absolute banger last two days, tuesday was a study day and today i had two frees ;D ;D ;D
literally means i get through a ton of trial papers, but the nerves are coming thick and fast since both my trials arent till two weeks from now
why do trials exist send help :'(
hope the rest of you are having a great time! i know i am, mod's over for now
Another week is over which means im a week out from prelim, and the dumbest assessment task i've ever done (video essay like why please explain to me how this helps me achieve anything)Given that you are in sbhs and that their standards are usually much higher than hsc standards (know this from doing your schools' pastpapers), you'll be fine... And most will smash the hsc anyway and I know you will (getting 90 on sbhs paper ain't easy)..
and though i felt really great after the 2u exam, hearing everyone getting their results during first period made me realise that 95+ was super unrealistic despite my feeling right after the exam. everyone in my year that did the exam was accelerating (so its an expectation you hit a band 6) and then a class's average was 64??? the others were 78 and 82, but i was so shocked like omg i might not hit my goal after all the preparation
lo and behold i don't (what a surprise) and last period rolls along and i see my paper and i get a 90. NOW THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT PLEASE I AM HAPPY WITH MY MARK AND I AM NOT COMPLAINING ABOUT A BAND 6 but seriously i was super cut (maybe i set myself up for disappointment by aiming too high???) like i mean it felt really bad. I did get above class average (approximately 0.5 standard deviations above the mean) but seriously when i looked through my paper i did the dumbest stuff ever, like i probably deserved only to lose 4-5 marks legitimately, the rest were dumb mistakes i made in the heat of the moment under exam pressure. literally full of regrets, disappointed in myself
Take Exhibit A for example. Q11, the first question after multiple choice, and in the very last part. I did everything right until i got down to 1/3(64-1) and somehow i wrote down 64/3 as my answer. like why please send help
My rank might be terrible because its a very competitive environment, but I think I'm looking at a rank about 20-30? where I've always been for quite some time now but yeah kinda happy (good mark, its all over) and kinda disappointed, but honestly ill cop it, theres nothing i can do now. All i can do is improve for the yearly next week and the HSC.
mod marks on monday, rip me
Hope you guys have had a great week!
Thursday went to the city and read the Communist Manifesto and ate NandosJust some light holiday reading? ;D :P
So it has been a whirlwind two weeks (mostly exams) + one breakdown. And for both sciences, Module 5 is now done, and I feel reasonably confident. And HSC results came back, and I'm pretty pleased with how it went (even though I didn't hit a band 6 in modern, wasn't really expecting it anyway).
I only had two exams this exam period (something about how NESA only allows us to have one formal assessment) and they were English and Maths. English is a huge variable and often it's my worst subject, so I was okay with a sixteen given that marking was completely haywire as usual (is it haywire if haywire is the usual? ??? ) I've still got a long way to go though, much to improve :) MX1 on the other hand was a huge bummer. I came out of the exam feeling great, but when I got the paper back I got an abysmal 59/65. I know what you're thinking: this is great! But it isn't for two really good reasons 1. standards 2. what everyone else got. When everything is about ranks ranks ranks, i was placed at 50th (roughly top 30-40%) with that mark. The mean was 60.5, and there was a huge standard deviation apparently as well. This puts me behind a lot, and though it was only worth 10% (so i only need one good test to get back on top of my game) i wasn't pissed so much about the mark and rank, but more about what it did for my self-esteem. eventually I did break (+1 for breakdown count), but that was before i got the results for my accelerated hsc courses.
And I woke up at 5:30 with a text from NESA. I just yelled 'I got a text!' like from Love Island (inside joke with my friends) and I looked at it. I got 98 for 2U and ignoring Modern that was probably the best thing for my self-esteem. like it really put confidence back into me, and even more so when I saw I dropped only one mark in the actual HSC exam. After that, maths just became a lot more enjoyable like it was before, and everything that we did in class just made sense automatically, everything flowed. so everything is cool now, yay
Hope everyone is having a great time! :D
I haven't posted here in a while (given that it's been Christmas and New Year, do I get an excuse? :D). I was on holiday (inactive for nine days), and since I came back I've been in a motivational hole where I know I definitely want to get ahead for the coming year, but at the same time my brain is like noooooooooooooooooo. Mostly I've revised what's been learned at school and nothing more, done a few hard questions my friends have posted up in group chats. The holiday as of today is halfway through (3 weeks left! crazy) and at the start I knew I wanted to accomplish something visible e.g. I learned all of this by myself, schools gonna be a bit easier for me now! but it hasnt materialised because of my own laziness. It's becoming a huge problem, but I have started playing less video games :), so I guess that's a step up, but not really when you consider I've devoted all that time to TV shows instead (all 3 seasons of Rick and Morty in the last three days). I have no clue what I'm doing.I am feeling the exact same!
Hope everyone is having a productive holiday! :)
Also good to hear there's another tennis player around the forums! What grade are you playing?
First day wasn't completely terrible, but the influx of year sevens had me a little peeved early in the morning with their excitement completely overriding their common sense.I think that's the worst part about the first day- hell even the first week- where you feel like saying to them that the next six years will actually be hard and so different to primary school. Also, they think they're the top of the school... when they're not. We just made fun of them for still having so many years to go while we finished that year.
