Evolio's VCE Journey

[Evolio]

YAYYYYYYYYYYY CONGRATS I'm super proud of you! It's great you've got some good news amongst what seems like endless bad news

Aww, thank you J_Rho!  Very true though, I'm going to let it be my little light of hope in these uncertain times.

Yes, we do. We really need to help each other! We need to make sure that all our motivation levels remain high and that we're still able to study and do all the tasks we need to do.

Congrats on your psych mark!! You should be happy, no need to care about what others think, as long as you're satisfied! I'm sure you did great compared to others anyways.

Thank you so much, Ionic Doc! Yeah, I need to stop thinking about what people think of me. It's a bad habit of mine that I'm always trying to seek validation from others. I need to stop.

And I completely feel how frustrating it is not knowing what's to come, but at the same time, it's also a great opportunity to catch up  , revise, and even get ahead. Bit of a stitch-up for the class of 2020, but our lives are still great compared to others around the world.
Other than that, enjoy your holidays 😭

Yes, definitely! I'm trying to look at it that way because I am really behind in some of my subjects *ahem* Specialist looking at you and you're right that other people around the world have it worse than us and we should be mindful of that.
Enjoy your holidays as well! 

Good job on your sac evolio! I got an 88% on a psych sac but then was crushed that many people could’ve got higher. But it’s so important to be proud of your individual achievements because they are so big

Thank you! Hey, that's an amazing mark! Congratulations to you as well! 

Do you think you’ll spend time mostly going over previous content of moving ahead? And to your school is this week “holidays” or learning online? My school has provided no work this week even though we asked for some I suppose it’s only three days but still. Maybe I’ll just revise this terms content.

I'll probably be going over stuff I don't understand but I'll be prioritising learning new content because I have SACs coming up soon. To my school, it's holidays. Isn't it like that for all schools? My lit teacher and Psychology teacher have given huge amounts of homework, so it doesn't really feel like holidays but that's Year 12 for you. 
Oh. Maybe you could email them and hopefully they'll give you some work to do, like they can't say no if people are asking for more work right? But, if they don't give you work, you could always learn new content if you wanted to by reading the textbook or looking at Youtube videos and other online resources!
Here are some VCE Psychology videos I looked at a while ago. Yeah, some of the content may not be applicable to the current study design but there's still a lot that is! https://www.youtube.com/user/Psyccounting/videos.
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[Evolio]

Hello.  I hope everyone is faring well with the current situation and that you are all looking after yourselves!

Psychology
I've finished learning content for AOS2 aka the content for SAC 2, which will be in week 6 of term 2! That's a relief. These past 3 days I've been trying to get through all the content because I was supposed to finish it 2 weeks ago so I'm a bit late. Right now, I'm feeling a bit weird on some of the content such as where explicit memories, implicit are located: hypothalamus, amygdala or cerebral cortex and the other stuff. All the info for different things have been melded together and it's a bit difficult trying to separate them. I've found some Khan Academy videos on these topics so I'll probably watch those, and maybe look at some other resources as well to consolidate. Our teacher gave us bucketloads of homework for the holidays on classical conditioning, including a logbook task, so that should be fun.  I might do some MC Checkpoints so that I'm not just learning content but also consolidating. Also, it's getting a bit boring just learning content.

Chemistry
I haven't learnt all the content for AOS2, aka SAC 2 so that's my next goal for Chemistry. I just need to finish off a bit of electrolysis and then finish off the Equilibrium chapter and then I'm done! I'm hoping to do some checkpoints questions soon, because doing questions is more important! I'll probably revise with some videos from the Organic Chemistry Tutor so that I understand everything, he explains things really well, so I highly recommend his channel!

Literature
Not really doing much for this subject which is bad because my SAC 1B is on the first week back. Our teacher's set us a comparative essay, which is basically on the books we'll be comparing for the sac, and also for us to complete a creative story so I'm looking forward to that! I'm getting bored of essays and writing stories is way more fun! I'm currently working on understanding Letter to Sylvia Plath and trying to find links between it and the other Ariel poems, particularly the motherhood ones.

