I'm only in year 11 but I thought it'd be great to finish year twelve and look back on all of the tiny things that meant absolutely nothing in the big picture.
I'm currently taking Biology as a 3/4, and Eng Lang, General, Econ, HHD and chem as 1/2s.
Welcome to AN! ;DThank you :D What's chemistry like in 3/4? I've heard that there is a huge organic component which I'm pumped for?!?
Congrats on the bio score! Chemistry is indeed challenging but beautiful (I'm slightly biased though aha! :) )
I'm definitely looking forward to seeing more updates in the future! ;D
Welcome to ATAR Notes, Bianca; great to have you here! :))
Ya, 100%! Nice subjects, too - any ideas for post-Year 12 at the moment?
haha thanks! I've wanted to do medicine for almost a decade now, so that's where I'm headed :)
Oh, no shit! Should have read your signature haha. ;)haha No worries!
Are you interested in any particular area of med?
31/8/2017
-I reviewed my bio SAC yesterday and was disappointed to find out that I lost a few marks to silly errors >.<
-Submitted an EngLang essay that I'd be more confident with if my teacher let people ask her for help/opinions on their drafts? Apparently she didn't have time for this???? :-\
-Assessed prac. in chem tomorrow which I'd be looking forward to, but I'm going to be absent :(
Non-academia; the parents want me to quit volleyball because I "might break a finger and ruin my chances of becoming a good surgeon" ughh *does something to take my mind off of school for 2 secs and parents bring me right back yay* *writing this bc I wonder if yr12 me will read it with a broken finger and shattered dreams*
What was the EngLang essay on, Bianca? :)
The history of/changes in the English language :)
Thank you :D What's chemistry like in 3/4? I've heard that there is a huge organic component which I'm pumped for?!?3/4 chem for me was really quite enjoyable, but there was a lot of hard work involved! There was a heap of organic chem in it, and I believe there still is haha! ;D (That being said, organic chemistry to me now is just a whole heap of naming compounds and making stuff haha :) )
Ooh, nice! I miss English Language hahaha. Did you enjoy writing it?Indeed, I did :D How long ago did you do it? hahaha
P.S. Check out the English Language board! There's a section there for marking, if you're interested. :)
3/4 chem for me was really quite enjoyable, but there was a lot of hard work involved! There was a heap of organic chem in it, and I believe there still is haha! ;D (That being said, organic chemistry to me now is just a whole of naming compounds and making stuff haha :) )
Indeed, I did :D How long ago did you do it? hahaha
And that's so cool, I'll definitely be checking it out! Thank you so much :)
So, I graduated in 2012. But I enjoyed English Language so much that I ended up studying Linguistics at uni for four years. ;)
10/10 would recommend. #nobias #somebias
hey !! so did you do biology 1/2 in year 10? I'm currently in year 9 and I'm thinking of doing vce bio next year, did you find it extremely difficult? was the workload harsh or was it tolerable? thank you so so much and I wish you all the luck for vce !
Oh, wow! It must have been amazing then!! hahaha
I love learning languages, so English Language is kind of a compromise for me (I thought the workload of LOTE would be insane in VCE but EL is basically learning the English language in more depth, I guess).
Four years of it though... wow haha what was that like?
Hey :)thank you so much !! this is really helpful, thanks again !!
So my school only offered bio in year 10 as a unit 1 subject, because unit 2 has little/no correlation to the 3/4 course, but I imagine unit 2 would be of similar demand to unit 1.
If you're considering it as a 3/4 option for year11, definitely go for it! My school is select-entry so they push us really hard, but regardless, it was a really enjoyable subject (if you're a science-y person, of course).
And if you're tossing up between bio and another subject for yr11 3/4;
I personally didn't find it extremely difficult, and the workload was tolerable to say at the least, but I think this depends on your own style of learning. I'm sure you've heard this, but bio is a very content-heavy subject (much alike psych and legal) so if that suits you, go for it, if not, maybe consider other subjects, or take a look at a 1/2 textbook/past students' work/idk and you might actually be fascinated by it (and I think that the most important factor to consider when choosing subjects, apart from prereqs).
