasn't promising. I went into the year wanting a 45, but know all I want is over 35. I know the content and can recall is quite well, but my expression in the SA questions is just terrible..... I generally get close to full marks multiple choice which is good just the SA's is where it gets me....
I have kind of come to terms with it, so I am actually not feeling to stressed and quite calm whilst still just trying to study anything I can. I feel more disappointed than anything else, as I feel all my hard work throughout the year going down the drain. Other than that I feel fine, just waiting to get it over with, ripe of the band aid. ;)
I don't think you will get a 15 :P I definitely think you will do better than you think! I wish you luck and lets just be thankful that it will all be over soon...

 

omg following onto all of your comments above ^^^ i'm struggling with short answer as well !! it's so frustrating when you know the content, but you're not sure what aspects they are looking for :(

Guys, its TOMORROW. I'm actually getting so stressed thinking about it but at the same time i just wanna get the darn thing done! How are you all feeling??!!
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: Ionic Doc on November 01, 2019, 04:23:12 pm
How'd it go J_Rho ?
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on November 01, 2019, 04:27:42 pm
How'd it go J_Rho ?

It was hard but nowhere near as hard that I thought it would be. I got lucky with the question about block mutations as id been revising that as I was straightening my hair this morning but the last question was asking about limitations in regards to an experiment.... I had no IDEA what to put for my answer!
How did you go with your psych exam Ionic Doc???
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: Ionic Doc on November 01, 2019, 10:30:08 pm
It was hard but nowhere near as hard that I thought it would be. I got lucky with the question about block mutations as id been revising that as I was straightening my hair this morning but the last question was asking about limitations in regards to an experiment.... I had no IDEA what to put for my answer!
How did you go with your psych exam Ionic Doc???

Hey J_Rho

Similar to you this exam was definitely harder than previous years.

Multiple Choice took a bit longer than expected, (a couple of questions where more than 1 option seemed correct)
short answer section was pretty straight forward and I feel like i did decent,
the extended response section was really general, I knew all the theory but linking back to the scenario was a hit difficult.

Overall just hoping I can get a study score greater or equal to 35.

On a positive note, no matter what happens I know that everyone who's done a 3/4 this year will have developed great skills and knowledge to prep them up for year 12.

So are your year 11 exams around the corner?
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on November 02, 2019, 08:58:13 am
Hey J_Rho

Similar to you this exam was definitely harder than previous years.

Multiple Choice took a bit longer than expected, (a couple of questions where more than 1 option seemed correct)
short answer section was pretty straight forward and I feel like i did decent,
the extended response section was really general, I knew all the theory but linking back to the scenario was a hit difficult.

Overall just hoping I can get a study score greater or equal to 35.

On a positive note, no matter what happens I know that everyone who's done a 3/4 this year will have developed great skills and knowledge to prep them up for year 12.

So are your year 11 exams around the corner?

I'm sure you've done great!  Bring on year twelllllllllve!
I have my yr11 exams in 2 weeks and I'm sure glad they don't count towards my S/N in my subjects tho, how about you what are your yr11 exams? Feeling prepared?
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: Ionic Doc on November 02, 2019, 04:57:24 pm
I'm sure you've done great!  Bring on year twelllllllllve!
I have my yr11 exams in 2 weeks and I'm sure glad they don't count towards my S/N in my subjects tho, how about you what are your yr11 exams? Feeling prepared?

My year 11 exams are this week,
Haven't had any time to prepare since I've been studying for psychology in the last few weeks.
I'll just give it my best go

Good luck with your upcoming exams
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on November 15, 2019, 10:28:29 am
Okay so I was going to do 3/4 Theatre Studies by distance but my school said no as it is 'too much of a resource commitment'
So now I have to choose my 5th subject...
Im already going to be completing English, Further, Psych and Legal and completed Bio this year
I need to chose one more subject but don't know what to do
I want to study Paramedicine or Law and for paramed i need an atar of 80 and law an atar of 94 so i need subjects that ill do REALLY well in....
Im not a strong english student (C+ average), but a strong legal student (A+ average) so idk what id do well in
What subject will be most beneficial/ allow me to do really well in out of the following
Economics, HHD, Global Politics or Software Development?
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on November 17, 2019, 09:00:18 am
I'm wanting to get ahead during the summer holidays, and want to be smart about it...
For Legal Studies and Psychology, I'm making chapter summaries and flashcards.
For English, I'm going to read and annotate my books and make cue cards with quotes on them and write a practice essay or two if I have time
For Maths, part of me wants to just do the textbook questions when I find out the chapters we will be completed but I've heard from others that it isn't very beneficial.
I'm open to suggestions on how to get ahead, particularly for maths.
Also what lectures are most beneficial? The head start ones or the revision ones?

TL;DR Whats the best way to get ahead during summer hols for my subjects? ( I'm thinking about covering all course work)

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Exam Week - 18 Nov 2019 to 21 Nov 2019

With the Year 11 exams nearly upon me, I'm not stressing about them nearly as much as I maybe should but rather I'm stressing about the fact I am technically in Year 12 in 8 days, hell it feels like I was in Year 7 yesterday.
With this overwhelming realisation that I will soon be making my way into my final year of school and the pressure I'm placing on myself to become dux I began thinking how on earth do I separate myself from the others? How can I do the best I can but be better than everyone else? How do I achieve excellence from my very first assessment? After hours of stressfully searching the internet and finding thread after thread and articles on 'How I achieved a 50' and 'How I went from D+ to A+' I perhaps am feeling maybe I can achieve this...maybe I'm not being too unrealistic on myself but then again some of the students in my year level... have never gotten below a B+ or A so then again maybe I am being unrealistic because honestly, I know and ATAR is just a number but I want to show everyone that I am smart and dedicated and show the teachers who have said that I am not high achieving, that I am... to be the ultimate fuck off.

With that little rant over, just gonna say IDC at this point about my year 11 exams which is really bad. I should care but i don't cause I just want it to be holidays so I can focus on getting ahead for Year 12.

I haven't updated this in way too long, and NGL nothing has really been happening but Ill be back sometime next week to update ya'll on my goals for Year 12  8)

and a joke to brighten up your day
A pun, a play on words, and a limerick walk into a bar....no joke
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on December 03, 2019, 12:09:38 pm
With Year 12 almost upon me I think its time for a (much needed) update!
Following the same format I had last year going into Year 11 here are my subjects, goals, and way to acheive my goals. The next 10 months are going to be insane, stressful but I'm hella excited (and scared) to be going into my final year of school!

My subjects for 2020 are;
3&4 English
3&4 Further Maths
3&4 Legal Studies
3&4 Psychology
3&4 HHD

My goals for 2020:
Exercise every day for the recommended 90 minutes
Aim/Acheive for 95+% on all assessments
Write an essay a week
Acheive my study score goals: English (37), Further (47), Psychology (45), Legal (47), HHD (45)
Update my journal regularly  8)

Ways to acheive my goals
Use Sundays to revise all my notes from all my subjects
Test myself regularly (spaced repitition) using flash cards
Aim to complete homework the day it is recieved
Study 5 hours a week per subject
Complete checkpoints and topic tests regularly
Skim through coursework over the summer holidays - creating notes and flashcards
Have a study timetable to regulate my spaced repitition learning and assign time to write an essay

Code: [Select]
[b]Date:[/b]

[b]Classes:[/b]
*What classes you had, what you worked on, what you enjoyed/found difficult, rate your productivity

[b]Homework/To-Do:[/b]
*what you have to complete with due dates

[b]Work/Social:[/b]
*Talk about work; how often you worked, funny stories, annoying things
*talk about ses; how was training, what did you do, have you attened any incidents recently, funny stories etc.

[b]Goals:[/b]
*Address what you're doing well and what needs to improve
Eg. Exercise every day for the recommended 90 minutes
Aim/Acheive for 95+% on all assessments
Write an essay a week
Acheive my study score goals: English (37), Further (47), Psychology (45), Legal (47), HHD (45)
Update my journal regularly  8)
Use Sundays to revise all my notes from all my subjects
Test myself regularly (spaced repitition) using flash cards
Aim to complete homework the day it is recieved
Study 5 hours a week per subject
Complete checkpoints and topic tests regularly
Skim through coursework over the summer holidays - creating notes and flashcards
Have a study timetable to regulate my spaced repitition learning and assign time to write an essay
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: Snow Leopard on December 04, 2019, 10:42:29 pm
.maybe I'm not being too unrealistic on myself but then again some of the students in my year level... have never gotten below a B+ or A so then again maybe I am being unrealistic because honestly, I know and ATAR is just a number but I want to show everyone that I am smart and dedicated and show the teachers who have said that I am not high achieving, that I am
Hey J_Rho, just wanted to chip in here to say that while it's great that you're aiming high for next year, placing unnecessary stress on yourself isn't. At the end of the day, I think that the most important thing is to try to do your best, not necessarily be the best. Besides, I think that the main thing is to work hard but also smart and the results will follow! Obsessing about others in your cohort who could do well in Yr 12, won't bring you closer to your own goals. But, focussing on yourself and your own study habits will ;)

EDIT: typo
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on December 21, 2019, 10:55:57 am
Hey J_Rho, just wanted to chip in here to say that while it's great that you're aiming high for next year, placing unnecessary stress on yourself isn't. At the end of the day, I think that the most important thing is to try to do your best, not necessarily be the best. Besides, I think that the main thing is to work hard but also smart and the results will follow! Obsessing about others in your cohort who could do well in Yr 12, won't bring you closer to your own goals. But, focussing on yourself and your own study habits will ;)

EDIT: typo

Thank you Snow Leopard :)

School Holidays Update
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I have a list of tasks I want to get done in the next few weeks which will enable me to use the last 2 weeks of school holidays to revise my notes and prepare for school! I am really excited but also stressed but I'm trying to get rid of my stress and focus on doing my best! I have rethought my goals and create actionable steps to help me achieve my best which is hopefully a 90+ ATAR.



GOAL: 94+ ATAR
Mini Goal #1: Maintain physical and Mental Health
Mini Goal #1:
Maintain physical and mental health

Strategies
Follow an exercise routine
Meditate for 15 minutes each day
Read for an hour before bed
Drink 2L of water a day
Go to bed at 10 pm and wake at 6 am

Mini Goal #2: 97% Grade Average for Further Maths, HHD, Psychology and Legal
Mini Goal #2:
97% Grade average in Further Maths, HHD, Psychology and Legal

Strategies
Complete checkpoints and topic tests after every topic/AOS
Complete a practise exam a week (starting July)
Revise all notes every Sunday
Stay ahead and ask for extra work
Document mistakes made

Mini Goal #3: 95% Grade Average in English
Mini Goal #3:
95% Grade Average in English

Strategies
Write an essay a week and get it marked
Complete a practise exam a week (starting July)
Read texts 4-5 times: 1st Reading - Basic Understanding; 2nd reading - Annotate; 3rd and 4th Reading - Deep Understanding; 5th reading - Refresh Memory
Ask questions and get regular feedback form teacher
Document mistakes and weaknesses
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on January 01, 2020, 10:19:42 am
J_Rho's VCE Journey

Part 2 (Year 12)
Happy New Year!

Due to my "new year, new start" mentality I'm doing a little recap/intro thing to get me back into the school focused mindset and as an intro into the second part of my VCE journey - Year 12 - dun dun dahhhh.
Going into this year is daunting, to say the least, and honestly, I'm not ready to do year 12 - I want to go back to Year 7 where it was chill and the work was easy and I could muck around a little in class and it didn't matter but alas I'm getting older and I've reached my final year. To all the other Year 12's or those doing a 3/4 subject; lets rock this shit. Our own hard work determines where we go and to be completely honest I didn't take my 3/4 subject very seriously I was just vibing and then towards the end of the year, I started realising oh shit, if I got a good study score my ATAR would be better then if I got a lousy study score - now I always knew this but it never really hit home so to speak. So this year I'll be taking 5 subjects and pretending as if I didn't do a 3/4 because my score was so bad imma pretend it neverrr happeneddddd.

Subjects

English: Look, I'm crap at English, I can't write an essay to save my life - I love and am good at reading but writing yeah nah. The higest I've scored on an essay is a B, and we were given the prompt on Friday so I had the weekend to write an essay and memorise it so i don't think it even counts. English is probably going to be a difficult subject but I think I can really improve with hard work.

Further Maths: I wanted to do methods but my school wouldn't allow me to as I hadn't done 1/2 (because it clashed with my 3/4 last year) so that toats sucks but I have very high goals for this subject I KNOW with hard work I can be getting those 100%'s like yeah yr 12 is harder but last year with a little revision I can get  95%+ like come on not to blow my own horn but I got the top-scoring result in the mid-year exam and I DIDNT EVEN HAVE A CALCULATOR. I'd love a 45+ in this subject but tbh I'm not really caring about numbers I'm just gonna aim for (and study for) 100% on assessments and see where that gets me.

Legal Studies: I love Legal. The teacher is good, I seemed to have a natural affinity for it last year (perhaps cause it's really relatable to everyday life) the Year 12 content seems hard but not too hard and I'm super keen. The teacher actually wants us to do well which is awesome cause most other teachers just want us to pass. I'd love to come out with a 45+ study score as I think this is one of my strongest subjects.

Psychology: Last year, the class was a flop. The teachers...teaching style...was different and to put it in perspective, our class learnt more in a class with a substitute teacher then we had the whole year. Anyways, we have a new teacher! my Bio teacher, now I know i complain about teacher a fair but but he really honestly just reads off powerpoints and it sucks but hopefully this year is better! I like-ish this subject but It's a bit ehh

Health and Human Development: Ahhhh look, I don't wanna be in this class. It's full of all the students who don't care which is good but bad - 'easier' for me to be rank 1 but horrible to be surrounded by people that don't care. I'm doing this subject cause I basically had no other choice. Hopefully, I'll find some interest to make studying for it a little better.

School Goals
My goal is to do well, look after myself and have fun. That's a little more wholesome than "my goal is to achieve a 90+ ATAR'
Basically my school goal is a 90+ ATAR and the title of dux - its gonna be motherfking hard but I'm willing to work for it...i mean im literally about to start on making unit 3 notes for HHD and I've already started Psych, and Legal
GOAL: 94+ ATAR
Mini Goal #1: Maintain physical and Mental Health
Mini Goal #1:
Maintain physical and mental health

Strategies
Follow an exercise routine
Meditate for 15 minutes each day
Read for an hour before bed
Drink 2L of water a day
Go to bed at 10 pm and wake at 6 am

Mini Goal #2: 97% Grade Average for Further Maths, HHD, Psychology and Legal
Mini Goal #2:
97% Grade average in Further Maths, HHD, Psychology and Legal

Strategies
Complete checkpoints and topic tests after every topic/AOS
Complete a practise exam a week (starting July)
Revise all notes every Sunday
Stay ahead and ask for extra work
Document mistakes made

Mini Goal #3: 95% Grade Average in English
Mini Goal #3:
95% Grade Average in English

Strategies
Write an essay a week and get it marked
Complete a practise exam a week (starting July)
Read texts 4-5 times: 1st Reading - Basic Understanding; 2nd reading - Annotate; 3rd and 4th Reading - Deep Understanding; 5th reading - Refresh Memory
Ask questions and get regular feedback form teacher
Document mistakes and weaknesses

Other Goals
My goal for outside of school is to do a lot more within my community, namely VICSES, I want to make an impact this year and beyond in the community engagement and juniors areas. I also want to get my P's by my birthday week and make 10 grand by the end of the year.

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Code: [Select]
[b]Date:[/b]

[b]Classes:[/b]
*What classes you had, what you worked on, what you enjoyed/found difficult, rate your productivity

[b]Homework/To-Do:[/b]
*what you have to complete with due dates

[b]Work/Social:[/b]
*Talk about work; how often you worked, funny stories, annoying things
*talk about ses; how was training, what did you do, have you attened any incidents recently, funny stories etc.

[b]Goals:[/b]
*Address what you're doing well and what needs to improve
Eg. Exercise every day for the recommended 90 minutes
Aim/Acheive for 95+% on all assessments
Write an essay a week
Acheive my study score goals: English (37), Further (47), Psychology (45), Legal (47), HHD (45)
Update my journal regularly  8)
Use Sundays to revise all my notes from all my subjects
Test myself regularly (spaced repitition) using flash cards
Aim to complete homework the day it is recieved
Study 5 hours a week per subject
Complete checkpoints and topic tests regularly
Skim through coursework over the summer holidays - creating notes and flashcards
Have a study timetable to regulate my spaced repitition learning and assign time to write an essay

It's going to be a big fun year.
Your hard yards determine your place  - Don't wait for motivation, persistence will always win.
Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: Evolio on January 01, 2020, 06:15:48 pm
Quote
I'm not ready to do year 12 - I want to go back to Year 7 where it was chill and the work was easy and I could muck around a little in class and it didn't matter but alas I'm getting older and I've reached my final year.
I think about this a lot and I just wish I could time travel and relive those happy days, where there were more laughs than cry fests. You're nearly there! Just keep pushing and you'll emerge a warrior!

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i mean im literally about to start on making unit 3 notes for HHD and I've already started Psych, and Legal
Wow, you're so ahead! That's great! It's pushing me to finish my chemistry homework!

Title: Re: JadeRhoden's Journey To A 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on January 01, 2020, 07:23:13 pm
I think about this a lot and I just wish I could time travel and relive those happy days, where there were more laughs than cry fests. You're nearly there! Just keep pushing and you'll emerge a warrior!
hahah yes i miss how fun the science lessons were and how easy the maths was!! Thanks for the motivation!

Wow, you're so ahead! That's great! It's pushing me to finish my chemistry homework!
Yes, you'll get there! How are you finding the chemistry work?

Title: Re: J_Rho's VCE Journey
Post by: J_Rho on January 22, 2020, 01:02:13 pm
Holidays are coming to an end

22 January 2020

It is safe to say, I over anticipated how productive I would be over these holidays. I've been caught up in work, work, and been too tired to study or I've been going to the shops with mum so I can drive and get my hours up and I have not made the time to actually put pen to paper, like now, when I've sat down to get some study done and I've found myself here, writing this.
I tried to keep myself accountable with lollies, but instead of having self-control and allowing myself a lolly every time I achieved a task, I ate them all. The most productive thing I've done is get myself another job so that now I am trained in 3 departments in my job (Lifeguards, Aquatics Team, and Frontline Staff) which is cool and I only have 29 more hours to go until I reach 120 hours which is all good and well but I'm too broke to afford a car  :P

I'm not prepared to start school again, I'm excited but I'm also terrified cause I'm not so sure I can actually do well cause English is my weakest subject. I have an A4 page of tasks to get done in the next 5 days and I AM PROCRASTINATING SO HARD.
Today I am going to get shit done and IDC if I'm up till 2 am I'm just going to get it done cause I don't wanna be going back to school not feeling like I have a head start!
Maths: Exercise 2A
Legal: Activity 2.1 Q1-3
Legal: View and take notes on this https://www.thelegalstudiesguy.com/u3-aos1
Psych: Edrolo 2A & 2B
HHD: Holiday Homework Booklet
HHD: Edrolo Prerequisites of H & W determined by WHO
English: Transition Booklet
English: Annotate the Lieutenant pg 1 - 100
I'll be back when I'm finished!!! Hopefully that's around 7 pm, once I've done my tasks i hope to be much more useful around the forums!
Title: Re: J_Rho's VCE Journey
Post by: J_Rho on January 25, 2020, 09:33:19 am
Update RE: Holidays are coming to an end

25 January 2020

Okay well there was a change of plans and I had to go to Melbourne to visit my great grandmother so I didnt get much done at all but today I have nothing on this morning (work at 1 pm - 3 pm), free on Sunday and am deployed on Monday to the RCC and Tuesday should be revising what I've done over the holidays (work 3:45 - 6) and then RELAXINGGGGGG.

Today
HHD - Chapter 1 Questions and Flashcards
HHD - Prerequisites for H&W
Legal - Take notes 27 - 37
Psychology - Exercise 2D
English - Read Station Eleven (8 - 10pm)

Sunday
English - Transition Booklet Questions (get half of them done)
English - Annotate the Lieutenant pg 1 - 160
Maths - Exercise 2B & 2C
English - Annotate the Lieutenant pg 160 - 302
English - Transition Booklet Questions
Maths - Exercise 2D & 2E (and 2F-1 if I have time)
Legal - Activity 2.3
Psychology - Exercise 2E & Ch 2 Summary
English - Read Station Eleven (8pm - 10pm)

Monday
English - Annotate Station Eleven

Tuesday
English - Annotate Station Eleven
Maths - Exercise 2F-1, 2F- 2, 2G, 2H
If I have time:
Create character and theme summaries for the lieutenant and station eleven

I have to get this done like I need to have it done by Tuesday for school on Wednesday
Title: Re: J_Rho's VCE Journey
Post by: J_Rho on January 26, 2020, 08:11:55 pm
Got a fair, but not big chunk of my work done today. I am hoping to get a maths exercise tonight, and if i get up early enough tomorrow I'd like to try and get two maths tasks done before I leave for the RCC at 8am, and Tuesday is gonna be all about finish it off and preparing for schooool

Current To Do for the rest of today, tomorrow and tuesday
English - Annotate the Lieutenant pg 160 - 302
Maths - Exercise 2B & 2C
Maths - Exercise 2D & 2E
Maths - Exercise 2F-1, 2F- 2, 2G, 2H
If I have time:
Create character and theme summaries for the lieutenant and station eleven
English - Annotate Station Eleven
Title: Re: J_Rho's VCE Journey
Post by: J_Rho on February 01, 2020, 04:32:29 pm
Year 12 - Week 1


My school week started on Wednesday which began with a 45-minute whole school assembly followed by a 25 minute year 12 assembly, the rest of the week was cruisy but exhausting but worth it because on Friday one of my friends went up the street and bought us all ice cream sandwiches.