Haven't updated things in a while, so here goes :)
First few weeks have been pretty chill but pretty tiring. I've found that if anything I'm procrastinating more (excuse being that I want to escape actually doing productive things) and as a consequence I've been staying up later, tiring myself out. I have three early mornings and two late afternoons so this constricts me a lot. Makes Fridays even better though :)
This weekend is the first weekend where I have a serious workload I have to actually make progress on, and knowing that it'll get even worse doesn't make me too happy. Got something for each subject too: maths homework (which is every day), analysis on my text for English, and a bit of depth study work and catch up revision on physics and chemistry respectively. Probably the only thing I have going for me is that everything makes sense apart from English, which seems to never make sense. Lunchtime classes are also the bomb: building confidence and reinforcing work done in class is pretty damn good.
Nothing positive has happened outside of school though (picked up a few injuries, procrastination, tiredness), so that's probably it. :) Hope everyone had a great month :)
How did your weekend pan out in the end?
Sucks about the injuries - hope they're not too severe!
Good Luck for your upcoming assessments!
Best of luck for the tasks mate! Look after yourself
4U: I got all but one question out + one or two silly mistakes (still kicking myself, easy marks) , and judging by everyone's reaction after the exam, I've done not spectacularly but enough to keep myself afloat rankings wise. Considering I have a pretty solid cohort, this bodes well :)
3U: I think this was the exam I was happiest with. With only one silly mistake (which I am also kicking myself for, it's literally because I can't read), I could potentially get really close to 95%. Given also that I flunked ranks wise in the first assessment (even with a 59/65), this was a big confidence booster, this could go well :)
Another update:
Predicted my English mark perfectly; a 16/20. It's not great but it's not terrible either, and I've been hanging around there for a while. I'm looking forward more to the next task which is a creative but it gives you a hell of a lot more creative freedom than previous years in terms of text types; so for once I might actually enjoy English :)
Popped back onto your journal after a bit and it's still really interesting! Great job on your English mark! Yes I love creative a million times more than anything else! You can basically write whatever you want and it can't ever be 'wrong', just have fun with it! And Physics too! Congrats on all your amazing achievements! Lol I don't know much about hsc but all the best for whatever's coming up next, make sure to rest and chill out too, and take good care of yourself. Excited to hear about how the week goes.
Will update sometime next week with how everything goes :)Well shit. My bad :)
But at the end of all this, this is one of the first journeys coming to a close this year.
Extension 1: Did well but not well enough to keep my rank, literally because my cohort is ridiculously good. Enough said, rank plummet :(Comments that have not aged well. Literally. Turns out I absolutely crushed this exam, and just need to replicate this in the actual HSC.
I'm looking forward to this break though. Not too sure what to do; like I mentioned I have more time than I know what to do with. Apart from getting myself back on track mentally + feverishly waiting for ATARs/revisiting ATAR calculators, or waiting for Rick and Morty Season 4, rewatching what of South Park I can; I think that's all there is (and maybe getting fit again!).
!!CONGRATULATIONS!!
Enjoy your break and whatever you choose to do with it! Do you start doing Christmassy things in November, or do you think Christmas begins strictly on December 1st? ;D
soooooo its the end of yet another week, and as my two trials are now behind me i realised i could start celebrating?!?!?!?!
yeah well obviously not. my student portal was updated today, and it kindly reminded me i have two months to the external exam for 2U and Modern History like i mean why you're inducing stress way too early
also i was woken to the sad reality that prelim exists, and so apparently i was meant to have an essay for dystopia due today for english extension? but we stalled the teacher out, and honestly, even though i'll keep trying so english doesnt drag me down, idgaf about english (sorry to all you english lovers, STEM boy for life, never gonna change). this is mainly because everyone knows the english departmentuses a random number generator for marksis very fair (not that the people that get good marks don't deserve them, just that this whole mark allocation thing is blown out of proportion). i feel like english is getting more and more subjective, and no matter how hard i try or how much feedback i get from my teacher, im not going to improve??!?! like in the reading to write module i think i handed in 3 or so drafts and i got something like 80% (mind you not complaning over a pretty good mark, just not up to the standards i need, but predominantly want) and in the next assessment i put in more work and asked for more feedback and i got 70%? i dunno seriously, and the next dumb thing i gotta do for english is a video essay like wtf why, teacher says that visuals dont matter and you will be judged on your ability to convey whatever whatever, but honestly i think that's such bs, aesthetic ones will get the teacher's attention and make them look more kindly on the task
also another wakeup call to the fact prelim exists was the fact that we go off on exam break/period in two weeks, and that all of module 4 for chem is due as is physics very very soon. we were really behind, so we sorta rushed for both sciences. tbh its very similar content with physics (thermodynamics) and chemistry (enthalpy) but electricity and magnetism is so cool
also we started the X1 course, having the best time with X1
alsoooo who is coming to unsw open day tomorrow?
thanks for reading this (if you have and not actually skimmed it jkjk), i recognise that it was a big trek
TLDR english sucks, prelims coming up