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« Reply #270 on: May 16, 2017, 08:55:08 am »
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How are you all going? ;D

Any SACs coming up?

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« Reply #271 on: May 16, 2017, 10:48:46 am »
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16/5/17

This week is pretty chilled. I don't have any SACs for 2 and a 1/2 weeks, which I'm verrry happy about!  :D

Finished an English SAC last week, which I wasn't pleased about. I need to work on my time management skills to ensure that my writing is of quality worth. But I've spoken to my teacher about it, so all is good.

Lit SAC also finished last week, which went really well! We're now moving onto Literary Perspectives, which should be quite interesting (especially since it's new to the SD). I need to be doing bits of CPA more frequently, though. I haven't been doing much of this.

Methods SACs are coming up! I've been doing lots of checkpoint questions and making sure that I understand ALL of my mistakes (this can be very tiring). Just keep reminding myself that I'll never have to do Maths again after this year........

With German, I'm ensuring that I read a lot more and am doing new activities to expand my vocab. If I can work on my vocab extensively until October, all should be okay!!
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« Reply #272 on: May 16, 2017, 12:17:48 pm »
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Methods SACs are coming up! I've been doing lots of checkpoint questions and making sure that I understand ALL of my mistakes (this can be very tiring). Just keep reminding myself that I'll never have to do Maths again after this year........
This was perhaps the only thing that drove me through year 12 methods... until I realised I still needed more maths at uni anyway.

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With German, I'm ensuring that I read a lot more and am doing new activities to expand my vocab. If I can work on my vocab extensively until October, all should be okay!!
Keep up the good work for German! It'll be so worth it in the long run. During this time of year you really want to be constantly writing essays for your teacher to mark, even if they're just 200 words long. I'd try to incorporate at least 5 new words every time a wrote a weekly piece for my teacher.

Also, hot tip: watch German news stories once a week as well - 15 minutes of listening is all it takes and it's super easy. Listening is definitely the hardest skill to cram, and it's one of the German skills that's hardest to develop without actually living in a German-speaking country.
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« Reply #273 on: May 16, 2017, 01:33:59 pm »
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During this time of year you really want to be constantly writing essays for your teacher to mark, even if they're just 200 words long. I'd try to incorporate at least 5 new words every time a wrote a weekly piece for my teacher.

Also, hot tip: watch German news stories once a week as well - 15 minutes of listening is all it takes and it's super easy. Listening is definitely the hardest skill to cram, and it's one of the German skills that's hardest to develop without actually living in a German-speaking country.

Thanks for the advice, Alter! Should I be timing myself when writing these essays? Also, when did you begin your detailed study? My teacher hasn't started yet and I'm a bit worried about leaving it too late.

100%. Listening. Is. So. Hard. 
Yes, I will try and incorporate more podcasts and news stories into my week. Vocabulary is definitely the killer with this one!
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« Reply #274 on: May 16, 2017, 10:34:05 pm »
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Thanks for the advice, Alter! Should I be timing myself when writing these essays? Also, when did you begin your detailed study? My teacher hasn't started yet and I'm a bit worried about leaving it too late.
Timing probably isn't that important imo (unless you're horribly slow at writing). It's better to work on fluency and minimising mistakes, and then worry about timing later.

I think I started choosing my topic/resources at the end of June, and then I assume I did writing for it in late July and onwards. If you wanna go ahead and do stuff (which is pretty hard... I'm sure you're super busy), I'd just talk to your teacher because your school might do a particular topic. If you're doing das Leben in der ehemaligen DDR, let me know!
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« Reply #275 on: May 17, 2017, 07:42:43 am »
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How are you all going? ;D

Any SACs coming up?

My methods apps task SAC is finally finishing today although I'm a bit nervous since this part is worth 10% of the SS. Also midway through the spesh apps task SAC but thankfully after that there won't be anymore SACs after this one until SAC week, so it should be a good time to catch up on work.

