Arty, Why’s, Evolio, Geo, Thunderdragon
Hey guys I just wanted to say thank you for your kind words about my UCAT score it really means a lot 😊😊
100 days [and 12 hours] till the Chem exam! A monumous occasion! What better day to post!! 💫💫💫I said to myself I’ll update once a month but there’s only 3 more months of year 12 and I’m gonna miss this so much so why not enjoy it! Also idk what i want to do and course selections are closing so so soon.
Biology Our GTAC excursion was cancelled because of lockdown
(I’m not trying to seem spoilt or anything I know the lockdown was necessary and am not against it). Only 2 SACs left which could make or break my ss. I know I say this every update but it’s the only subject I have a chance of doing really well. SAC for AOS2 is on Monday and hopefully I can do as well as I’ve been doing in practise SACs. This AOS is weird......I feel like I’m writing down “fake” answers which I’m not sure of and then get them correct....major imposter syndrome. Apparently the AOS1 sac is in 2 weeks but we haven’t even started that content?!?!!
Chemistry Analysis of organic compound sac on Monday...done! I low key panicked though it was serious this has only happened once before. Only out of 22 marks so we’ll see how that goes possibly another 70%. Ive come to terms with the fact I won’t get a 40 but I’m still gonna try to do my best- whatever that may be because I love Chem so so much! I know everyone says organic Chem is rote learning and memorisation but I don’t really understand that? Maybe that explains my grades hehe. Anyway food Chem is great I just sit back and chill because it’s Biology AOS1 revision woooop. Also I finally learned why altering primary structure changes function......I was never bothered to answer that question in bio. Did a practise Chem exam yesterday......Im getting so pumped for the exam! I’m grateful I took the time in term 2 holidays to revise U3. But I found the 2010 exam was irrelevant(ish) I know it’s because it’s a different SD but I don’t wanna touch combined unit 3 and 4 exams till closer to the date- after all the Chem exam is the furthest away.
Chem SAC panic attack
There was this high res HNMR I couldn’t draw and I’d done every vcaa question on this and there were some that just never clicked. I panicked moved on and did volumetric analysis and other questions. I went back spending 15 minutes on that question trying to calm myself down to get it saying it’s only one mark it’s okay you can do it. I finally got it in the last minute. Then started checking through my work and I just couldn’t- I couldn’t read anymore I couldn’t understand the words I was so scared I don’t even know why, I’d done the sac checked over and I can’t even describe this. I have certain coping techniques to use but when I thought about it afterwards I wouldn’t have been able to use them as I wasn’t even aware of what anything really was or that I was uneasy. Usually I can positive self talk or whatever but this was way different. I was shaking afterwards and my chest felt so- however it feels when your literally in danger. I felt horrible for 2 hours even after I went for a short run. I hated that. I hope this doesn’t happen in my Bio sac on Monday. I don’t wanna be dramatic and say this was a panic attack but I’m really not sure what it was. It wasn’t like a mind blank because I was completely gone; it was unpleasant.
English Haha I’m going to fail this exam. Why can I not write a text response. Anyway my teacher returned my paragraph and I’ve FINALLY GOT AUTHORIAL INTENT 🥳. I just need to make my topic sentence relevant to contention and do the justification at the end of the paragraph. Thanks to everyone who painstakingly drilled that into this thick skull of mine
) Comparitive SAC pushed back to week 10 and I know I can’t stop people cheating but I can just try my very best and hope that’s enough. That’s all I can ask of myself (I may or may not have stole this from an Instagram post or another AN journal I can’t remember but whoever it was- thank you I am now healthier for that😊). My The Longest Memory (TLM) summary is going along nicely although I have no themes........I’m not sure how I’ll compare it to 7 stages of grieving but one day at a time shall we? It’s been hard balancing doing well at upcoming comparative sac and fixing up my text response- kudos to my beautiful teacher for helping (yeah I know our relationship has changed from previous entries..........) apparently I’m the only one who goes to her for help?? That’s strange my school is full of people willing to do anything to succeed. Also asked my teacher about Lang Analysis. It’s difficult for them to moderate it from home (there’s like 200 and idk how moderation works but different teachers mark different stuff like twice!) imagine doing that over zoom. Anyway almost every (incl. me) got that target audience wrong but she said if you got the target audience right for the second article you’d get partial marks- which I did! Hopefully I do decently 🤞
MethodsBAHAHAHAHAHA. Sorry I’ll be serious now. The SAC is two weeks from today and I will at least get 50% or die trying. I’ll settle for a pass though (40%). You guys have probably never seen numbers that low but.....it is what it is. The SAC is a google form yay me [not]. BUT THERES NO PROBABILLITY!!!!!! I should not fail. I will not fail!!
This is pretty random but typing that reminded me of a quote from TLM “Father, I am running. I feel joy; not fear.”
Psychology Our research methods sac was cancelled. Everything’s chill atm. U4 AOS 2 SAC in week 9. I have been avoiding exam revision. I know psychology is “easy” but it’s really not research methods will be the death of me. Anyway we have 10 pages VCAA research Methods questions. Maybe that’ll absolve me. Also I just talked the WHOLE of unit 3 to my mum bless her! Turns out I know way more than I thought. I’m feeling really good about that as I’ve done no other homework tonight. I also realised that I’m not too fussed about psych exams because throughout the year they forced us to do vcaa exam questions so I’ve done ALL of them. I’ll obviously do prac exams later on but right now I feel okay as I know how to answer them what they look for etc. I wish they did that in bio as the exam answering technique is WAY different to SACs.
⭐️ Hypothetical Term 3 Exam Revsion⭐️
I wanna do maybe one Chem exam a week but it’ll depend. I want to work on whatever I did wrong in the exam through the week but if I don’t have time I obviously won’t do another one because there no point in doing another exam. Here are my goals by end of term
- 1 unit 3 psych exam (maybe neap?)
- 4 U3 Chem exams (I’ve already done 2 haha)
- 1-2 Chem U4 exams
- Lots and lots of English practise 😁 by hand!
- 2 U3 bio exams (done one) maybe 1 unit 4?
- For methods I already do checkpoints regularly and I’m so poor at it I SHOULD NOT be diving in before getting my basics together like I do for every other subject.
A muddle of courses imma chuck on VTAC
- Medicine at Monash (??)
- Dentistry at Latrobe
- Medical Imaging at Monash
- Science at Monash
- Science at Melbourne
- I’d love to do science before committing to a specific health field but my parents hate that idea
( Medicine has ?? As idk if I have the mental strength for that I mean I can barely get myself together can I really help others?