Specialist Mathematics
I'm so glad I've finally started doing work for this! It's going great as well! I have two exercises to do for Chapter 6: Differentiation and then like 5 exercises to complete for Chapter 4: Complex Numbers. I'm really loving implicit differentiation, it's a pretty neat concept and I'm glad I was able to understand it fully using the Khan Academy videos. I'll probably be using Khan Academy as my main resource for Specialist right now. My SAC got pushed back to 'later in the term', but I don't really know how late, so I'm just going to pretend it wasn't pushed back because I'm really behind. I need to complete the exercises, do all of the questions from the chapter reviews that are relevant to the SAC so like 3 and also so checkpoints. That's going to take so much time.  I hope I can finish it all by the end of the holidays so that I can do more practise, such as doing the Atar Notes topic tests. Also, I'm really happy that I was able to self-teach myself the concepts with online resources! 

UCAT
I haven't done much UCAT, just doing a few questions here and there. I'm not very consistent so that's a major issue and I hope I can fit UCAT into my already busy schedule because it's worth the exact same as my ATAR.

More reflections on 2019
It's really sad because I know that if I made more effort to understand the concepts, made more effort to do more than what everyone else was doing, I would have done better. Comparing Methods to Specialist, Methods exercises were soo easy to do! It took me like 20 mins for each exercise. For Specialist on the other hand, it takes me 1 hour to do each exercise and a LOT of frustration. If it took me less time for Methods, why didn't I do all the questions? Why didn't I do the chapter reviews? Why didn't I utilise everything? Most importantly when I found the exercises to be easy, why didn't I challenge myself by doing exam questions really early in the year, instead of beginning to do them when I was preparing for SACs? All I'm saying is, I really ruined my opportunity for Methods. Now that I think about it, I actually LIKED methods and it didn't feel like studying when I did it. If I liked it, I should have put more effort into it but nope, I didn't and look where I ended up.
Even Biology. I didn't do as bad in Biology but if I had put more effort throughout the year in trying to understand the concepts, maybe I wouldn't have messed up the exam terribly. I'm still extremely confused about why I got 41, I think I should've gotten 38 or something like in Methods because I only got an A on the exam... another mystery. Yeah, I really messed up last year and looking at other people doing Methods this year in my year level and how much effort they put into understanding the concepts just makes me want to repeat methods all over again as a tsunami of intense regret washes over me.
BUT, at least I have another chance this year, with Specialist and my other subjects. Sure, Specialist may be harder and I may not like it as much but I'm changing stuff. I'm working on doing ALL the questions, actually doing the chapter reviews, every single question and doing checkpoints earlier, instead of 1 week before my SAC. So, my study score goals are sort of looking like this right now, this is a rough estimate.
Specialist: 40
Chemistry: 45+
Psychology 45+
Literature: 42-43
I THINK this will get me a 99+. It should.
Okay, enough rambling, I'll go now. 

[ashmi]

Hey hey Evolio!

You sound like you have been super productive recently and keep up the amazing effort .

Yeah, I really messed up last year and looking at other people doing Methods this year in my year level and how much effort they put into understanding the concepts just makes me want to repeat methods all over again as a tsunami of intense regret washes over me.
BUT, at least I have another chance this year, with Specialist and my other subjects.

