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The VCE journey of a hums student
« on: March 27, 2018, 04:59:35 pm »
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Hmmm... I've read quite a lot of others' VCE journals and thought it'd be interesting to start my own. This also happens to be my first post on this forum so I have no idea what I'm doing  ;D Other people start their journals at the beginning of the year, and here I am writing one at the very end of Term One! XD

Think I should start with a quick self-intro:

School + Year level:
Won't reveal the name, but it's a school in regional VIC.
Currently in year 12 :-\ rip

Subjects:
Last year I did Chinese 3/4. (study score - 35)
This year I'm doing:
Literature
Methods
Ancient History
Global Politics
Chemistry

Thoughts on my subjects:
Chinese: I'm not even Asian, but I lived in China for 8 years because of my parents work. Got a raw score of 35 which was kind of disappointing (was aiming for 40). Hoping to redeem myself through my 3/4s this year

Literature: meh... I like reading, hence why I chose lit over mainstream English, but I was kind of disappointed when our teacher didn't choose the good texts. Personally I find it outrageous that we're not studying Shakespeare for LITERATURE.
Last year my grades were very up and down, I got mostly B+ or A on assessments, A+ for creative, but got a D+ for a comparative essay.
I'm aiming for a study score of at least 38 in lit.

Methods: I didn't do well in methods last year (C+/B average) because I never paid attention in class  :P  For our last assessment though (calculus) I actually tried and ended up with an A+. Obviously I'll be trying a lot harder this year. So far, methods has been my favourite subject (I'm not ashamed to say that  ;D).
Aiming for a raw score of at least 40.

Ancient History: I actually wanted to do Revolutions, but our school doesn't offer that subject so I ended up with the only other history subject available. Last year I had an A/B+ average. I just finished my first SAC on source analysis and I know I screwed up, because I completely messed up the structure of my answers.
Aiming for a study score of at least 40.

Global Politics: I chose global because I wanted to do Revs and thought it would help with the subject. Global turned out to be my best subject last year, averaging at an A. The school I go to doesn't do very well in humanities subjects though, last year our school's highest raw score for global was a 36.
I'm aiming for a study score of 30.

Chemistry: Aaannnd we've arrived at my absolute worst subject, chemistry. I've never been good at science but I didn't want all of my subjects (except methods) to be humanities-based, hence why I chose it. Last year I averaged a D (I know, what a disgrace). We just got back our results for our first SAC this year and I just scraped a B.
Aiming for a study score of 30, but honestly I feel like I'll only be able to get 25 or above. I suck at this subject.

Plan after VCE
I'm hoping to get into Arts at Melbourne, so I'm aiming for a minimum ATAR of 90+. I want to study history, especially modern history, and I'm hoping to continue to postgrad, and hopefully get into research at an overseas university.

Hobbies
Music. I love piano and performing arts, and nearly chose music performance as one of my VCE subjects. (Didn't end up doing it because my school doesn't offer that subject)
Reading. (Why else would I choose literature?) I used to read a book a day, but since year 11 I've toned it down considerably. Favourite author is Stephen King.
Rubiks Cubes. I can waste hours just playing with them over and over again in my room.

~ Will hopefully update soon ~

Actually, don't expect any updates for a while, because in three days it's holidays XD
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Re: The VCE journey of a hums student
« Reply #1 on: March 27, 2018, 05:04:30 pm »
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Hey Lsjnzy13,

Welcome to ATAR Notes! Great to have you on the journey journal bandwagon. ;D We had people last year starting their journals right near the end of Year 12, so this definitely isn't too late or anything haha.

Cool subject mix! Really interested in Ancient History in particular - I don't see that subject around much. Does your school always offer Ancient and not Revs?

Love your post-VCE aspirations, and also love the fact that you cube haha. Do you just go the 3x3x3, or do you have other ones, too? Do you time yourself? ;D

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Re: The VCE journey of a hums student
« Reply #2 on: March 27, 2018, 05:20:21 pm »
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Really interested in Ancient History in particular - I don't see that subject around much. Does your school always offer Ancient and not Revs?

Our school didn't even have any history subjects at all in previous years. Hums subjects in general aren't popular at the school I go to so honestly I'm lucky there is at least a history subject running! But yeah, ancient history is a new subject so not many people do it. What really freaks me out is that we only have access to *one* past exam.

Also love the fact that you cube haha. Do you just go the 3x3x3, or do you have other ones, too? Do you time yourself? ;D

Glad to meet another cuber! I have 2x2x2, 3x3x3, and 4x4x4, but my best would still be the 3x3. I usually average around 40 seconds for the 3x3 but I haven't timed myself in a while. If I remember correctly my pb is 28 seconds but I got lucky XD
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Re: The VCE journey of a hums student
« Reply #3 on: March 27, 2018, 05:22:33 pm »
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Our school didn't even have any history subjects at all in previous years. Hums subjects in general aren't popular at the school I go to so honestly I'm lucky there is at least a history subject running! But yeah, ancient history is a new subject so not many people do it. What really freaks me out is that we only have access to *one* past exam.