Subjects

English:This week we covered the theme of courage in The Lieutenant and we were given a layout of what we would focus on each lesson and the exact dates for our first two SACs. Overall my productivity was about a 6/10

Further Maths: Need to make sure I'm up to date and remember that we cover an exercise or 2 per session, I wasn't productive and got distracted by my friends due to the the horse shoe seating arrangment. Need to work on this - productivity was 3/10

Legal Studies: Went over task words and the study design for the first two lessons, got a 5/6 for my essay need to ask how I lost 1 mark productivity was good tho 8/10

Psychology: Havent had a Psychology class yet

Health and Human Development: This class sucks, but its easy so I feel like i really shouldn't drop it need to remind myself i gotta be persistent and just DO it. Productivity was 5/10

Homework/To-Do:
English - complete book mark task ✔️
            - find quotes on courage
Further Maths - Exercise 2C - 2H ✔️
Legal- Take notes pg 38 - 45
          - Answer questions 1-4 (Activity 2.4 on p.41)
Psychology - Chapter 2 Questions
HHD - Hand in transition booklet

Work/Social:
Worked every day except Monday, nothing very interesting happened and was pretty tiring
I attended an awareness session at an SES about an hour away, and to be honest it was useless it was pretty common knowledge but we did a Maccas run afterward so it was worth it. I also missed a community engagement meeting which I was bummed about cause I love CommEd and want to get super involved but I did message the Deputy Controller of CommEd and gave her my ideas so all is well. I've also been asked by the Deputy Controller of Assets to help him with some projects such as vehicle tick sheets, and setting up a "turnout desk" with vehicle keys, things you need for certain jobs, etc.

And as a reminder to myself and others...
Your hard work determines your place  - Don't wait for motivation, persistence will always win.
Title: Re: J_Rho's VCE Journey
Post by: J_Rho on February 05, 2020, 03:13:21 pm
Year 12 - Week 2

My school week basically ends today as we have our swimming carnival tomorrow, as Friday is a chill day because teachers don't expect students to either A. be at school the day after carnival or B. Be performing at their best. This week dragged but somehow went fast at the same time.
Subjects

English: This week we covered the theme of loyalty in The Lieutenant. Overall my productivity was about a 8/10

Further Maths: Ahead of the class - productivity was 6/10

Legal Studies: Was given our first 4 sac dates and some homework 7/10

Psychology: Not bad, watched edrolo videos, had class discussions, not bad - 6/10

Health and Human Development: This class sucks, i hate it so so so so much but i have to push through and get that 40+ ss Productivity was 4/10

Homework/To-Do:
English - find quotes on courage & loyalty
Further Maths - 2I Assignment
Legal- Take notes pg 38 - 45
Psychology - Watch 3A & 3B
HHD - Complete homework & hand in transition booklet

Work/Social:
I've be super super busy and I'm keen for Friday as it'll be my first day off from work in like 11 days which is ages for me as I usually only work 3 days a week but hey! money! I also had an SES swim test yesterday, were we had to wear all our gear and swim 100m and tread water for 2 min, E A S Y! Rant: But no none of the blokes i swum with could swim so I was stuck behind all these blokes struggling and here I am treading water when i could have been swimming because one of my strokes is equivalent to about 4 of their strokes, I was embarresed to swim with them like I understand people aren't strong swimers (hell im not a strong swimmer) but these blokes where like at a 60 degree angle to the water surface (almost upright) with freestyle arms. Bloody rediculous considering these guys want to be swift water technicals so working in flash flood and swift river conditions. Rant over.
Title: Re: J_Rho's VCE Journey
Post by: YussifK on February 05, 2020, 06:57:20 pm
All I gotta say is I hope you ace year 12... well I think I’m not

Also got a sac for plasma membranes have you done this sac for bio what you do ? To study 
Title: Re: J_Rho's VCE Journey
Post by: J_Rho on February 09, 2020, 08:35:58 am
All I gotta say is I hope you ace year 12... well I think I’m not

Also, got a sac for plasma membranes have you done this sac for bio what you do? To study
Thank you, I'm sure you will be rewarded for the effort you put in - make sure you don't fall down the same path I did last year, study more than trying to find the best way to study or the best resources (as last year I overplanned and never got anything done) your teacher should give you all the content you need for your sac so make sure you study what they've taught but also get other peoples perspectives and if you can definitely do practice questions on plasma membranes
My SAC on plasma membranes we did 2 pracs during the week and then when we did the sac we were given a list of words and we had to write an essay using these words and explaining how it related to the prac's we had done. ie. 'cholesterol' and then I described how cholesterol functions in a plasma membrane and how it helps amoeba function
The revision I did for this sac was revising the prac making sure I knew everything and revising my plasma membrane notes - we weren't told what the sac would be (we all thought it would be multiple choice and extended response) so I just revised everything relating to the sac
Title: Re: J_Rho's VCE Journey
Post by: J_Rho on February 15, 2020, 07:59:35 pm

Year 12 Week 3 - Entry #1

I dont know why but this week has be exhausing, like everyday, especially tuesday, felt like a friday in October!
I have a mega headache after working 8am - 5pm and only getting about 4 and a bit hours sleep last night so this will probably be short.

Class Summary
English: This week we covered the theme of duty & obedience and choice an freedom in The Lieutenant. Overall my productivity was about a 4/10

Further Maths: Didnt have a teacher this week and I've done jack shit hahaha 0/10

Legal Studies: Done some sac revison but not much 3/10

Psychology: Again didn't have a teacher and didn't do anything

Health and Human Development: Moved out of this class! YESS

Biology: IM MAD. my school wont let me do the first sac cause 'the sac date has passed and itll be too stressful on the teacher to mark your sac too' even tho the class only did their sac last week AND the teacher hasnt even started marking them


Homework/To-Do:
English:

Further Maths:
Legal Studies:
Psychology:
Biology:


Work / Social
Again been very very busy working a total of 26 hours this week, had SES training on Wednesday and am feeling very run down and exhausted. Like i live in constant tiredness but like its worse than usual which shouldn't be surprising given I now permanently work 5 days a week with one job and doesn't account for my other jobs which I get rostered on differently each week. y a y. I really need to decrease my workload
Title: Re: J_Rho's VCE Journey
Post by: J_Rho on February 19, 2020, 08:05:15 pm

Year 12 Week 4 - Entry #1

B r u h. I can't even. I don't know why I'm behind or why it feels like I've missed a week of class but like wow can I go back to Year 7.
One (stressful) positive is that I've bugged my senior school coordinator enough that she is letting me do the Bio SAC (at least that's what my teacher said)! Yay.
I have a list of shit to get done by the end of the week and I am NOT going to log in until I've done it and I'll treat myself to some skittles
If not then I will wear a virtual cone of shame.

To Do
Maths
- Edrolo Ch 1 & 2 Check
- 2I

Legal Revision
- Checkpoints
- Edrolo notes
- flash cards

Biology Revision
- Checkpoints
- Edrolo notes
- flashcards
- poster notes
Title: Re: J_Rho's VCE Journey
Post by: Geoo on February 19, 2020, 11:49:09 pm
Quote
B r u h. I can't even. I don't know why I'm behind or why it feels like I've missed a week of class but like wow can I go back to Year 7.
One (stressful) positive is that I've bugged my senior school coordinator enough that she is letting me do the Bio SAC (at least that's what my teacher said)! Yay.
I have a list of shit to get done by the end of the week and I am NOT going to log in until I've done it and I'll treat myself to some skittles
If not then I will wear a virtual cone of shame.
That's awesome that you are able to do the bio SAC, i'm so happy for you! You're not the only one who wants to go back to year 7, I am so overwhelmed with the workload that seems to be never ending.
Enjoy you skittles!
Title: Re: J_Rho's VCE Journey
Post by: J_Rho on February 20, 2020, 08:01:15 pm
That's awesome that you are able to do the bio SAC, i'm so happy for you! You're not the only one who wants to go back to year 7, I am so overwhelmed with the workload that seems to be never ending.
Enjoy you skittles!

Hey Geoo, thanks for the relpy!!
Yeah im really happy im now just waiting on the teacher to give me the details of when it will be and the practical reference materials
So much for staying logged off, i had to ask a question and now im being sucked into a hole of procrastination so this will be short!!

To Do
Maths
- Edrolo Ch 1 & 2 Check
- 2I

Legal Revision
- Checkpoints
- Edrolo notes
- flash cards

Biology Revision
- Checkpoints
- Edrolo notes
- flashcards
- poster notes

hopefully ill be done by tomorrow and ill have a NEW to do list!
Title: Re: J_Rho's VCE Journey | 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on February 29, 2020, 05:33:11 pm
I'm back - Only 9 days late

29 February 2020

Well alas, I am back! and I have completed what I was trying to complete and I shall ashamedly admit that yes it took me 9 days to be bothered enough to complete the Chapter checks on Edrolo. I went and spoke to the assistant principal about not being allowed to sit the Biology SAC and I'm now allowed to do it as the coordinator was not allowed to use my score from last year or stop me from sitting the SAC - was a little bit weird why she said 'No' but that's in the past and I'm just going to assume she was misinformed about how it worked or something. I've also completed a Legal SAC and a Psychology SAC in which I am yet to receive results for but it is estimated ill know by Friday for Legal and the week after for Psych. I also have an English practice SAC this Thursday! Also to those who come from an underrepresented school are eligible for a tutoring network called 'RESN' you can register here and they will get back to you within 24 hours and the help I have gotten is SO GOOD, you "ask a question" and a tutor has to get back to you in 24 hours but it's usually less than that! I asked a question the other day around 10 pm and someone got back to me in 20 minutes with a detailed and helpful reply - think ATARNotes but you questions HAVE to be answered. I've attached a spoiler with an example of the help I have received
Spoiler
(https://imgur.com/7WRQOif.jpeg)
Hopefully, some of you are able to make use of that awesome resource :)

How has everyone else been going at school/outside of school??

To Do
Further Maths:
* Height and Arm Span Assignment ( Due Friday )

Legal Studies:
*Pg 111 - 6 practice questions ( Due Wednesday )
*Pg 107 - Questiosns 1 - 5 ( Due Wednesday )
*Texbook Summary - Ch2 & 3

Psychology:
*Edrolo Notes: Ch1, 2 & 3

Biology:
*SAC Study (SAC ON TUESDAY)
*Edrolo Ch3, Ch4, Ch5
*A3 Revision Posters

English:
*Paragraph on courage
* Essay ( Practice for Pracice SAC on Thursday )
*Rooke key moment analysis
*Quote document

Title: Re: J_Rho's VCE Journey | 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on March 05, 2020, 08:20:19 pm
Uh Oh - 3 weeks of Term 1 left

05 March 2020

Wow wow Wubbzy! I cannot fathom the idea that we have 3 weeks left of Term 1! I knew this year would go fast but I'm truly understanding it now! I also think that working 4 permanent shifts with the chance of working 7 in a week is a bit much with the goals I'm trying to achieve this year - once a few new swim teachers are trained I'll be asking to see if they want any of my shifts.
I got my results back for Part A of the Legal SAC for Area of Study 1.... 21/25 and rank 2  (rank 1 got 22/25 and I am so peeved that ONE mark cost me equal rank 1 but I WILL BE COMING BACK STRONG FOR PART B!)

Reminding myself of my goals, because I am an unmotivated potato with no personal accountability. Y A Y

GOAL: 90+ ATAR
Mini Goal #1: Maintain physical and Mental Health
Mini Goal #1:
Maintain physical and mental health

Strategies
Follow an exercise routine
Meditate for 15 minutes each day
Read for an hour before bed
Drink 2L of water a day
Go to bed at 10 pm and wake at 6 am

Mini Goal #2: 97% Grade Average for Further Maths, Biology, Psychology and Legal
Mini Goal #2:
97% Grade average in Further Maths, Biology, Psychology and Legal

Strategies
Complete checkpoints and topic tests after every topic/AOS
Complete a practise exam a week (starting July)
Revise all notes every Sunday
Stay ahead and ask for extra work
Document mistakes made

Mini Goal #3: 95% Grade Average in English
Mini Goal #3:
95% Grade Average in English

Strategies
Write an essay a week and get it marked
Complete a practise exam a week (starting July)
Read texts 4-5 times: 1st Reading - Basic Understanding; 2nd reading - Annotate; 3rd and 4th Reading - Deep Understanding; 5th reading - Refresh Memory
Ask questions and get regular feedback form teacher
Document mistakes and weaknesses

To Do
📗Further Maths:
* Height and Arm Span Assignment ( Due Tomorrow)

📒Legal Studies:
*Texbook Summary - Ch2 & 3

📙Psychology:
*Edrolo Notes: Ch1, 2 & 3

📘Biology:
*SAC Study (SAC NEXT TUESDAY)
*Edrolo Ch3, Ch4, Ch5
*A3 Revision Posters

 📕English:
*Rooke key moment analysis
*Quote document

Title: Re: J_Rho's VCE Journey | 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on March 20, 2020, 05:52:55 pm
Will this be the last week of Term 1 or the second last - the question on everyone's lips

20 March 2020

I'm so sick of school, all anyone can talk about is coronavirus and I get it's scary and imminent and people are excited at the prospect of schools shutting but its all anyone talks about and it's really a bit much. My work has closed and they have no idea when they will reopen wether it be next moth or in 6 months. And it might be selfish to complain but f u c k. I was rostered on for like 15 shifts which would have made me just over $1500 and I could finally justify looking at cars with my 18th 3 months away cause I woulda had enough savings to start looking. Now with no income, my phone bill and other nesscecary expenses will be eating up my savings. I'm looking at applying to Woolworths and Autobarn for customer service roles but I am so upset about work closing. I honestly love what I do and although it is completely understandable why we are closing (with 1 confirmed COVID -19 case in Gippsland) it really really sucks. Like a lot. and it's making me stress even more than I already was about the prospect of my school closing. Part of me doesn't want to apply for another job that I may only need for a few months and despite the idea of no work means I could go ham on schoolwork, it's not feasible when I have necessary expenses such as a phone bill but hey self-quarantine how about I cancel my phone plan haha. I had my English SAC on Thursday and honestly, it was the shittest essay I have ever written! The prompts from last years exam were easier than then ones they gave us! I'll be lucky if I get a C+

This has been a pretty shitty day week. How is everyone else feeling?
Also, I've been told that if your work shuts or you get coronavirus you are entitled to Centrelink payments until your work reopens/you get better? Is this true?

And in light of recent events here's a pun you might must enjoy
(https://imgur.com/iVwM931.png)
Title: Re: J_Rho's VCE Journey | 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on March 23, 2020, 09:15:53 pm
Well f***

23 March 2020

I am feeling a multitude of feelings regarding the school closure, I understand the need but it also sucks A LOT. Apparently NSW isn't closing schools till the end to the term which is like 2 or 3 weeks away and that makes me think why cant we stay open for 3 more days. 3 days to feel normal, whatever that is right now. Like wtf is the point of today all it did was stress everyone out and im feeling very... odd. Monday should be the start of the week but like its not. I just...i just dont know what to feel. Im feeling very claustrophobic in the sense that worst-case scenario I'll be stuck at home for 6 months. I was gonna borrow from the school library at lunchtime but im so distracted right now like WHAT AM I DOING. Like the formal notice that schools would close Tuesday was issued last night at like 11pm THIS ISNT ENOUGH TIME (like the local council giving my workplace 5 HOURS NOTICE FOR CLOSING) im flustered and all over the shop and honestly scared. School is my getaway because i dont have the best relationship with some of my family members and i dont know wtf im supposed to do, im not mentally prepared. Last I heard that we would be finishing the term. This is an unprecedented thing, its scary and we dont know exactly what to expect - we can see what's happening in Italy but like do we fully comprehend it?
I've been trying to write a list of to-do's for the holidays forthe past 3 hours and i just can't - yes we will get through this and i bet in 3 months we'll look back and laugh and say "what were we even worrying about" but i've also realised that if this bullshit gets worse we could be returning to school in term 3 and we will be the lucky ones, im not trying to be pessimistic but the idea that our fellow peers could die is a horrible scary thought but could be true an 18-year-old in the UK died like in the last 24hours. and the thought of body storage and coffin building and grave-digging of the 4 thousand deceased in Italy. its horrible and i cant begin to imagine it.
This is all very very strange and weird and i hope things get better.

Sending my love to all of you 💗
(sorry for the weird rant)

On a different note, I'm a little excited for remote learning and my mindset is "BUCKLE UP BITCHES ITS GONNA BE ONE HELL OF A RIDE" and trying to see the positives i might benefit from it being more in control of my learning a lil more. Its like i can realistically do whatever i want and i SHOULD do my work but like idk i feel like the tiny bit more freedom is going to be constructive and i get to be in my pjs and not wake up as early to get to school on time.

And hey we all have each other's backs, we have this forum to turn to for subject help and we will get through it. this is going to be interesting and fun and albeit scary.

I'll update in the morning with what i want to acheive these coming weeks, my plan for this week and my tasks for the day! Bit boring but hey! It keeps me accountable!

I love you all! Stay safe and check in on each other x
Title: Re: J_Rho's VCE Journey | 90+ ATAR
Post by: PhoenixxFire on March 23, 2020, 09:45:59 pm
Re: Centrelink payments you mentioned in your post a few days ago, that is true generally, but also the majority of people in year 12 aren't eligible to get their own centrelink payments and parents instead get payment (comes under family tax benefit i think). Although not sure what'll happen if school closes for the year given that should technically make you eligible in the same way that someone who dropped out of high school would be eligible.
Title: Re: J_Rho's VCE Journey | 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on March 24, 2020, 08:39:39 am
FIRST AND FOREMOST
My local library is closed, I forgot to go to my school library yesterday and now I have no books to read and I am so sad :'(
I can't read eBooks because I'm not allowed to have any devices in my room (I generally read near bedtime)
Scale 1 - 10, how screwed am I?


To be absolutely honest, I'm stressing about SAC's...especially the Biology SAC I STILL HAVENT DONE.
Like, am I ever going to get to do it? When will I do it? Like I want to do it as soon as possible - and as teachers are at school for the rest of the week I wonder if I'd be allowed to go in and sit it as it was scheduled for today 4 pm - 5 pm, should I email my coordinator about it or is it not allowed cause like I know students are allowed to go to school to get their belongings and pick up work but like🤔


Re: Centrelink payments you mentioned in your post a few days ago, that is true generally, but also the majority of people in year 12 aren't eligible to get their own centrelink payments and parents instead get payment (comes under family tax benefit i think). Although not sure what'll happen if school closes for the year given that should technically make you eligible in the same way that someone who dropped out of high school would be eligible.

This whole thing is a bit of an odd situation haha
Title: Re: J_Rho's VCE Journey | 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on March 24, 2020, 10:42:29 am
Alright guys, one last post  8)

This is what I want to get done this week hopefully :)

Main Holiday Homework
• English
   Read Station 11
   Analyzing Argument Booklet
   Analyzing argument essay - recycling
• Maths
   Chapter 6 & Review
• Psychology
   Edrolo Ch 1 - 5
• Legal Studies
   Edrolo Up to u3 aos2 progress check 1
   Textbook notes ch 2 - 4
   Sac notes
• Biology
   Edrolo ch 3 - 8
   Edrolo topic exams
   Workbook questions and chapter summaries (ch 3 - 8 )
   A3 Sheets
If I can get ALL that done, I'd like to get this done
Extention Work
• English
   Analysing argument essay x2
• Maths
   Notes for sac
• Psychology
   Edrolo Ch 6 - 8
• Legal Studies
   Edrolo unit 3 aos 2   
• Biology
   Edrolo ch 8 - 11
       Workbook questions and chapter summaries (ch 8 - 11)

And like I wanna go back to school next term, like I love sitting in private studies working through questions and sharing a laugh with my friends or in English having really good class discussions with an awesome teacher
I hope things turn for the better
Title: Re: J_Rho's VCE Journey | 90+ ATAR
Post by: Coolgalbornin03Lo on March 24, 2020, 11:42:08 am
FIRST AND FOREMOST
My local library is closed, I forgot to go to my school library yesterday and now I have no books to read and I am so sad :(


This whole thing is a bit of an odd situation haha

Same! I love reading but during VCE I have no time so I was always getting these huge fines. So a few weeks ago I took 5 books back and remained with one and was reading it slowly. Now I have maybe 10 minutes worth of reading left in this book and idk what to do because I also read near bedtime and looking at the screen of an ebook doesn’t seem like it’d wind me down as much. Such sad times.
Title: Re: J_Rho's VCE Journey | 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on March 24, 2020, 01:45:25 pm
Same! I love reading but during VCE I have no time so I was always getting these huge fines. So a few weeks ago I took 5 books back and remained with one and was reading it slowly. Now I have maybe 10 minutes worth of reading left in this book and idk what to do because I also read near bedtime and looking at the screen of an ebook doesn’t seem like it’d wind me down as much. Such sad times.

You should be able to uber library books, like uber eats  8)
Title: Re: J_Rho's VCE Journey | 90+ ATAR
Post by: Coolgalbornin03Lo on March 24, 2020, 02:31:21 pm
You should be able to uber library books, like uber eats  8)
Yeah but definitely no charge! So maybe we’d all have to own drones which pick them up.
Title: Re: J_Rho's VCE Journey | 90+ ATAR
Post by: thatdumbstudent on March 24, 2020, 05:53:37 pm


I am feeling a multitude of feelings regarding the school closure, I understand the need but it also sucks A LOT. Apparently NSW isn't closing schools till the end to the term which is like 2 or 3 weeks away and that makes me think why cant we stay open for 3 more days. 3 days to feel normal, whatever that is right now. Like wtf is the point of today all it did was stress everyone out and im feeling very... odd. Monday should be the start of the week but like its not. I just...i just dont know what to feel. Im feeling very claustrophobic in the sense that worst-case scenario I'll be stuck at home for 6 months. I was gonna borrow from the school library at lunchtime but im so distracted right now like WHAT AM I DOING. Like the formal notice that schools would close Tuesday was issued last night at like 11pm THIS ISNT ENOUGH TIME (like the local council giving my workplace 5 HOURS NOTICE FOR CLOSING) im flustered and all over the shop and honestly scared
This is all very very strange and weird and i hope things get better


I agree but I do also understand where all of this is coming from!! the thing is.. I was supposed to do my bio sac this week so now its just been postponed to who knows when? i don't want to spend 3 weeks (at least) worrying about it :(
Title: Re: J_Rho's VCE Journey | 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on March 24, 2020, 06:04:32 pm
I agree but I do also understand where all of this is coming from!! the thing is.. I was supposed to do my bio sac this week so now its just been postponed to who knows when? i don't want to spend 3 weeks (at least) worrying about it :(

It's pretty insane and the uncertainty is, i think, the hardest thing, my coordinator is keeping a list of sacs that have been missed/postponed and told me "it will be figured out at a later date" which is irritating like will it be first week back? or will I have to study for it again cause it'll be like week 5 or something
We'll get through this!
Title: Re: J_Rho's VCE Journey | 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on March 25, 2020, 01:30:39 pm

Main Holiday Homework
• English
   Read Station 11
   Analyzing Argument Booklet
   Analyzing argument essay - recycling
• Maths
   Chapter 6 & Review
• Psychology
   Edrolo Ch 1 - 5
• Legal Studies
   Edrolo Up to u3 aos2 progress check 1
   Textbook notes ch 2 - 4
   Sac notes
• Biology
   Edrolo ch 3 - 8
   Edrolo topic exams
   Workbook questions and chapter summaries (ch 3 - 8 )
   A3 Sheets
If I can get ALL that done, I'd like to get this done
Extention Work
• English
   Analysing argument essay x2
• Maths
   Notes for sac
• Psychology
   Edrolo Ch 6 - 8
• Legal Studies
   Edrolo unit 3 aos 2   
• Biology
   Edrolo ch 8 - 11
       Workbook questions and chapter summaries (ch 8 - 11)

Alright, it's big brain time. I need to improve. My best sac mark so far has been 84%. That's lousy. and I need to get real better real fast if I want those 40's, 45's and maybe even a 50.
Okay so I'm not really following my strategies to achieve my goal and I've just been cruising not really going above and beyond at all so this has to change.
I'm going to have a daily checklist of my goal strategies and during a privo or when I get home the first thing I'll do is look over them and make sure I've documented mistakes, done some checkpoints, if its Sunday- go over ALL my notes for ALL my subjects and, if its Monday I'll write a practice essay etc.
I need to ensure I am not only completed up to date but slightly ahead and asking for extra work not only helping my understanding but this will also make my teacher aware that I want to excel.
I'm not going to be another student who wants to do well but doesn't work hard and ultimately ends up where they don't want to be. I don't want to be a dreamer anymore I want to make my dreams a reality.