It's good to reflect on your performance for past subjects and use them as motivation for future studies! Learn from your mistakes and keep looking forward is the way to go . Try not to worry about other people and how they approach something as it's different for each person, in the end, it pretty much boils down to how much effort you can put in. I'm pretty sure you will be able to achieve your goals so keep up the schedule and you should be fine! (I BELIEVE IN YOU)

It's really good to hear another update from you Evolio and I'm looking forward to a future update soon~

[ArtyDreams]

It's really sad because I know that if I made more effort to understand the concepts, made more effort to do more than what everyone else was doing, I would have done better. Comparing Methods to Specialist, Methods exercises were soo easy to do! It took me like 20 mins for each exercise. For Specialist on the other hand, it takes me 1 hour to do each exercise and a LOT of frustration. If it took me less time for Methods, why didn't I do all the questions? Why didn't I do the chapter reviews? Why didn't I utilise everything? Most importantly when I found the exercises to be easy, why didn't I challenge myself by doing exam questions really early in the year, instead of beginning to do them when I was preparing for SACs? All I'm saying is, I really ruined my opportunity for Methods. Now that I think about it, I actually LIKED methods and it didn't feel like studying when I did it. If I liked it, I should have put more effort into it but nope, I didn't and look where I ended up.

Hi Evolio - nice update!! Seems like you've done some great work (and making me motivated to get onto some Spec work ha ha)

And OMG - MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY about Methods!!!!!!!! Literaly exactly what I've been telling myself. Methods seems like it was a breeezeeeeeeeee now that we're doing Spec, which literally makes me feel like I should've done SO.MUCH.BETTER!! [I managed a 37, but like, looking back, I could've done so much better!! ] I've been keeping in touch with some of my friends doing it now and helpign them here and there, but it seems SO easy now lol.

Anyway, we'll get through this!! Good luck for your upcoming SACs, you'll ACE them!!

Have a GREAT week!! 

[J_Rho]

Psychology
I've finished learning content for AOS2 aka the content for SAC 2, which will be in week 6 of term 2! That's a relief.

Chemistry
I haven't learnt all the content for AOS2, aka SAC 2 so that's my next goal for Chemistry. I just need to finish off a bit of electrolysis and then finish off the Equilibrium chapter and then I'm done! I'm hoping to do some checkpoints questions soon, because doing questions is more important!

OMG You're so ahead!! We only started AOS2 on the last day of term! 
It's actually so motivating reading your journal! It's making me feel bad (in a good way) for not being up to the end of AOS2!
I'm redoing Biology and it seems so easy now like why didn't I put the effort in last year?! But at least it shows us what NOT to do this year.
I can't wait for the next update! <3

[Evolio]

Hey hey Evolio!

You sound like you have been super productive recently and keep up the amazing effort .
It's good to reflect on your performance for past subjects and use them as motivation for future studies! Learn from your mistakes and keep looking forward is the way to go . Try not to worry about other people and how they approach something as it's different for each person, in the end, it pretty much boils down to how much effort you can put in. I'm pretty sure you will be able to achieve your goals so keep up the schedule and you should be fine! (I BELIEVE IN YOU)

It's really good to hear another update from you Evolio and I'm looking forward to a future update soon~

Hey Ashmi! Yeah, I'm trying to use this extra time to get ahead and be ready before we go back to school. Thank you, I'm trying to put in as much effort as I can to make up for last year, I hope I can achieve great results!  Haha, same to you! Looking forward to an update on your journal, Ashmi! 

Hi Evolio - nice update!! Seems like you've done some great work (and making me motivated to get onto some Spec work ha ha)

And OMG - MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY about Methods!!!!!!!! Literaly exactly what I've been telling myself. Methods seems like it was a breeezeeeeeeeee now that we're doing Spec, which literally makes me feel like I should've done SO.MUCH.BETTER!! [I managed a 37, but like, looking back, I could've done so much better!! ] I've been keeping in touch with some of my friends doing it now and helpign them here and there, but it seems SO easy now lol.

Anyway, we'll get through this!! Good luck for your upcoming SACs, you'll ACE them!!

Have a GREAT week!! 

Thank you, ArtyDreams!  Yeah, Specialist is really hard, let's keep each other going and get the results we want! 

