Last stretch of VCE

[jkay__]

Actuarial science? Here's some experiences from a unimelb student
https://atarnotes.com/forum/index.php?topic=175482.0

Yoo, this guys' posts are about as heavy or more worth than gold. Gotta check it out, thanks for linking it to me!!

big mood
Sorry if I missed it in an earlier post, but what course are you aiming to get in to?
Feeling a little attacked tbh. (That's my plan for next year...)

BCom/Actuarial Studies at Unimelb, hopefully with maths grad diploma is the plan right now

Ah, doing those two together alone earns a tremendous amount of respect from me, hats off to you. Hopefully you enjoy it!! I heard that it's really interchangeable so you might find it easy, who knows? Good luck with the workload though, that's 5 books (to my knowledge, dk how much lit has). What other subjects are you planning?

Woahhh a 49 in chem? That's in my dreams XD
And yeah I'm thinking about doing Mainstream and Lit if Japanese 1/2 doesn't end up going too well for me
I am aiming towards Melb Uni because it's closer to home (Monash is like far far away) and my friends and I have decided we're gonna move out together if all 3 of us get in together
Good luck for Spesh though, glad ur enjoying a subject most people unfortunately tend to dislike

Yeah 49 is insaneee ahaha I don't understand how people pull that off.  Jap 1/2?? Holy you should keep it imo, I really regret not doing a second language, because despite the workload, it scales a gargantuan amount and is well worth the effort, but I reckon if you're not Jap yourself, you should think about doing a 3/4 that's your language.
Do you live with your friends if you don't mind me asking, or all moving closer?

Specialist is so underappreciated or overrated (to be hated) I feel  , but from watching how everyone goes in Maths I think it's safe to say that it's more innate ability that counts (no hubris intended). It's a bit like English, where the foundations matter a lot. Do you have any subjects like it?

[jkay__]

2019/09/26

Disappointed with myself, did nearly no study today, only got around 3 hours done, compared to my average of 6 Probably will post this and grind till 10 to get at least 5 hours in

Got my Text Response essay back from tutor, thoroughly dismantled and destroyed by her. Yikes, that's also some motivation gone, she killed my beautiful baby. Did an English essay today as well and couldn't bring myself to finish it in risk of m sanity. It is so illegible, like it's worse than the paracetamol meme, and it doesn't flow. I didn't even know what I wrote at times. Guess I'm not doing any exams until later I guess.

Despite this, still going strong!! My Language Analysis was decent (I think, I hope so, using a new formula). I signed up for a private English lecture tomorrow that details a SIXTY times more productive study method (yeah, no. prolly five to ten times). This might help out on English for a bit and have some tips that have never been seen. The guy even said he talked to neurologists man, holy hell

Also want to shotuout these posts for existing and carrying me through the last week for English. lynt.br, anthony99 and lauren, if you're reading this (don't think lynt or anthony is active anymore) then God bless, these are gems.
https://atarnotes.com/forum/index.php?topic=24244.0
https://atarnotes.com/forum/index.php?topic=132180.0
https://atarnotes.com/forum/index.php?topic=172569.0

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Yeah 49 is insaneee ahaha I don't understand how people pull that off.  Jap 1/2?? Holy you should keep it imo, I really regret not doing a second language, because despite the workload, it scales a gargantuan amount and is well worth the effort, but I reckon if you're not Jap yourself, you should think about doing a 3/4 that's your language.
Do you live with your friends if you don't mind me asking, or all moving closer?

Specialist is so underappreciated or overrated (to be hated) I feel  , but from watching how everyone goes in Maths I think it's safe to say that it's more innate ability that counts (no hubris intended). It's a bit like English, where the foundations matter a lot. Do you have any subjects like it?

Japanese is not my native language at all. In fact, I uhh started it this year
I can't do my native language because I can't read or write and it's wayy harder. I find it a lot of fun but if it's too overwhelming next year then I'll drop it and try for another Eng subject

We're planning on living together in the city so we can split the rent 3 ways. I'm excited for it! My parents kinda don't want me to move out but both my friends' parents want them to leave asap (yikes).

Spesh rlly is. All of the year 12's (when I was in Year 9) told me not to do it and said how much they regretted it. I haven't started it yet but am planning on doing it. Methods is a lot of fun, I did a 3/4 lecture on it recently and understood all of the content apart from the probability and stats section since we haven't covered it in school yet

Also your courses seem awesome! Good luck even though u won't need it : ))

[jkay__]

Japanese is not my native language at all. In fact, I uhh started it this year
I can't do my native language because I can't read or write and it's wayy harder. I find it a lot of fun but if it's too overwhelming next year then I'll drop it and try for another Eng subject

Yo, I'm guessing Chinese/Korean, or even Viet?