I think that year 10 VCE subjects are all about finding a decent study routine, getting used to the VCE style classes, and learning what you enjoy at school. If you take bio1/2 and decide it's not your thing, you can just swap it in year 11, but at least you know what it's like :D
Hope it helped a little bit, good luck for next year (and tell me how it goes :) )
Thank you so much!! :)
Non-academia; the parents want me to quit volleyball because I "might break a finger and ruin my chances of becoming a good surgeon" ughh *does something to take my mind off of school for 2 secs and parents bring me right back yay* *writing this bc I wonder if yr12 me will read it with a broken finger and shattered dreams*Just wanted to address this - doing physical activity is super important and awesome for your health and wellbeing, and I'd encourage you to keep on playing volleyball if you enjoy it!
It was actually really great! Slightly tangential - don't want to sidetrack your thread too much haha. But the units I studied were:SpoilerThe language game: why do we talk the way we do?
Describing and analysing language and communication
Language across time
Sociolingustics
Structure of English
Psycholinguistics and child language acquisition
The analysis of discourse: texts, narrative and society
History and sociolinguistics of English
And then I wrote my thesis for Honours, which was on the linguistic portrayal of Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd in the media. More than happy to answer any questions about Linguistics if you're considering it, or uni in general! :D
Really looking forward to reading all of your updates, Bianca! Welcome to the forum :D
Just wanted to address this - doing physical activity is super important and awesome for your health and wellbeing, and I'd encourage you to keep on playing volleyball if you enjoy it!
Even if you get injuries, it doesn't necessarily have to stop you from pursuing your career of choice :)
I've broken a few fingers, had a shoulder reconstruction, and have had hip surgery, and it hasn't stopped me from doing physiotherapy! I realise that there are different demands on your body and different requirements, but even if you were to break a finger - it wouldn't spell the end to your potential career. :)
Ah! No worries about sidetracking this thread - it's going to be a mess by the end of 2018 anyway, may as well start now ;)
Linguistics sounds so cool (and a lot like the current EngLang curriculum, even better!).
What a thesis!! That would have been so fascinating to write & read!! There are so many subjects I wish I could take with my med degree (econ for one) but I've only heard of breadth subjects at Melb Uni (out of the med schools I've toured so far) :(
Hmph... maybe I could just stay at uni my entire life hahaha
(And also, thanks for all of your help and replies :D I really appreciate it)
No worries at all! :)
I have a friend doing med at Monash. They took a "year off" to do a Diploma of Liberal Arts, in which they studied Linguistics for a year. Sounded pretty sweet! There are always options. :))
Finally reaching the end of a very unproductive three days.
Friday (1/9/17) I attended a conference at another school, unrelated to anything remotely academic and a tad boring... yay
And my weekend was 80% me complaining about having been struck down by a cold, 10% trying to finish chem questions and failing, and 10% celebrating father's day. Why doesn't life have a rewind button >.< hahaha
This coming week is relatively busy, but mostly with extracurriculars. Lots of early mornings (5:20am leave on Wednesday ooph) and late nights. Crows are playing on Thursday so I'm hoping teachers are lenient with hw on Friday (yes, my priorities are intact). Oh, and a bio SAC on Tuesday which I just wish would come and go already...
I'm considering doing a uni extension subject next year, anyone have any experience with them they wish to share? :)
How bad are colds, Bianca? Hope you feel better soon!
What sort of uni extension program are you looking at? I'm sure there'll be heaps of people here who could contribute; I didn't do one myself, unfortunately.
P.S. I hope Adelaide wins the premiership now that Melbourne are done. :)
🎉I finished my last bio SAC ever yayayay
5/9/2017
Last bio sac finished, it was reallllly weird (11 marks in total, 6 for an 'essay' describing the social, biological, and ethical implications of a chosen topic we were to research two weeks in advance, and 5 marks for writing two multiple choice questions for a hypothetical exam). I completed this during a free period, before the rest of the school, which was sooo nice because I could get it over and done with without the cohort's collective stress-vibes.