Todays To Do
📕 read station eleven
📗 ex 6c
📗 ex 6d
📙 edrolo ch 1
📒 edrolo u3 aos1 videos
📘 edrolo ch 3
Title: Re: J_Rho's VCE Journey | 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on March 27, 2020, 07:58:08 pm
Untitled Journal Entry

27 March 2020

How is everyone feeling? How are you planning to spend your holidays?? What are some good stay-at-home activities?

Well, the last 3 days have been absolutely unproductive. I need to stop being a potato but IDK about you guys being pent up inside is making me feel pretty down but that's not an excuse! I am going to excel, I'm going to put in my all and I am going to get dux. Its a really far away goal but I can do it! I will do it! I will stop lazing around and I am going to leave a legacy and be an example. Just because I always felt like the underdog doesn't mean I can do really well!

I only got Bio Ch 3 done over the last 3 days which is pathetic and I'm stepping up my game.
We all face obstacles. How you deal with those obstacles defines who you are and determines how successful you are in life.

Im going to wake up at 6 am every morning, do some exercise, have a shower, stretch, make some tea and figure out what to do that day. Ill sit down from 8:30 am - 11 am and then take a break for 60 minutes AWAY from my desk then I'll sit down at 12 pm and work till 3 pm and then take a break for an hour and a half, with 30 of those minutes exercising (prolly jumping on the trampoline haha) then ill sit down from 4:30 pm till 6 pm and then I'll have dinner, do my chores and if I've got everything done I'll watch some Netflix or play Playstation (will always be superior to Xbox), or watch a movie and then at 9 pm I'll get ready for bed, read a book, maybe have a shower (depending on if I need one or not - I don't wanna waste water buuut if i stinky....🤷) and aim to be asleep by 9:45/10 pm

During Term 1 I lost sight of my goals and stopped putting emphasis on studying and only really studied 3 days before a SAC which is STUPID. I'm not doing that anymore

But if anyone wants a good playlist to fall asleep to or use to study as a light background noise check out this playlist

I'm going to go chill and 'reset' and I'll figure out my to-do's for tomorrow, tomorrow. But right now I'm thinking;
8:30 am - 11 am: Maths Exercises (get as many done as possible in this time)
12 pm - 3 pm: Legal Finish off Edrolo videos for u3 aos 1
4:30 pm - 6 pm: Psychology Chapter 1 Notes

(EDIT: I'll be back in a weeks time)
Title: Re: J_Rho's VCE Journey | 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on April 04, 2020, 11:53:11 am
Easter Holiday Break

04 April 2020


Psychology:
I've completed all the set work (Chapters 1 - 5 Notes, Videos, Exercises and Topic Tests) and have Chapter 6 and 7 go before I'm finished AOS2. It's pretty cruisy stuff, but I'm working really slowly like my brain feels half-asleep most of the time, so I think i need to make sure I'm drinking more water and eating more veggies. My plan for this subject is to get all of AOS 1 and 2 checkpoints and topic tests are done by the end of the holidays. I'm finding this subject really really cruisy and I'm finding that the topics super easy to grasp but there's just lots of topics and how they're all interrelated. I'm actually enjoying the subject despite thinking I wouldn't but it's definitely not my fave.

EDIT: First SAC marks back; 84% (not happy about) and Rank 1
To improve this I'm going to make sure I allocate 30 minutes for homework after every class (if 2 classes its 1 hr) and 5 hours of study a week, and obvs that number will increase in the 2 weeks prior to a SAC. During my study, I need to put a lot more focus on practice questions and unit 3 exams.

Biology:
I've completed most of AOS2, but I'm being pretty cruisy cause my teacher only set Chapter 8 for holiday homework so the plan for today is to also do Chapter 9 and 10 and do a Unit 3 practice exam. My plan for this subject is to make sure I'm doing a practice exam a week and actually revising. I really love the way the teacher teaches this subject, he's just engaging and understands that talking from a PowerPoint isn't effective teaching. Like we start most classes with a youtube video (if we are starting a topic) or a short Kahoot (if we have started learning stuff). He also allows for multiple directions of learning ie. here's a few different things you can do to consolidate your understanding and gives us the resources to learn in different ways about the same topic, I'm not letting myself get complacent cause I 'know it already' but rather approaching it as if I've never learnt it and doing everything I can do learn as much as I can and really consolidating my understanding with questions.


Further Maths:
I'm not sure why but I find FM to be hard to study for, like what do I study? So I'm halfway through Chapter 6 and then I'll do Chapter 7 from the Cambridge book and then do all the Data Analysis questions on Edrolo. I have a SAC in week 2 or term 2 and its a 5 hour SAC where we will be given data to analysis and at the end we have to write a report on it. That's all I know and it's so vague I'm not sure how to study for it. I think there are worksheets on vicmathsnotes so I'll do some of those hopefully by the end of the weekend. I love maths and I do understand it but i feel like the FM course is kinda weird idk if its cause the topics are all new or because its a new exercise every class but i feel like I'm missing something. Like you know when something feels too easy and its cause you're doing ti wrong? that's how i feel with this subject in general.

English:
I haven't done much for this subject yet, other than reading and annotate Station Eleven. Tomorrow will be finishing a Language analysis practice SAC that I started on the last day of term. On Monday I'm going to do the 2017 practice exam (but only the text analysis and analyzing argument), and if I'm feeling good do some of the Language analysis exercises in the Pearson English textbook and finish making notes on the LA Edrolo videos. I really love English, despite it being one of my worst subjects and I really want to do well so I really need to be harsh on myself and make sure I'm writing an essay a week and getting it marked by my teachers or by someone else. I truly think that's the only way I will improve and I just need to do it. I enjoy writing essays I just hate starting. So that's probably going to be my biggest goal for the next month is to get into the habit of writing essays, like we are 4 months in and I've written like 3 essays, 2 of which were done in class.

EDIT: Yeah look I haven't got my SAC marks yet but I will not be surprised if its like a D+ or something, like the prompts were so hard and we had never done any work on the themes of anything relating to the prompts. It was really hard to 'go deep' and i had no idea how to discuss the views and values because it was such a weird topic! I'll let you guys know what mark I receive when i get it (I got a C+ on the practice :'( ) but moving forward, I'm going to write a shit tonne of practice essays submit them to my teachers, you guys here, RESN and try and really improve, and hence why English is going to be the subject i study most for, with 7 hours a week scheduled study alongside my 30 min homework blocks. It should work but we'll see :)

Legal Studies:
Similarly to English, his subject has been put to the side for the time being while I work on Psych, Bio and Maths. Next week will predominantly be reviving Edrolo AOS1  for a SAC that's supposed to be held first week of term, and then working through the videos for AOS2. And then I have to work through AOS2 in the textbook up to pg. 170 so basically just stuff on CAV and VCAT. My plan for this subject is to once I've done that do all the checkpoints for AOS1 so I'm really prepared for the upcoming SAC. I love this class, the teacher really pushes us and sets enough work that we can only complete it if we work super diligently in class otherwise its homework. He also sets a fair bit of homework between classes but its general things like summary questions, essays and key terms so it's never too hard. Its probably one of my favourite subjects because the content is fun and interesting and the teacher is really good.

EDIT: First SAC marks: 82% and Rank 3 (such a bad score and i lost so many marks for stupid stupid mistakes, 2% of being equal rank 1 grr) I'm so pissed about this mark, I legit lost like 1.5 marks because one of the questions was like "identify the errors in this" AND I WROTE IN DOT POINT FORM INSTEAD OF FULL SENTENCES and the other 3 marks were lost in the 10 marker for only responding to the first part of the question (I forgot about the second task word) Again I'm just going to really make sure I'm studying consistently and doing lots of practice questions and submitting them to my teacher and RESN.
Title: Re: J_Rho's VCE Journey | 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on April 07, 2020, 05:19:04 pm
Alright so, I found some Loreal Colorista Washout Orange in my bathroom cupboard that I forgot that I got last year as a present.
Should I colour my hair??? I can't post a link to the product as it's not sold anymore but here's an image of the product let me know yes or no in the vote at the top or let me know what you think? Am I making a horrible mistake or should it be fine given it is a semi-permanent dye or do you think it'll look bomb?
image
(https://imgur.com/JW2jBUP.png)

EDIT: Whos voting no?? WHY!!!??? let me know why I shouldn't! Cause I kinda just wanna go for it even tho it might be bad

Title: Re: J_Rho's VCE Journey | 90+ ATAR
Post by: Ionic Doc on April 07, 2020, 05:31:47 pm
Alright so, I found some Loreal Colorista Washout Orange in my bathroom cupboard that I forgot that I got last year as a present.
Should I colour my hair??? I can't post a link to the product as it's not sold anymore but here's an image of the product let me know yes or no in the vote at the top or let me know what you think? Am I making a horrible mistake or should it be fine given it is a semi-permanent dye or do you think it'll look bomb?
image
(https://imgur.com/JW2jBUP.png)

EDIT: Whos voting no?? WHY!!!??? let me know why I shouldn't!

Well since we're in quarantine, why not?
How long does hair colouring usually last for?
Title: Re: J_Rho's VCE Journey | 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on April 07, 2020, 05:34:39 pm
Well since we're in quarantine, why not?
How long does hair colouring usually last for?

That's my mindset exactly!! (But I also don't wanna ruin my natural colour and have no idea if it'll completely wash out)
It's a washout one it's supposed to be 2 - 4 weeks or 10 - 15 shampoos.

GUYS THE VOTES ARE AT 50/50, Imma wait till tomorrow arvo and see what the votes are then b4 deciding
Title: Re: J_Rho's VCE Journey | 90+ ATAR
Post by: Chocolatemilkshake on April 07, 2020, 06:12:30 pm
Go for it J_Rho, add some colour to these darker times!!

Plus, no one has to see it if it looks bad anyway (which I'm sure it won't)
Title: Re: J_Rho's VCE Journey | 90+ ATAR
Post by: Geoo on April 07, 2020, 06:14:29 pm
Do it! There is no harm, and as CM said, if it turns out badly no one is going to see!
Title: Re: J_Rho's VCE Journey | 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on April 07, 2020, 06:17:27 pm
Do it! There is no harm, and as CM said, if it turns out badly no one is going to see!
I think I'm just terrified from all those relatives saying "never dye your hair it'll never look as beautiful as it does before you do it" which is stupid cause hair grows out and it's not permanent!

Go for it J_Rho, add some colour to these darker times!!

Plus, no one has to see it if it looks bad anyway (which I'm sure it won't)

Haha! That's what I said to mum! "Pshhh, it's not like we are going outside anyway!"
But you best bet I'll be showing yall how it looks even if it turns out trash!!
Title: Re: J_Rho's VCE Journey | 90+ ATAR
Post by: eloisegrace on April 07, 2020, 06:38:31 pm
Dye it! As a redhead myself 👩🏻‍🦰, I love that colour of hair. We are in quarantine, why not? I’ve dyed the under side of my hair pink  :)
Title: Re: J_Rho's VCE Journey | 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on April 08, 2020, 07:11:53 pm
Me talking about my hair
Okay so I dyed my hair with this weird washout dye in the colour orange. I have pretty dark hair with orange undertones (ie. when its sunny parts of it look orange), so I wasn't expecting it to show up at all.
Here's a few b4 photos
Spoiler
(https://imgur.com/LMzNnXa.jpeg)
(https://imgur.com/Eek19EK.jpeg)

and here's how it turned out
Spoiler
(pretty shit but as expected...the photos don't show how my highlights are basically orange now but that's prolly cause I'm taking photos at 7pm at night with only a lamp)
(https://imgur.com/7xxHjWu.jpeg)

and here's me feeling cute, as you can see when its dark my hair looks normal
Spoiler
(https://imgur.com/9NyRh8R.jpeg)

Overall, when I'm 18 I might do it properly and dye my hair an auburn orange colour (like Karen Gillian maybe)
Title: Re: J_Rho's VCE Journey | 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on April 09, 2020, 12:53:02 pm
I meaaaaan my school holidays don't end this week...

09 April 2020

Psychology:
Quote
My plan for this subject is to get all of AOS 1 and 2 checkpoints and topic tests are done by the end of the holidays.
I haven't done this or even started it. But this is because I've been working through the bare minimum for my other subjects first before I do the extra 5% but hopefully in the next day or two I'll get to this. I was not happy with my last SAC mark (84%), and I don't think it was reflective of the effort I've been putting into Psych. However I'm not too bummed about it as I am Rank 1 so to me its like a lil warning like Hey, you're doing good but watch out, you gotta step up your game. So I need to get on top of that and do lots of practice questions.

Biology:
Quote
I've completed most of AOS2, but I'm being pretty cruisy cause my teacher only set Chapter 8 for holiday homework so the plan for today is to do Chapter 8, 9 and 10 and do a Unit 3 practice exam. My plan for this subject is to make sure I'm doing a practice exam a week and actually revising.
Alright, I haven't done this, as I already have my notes from last year so I'm focussing on Maths, English and Legal and will come back to this once all that is done. But I'm just going to say, THE EDROLO 2020 TEXTBOOK IS AWESOME.

Further Maths:
Quote
I'm halfway through Chapter 6 and then I'll do Chapter 7 from the Cambridge book and then do all the Data Analysis questions on Edrolo.
This is my task for today, to finish all my FM homework...I'm almost finished Ch7 so hopefully I can also start on English stuff also.

English:
Quote
Tomorrow will be finishing a Language analysis practice SAC that I started on the last day of term. On Monday I'm going to do the 2017 practice exam (but only the text analysis and analyzing argument), and if I'm feeling good do some of the Language analysis exercises in the Pearson English textbook and finish making notes on the LA Edrolo videos.
I haven't done any of this. This is my job for the next 2 days. I just need to do it, starting is the hardest part and I know if I don't do it I'll feel like shit and my grades will be reflective of the lack of effort.


Legal Studies:
Quote
Next week will predominantly be reviving Edrolo AOS1  for a SAC that's supposed to be held first week of term, and then working through the videos for AOS2. And then I have to work through AOS2 in the textbook up to pg. 170 so basically just stuff on CAV and VCAT. My plan for this subject is to once I've done that do all the checkpoints for AOS1 so I'm really prepared for the upcoming SAC.
I don't even know what day it is, and I think we are still in "next week", BUT I am yet to start on this stuff. Thats also my job for the next 2 days. And I honestly think I need to prioritise tasks and then turn off my computer and phone and just do it. Until I realise that all my textbooks and edrolo is online, great. Looks like I'm going to be downloading a app blocker and only allowing Edrolo, Google Drive and RESN, because ya girl have no self control.
(https://imgur.com/1acIUHN.gif)

In conclusion, I have to do these things:

Today
Bio Ch 8
Psych Ch 5
FM Ch7
FM Edrolo Tests

Tomorrow
Pearson English Activities: pg 164, 171, 173
English Exam 2017
English Edrolo - Station Eleven and LA

12th April
Legal Edrolo AOS1 Videos
Legal Textbook Activities pg155 - 170]

EDIT: Eloisegrace's journal entry about facts about her made me remember...

One of the local theatres I volunteer for was supposed to be doing Mamma Mia this year and I was heartbroken I wouldn't be able to work it because I'm in Yr 12 and it wasn't feasible to do a few months of shows with Kinky Boots and then bump out (usually starts as soon as the last show finishes and goes early into the next morning) and then get a few hours sleep before bumping in the same afternoon for Mamma Mia to do another few months. But they cancelled so we most likely will do it next year! Which means I will be able to do it!!!!
Title: Re: J_Rho's VCE Journey | 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on April 10, 2020, 02:38:36 pm
This was very hard to write as its not something I've talked about to any length, and to be honest after it happened it was very hard. The day after I remember waking up and the feeling of normality only lasts a second before you remember everything like you're being told again for the first time, and the dreams are just horrible

Its true to say that the other volunteers are my family and I would go as far as to say that they are more like my family then my real family. I've been with the unit since 2017 and I went through a really dark time in 2018 which at some point I might talk about and there were these 2 members were my rock and they are what kept me here and they responded to my stupid texts at 1 in the morning and called me when they could tell i needed it. They know me better than I know myself at times and they are my family, and my best friends.

Today marks a year since my orange family lost one of our own, we follow in his footsteps in the hope of making him proud. I remember walking into training and being told and time just stood still and I felt winded, struggling for breath as all colour drained from my face. For months I didn't believe it, just waiting to see you walk through the door with a grin and a loud "G'Day mate".  It is a day that will forever be engrained in my memory, of a friend lost too soon. Thank you for the friendship and mentoring you gave us, we are all so grateful for you to have been such a massive part of our lives.
Title: Re: J_Rho's VCE Journey | 90+ ATAR
Post by: eloisegrace on April 10, 2020, 02:45:38 pm
I am so sorry for your loss J_Rho :'( :'( :'(

Title: Re: J_Rho's VCE Journey | 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on April 13, 2020, 02:21:20 pm
I am so sorry for your loss J_Rho :'( :'( :'(
Thank you for your support girlie ♡

Ah shit...school starts on Wednesday

13 April 2020

The last few days have been pretty crap and I've gotten next to nothing done, so hopefully, I can have a productive day and get myself prepared for school on Wednesday.
The last week I've really slacked off with everything, from maintaining a good sleep schedule to drinking enough water to keeping my room and desk tidy. I'm going to make a little checklist of things i need to do at the start and at the end of each day to help remind me and get back into the swing of things. With regard to homework, I still have a lot to do. I haven't really started on the Legal homework and have only done a tiny bit of the English work but that's today's job! I also need to make sure all my cute tops are clean so I can look bomb in the video classes but I'm actually comfy as cause I'm also in trackies and slippers with a blanket but you can't see ittttt, so maybe there are positives! I can't get told off for taking a blanket to class  :P

I've actually gotten through most of my holiday homework, believe it or not, I've got about a 1/4 of it left! Idk why teachers give no summer homework but a shit load of easter homework... I just wanna paint my nails and read books curled up in a doona, or play video games and take candlelit baths.

To Do

Legal
• Edrolo: Legal AOS1
• List in clear points, the following: factors to consider when initiating a civil claim, including negotiation options, costs, limitation of actions, the scope of liability, enforcement issues
• Read pp.155-159 Mediation.
• Summarise the boxes on p.157 "When is mediation appropriate/inappropriate."
• Summarise the Legal brief on p.158 and the NewsReport 5.5 on p.159. 
• Answer all of the questions 1-5 on p.159
• Read on Conciliation and Arbitration (160-161)
• Summarise/paraphrase the grey boxes for each area
• Complete Activity 5.3 on the role of dispute resolution methods.
• Read pp 162-163: What is CAV? – 100-word response.
•  Read p.163 Read about VCAT. 
•  Define its role and summarise 7-8 points from the snapshot that demonstrates you understand its importance.
• Summarise table 164 ensuring you have a knowledge of its divisions and lists.
• Read and summarise pp 164 -168
• Read pp 168-169 Exercise 5.8: Appropriateness of VCAT in solving disputes.  List weaknesses and strengths as well as two key reforms
• P.170 Answer questions 1-5 thoroughly.

English
• Page 171 “Too much water required to grow steak” Essay
• 2017 English Exam
• Page 164 Questions

FM
• Edrolo Test 3
• Edrolo Test 4

To be absolutely honest, I'm not gonna get this all done today but I reckon if i focus I can get it done by tomorrow arvo especially if i allow more time than needed so here's a cute lil table I made

(https://imgur.com/lD5pIXN.png)(https://imgur.com/cfZ3o3r.png)

Some Quotes I'm Trying To Live By
// Its gonna happen cause I'm gonna make it happen //

• Tell me I "can't" and I will embarrass you •

~ If it's easy it won't be worth it ~

The distance between your dreams and reality is action



Title: Re: J_Rho's VCE Journey | 90+ ATAR
Post by: TigerMum on April 13, 2020, 06:29:25 pm
Hey J_Rho, hope you're doing well!

Good to see you've done most of your holiday homework, I'll be starting a few assignments tonight that are due on Wednesday, so you're ahead of me at least.  :)

Do you know how your online classes are going to work? Even though I had one day of online classes last term, I haven't received much communication about how they will be running, so I'm curious as to how yours will work.
Title: Re: J_Rho's VCE Journey | 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on April 13, 2020, 08:18:28 pm
Hey J_Rho, hope you're doing well!

Good to see you've done most of your holiday homework, I'll be starting a few assignments tonight that are due on Wednesday, so you're ahead of me at least.  :)

Do you know how your online classes are going to work? Even though I had one day of online classes last term, I haven't received much communication about how they will be running, so I'm curious as to how yours will work.

I'm doing okay, how about you? How are you coping with everything?

For most of my classes, we will just be doing work set by the teacher and when it comes to attendance we have to write our name in the group chat. For one of my classes, we will be using Google Meet to start the class so the teacher can explain the lesson and mark the roll. I've attached some photos in the spoiler below, basically (dunno if u use this or not, i can see my timetable for the day and i click of a class and it opens what you see in the second image and of course we have a class group chat in which we ask questions and attendance is marked.
Spoiler
(https://imgur.com/VS30wZf.png) (https://imgur.com/0RhQYsb.png)
Title: Re: J_Rho's VCE Journey | 90+ ATAR
Post by: Marylen on April 14, 2020, 12:08:58 pm
I'm doing okay, how about you? How are you coping with everything?

