17/11/18To be brutally honest, I feel shit, really shit, particularly towards languages.
Our class did a practice exam, to get a feeling of what it's like to sit a 3/4 languages exam, and I felt I did incredibly shit, mainly due to running out of time. I felt like I spent too long for the reading comprehension section.
I couldn't even understand what the person was saying, in the listening part, which mainly composed of idioms I've never heard before, and I couldn't even find them in my dictionary. To make things worse, not only the translation section was long, and also composed of a variety of idioms, but I only had 15 minutes left to write my essay, which I basically bullshitted my way through.
Some of my ideas didn't even make any sense at all, and of course I didn't finish the exam.
The "mock" exam was for both SL and SLA students which can explain why the exam has lots of idioms and "sophisticated" vocabulary. I honestly don't understand why my school's SL textbooks and outcomes are extremely similar to the SLA ones (there were only two words different in a comprehension and translation outcome, between SL and SLA), and I really hope things get better next year.
At home, I found it challenging to remember and memorise essays as they pile up each and each of the days, and I always found myself in a situation where I would remember the essay that I studied most recently, but forgotten about the ones that I studied earlier.
I'm pissed off about this, and the fact that these two things happened today, really makes me feel like giving up on chinese once and for all, and make me feel really anxious and worried about it.
Besides this, I received my other exam results, and I performed really really bad for my math exam, in fact some of the lowest results I achieved during the whole year, and the lowest in my class. Even though I performed better in the Tech-free exam than the Tech-active exam, and I take full responsibility for my poor math exam results, and I should taking studying for math and for my other subjects a lot more seriously, which is definitely a valuable lesson to learn from, especially for VCE.
In a positive note, I did a lot better than I thought I would in my accounting exam. I thought I'll score in the range of the 80s at the most, but I ended up scoring in the 90s, which definitely gave me a surprise. What made it more surprising is that I only lost 3 marks in my theory responses, and i mostly lost them in the practical section.
On the side note, I'll be in Year 11 in 2 days due to my school having a 4 week commencement program, and I hope I'll make a smooth transition and start from Year 10 to Year 11