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Re: Zhen's VCE Journey
« Reply #60 on: September 26, 2017, 11:16:18 pm »
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Hey zhen are you going to the atarnotes meetup on friday?
Sadly I won’t be able to attend the meetup on Friday.  :'(

Hey Zhen, just curious, what company papers do u think are good for chemistry?
Personally from experience I generally like NEAP and Lisachem company papers. But I feel like we can’t be too picky about trial exams cause there are so few as it’s a new study design. I’m planning on doing all the new study design trial exams I can get my hands on and then I’ll go through the VCAA ones and maybe a couple of old company trial exams. I guess prioritise VCAA exams since they’ll be a really good indicator for the types of questions in the real exam and trial exams that correspond to the new study design, cause then the questions are 100% relevant rather than having 30% of the questions being irrelevant.

Holidays so far
I did a lot of work during Saturday, Sunday and Monday, but I slacked off a bit today. I still did some work, but honestly not enough if I want to really start hammering out trial exams and if I want to really ace the upcoming exams. I’m aiming to really knock out heaps of work tomorrow to make up for the less productive day today.

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Re: Zhen's VCE Journey
« Reply #61 on: September 26, 2017, 11:31:31 pm »
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Sadly I won’t be able to attend the meetup on Friday.  :'(
Why not? I'm sure everyone was keen to meet you and see if you're as angsty as you are in your journal

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« Reply #62 on: September 26, 2017, 11:35:38 pm »
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Why not? I'm sure everyone was keen to meet you and see if you're as angsty as you are in your journal

Even the word "angst" is an understatement HAHAHAHA but you're doing pretty well atm zhen, at least much better than me I can tell
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Re: Zhen's VCE Journey
« Reply #63 on: September 27, 2017, 10:18:13 pm »
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Why not? I'm sure everyone was keen to meet you and see if you're as angsty as you are in your journal
Even the word "angst" is an understatement HAHAHAHA but you're doing pretty well atm zhen, at least much better than me I can tell
Angst is definitely an understatement, especially after some of the stuff I’ve said this year and some of the interesting comments I left during my English practice exam.

27/9/2017
Exams are fast approaching which is pretty scary. I did a lot of studying today which I’m satisfied with, but my practice exams scores so far are less than satisfactory. Hopefully I can keep up the pace I’m going at and really improve heaps before the exam.

Edit: One of my friends wanted me to give a massive shoutout to my school’s biology departmenr for having 3 SACs left in term 4 and essentially screwing over everyone doing biology. I don’t know why the guy wanted me to post this.
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Re: Zhen's VCE Journey
« Reply #64 on: September 27, 2017, 10:41:35 pm »
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One of my friends wanted me to give a massive shoutout to my school’s biology departmenr for having 3 SACs left in term 4 and essentially screwing over everyone doing biology. I don’t know why the guy wanted me to post this.
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Re: Zhen's VCE Journey
« Reply #65 on: September 30, 2017, 12:09:22 am »
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29/7/2017
Over the past two days I did a decent chunk of work. But, I feel like I need to ramp it up. Even though I’ve put in loads of hours, I feel like I haven’t done much because I spent quite a bit of the time correcting my work and being really thorough about it, so that I learn from my mistakes. Hopefully that ends up helping. I also feel like I should shift from doing practice questions to doing more practice exams now, since I’ve been doing lots of questions for some subjects without doing many timed practice exams.

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« Reply #66 on: September 30, 2017, 05:36:57 pm »
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29/7/2017
Over the past two days I did a decent chunk of work. But, I feel like I need to ramp it up. Even though I’ve put in loads of hours, I feel like I haven’t done much because I spent quite a bit of the time correcting my work and being really thorough about it, so that I learn from my mistakes. Hopefully that ends up helping. I also feel like I should shift from doing practice questions to doing more practice exams now, since I’ve been doing lots of questions for some subjects without doing many timed practice exams.
Same here. Marking exams takes forever especially math exam 2s if they shit on you.

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« Reply #67 on: September 30, 2017, 11:10:43 pm »
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Same here. Marking exams takes forever especially math exam 2s if they shit on you.
Well my first exam 2 for maths was awful, but the one I did today for methods was surprisingly good considering that I haven’t done that much yet. Probably because the sample exam they provided for the new study design is easier than usual. (This is the one I did today) Hopefully we both start acing our trial exams so that all we have to work on are touching up and working on the harder questions.

 30/9/2017
Today I did a lot of study, but quite a bit of it was helping different people out. I think I spent like over 3 hours helping people out which really consolidated my understanding. I also did a lot of methods and English. I did that methods exam which I mentioned above and did plans for essays and went through my old essays to really get back into everything. Hopefully I can do decently on the timed practice exam tomorrow for tutoring.


