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Re: Weekly Journal
« Reply #30 on: July 19, 2021, 08:19:55 pm »
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19/7/2021 - T3 Week 2
First week / Goals

The first week of term has passed, I think that for once time seemed to go slowly. Probably since there was a longer weekend due to the lockdown starting Friday. I was still productive for most of the week, but didn’t read ransom again because I spent too much time on other tasks. I also decided to postpone doing the methods worksheets until I’ve reviewed all the concepts in them since it would take too long to cram all the content in a week.

I decided to start writing an essay in the morning every day. Apparently it’s good to start your day off with your most difficult task. I think it’s also beneficial because there are no distractions in the morning and it’s easy to be consistent with it.

My oral presentation SAC’s due date for English has been moved to be due at the end of next week. I feel like it’s too much time to be working on the SAC, but I’ll use it as an opportunity to perfect what I’ve already written. I was going to have cross-country today but that was postponed because of the lockdown.

I’m aiming for as high as possible of a study score in English (50 if possible), and a raw 40 in methods. I’m not sure if it’s even possible to get a 40 with my bad SAC marks for SAC 1 that makes up 50% of the SAC mark. I think I’ll be lucky to get a 50% on the methods SAC. I know that your ranking is more important than the mark, but with a mark like that I doubt it’s possible to rank highly either, but who knows? I should be able to get to a high enough standard with English through diligent practice and incremental improvement with timed practice and feedback. There’s not much point in speculation right now.

Last Week’s Goals:
- Assigned specialist work (if anything new gets added)
- Re-learn methods topics
- Complete last 3 Methods worksheets
- Complete statement of intention for oral
- Record oral presentation speech
- Read ransom again & other resources on it
- Revise Anki decks daily

T3 Week 2 Goals:
- Assigned specialist work
- Master Methods ch. 10 (first half)
- Complete methods ch. 11
- Write one article analysis essay every morning (don’t move onto another article until you’ve mastered the one you’re on)
- Daily Anki decks, add tone words to a new deck
- Record English oral presentation
- Read ransom again
« Last Edit: July 20, 2021, 11:35:04 am by Autime »
2021: English [27], Methods [25]
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Re: Weekly Journal
« Reply #31 on: July 19, 2021, 08:25:16 pm »
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Methods is surprisingly easy to do well in even with an awful rank! It's a lot heavier on the exam than other stuff. For instance, I had a super weak cohort and thus my SAC marks went from 75 or 80%, I can't remember what, to 50s or 60s, but still I got an okay mark with scaling (just shy of 40).
In summary: stick at it, I think you can do it. :)
You're so organised, too - I wish I could do that - and I'm in uni!  :-\ ;)
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Re: Weekly Journal
« Reply #32 on: July 27, 2021, 11:16:01 pm »
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27/7/2021 - T3 Week 3
I Need To Sleep Earlier

I have my English oral presentation due this Friday, so I’ll be working on recording it and perfecting what I’ve written. I didn’t get through a lot of what I planned to do last week, but I’ll be sure to get back on track. I didn’t achieve everything since I over-estimated how much work I actually have to do for methods and failed to wake up early because of going to sleep too late mainly because of doing too much maths.

I want to start writing down most of my goals for the day in my physical journal without what times I have to do them stated since I can’t always accurately predict how long things take, and it kind of makes me feel like a robot without any free will when everything is so structured. It also incentivises myself to work faster since I can have a longer break afterwards.

Last Week’s Goals:
- Assigned specialist work
- Master Methods ch. 10 (first half)

- Complete methods ch. 11
- Write one article analysis essay every morning (don’t move onto another article until you’ve mastered the one you’re on)
- Daily Anki decks, add tone words to a new deck
- Record English oral presentation
- Read ransom again

T3 Week 3 Goals:
- Sleep before 11:00 pm
- Essay writing every morning
- Complete Specialist ch. 15
- Master methods ch. 10 / start 11
- Finish oral presentation
- Review Anki decks daily
- Read ransom again / go over reference material
2021: English [27], Methods [25]
2022: Spec, Physics, Business, English, Data Analytics