I'm kind of scared about said SAC, however, because losing a single mark means losing almost 10%... eek! Has the potential to bring my average and possibly ranking down, but I'm not sure on either of those because I've been avoiding looking back on my rather average grades all year.
Today I only had two other classes; HHD and EngLang. We're beginning AOS2 in EngLang and I loooove it (definitely my favourite topic, to date, as it involves more languages than just English). HHD was boring... as per usual. I find out on Friday whether or not PE will be running in 2018 (quite often isn't - my school struggles to find the numbers for a single class, fingers are crossed though).
Got home late today because of rowing, was freezing the entire day, and now I have to go to bed so I can wake up at 5am for volley tomorrow haha 😴
Congrats for getting through Bio - that's great! :D Re: ranking, it seems unlikely to me to have too big an impact considering there were only 11 marks.
Really stoked you're enjoying EngLang. Hope you continue with it! #nobias #somebias
That sucks about the chem test, but then again it is Year 11, so use it as a learning experience for Year 12. it isn't worth beating yourself up about it :D.
Also apply for leadership positions if you can, one of the many things I wish I has done. As for living up to the high expectations set, don't worry about it, just do what you can do. There will be something you can do, they couldn't .
Hm I guess so, but I was super confident about this test so it was a huge let down when I finished and knew I had failed. Oh well, better to make mistakes now rather than on the 3/4 exam, I guess.What a coincidence, the position I considered going for was house captain as well due to the face no one in my house was applying for the male role. But I didn't do it in the end because I wasn't know for taking parts in sport and I assumed people would think why is "zofromuxo, house captain they don't do sport". (Which was really a bullshit excuse to be honest).
I've decided to apply for house captain, because I think it suits me best, but there are a lot of strong contenders in my team so it'll be interesting to see how far I get.
Thanks for the motivation haha :)
What a coincidence, the position I considered going for was house captain as well due to the face no one in my house was applying for the male role. But I didn't do it in the end because I wasn't know for taking parts in sport and I assumed people would think why is "zofromuxo, house captain they don't do sport". (Which was really a bullshit excuse to be honest).
But nevertheless, I wish you all the best and even if you don't get in at least you know, as opposed to not all. It's a Win-Win for you :D
mmmmkayI feel for you about not being able to do PE as your vice principal eluded to it isn't a staffing issues, but a class size issue. As much as you think 1/2 student numbers affect a 3/4 class for a subject, it doesn't which really sucks.
Today I resat (is that even a word? who knows) my stoich test and I thought I got everything right until I left the room and realised that I'd written a formula as c/V rather than cV ahahahhaha oh god help me...
At least I passed it??? hahhaha
Then I got an email from the vice principal...Are. You. Kidding.SpoilerHi Bianca,
Insufficient numbers of students have elected to study this subject next year and so we will, unfortunately, not be running it.
Would you like to replace it with 12PHY or another subject?
Can you please let me know by tomorrow as we need to plan our staffing for next year. You may like to come and talk to me about this.
We have at least 9 students wanting PE 3/4, even more wanting 1/2, and 500 sports teachers who aren't busy because my school only has years 9-12, meaning very little sports classes... Surely we can spare one teacher???/ :(((((((((
So yeah... I have not got a clue what I'm going to do in lieu of PE... hmph
This week looks busy, but fun... I have lots of sports to keep me happy and a few frees here and there. Not many tests/assessments, and only 9 school days until holidays.
It's a bit of a shame Crows won because I won't get to see them play for a while :( Would've been the cherry on top of this week
I feel for you about not being able to do PE as your vice principal eluded to it isn't a staffing issues, but a class size issue. As much as you think 1/2 student numbers affect a 3/4 class for a subject, it doesn't which really sucks.
As for a replacement subject, I guess pick something that you remotely like at all at this point.