For most of my classes, we will just be doing work set by the teacher and when it comes to attendance we have to write our name in the group chat. For one of my classes, we will be using Google Meet to start the class so the teacher can explain the lesson and mark the roll. I've attached some photos in the spoiler below, basically (dunno if u use this or not, i can see my timetable for the day and i click of a class and it opens what you see in the second image and of course we have a class group chat in which we ask questions and attendance is marked.
Spoiler
(https://imgur.com/VS30wZf.png) (https://imgur.com/0RhQYsb.png)

My group chat for Maths Methods in Google Classrooms is being spammed with memes and random chit chat as of now ahahah. My Chem teacher told me to sign up to Zoom so I'm guessing a lot of my classes will soon be conducted on there. We had a similar experiment in psych class the other day for classical conditioning, except, we didn't use wizz fizz and used chips instead. When my teacher went to buy it, there was none left because people had been stocking up on it :/
Title: Re: J_Rho's VCE Journey | 90+ ATAR
Post by: eloisegrace on April 14, 2020, 04:15:27 pm
EDIT: Eloisegrace's journal entry about facts about her made me remember...[/b]
One of the local theatres I volunteer for was supposed to be doing Mamma Mia this year and I was heartbroken I wouldn't be able to work it because I'm in Yr 12 and it wasn't feasible to do a few months of shows with Kinky Boots and then bump out (usually starts as soon as the last show finishes and goes early into the next morning) and then get a few hours sleep before bumping in the same afternoon for Mamma Mia to do another few months. But they cancelled so we most likely will do it next year! Which means I will be able to do it!!!!

Yay!! I absolutely love Mamma Mia and I'm so glad that you will now be able to do it (at least corona has been nice for one thing...)
Title: Re: J_Rho's VCE Journey | 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on April 17, 2020, 01:39:49 pm
My group chat for Maths Methods in Google Classrooms is being spammed with memes and random chit chat as of now ahahah. My Chem teacher told me to sign up to Zoom so I'm guessing a lot of my classes will soon be conducted on there. We had a similar experiment in psych class the other day for classical conditioning, except, we didn't use wizz fizz and used chips instead. When my teacher went to buy it, there was none left because people had been stocking up on it :/
I wish my class chats were that fun! Our teachers are like "this is for learning only", has your school gone ahead using Zoom (despite security issues)? Oh no! Did you end up being able to do the experiment? But hey i don't blame people (i do panic buyers suck), chips are good! (panic buyers deserve to live for a week on nothing but oats, and some random condiments)



Online Schooling Day 3: Time to start a youtube career

16 April 2020

Welcome back to my channel! Hi! How are ya?

I think it is time I begin my journey as a beauty guru. Buh bye ATAR, hello Youtube.

In all seriousness, online school isn't too bad. Of course, there are some negatives such as I have not motivation or discipline and sitting in a class is a lot better to ask questions etc but there are quite a few positives such as the fact there is more time in the day to do stuff! To those that do school completely online all the time, I applaud you. You are mfing superheroes.

Psychology:
This class is being run via a group chat, so its all VERY self directed. So far we are being given worksheets to do which is lovely and we have not been told anything about our upcoming SAC. In all honesty, I actually prefer Psych in an online format.

Biology:
Again this class is very self-directed, we did video call with the teacher yesterday and he basically asked us if we had any questions and then he left us to do our work. Not sure how this is going to work for the rest of the term but practicals aren't that necessary for this subject but I feel like it'll lowkey suck having online classes

Further Maths:
 The teacher is currently sending us videos for each exercise showing us how to do stuff which i really helpful as the textbook often doesn't explain things very well. I just had a class and we did a practice sac and it actually went pretty well but like we were all so scared to ask questions.

English:
The teacher talks so so so much. She talks and explains things and tells us to do xyz while she explains things and it's really hard to try and do work AND focus on what she's saying, she has asked for feedback so I'll definitely communicate this to her. I much much much prefer doing English in person.

Legal Studies:
So far, really good. The teacher talks for the first 15 min answers questions and then lets us get on with the required work and is available in the group chat to answer questions. He leaves really detailed lesson plans on what he wants us to do and what is expected of us at the start and end of each lesson.
Title: Re: J_Rho's VCE Journey | 90+ ATAR
Post by: Marylen on April 17, 2020, 02:32:45 pm
I wish my class chats were that fun! Our teachers are like "this is for learning only", has your school gone ahead using Zoom (despite security issues)? Oh no! Did you end up being able to do the experiment? But hey i don't blame people, chips are good!



Online Schooling Day 3: Time to start a youtube career

16 April 2020

Welcome back to my channel! Hi! How are ya?

I think it is time I begin my journey as a beauty guru. Buh bye ATAR, hello Youtube.

In all seriousness, online school isn't too bad. Of course, there are some negatives such as I have not motivation or discipline and sitting in a class is a lot better to ask questions etc but there are quite a few positives such as the fact there is more time in the day to do stuff! To those that do school completely online all the time, I applaud you. You are mfing superheroes.

Psychology:
This class is being run via a group chat, so its all VERY self directed. So far we are being given worksheets to do which is lovely and we have not been told anything about our upcoming SAC. In all honesty, I actually prefer Psych in an online format.

Biology:
Again this class is very self-directed, we did video call with the teacher yesterday and he basically asked us if we had any questions and then he left us to do our work. Not sure how this is going to work for the rest of the term but practicals aren't that necessary for this subject but I feel like it'll lowkey suck having online classes

Further Maths:
 The teacher is currently sending us videos for each exercise showing us how to do stuff which i really helpful as the textbook often doesn't explain things very well. I just had a class and we did a practice sac and it actually went pretty well but like we were all so scared to ask questions.

English:
The teacher talks so so so much. She talks and explains things and tells us to do xyz while she explains things and it's really hard to try and do work AND focus on what she's saying, she has asked for feedback so I'll definitely communicate this to her. I much much much prefer doing English in person.

Legal Studies:
So far, really good. The teacher talks for the first 15 min answers questions and then lets us get on with the required work and is available in the group chat to answer questions. He leaves really detailed lesson plans on what he wants us to do and what is expected of us at the start and end of each lesson.

The principal decided that Zoom contained too many privacy issues so he sent an email saying that ZOom was banned and now we're using WebEx instead. Do you prefer online learning or learning in a classroom setting?
Title: Re: J_Rho's VCE Journey | 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on April 17, 2020, 03:09:44 pm
The principal decided that Zoom contained too many privacy issues so he sent an email saying that ZOom was banned and now we're using WebEx instead. Do you prefer online learning or learning in a classroom setting?
Webex works really well, I use it for SES and prolly think its better than Google Meet.

I do enjoy the freedom that comes with online learning but I miss the social aspect of a classroom setting and it easier to get work done in an actual class it way too easy to procrastinate at home.

Have you picked up any hobbies or do you have something that you want to do (like paint a picture or bake something)?
Title: Re: J_Rho's VCE Journey | 90+ ATAR
Post by: J_Rho on April 21, 2020, 03:47:48 pm
Week 2 Part 1
ooo, weird post format! I'm seeing how this works posting about Mon & Tue and on Wed - Fri and on Sat & Sun

Monday – 20 April

English – Worked on cartoon analysis, and I found it really hard analysing an image on its own but it’s definitely given me some tools and a better vocab to help me analyse images in the future. I have a practice sac on Wednesday which I’m nervous about because I am really not great at language analysis.

Psychology – We watched a video from the big bang theory about Sheldon training Penny and wrote about it in our log books which we will use for our sac next week. I’m actually really nervous for this sac because its based on our log book entries and not like textbook content so im really worried my log book entries will be good enough to get a high score on this sac. As far as I’m aware, I’m rank 1 but there one girl who idk what score she got so I could be rank 2. My point is that I really want so score as close to 100% as possible.

Further Maths SAC: Part 1 – So I’d usually have privos for the rest of the day after 11am but my data analysis sac was scheduled 12:30 – 2:15. I was super nervous despite doing a practice sac and getting really good feedback on it. And it wasn’t too bad but my calculator had a fit and was showing this
(https://imgur.com/u4lVRGT.png)
when I was trying to make parallel box plots and I also went and I also heated and ate lunch cause I was SO HUNGRY (idk whether this is a pro or con to doing sacs at home) but I defs think some of my responses could have been more refined - such as this, it has hands down got to be the worst sentence I have ever writen and im not even exaggerating.
Quote
The lower and upper quartiles for the Early Industrial Era, Post World War 2 Era and the Modern Era  have increased, with the lower quartiles of 19.85, 19.965 and 20.25 and upper quartiles of 20.67, 20.765 and 20.92 respectively. This shows us there is an increasing trend in temperatures over time.
I am resigned to the fact I will score so so so badly on this like less than 40% I swear. Sorry that’s a lie im not resigned to it – I’m really stressed and I feel like imma breakdown any minute because I want to do really well in FM 😭

Access Monash Mentoring – So I’ve scheduled my first Zoom meeting with my mentor, on Thursday and I’m usually super nervous for stuff like this especially video calling but I’m not nervous (maybe my body is saving all the stress for the night before haha). Not actually sure what to expect from the program tbh, as theyre like make uni/industry connections but they also mentioned something about VCE mentoring so I have no clue. I did find my mentor on FB and I think she’s a Law student which will be interesting as!


Tuesday – 21 April

Legal Studies – Okay so I am going to admit I had a crap morning and I could not bring myself to hop on the video call so I just did the set work. Probably not the best idea but it fine. I haven’t done much work for this subject outside of class time or completing assignments because I’ve been dedicating all my time to English and Further and Psych cause I have upcoming SACs, which isn’t the best because the Legal SAC is in the 1st of May which is like 10 days away so I’ll have to get onto that ASAP.
Rant
I’m so irritated because my parents are so loud, like they’ll have a free period and they’ll be talking so loudly right next to where I am. Like I don’t have an issue with them making food or helping my siblings with their work like I get that but could they not talk elsewhere? Or quieter? Dad literally lectured me tell me I’m supposed to be helping teach my siblings, and I’m like ummm I’m literally doing class work im literally in a class. And then he told me that ‘its not like you do work anyways’ and that ‘you don’t do shit, don’t act like you use your privos to do work’ and I’m sitting here like I’m sorry what am I literally doing right now?? It really irritating and if I try and tell them anything like ‘its really distracting when you have conversations next to where im working’ they’ll tell me im selfish. I usually have headphones in to drown out all the annoying noises but my headphones broke and because Im not working my parents wont let me buy new ones which im mad about like its my money, AND im buying something I need for school. Like its not like im buying food or clothes or something that’s not useful.

Biology – I love this subject a lot and the teacher makes it super engaging but its hard to consolidate knowledge without classroom interaction. But I did it last year so I've already got a pretty good understanding so i literally have nothing to complain about. And tbh I’ve been super slack and not done like anything. At all. I was feeling really good and motivated yesterday and today I feel like crap sooooo im going to exercise after ‘school’ and hopefully I’ll feel better and get some study done.

Further Maths SAC: Part 2 –
vibe check
Before sac vibe check – the vibes are ok
After sac vibe check – the vibes are fucked
The sac was atrocious, and I think imma do so poorly on it I wanna go each chocolate and cryyyy
The last bit (writing the report) is on Friday and hopefully that bit is better than the rest.
I feel so flat. I was thinking I should after bio I should exercise now I know I need to, and drink wore water, and eat more than just green tea and pasta.

Other
I feel like absolute shit, and I have no idea why. I want to nap, cry or eat some chocolate. or maybe all 3.
And to be honest it is probably lack of exercise and food and water but like im so drained

I’ve been listening to a lot of Glass Animals, Lana Del Rey, Love Fame Tragedy and The Wombats this week. Idk why but im digging older songs but also theres a select few new songs that are so good!! You can check out what I’ve been listening to here.
Title: Re: ~ J_Rho's VCE Journey ~
Post by: J_Rho on April 22, 2020, 08:56:12 pm
I know I'm not sticking to my format but I'm stressing a little here. And yes i know I'm annoyed with how much i post (esp when its mostly not helpful)

I really want to get an awesome ATAR but I haven't yet gotten my English SAC results back but im very sure that they will be really bad like D or E bad. The prompt was on something we had never even spoken about in class AND i'd never come across a prompt similar to it at all and i have a long word doc of prompts from my teachers and across the internet, i think we are supposed to be getting the results tomorrow of Friday but I'm shit scared. I know I can't change anything but I think part of me is still clinging to the hope that maybe somehow I got above a C+.

My English teacher in Year 7 and 8 was amazing and she has a lot of faith in me and I feel like if i don't get a study sore in the mid 40's I'll have let her down...its also a personal goal of mine to get a mid 40 ss in everything ESPECIALLY English because I've always been the underdog. Out of me and 3 other girls I've always been seen as the 'dumb' one even tho I got scores the same or higher. In Year 8 and 9 I was top of my language class and year 7, 9 and 10 i was top of my maths class but I've never ever been top of my English class, except that time where I did an oral presentation on Shakespeare and my usually somewhat stony-faced teacher clapped and congratulated me but that was legit like one presentation out of quite a few

I don't know how to improve, my essays are always bland, they have potential but I can't seem to go deep enough, like there are times where i feel like I've gone really deep but the teacher says go deeper and I have no idea how. And language analysis boy i freeze like how to am i supposed to analyze an article! Whenever i do a practice one I always end up opening my word doc with language techniques and tone words because I can't identify shit, and i end up using the same tone words again and again. al presentation is the only thing I am not afraid of, yes I hate it and stress but nowhere near as much as LA and comparative. I wish I could have some amazing story like "From failing to 48" but I don't know how to improve. And everyone says WRITE MORE ESSAYS! but I struggle with how I implement feedback into my writing. I can take it on but idk how to use the feedback to turn it into beautiful letters into stunning words into gorgeous sentences into lovely paragraphs into one big exquisite essay. and also some ppl say writing too many essays will make you plateau at a standard that isn't good enough for a good score.  I want to say being underestimated is a motivation but at this point, i don't know what i should even be doing. I'm almost certain I bombed the first sac and I'm stressed the house I also don't wanna annoy teachers with asking them to mark essays for me because my teacher doesn't mark practice essays.

But I am okay, I'm just really, really, really, REALLY c o n f u s e d .  Like how does everyone do so well? Give me your secrets please.

But wait! There's more!!

I've completed 4 SAC's and have gotten marks back on 2 of them, Legal and Psychology.
Legal -  I got an 82% which I am so ashamed of
Psychology - I got 84% it makes me feel better that I think I'm rank 1 but still crap
I need to study more, doing more practice questions. THESE I know how to improve. The theory is textbook and the way you answer questions is pretty straightforward and if you know the info if almost formula-like.

And I think I'm more math brained then English so you'd think I'd be alright at LA but nooope, I got a C+ on my LA section of my Yr 11 Exam hahaha oop.

Well, this post has been long enough! If you read all of that, thank you (also sorry) but hey don't we all feel like this sometimes??
Title: Re: ~ J_Rho's VCE Journey ~
Post by: J_Rho on April 24, 2020, 04:40:51 pm
Goals for the next week (24/04 - 01/05)
I'll update you either on Wednesday on how I'm progressing or on Friday to tell you guys I smashed it. I'm slowly finding my groove again and I know for a fact having goals will help me heaps!

I'm also going to be taking a technology break over the weekend because I feel like I'm getting square eyes with all this online learning!!

I also emailed my current English teachers and my lovely Year 7/8 teacher (who told me a few weeks ago she is more than happy to help me with my essays, and how I go about writing them (i think she described it as the thought processes of planning an essay)) that I'm struggling with English and I asked for some feedback on my essays as well as how I can implement feedback into my writing because of the issue isn't that i don't know what my weaknesses are, it's more like IDK how to improve them...so hopefully i get a response from one of them

Oh and a side note, my Monash Mentor is SO nice, and despite being nervous about meeting her (online ofc), I'm actually looking forward to working on stuff with her next session :)

English
Improve LA essay writing from a C to a B+
 - Plan a LA essay; Monday, Wednesday, Friday
- Write (and get them marked) a LA essay: Sunday, Monday, Thursday

Biology
Get ahead and start doing practice exams regularly
 - Get ahead with notes this weekend
 - Complete and submit a diagnostic topic test for marking on Sunday
 - Complete and submit a practice exam for marking on Tuesday

Further Maths
Start learning recursion and financial modelling
 - Read over Chapters 8 and 9 by the end of Saturday
 - Complete a few questions from each chapter to consolidate understanding by the end of Sunday

Psychology
Revise content for SAC, and get ahead with notes and chapter questions
 - Revise Chapter 5 and logbook entries tonight and on Monday and Thursday
 - Make a poster on Chapter 5 & put on my wall tonight
 - Finish Chapter 6 by Wednesday
 - Finish Chapter 7 by Thursday

Legal Studies
Revise content for Criminal Justice System SAC and finish Civil Law AOS
 - Ensure I have notes on each dot point for criminal law by the end of Saturday
 - Finish making notes on Civil Law by the end of Sunday
 - Do Edrolo Progress Checks and Topic Test for Criminal and Civil Law by Tuesday
 - Complete Criminal Law Checkpoints by Wednesday
 - Revise Criminal Law Notes on Wednesday and Thursday.
Title: Re: ~ J_Rho's VCE Journey ~
Post by: J_Rho on April 27, 2020, 04:33:43 pm
Update - SAC Result: Text Analysis

The results were released an hour ago, and I am upset.
Admittedly I did better than I said I was expecting, but truthfully I set really low expectations because I don't want to get my hopes up and be disappointed.
I did very poorly and I wasn't expecting a good score but by some miracle, I was hoping for a B and to get a C+ was good cause its not a fail but it is literally like 5% away from a B. I was so close to a score I would have been relatively happy with.

My old English teacher told me that I'm no good at English because I never did any practice Essays in Year 7 - 10.
That was a harsh, but true, fact.

Honestly, makes me want to get the 2020 English award for the highest study score

She also said that if i want to do well I need to write one of each type of essays a fortnight, which I know need to do.

I need to make it a habit, so, just like my fitness journal I'm going to write an essay every day leading up to my LA SAC on the 5th and write a text analysis essay, language analysis essay and a comparative essay every fortnight.

I'm going to, I complain about not being good enough and being the underdog but im not doing anything major to truly push my essays to a B,B+ or even an A level. I'm going to smash English and I'm not letting one horrible sac mark get me down and it will be the last horrible sac mark I ever receive. I'm not going to dejectedly talk about how i wish i had of tried really hard in junior school and how amazing a student I could be if i had because its bullshit, whats the point of talking about it? Its in the past and I have to move forward. 

I want to do well and I just need to knuckle down and form this habit.

Title: Re: ~ J_Rho's VCE Journey ~
Post by: whys on April 27, 2020, 05:19:53 pm
Hey J_Rho! It's great that you're so determined to improve. I understand what it feels like to not reach your goals, or just wish for that little bit higher. Regarding what your old English teacher said - that does not mean you can't change the quality of your essays! I certainly did not write any practice essays at that time, and I know many others who didn't either, but put in the effort now and are currently doing well. It's good you understand what your next steps are - but don't let what your teacher say define you. You have the time and ability to improve and nothing can change that! :)

I'm going to write an essay every day leading up to my LA SAC on the 5th and write a text analysis essay, language analysis essay and a comparative essay every fortnight.
It's great you want to write more essays! Writing an essay every day might be (quite) a difficult feat, and unless you are constantly receiving feedback, it won't be much help. Remember to take a break and relax too!

Good luck with your goals! :D
Title: Re: ~ J_Rho's VCE Journey ~
Post by: J_Rho on April 27, 2020, 05:48:10 pm
Hey J_Rho! It's great that you're so determined to improve. I understand what it feels like to not reach your goals, or just wish for that little bit higher. Regarding what your old English teacher said - that does not mean you can't change the quality of your essays! I certainly did not right any practice essays at that time, and I know many others who didn't either, but put in the effort now and are currently doing well. It's good you understand what your next steps are - but don't let what your teacher say define you. You have the time and ability to improve and nothing can change that! :)
It's great you want to write more essays! Writing an essay every day might be (quite) a difficult feat, and unless you are constantly receiving feedback, it won't be much help. Remember to take a break and relax too!

Good luck with your goals! :D

Thank you for your reply, it means a lot!

I know It'll be difficult to write one every day (If i can't I'm aiming to do 4 this week) but hopefully, I will be able to mark my own, and get others feedback (plus I think I can do it cause there are 8 days till the SAC, I defs wouldn't want to try and write one every day for any longer than that!). The feedback I received from my teacher was not that I didn't understand what I was writing about but rather I just haven't practised the skill of writing an essay enough. I'm not overly stressed about the SAC as it is over 2 days, and I know that I'm going to be thinking about things overnight and hopefully I can produce something of reasonable quality.

