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Re: Evolio's VCE Journey
« Reply #105 on: May 26, 2019, 12:25:58 pm »
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Ohhh.
Well, how are you finding 3/4 specialist maths?
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« Reply #106 on: May 26, 2019, 01:16:40 pm »
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Hmmm in terms of content yeah I find it pretty enjoyable
in terms of marks....well that is another story

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« Reply #107 on: May 29, 2019, 07:59:53 am »
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Hello!!

Congrats on your bio sac!! Hope you did as you hoped on the analysis part too! And yep watching videos to consolidate info or even learn info is super useful!

Oops I left my methods sac notes and did them all yesterday haha, but I'm having my sac too hopefully all goes well for us!

Yass psychology is amazing! One of THE BEST subjects!

Omg sameee tbh I don't get all the hype around fan fiction, for me nothing can compare to the original but I suppose it's interesting to read other interpretations sometimes...

Loving your journal x

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« Reply #108 on: May 29, 2019, 05:50:08 pm »
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Hello!!

Congrats on your bio sac!! Hope you did as you hoped on the analysis part too! And yep watching videos to consolidate info or even learn info is super useful!
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Thank you! I'm now looking towards my next biology SAC which is in 4 weeks which is not that long away. I really need to start learning some content. Do you watch videos frequently to consolidate? If so what subject do you watch videos for?

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Oops I left my methods sac notes and did them all yesterday haha, but I'm having my sac too hopefully all goes well for us!
Oh, that's okay. I hope your SAC goes well! I know you'll do amazing!

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Omg sameee tbh I don't get all the hype around fan fiction, for me nothing can compare to the original but I suppose it's interesting to read other interpretations sometimes...
Haha, yeah. I thought I'd get roasted for not reading fanfuc but I've found someone who feels the same way about it!

See you around!
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« Reply #109 on: May 29, 2019, 09:14:09 pm »
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Hello!
Thank you! I'm now looking towards my next biology SAC which is in 4 weeks which is not that long away. I really need to start learning some content. Do you watch videos frequently to consolidate? If so what subject do you watch videos for?


I'm always watching videos mainly for Chemistry and sometimes Methods, and last year I found some amazing ones for Psych. Sometimes hearing it explained in a much more simpler, approachable manner can be incredibly enlightening, like a lightbulb literally goes off when you finally 'get it'. Highly, highly recommend doing this!!

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« Reply #110 on: May 31, 2019, 05:15:55 pm »
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Hello guys!
I hope you had a nice week full of fun!  ;D


Mathematical Methods
First SAC: Experience
To be honest with you, I wasn’t freaking out or anything. Instead, I was in a meditative mindset where I was just trying to be in the present and do what I had to do in the now. I know that may sound all weird and strange, but it works and it makes sense.
So, this SAC part was in our normal methods room. When we got handed our booklets, I remember just staring at the front page and thinking how beautiful the front page was (don’t judge me, it was a SAC. I go a bit loony at that time’. When reading time started, I read through the questions and my confidence levelled up one at a time as I thought to myself ‘I can actually do this stuff. I might actually not fail.’ In the middle, there were a few weird questions scattered here and there and then I got to the last question. The last question was...interesting. There was 15 mins reading time so I just used all that time, planning the answers in my head. I found that it was a good strategy.
When writing time started, I quickly flipped to the first page and started scribbling my answers as quickly as I could as I was not a timely person and so I needed to do everything very fast so that I could finish in time, attempt all the questions and maybe even check over my work. I did the questions that I was able to do first and then the other ones later. The very last question had me thinking a lot so while I was thinking, I just checked over my answers and then went back to it. This was a recurring cycle. Then I got the answer to the first part of the last question but no hope for the very last question, so I just scribbled some working out down, as much as I could that could relate to the question so I might get method marks.
This SAC was no notes and CAS and it was after school.