Bianca, if you're really set on studying P.E. in Year 12, I'd recommend having a look into Distance Education. I studied with them in Year 11, so if you have any questions, feel free to PM me. :)
Applications for 2018 open on the 16th of October, so you have some time to think about it. You can find more information here: http://www.distance.vic.edu.au/
PE3/4: There is a group of girls that wanted to do PE that are trying everything to make it run. I was all on board, but I'm not sure if I can be bothered anymore? My friend suggested that I do accounting next year and we're pretty alike so I changed my preference to that (from Physics) and honestly, I'm happy to just settle for it at this point...Following up; I think the biggest issue with how this situation was handled was the way in which we were all informed. Fortunately, the principal set up a meeting with us to explain that it wouldn't be running because of a number of reasons (and actually went through them, rather than making up crap to get out of it). We were all given extra time to choose subjects, options to study through distance ed (but heavily discouraged because a student had done this in previous years and not performed as well as had hoped), and offered the opportunity to meet with the head of whichever department we wanted to go into (in lieu of PE) every week to catch up on the content missed in the 1/2 counterpart. I thought they handled this really well and I'm so glad that it was cleared up - accounting doesn't seem so daunting anymore.
Ahhh, passion for subjects. +1 on that idea, if you can keep up it alive no matter what you'll do well. I recall going to Economics 3/4 and losing it till a month before the exam, it really lifts you up when you have and bring you down when you don't. But then again, most of us in VCE had stuff we didn't like and look forward to doing stuff we cared about or what someone else cares about :P.
Also I doubt your peers forget you defying the stereotypes at all, they could just be use it to blow off steam and may even be threatened by you defying it. But indulging them doesn't help your case either. I also think that many people in Year 12 maintain this image/facade they project to others, but deep down are going through the same struggles as you in worrying about study scores, subjects, what to do after VCE, what are my passions, the future, etc. So do keep that in mind, that someone somewhere can be fighting something inside that doesn't mainfest on the outside.
I can say that because I did that for up till Year 12, pretending everything was fine on the outside, joking about my marks, saying ATARs was meaningless to me. But when I was alone. I would worry excessively over my ATAR, study score, do I do a gap year or university, what are my pathways, what do I want in life, etc.
But if anything, use their jokes to motivate you to prove them wrong and reach your goals. I wish you the best on achieving your dream and good luck for the Biology exams.
Sooo bio's over.Don't stress! It's out of your hands now :) If you gave it a red hot crack, there's nothing more that you could have done, so now you just have to put it in the back of your mind.
I'm so scared. I've never failed an exam, but I'm pretty sure I just did.
My test, assignment, and exam grades have been rolling downhill as of late and I'm so scared because I just don't know what to do - I've never been in such a position.
Oh God.
Otherwise, I'm so happy it's over because I truly hated that subject in the end. Evolution is a waste of time, honestly.
Sooo bio's over.I wouldn't stress about failing Biology.
I'm so scared. I've never failed an exam, but I'm pretty sure I just did.
My test, assignment, and exam grades have been rolling downhill as of late and I'm so scared because I just don't know what to do - I've never been in such a position.
Oh God.
Otherwise, I'm so happy it's over because I truly hated that subject in the end. Evolution is a waste of time, honestly.
Sooo bio's over.This sounds similar to my experience with Chinese last year. Throughout the year, I just began to hate Chinese and I stopped enjoying it. I ended up with a pretty trashy study score and basically failed it. I went through the weeks of depression, but I eventually got better. I felt like failing Chinese was a learning experience and has allowed me to review the things I did badly last year and improve upon it. We can’t do anything about the past because it’s over. But, we can change the future. You may not have failed as badly as you think you have, but if you do end up with a score you’re unsatisfied with, try your very best to improve and learn from this experience. Failing a subject isn’t the end of the world. It’s only when a person allows this failure to negatively influence them that it becomes a bad thing. I guess that you should have a break, relax and then after you’ve regained motivation, you should try to think about what to do next and how you would do better next year. Personally, I’m hoping that I wreck my own upcoming exams so I can give you a failure to success story and prove to myself that I can in fact do well.
I'm so scared. I've never failed an exam, but I'm pretty sure I just did.
My test, assignment, and exam grades have been rolling downhill as of late and I'm so scared because I just don't know what to do - I've never been in such a position.