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Re: Weekly Journal
« Reply #33 on: August 03, 2021, 09:48:10 pm »
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3/8/2021 - T3 Week 4
Courage

It’s week four of term three already. It feels like it’s week four of term four now, given how early new content stops being introduced in 3/4 classes to give more time for exam preparation. I have to catch up with some methods work, the first SAC of this term is going to be in week 6, so I don’t have time to waste in preparing. In English, I’m seriously thinking that I might be retaking it next year, but I won’t allow the fact that I have another chance make me work any less hard. I submitted my oral presentation last week, it definitely won’t get full marks since my eye contact was off as it was pre-recored and it’s hard to know where to look when speaking to a camera. I’m still struggling with writing essays, but I can only do so much, some things will just take time. Unfortunately, English isn’t like maths in many aspects, where you can make something click in your head and you understand how a concept fits in place with the rest of the content; improving writing skills takes a lot more consistent effort that adds up over time and has less visible results.

I’ve been thinking about why I study, do I need a better reason to work so hard? What makes it worthwhile for me to sacrifice my time and effort that could be spent doing other things? I came to the conclusion that I have infinite reasons to study and regardless of if any particular one of them is especially good, they all add up enough to make if important to me. Really, I’m making an excuse of a lack of purpose to surmise my laziness towards schoolwork. I’m not particularly lazy with school as much as I am apathetic. What I lack isn’t purpose, but courage. The courage to move forwards in spite of the possibility of failure, to face reality and not become apathetic. How I can gain more courage, I have no idea. But I won’t gain anything if I’m not prepared to lose anything emotionally.

Last Week’s Goals:
- Sleep before 11:00 pm
- Essay writing every morning
- Complete Specialist ch. 15
- Master methods ch. 10 / start 11
- Finish oral presentation
- Review Anki decks daily

- Read ransom again / go over reference material

T3 Week 4 Goals:
- Essay writing every morning
- Specialist Assigned work
- Master methods ch. 11 / assigned work
- Review Anki decks daily
- Read ransom again / go over reference material
« Last Edit: August 16, 2021, 08:04:45 pm by Autime »
2021: English [27], Methods [25]
2022: Spec, Physics, Business, English, Data Analytics

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Re: Weekly Journal
« Reply #34 on: August 11, 2021, 08:33:53 pm »
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11/9/2021 - T3 Week 5
Progress

I'm out of my rut and I'm back to studying a lot to make up for wasted time. I've almost caught up to where I should be, so I'll finally be able to do things other than study each day like read books, spend time on self-improvement, and playing games. Hopefully I'll be up to date by the end of this week or the next, but I'll still be putting in enough effort to achieve my goals. I'll also be able to put more time into English - my most important subject. I started using a timer when I'm studying to count how much time I actually spend studying, it helps me to be more productive since I have to be conscious of when I'm doing something that is not considered studying which makes myself less likely to spend more time than I need to on unproductive activities.

It's started to hit me how close it is to the end of year exams for my 3/4 subjects, so I'm feeling a bit more motivated than usual. I didn't really do any essay writing last week since I needed to learn how to write a comparative essay and I still need to watch the film that the book 'Ransom' is being compared with, that being 'The Queen' (2006). But, what I was doing was related to essay writing, so I'm still crossing it off the list. I spent too much time on maths, so I didn't read all of ransom again. Apart from those setbacks, I completed everything, which I'm satisfied with.

I almost forgot to mention that I got my results back for my English text response SAC that I only completed half of. I got 93% for it somehow. So, all hope is not lost for my English results yet. If I can ace the exams and the comparative SAC, I should have a good chance of getting a 45+ study score. But, everything hinges on my process, effort and consistency leading up to those tests.