We're planning on living together in the city so we can split the rent 3 ways. I'm excited for it! My parents kinda don't want me to move out but both my friends' parents want them to leave asap (yikes).

Ahh, that's sick. HAHAHA yikes for your friends though

Spesh rlly is. All of the year 12's (when I was in Year 9) told me not to do it and said how much they regretted it. I haven't started it yet but am planning on doing it. Methods is a lot of fun, I did a 3/4 lecture on it recently and understood all of the content apart from the probability and stats section since we haven't covered it in school yet

don't listen to h8rs! Methods is basically a lite Specialist, and I'd heavily recommend doing them together in same year.

[jkay__]

2019/09/28

some stuff happened, got 38/40 on a Spesh Exam 1 and lost marks on the most unacceptable errors GOD forgive my sin

Changed courses from BCom/dmathsci to BSci (Stats) with dcomputing! Daunting but hopefully it is worth, heard a plethora of negativity (which outweighs the pros) regarding Actuarial, putting me off.

English is going okay. I've talked to a friend (who goes to the same tutor), who's getting t-boned much harder than I am currently, but I'm also doing my best to help him despite our unhelpful tutor. God, she keeps saying "You have potential jkay!! You just need to work on it". I'm still waiting on my secret superpowers to unlock...

I've been contemplating my ATAR recently. This journal was meant to be a simply outlet for me to say what I studied in the day to show the grind, but Messenger Facebook AN and even Reddit (latest one piece release was dope dude not even gonna lie) is distracting me. I should therefore make an executive decision regarding this. No more using phones or any of those listed (AN maybe for some English help time to time, thank you lynt.br, anthony and lauren for being saints) until English exam begins, and here's my toast towards the 40 grind.

All that being said, see you tomorrow for my next entry!

Side note, if you don't do Eng, 40 is 8/10 across the three essays, and that's not an easy feat. I'm averaging 7/10 for Text Response (pretty close!!), my Language Analysis was 6-7/10 at the start of the year and maybe a 7/10 now (also could use some improvement, but hey its getting there) and my comparative is zit zit nil no one has bothered marking my essays and my teacher is out of commission for a while so I should rely on tutor who is being weird about the structure out of 10. Overall big RIP towards Eng mark. 40 Eng, 50/45 Maths and 42 Accounting should give me a 99.00. while my current projection of 35 English gives me a 98.25. English is SO SO SO SO SO important, please, if your'e in Y7-11 reading this, PLEASE don't neglect English. It's super hard to improve towards the end. 40 is so so so hard if you don't put in the work from early. I beseech you make it easier on yourself.

im literally not qualified to give this advice when

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[smallbean]

Hey jkay!
I'm a fellow Year 12 student who is currently experiencing the pre-exam grind at the moment. I can definitely relate to the distractions of Social Media and Reddit as I feel as though they are preventing me from achieving my best due to my tendency to procrastinate.
Your Maths scores are amazing and so inspiring to see, as maths is definitely one of my weakest areas (I'm more of an English person haha). Looking forward to reading the rest of your updates! 

[chopsticks]

don't listen to h8rs! Methods is basically a lite Specialist, and I'd heavily recommend doing them together in same year.

Yep, doing Methods 3/4 + Spesh 1/2 in the same year
Also, are you doing Spesh 3/4 practice exams in Year 11 even though you're doing 1/2 at school? I just realized and that's awesome! Do you time yourself whilst doing it? Is the content of Spesh 3/4 similar to 1/2 (like how Methods 3/4 is basically the same thing as 1/2)

[jkay__]

Hey jkay!
I'm a fellow Year 12 student who is currently experiencing the pre-exam grind at the moment. I can definitely relate to the distractions of Social Media and Reddit as I feel as though they are preventing me from achieving my best due to my tendency to procrastinate.
Your Maths scores are amazing and so inspiring to see, as maths is definitely one of my weakest areas (I'm more of an English person haha). Looking forward to reading the rest of your updates! 

Ay what's up. Yeah, procrastination is really unfortunate, but it's a hurdle we have to overcome for high scores.

Yo, you're the one that's good at English though, and in the future, that skill has a high chance of translating to something else. Maths probably won't, so I should be the one that's inspired more!