Oh God.
Otherwise, I'm so happy it's over because I truly hated that subject in the end. Evolution is a waste of time, honestly.
Don't stress! It's out of your hands now :) If you gave it a red hot crack, there's nothing more that you could have done, so now you just have to put it in the back of your mind.
And I think we all tend to be really critical of ourselves after exams and can only focus on the things we may not have done well. I know I'm guilty of this lol, and things usually end up turning out just fine.
If you're concerned about how you're going, maybe have a chat to your year level coordinator! Best to get ahead of it :) And if it's specifically related to Bio - maybe it'll be cathartic to have a debrief with your Bio teacher?
But yeah, in the end - just celebrate Bio being done! I'm sure you'll be fine. :)
I wouldn't stress about failing Biology.
Why?
Because even if you did you still have next year to make up for it.
I would instead take doing Biology as a learning experience on doing a 3/4.
What did I do well? What didn't I do well? What can I improve for next year?
As you have alluded to below you didn't like the subject anyway so that might be one point of feedback you can use doing your 3/4 next year ;D.
This sounds similar to my experience with Chinese last year. Throughout the year, I just began to hate Chinese and I stopped enjoying it. I ended up with a pretty trashy study score and basically failed it. I went through the weeks of depression, but I eventually got better. I felt like failing Chinese was a learning experience and has allowed me to review the things I did badly last year and improve upon it. We can’t do anything about the past because it’s over. But, we can change the future. You may not have failed as badly as you think you have, but if you do end up with a score you’re unsatisfied with, try your very best to improve and learn from this experience. Failing a subject isn’t the end of the world. It’s only when a person allows this failure to negatively influence them that it becomes a bad thing. I guess that you should have a break, relax and then after you’ve regained motivation, you should try to think about what to do next and how you would do better next year. Personally, I’m hoping that I wreck my own upcoming exams so I can give you a failure to success story and prove to myself that I can in fact do well.
^That's annoying. Do they not have enough for Accounting?
In lieu of med, after having taken eco last year (bc of my maths tutor's suggestion and my desperation for any other subject), I'm leaning towards business in uni. I'd love to work in a medical tech/research company (I'm talking Intuitive Surgical kinda thing), so whether I take the science or business route, I'm not sure. I also love languages to the moon and back, so if I could do a double degree in science and arts (arts major being a language) I'd be thrilled.
I'm so glad you're feeling the EngLang feels. ;Dhahaha so am I - I have to thank your linguistics-loving-inspo for a lot of it
Quite a number of my friends are considering postgraduate medicine, where they're doing an undergraduate degree in an area they also had an interest in (e.g. commerce, arts, science, biomed) and a couple are doing double degrees too! This gives them time to consider if they really want to go down the med path, which means many continuous years of commitment, or if their passion really lies in another career path which they hadn't considered much previously. So what you're considering (BSci/BArts double degree) is a great way to explore your interests! ;D
EngLang - I definitely know what you mean. I remember thinking in Year 12 that basically every class was the same, and there was no real order of content or anything haha. Have you been working off the study design? If you get the time outside of class, I recommend just gradually making your notes throughout the year based on each dot point. If you don't cover the content in class, ask on the EngLang boards - we have some pretty experienced EngLang people there, including our Head EngLang Tutor at TuteSmart, EulerFan102. ;D
With that in mind, I don't think it's just the way that your school is doing it. I think EngLang is just difficult to organise in general, such is the nature of language.
P.S. Metalanguage is always a good place to start for notes!
Hey Bianca, hope you are well! I was wondering if you could explain how you got a job at an accounting firm at such a young age for a part time job and what it entails? Thanks x
Tryna stick to a weekly-basis kinda thing but at the moment, not much is going on.