Second SAC: Experience
Today, I was also in a meditative mindset. This SAC was MUCH harder than the first SAC we did. I put something down for every question but I don’t know if the random stuff I put down will deserve method marks well...because they were random. Or not. I tried to relate it to the question so that it was more valid to receive method marks. Fingers crossed. This was a 40 min test with 5 mins reading time with CAS and notes. So, this was a very different test. This test was very abstract in my opinion and it was much harder than the VCAA questions I did in preparation for this SAC. Ot was much harder than the hardest VCAA questions I did.This SAC had some weird questions that I didn’t really understand.
With this SAC experience so far(not finished yet), I don’t know how to feel. I mean, I really hope that I did not fail. Other people found it really hard as well. I just really want to do well in methods. I still want to get that RAW 50. I’m going to keep fighting till the end because of this lovely quote which keeps me going.
‘Shoot for the moon. Even if you’ll miss, you’ll land among the stars’.- Oscar Wilde

Biology
Yeah, so my next SAC is in like 3 weeks and I really need to learn that immune system stuff. This SAC will apparently have some multiple choice which is new. Started listening to one of Douchy’s podcasts this week so that’s progress. I definitely recommend for anyone studying biology because you can literally listen to it anywhere.
We’ve started the immune system and we’ve also looked at rational drug design which was interesting. Sort of. Not really. I don’t really find this immune stuff interesting except for some titbits here and there. Really looking forward to Unit 4 though!

Chemistry
This is probably the happiest update for chemistry I’ve ever done in my entire life! I got a 90% on my Moles Test! I did this test on Tuesday and I thought I completely flunked it because I literally left two questions blank with some working out present. But I still managed to get a 90%. I think I would’ve gotten a 93% if I had not made a silly mistake. But still it’s my highest score this year for anything and I really am glad! Squeee! I have hope for chemistry. My chemistry exam is approaching fast and I really need to revise the trends of the periodic table, metals and covalent bonding. I should do some NEAP questions and checkpoints questions. Soon. Apparently the chemistry exam is really moles heavy so I should practice more moles questions just in case, especially since I had my queries cleared up with the mistakes on the moles test.
We also learned more about organic chemistry. We drew isomers and we also looked at combustion reactions. Balancing the equations was fun. I love balancing equations. It’s amazing. It’s bringing back memories of last year’s science classes and the chemistry olympiad. I really want to do well in chemistry this year.

Specialist Mathematics
We didn’t really do much this week as our teacher was basically away for the whole week. But the exercises were pretty straightforward. I am one exercise ahead and I am planning to do some revision questions from the chapter review so that I am still keeping up with the complex numbers. Apparently, there’s a test in 2 weeks so I want to prepare for that and get above 90%. I also got my exam back today. At first, I was happy after calculating the percentage but then that happiness dwindled down to regret and anger because of the silly mistakes I made. I didn’t read a diagram right which cost me 3 marks. Argh! A plus was that I got all the multiple choice right so yay! I have gotten above 80% in 3 of my tests in Specialist and now I want to start getting all my test scores above 90%. That is my goal for the rest of the year. I want to be well equipped with these important skills for next year.

Literature
We continued to work on out fanfics. Mine has progressed into something really weird but people love that stuff so it’s fine. We’ve also continued reading Much Ado ABout Nothing and I think we are halfway through which is great. The story is heating up now and I am really enjoying the class discussions we are having about this play.
I feel like I’m not doing much for Literature and I should be. Maybe I should start writing an essay a week and have my teacher correct it for me. Yes, I shall do that. That way, at least, I am working towards something. Working towards improving my literature essays which really need more depth and expansion.

Psychology
I have the write up of my research project on Monday, second period which is in test conditions. It’s literally an essay assessment that is being done in class with a time limit. I also have my psychology test on Thursday. It is 40 mins and it is on AOS2. I have borrowed the checkpoints book from the library which will hopefully aid me on my adventurous quest to achieve a magnificent 100% on this test.

St Johns
I didn’t go this week, which made me really guilty as I also didn’t go last week. All because of my biology and methods sacs. I want to go next week but I don’t know if i will since it is also busy.

More Thoughts
I want to put a lot of effort into my ½ subjects as well. Like a lot because I realised that if I work really hard this year and keep up the consistent work then it will be a smooth transition for next year and I don’t have to suddenly work hard. So, I am going to have the attitude that every test I do is a SAC so I am essentially doing 6 3 4 subjects this year when you think about it using that approach. Let’s see if this works. Gonna be fun.