Thank you for you words of wisdom, whys :) (you are truly wise, whys)
Title: Re: ~ J_Rho's VCE Journey ~
Post by: J_Rho on April 29, 2020, 01:48:29 pm
Update: Upcoming SACs

Tomorrow (Thursday)
Psychology SAC
How I'm Feeling
Nervous as because it's about some experiments on classical conditioning, operant conditioning and observational learning and the teacher is being very vague. We did an Edrolo topic test and he's locked the second one and he's known for using Edrolo topic tests for sacs no I'm super nervous because the test we did today was confusing. I'm not even sure how to revise, other than going over my notes. I got 84% on the last sac so I'm aiming for a 100% (expecting 85-90% max tbh)so I can brink my average up to 92% which is only 5% shy of my 97% goal.
What I'm Doing
I'm going to complete Checkpoints on conditioning, and the atar notes topic tests and keep revising my notes on conditioning and research methods
After SAC Thoughts
It was really easy. I know my teacher is a harsh marker, but I'm really confident I scored well. I was certain about my answers for all the questions except the last one which was worded badly but was only worth 2 marks. I think I'll defs lose marks for the way I've written??? Optimistic score estimate 98%; pessimistic score estimate 85%

Friday
Legal SAC
How I'm Feeling
Nervous fast, like I really really want to do super well and the teacher gave us practice questions and one of them was about the OPP and I was like W H A T like since when were we told to know anything about the OPP? So that's stressing me out, I've got notes on everything which im revising. I got a 82% on the first half so I'm aiming for a 100% (expecting 90% max) so that i can bring my average up to 91%, as my goal is 97 - 100%
What I'm Doing
Revise Notes
Finish off AOS1 Checkpoints
After SAC Thoughts
It wasn't a bad SAC tbh, it was all very 'identify one thing and discuss how it affects one of the POJ' i think worst case scenario 62% best case 90% I think I went well but I mentally mark myself and I mark harshly (ie. no mark if im at all unsure) so that's where the 62% is coming from haha
Biology SAC
How I'm Feeling
Not stressed at all, I have an idea of what I have to do in the SAC (its an essay) and its a modified version of the one I did last year i think.
What I'm Doing
Revising Notes
After SAC Thoughts
I think I went quite well really, but I'm still really nervous about my result because like I've done Bio b4 so like I have the expectation that I get 100% on everything

5th May
English Language Analysis SAC
How I Feel
I know what I need to do to improve my writing, but not to make it 'good'. I think I'm looking at a C at the best but I'm aiming for a B+, I'm really hating English at the moment but for sure in like a week I'll have changed my tune haha
I was writing a practice essay I'm class and
What I'm Doing
Writing an essay a day (trying to, realistically its one every two days)
Getting feedback from teachers and friends on my writing
Marking other peoples essays
After SAC Thoughts
I fucked it. I thoroughly fucked it. My LA was horrible it was rubbish and I could have done so much better look in the spoiler of a picture of it. I had a mind blank for a solid 10 min and ended up turning my would be 3rd paragraph into a shitty conclusion. It has got to be the most pathetic piece of writing I've ever done. sick of writing about Uluru tho like every piece my teachers have given us to practice with have been on Uluru bar one!
Spoiler
(https://imgur.com/0PW6sby.png)

EDIT: After SAC Thoughts
Title: Re: ~ J_Rho's VCE Journey ~
Post by: J_Rho on May 03, 2020, 11:49:24 am
term two, week three: i had a creative name for the title but the bfg stole it while i was sleeping

03 May 2020

Ya girrrl. is tiiiirrreeeeDUH.
I hope everyone is good, and isolation isn't treating you too bad. Remember my inbox is open to anyone that needs to chat or vent, we're all in this together 💖
Also, I got paid by my work which is so good and I'm actually surprised I'm getting paid but its good because I've lost roughly 4 grand worth of income since the 16th of March (or whatever date was 2 weeks b4 schol holds) due to COVD-19 so I do feel that in some way I am deserving of it but I think the gov is changing the eligibility criteria and as I am living with my parents I no longer will be eligible.

Psychology:
So I had a SAC for this on Thursday and I don't know how I went, it wasn't insanely difficult so I'm worried that my responses won't be good enough to score well, but i havent cried over it yet so i think it ok. Next week we are moving on to the Atkinson Shiffrin model which I'm lowkey bored about as I've moved onto Unit 4 in my study and with this whole online learning stuff we are just doing worksheets which is annoying but I'm just working through textbook questions from Edrolo and Jacaranda and doing Checkpoints and Topic Tests because worksheets are annoying and IMO not that useful in comparison to exam style questions, prolly my least fav subject atm just because the way its being taught but like its online it honestly the best i think its gonna get in this situation
By the end of the week I want to have gotten halfway through U4 AOS1, but idk if edrolo is gonna take out videos with the study design amendments or tell us what we can disregard....so imma just keep learning it in my mind its almost better to like just learn everything and do praccy questions and just know that when preparing for the exam i dont have to study everything you know?

Biology:
The SAC was ok, I hope I went ok. It was a very weird SAC just because its an essay and the marking is weird so it is super hard to be certain I got all the marks....I think I went pretty well but I'm super nervous cause I want to get 100% like I feel like i have to cause this is my second year doing 3/4 Bio soooo...
We are starting on the immune system on Tuesday so that's good. Its super frustrating because my class is FULL of people who don't do the work at all its took us two weeks to get through chapter 8 because people were just NOT doing the work. All we are expected to do is watch Edrolo and complete the questions, which shouldn't take 2 weeks to watch 4 videos (that were 3 minutes, 27 minutes, 12 minutes and 15 minutes) and answer a handful of multiple-choice questions for each video. There are like 2 or 3 of us in the class that actually do the work, So I literally spent a week and a half going ahead because somehow it is so difficult to watch 1 hour worth of videos and do some questions over 10 hours of class time.
I want to finish Unit 3 this week so that's just Ch 9 and 10 so that's chill as, and do a few U3 practice exams

Further Maths:
I screwed up the sac that was like 2 weeks ago. Like i thoroughly screwed it up and i am so fucking pissed off at myself stupid mistakes like forgetting to answer the interpret part of a "plot a time series plot and interpret". ugh.
This is my favourite class at the moment, my teacher is so good and she is teaching our class the same way she would at school and its just working really well. She talks at the start of the class, presents her screen were she introduces the exercise we are going to work on explains formulas and processes and then tell us where she wants up to be up to by the end of the lesson. My teacher was super excited about a module being cut from the study design because it effectively gives us a whole another term, they haven't decided which module to do out of Matrices and Trig and tbh idk which I'd prefer...i like trig cause I've been doing it since year 7 but i know it'll be way harder and matrices is new as it didn't appear anywhere until gen maths and it sucked i just couldn't wrap my head around parts of it so i dont think i have an opinion either way. We started financial maths and are up to 8D in the Cambridge textbook and 5C in Edrolo and it is LITERALLY the same as Year 11 so I'm pretty pumped and i don't think its going to get much harder so im keen despite hating it last year (Year 11 Algebra come back please can i have another 100% mark again?). Aiming to finish Ch8 this week and maybe start on Ch9 which will put me a week ahead of everyone else because the teachers have basically allowed time for students to not do their work and I dont think doing 5 exercises in a week is that crazy esp when there's only like 3 or 4 questions set for each exercise.

English:
I think this teacher doesnt like me cause I asked her to look over an essay I wrote and she sounded annoyed that I was asking her to and I also asked her if she could tell us when we might get our practice SACs back and she sounded annoyed answering that too idk if its just me but hahaha don't think i care at this point because I'm kinda sick of her not giving feedback like I'm going to ask for feedback like 'I know my class doesnt expect much from you because very few care but I do so I'm sorry you have live up to what you said at the start of the year of if we put in the work to write practice essays and feedback you will put in the work to mark and give feedback.' Like I do get she teachers year 8's too but its not like im saying she needs to mark them NOW or today im just asking her to, at some point before the sac mark them pls and thanks like hell I'd be happy with very general feedback from looking at my essay briefly but i wanna improve. Sorry about that lil rant, i love my teacher but im getting a little bit frustrated but with all this online learning its defs so much harder for teachers but i think because we are isolated from a classroom setting its harder to seek feedback so IMO feedback now is more important than ever. I really do love this class like I love English and yeah i suck at but I'm trying and I am hoping maybe my hard work can pay off because I would LOVE English to be one of my top-scoring subjects like that is my ultimate utopian dream. SAC is on Wednesday and Thursday and I'm writing 2 essays today, one on Monday and maybe one on Tuesday. I'm really lucky to have 90 minutes so 1 class and a half to do it so that I can think about the article and everything overnight and we all know how good our skills are at finding flaws just as we are falling asleep, to that's a huge advantage to help me get that B+

Legal Studies:
SAC was wack, no idea how i went. There were no define questions. there wasn't a 8 or 10 marker. sooo haha I'm just a liiiiitttllllleee stressed but this teacher probably mark sacs faster than any other teacher (1 week, absolute max 2 weeks) so i should know by Friday or start of next week because this teacher is really good at prioritising year 12 work. We are doing civil law now and the sac is on the 29th so I'm making my content posters to put up in my room this week so im drilling content into my brain when im going my hair/makeup, or exercising or whatever and so basically hoping to finish U3 this week and do a like a 1/3 of civil law checkpoints and just relax and revise and not stress too much about the 2-hour civil law sac that is in like 3.5 weeks because I'm going to be hella prepared.

Extra curricular
I'm in the process of writing 4 articles for VicSRC about tips for online learning, how schools SRCs can support the wellbeing of staff and students, how can SRCs improve student engagement and voice and ways to 'stay sane' during this period of physical isolation which is super fun but a tad stressful but its fine cause I enjoy it! I'm also writing an article for ATARNotes which is grooooovy as too and im really excited to spent the next 2 sac free weeks working on these articles and some other projects.
Title: Re: ~ J_Rho's VCE Journey ~
Post by: J_Rho on May 05, 2020, 11:05:52 am
Update: Bio SAC Results

OMFG IM MAD IM SO MAD.

I lost one mark on my biology sac

 im so furious all because I didn't say osmosis was across a semi-permeable membrane cause I compared the similarities and differences of osmosis and diffusion and i was like oh nah saying semi-permeable twice is weird cause im explaining the differences i said semi permeable in the first half of the sentence AND SO I DELETED IT AND

IT
COST
ME
7%.

I am KICKING myself.
Like I should have done better, and if i hadn't have deleted those three goddamn words i would have been fine i would have been great I would have been equal rank 1. but no im just furious at myself and i want to cry because it was such a small stupid stupid mistake and i should have been more careful and read over it again

just

ugh


Like 15/16 is a good mark but I'm just so annoyed at myself for the silly mistake and I just have really really  high expectations of myself especially for this subject
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Post by: Geoo on May 05, 2020, 11:16:31 am
That is a wicked awesome score! Congratulations that's fantastic!
It's a bummer that about the one mark, but it was just that, one mark.
I'm sure you'll get 100% next time!!!

Be proud of yourself!
Title: Re: ~ J_Rho's VCE Journey ~
Post by: Chocolatemilkshake on May 05, 2020, 11:52:24 am
Yeah, 15/16 is fantastic!! Don't worry, everyone makes stupid mistakes sometimes and in the end it will mostly come out in the wash. (Also is it like a part of a sac, like part 1? Because to have a science sac out of 16 marks sounds a little ridiculous. If so, you can totally make it up in the upcoming sacs)
Title: Re: ~ J_Rho's VCE Journey ~
Post by: saraoc on May 07, 2020, 09:33:17 am
15/16 is AWESOME! Its annoying that, that one mark dropped you percentage so much but I'm sure you will be able to get 100% on the next SAC!

Do you have any tips for bio? I'm doing 3/4 and I'm averaging 60%  :'(
Title: Re: ~ J_Rho's VCE Journey ~
Post by: J_Rho on May 07, 2020, 10:11:25 am
That is a wicked awesome score! Congratulations that's fantastic!
It's a bummer that about the one mark, but it was just that, one mark.
I'm sure you'll get 100% next time!!!

Be proud of yourself!
Thank you Geoo! I'm feeling a better about the mark cause it is a good mark I think to say i was upset about my mark might have not been accurate cause I think I was (little bit still am) annoyed about my ranking. I've done 3/4 before like suuuurely I'd be rank 1 but its making me want to study really hard for my next sac which is on 5th June because imma smash it!
Thank you for your support

Yeah, 15/16 is fantastic!! Don't worry, everyone makes stupid mistakes sometimes and in the end it will mostly come out in the wash. (Also is it like a part of a sac, like part 1? Because to have a science sac out of 16 marks sounds a little ridiculous. If so, you can totally make it up in the upcoming sacs)
Hey CM!!
Hopefully I can smash everything else so that as you said it can mostly come out in the wash
Thank you for you reply it means so much!
I was a bit annoyed about the marking cause its not part 1, its the AOS1 sac. The sac used to be half of a larger one so in previous years you'd have to do 2 essays on 2 different pracs in 1 hour but they shortened it this year to only 1 essay on 1 prac in 1 hour so that prolly explains the marking.

15/16 is AWESOME! Its annoying that, that one mark dropped you percentage so much but I'm sure you will be able to get 100% on the next SAC!

Do you have any tips for bio? I'm doing 3/4 and I'm averaging 60%  :'(
Hey Saraoc!
Thanks for you reply, welcome to AN!
Dont be discouraged by your average and keep persisting and seeking feedback! You've got this!
In my signature just below this is a link called 'Tips for VCE Students' and I've got a section there on Biology, also you could search in google '50 in biology' and those articles usually have heaps of really good tips too! Heres a few;
https://atarnotes.com/forum/index.php?topic=179843.0
https://atarnotes.com/forum/index.php?topic=177124.0
and of course https://atarnotes.com/forum/index.php?topic=189498.0
Title: Re: ~ J_Rho's VCE Journey ~
Post by: J_Rho on May 08, 2020, 12:46:01 pm
Update: Yay no SACs for 2 weeks

Okay so now that I have no sacs for a little while I'm continuing my plan for my tutoring business. I'm now up to the stage of choosing a name and a domain and honestly, I've left this to the very last minute because I am hopeless at something up with names so I'm putting it out to you guys what name is best?? Or do you have an even better idea?
also, the tagline isn't legit, its shit I know so if you have any suggestions lemme know!

Option 1
Tutoring by Jade
@tutoringbyjade
http://www.tutoringbyjade.com
(https://imgur.com/beVdWW9.jpeg)

Option 2
The Tutoring Effect
@thetutoringeffect
http://www.thetutoringeffect.com
(https://imgur.com/z1Sx88g.jpeg)
My friend said he didn't like this one coz it sounded like a podcast ahhaha

The website and fb/insta pages and youtube channel haven't launched yet as I'm setting up posting schedules and creating content and of course figuring out the name let me know what you think!!
Title: Re: ~ J_Rho's VCE Journey ~
Post by: s110820 on May 08, 2020, 02:24:40 pm
Hi J_Rho,

I love how you're so dedicated to planning your tutoring business! I wish I was as dedicated as you except, for now, I'm only doing like the "basic" tutoring services of editing/proofreading assignments and tutoring sessions. I'm also planning to do a website/a YouTube channel as well! Bu personally, I prefer Option 1 over Option 2 --> the fact that you used your name really "personalises" the tutoring experience which I think would enable customers/students to connect with your business more.

For the tagline, however, I would recommend writing from the heart. Yes, I know it's extremely cheesy but ultimately, your connection with your passion for tutoring would enable your students/customers to connect with you more! So maybe, your tag line could be a quote/mantra that you live by/inspires you to be you?

Hopefully, that helps! Good luck with your business -> I'm sure everyone will appreciate it and love it as much as I do!

Have a great week and kind regards,

Darcy Dillon.
Title: Re: ~ J_Rho's VCE Journey ~
Post by: ArtyDreams on May 08, 2020, 02:35:34 pm
Hi J_Rho!!

Its actually super inspiring seeing you set this up!
I actually quite like the first one, I think the personal touch is nice  :D
Title: Re: ~ J_Rho's VCE Journey ~
Post by: J_Rho on May 11, 2020, 11:03:05 am
term two, week four: finding my motivation again

11 May 2020

I'm finding my motivation again (touch wood), and I'm finally studying properly again. It only took a failed study timetable, an inspiring mentoring session and a cleanout of my bedroom to get me back into the swing of things. I have so little to report on like iso is so uneventful. On the 9th I meal prepped and made a lot of veggie soup, fruit salad, and banana oat biscuits and for Mothers day I made pancakes. ANDDD i found my old ebook reader which i haven't seen since like 2012. It still had charge and my CAS charger fits it and it has ALL the Harry Potter, Percy Jackson and Skulduggery Pleasant books on it! Reread the HP series for the 14th time in my life? YES PLEASE! Probably the most eventful thing since my last update haha!

Psychology:
So I'm up to Unit 4, but I don't really want to progress further without my class so at this stage I think I'm going to keep doing checkpoints, topic tests and questions from the Jacaranda and Oxford textbook (thanks for my illegal copies 2018 r/VCE). My teacher has made comments on my SAC and then I marked myself harshly against his comments. I think I'm going to be looking at 86% which I’m annoyed at but hopefully my actual mark is a little better! I made silly mistakes such as referring to the neutral stimulus as ringtone and then saying the conditioned stimulus was sound! If I hadn't messed up the last question I would have had time to read over my responses, but at least I got the 12 marker right! Let me know how you guys study for subjects like Psych!

Biology:
Still annoyed at my ranking but this is why I have finished Unit 3 so I can spend the next month studying for the SAC (I love my fellow classmates but fuck off this one's mine!). My class is so slow...they've spent 3 classes on 9A, which is IMO a little ridiculous cause it's a 15-minute video with 20 questions like I don't like complaining but its really annoying and when the teacher is like where are you up to and I'm like oh 9D he's like oh and then I get a disapproving look and sometimes told that its bad to work ahead like ohhhkaaaaayyy. I'm unsure of whether I should be doing checkpoints (would have to buy) to study for the sac or just do practice exams.... also are the AN Bio topic tests any good?

Further Maths:
I've finished Recursion and financial modelling and we haven't been told when the sac is so I'm going to do some checkpoints and my friend that graduated last year gave me her neap smart study exams which I am so so so grateful for. My teacher said we will probably get our SAC results end of next week at the earliest which is making me nervous like idk why I’m nervous like I did my best on the SAC but for some reason I don’t wanna see it? I hope hope hope I get above 95% but the pessimistic me reckons I’m going to get a 60 or 70%
How does everyone study for math sacs?????

English:
Pretty sure I cooked the LA SAC, but it's fine. Like i think I have a chance at a B but im not a hopeful person when it comes to results, so realistically i think im gonna get a C but i will not be surprised if i get an D+. On a better note, I'm not even trying not to toot my own horn but TOOT TOOT I'm fucking awesome at creative and presenting argument AND I'm already practising comparative essays (Ransom & The Queen) because we don't do comparative till term 4? I think? So I have so much time to get good at it. A+ grades from here on out? You fucking bet. I don't care if I have to write 100 essays I will get a god damn A+. Lowkey proud I've actually found the motivation to actually do stuff for English haha
Also my mentor has set me up with two uni students, one that did The Lieutenant and is a biomed student and the other is a global studies student and studied Station Eleven last year which I am SO grateful for.

Legal Studies:
The content is so chill I actually love it. I love walking into class and not having to use my MEGA BRAIN POWER to learn the content..hopefully U4 is just as chill (touch wood). The next SAC is on the 29th (not sure if it's online or in school) and I'm making content posters to put up in my room and a doing checkpoints. Are the AN Legal topic tests any good??? The resources for this subject are kinda limited which is a bit of a pain.

Monash Mentoring
My mentor is SO nice, she's set me up with some current uni students to tutor me in English that have studied the texts I'm doing which I'm lowkey nervous about and she's also happy to read over all the essays I've written this year and provide me with specific feedback and help me improve my essays overall. Also Monash has set up 'Connect with Monash' which is free, basically, you can join circles (kinda like FB groups) about things you might be interested in for me I'm in 5 circles; Paramedicine, Law, Applying through VTAC, Study Skills and Life at Monash. Within these circles you can ask questions of current students studying a course you might be interested in! You can sign up here

Extra curricular
So I've gotten two articles for VicSRC done, with 2 to go. My first article is being published on Thursday and you can find it on the Student Voice Hub. I'm also so close to finishing an article for ATARNotes which is neat as! and as you guys know, because I'm terrible at keeping secrets (wasn't supposed to tell till it was ready to launch), I'm developing a tutoring business...sounds weird calling it a business haha. But you aren't finding out any more until launch because I wasn't supposed to say anything. I also helped run training last week, my friend went through all the new jaws of life equipment and I did a very quick revision session on using a defib. I'm also helping @J_Wal with a very big and exciting project!

This Weeks Main To Do's
- Station Eleven Edrolo
- Ransom & The Queen Edrolo
- Analytical Essay - The Lieutenant
- Analytical Essay - Station Eleven
- Language Analysis Essay
- Comparative Essay - Ransom & The Queen
______
- Do 10 Financial Maths Checkpoints a day
______
- Do 10 Civil law checkpoints a day
______
- Do Diagnostic Bio Tests for AOS2
- Do 1 Bio U3 Exam
- Type up my essays for my mentor

Here's a punny conversation, hopefully it makes you laugh
(https://imgur.com/0E4yf2D.png)
HAPPY MONDAY!
Title: Re: ~ J_Rho's VCE Journey ~
Post by: s110820 on May 11, 2020, 12:55:27 pm
Hi J_Rho!

Long time no see but have you tried using the various topic tests and resources on TuteSmart? I was looking at those earlier today and I thought that it might be extremely beneficial for you and your studies :)

Have a great week and kind regards,

Darcy Dillon.
Title: Re: ✧ J_Rho's VCE Journey ✧
Post by: J_Rho on May 13, 2020, 12:17:07 pm
Mini Update:

Psych SAC Results
Okay so I just got my Psych result and I just want to cry. Like it probably the subject I care about the LEAST but I made so so so many silly mistakes and I got 82%. :'(
whats most annoying is that my friend had her textbook open and was texting me during the sac about how she knew nothing but it was fine cause she was just writing what was in the textbook and teachers say you're only cheating yourself but like its fucking annoying as! Like this friend does nothing, copies others assignments during the class its supposed to be handed in and scores better than me. oh well, she almost failed the first sac so like my ranking is better than hers.

Legal SAC Results
Imma go cry in the shower to make myself feel better, I studied so hard and yet I only came out with a 17/25 (68%) this was part B of AOS1 but it still sucks cause overall for AOS1 I've gotten 38/50 (76%). I'm trying to not let this get to me but I thought I would have done better, like legal is was one of my best subjects yet 17/25 is the lowest score I've gotten this year. I'm much better at civil so hopefully I can get a 100% if I study everyday till the 29th surely i can get at least a 97%

English Grade and Feedback - The Lieutenant Text Analysis SAC
So the grade I was told was C+ but didnt get my numerical score till today: 22.5/30 which is 75%
The feedback that I got was analysing deeper and expanding 2 sentence ideas into 4 or 5 sentence ideas so I'm going to do a page a day and analyse that page completely, cause I remember getting advice from someone on analysing the text one page at a time

on a positive note - I went to SES on Monday evening and we went an did a drive by happy birthday for some 9 year old boy, lights and sirens, and gave him a present and sung him happy birthday which was cute as
Oh and I'm still getting paid which I am SO RELIEVED about

Long time no see but have you tried using the various topic tests and resources on TuteSmart? I was looking at those earlier today and I thought that it might be extremely beneficial for you and your studies :)
Hey hey! I'm not with Tutesmart (super pricey) or do they offer resources that I'm not aware of...?

EDIT: Typo
Title: Re: ✧ J_Rho's VCE Journey ✧
Post by: s110820 on May 13, 2020, 12:28:04 pm
Hi J_Rho!

Yes, I have tried TuteSmart before but I definitely agree -- it's definitely too expensive for me to afford as I paid for my subscription with the job that I currently do not have any more. But I have just tried EdUnlimited and I think it's honestly so much better usability and functionality wise than TuteSmart! It's a lot cheaper too, so maybe you could use the various resources on EdUnlimited (the study guides, practice questions and text guides) to your advantage throughout your studies? It's just a suggestion but it has definitely helped me with my studies :)

Have a great week and kind regards,

Darcy Dillon.
Title: Re: ✧ J_Rho's VCE Journey ✧
Post by: J_Rho on May 13, 2020, 12:50:28 pm
Hi J_Rho!

