29 / 03 / 2019 - Friday Week 9, Term 1AND THAT'S A WRAP ON TERM ONE! Can you believe it? We're now 1/4 of the way through!!
Should I be getting nervous?We had an early finish today which is definitely welcomed!
Further: We just got our SAC back last period – and I got a 96%. Not a bad score IMO, but I definitely could’ve done better – all my marks were lost over silly mistakes like forgetting a negative sign in one question and accidentally swapping the numerator and denominator in another.
What worries me is that for all my silly mistakes, the teacher took 0.5 marks off. But VCAA doesn’t do half marks do they? So in reality, my score should’ve been around a 90%.
I got the highest mark in my class, and rank 2 in my year level (someone got full marks haha). Ngl, I’m aiming for rank one in further. I really have to work on not making silly mistakes from now on.
Biology: Well I guess I better talk about the SAC too. I did better than expected, which doesn’t say much considering my prediction was 40. I ended up getting a 58%, which isn’t GREAT but honestly I’m just thankful I didn’t fail. Now swap those two digits around and you get my brother’s SAC score LOL.
As for rankings - I don't know exactly where I rank but it's not too hard to estimate. The average was nearly 70%, which isn't good news for me.
Methods: I'm having such a conflicted relationship with it. On some days it’s all I want to do and on other I just want to chuck Math Quest out the window. Please tell me I’m not the only one who feels like this 24/7.
In terms of progress, I recently finished calculus and have moved on to probability. My plan is to finish all the content before the start of term 2, so that I can start powering through exam-style questions earlier. I’m hoping that probability would be a breeze, considering the overlaps with further.
Chemistry: Still a nightmare. Apparently our next SAC (dear god, we’re onto our second SAC already??) will be within the first week of term 2. Wow! How comforting.
Chess: I've kinda given up. Our teacher lets year 12s do whatever we want, so I've just been showing up to roll-call so that I don't fail the '97% attendance' part. Haven't taken part in games at all, instead retreating to the library immediately after marking my off name to work on actual subjects. Not the best mindset lol.
Still haven't taken even a GLANCE at UCAT practice questions at all, and the test is looming closer and closer. I've registered, so I probably SHOULD take this seriously, but there's just so much happening at once!
For the holidays, my number one focus is methods, methods, METHODS! The goal is to finish all textbook questions. For further, I'm aiming to complete two company trial exams (don't wanna start VCAA ones just yet). I've got an abundance of worksheets for biology and chemistry which I should also get through, and maybe finally do SOMETHING for the UCAT!
Let's see how long I can keep myself accountable for (lol). My bet is three days.
Thanks for sticking through the first term of year 12 with me <3 I'm so glad I started this journal!!
Love you all,
Colline xx
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hi colline! i absolutely love reading your vce journal! are you planning on updating soon?
hope you don't mind but i have a question - why did you choose vet for music but not vet for dance? for performance subjects, are there significant differences between vce and vet? i have a friend who's thinking of doing music performance for vce but doesnt know whether or not she should do the vet version.
sorry for hijacking your journal. thanks!!!
congrats on all your amazing scores by the way, you'll smash it this year!
Hey Jean24601! Thanks for reading
I don't update too often, otherwise I might just spend too much time procrastinating!
Don't mind your question at all! I chose VET music cos that was what my school offered. And VCE dance due to scaling, which was a REALLY dumb decision because in hindsight I would've done much better in VET honestly even with the -6 scaling.
As for the difference between the two: VET is more focused on application while VCE has a lot of theory. That was another reason why I went for VET music - I know nothing about music theory! VCE performance exams all have a practical AND a written component, while VET only has practical.
(Also VET tend to scale down more than VCE but don't focus on this too much!)
I would suggest to ask your friend whether she's better with practical or theory - if practical, go for VET. If theory, VCE. Also, if she's thinking of a career in music, VET might be better as you actually get a qualification at the end that looks quite good on the CV! (But then I might be biased lol!)