Accounting - still going well, not sure if I mentioned this but I'm working in an accounting firm at the moment which is helping with some concepts we're studying at school, also got 95% on a test which I'm fairly pleased about
Economics - so hard, but classes are going back to a normal kind of pace so I know where I'm at, roughly, which is nice
English Language - not sure if it is the subject or my school's teaching style, but englang is super hard to organise? I mean, with other subjects they often have set chapters/topics that we focus on but englang seems to be all over the place, and in no order whatsoever. My learning style is very methodical so it's hard to keep at it, but as I've mentioned I love the subject so that's keeping me up to speed
Chemistry - I try to pretend this doesn't exist but we're doing fuels right now, which are relatively easy (touch wood)
Maths - same, boring, maths... sometimes a part of me wishes I stuck to methods but then I see my friends and how much they hate it and know I made the right choice
Still doing quite a few extra-curriculas. I've chosen to cut down rowing from 3 days to just one day, tennis to Saturday only, and volleyball to Wednesday only. One thing I'm looking forward to next year is being able to focus on my sports more w/o my parents' input. I got onto the school's volley and tennis teams but chose to do tennis because it's my no.1 and they were on the same day, yesterday, so because of its late finish I couldn't run to a physio which meant a lot of pain today, I also missed a lot of classes... was 400% worth it though
I've also noticed that the yr12 hesitation I had before this term has gone away. I don't mind knowing that it's my final year of school anymore, and am more excited for uni than ever. For any yr11s or below reading this; don't stress about the end of the year as much as I did, it's not so bad when you get here (future me, feel free to laugh at this comment as you take your very last class)
English Language - I have a SAC on Monday. Guided AC and short answer questions. We had to interview a non-standard English speaker and write a transcript which will be used in the SAC. I like my ACs because there's structure to them so they're relatively black and white.
How do you think your preferences will shape up atm? :)
Not sure... not how I envisioned them a year ago.
Definitely business, likely a double degree, not sure where, I have no idea what my atar will look like so I have no idea how to go about preferences eek
Does your school give you a predicted atar? That might help for deciding potential uni courses.
It's been interesting reading your journal - you've had such a varied vce journey! I'm pretty boring in comparison - mainly stuck with the same vce subjects for 2 years. Are you still playing in the orchestra?
Also, what's it like working an office job? Do the employees treat you differently as you're a student?
Our school refuses to give us predicted ATARs or study scores - they have them to send to interstate/international universities but they're really weird about not giving the students any information. I've tried using atar + study score calculators to get a rough estimate and just put in the lowest possible scores so that I don't end up with no viable preferences, but yeah.... incredibly annoying situation.
The same happened at my school for the majority of my subjects (the only one I got an estimated SS was for Methods). We also never got told our rankings. Reason for this was so we all wouldn't get hung up on numbers and do the best we could, which I am thankful for. I countered this by just putting in preferences as I wanted them, since you can just switch them after ATAR Release Day (Change of Preference week). I wound up not changing preferences much in that period.
Sorry, this may seem like a silly question, but can you change preferences entirely or just reorder the pre-existing ones?Please take this with a grain of salt, but pretty sure you can change them entirely. There is one giant exception: you won't be able to get into any courses that require additional tasks and such e.g. medicine (assuming you didn't do UMAT) or design (which have interviews), since they would've passed.
I guess not knowing your predicted scores has a lot of benefits that I'm happy to reap, but I'd love to have, like, a predicted ATAR that changes with every sac I do haha
Please take this with a grain of salt, but pretty sure you can change them entirely. There is one giant exception: you won't be able to get into any courses that require additional tasks and such e.g. medicine (assuming you didn't do UMAT) or design (which have interviews), since they would've passed.
Please take this with a grain of salt, but pretty sure you can change them entirely. There is one giant exception: you won't be able to get into any courses that require additional tasks and such e.g. medicine (assuming you didn't do UMAT) or design (which have interviews), since they would've passed.
I realised this morning that I only have 4 Mondays left as a high school student... insane, really.One of the things I value about this post is that you talk about negative things (because VCE isn't all sunshine and rainbows) but you've also considered the positive aspect for each point you've raised - which is great to see since it can be easy to get sucked into spirals of negativity, especially when you're stressed.