OMG You're so ahead!! We only started AOS2 on the last day of term! 
It's actually so motivating reading your journal! It's making me feel bad (in a good way) for not being up to the end of AOS2!
I'm redoing Biology and it seems so easy now like why didn't I put the effort in last year?! But at least it shows us what NOT to do this year.
I can't wait for the next update! <3

Thank you, J_Rho, that really means a lot! I hope this gives you some motivation and no don't feel bad! I've always felt comfortable being ahead of class so I know where we're going next, if that makes sense. That way, I have a sense of control with the pace.
Very true, when we learn from our mistakes that's exactly what matters. That's what's going to make us stronger. All the best for Biology and I know you'll get the scores you want!  I believe in you and you're going to do amazing! Looking forward to your next update as well! 

[Evolio]

Hey guys, I’m back at it again with another update. How has everyone been? 

Chemistry
I’ve nearly finished all of the SAC 2 content, AOS 2! Today, all I did was Chemistry, mainly focusing on the Equilibrium chapter. I must say, it’s pretty interesting even though I had to think about some of the concepts before fully understanding them. Just one more unit, and I’m finished. Then, I’ll probably start with the checkpoints because I feel like all I’m doing is learning the content for my subjects and not doing any exam-worthy practise questions which is a bit boring. Also, I went to the chemistry lecture yesterday, and the lecturer was great at explaining the concepts and it consolidated my knowledge of the content which was great!

Specialist Mathematics
I finished all the SAC 1 content (basically) a few days ago which I’m pretty proud of, because I finished 11 exercises in a week, understanding new concepts and all! Now, the real fun starts. Doing those horrendous Checkpoints questions. Okay, to be honest with you, I did a few questions on complex numbers yesterday and they were hard but not as hard as I’d thought they’d be. I am a bit shaky on the Trigonometry chapter so I better fill in the gaps in my knowledge, otherwise that’ll end badly. I want to know the content so well that I’ll be able to answer any question, like the high confidence I had going into Psychology SAC 1. My goal is to be that confident for Specialist SAC 1. I don’t want to be leaving questions blank and feeling absolutely useless and hopeless, all the while hoping I did decently, but deep deep down, knowing I did terrible. Looking at you Methods SAC 1, part 2. Still gives me horrible flashbacks.

Psychology
After learning all the content, I haven’t really done anything, other than attending the Psychology lecture yesterday! That was pretty good because it gave me a clearer idea about where explicit/implicit memories are stored in the brain and what happens if the brain areas are damaged. I need to do Checkpoints but I keep putting it off because I’m not that confident with the content as I was for AOS1 so I better get consolidating.

Literature
Okay, I’m really starting to hate literature right now. Like, I don’t know where to start in terms of preparation so right now I’m trying to understand my tutor’s notes by annotating their notes and then writing my own notes and trying to add in bits of my own interpretation as well. It’s in the first week of term so that’s REALLY BAD.  :(And, I don’t think they’re going to push it back like they did with Specialist because our teacher was like ‘I think you’re ready’ on the last day of term so I’m...dead. I need to do literature but it’s not exactly my favourite subject right now because it’s very subjective and it’s SO different to my maths and science subjects. Like, there’s not really a set content, you know? It’s just writing about ideas.

UCAT
Going pretty good!  I’ve been meaning to do 50-60 questions a day but I think I need to increase the amount of questions because at the rate I’m going, I won’t be able to finish ALL of them. I’ve been improving steadily at Situational Judgement which is great! Medify gives you a graph showing your progress, compared to other users and my progress is increasing (it used to be below average but that changed). Verbal Reasoning is my best section so far. I usually get all of them right, if not 1 wrong and I do it pretty fast as well. I should start consistent practise for VR. Abstract Reasoning is ok, like if you discover the pattern, then that’s excellent because you can answer 6 questions but if you don’t, then you’re screwed. Quantitative Reasoning and Decision Making are the sections I’m neglecting but I have been incorporating them into my practise little by little. I’m a bit annoyed at the calculator though, it’s not that complex so if you type a number wrong, you have to delete the whole calculation and start all over again.  I should also start using a mouse, rather than my laptop pad so it's like the real conditions.

