Chapter 9: some thoughts and midyear expectations 14/06/20Hello my friends, how are you? Life has been pretty great at the moment, just finished a whole load of SACs (see below) and only have two left for this term (and one is the chemistry poster which shouldn’t be too tricky). This means I ONLY have 11 SACs left for the entire year
It’s been a great week, I love being back at school and I’ve finally had the opportunity to catch up with groups of people I haven’t seen for months, so that has been fantastic! Haven’t received any SAC marks back for over two months though, so maybe there’s a correlation? Nah, I’m looking forward to seeing how I went on them and hopefully should get some back this week.
Also…I think I’ve realised that VCE isn’t everything and every SAC I go into I feel less stressed. I will always feel like I never put enough work in, but that’s okay and I'm slowly learning to accept that fact! For bio, I put in work weeks in advance for every SAC and months in advance for the exam
(and I still didn't feel prepared). I know I’m not going to be able to do that for every subject, I simply don’t have the work ethic or time to put in that much effort. I guess all I can do is try my best and not be too disappointed whatever the result! Either way, I’m incredibly lucky that I’m confident I will get a place at the university course I want
(biomed for anyone curious) and I don’t have to worry too much about not reaching the ATAR. I’m super grateful for this and it’s really put things in perspective. I just want to enjoy my school environment, enjoy the last few terms of being known by people and feeling comfortable (although at the same time, I’m definitely looking forward to next year).
I think some of my expectations may have been a little too high in January (oops) so my mid-year expectations/goals (watch them drop in November) are below
Expectations
Chemistry - 45
English - 44
French - 35
Methods - 42
Specialist - 35
SAC thoughts
Chemistry The Chemistry SAC went pretty well and I actually enjoyed doing it. Not much else to say here
English
Okay, english was the worst which was a little disheartening because I put the most work into it. I wrote so many practice essays (so many I’m not even going to even say). I mean, I don’t think my essay was horrible or anything but it definitely wasn’t the high standard, full mark essay I was looking for, which is okay! It’s in the past now and I’m certainly not too upset or anything and ready to (hopefully) smash argument analysis.
French
The writing task wasn’t too tricky and I’m pretty happy with how it went. I think my french is slowly (very slowly) improving which is making me more motivated to work at it. Surprisingly, this subject has really grown on me over the last few weeks.
Specialist
Application task is done! The posters took me forever and then we had a few tests at school which also contribute to the overall mark out of 50. To be honest, it wasn’t as bad as I expected, although I don’t want to predict the mark I’ll get because I honestly have no idea! I’m just proud that I got through it (it’s SPEC) and that I’m actually understanding the content.
Methods
Application task is also done and dusted. Not much to say about methods, I definitely don’t put enough work into this subject and it kind of gets LEFT in the dust. I think that's because I haven't learnt a single new thing in class this entire year! Our teacher just covers the basics and slowly too (I know that she has to do this because our cohort is relatively week in methods but it means that I do waste a lot of class time). Nevertheless, the SAC wasn’t too difficult and I’m okay with how I went. Although the difficulty of the SAC is also kind of worrying because without separator questions, its easy to make dumb mistakes that pull your ranking down.
Hope everyone has an awesome week! I’m really looking forward to holidays and starting up sport again, it should be good!