Last Week's Goals:
- Essay writing every morning
- Specialist Assigned work
- Master methods ch. 11 / assigned work
- Review Anki decks daily

- Read ransom again / go over reference material

T3 Week 5 Goals:
- Finish researching how to write comparative essays
- Watch 'The Queen'
- Master methods ch. 9J-M + review
- Methods ch. 11 review
- Complete specialist ch. 15 work
- Review Anki decks daily
- Finish Physics worksheets

- Read + annotate ransom & look at reference material
« Last Edit: August 16, 2021, 08:45:56 pm by Autime »
2021: English [27], Methods [25]
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Re: Weekly Journal
« Reply #35 on: August 12, 2021, 09:20:43 pm »
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Great job!
I found listening to the soundtrack of The Queen on its own surprisingly helpful for analysing it; I could separate  and refine exactly what I thought the director was trying to say, if that makes sense. I watched it once all the way through, then listened to the music, then watched it through again to analyse, and it worked much better than I might have expected. That may just be me, but it might help. :)
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Re: Weekly Journal
« Reply #36 on: August 16, 2021, 08:44:41 pm »
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16/8/2021
Distraction

This week (well half-week since I was late with the last post), I was mainly productive except for today and a bit of yesterday. I need to become more internally driven and less spontaneous with my actions, or at least control my environment better. Sometimes I’m able to study all I need to for a day, where on other days I can barely be bothered to write a sentence. I’m sure some of this can be blamed on lockdown and a change in routine, however, I don’t want to be so changeable when my environment shifts. Getting up early and sleeping in haven’t been a problem, but I keep getting distracted at home. Usually once I start work, I’m able to continue with it and build momentum, so I need to add roadblocks and systems that make it harder for me to be distracted so I can start.

Another issue I’ve been having is getting motivation to start doing anything productive, this is probably since I’ve forgotten to set goals for what I need to do in the day. I’ll be sure to write things that need doing every day in my physical journal to stay on track and count my progress. Also keeping in mind that time is precious and I only have one chance in VCE should help too.

I still need to complete methods ch. 11 since I made little progress on it last week. I also must watch ‘The Queen’, I’ll have to ask my English teacher for a link to it, or see if I can find it online. I don’t have Netflix or anything like that, so that’s not an option if it’s on any of those platforms.

Last Week’s Goals:
- Finish researching how to write comparative essays
- Watch 'The Queen'
- Master methods ch. 9J-M + review
- Methods ch. 11 review
- Complete specialist ch. 15 work
- Review Anki decks daily
- Finish Physics worksheets

- Read + annotate ransom & look at reference material

T3 Week 6 Goals:

- Finish researching how to write comparative essays
- Watch 'The Queen'
- Methods ch. 11 review
- Methods ch. 12
- Physics assigned work
- Finish Specialist ch. 15 + learning check
- Daily Anki decks revision
- Read + annotate ransom & look at reference material


Great job!
I found listening to the soundtrack of The Queen on its own surprisingly helpful for analysing it; I could separate  and refine exactly what I thought the director was trying to say, if that makes sense. I watched it once all the way through, then listened to the music, then watched it through again to analyse, and it worked much better than I might have expected. That may just be me, but it might help. :)

Thanks for the tip, I’ll try listening to it. ;D I still need to find out where I can view the movie or ask my teacher for a link to it.
2021: English [27], Methods [25]
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Re: Weekly Journal
« Reply #37 on: August 17, 2021, 11:32:48 am »
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A classmate found The Queen on a Vietnamese website, said it was legitimate. I'm not certain if it was, I never visited the website because I'd borrowed the film from a teacher. I don't have the website link though. Hope that helps.
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Re: Weekly Journal
« Reply #38 on: August 25, 2021, 05:16:42 pm »
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25/8/2021
Acceptance

I was only productive for half of last week, I did very little work for most of it. That’s very disappointing, but I’m doing much better now. I realised that I wasn’t even able to start working since I set my expectations so high that I wouldn’t even be able to reach them if I tried, at least not immediately. I thought for a while that the reason I’m not consistently working as I should was because I set my standards too low and allowed myself to procrastinate or be lazy, where it was the opposite. I put too much pressure on myself to not procrastinate and be productive which lead to me not wanting to approach schoolwork as it exaggerates it’s actual difficulty tremendously when you set too high standards for yourself and what you should be achieving. I now know that I’m better off accepting that I can only do what I can do to prepare. I’ll never have mastered absolutely everything in the course and I’ll never be 100% ready for a test if I set my bar so high in terms of how much content I should have gone through beforehand.