Also finished unit 3 for chem on Monday and pumped to start organic chem.

English and Latin are pretty chill at the moment although I've got the creative and language analysis SACs in a few weeks so things are gonna heat up then.
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« Reply #276 on: May 17, 2017, 08:27:01 am »
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« Reply #277 on: May 17, 2017, 09:39:59 am »
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« Reply #278 on: May 17, 2017, 04:42:27 pm »
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SAC week?
SAC week???

My school has a week inbetween semester 1 and semester 2 where we have something like an exam period but for SACs so there are no classes and you don't have to come to school unless you have a SAC (and most subjects have a SAC that week). Although for me it seems kind of useless since I only have two SACs in the week (both for English) but it's nice to get a mini-break to seperate the longest term of the year.
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« Reply #279 on: May 17, 2017, 04:48:08 pm »
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My school has a SAC week too.  :'(  It's the week the GAT takes place. Apparently SAC week takes place for me because the year 9, 10 and 11 students are having exams and they can't just have classes continue during exam period (that's what someone said, but I'm not too sure of it). Anyway, today I had a methods SAC and I think it's probably the worst SAC I've had.  :'( The SAC in my opinion was more difficult than the specialist SAC I did last term. Right now I'm just praying that I do well in the rest of my methods SACs (even though I'm not religious).

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« Reply #280 on: May 17, 2017, 06:04:57 pm »
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My school has a SAC week too.  :'(  It's the week the GAT takes place. Apparently SAC week takes place for me because the year 9, 10 and 11 students are having exams and they can't just have classes continue during exam period (that's what someone said, but I'm not too sure of it). Anyway, today I had a methods SAC and I think it's probably the worst SAC I've had.  :'( The SAC in my opinion was more difficult than the specialist SAC I did last term. Right now I'm just praying that I do well in the rest of my methods SACs (even though I'm not religious).

What topics was your methods SAC on? Must've been brutal to be harder than spesh  :o
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« Reply #281 on: May 17, 2017, 06:27:30 pm »
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What topics was your methods SAC on? Must've been brutal to be harder than spesh  :o
It was on related rates, since this is the application SAC. The specialist SAC I was referring wasn't particularly hard, since it was just about managing time, getting our heads around a few difficult questions and not making stupid mistakes. But, the methods SAC was only 4 questions and if I remember correctly only one of the questions had multiple parts. So, basically all four questions were difficult (especially the last question), since there was very little time pressure and it was all about doing difficult questions.

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« Reply #282 on: May 17, 2017, 06:29:13 pm »
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My school has a week inbetween semester 1 and semester 2 where we have something like an exam period but for SACs so there are no classes and you don't have to come to school unless you have a SAC (and most subjects have a SAC that week). Although for me it seems kind of useless since I only have two SACs in the week (both for English) but it's nice to get a mini-break to seperate the longest term of the year.

Interesting! Is it designed to prepare you for the actual exam period? :-\

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« Reply #283 on: May 17, 2017, 06:35:57 pm »
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It was on related rates, since this is the application SAC. The specialist SAC I was referring wasn't particularly hard, since it was just about managing time, getting our heads around a few difficult questions and not making stupid mistakes. But, the methods SAC was only 4 questions and if I remember correctly only one of the questions had multiple parts. So, basically all four questions were difficult (especially the last question), since there was very little time pressure and it was all about doing difficult questions.

But wouldn't having it on related rates give spesh students an unfair advantage since it is part of the spesh course?
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« Reply #284 on: May 17, 2017, 06:54:10 pm »
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But wouldn't having it on related rates give spesh students an unfair advantage since it is part of the spesh course?
Yea, the specialist students definitely had an unfair advantage, but even they struggled with that SAC (out of the people I asked). But, I'm guessing the methods students had an even worse time. I honestly think that my school should have just done a SAC with hard application questions for stuff inside the course.