Other Stuff
I've also been eating a lot of junkfood lately, rather than healthy snacks and drinking like half a bottle a day. It's really bad and it's so different to when I was eating so healthily everyday, refusing to even touch chocolate. Same with exercise, I;m not doing anything more intense than going on 30-45 min walks around my neighbourhood. I need to do something about this.

Also, I’ve realised that I watch Netflix/YouTube for a really long time everyday and I need to cut down on the time. Like, I need to spend more time studying. I mean, it’s Year 12. Also, the more Netflix I watch, the more bored I get the next time I watch it because there’s like nothing to watch because I’ve depleted all the good shows. So, I’m rewatching movies I adore.

Anyways, I’ve realised that Victorian students are luckier than other countries because our school holidays line up with this coronavirus /lockdown.  Like, if coronavirus didn't exist and it was all normal, we'd be in school holidays anyway, you know? Students in other countries have already started online school.

Another thing. I'm way too addicted to AtarNotes and I check it like a hundred times a day. I really don't think that's an exaggeration. I need to stop, because it's interfering with my study. This is a really serious problem. So, I've said that I'll only check it 2 times a day. Let's see how this goes. 

[ArtyDreams]

What a product few days you've had Evolio! Its super motivating to see! Its great to see how much Chem and Spec you've done too! Good luck for your upcoming SACs!

Also, I’ve realised that I watch Netflix/YouTube for a really long time everyday and I need to cut down on the time. Like, I need to spend more time studying. I mean, it’s Year 12.

Another thing. I'm way too addicted to AtarNotes and I check it like a hundred times a day. I really don't think that's an exaggeration. I need to stop, because it's interfering with my study. This is a really serious problem. So, I've said that I'll only check it 2 times a day. Let's see how this goes. 

Honestly same though ha ha! Youtube and AN is life!  Do you have any particular Youtubers you watch?

Have a great rest of your holidays!

[Geoo]

Wow, that's amazing at all the work you have achieved! I'm am certainly jealous of your productivity, especially in chem, I would love to get further ahead!

You are not alone in the junkfood, it's crazy, that since the holidays have started all I can think about is chocolate, I don't think it helps with easter around the corner. At least your keeping up the exercise!

Enjoy the rest of your holidays!

[Evolio]

What a product few days you've had Evolio! Its super motivating to see! Its great to see how much Chem and Spec you've done too! Good luck for your upcoming SACs!

Honestly same though ha ha! Youtube and AN is life!  Do you have any particular Youtubers you watch?

Have a great rest of your holidays!

Haha, thank you! I'll need the luck, especially for Specialist. 
I don't have particular ones I watch, just really random videos that appear on my feed. Although, I have been watching a lot of Animal Planet recently as their videos are really interesting! And cute! What type of Youtube videos do you watch?
Enjoy the rest of your holidays as well!

Wow, that's amazing at all the work you have achieved! I'm am certainly jealous of your productivity, especially in chem, I would love to get further ahead!

You are not alone in the junkfood, it's crazy, that since the holidays have started all I can think about is chocolate, I don't think it helps with easter around the corner. At least your keeping up the exercise!

Enjoy the rest of your holidays!

Haha, thank you, Geoo!
Glad I'm not the only one re junkfood!  That's true, walks are great!
Enjoy the rest of your holidays too!

[Evolio]