Tomorrow I have a SAC for methods on calculus. Previously, I was going through every question in exercise of the textbook until I felt comfortable enough answering every question, but this is extremely inefficient as it only gets you familiar with the theory and not any practical examinable application, since the SAC will consist of mainly extended response questions. So, now I’ve been going through the relevant chapter reviews with a focus on extended response questions. I still haven’t watched all of The Queen, but the English teacher has gone through a bit over half of it in online calls which have been recorded. I’ll probably be able to start writing comparative essays next week if they can get through the rest movie soon.

Last Week’s Goals:
- Finish researching how to write comparative essays
- Watch 'The Queen'
- Methods ch. 11 review
- Methods ch. 12
- Physics assigned work
- Finish Specialist ch. 15 +
learning check
- Daily Anki decks revision
- Read + annotate ransom & look at reference material

T3 Week 7 Goals:
- Finish watching The Queen
- Complete Specialist ch. 15 learning check / other assigned work
- Daily Anki revision
- Read and annotate ransom
- Methods ch. 10, 11 & 12 revision

- Catch up with probability for methods
« Last Edit: September 02, 2021, 07:07:17 pm by Autime »
2021: English [27], Methods [25]
2022: Spec, Physics, Business, English, Data Analytics

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Re: Weekly Journal
« Reply #39 on: September 02, 2021, 07:05:14 pm »
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2/9/2021
Look Ahead

This entry is late, but better late than never. So far this week, I have done absolutely nothing except a tiny bit of physics work. I have payed very little attention in online classes and wasted way too much time playing games when I should be writing essays and catching up with probability for methods. It would be an understatement to say I am unproductive. However, that’s what this journal is for; to give myself some accountability and help review my progress throughout each week of VCE. I think I know why I haven’t been doing much in the way of work, apart from being lazy and distracted, I think it’s also in knowing that at this point in the year I have to go all out and try my best to get good SAC and exam results since there will be no further opportunities to improve those results. I’m afraid to try because if what I’ve done so far hasn’t been enough then I’ll have wasted my efforts since what I’m doing now would never be enough anyway. Maybe it’s a bad mindset to have, focusing on or thinking that everything you’ve done in the past reflects and limits your results in the present.

From now on, I’ll look ahead and try to see this as a journey and not something I’m doing just for the sake of a study score at the end of the year. I want to know what it’s like to succeed and prove to myself that I am enough, so I won’t give up ever. I won’t let something as insignificant as my fear stop me. If anyone else who is reading this is struggling because of lockdown or any other circumstances, I wish you all the best, you’re not the only one who’s struggling.

I finished watching The Queen and will probably watch it again before I start writing essays on it. I found some extensive notes on comparing Ransom and The Queen, and will go through them. Last week I also had my methods SAC for derivatives, I think I’ve probably done enough to pass. The SAC was certainly easier than the last one, but I doubt that I performed much better. Now I must catch up with probability work in methods, since I haven’t even started it yet because of prioritising the SAC and procrastination.

Last Week’s Goals:
- Finish watching The Queen
- Complete Specialist ch. 15 learning check / other assigned work
- Daily Anki revision
- Read and annotate ransom
- Methods ch. 10, 11 & 12 revision

- Catch up with probability for methods

T3 Week 8 Goals:
- Catch up with methods probability exercises
- Daily Anki revision
- Catch up with specialist work
- Read and annotate ransom
- Read comparative notes
- Write 3 comparative essays
- Watch The Queen again & take notes
- Assigned physics work
« Last Edit: September 02, 2021, 07:07:36 pm by Autime »
2021: English [27], Methods [25]
2022: Spec, Physics, Business, English, Data Analytics

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Re: Weekly Journal
« Reply #40 on: September 09, 2021, 10:40:50 pm »
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T3 Week 9 - 09/03/21
No Time

This week flew by, and once again, I’m late in updating this journal. It’s almost the end of term 3, this term went by so quickly. Maybe it was accelerated by being at home for the most part. I wasted so much time on games this week as well, but the pressure or expectations I have of myself are pulling my attention more and more towards school and exam preparation. I feel as if my school is going painfully slowly through comparative writing in English, we’ve literally had 3 days to write a plan with some topic sentences. It’s probably part of why I find it hard to write essays, since the school’s expectations in terms of quantity of work are so much lower. Anyway, I won’t be wasting time for the rest of this week since I’ve run out of time to waste.