Accounting; I spoke to the teacher last week about my results and what I am likely to be looking at in terms of study scores and he gave me a number well above what I believed I could do. Usually this would make me less willing to try hard, as I know I could always fall back on this score, but it has actually made me work harder + more consistently in this subject than ever. The trickiest part is keeping up with all new concepts (for those of you who are new, I didn't do 1/2 and went into accounting on a bit of a whim) but there are no serious problems that can't be fixed within a few weeks.
Economics; oh my goodness I love monetary policy. It's like everything from units 1-4 came together to create this beautiful topic that finally makes complete sense. I'm not saying much about the SAC (don't want to jinx it), but it's definitely the most confident I've felt coming out of one. Shame that we end the year on supply side policies - feels like it may be a bit of a let down.
English Language; I hate this class more and more every time I step foot in to it. Bad vibes, bad grades, mediocre teaching, mediocre resources, awful presentation of concepts, and poor organisation/attitude from the school. We had to get a different teacher one day a week due to a timetable clash (usually I'd be upset that younger years got preference over year 12s, but) and this teacher is incredible - I feel like the subject isn't nearly as much of a mess as before. I have it as my first period 2 days a week... boy is it hard waking up those days haha Oh well, almost over soon
Mathematics; I've realised I may actually miss maths in uni. We're on to matrices now, and I do find them a whole lot easier than last year. I wish our other module wasn't geometry/trig though, I suck at it...
Kind of a negative sounding post, but I'm /generally/ happy with school at the moment. I hope everyone reading this is doing well too <3
One of the things I value about this post is that you talk about negative things (because VCE isn't all sunshine and rainbows) but you've also considered the positive aspect for each point you've raised - which is great to see since it can be easy to get sucked into spirals of negativity, especially when you're stressed.
Good luck for your results and continued engagement in your topics!
In practise exams, I wasn't losing any marks and didn't have trouble with time allocation. In the real exam, I was so stressed, scared for time, and actually struggled with a couple of questions?
We've had lots of feedback on Insta about the weird nature of the Further exam! Lots of people have said similar to what you've said above. Try not to worry about it too much - you never really know how exam performance will translate to actual scores (due to other factors such as difficulty of exam etc.). :)
Great work - just three more!
It's really weird how the pressure of exams can get to us, I had the exact same thing when I did Further. Finishing practice exams in 30 minutes or so, and then sweating hard in the actual exam and only finishing with ~30 seconds to go. As Joseph said, do you're best to put it past you, there's not much productivity to be found in reminiscing on it now.
Keep your head up, even if you feel disappointed right now, you've still got plenty of chances to show how much effort you've put in. Best of luck for your remaining exams!
There are less than 12 hours until ATARs are released and I'm a little sad that this is the end of VCE, as it's been such a huge part of my life for so long.
I used to believe that the number I will receive tomorrow is a summary of my 13 years of education, but I don't think so anymore. I'm honestly quite calm, and almost looking forward to opening my results.
I know they won't reflect exactly what I want, that there will be a few numbers missing that I will kick myself over for a couple of seconds, but I also know that what I want to do in life isn't greatly affected by it (there's always another path), and I'm determined enough to make my dreams a reality.
I got early offers for a business/law degree and a business degree from two interstate universities, but I'm not entirely sure I'm ready to pick up my life and leave behind the important friends and family members I have here, even if it is only temporary. But I guess we'll see how it goes at 7am tomorrow.
See you soon ;)
What uni do you want to get into?
I'm not sure... Love the look of a couple of RMIT's courses at the moment, and the applied/practical side of their business degrees are great, so maybe there?Don't forget about Deakin - this uni sounds promising!
Probably not Monash because I'm not a fan of the campuses. MelbUni is an option for transferring, but I'll have to do maths to make up for stupid yr11 me dropping methods haha
And interstate, Adelaide Uni and Bond are my favourites I think.
Don't forget about Deakin - this uni sounds promising!
This was such an amazing journal to read. I loved your insights about year 12 and life. I wish you all the best.
You've ran a fantastic journal this year; and I've enjoyed reading it :)
Any chance you might set up a uni journal?
Thankyou for sharing your journey with us and best of luck for the next one!