Last weekend family friend gathering
Last weekend, me and my family friends hung out on Saturday night. It was great since I hadn’t seen them for a long time. We watched the latest Halloween movie which was full of violence. It was good but disgusting. It was too dark and bloody for me. I like horror movies that have a storyline instead of the ones that have a serial killer.

Other Stuff
I also finished watching all the Shrek movies again(except for the first one) for like the bazillionth time. I love Shrek and I always will. The characters are just so fun to be around. What would the world be like without Shrek? This week, I was watching bits of Pitch Perfect again for like the fourth time. It's a funny movie and it's pretty interesting as well. I really need to watch 2 and 3. Does anyone have any shows on netflix that they recommend?

Well, that’s all folks!
I hope you liked this entry.
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Byeeee!
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Re: Evolio's VCE Journey
« Reply #111 on: June 09, 2019, 11:03:12 am »
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Hello guys! :)
I hope you’re enjoying your long weekend!
This week was so busy. So busy. It was probably the busiest week in my entire schooling career.
WARNING: HIGHLY DRAMATISED. HIGHLY.

1st BATTLE
On Monday, I charged into battle with my trusty sword at my side and my ancient shield on my left. Today was the day. The looming psychology research report that we had to write up in class. As I started, the time ticked. As each second passes, I heard it loud and clear as if it was daring me to finish on time. I typed my gibberish notes onto my laptop, working like a laborious robot, not caring if the sentences were grammatically correct. I was only concerned with writing everything down so that I could carefully check it later. Everyone around me looked like they were typing servants for their great master, who craved perfection in everything it did. They were focused and concentrated, on the task at hand. When the bell rang, our teacher took pity on our brave souls and offered a boon that we would be able to stay in during lunch and finish this great task off. I accepted and so did one of my friends. I finished it with time to spare during the lunch break. Although, I was sad to have abandoned the volunteering club that I usually go to during this time. But, I had to sacrifice it to finish my report. And so I did. And I have no regrets. All is well. That is one task accomplished and I cross it off my list with great happiness.

2nd BATTLE
My next task that I had to complete was rather a larger one than the psychology report. Considerably larger. It was the biggest of them all. The last component of the Methods SAC, PART D. Audience cries in fear and some erupt in tears. It was after school, like the second part, but it felt different. The atmosphere was different. The weather was different. People’s faces were different. Everything was different. As I sat myself down at one of the rickety tables, I observed. Some people laughed and sang One Direction, others stared at the table intensely as if hoping for a miracle and others jumped around in fear like little bunnies. I took out my brother’s watch and set it on the table and organised all of my stationery. This was it. The last part. The last thing that I could use to redeem myself. When reading time started, I flipped through the pages, growing more scared towards the end where there were my weaknesses. Hybrid functions and limits. I suppressed my agony by shoving a fist in my mouth. I rode on, to the last page where there was a multiple choice. All the options looked homogenous. But alas, they were not. When writing time started, I conquered as many questions as I could, knowing my comrades would be able to as well. One of the questions stumped me so I left it for dead and strode on. The other questions were okay, but I was jittery when I finished all the questions. I was able to check over all the questions and last minute, I changed my option for the multiple choice. When I finished the SAC, I help up my bloody sword and yelled heartily. My fellow soldiers did so as well, some running out of the classroom and down the hallways to race home and eat buckets of ice cream. The task was finished. I checked it off my list as I walked home, in silence and in deep thought. There were two more tasks left that I had yet to conquer, but I knew in my heart that I would do my best. I had no regrets after finishing this task and I felt great satisfaction for that. This part of the SAC was probably the best one.

3rd BATTLE
The next task that I had to complete to achieve supreme greatness was the Psychology Test. Yes, another psychology component. Why? You may ask. I will answer with, I do not know. Through reading time, I looked over the questions and some filled me with great dread while others balanced the dread and filled me with joy. The questions were information regurgitated and there was not one scenario in the test, which I was very surprised about. But then again, the test was on development. I finished the test, just in time where I was able to check over my answers for some of the questions. I cannot think of any regrets so I left the room in happiness. After this test, we had no other assessments. As I thought about how we were going to start Unit 2 next week, my heart leaped. I checked off this task off my coffee stained list and looked ahead to my next task.