Last Week’s Goals:
- Catch up with methods probability exercises
- Daily Anki revision
- Catch up with specialist work

- Read and annotate ransom
- Read comparative notes
- Write 3 comparative essays
- Watch The Queen again & take notes
- Assigned physics work

T3 Week 9 Goals:
- Catch up with methods probability exercises
- Read and annotate ransom
- Read comparative notes
- Write 3 comparative essays
- Watch The Queen again & take notes
- Complete Specialist SAC revision
2021: English [27], Methods [25]
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Re: Weekly Journal
« Reply #41 on: September 22, 2021, 09:47:09 pm »
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False Foundation

I’m finally updating this journal again, well I only missed one week so maybe that’s an exaggeration, but it feels like a long time. I wish I could say that I’ve caught up with what I hoped to and that I’m on track to do well with the goals I’ve set, but I’m not.

I think that the reason I’ve been so unproductive is because I set my expectations too high, I subconsciously make studying out to be a much harder task than it really is. I think this is so I have an excuse as to why I’m not doing as well as I’d like, when the task I must complete is so challenging it prevents me from seeing my true abilities since I don’t use my time well or leave it to the last minute. I don’t think my problem is that I set the bar too high for myself, it’s instead that I don’t want to jump to see if I can reach it but also believe that it will likely not be enough if I lower it into a level I’m comfortable with, so the cycle continues. It’s kind of like Schrödinger's cat, in the time before an action you don’t know your potential, in a sense you are limitless for that time since you could enough or you may not be, I don’t want to know the answer when it’s uncertain.

So, I’ll rebuild my expectations from the ground up. It’s better to do something than nothing for now. I’m only going to tell myself to write a single word of an essay if I need to and only do half a problem of a maths question if necessary, then I’ll work my way up by increasing the amount based on my own intuition and what I think I can do consistently. This way, I won’t be hesitant or resistant to starting since it’s certain that I’ll be able to reach my goal. Hopefully this is a better approach than what I’ve been doing so far, only studying when I believe I can reach an unreasonably high standard. I think with that kind of method, it leads to burnout and inconsistency since it’s easier to doubt your abilities as it’s an expectation build off of baseless confidence in the first place.

Last week I completed an English SAC which I didn’t prepare enough for, I doubt I’ll do well. I also have to learn all of probability for methods since I didn’t pay enough attention in class and did next to no textbook questions. There’s also about a chapter of specialist work to do and some physics exercises to work on. Not to mention the practice exams and holiday homework I received. However, I believe that if I can start with a smaller workload and work my way up I’ll be able to do it. Thinking back, that was how I was able to accomplish similar results, by decreasing my expectations initially to get started. I’ll need to remember to repeat this process whenever I see myself getting off track so I can keep on building momentum consistently.

I know a lot of this entry is not really directly related to VCE schoolwork, but writing this here helps me to face things that prevent me from studying or doing anything productive and come up with potential solutions that might someone else.

T4 Holidays Week 1 Goals:
- Do my best to catch up, get started on everything (set more defined/measurable goals once I see what I’m capable of doing now)
« Last Edit: September 22, 2021, 09:56:20 pm by Autime »
2021: English [27], Methods [25]
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Re: Weekly Journal
« Reply #42 on: September 24, 2021, 10:59:43 pm »
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Thanks for the update, Autime :)

I'm glad to see you've set some goals for the holidays!