Yes, I have tried TuteSmart before but I definitely agree -- it's definitely too expensive for me to afford as I paid for my subscription with the job that I currently do not have any more. But I have just tried EdUnlimited and I think it's honestly so much better usability and functionality wise than TuteSmart! It's a lot cheaper too, so maybe you could use the various resources on EdUnlimited (the study guides, practice questions and text guides) to your advantage throughout your studies? It's just a suggestion but it has definitely helped me with my studies :)

Have a great week and kind regards,

Darcy Dillon.
EdUnlimited is very good, I had it for a while but i much prefer hardcopy books or at least being able to print things off (such as topic tests) and I've got some ATARnotes course notes and topic tests that got given to be by older friends so I did cancel my subscription. But I think I am definitely considering getting it again (when I get my job back) especially for the text guides and topic tests! Thanks for the suggestion I lowkey forgot EdUnlimited was a thing!
Title: Re: ✧ J_Rho's VCE Journey ✧
Post by: Chocolatemilkshake on May 13, 2020, 01:09:39 pm
Okay so I just got my Psych result and I just want to cry. Like it probably the subject I care about the LEAST but I made so so so many silly mistakes and I got 82%. :'(
Hi J_Rho, this sucks so much (it's a shame your school doesn't have better policies or ways of regulating SACs at home). On a brighter note, 82 is not a bad score at all and you can be content with the fact that you got that score without cheating! As you already know, she'll do a lot worse on the exam and in general, what type of life habit is cheating? It doesn't set you up well for life at all.

It's great you've still got an income and you would have made that little boy so happy  ;D
Have a great week  8)
Title: Re: ✧ J_Rho's VCE Journey ✧
Post by: eloisegrace on May 13, 2020, 06:09:27 pm
Don't worry too much about your sac results girl! Your drive and motivation come out in every post in this journal and I am sure you can still smash it!

With the cheating thing, I totally agree. I had a huge SAC for methods today and my friend texts me at the start of it asking how to do it, I just ignored it lol. And besides, the exams are pretty much the most important thing so cheating won't help for them :)
Title: Re: ✧ J_Rho's VCE Journey ✧
Post by: J_Rho on May 21, 2020, 05:28:08 pm
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Okay so this week has been more productive than last BUT I would not call it productive at all.
My week has been busy but not busy at the same time which has been a bit weird.
Since my last update, this is what happened:

Work
Still no work or indication of when its opening again and i no longer have an income because im not 18 yet

VICSES Youth Member Network Meeting
- Had a meeting with other juniors to try and develop a plan to improve youth membership within the service
- So my tasks are to create a poll to organise the next meeting and make user guide/profile for each member
and I'm also helping another member create a survey to try and judge the main issues that are being experienced

Monash Mentoring
- Went through some of my language analysis pieces with my mentor and she gave me some really helpful feedback
- I need to plan out what the topics for the next few sessions are going to be and PLAN AHEAD and look ahead so
I dont do what i did today! I have an upcoming legal sac but instead of doing legal revision with her we did English stuff! But like the English stuff was 110% helpful though and eng is my worst subject soooo....
- Had a tutoring session for the lieutenant with a current Monash student which was SO HELPFUL and am supposed to have one with another Monash mentor for Station 11 tomorrow which im nervous about cause like my class has JUST started theme work for S11

SAC Results
 - Got my data analysis sac back and I'm lowkey annoyed at myself because I lost 6 marks....2 of which could have been EASILY avoided but no, I'm just stupid hehexd (34/40)
- Still waiting on my language analysis sac results....10/10 believe imma get a E or some shit

School and Upcoming assesments
- Have a legal sac first week back at school (29th May) and its a hour AND ITS OUT OF 50 MARKS fml
- bio sac was supposed to be in 3 weeks. class is useless so its been pushed back another 2 weeks
- Creative sac is in 4 or 5 weeks all i know is that its on my birthday week
- psychology teacher wont tell us when out next sac is which is A N N O Y I N G
Overall school is average, im just chilling and i c a n n o t wait to go baaaaaaack wooop woooop

To Do
- Make sure I'm up to date with everything
- Start integrating spaced repetition into my study
- chill and prep for school next week

Don't worry too much about your sac results girl! Your drive and motivation come out in every post in this journal and I am sure you can still smash it!

With the cheating thing, I totally agree. I had a huge SAC for methods today and my friend texts me at the start of it asking how to do it, I just ignored it lol. And besides, the exams are pretty much the most important thing so cheating won't help for them :)
Hi J_Rho, this sucks so much (it's a shame your school doesn't have better policies or ways of regulating SACs at home). On a brighter note, 82 is not a bad score at all and you can be content with the fact that you got that score without cheating! As you already know, she'll do a lot worse on the exam and in general, what type of life habit is cheating? It doesn't set you up well for life at all.

It's great you've still got an income and you would have made that little boy so happy  ;D
Have a great week  8)

Thank you for your support lovelies ♥
I hope you all have had a cruisy week!
 
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Title: Re: ✧ J_Rho's VCE Journey ✧
Post by: J_Rho on May 25, 2020, 05:27:43 pm
term two, week 6: Who cares if it's only been 4 days since my last update

Welcome back to 𝓾𝓼𝓮𝓵𝓮𝓼𝓼 𝓾𝓹𝓭𝓪𝓽𝓮𝓼 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓭𝓲𝓭𝓷𝓽 𝓪𝓼𝓴 𝓯𝓸𝓻™ edition #110

My weekend so far has basically involved no school work and I'm feeling kinda good about that. It's been kinda good to not do school work but at the same time I'm like I NEED TO BE SUPER PREPARED LIKE AS PREPARED AS POSSIBLE SO THEN I CAN FEEL SO ORGANISED AND TOGETHER AND PRETEND LIKE MY LIFE IS SO ORRRRRRGANIIIISED. AND NOT ONLY SCHOOL WORK PREPARED BUT LIKE MFKN SPA DAY AT HOME SO THEN I CAN WAKE UP TOMORROW FEELING LIKE A BRAND NEW FKN PERSON.  because maybe, just maybe I'll find the motivation to so a practice sac to prepare for my legal sac on Friday, because i was supposed to do this practice sac like 4 days ago and, its still sitting, on my desk, starting at me, as i continue, to put it off.

So today I had allocated time where I would spend working on regions for my legal sac.....I instead baked 2 types of muffins (apple + cinnamon and blueberry) and vanilla cupcakes. I am also in the process of par boiling potatoes because I decided that dinner is going to be roast potato, peas and carrot and gravy.

is my sac in 4 days? yes. should i be studying? yes am i studying? no. but thinking about it now im like F*******************K so am i going to cram (is it called cramming if its 4 days b4??) every day and neglect my other subjects? you fkn bet!

I've done at least one SAC for all my subjects and I'm just going to chuck down the cute little table i made to motivate me to do better each time. ofc my goal for all my next sacs is to score 100% but im not going to expect 100% cause sometimes i feel that the difference btwn a 95% and a 100% is luck to an extent. I actually find a source of motivation from this table as i have what the table currently looks like and then another picture of what the table would look like if i got 100% on all of my next sacs because i think we all know that really good feeling of scoring highly on something (and i know study scores are not calculated by average sac mark that is just my inspiration and motivation to maintain and average as close to 100% as i can get)
Where I'm At
(https://imgur.com/rfepYav.png)
Where I wanna be
(https://imgur.com/it6NyrN.png)

Okay so school goes back tomorrow and I'm pretty excited but like also nervous cause like I set a goal at the start of iso to exercise everyday and I haven't done that so I'm feeling really self-conscious about my body which is lovely. we all love that. the lesson plan for psych says "students apply AOS2 knowledge to exam-style questions" and we are all like....ummmm is it as sac? is it a test? is it a worksheet? WHAT IS IT!!!! So lowkey stressed about that but like its fiiiiiiiiiiiiiine. I'm pretty sure im up to date with all my subjects so I'm not too worried i just need to stay determined and motivated to push through and end this term on a high because i have like a sac for every subject before the end of term so i gotta do my mf best and like term 2 is basically the last legit term like term 3 is basically finishing u4 and term 4 is revision so like hahahhahaha halp!

tl;dr - im going to only be on here to post questions on the TYU threads (which I've failed as so fucking bad - who knew putting up weekly questions for 2 subjects could be so time consuming?) and I'll be back at the end to the term ish
Title: Re: ✧ J_Rho's VCE Journey ✧
Post by: J_Rho on May 30, 2020, 04:05:41 pm
Mini Update
I've well and truly fallen off the discipline and productivity bandwagon. I feel swamped with schoolwork and I'm in a constant state of tiredness and on top of that, I've got a cold which meant that I missed my legal sac and slept for 14 hours and then napped most of Friday and today, and I'm still exhausted. going back to school has tbh been great but also shit cause now i feel very stressed and very worn out. Plus I feel horrible I've fallen slack on the Test Your understanding and LA Club threads😭. Iso felt like summer holidays except you HAD to do school work. I have so much to do but no energy to do it. But I might do Chloe Tings 4 Week Summer Shred tho... maybe exercise will help me feel better. And that's the end of my update! Adios :)
Title: Re: ✧ J_Rho's VCE Journey ✧
Post by: brothanathan on May 30, 2020, 04:31:26 pm
Mini Update
I've well and truly fallen off the discipline and productivity bandwagon. I feel swamped with schoolwork and I'm in a constant state of tiredness and on top of that, I've got a cold which meant that I missed my legal sac and slept for 14 hours and then napped most of Friday and today, and I'm still exhausted. going back to school has tbh been great but also shit cause now i feel very stressed and very worn out. Plus I feel horrible I've fallen slack on the Test Your understanding and LA Club threads😭. Iso felt like summer holidays except you HAD to do school work. I have so much to do but no energy to do it. But I might do Chloe Tings 4 Week Summer Shred tho... maybe exercise will help me feel better. And that's the end of my update! Adios :)

Hey J_Rho, please don't feel so bad for yourself. I've failed miserably in pursuing my targets this year. But I've come to understand myself more as a learner and how fatuous my fallacies have been (this literally denotes how lost I was or am lol). On a positive note, what you did for the kid's 9 year old birthday was very sweet and must have felt very rewarding in these times we're in. I'm sure he's gonna remember it for a lifetime! :)

Definitely get on that exercise plan, it defs will help you build up some consistently.

Don't give up J Rho! We believe in you! Prove them wrong :D
Title: Re: ✧ J_Rho's VCE Journey ✧
Post by: Geoo on May 30, 2020, 05:12:26 pm
Mini Update
I've well and truly fallen off the discipline and productivity bandwagon. I feel swamped with schoolwork and I'm in a constant state of tiredness and on top of that, I've got a cold which meant that I missed my legal sac and slept for 14 hours and then napped most of Friday and today, and I'm still exhausted. going back to school has tbh been great but also shit cause now i feel very stressed and very worn out. Plus I feel horrible I've fallen slack on the Test Your understanding and LA Club threads😭. Iso felt like summer holidays except you HAD to do school work. I have so much to do but no energy to do it. But I might do Chloe Tings 4 Week Summer Shred tho... maybe exercise will help me feel better. And that's the end of my update! Adios :)
Don't be so hard on yourself! I know that is easier to say than do, but take a breather. The tiredness and the cold aren't helping, and your body can only do so much. Be kind you self and just pace your way through. Have you spoken to the teacher about the legal SAC? Can you retake it?
The test your understand and LA Club is amazing additions to the forums, but your health and VCE come first, you'll have more time to do them as time goes on. I hope you start to feel better soon, and I also hope that you find some energy! Thanks for the mini update .
Title: Re: ✧ J_Rho's VCE Journey ✧
Post by: J_Rho on June 07, 2020, 09:30:08 pm
Update:
This week started shit and ended pretty good.
I was sick and didn't go to school Monday - Wednesday, Thursday I had a Psych SAC and Friday was chill. I went to Fountain Gate to get some clothes for my 18th party and then went out again to a different place to do grocery shopping and i also got an Instax Mini 11 which i thought would be cute for my party. Tomorrow I plan on doing a heap of study for legal, as I have the sac after school on Tuesday which I'm hella nervous for )':

I bought two tops cause I couldn't decide which one to get (oop), and now idk what 'colour theme' to go with for the balloons, because idk if emerald and rose gold go together PLUS i have heaps of silver jewellery, so like maybe i go with silver BUT rose gold is very cute colour. My folks have been really good like my mum esp has been like yeah whatever and theres no rules like "dont go in the house" etc which I'm surprised about tbh.

Now onto the fun stuff - school.

Legal
Okay so as aforementioned have a Legal SAC on Tuesday. Was sick from Friday - Wednesday and Thursday and Friday I was still pretty wiped out and went to bed at 6 pm and didn't get much studying done, so alas I have right now and tomorrow to work with.
I am going to revise my notes tonight and in the morning and then do a practice sac and mark it, do some revision on my weak areas and do some checkpoints and do a quizlet or something.

English
I also got my LA SAC mark, which I thought would AT LEAST be a C+ (my tutor estimated a B) but NO i got a fucking C and I'm furious. enough said. at this point, if i don't get an A+ on my creative I'm gonna give up. im already *this* close haha.

Maths
Okay so like, I've done no maths in like a month and the sac is in like 2 weeks hehe xd gotta get my shit together

Psych
I really do not care for this subject atm. the sac was wack asf and memory and learning sucks.

Bio
Only subject that I like. teacher is good, ppl are good, content is good, grades are good but like need to revise for the sac that's in like 11 days.



Don't be so hard on yourself! I know that is easier to say than do, but take a breather. The tiredness and the cold aren't helping, and your body can only do so much. Be kind you self and just pace your way through. Have you spoken to the teacher about the legal SAC? Can you retake it?
The test your understand and LA Club is amazing additions to the forums, but your health and VCE come first, you'll have more time to do them as time goes on. I hope you start to feel better soon, and I also hope that you find some energy! Thanks for the mini update .
Hey J_Rho, please don't feel so bad for yourself. I've failed miserably in pursuing my targets this year. But I've come to understand myself more as a learner and how fatuous my fallacies have been (this literally denotes how lost I was or am lol). On a positive note, what you did for the kid's 9 year old birthday was very sweet and must have felt very rewarding in these times we're in. I'm sure he's gonna remember it for a lifetime! :)

Definitely get on that exercise plan, it defs will help you build up some consistently.

Don't give up J Rho! We believe in you! Prove them wrong :D
Thank you for your kind words Geoo and brothanathan! When I read this last week I started crying, your support really means a lot ❤️
Title: Re: ✧ J_Rho's VCE Journey ✧
Post by: w0lfqu33n89 on June 09, 2020, 10:54:26 am
Update:
 I went to Fountain Gate to get some clothes for my 18th party and then went out again to a different place to do grocery shopping and i also got an Instax Mini 11 which i thought would be cute for my party. 

I bought two tops cause I couldn't decide which one to get (oop), and now idk what 'colour theme' to go with for the balloons, because idk if emerald and rose gold go together PLUS i have heaps of silver jewellery, so like maybe i go with silver BUT rose gold is very cute colour. My folks have been really good like my mum esp has been like yeah whatever and theres no rules like "dont go in the house" etc which I'm surprised about tbh.

Hey J_Rho!

Happy Birthday (whenever that may be!...welcome to adulthood!)
That instax will be such a cute idea to get some polaroids for your birthday!
I like the emerald and rose gold idea, have you thought about maybe adding white as well to soften it maybe? Maybe have a look on Pinterest for some inspiration or the look if anyone has done it before.
Hope the party is fun!
- Lex xx
Title: Re: ✧ J_Rho's VCE Journey ✧
Post by: J_Rho on June 11, 2020, 08:41:18 pm
Update: i wanna be 🚨 aMbOlanCe 🚨

ok so i've been thinking about what imma do after year 12 and i know i want to continue volunteering for vicses, and swim teaching and i think im set on becoming a paramedic. but like getting into ambulance victoria is competitive asf and i really dont want to do st johns but one of my friends is an ambulance community officer which i found out i can do! ACO's get paired with a paramedic or two aco's respond to the same job as a paramedic and the acos do the paramedics job until they get there. point of it is that rural areas dont have ambos in every town but still need god response times and to help ppl in a timely fashion so in short ACO's do the volunteer version of a paramedics job which is cool as AND i can apply in 6 days. The process of becoming qualified is lengthy but it sounds so cool and im sure it'll make me way more qualified to get into AV! cert 2 in Medical practice and 100 hours of training? sure?
I'm actually keen to apply and see if i can get in and its making me motivated to do better in school but at the same time its also making me feel like of its fine theres roundabout ways to do it but no Monash is legit the only credible uni imo that provides paramedicine and i gotta get in the median atar this year was 85 so 90+ atar here i come!!

tl;dr - applying to be an ambulance community officer and im keen to see if i can get in

Hey J_Rho!

Happy Birthday (whenever that may be!...welcome to adulthood!)
That instax will be such a cute idea to get some polaroids for your birthday!
I like the emerald and rose gold idea, have you thought about maybe adding white as well to soften it maybe? Maybe have a look on Pinterest for some inspiration or the look if anyone has done it before.
Hope the party is fun!
- Lex xx
Hey Lex!
Thank you for the reply it means a lot!!
I've looked at Pinterest and i think imma go with rosegold and white/clear balloons and wear my emerald green top.
My birthday is next Wednesday which is crazy as it feels like yesterday i was like "in 5 years i can get my learners" and its been like 7-8 years since then its crazy as!!!
Title: Re: ✧ J_Rho's VCE Journey ✧
Post by: ThunderDragon on June 11, 2020, 09:53:58 pm
Yo I believe in you! You can get a 90+ and get in Paramedicine at Monash.
Title: Re: ✧ J_Rho's VCE Journey ✧
Post by: J_Rho on June 21, 2020, 10:08:20 am
Update: One more week

Song of the Week
Stolen from ashmi hehe - I couldn't decide which one so here's 2!!
Extra curricular
Okay first list item: rona.
My party has been postponed. Not mad. Know its necessary but at the same time, i feel like i can't have a party in the hols before exams. so that leaves me waiting until summer. ie. Late Dec early Jan. which is lowkey annoying cause that's like 6 months away. I also really feel for my friend who was gonna have his party the weekend after mine and he'd already had to postpone it his bday was in APRIL. Kinda sad that we cant go out drinking three weekends in a row w/o (point isn't getting drunk all hols more going out and hanging with everyone and not feeling guilty) feeling like we should be studying but oh well. But like also its not nesscecarily a bad thing that i cant get on the beers for 3 Saturdays in a row cause like revisions and getting ahead and re reading English texts you know??? overall not that mad.

next agenda item: Ambulance Victoria
I expressed my interest on Thursday and like im supposed to get an email back in 21 days and boy can i tell you, these days are going slowly!

3. ses
Had face to face training which was SO GOOD. but that prolly wont happen again anytime soon due to restrictions going back on which is sad and sucks and like training is kinda necessary being an emergency service.

4. Work
Still no work - pool is open but like im not rostered on cause I am more experienced at Swim teaching then lifeguarding so the more experienced (and ones that have to pay rent) lifeguards are getting shifts first. I'm 18 now so like hopefully I can get jobkeeper again. I don't NEED it but it would really help me not to stress about moving down to Melbourne to study because atm all the money i have is going to be going towards a car and if i get into uni i need accommodation and fuel and to buy the stuff i need for uni.

final item - P's
My local vicroads only has a backlog of 1 month (apparently) so its estimated that in 2 - 3 months I'll be able to go for my p's, plus i can apply for an exception and get put on the priority list because i have to travel anywhere btwn 20 - 45 minutes to get to work and if i get into ambulance Vic, then ill have to travel anywhere btwn 30 min - 1.5 hours depending on where i get assigned to. I need a few (4 or 5 i think) hours and I'm going to get a few driving lessons a week over the school holidays so i can get my p's asap because you know, travelling for work and shit.

English:
wooo English. i have a creative which is supposed to be 800+ words AND SOI and I've only got 400 and NO SOI and its due on Wednesday. I've only got 2 more classes to do it eek! Imagine trying to get and A+ hahaha what a clown. Wish me luck.
Also mad that the year 12 eng teachers are useless if giving feedback - they gave us a talk saying "if u put in the effort to do praccy essays we'll put in the effort to mark them and give you feedback" and so I've handed in essays. and nothing. not even acknowledgement. so i think im just going to have to be annoying and ask them every class if they've had a chance to look at it. Also going to go to Monday study club every week and use that as a chance to get essay feedback. ie. hi English teach can you read over this and give me pointers? and then cause its right there and then maybe ill get feedback?? Also think im going to have to ask my year 7, 9 and 11 teachers if she would mind having a look over some of my essays if they have the time.

Psychology:
Idek. had a sac a while ago. was an experimental investigation. haven't got results back. don't really care tbh. love the content but the class/teacher is shitting me really glad its almost holidays.

Legal Studies:
got sac results back for civil and I am not happy, to say the least I got 38/50 (76%) which is really bad. The only part I'm happy about is that I got 9/10 on the 10 marker. We've moved onto U4 AOS1 and have gotten through quite a bit of it which is good, I need to keep up to date with my Edrolo notes for this subject and start doing solid revision

Further Maths:
Maths. haha...where do I start? I haven't done a solid study session for maths since the beginning of online learning. I've been doing bare minimum and I have a sac tomorrow and I'm not confident in anything - all the maths flew out of my brain (so much for finishing financial early to get ahead and do loads of revision) So today my plan is to
- Watch Edrolo videos to revise
- All Cambridge Questions Ch 8, 9 & 10
- All Financial Checkpoints
- Neap Smart Study Exam Financial Questions

Biology:
Did U3 AOS2 SAC on Friday, and I think I did really fucking well? I think worst case scenario I lost 1 mark in MC and 6 in Extended response and the best-case scenario would be full marks or like dropping 1 or 2 marks but I don't want to get my hopes up cause I don't wanna be sad. but i think i did very well and the sac itself was very chill apart from when I forgot what the 1st stage of the inflammatory response was (its initiation guys) but i remembered and its fine. The teacher was like oh no we cant move onto U4 in the last week but I'll set you some U4 holiday homework thoooo.

Only a few more days guys, and then its holidays! Phew!! We can do this! 7 more school days!

Exam Timetable
not mad - knew bio and further 1 would be on the same day cause like its been like that for years but at the same time i hate how i have 4 exams in week 1, 1 in week 2 and 1 in week 3. i dont understand why vcaa clumps popular subjects together but whatever

Study Scores
Dream Scores
English - 42
Further - 50
Bio - 50
Psych - 48
Legal - 48
ATAR: 99.15

Slightly More Realistic Dream Scores
If theres one thing i know is that i want really good scores in Eng, Math and Bio
English - 40
Further - 45
Bio - 50
Psych - 35
Legal - 35
ATAR: 94.45

The most realistic scores that you'll ever see in my journal
English - 32
Further - 40
Bio - 45
Psych - 30
Legal - 30
ATAR: 82.70

Yo I believe in you! You can get a 90+ and get in Paramedicine at Monash.