Yeah, right! Awesome that you do a history subject. I reckon you'll love uni if you end up doing Arts. ;D

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Glad to meet another cuber! I have 2x2x2, 3x3x3, and 4x4x4, but my best would still be the 3x3. I usually average around 40 seconds for the 3x3 but I haven't timed myself in a while. If I remember currently my pb is 28 seconds but I got lucky XD

Likewise hahaha. We sound similar; I also have 2x2x2, 4x4x4, and about fifty 3x3x3s haha (slight hyperbole). And my times are pretty much bang on yours, except my PB is 30 seconds on the nose - you've just pipped me. ;)

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Re: The VCE journey of a hums student
« Reply #4 on: March 27, 2018, 05:44:57 pm »
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Hey, welcome to AN, man! Great to see you round the forums, and great first post!
I'm in Year 12 too, and we share Methods and Chem as subjects, and the others you have look really cool. I was kinda upset that I couldn't do more subjects than I did, I would have liked a couple more spots to do History as well. Great to see that you have got an aim for this year and the coming years, so many people have no focus in Year 12, so it's great to see that you do. Good luck, and have fun! :)
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Re: The VCE journey of a hums student
« Reply #5 on: March 27, 2018, 06:42:25 pm »
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Hey, welcome to AN, man! Great to see you round the forums, and great first post!
I'm in Year 12 too, and we share Methods and Chem as subjects, and the others you have look really cool. I was kinda upset that I couldn't do more subjects than I did, I would have liked a couple more spots to do History as well. Great to see that you have got an aim for this year and the coming years, so many people have no focus in Year 12, so it's great to see that you do. Good luck, and have fun! :)

Thanks man! Good luck for year 12 too! 6 subjects in a year must be hectic as hell, (especially with spesh and physics!) but I'm sure you'll ace it.   :)
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Re: The VCE journey of a hums student
« Reply #6 on: March 27, 2018, 11:42:43 pm »
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Likewise hahaha. We sound similar; I also have 2x2x2, 4x4x4, and about fifty 3x3x3s haha (slight hyperbole). And my times are pretty much bang on yours, except my PB is 30 seconds on the nose - you've just pipped me. ;)
And here I am, still going on the same cube 2.5 years later

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Re: The VCE journey of a hums student
« Reply #7 on: March 28, 2018, 07:08:20 pm »
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I also have 2x2x2, 4x4x4, and about fifty 3x3x3s haha (slight hyperbole).

Fifty 3x3s? Dangggg that sounds awesome! I have six 3x3s and my parents already think that's too much hahah. ;D
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« Reply #8 on: March 28, 2018, 07:36:48 pm »
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Fifty 3x3s? Dangggg that sounds awesome! I have six 3x3s and my parents already think that's too much hahah. ;D

Nah that was hyperbolic haha - I actually have about the same number as you. ;D

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« Reply #9 on: March 29, 2018, 08:39:20 am »
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Nah that was hyperbolic haha - I actually have about the same number as you. ;D

Oops!  ;D knew there was a reason I didn't do English Language haha
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« Reply #10 on: March 29, 2018, 09:25:09 am »
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Oops!  ;D knew there was a reason I didn't do English Language haha

Hahaha. Do you prefer using the black or white cubes?

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Re: The VCE journey of a hums student
« Reply #11 on: March 29, 2018, 02:46:33 pm »
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Hahaha. Do you prefer using the black or white cubes?

I have both, but prefer using the black ones. What about you?
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« Reply #12 on: March 29, 2018, 02:51:29 pm »
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I have both, but prefer using the black ones. What about you?

Yeah, like, I think black, but pretty sure my PB was with a white. I don't want to derail your journey journal thread but I still want to discuss this further hahaha, so I'm going to bump our Rubik's Cube thread. :)

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Re: The VCE journey of a hums student
« Reply #13 on: March 29, 2018, 03:07:56 pm »
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Update #1: 29/03/2018

So school has finished for the term! I only had one class today (global politics) as I had double free in the morning and school finished early. Anyway, we started AOS2 for global politics: power in the Asian pacific, with a special focus on China's development which was interesting as I used to live there.

Got quite a lot of holiday homework too, especially for literature as we have a SAC the first week back (Thursday 19th April). We still haven't got our first lit SAC back, even though that was the first SAC we did, in week 3 of term. As there's only one lit class at our school our teacher has to cross-mark it with a teacher from another school, so it'll take a while.

I'll mainly be focusing on lit, methods, and history during the holidays, lit is self-explanatory. I also think methods and history are most likely gonna be in my primary 4 (along with lit and Chinese) so I'll be mainly devoting my time to them. Of course I'll also work on Global and chem but as they're probably going to be in my bottom 2 I don't think I should spend too much time and energy on something that's only contributing 10% to my overall aggregate score.

Well, that was a relatively short update! Have a good holidays everyone  ;D
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« Reply #14 on: March 29, 2018, 03:08:54 pm »
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Yeah, like, I think black, but pretty sure my PB was with a white. I don't want to derail your journey journal thread but I still want to discuss this further hahaha, so I'm going to bump our Rubik's Cube thread. :)

Oh nice! Didn't know there was a Rubik's Cube thread but that's awesome! Let's move this conversation over there  ;D
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