Update:
I guess my current goals are to have completed area of study 1 and/or the study design dot points for the first SAC for all my subjects.
Chemistry
- Nearly finished Area of Study 1 (yay!), so I'm just finishing up Chapter 5: Galvanic cells from the Heinmann Textbook. Today, it took me quite a long time to learn the content so I feel like it's getting slightly harder to understand.
- Just need to do 4 questions from the Holiday Homework sheet. I forgot how to the excess/limiting reactant questions and other stuff so I need to watch some youtube videos and figure them out
- I've started doing the checkpoints for Fuels but stopped because I felt like I didn't have a deep understanding of them yet. Should start up checkpoints again after revising all the fuels.
Psychology- Really ahead with this subject compared to the others. I've finished Area of Study 1 quite a while back and I'm upto Chapter 5 I believe. It's pretty interesting stuff.
- Finished the Nervous System Functioning in Checkpoints and have completed the Multiple Choice section for Stress. Need to do the Short-Answer.
- Have finished all my holiday homework!
Literature- Have finished my essay! Still revising the Introduction and Conclusion though.
- Have read 'Only the Animals' and studied quite a few poems from 'Ariel'. Not all of them though which I need to do for the first SAC.
- Have written close analyses of 'Tulips' and need to do the rest of the poems as well, maybe one a day? I'm having my tutor check them and provide me feedback. I need to revise Tulips today and then I'll send it to my tutor.
Specialist Mathematics
- Finished all my holiday homework! Just need to clarify 4 questions. I don't think I'll do the chapter review because it's only the preliminary skills. I have a test on this stuff possibly second week back
- Have finished the Mechanics chapter because I really did not get any of it last year. It didn't seem so bad when I kept doing the questions. Need to clarify some questions though (as always). This stuff's going to be on the last SAC but I didn't like going into the new year with loose ends because I found it EXTREMELY DIFFICULT. Although, I've only done the textbook questions so I don't know what the exam questions are going to be like.
- So, I've started Vectors. I'm upto 2B and I'm thinking of getting it done BEFORE school starts (Wednesday). After that, 3 more chapters. My first SAC is in Term 2 in April so a while away but I need to get this stuff done and not slack off.
- Also, Specialist is taking a really long time do the questions and it's driving me crazy.
- You know what, I actually like Specialist and I might be one of those people that find Specialist easier than Methods.
UCAT- Just need to do 4 more question sets (Decision Making and Quantitative Reasoning) from the Official Question Banks on the website and I'll probably be buying Medify really soon this week.
- I've also gotten better at Abstract Reasoning which is great news! I hope it's not short-lived...It might be my favourite section!
- Situational Judgement is my worst section so far so I've watched some videos on Youtube to help me with my thought processes.
- I have a UCAT Tracker which has the relevant info for each of the 5 sections and also tips and things to look for (patterns, scenarios and just general tips)
- I'm really slow at Verbal Reasoning. Actually, I'm really slow at everything except SJ which doesn't help matters because it's my worst section which is really concerning
I think I'll be focusing on accuracy first and then time.
Interview Prep
- I know, I know, it's pretty early to be thinking about something that'll be happening in close to a year from now but still... I don't want the interview to mess me up and make me not get into Monash Med.
- I'm thinking of at least doing some scenarios by myself so I don't feel like I'm doing nothing to prepare.
Anyways, we start school next week but there's no classes that day, there's something fun planned for us.
I hope I enjoy that day before the Terror of VCE begins.
I know I said I want to get the highest UCAT and highest study scores and stuff but in reality, my main goal in my mind is a UCAT in the 90s and an ATAR above 99 so that I'll be
considered for MonashMed.
MoviesAlso, not related at all but I've started watching The Good Place and it's pretty good! I'm waiting for Season 3 of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina which is coming out on Friday! Last Friday, we went to a movie (not an English one, the other language I speak) and it was great! I don't go to the movies that often so that was excellent! Then, we went to another movie two days later * laughing emoji* and that was excellent as well! They were great movies and some of the songs from the second one are stuck in head as I type this. I love watching these movies (of the other language not English) because they're so...interesting and funny! And they really connect me to my culture which is a major plus.
Anyways, see ya.