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« Reply #68 on: October 03, 2017, 11:48:05 pm »
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I had a relaxation day yesterday, which was good. I think my lack of sleep after daylight savings and the timed English exam I did contributed to me feeling pretty burnt out yesterday and I just wasn’t able to study. But, I picked up the pace today and did heaps of study. I’ve noticed that all of my practice exam scores have shot up drastically, which is great.  :) I’ve noticed that even though I might come off negatively (especially when talking about my teachers and the stresses of VCE) since this journal is my way of venting out, I think these last few months are one of the happiest periods of my life. I noticed that in the last couple of years I’ve either been looking back nostalgically at the past or too caught up in the moment that I’ve lost track of everything. But, these couple of months I’ve been cherishing every moment left and living the present at my own pace. I’ve learnt to take a step back and really appreciate life. It’s really sad that this stage of my life is slowly coming to an end.  :'( But, hopefully the next stage of life is even better and hopefully I can make even more amazing memories.  ;D

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« Reply #69 on: October 04, 2017, 12:21:35 am »
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I had a relaxation day yesterday, which was good. I think my lack of sleep after daylight savings and the timed English exam I did contributed to me feeling pretty burnt out yesterday and I just wasn’t able to study. But, I picked up the pace today and did heaps of study. I’ve noticed that all of my practice exam scores have shot up drastically, which is great.  :) I’ve noticed that even though I might come off negatively (especially when talking about my teachers and the stresses of VCE) since this journal is my way of venting out, I think these last few months are one of the happiest periods of my life. I noticed that in the last couple of years I’ve either been looking back nostalgically at the past or too caught up in the moment that I’ve lost track of everything. But, these couple of months I’ve been cherishing every moment left and living the present at my own pace. I’ve learnt to take a step back and really appreciate life. It’s really sad that this stage of my life is slowly coming to an end.  :'( But, hopefully the next stage of life is even better and hopefully I can make even more amazing memories.  ;D

This is really great to read Zhen! I feel like the end of highschool is a bittersweet moment and I feel like it's so important that during the hussel and bussel of year 12 that times where you just step back and relax can prove to be the most beneficial in the long run! All the best for exams bro!

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Re: Zhen's VCE Journey
« Reply #70 on: October 06, 2017, 11:14:08 pm »
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How many exams have you done for each subject?

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« Reply #71 on: October 08, 2017, 06:19:00 pm »
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This is really great to read Zhen! I feel like the end of highschool is a bittersweet moment and I feel like it's so important that during the hussel and bussel of year 12 that times where you just step back and relax can prove to be the most beneficial in the long run! All the best for exams bro!
All the best for you too!  ;D

How many exams have you done for each subject?
Not enough in my opinion. Like 3 or 4 per subject, but you shouldn’t take me as a guide since I began to slack off on my second week of holidays and focus more on English cause of the upcoming SAC and cause it’s the first exam. Do as many exams as you can and make sure you correct them properly and list out all your mistakes. Correction process is in my opinion just as important as doing the exam, so make sure you correct your exams properly cause some students do heaps of exams but don’t learn from them because they don’t correct their exams properly. Aiming to have 15 or so exams finished for each subject by exam time. Going to cram across the time until the exams and maybe ditch a few classes to do so.  :P

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« Reply #72 on: October 09, 2017, 11:28:34 pm »
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Holidays were ok in terms of productivity. I did heaps of essays for my standards but didn’t do as much chemistry and specialist practice exams as I would have liked.

9/10/2017
The day was pretty ordinary and I studied heaps after school. The biggest thing that happened was my double English class. Basically the teacher spent 10 minutes going through a one page word document summarising what he expected from our essays. After it, I asked him to correct my essay and he’s like I went through this document so that you could do it yourself. If he expects us to do everything ourselves with a tiny one page, then why do we even have a class? It’s the equivalent of giving us a sheet and saying class dismissed. He spent the whole double period either at the front doing nothing or walking around doing nothing (refused to answer questions). He also said to write some practice paragraphs, but basically said that he wouldn’t correct them cause we needed to wait until we get our practice exams back to know what to improve on. The practice exams are marked by an external marker and we’ll receive them next week, so he’s basically telling us that he’ll do absolutely nothing for the next week. Also, I highly doubt he’d give any feedback for essays after the trial exams are handed out considering his reluctance to do so throughout the year. He’s literally only marked 3 essays of mine other than SACs. Whenever I ask him to mark one, he either outright refuses to or scans for a tiny spelling or grammatical error so that he can tell me to rewrite it again cause he says that I clearly haven’t paid enough attention and I need to prefect my essays before handing them to him. If I could write perfect essays, then I wouldn’t even need to be taught in the first place. I feel like his desire to not teach has really disadvantaged his class. That in addition to his incredibly harsh and at times biased marking makes it so that his classes are unbearable. I feel like he’s really screwed over my class and considering that I know absolutely no one in my entire class that has gotten A or above for all their SACs, it really shows how nearly everyone in my class has just been unfairly treated.

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Re: Zhen's VCE Journey
« Reply #73 on: October 10, 2017, 08:04:25 am »
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Wow. Your English teacher is either a) retiring soon,  b) lost the passion to teach, c) hates your class or d) some other reason for being this bad.

I actually don't get this passive aggressiveness from your teacher. I highly recommend you document if you can what he has done and get other students in the class to back you up & got to your year level co-ordinator to report this behaviour.
What he is doing is inappropriate and unprofessional as well. I know this won't change anything for you and your class most likely, but hopefully it will stop him teaching Year 12 next year.
As for getting feedback, try going to other English teachers for feedback if possible on your practice work or here on ATARNotes.

All the best though zhen. You have sympathy for your predicament.

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Re: Zhen's VCE Journey
« Reply #74 on: October 10, 2017, 10:59:02 pm »
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