Thank you TD!!


Title: Re: ✧ J_Rho's VCE Journey ✧
Post by: ashmi on June 21, 2020, 10:50:34 am
Hey J_Rho! ;D

(OMG it's another update!!)

(I absolutely love the song of the week choices it's SOOOO good! This was the first thing I've listen to this morning and I love it! ;D)
It sounds like there is so much going on in extracurricular wise (Whoop whoop go gets those P's queen! You are like a total inspiration with the amount you do outside of school)

First off, you can 100% get that A+ for English. I absolutely believe in you and can totally understand the feedback problem. Also, 9/10 for a 10 marker in Legal? THAT'S AMAZING!! Further Maths Financial unit can be a killer sometimes. It's hard to get your head around it at first, but once you do it can become really easy. (If you need help gimme a buzz). Also, congrats on doing so well in Bio! That's an achievement on its own and take some time to celebrate :D.

Loving the dream study scores and I completely believe in you that you can achieve them! You are super hard working and just an overall determined person and you can get there :D. Thanks for the update J_Rho and I'm really looking forward to another one in the future💖.
Title: Re: ✧ J_Rho's VCE Journey ✧
Post by: J_Rho on June 25, 2020, 06:32:21 pm
Update:End of Term & SAC Reflections

Song of the Week
more sofi tukker songs, i just want to share all their songs with you they are so good, I love how they create the boppiest tunes and sing in so many different languages, the 2nd song repeats the title of the song more than a few times so if you dont like it, i would refrain from watching it

English:
I have decided i need to be annoying as fuck in order to get essay feedback. so yep imma write essays and nicely demand they mark them. I finished my creative yesterday and I'm actually quite happy with how it turned out! For holiday homework we were assigned to read the texts but i also want to watch the edrolo videos for the texts and re-read the lieutenant because i think thats the one im going to do in the exam?

Psychology:
Still waiting on sac results - going to do chapter 9 over the holidays

Legal Studies:
Over the holidays I want to finish U4 AOS1 and start revising for the August SAC

Further Maths:
Bruh i think i did so bad! They said they made both parts of the sac so it would be too hard to finish the whole thing in the allotted time but i thought it was an exaggeration but NO i at least lost 8 marks from not being able to finish each part in the allotted time. I'm terrified of getting my results :'(
Over the holidays I'm going to do the edrolo matrices work and maybe if i have the time/energy start of textbook questions. I also need to send my teacher photos of my financial textbook exercises tomorrow so i can get an S as I'm not at school tomorrow (Yay for doing my RSA by Zoom)

Biology:
Okay so turns out I lost 4 marks on the SAC, I'm really happy but at the same time annoyed for not scoring higher - does anyone elses feel this/ Like being very happy with a mark but being disappointed in the mark too?. Idk where I lost the marks, but okay 93% average wooooooork and idk anyone elses marks so IDK where im ranked...we'll see! Im going to finish Unit 4 over the hols and start on some practice exams because boy this is my second year doing it and if i dont get a 50 imma punch a b***hbe sad

I've been writing up an exam revision timetable (starting Monday) and pencilling in topics i need to revise and essays im going to write. I know if i dont start now im going to put it off untill its 'too late'

Hey J_Rho! ;D

(OMG it's another update!!)

(I absolutely love the song of the week choices it's SOOOO good! This was the first thing I've listen to this morning and I love it! ;D)
It sounds like there is so much going on in extracurricular wise (Whoop whoop go gets those P's queen! You are like a total inspiration with the amount you do outside of school)

First off, you can 100% get that A+ for English. I absolutely believe in you and can totally understand the feedback problem. Also, 9/10 for a 10 marker in Legal? THAT'S AMAZING!! Further Maths Financial unit can be a killer sometimes. It's hard to get your head around it at first, but once you do it can become really easy. (If you need help gimme a buzz). Also, congrats on doing so well in Bio! That's an achievement on its own and take some time to celebrate :D.
Loving the dream study scores and I completely believe in you that you can achieve them! You are super hard working and just an overall determined person and you can get there :D. Thanks for the update J_Rho and I'm really looking forward to another one in the future💖.
OMG THANK YOU FOR YOUR REPLY ❤️ it means so much especially coming from you! I love reading your journal
I hope i can go for my p's soon - Exemptions no longer make you a 'priority' so im a tiny bit stressed but hopefully VicRoads will sort everything out and start testing people again. Hope you enjoy your evening ashmi!
Title: Re: ✧ J_Rho's VCE Journey ✧
Post by: J_Rho on July 03, 2020, 07:50:25 pm
Update:Holidaaaaaays

Alright so basically I really haven't done much holiday homework, Sat-Mon was chilling and the I went and looked at a car on Wednesday and then yesterday I got a little bit done, and then I had SES training. I also found myself a car for 1.5 grand and my mechanic friend said that he'd look over it and fix any minor issues (he can't see really any issues at all (its in flawless condition for a 20-year-old car) which is good) and then send it off for roadworthy. I think its a total steal because it's in near perfect condition and if it passed roadworthy it's only going to cost me just shy of 3 grand which is amazing considering I was going to go buy a 5 grand car this weekend!

English:
I've not done much for this subject yet. I've watched The Queen twice, but am yet to finish Ransom - I need to do that ASAP!!
To do
- read and annotate ransom
- theme posters!
- metalanguage posters

Psychology:
I caaaaaanot be bothered with this at all. At all. I just need to get through the set holiday homework, and it'll be fine but i cannot find the energy for this subject atm.
- Edrolo chapter 9

Legal Studies:
hahahahahahaha. Ive done nothing. on the horizon i see nothing. i really need to knuckle down.
- u4 aos1 edrolo

Further Maths:
I haven't started matrices but im slowly making my way through the list of things i need to do.
- matricies edrolo

Biology:
Probably the only subject I've done work for haha!
-unit4 notes
- 1x practice exam
Title: Re: ✧ J_Rho's VCE Journey ✧
Post by: Geoo on July 03, 2020, 10:01:20 pm
What a steel! That's awesome that you found a such a gem of a car! Do you mind if I ask the colour?
So far you have done alot more than me, so that's great that you have been able to get stuff done.
How is SES training? I'd imagine it would be very demanding and quite labor intensive.
Enjoy the rest of your holidays and I hope you get everything you want to get done!
Title: Re: ✧ J_Rho's VCE Journey ✧
Post by: J_Rho on July 04, 2020, 02:05:57 pm
What a steal! That's awesome that you found a such a gem of a car! Do you mind if I ask the colour?
So far you have done alot more than me, so that's great that you have been able to get stuff done.
How is SES training? I'd imagine it would be very demanding and quite labor intensive.
Enjoy the rest of your holidays and I hope you get everything you want to get done!
It's like that weird beige (also kinda grey) colour...its definitely not an amazing colour but its not horrible! Im actually so happy though because I'm currently not working and I wanted to spend as little as possible, it looks like the planets lined up haha!
Spoiler
Was going to say just google 2000 Mazda 323 but like i had to look up an image to actually figure out what the colour might even be called cause i refer to all beige cars as "pee-colour" but that's not really and accurate description lmaoooo(https://imgur.com/srlpIOC.png)
SES training can definitely be demanding and labour intensive but it's always enjoyable! From doing temporary roof repairs during a storm, to using the jaws of life to doing search and rescue to cutting up trees across highways, you can imagine how demanding it can be but there also so much we do that isn't as labour intensive. You could work in the incident command point on the radios to ESTA and the crews out in the field, or being ground crew helping the roof crew into their harnesses and setting up the system, or being a crew leader or incident commander and tracking the crews progress. Its all very fun and i love everyone I work with, they're honesty like my second family!
I hope you get everything you want to get done too!
Title: Re: ✧ J_Rho's VCE Journey ✧
Post by: J_Rho on July 26, 2020, 09:31:05 am
Update: It's been 22 days since the last one, and I've spent 10 of those days trying to write this

TW: This update is a hot mess, I'm very proud if you can understand what I wrote

P's
Okay so... I passed my hazards on Thursday and my drive test is booked in for Friday...lowkey stressing. If you have your P’s, let me know ur experiences in the drive test!! I’m excited to have a little more freedom and be able to have better chances finding work. My logbooks been ticked off but like I’m going to ask mum if I can drive to school and ses because I got most of my hours driving on long county roads (it's an hour drive to get to a Kmart/Officeworks and a 30 minute trip to a Big W/Priceline) and I’m not as confident in town as my mum drives an suv and there are really bad blind spots so i want some more practice in busier traffic considering im taking my test at 8 in the morning, yay for school zones. My car is going in for a roady end of next week, but hopefully the mechanics have a cancellation so I can get it done earlier (perks of knowing people ina small town). Even with roady, insurance, rego and buying the car it shouldnt cost me more than 3 grand straight up which is like not even half my savings and then hopefully i can get another job which will relieve the stress of fuel and other car payments making me broke. Im keeeeeeen as fuuuuuck now to make sure I pass my test eek!

Work
I’ve applied to like 10 places for jobs through Seek (mainly in aged care homes, and casual sales rep jobs), and now I’m waiting for the employers to view them. Hopefully i get one of the jobs!!
I also applied for a KFC manager position in the next town across and I’ve got an interview on Wednesday- not the ideal job but it pays well and fast food isnt bad, it's generally only the people that are. Also waiting for my coordinator to send me a copy of my RSA so I can apply at ALDI.

Random Stuff
OOOOOOO also - I got a gorgeous oil diffuser for my birthday and is so cute on my desk and I got a new fluffy blanket for my bed and so im keen to tidy my room and make it look gorgeous. I may have splurged and used some of my tax return and bought a new fitbit (my old one died) and it is cute as and i love that you can use alexa to respond to texts….school phone ban giiiirl who cares about that? Me? Spending money even tho i’m not earning money? Nooooo….. I also cleaned out me room and realise most of my clothes either don't fit me or are ratty and gross because i havent bought clothes in a hot minute. im like keen but not keen about buying new clothes cause like i’ve got no income but like i really need clothes! I also need headphones...and a ruler and some pens from officeworks...and skincare products cause im running out...and buy mum a tank of fuel cause shes driving me half an hour to get to my job interview on Wednesday. YAY EXPENSES!

Stationary Struggles
My folders and looseleaf really arent working for me - I never liked loseleaf and folders but like i was like no it's fine is called orGanIsAtioN. But it's just really not working baha, so im going back to exercise books and document wallets. Only issue is that im going to want to write all my notes into the new books which I really don't have the time for considering the english exam is in like 100 days or something! 100% stresing out! I havent finished the courses for most of my subjects! I’ve 100% fell into the rabbit hole of not doing much at all and I NEED to pick myself back up again, I honestly don't think I’ve done a solid study session in a week!

Beyond 2020
Im also now looking at uni accommodation scholarships because my step dad is hella toxic. I wish i didn't feel like i was being forced to move out because being at home is so bad for my mental health becuase i love the rest of my family but no i have to move out and get out of this shithole. So now im stressing about uni accommodation IF i even get in. Like i literally was screamed at for my insta handle being too close to my real name and things i did 7 years ago as a stupid grade 4 who didn't want to get in trouble and it's so stupid and im so over it, but i just hate the feeling of when year 12 is over i just gotta go. And it's stupid to think this way but sometimes like why tf can't i have a ‘normal’ family, or a slightly less dysfunctional one.Like people tell me about their families and shit and and like bitch thats all you are complaining about?

Explanation for my really, really, really, really long update
I have so much on my mind and so much I want to put into this update and my last few ones but I just havent found the energy to set out some time and put pen to paper because i feel like I am such an over planner. I’m like oh no I’m wasting time planning when i could be studying but then i go and procrastinate instead or study but like really half arsed and get not much at all done. I feel like I’m not going to get the atar I want, I just feel like I’m not going to get there because my cohort is so small i have to be rank 1 to get 40+ scores and to be rank 1 i have to be consistently getting 100% I’ll explain that more in a little bit. I want to be able to open my atar and be surprised and to see that I’d exceeded my expectations/goals and Im convinced thats not going to happen because my performance compared to others in my cohort is up there but im definitely not excelling.

English:
Aim: 42
Look my goal is to do my mf best, I want to score as close to a 50 but not below a 42 and i honestly don't know if thats possible, and im not sure im so set on my goal to fork out money for tutoring. I’ve heard tutesmart tutoring isnt text specific and LSG tutoring is $1400 for the rest of the year. It's not a lot of money but it is at the same time. Like that money is like the entirety of my tax return, and I’m not sure that i can justify it given im currently not getting shifts. I have applied to everywhere (all supermarkets, petrol stations, liquor stores, takeaway stores and Mitre 10) I live and i don't have my hopes up because i think everyone is in the same boat and nowhere is hiring. But if i was to be really hopeful and determined maybe i might be able to just scrape my goal. Only issue is i need to be dedicated and persistent things i not that good at. I had a dream that I did a text analysis essay on hamilton and i didn't analyse and just retold the story and i woke up in a cold sweat like giiirrrl what? So weird.

Current grades:
Text analysis - C+
Lang Anaylsis - C
Creative - A+ (YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY)
Rank - idk maybe 20/50 (lots of ppl got C’s and E’s)

Grades aiming for:
Oral thats not an oral: A+
Comparative: B+ or A (this is gonna be on the exam so an A would mean im on the right track to do ing well on the exam with practice..plus it's the hardest essay sooo)
Rank: Top 5

To-Do
Here’s another of my what I’m going to do but fail to do plans…
3 Essays a fortnight (as per my teacher’s recommendation)
Create document with themes, ideas, metalanguage and phrases to incorporate into essays (perhaps create key quote and phrases flashcards)
Watch edrolo
Make posters of metalanguage, themes and quotes

Further Maths:
Aim: 50
Look idk if i can achieve a 50, I think im ranked like ~6th in a cohort of maybe 30? I got 34/40 for data sac and i got 14/20 (i don't know how i did so poorly, it sems to be a trend loosing 6 marks in a sac) for financial and im so so so stressed becuase i only have ONE MORE SAC to bring my rank and average up  I got ahead for finanical and that didn't even work cause i got lazy and i think it really backfired
Honestly as long as is get above a 45 ill be ecstatic but id die if i got a 47 tho.

To-Do
Aiming for 100% in my matricies sac
Watch edrolo videos over holidays
Rewatch edrolo video before it's taught in each class (ie. learning topic 1 watch topic 1 video)
Complete all exercise questions in the class allocated (if not done do them first thing when you get home)
5 - 10 practice questions a week
1 Practice exam a fortnight once matrices has been learnt

Biology:
Aim: 50
I think this could be realistic. Im not happy with my rank ( estimated 3-5/15) but my average is 93% (dropped 5 marks in unit 3 so far) so it's okayish. For unit 4 I’m aiming to drop 0 marks duh but like max 2 marks because like there are people in my class that are absolute guns and this subject is the only one i HAVE to get a 50 in, like this is my 2nd year i GOTTA GO GOTTA GET THE JOB DONE GET THAT 50. Cause theres a few people that have only dropped 2-3 marks this ENTIRE UNIT

To-Do
Holiday homework - Chapter 11
Finish my u4 notes by Mid-Aug
Finish all edrolo questions by end of July
Watch edrolo before class
5 - 10 practice questions a week
1 practice exam a fortnight

Psychology:
Aim: 45
I think this is realistic, maybe. I’m ranked in the top 2 or 3 and my average is pretty solid but i’m not vibing with this subject atm. A 45 would be really nice but like im not overly fazed as long as it's not below a 40 or idk 42
As long as all my study scores are 41 or above im happy

To-Do
Holiday homework - Chapter 9
Watch edrolo before class
5 - 10 practice questions a week
Finish unit 4 by end of august
After u4 is done do 1 praccy exam a fortnight

Legal Studies:
Aim: 45
I think the goal that i told my teacher at the start of the year was 44, and I would still love a 44 so i really need to step up my game because I’m super worried that if i don't step up my game in u4 I’ll struggle to get a 40 and thats scary. So this is probably one of the subjects that needs the biggest change in terms of my study. I don't do much in class (the bare minimum) and i often don't complete the homework set and i often cram the night before because i neglect studying and my marks definitely reflect that. I have a lot of work to do to get ANYWHERE close to a 40

To-Do
Holiday homework - U4 AOS1 Edrolo
Watch edrolo before class
5 - 10 practice questions a week
Finish unit 4 by Mid August
After u4 is done do 1 praccy exam a fortnight

ATAR
Aim: 90+
(id love a 97+ so then id get the highest atar a student from my school has ever gotten but that’s not happening haha) i honestly don't think i can achieve a 90+ ill be lucky is i scrape an 85 aha
I want to do the best I can, as long as ‘the best i can’ either gets me Dux or the Principals award (2nd in place of dux). I mean tbch, I’d be happy not to get dux if i got the highest study score in my classes because im competing against people doing chem, physics, methods and spesh who are more likely to get dux because of how well all those subjects scale. I think a more realistic goal is to get the highest study sore in every class (ie. English Award, Further Maths Award etc etc)

If you got this far, thank you ❤️
Title: Re: ✧ J_Rho's VCE Journey ✧
Post by: Bri MT on July 26, 2020, 11:14:57 am
Hey,

re: student accommodation

A big part of why I wanted a 98+ ATAR was for scholarships for money to help me move out; I can relate with what you're saying here. One thing to keep in mind is that uni accommodation can be very expensive but if you look at sharehousing that's much cheaper. If you can afford it and have never lived out of home before then being on res first year can be good to have that environment to learn living out of home skills and meet people (from what I've heard) but those "calculations" unis show to say that res isn't expensive compared to other accommodation options are trash imo. How expensive res is also differs a lot between unis.  I was extremely frugal but when I was first sharehousing my expenses (rent+ food + myki + bills + everything else) were about $1000 a month, you probably want to assume you'll be spending more than that but it doesn't need to be that much more depending on how you are with budgeting. With your family circumstances you might be able to apply for independent youth allowance (there are two paths here, one where you get someone to write a statement supporting that it's unreasonable to live at home and one where you convince one of centrelink's workers that it's unreasonable for you to live at home) which could help. I know the idea of writing out your circumstances could be daunting when you don't know if they'll accept it but it's worth considering applying.

For me in year 12 I had the vibe of feeling trapped and wanting out but imo this stuff is a complicated and weird mix of relief, guilt, anxiety, hope etc. so if you're having mixed feelings (in what they are and how intense they are) that's normal :)


Good luck with everything!

Edit: typo
Title: Re: ✧ J_Rho's VCE Journey ✧
Post by: J_Rho on July 29, 2020, 05:06:48 pm
Update: KFC Interview
My stepdad is not letting me go to my interview even though mum offered to drive me. Dad kicked up a stink and now I can't go. Like i think the fact I applied for a job at kfc of all places explains how little jobs there are around. There are no jobs in my town and the only jobs are ones at aldi and kfc in the next town across. Apparently I "dont need a job" because 4 grand will last me until i move out to go to uni. I argued that this is silly because well having 4 grand to move out is not that feasible let alone a depleted amount for 4 grand. Due to volunteering I'll be spending $50+ a fortnight on fuel, $20 a month on phone bill, $50 a month on skincare (literally just soap a moisturizer so its not like I splurge on stuff), and right now i need stationary and clothes because I didnt really buy stationary at the start of the year and mum hasnt bought me clothes for 4 years and now I've grown out of stuff or its old and disgusting so like i have a fair few expenses that will deplete my savings cause i have no incomeeee. I need a job. Yay for living in a small town in the middle of nowhere. I was more productive in studying when I was working and now that i have all the time in the world I'm getting nothing done cause ill just do it 'later'.  This whole thing is rediclious - and according dad I haven't exhausted my options in our town which is a lie. I've handed my resume into every store even the law firms and the accountants in hope that someone has some job vacancy I can fill.

Like who's to say there will even be jobs in my town in 5 months? And if I'm not getting a job now due to school why would I get one during exams? So i have December - Feb/March to make enough money to move out comfortably (considering uni accommodation is like $1200 a month). Like I'm estimating I'll have $2500 at the end of the year with my bare min expenses like this isnt even accounting for going to parties, buying food, going shopping, replacing things that get broken, or female hygiene products, or things like perfume or makeup. and i explained to mum how frustrated I was feeling and apparently I was taking my anger out on her and attacking her and 'its not like you need a job. if your that broke defer for a year, live here and save' and im like bruh i am not going to stay here longer than i have to like i am sick of my step dads emotional abuse and narssisctic behavior like i know you keep lying to yourself but your husband is what made my depression worse. Even my gp has told you that, im not staying longer than i have to.

Oh well, rant over. Now time to wait for dad to get home so he can yell at me for a few hours because its selfish that i want a job. Everything aside, I hope everyone's weeks are going good so far!
Title: Re: ✧ J_Rho's VCE Journey ✧
Post by: Arrowboy25 on July 29, 2020, 08:49:16 pm
Hey J_Rho

Would really recommend getting a tutor for English. It's a subject where people usually don't do too well and having a tutor maybe be the difference in beating everyone else.
Title: Re: ✧ J_Rho's VCE Journey ✧
Post by: J_Rho on August 22, 2020, 01:38:26 pm
Snow Leopard ❄️
Hey J_Rho, I hope you've been doing well and staying safe!
Not sure if this will help, but dodo has mobile plans at $5 a month but with no mobile phone data. I changed from optus to dodo sometime last year but I think they still have some affordable prices: https://www.dodo.com/mobile
Yo Yo SL!!!
OOO I haven't looked at dodo tbch! that $5 plan sounds good as but I do need data for when I turn out with SES. Ill defs look into that! Thank you! How is online learning going for you?
Bri 🐢
A big part of why I wanted a 98+ ATAR was for scholarships for money to help me move out; I can relate with what you're saying here. One thing to keep in mind is that uni accommodation can be very expensive but if you look at sharehousing that's much cheaper. If you can afford it and have never lived out of home before then being on res first year can be good to have that environment to learn living out of home skills and meet people (from what I've heard) but those "calculations" unis show to say that res isn't expensive compared to other accommodation options are trash imo. How expensive res is also differs a lot between unis.  I was extremely frugal but when I was first sharehousing my expenses (rent+ food + myki + bills + everything else) were about $1000 a month, you probably want to assume you'll be spending more than that but it doesn't need to be that much more depending on how you are with budgeting. With your family circumstances you might be able to apply for independent youth allowance (there are two paths here, one where you get someone to write a statement supporting that it's unreasonable to live at home and one where you convince one of centrelink's workers that it's unreasonable for you to live at home) which could help. I know the idea of writing out your circumstances could be daunting when you don't know if they'll accept it but it's worth considering applying.