It's been two weeks, wow! But to be honest, not much has happened in the quarantine life. I had my online classes on Google Meets yesterday and boy, was it awkward. I was trying to hold my laughter in, lol. But it was fun! As soon as I woke up yesterday, I was really excited to see how these synchronous classes would work. The teachers didn't talk about much, just about how it's going to work, and how we'll be doing a mix of synchronous and asynchronous classes. Anyways, yesterday was pretty unproductive and I didn't really do much except for UCAT.
Oh yeah! Good news re UCAT! I've been doing about 100 questions every day for two weeks and looking at my Medify calendar, this is the most consistent it's been. I've also started Timed (finally) and it's going better than expected. Verbal Reasoning, Situational Judgement and Abstract Reasoning, I've been doing it under timed conditions but I always run out of time in Abstract! It's so annoying. It's my best section untimed, but my worst in timed! I just can't figure out the pattern in time so I just have to resort to figuring out half of it or matching the patterns to whichever set it looks similar to. I've always hated Decision Making but it's one of my favourite sections now! No, I still haven't started timed for it and Quantitative Reasoning which is bad because I have ONLY 88 days left and I better get a move on. Hopefully, tomorrow, I'll be able to started timed with Decision Making since there's a lot of time allocation to do the questions. I also haven't done ANY MOCKS, which is bad, but hopefully I'll do one tomorrow. I've only done the Diagnostic Mock (about a month ago)and golly, that was a major catastrophe.  All my sections were like 2 or 3 SD below the mean and AR was my only section with 2 SD above the mean. Yeah, a disaster. Well, I hope I can achieve higher results now when I attempt the mocks. Wish me luck.

Also, about this online school thing, I like it! I have way more time to do everything, I can bake something, I can go on a walk outside and there's just so much freedom! Like, usually 3 hours is wasted everyday for travel time and now I don't have to worry about making every single minute count. It still seems like holidays though.

[J_Rho]

It's been two weeks, wow! But to be honest, not much has happened in the quarantine life. I had my online classes on Google Meets yesterday and boy, was it awkward. I was trying to hold my laughter in, lol. But it was fun!

Also, about this online school thing, I like it! I have way more time to do everything, I can bake something, I can go on a walk outside and there's just so much freedom! Like, usually 3 hours is wasted everyday for travel time and now I don't have to worry about making every single minute count. It still seems like holidays though.

That's great your classes are fun! In English yesterday the teacher was asking people questions and some of them pretended like they couldn't hear cause a few other students were having technical difficulties - that's one way to get out of answering questions 😂

I defs agree with the freedom, I didn't realise how much time got wasted getting ready for school, going to school, getting home from school etc. and it's great! Yesterday I was able to fit in 2 workouts where I normally wouldn't have been able to, and this morning I slept in till 8. I'm coming to like online school, I don't think it'll be as bad as first expected. But yeah, it does feel like holidays which makes it hard to really focus and get into the mindset of the school term, it might take a little longer to get back into the swing of things.

Have you baked anything recently? What classes are you enjoying most so far in terms of the way teaching is being done?

[Evolio]

That's great your classes are fun! In English yesterday the teacher was asking people questions and some of them pretended like they couldn't hear cause a few other students were having technical difficulties - that's one way to get out of answering questions 😂

Haha, that's actually so funny!

I defs agree with the freedom, I didn't realise how much time got wasted getting ready for school, going to school, getting home from school etc. and it's great! Yesterday I was able to fit in 2 workouts where I normally wouldn't have been able to, and this morning I slept in till 8. I'm coming to like online school, I don't think it'll be as bad as first expected. But yeah, it does feel like holidays which makes it hard to really focus and get into the mindset of the school term, it might take a little longer to get back into the swing of things.

Wow, that's really good about the workouts! Yeah, it is really hard to focus and I find myself procrastinating a lot, which is really bad because of this online learning. I feel like the freedom I have is making it harder to study which is sort of paradoxical.  I hope our mindset changes for the better soon! Fingers crossed!

Have you baked anything recently? What classes are you enjoying most so far in terms of the way teaching is being done?

No, unfortunately. We didn't have all the ingredients at home to bake brownies as we don't really bake stuff that much but I'm really hoping to bake a moist chocolate cake! I've just been looking through Youtube to satisfy my craving for chocolate cakes but it keeps getting stronger lol. They look so yummy! Hmm, well I haven't had a real class yet, if you know what I mean. They didn't really teach stuff yet except for Psychology, where our new teacher went through how to answer extended response questions. My psychology teacher's going to be doing all our classes in real-time, unlike my other subjects, where it's not necessarily in real time. For that reason, I think I'm going to enjoy Psychology class the most (also because it's an amazing subject!)! I'm excited the most for Psychology.
Which class are you finding enjoyable?