4th BATTLE
The Chemistry Exam. Leading up to Friday, I thought about how hard it would be and how they were going to put many questions that I would do countless errors in. Talk about expectation VS reality. As we were allowed to start the test, I raced through the questions like a racehorse, unable to be restrained. None of the questions I encountered were easy, per se. I define an easy question as one that requires no thinking but a reflex action. There were none of those. This is where I faint and wait for any ‘easy’ questions. As I finished all the questions in the exam, I couldn’t help thinking about the two multiple choice I was not sure about. Fast Forward to: the exam finished and we threw our chemistry revision papers into the air in glee. Our teacher handed out a box of chocolates and everyone rummaged for a malteser. I got a malteser. Then we were let out of our cages and into the year 10 locker bay like free doves that were yet to find a real sense of adventure. The exam was okay, I told myself. I had no regrets and so I patted myself on the back and walked to my locker with a big grin that I hoped nobody would see. I checked off this last task. I was done and it felt awesome. I had no more assessments. It was Friday. I had a free last period. I was thinking of buying chips. What a way to feel proud of yourself!

POST-BATTLE
As I sat on the train, reminiscing over all the blood, sweat and tears I put into my training for the battles, I thought about how this wasn’t the end and that there were going to be even more harder battles to be fought.  I also thought about the stuff Douchy (Douchy’s Biology Podcast) was saying about the different types of immunity which was interesting, I guess.
After I came home, I did no studying even though I had a literature essay due on Wednesday, GAT day and an application due on the Tuesday.
Saturday, yesterday, I did no studying either except go to Methods Tuition.
Today, I hope to finish off the truckload of exercises our Methods teacher gave us on Antidifferentiation and also start my essay. I want today to be productive.

Yeah, that was my dramatised recount of the battles I conquered this week. I had something to do everyday and it was a never ending tale of woe.
I didn’t end up going to St Johns this week either as my mother forced me not to go so that I could study for my methods SAC. I really wanted to go though but she wouldn’t allow it. I can’t even go tomorrow, because it’s a public holiday. Next next week it is.
I hope you dudes enjoyed this highly dramatised recount. It might become a recurring thing.  ;D
Wait, I just realised I have another battle coming up. The Battle of the GAT. Gotta start training for that as well. (Insert defiant emoji).

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« Reply #112 on: June 12, 2019, 06:55:44 pm »
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How did the GAT go? Just interested since you actually studied...

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« Reply #113 on: June 12, 2019, 09:17:20 pm »
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How did the GAT go? Just interested since you actually studied...
Hey! I think it went okay. I found it harder than last year's. The writing topics were really interesting and I thoroughly enjoyed writing the first writing task!
How'd it go for you?
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« Reply #114 on: June 12, 2019, 10:48:40 pm »
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Hey! I think it went okay. I found it harder than last year's. The writing topics were really interesting and I thoroughly enjoyed writing the first writing task!
How'd it go for you?
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Smashed the writing tasks and for the maths q.s in the M.C I nearly guessed half of them.

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« Reply #115 on: June 12, 2019, 11:11:23 pm »
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The Battle of the GAT. Gotta start training for that as well. (Insert defiant emoji).

How you are doing the GAT if you are only doing Unit 1/2 Bio and Methods?
I'm curious because I'm doing a Unit 1/2 subject this year and I didn't do it.
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« Reply #116 on: June 13, 2019, 06:46:32 am »
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How you are doing the GAT if you are only doing Unit 1/2 Bio and Methods?
I'm curious because I'm doing a Unit 1/2 subject this year and I didn't do it.
Oh, I'm actually going Methods 3 4 and Biology 3 4.
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« Reply #117 on: June 13, 2019, 05:06:00 pm »
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Oh, I'm actually going Methods and Biology 3 4.
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Okay :)
What do you think of Methods and how difficult is it?