This time of the year is especially challenging. Setting the bar too high is something I struggle with too and I also think it is contributing to my unproductivity. The idea of trying really hard and not meeting those super high expectations is tough. I really like the doing something instead of nothing approach you're taking.

All the best with your exam study :)
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Re: Weekly Journal
« Reply #43 on: September 30, 2021, 09:57:33 pm »
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T3 Holidays Week 2 - 30/9/2021
Limits

Late post (as usual), but better late than never. I’ve made some progress with specialist work but still need to get methods and physics things done. I feel confident that I’ll be able to make good progress in the rest of this week on English, specialist and physics at the very least. I’ll do my best with methods, but I doubt my chances of getting through all of probability in about three days. I’ve been able to procrastinate less by stopping relying on willpower so much and instead falling back on routines and small processes that make it easier to start and continue doing productive things. Not doing mindless activities like watching YouTube or playing games as a distraction and getting to sleep earlier have helped too.

Something I’ve come to realise is that limitations usually aren’t something you get rid of through willpower alone, instead they’re things that you learn to work around or work despite. For example, I won’t be able to change the fact that I despise writing essays until I improve at it with time and effort, however I can make my chances of success higher by making routines, setting up my environment beforehand, and training myself to do the work regardless of how I feel. So even with my limitation of disinterest, I’m able to accomplish what I need to. I also have started thinking that it’s not so bad that things like studying are boring a lot of the time, I think because it’s boring, it’s worth doing even more so.

T3 Holidays Week 2 Goals:
- Complete geometry exercises for specialist
- Get through as much of probability for methods as I can
- Finish physics catch up

- Write an article analysis essay and thoroughly edit, then write on the same topic again until you can’t find any room for improvement
- Re-read Ransom
- Read notes on Ransom & The Queen and summarise key points
« Last Edit: October 13, 2021, 10:08:38 pm by Autime »
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Re: Weekly Journal
« Reply #44 on: October 13, 2021, 10:07:35 pm »
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T4 Week 2 - 13/10/2021
Exams

There are 14 days until my first 3/4 exam for English. I'm not prepared enough at all and should have been more consistent throughout the year. I think I've been letting this weigh myself down a bit, the fact that I should have been doing more and been consistent. But there's no point in thinking about what I should have done since I can't change the past, so I'll be doing my best in these two weeks to gain as much experience from essays in timed conditions and detailed plans. I've started doing methods practice exams and I can answer more questions properly than I expected I would be able to. It's intimidating when I see a question with all the notation for its domain/codomain etc. before the function since it makes it look a lot more complex than it really is but usually the questions aren't as difficult as they seem. I'll go through 2 practice exams per day to prepare for methods. I chose to do the text Like a House on Fire for text response instead of The Golden Age despite reading the latter more recently since I liked the text more and find The Golden Age to be more boring to read.

I was expecting to feel some kind of pressure to make me more driven to study at this point in the year, but surprisingly I don't feel any different, I think this is because I've been distracting myself too often when I have free time instead of facing what I need to do a lot. It's not that the pressure isn't there, its that I've been ignoring it by distractions. A technique I've started using to avoid being distracted is to stop and do nothing when I have spare time, or what I perceive as being spare time. When you're doing nothing, it becomes a lot easier to know what you have to do and sort out priorities since you can think more clearly. It's nice being able to go to school again for when I have my 3/4 classes, it's definitely a much better environment to focus in and learn than home. Somehow, I think my talking skills have gotten even worse from lockdown, it's a bit more awkward when I speak to other people because of how uncommon it was in remote learning (outside of family members).

T4 Week 2 Goals:
- Do 2 practice exams / day for methods
- Write 2 detailed plans for article analysis, text response & comparative / day
- Practice all components of an essay type in timed conditions separately & re-write until satisfied with quality, change essay type each day
- Read Like a House on Fire again
- Watch edrolo videos on probability & do extended response questions for ch. 13-17 (every 2nd Q.)
- Specialist/physics assigned work
- Re-read Ransom
- Read notes on Ransom & The Queen and summarise key points
2021: English [27], Methods [25]
2022: Spec, Physics, Business, English, Data Analytics