[Evolio]

Hey guys! Update time, a nice long one as well. I haven’t been as productive as I wanted to lately which majorly sucks but I have regained some motivation miraculously (after yesterday) and I’m slowly trying to build it up. Hopefully, it reaches its peak soon because I have a lot of work to do and it keeps piling up.

Specialist Mathematics
I don’t know if I said this before but I finished all the content for the first SAC, EXCEPT for Exercise 6G which I skipped because it looked hard. I need to complete it by tomorrow. I’ve also finished the chapter reviews for Vectors (basically) and Differentiation, meaning I still need to complete ‘Complex Numbers’ and ‘Trigonometry’ which is taking a long time. I don’t know why. From Checkpoints, I’ve finished Complex Numbers and Vectors extended response, still need to do Differentiation and Trigonometry but I can’t really find many Differentiation questions without having differential equations thrown in randomly. Still though, I need to practise that stuff. This subject is hard, like really hard, but I’m getting there, trying to understand the nitty gritty of the concepts, so I think my understanding is getting better? Apparently, we’re starting Antidifferentiation tomorrow so I have a strong feeling it’s going to be added to the SAC, which is TBA.

Literature 
Oh, I really hated this subject for 4 weeks or so(still do a bit), meaning I did absolutely NO WORK FOR it over the three-week holiday period, including last week. Yeah, that’s how much I HATED IT. I hated it because I didn’t understand it but also because of the high subjectivity of the ‘content’ and it was a bit confusing as well. This is really weird because I thought it’d be my haven in Year 12, but boy, did I get that wrong. Anyways, I regained my motivation for it yesterday and got some clarity on what we’re doing which was great. Hopefully, I’m really productive this week for my subject because I am really behind and our SAC is in Week 4 which isn’t that far away and it’s really scaring me. We haven’t even gotten our feedback from our last SAC when they said they’d give it to us like three weeks ago. Like, how are we supposed to do the next  SAC, IF WE HAVEN’T EVEN GOTTEN FEEDBACK FOR OUR LAST SAC???!?!? The point is to improve with our previous feedback so that we can perform better, but apparently not.

Psychology 
Ahh, my favourite subject right now and the easiest. I don’t need to spend as much time on it (unfortunately) because I’d love to just have one subject for Year 12: Psychology. Honestly, it’s so different to the other subjects and the content just clicks. I always feel confident going into class and answering questions relating to it, which is not the case for my other subjects. I need to finish the short-answer questions in Checkpoints so that I can do the AtarNotes Topic Tests and A+ Notes and other resources so that I’m super super confident with the content. Like, super. Psychology’s the only class where literally all our lessons are synchronous which I LOVE! It’s like being in the classroom and it doesn’t really seem different. It’s reminding me a lot of last year because the teacher we have now was the teacher I had last year.

Chemistry 
I haven’t done much for this subject, until yesterday where I was like ‘NO! Stop slacking off and do some Chemistry!’ Because I didn’t do any of the set work last week(yeah, really concerning, I know). However, I feel less stressed now because I’ve nearly finished all the extended response for SAC 2 (from Checkpoints) and the information’s coming back to me. I still need to do the other resources and clarify some questions with my teacher. Since my main goal this year is to UNDERSTAND the content, rather than just memorising it, I’ve really been aiming to understand stuff and whenever I try to, there’s always a limit, because when I research online or ask my teacher, they’re like ‘it’s way beyond the course, no need to know’ but I’m like ‘But, I really need to get this otherwise I won’t have a good understanding’ but that’s that and we can’t change it.