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« Reply #118 on: June 13, 2019, 05:32:52 pm »
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Okay :)
What do you think of Methods and how difficult is it?
Hi! Personally, I find Methods quite fun, even though I'm not that great at it! It's a bit challenging at times but when you do more and more practice questions, you feel more confident with the different question styles.
For the difficulty level, it depends on which topic you are studying and what your strengths and weaknesses are. For example, my weaknesses are general solutions so I find it hard but my strength is exponentials and logarithms which I find pretty straightforward.

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« Reply #119 on: June 20, 2019, 06:04:02 pm »
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Hello guys.
This is going to be a very sad post (on purpose) so just putting that out there. Note that I am usually an optimistic person. Like, I'm the most optimistic person I know. Trust me. But, my life has gone downhill since yesterday.

Yesterday I got my Methods SAC Part 1 back and I got 76%. Can I just say that I was expecting that? Like, I knew I did really bad because I didn't understand most of the questions from Part C. I was fairly okay when I got back the mark. But now, today, I feel really depressed. I already had my crying session an hour ago which allowed me to let out all my emotions. All of it. All of the helplessness, regret, depression, sadness and disgusting feelings I was feeling. No, I wasn't feeling sorry for myself. I was crying because I didn't know what I was doing wrong. I don't know what I should fix so that I can do better next time. The worst part is not knowing why I got such a low mark  rather than the fact that I did not get that big fat 100%. Ever since I got to this school, nothing makes sense anymore. It's an extremely competitive cohort which is a lot of pressure and distress. Nowadays this year, I have cried on multiple occasions.  The even more depressing this is that the average was 72% so I basically got average.
What I'm trying to do now is just think about how I can do better. How I can get full marks on my next sac. I feel really bad because I don't know what to do to achieve that goal. Like, my prediction is that I am not understanding the concepts/questions deep enough to understand what the question is asking. I am not analysing it enough. Even in my practice doing checkpoints and past papers and trial exams, I feel like I sped through the questions focusing more on yep do that question, then do the next one, then do the next one instead of mindfully thinking 'what is the question asking me to do?' How will I go about solving it? Have I used all the information available?
I am trying this new technique of analysing the question and then answering it in a way that makes sense instead of randomly doing it in a way that I think that makes sense and should be able to get me the right answer. There's a difference.
I feel that this is really hard to target these very vague mistakes and then solve them. It's very open so you don't know if that is actually the specific mistake. I just feel really down now and I have started preparing for my next methods sac which is in 3 weeks, quick I know, sad I know, and I am just trying to do the questions extremely mindfully to make sure that I completely and fully understand what I need to do and how I am going to solve it.
I hate that we're not allowed to keep our sacs so I have organised a session with my teacher where hopefully I can gauge 'what am I doing wrong? What is the underlying problem? How do I fix it? And of course to go through the superficial mistakes I made on the sac. My goal of getting a raw study score of 50 in Methods is running away from me and I am running hoping to catch up to it. But I don't know if I'll reach it. Or if I'll go somewhere dark. This is terrible. I feel like crying all over again. This is so hard. I think some mistakes I got on the sac is also because I legit didn't know that. Like I did not know that you change the domain of the derivative as endpoints are not defined. Okay, maybe I did not know that, but I didn't understand it enough to give a domain for the new function.
Sometimes I wonder what it would be like if I was still at my old school. Would I have thrived and been happy? Or would I have died and been sad like how I'm feeling now? I can't help thinking that this school brought me down and the toxic environment intoxicated me so much that I am declining. I have no more successes anymore and I am always being compared. I don't think that's right. And I know it's not right. This toxicity is not good.
Also, I got my psychology mark back which is 89%.32/36. Very bad. I studied so hard for the test and getting a mark that is not in the 90s makes me want to dig a hole, crawl into it and die. I think this is the same problem with methods. I am just not understanding the real content to be able to understand how to answer all types of questions.
I got my chemistry exam back, it was 79%. Very very very very very bad. This is because I don't understand the content.

Okay, that was probably the most morbid thing I've felt in my life. Thank you for reading.