For me in year 12 I had the vibe of feeling trapped and wanting out but imo this stuff is a complicated and weird mix of relief, guilt, anxiety, hope etc. so if you're having mixed feelings (in what they are and how intense they are) that's normal :)

Good luck with everything!
hey Bri!

Thank you for your insight! I'm quite happy that uni might be online except for prac/tutes s then I don't have to worry about moving juuuuuust yet. I had no idea about that centerlink stuff so that's interesting to know! I already have to write out my circumstances for SEAS so might as well keep it handy for applying for that if i have to.

Update: howdy partner

Since my last update:I have a car, she runs so well and I am stoked because i only spent $2900 ish on it including rego, a spare tyre, a tank of 98 and insurance. in other words the car only cost me like 1.5k My bank account is very happy. I also got the KFC job and am eligible for JobKeeper again including 2 months of back payments. I really dont want to work at KFC, Id much prefer just to go straight back to the pool when they reopen so I'm not sure if I'm accepting the job offer yet especially that the manager is completely ignoring my availabilities. I said multiple times that im at school and cannot get there until 4pm. He said okay interview at 11am, I emailed him back being like hey i cant do that time i cant get there till 4 and he EMAILED ME BACK SAYING "okay 2:30 pm" like IM SORRY WHAT. I'm also applying for a seasonal job with DELWP so who knows I'm all over the shop at the moment. I'm also like a good 2 weeks behind in school stuff - First off, i missed the first week of online learning because i couldn't go to school to get my books because my dad was a close contact with a positive case SECONDLY im so tired and unmotivated and it honestly feels like the teachers are making us do more work then usual which is making it super hard to keep up. I've communicated with my teachers but NO theyre all like "ok whatever" about the not having access to my books etc like Im sorry but I dont have my workbook/textbook/novel here!!!!!!! This isn't my choice!!! OOOOO also I put in my course preferencesssss!!


English:
Aim: 42
Okay so I got an A+ on my creative, but im terrified cause the comparative in in like 2 weeks and I'm NOT PREPARED. I've fallen so slack going back into remote, lost all my motivation, All i want to do is nap and honestly I haven't finished annotating the novel.

To-Do
FINISH ANNOTATING BOOK
3 essays next week (one on Monday and one on Wednesday and one on Sunday)
Create document with themes, ideas, metalanguage and phrases to incorporate into essays (perhaps create key quote and phrases flashcards)
Watch edrolo
Make posters of metalanguage, themes and quotes

Further Maths:
Aim: top of the class
BRUH MY AVERAGE IS SO SHIT. I don't think I can get a 50, and I'm okay with that that requires a lot of skill and luck but as long as I get top of my class Im okay with that

To-Do
Watch edrolo videos
Complete all exercise questions in the class allocated (if not done do them first thing when you get home)
Revise Data and Financial

Biology:
Aim: 47-50
Okay my average is 93% I've dropped 5 marks so far this year I think I might have a chance if I step up my game and actually study before sacs. Next sac is Wednesday  :o

To-Do
CATCH UP!!!
Checkpoints


Psychology:
Aim: 45
Bruh i hate this teacher so much. He just talks at you, reading off a powerpoint and gets irritated if you ask 'stupid' questions. The sac is on the 1st

To-Do
Edrolo Catch Up


Legal Studies:
Aim: 40
The last sac was so WACK. it was so hard and I struggled to write enough! I reckon I might have just gotten 70%. Honestly resigned to the fact that this or psych is going to be my 10%

To-Do
Edrolo Catch up
Title: Re: ✧ J_Rho's VCE Journey ✧
Post by: Coolgalbornin03Lo on August 22, 2020, 01:39:17 pm
Yay an update! I love your journal so much btw 😁
Title: Re: ✧ J_Rho's VCE Journey ✧
Post by: Ionic Doc on August 22, 2020, 08:58:31 pm
I also got the KFC job and am eligible for JobKeeper again including 2 months of back payments. I really dont want to work at KFC, Id much prefer just to go straight back to the pool when they reopen so I'm not sure if I'm accepting the job offer yet especially that the manager is completely ignoring my availabilities. I said multiple times that im at school and cannot get there until 4pm. He said okay interview at 11am, I emailed him back being like hey i cant do that time i cant get there till 4 and he EMAILED ME BACK SAYING "okay 2:30 pm" like IM SORRY WHAT.

Ayy first of congrats on getting the job offer! Hopefully, the pool opens for you soon (I'm pretty sure I remember you mentioning your rural or regional so hopefully the restrictions ease there eventually.)
Also, I had the exact same problem with my manager at red rooster, I swear some people have trouble comprehending the fact that we still go to school, stop giving me shifts at 2 pm! ( i eventually quit moved to KFC and they gave me shifts that a highschool student can work with). Also good purchase on the car, you got it at a great price!  :D
Title: Re: ✧ J_Rho's VCE Journey ✧
Post by: J_Rho on August 30, 2020, 10:17:36 am
Elle 💫
Yay an update! I love your journal so much btw

I love YOUR journal so much!

Ionic Doc 🐾⚕️
Ayy first of congrats on getting the job offer! Hopefully, the pool opens for you soon (I'm pretty sure I remember you mentioning your rural or regional so hopefully the restrictions ease there eventually.)
Also, I had the exact same problem with my manager at red rooster, I swear some people have trouble comprehending the fact that we still go to school, stop giving me shifts at 2 pm! ( i eventually quit and moved to KFC and they gave me shifts that a highschool student can work with). Also good purchase on the car, you got it at a great price!  :D

Thank you!! I'm hopign the pool opens soon but I'm not hopeful.  Oh no! Its sucks how people dont understand how school hours work, I legit got an email from ALDI saying "ty for ur application, please apply again when you can work reasonable hrs" and I was like honestly fair xD


Update: Getting back into routine
Okay soooooooooo i have 2 sacs next week (tuesday - psych; thursday - english) and i havent studied. like not "oh hehe i didnt study (much)" like i actually havent touched any of the work. I havent even finished annotating my english novel. Im so out of motivation like i cant even. My head hurts, im tired and I don't want to do school anymore. Like 2 months till exams is SCARY but at the same time i really dont give a fk
SO imma get into a routine, hopefully it helpsssss.

~ 5am wake up (gotta get my body clock used to it again)
~ Exercise: want to work back up to daily cardio and 4x a week weight training
~ Drink 3L of water
~ Eat 3 meals a day
~ 9pm bedtime
~ 2x 1 hour blocks of study a day

Aside from that I am still trying to catch up on sleep from Thursday (anf fri/sat), which i suspect will not happen considering we are expecting to get another weather event today and on Wednesday each worse than Thursdays. Each weather event usually extends into the next 2-3 days with a handful of jobs that didn't get called in or trees still falling over. The jobs are already coming in today despite the weather event not being predicted to start until late this afternoon. I think we are in for another long one!
If anyones interested, here is an interview my friend did the next morning alongside a few photos we captured (we were too busy to get decent photos :/https://papernews.com.au/stories/region-counts-cost-of-wild-night
Title: Re: ✧ J_Rho's VCE Journey ✧
Post by: homeworkisapotato on August 30, 2020, 04:57:39 pm
Hey J_Rho, I've just finished reading your journal and it was so addictive!

It sucks that not only are we in lockdown, but you also have the dumb weather events happening. I know it seems like there's no point to anything but I just wanted to shout out that you're amazing and that you perspiring and getting back into routine despite not feeling motivated just shows how resilient and special you are! Keep pushing through and I look forward to more updates!!
Title: Re: ✧ J_Rho's VCE Journey ✧
Post by: J_Rho on September 04, 2020, 12:38:31 pm
Homeworkisapotato🥔
First off HOW CUTE IS POTATO EMOJI
Hey J_Rho, I've just finished reading your journal and it was so addictive!

It sucks that not only are we in lockdown, but you also have the dumb weather events happening. I know it seems like there's no point to anything but I just wanted to shout out that you're amazing and that you perspiring and getting back into routine despite not feeling motivated just shows how resilient and special you are! Keep pushing through and I look forward to more updates!!

Thank you for your kind words! it means the world ❤

Mini Update:
Song
The camera technique elevates this music video THAT MUCH

English: Sac went okay actually! I don't think i did amazing but i reckon I scraped a C/C+
Maths: Want to finish matricies this weekend. SAC is in 2 weeks
Legal: Catch up. Sac is in 2 weeks. Kinda giving up on this subject
Bio: I got 82% on the sac, it was out of like 20 marks or some shit so i was initially pissed at my % but thats like 4 marks lost so I can deal with that.
Psych: the sac wasnt too bad. think imma get at least 80%

Weekend Plan:
- Get maths out of the way
- catch up with legal
- start finalising my u4 notes for all my subjects
Title: Re: ✧ J_Rho's VCE Journey ✧
Post by: homeworkisapotato on September 04, 2020, 12:57:34 pm
Hey J_Rho! The emoji is soo cool and CUTE where did you get it from???
Amazing job in Bio! Getting 82% is not easy as Bio teachers are really good at finding mistakes so be proud  :D
That camera technique is amazing! I love these type of camera movements because they make me feel as if I'm there and all hyped up.
All the best for the weekend up ahead, I'm sure you'll finish all your goals  ;D
Title: Re: ✧ J_Rho's VCE Journey ✧
Post by: Joseph41 on September 04, 2020, 04:44:15 pm
Hey J_Rho!

What do you mean by finalising your notes? Like, just getting things organised, or finishing off the final sections of content etc.? Or both? Or neither? :)
Title: Re: ✧ J_Rho's VCE Journey ✧
Post by: J_Rho on September 04, 2020, 04:52:07 pm
Hey J_Rho! The emoji is soo cool and CUTE where did you get it from???
Amazing job in Bio! Getting 82% is not easy as Bio teachers are really good at finding mistakes so be proud  :D
That camera technique is amazing! I love these type of camera movements because they make me feel as if I'm there and all hyped up.
All the best for the weekend up ahead, I'm sure you'll finish all your goals  ;D
I literally just googled potato emoji!!! Thank you! I hope you have a productive weekend (i loved reading your journal), your exam plan looks great!

Hey J_Rho!

What do you mean by finalising your notes? Like, just getting things organised, or finishing off the final sections of content etc.? Or both? Or neither? :)
Hey J41!
Hope your going well :)
Both. I need to finish off some stuff (mainly legal) and then I'm going to check my notes address all the study design dot points in enough depth. I also might end up doing something similar to what CM did last year (printed out the study design dot points and then annotated the pages with the most cruicial notes) but on A3 so I can have then as posters!
Title: Re: ✧ J_Rho's VCE Journey ✧
Post by: homeworkisapotato on September 04, 2020, 06:11:04 pm
I literally just googled potato emoji!!!
AHAHAHA now I sound dumb!

Thank you! I hope you have a productive weekend (i loved reading your journal), your exam plan looks great!
Aww thank you, you're so sweet! Your study checklist thread is amazing!
Title: Re: ✧ J_Rho's VCE Journey ✧
Post by: The Cat In The Hat on September 05, 2020, 08:14:04 am
I stumbled onto your journal and read from the beginning... and read... and read... and finished up here. It's fascinating :)
Title: Re: ✧ J_Rho's VCE Journey ✧
Post by: J_Rho on September 13, 2020, 10:10:56 am
Cat in The Hat🎩
I stumbled onto your journal and read from the beginning... and read... and read... and finished up here. It's fascinating :)
Thank you so much for reading! I'm honoured

homeworkisapotato 🥔
AHAHAHA now I sound dumb!
Aww thank you, you're so sweet! Your study checklist thread is amazing!
Not at all, I didnt know it existed till this year!
Aww, I'm glad you like the study checklist! I have been super unmotivated and i saw that other members were too - hoping its helpful :)


Feels like its been longer then 2 weeks since I last updated

I have a math (Tuesday) and legal (thursday at 8AM WHO THOUGHT OF THAT GREAT IDEA) sac next week at school and we dont love that. I still havent finished the matricies exercises, which is my plan for today and at the rate im going ill have it done by lunch time giving me time to start of legal prep or revise matricies and do some extra work.
I have been procrastinating so so so so bad BUT i found the cure! I have been looking at purchasing a new surfboard and a chlorine resistant wetsuit (for both work and surfing). So i told myself if i can get all my sac prep done by today I can buy a new wetsuit AND when i finish all my notes etc for exams and do ONE praccy exam for each subject I can buy a new surfboard. So far it seems to be working because i really really realy would LOVE a new board and I havent been able to justify it because mid price ones are around $900 and I should be saving my money.

English
I'm so happy the comarative is over, and I did the best I could even tho I feel i didn't compare enough and was using more examples from one thext then the other. Hopefully I can improve this skill so i can smash the exam.
We are starting our (not)Oral presentation which is going to be a letter to the editor but not more then 300 words which seems not too bad! its 10 marks so I'm aiming for 10/10 because I dont think i did so flash on the comp.

Maths
This is the one class I wish was in person, its so hard to ask questions and get the teacher to explain something over video call. I've been travelling pretty slowly and am almost done matricies.

Psych
🤮 this class sucks at the moment! Like im enjoying the content but the delivery is HORRIBLE AND I AM SO OVER THIS CLASS! not lookign forward to in person, at least online i can chose not to watch the recordings and just do it by myself.

Bio
We are travelling super slow, and the class is behind and im just cruising. We only just started AOS2 for u4.

Legal
This class doesnt have video calls or video recordings. so i've not been doing the set homework.... 😬

Extra-curricular
SES Training has been online, and i really need to finish and send out the minutes for the working group!

To Do

Sunday
- Finish Matricies & Assignment 13
- Finish Bound Reference
- Legal SAC prep
      - watch edrolo
      - finish notes (hopefully)

Monday
- Matricies sac revision
      - checkpoints
      - cambridge chapter 13 ALL extended response questions
      - edrolo chapter check
      - Google form matricies quiz
      - neap extended response

Tuesday: MATH SAC DAY
- Legal SAC prep
      - finish notes if not done
      - ALL U4AOS2 Checkpoints

Wednesday
Buffer - in case I over estimate my ability

Thursday: legal sac day (scheduled way too early)
- Finish diagrams in my biology notes

Friday
- Finish U4AOS2 Psych Notes

I'll update on Sunday, and hopefully I'll have ordered a wesuit and am close to purchasing a new board! I hope everyone enjoys the last week of Term 3!

What are your plans for the holidays?
Title: Re: ✧ J_Rho's VCE Journey ✧
Post by: homeworkisapotato on September 13, 2020, 10:27:21 am
Aww, I'm glad you like the study checklist! I have been super unmotivated and i saw that other members were too - hoping its helpful :)
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It is very helpful indeed!

I have a math (Tuesday) and legal (thursday at 8AM WHO THOUGHT OF THAT GREAT IDEA) sac next week at school and we dont love that.
HAHAHA good luck! The way schools are organising stuff this year is so annoying

So far it seems to be working because i really really realy would LOVE a new board and I havent been able to justify it because mid price ones are around $900 and I should be saving my money.
It's great that you've found your motivation with a handy reward system. It's okay to treat yourself once in a while, you deserve this!

We are travelling super slow, and the class is behind and im just cruising. We only just started AOS2 for u4.
That's so weird!

What are your plans for the holidays?[/i]
Study mostly, plan for the term ahead, do some extra cooking as well!

I'm sure you'll have ordered your wetsuit! Do you buy black or blue, or prefer a more colourful design?
Title: Re: ✧ J_Rho's VCE Journey ✧
Post by: bluebird on September 16, 2020, 11:18:37 am
wowow J_Rho i rlly love reading through ur journal, its rlly amazing to see u power thru and one heck of a year, online. it has definitely inspired me. good luck for ur legal sac  ;D and hopefully ur maths one went well. im sure u did gr8.
"I have been procrastinating so so so so bad" (still figuring AN out bear with me) me tooooooo i know it aint the same bc im in yr10 but everyone i've talked to has said the exact same thing since quarantine started so hopefully that's a bit of comfort. I'm glad you have found the cure tho ;)
my plans for the holidays are extremely not interesting consisting of watching youtube and shows and then regretting it on sunday night just b4 monday and completing all my assignments and hw then.
Title: Re: ✧ J_Rho's VCE Journey ✧
Post by: lm21074 on October 31, 2020, 04:28:40 pm
Hey J_Rho!

How's it going? :)
Title: Re: ✧ J_Rho's VCE Journey ✧
Post by: J_Rho on November 13, 2020, 05:56:38 pm
I was in a car accident and im getting derived scores for all my exams, i dont know how it really works BUT thats not what im asking.

These are the lowest sac scores i got for these subjects and are lower then my averages but lets assume they my avereages i dont wanna get my hopes up
English: 70%
Maths: 60%
Bio: 90%
Legal: 60%
Psych: 80%

What kind of ballpark study scores could i be looking at and do you think i might be able to get an atar good enough to get me into uni or should i asume the worst and start looking to apply to tafes

pls dont relpy with condolences or whatever, its really quite hard as ive been working towards atar and uni and all of a sudden i cant even hold a cup of tea, let alone get out of bed or write an essay without my muscles spazaming and being in a lot of pain.
i might update my journal with some details later if im not too tired
essentially my tyre blew on a gravel road which was too loose and as its a 100kmph road (i was going 50 max 60) i lost control of the car (stupid front wheel drives, fkn only good for smooth bitumin) and i flipped it twice. nothings broken just lots of pain.
Title: Re: ✧ J_Rho's VCE Journey ✧
Post by: The Cat In The Hat on November 13, 2020, 06:21:51 pm
I was in a car accident and im getting derived scores for all my exams, i dont know how it really works BUT thats not what im asking.

These are the lowest sac scores i got for these subjects and are lower then my averages but lets assume they my avereages i dont wanna get my hopes up
English: 70%
Maths: 60%
Bio: 90%
Legal: 60%
Psych: 80%

What kind of ballpark study scores could i be looking at and do you think i might be able to get an atar good enough to get me into uni or should i asume the worst and start looking to apply to tafes

pls dont relpy with condolences or whatever, its really quite hard as ive been working towards atar and uni and all of a sudden i cant even hold a cup of tea, let alone get out of bed or write an essay without my muscles spazaming and being in a lot of pain.
i might update my journal with some details later if im not too tired
essentially my tyre blew on a gravel road which was too loose and as its a 100kmph road (i was going 50 max 60) i lost control of the car (stupid front wheel drives, fkn only good for smooth bitumin) and i flipped it twice. nothings broken just lots of pain.
Derived scores come from I think a mixture of your SAC marks and mostly the GAT - which is why they DO the GAT. Mainly they come from the GAT. So if you did well in the GAT you'll get good exam scores, I believe. (I know someone who calculated if they'd got a DES for each subject they would've actually done better than they did.)

Running the SAC scores through as unit 3, unit 4 and exam, through keltingmeith's study score calculator, you'd get (selecting the middle score in the range):
English - ~34.5
Maths - ~29
Bio - ~42
Legal - ~30.5
Psych - ~38

And running that through the ATAR calculator here on AN, it's giving an ATAR of just over 81, based on last year's data. There's a lot of guesswork in this, obviously, though.

So it looks like you'll be very much fine as far as your ATAR is concerned.
Title: Re: ✧ J_Rho's VCE Journey ✧
Post by: J_Rho on November 13, 2020, 06:35:48 pm
Derived scores come from I think a mixture of your SAC marks and mostly the GAT - which is why they DO the GAT. Mainly they come from the GAT. So if you did well in the GAT you'll get good exam scores, I believe. (I know someone who calculated if they'd got a DES for each subject they would've actually done better than they did.)

Running the SAC scores through as unit 3, unit 4 and exam, through keltingmeith's study score calculator, you'd get (selecting the middle score in the range):
English - ~34.5
Maths - ~29
Bio - ~42
Legal - ~30.5
Psych - ~38

And running that through the ATAR calculator here on AN, it's giving an ATAR of just over 81, based on last year's data. There's a lot of guesswork in this, obviously, though.

So it looks like you'll be very much fine as far as your ATAR is concerned.

idk how i did on the gat tho like thats the 'unpredictable' element. i have no idea...i think i went good but who knows!
thank you though!
Title: Re: ✧ J_Rho's VCE Journey ✧
Post by: Bri MT on November 13, 2020, 06:49:56 pm
Do you have any idea of your rank and how students in your cohort tend to /  are likely to perform?
Title: Re: ✧ J_Rho's VCE Journey ✧
Post by: J_Rho on November 14, 2020, 06:20:11 am
Do you have any idea of your rank and how students in your cohort tend to /  are likely to perform?
im in  the top 3rd of students in most (except legal) my classes, i know the top kids will do super well but there are others that i suspect may struggle to get 50% on the exam
Title: Re: ✧ J_Rho's VCE Journey ✧
Post by: Bri MT on November 14, 2020, 07:45:13 am
im in  the top 3rd of students in most (except legal) my classes, i know the top kids will do super well but there are others that i suspect may struggle to get 50% on the exam

Sounds like you're on track to do super well too then
Title: Re: ✧ J_Rho's VCE Journey ✧
Post by: J_Rho on January 18, 2021, 03:34:11 pm
mini update cause i feel like i dont belong in my journal no more cause its been forever since i properly updated and i didnt sit exams thanks brain!

okay so I got into Nursing at Monash Peninsula and I'm waiting for second round to see if i can go to clayton as im applying for jobs in that area and i reckon itd work better, fingers crossed. I also got accepted into accomodation at peninsula but monash said that if i get a offer from clayton ive got a spot in the urban community but i dont want to get my hopes up. im going in for an mri on wednesday to check there is no nerve pinching or disc damage as ive made no improvement in my recovery over the last 10 weeks which is annoyingggggggg.
Title: Re: ✧ J_Rho's VCE Journey ✧
Post by: The Cat In The Hat on January 19, 2021, 07:34:07 am
mini update cause i feel like i dont belong in my journal no more cause its been forever since i properly updated and i didnt sit exams thanks brain!

okay so I got into Nursing at Monash Peninsula and I'm waiting for second round to see if i can go to clayton as im applying for jobs in that area and i reckon itd work better, fingers crossed. I also got accepted into accomodation at peninsula but monash said that if i get a offer from clayton ive got a spot in the urban community but i dont want to get my hopes up. im going in for an mri on wednesday to check there is no nerve pinching or disc damage as ive made no improvement in my recovery over the last 10 weeks which is annoyingggggggg.
Good for you getting into Nursing! Hope you recover soon....