UCAT
Nearly forgot this lol even though it’s the thing I’ve been dedicating most of my time to. Okay, so progress has been made, albeit very little. I am officially doing timed for all sections, except QR which is being neglected. I started timed for Decision Making a few days ago and I was sort of happy with my results because I got more correct than I expected to. There’s this specific question type which is sabotaging my performance but I’ve been practising and I’m getting better. I hope. VR is good as always. SJ is mediocre. Like, sometimes I get really good results and sometimes really bad so… gotta work on that. AR is the bane of my existence! It’s so hard to do it timed and get 90% of them correct!!! Like, how? Yeah, I need to practise A LOT but I don’t see myself getting better so I really need to dedicate the next few days JUST on AR so I can really hone my skills. QR is going extremely bad, I’ve only done like 20 questions compared to the hundreds I’ve done for the other sections, so I need to start that tomorrow. Also, I have a more specific goal in mind: I’m aiming for a 3000+ for my UCAT score. I don’t know if I’ll achieve it but it’s there, so I’m going to try.

Extracurriculars
St John: We had a Zoom meeting today and we played games and it was great lol. And funny. I'm glad we're still doing St John during these uncertain times, despite it being very practical based. Next week, we'll be doing first aid so looking forward to that!
Leadership: It’s waaayyy more busy now (when we’re online) compared to when we were at school. Like, I have like 4 meetings every week just for this and it’s taking up a lot of my time. It’s okay though, I guess. I mean, it is a break from study and Netflix. Although, my phone is vibrating like every hour with updates/notices/information. I'll be stepping down from this position soon so that's going to be sad but I'll have more time to focus on VCE. I'll probably still come to the club meetings though.

Other stuff
- Our school signed all the VCE students up for EdUnlimited since we don’t have access to our library (duh) and I literally screamed with joy when I saw the email! I can’t wait to use all the resources because there’s so many and I’m bursting with excitement! You guys probably think I’m weird but it’s okay. Really though, I'm really grateful to the curriculum coordinators at our school for doing this. 
- I’ve been waking up at 8 which is a drastic change to the normal 6 am which is a big shame. I want to start waking up at 6, like a normal school day, so I get more done and I’ll also feel more tired when I go to sleep at night because lately, I’ve just been lying in bed, staring at the ceiling, tossing and turning, staring out the window, counting sheep, for like 1-2 hours, not able to fall asleep. I think it’s because I had a lot of sleep that day so I need to cut down on it and sleep how much I do on a normal school day
- I really need to start getting back into exercise, especially because I have so much time to go on walks now!
- I've been reading through my Journal posts and wow, have I changed! It's like I'm going back in time to 2 years ago and it's really interesting to see the Evolution of Evolio. This journal's really special to me and I'm so glad I made one! 
- I've realised that I shouldn't stick to a strict schedule anymore. For example: my schedule (especially on weekends/holidays) was study in the mornings, then around lunchtime watch Netflix for 2-3 hours, study and then watch for 3-4 hours until I sleep. I'm realising now how much time I could be using for studying and how this could make a BIG difference. So, I'm trying out going to sleep later. Of course, I won't be sacrificing my sleep but I've figured I function better on like 7-8 hours of sleep for some reason.

[ashmi]

Hi Evolio!!

Sounds like you have gotten through a lot of things recently! (I'm so proud of you )

Chemistry 
I haven’t done much for this subject, until yesterday where I was like ‘NO! Stop slacking off and do some Chemistry!

I don't think I've had ever spiritually related to something as much as this🤣.
It's so hard to start doing some Chem work but once you get the ball rolling, it turns out to be super fun.

Leadership: It’s waaayyy more busy now (when we’re online) compared to when we were at school. Like, I have like 4 meetings every week just for this and it’s taking up a lot of my time. It’s okay though, I guess. I mean, it is a break from study and Netflix. Although, my phone is vibrating like every hour with updates/notices/information. I'll be stepping down from this position soon so that's going to be sad but I'll have more time to focus on VCE. I'll probably still come to the club meetings though.

Woah this sounds super busy! What type of leadership things do you do Evolio?
So glad to see you are doing an amazing job and keep up that effort. (Let's get that sleep schedule back on track). These journey journals, I do agree are super special and will definitely be something to look forward to reading at the end of the journey.