Yep, doing Methods 3/4 + Spesh 1/2 in the same year
Also, are you doing Spesh 3/4 practice exams in Year 11 even though you're doing 1/2 at school? I just realized and that's awesome! Do you time yourself whilst doing it? Is the content of Spesh 3/4 similar to 1/2 (like how Methods 3/4 is basically the same thing as 1/2)

Ahh, Spesh 1/2 is mainly irrelevant to 3/4 though, like hugely irrelevant. I'd advise you to ONLY study for partial fractions, vectors, complex numbers, modulus and ellipses/hyperbolas in 1/2 since that's the majority of which carries over to 3/4. 3/4 is centred around calculus, so diff, antidiff and that kinda stuff (fun fun fun). If you send a list of the topics later on I could pick out the good and bad ones more in detail though

Also, what do you mean in Year 11? I'm in Year 12 ahahah, but I do the exams in timed conditions yeah, if I don't that defeats the purpose of practise imo

[jkay__]

2019/09/30

It's 6 AM and my sleep-deprived form is finally back on AN. Yikes, I've already broken my own self pact.

English - I found it. I found THE best way to study for essays (Text Response / Comparative), and this has propelled my confidence. Hell, I'm not even embarrassed to say that I have a good chance at 45, or even 50 if I do it right. It's just a matter of dedication, and if I can do it or not. This is where I'll be spending my life for the next month. This is an incredibly insolent thing for me to say though, for someone who was projecting 35-38 maybe a few days ago, to claim that I could get a 45-50 now. That's literally a 10 point difference, yikes, but now I can do it.

Specialist - Did 2016 practise exams, underperformed. Stupid, stupid mistakes on Exam 1 (38/40). When redoing questions to check over, I realised that I should stop thinking in the old way I was doing them (because i would have a certain idea of how to do them), and just be careful with algebra, if this makes sense. Exam 2 (76/80), all dropped marks because I was hungry...LOL, decided I wanted to diet and lose weight and also an exam at the same time. The beast within me wasn't too happy about that, actually started going insane towards the second half of the paper. Also very careless mistakes, it's taught me to read the questions even MORE carefully (I even highlight them and everything), and not rely on my head for simple algebraic steps.

Accounting - You already know where it is.
N O  A C C just kidding I did a little bit of it!! I'm so proud of myself wow.


Also regarding my university courses, after talking to a wide variety of people, I have decided to go into BSci (Mathematics and Stats) + dcomp. If I do it right, it can STILL get me into actuarial jobs, but widens my job prospect quite a bit, and it's more what I like. However, there's the scary ATAR requirement of... 85 clearly in. To settle some family feuds, I need a 99.45+ ATAR now. That's my new goal, 99.5. Plugging some numbers into AN calc, that's 44 Eng, 48 Methods, 47 Spesh and 43 Acc, or 45 Eng 48 Methods 47 Spesh and 42 Acc. This is very doable now compared to when I projected a 35, and I have amazing newfound confidence, whoo.

But why stop there? Why not aim for Chancellors (99.9) and a free ride to any university?

because the gods haven't smiled on me yet, that's why.

[lst1103]

Oooh, care to divulge your newfound English secret?!? Would love to hear it!!

Have been enjoying your journal thus far, too!

[chopsticks]

Also, what do you mean in Year 11? I'm in Year 12 ahahah, but I do the exams in timed conditions yeah, if I don't that defeats the purpose of practise imo

Whoops! The whole time I thought you were a Year 11 student (my mind must've processed the number 12 wrong HAHA) and I was so confused how you were doing Spesh 3/4
And wow, getting such high marks in timed conditions would be like a dream come true XD
Thanks for the topics advice, though I won't start 1/2 for Spesh until next year

[jkay__]

Oooh, care to divulge your newfound English secret?!? Would love to hear it!!

Have been enjoying your journal thus far, too!

Writing 7-10 thematic paragraphs and rote learning. This is extremely tedious however, (I estimate 8-9 pages of paragraphs)f but if done right will definitely get high marks

This won't save me from Language Analysis though HAHAH

Whoops! The whole time I thought you were a Year 11 student (my mind must've processed the number 12 wrong HAHA) and I was so confused how you were doing Spesh 3/4
And wow, getting such high marks in timed conditions would be like a dream come true XD
Thanks for the topics advice, though I won't start 1/2 for Spesh until next year

Wowee I thought I had a signature with my subjects, maybe it's not visible?

Yeah, but always good to keep those subjects in mind. If you don't understand them next year, then no worries because you probably will understand in Y12 (Complex+Vectors are 100% necessary to have a good grasp of in y11 imo), but you relearn everything in Y12 anyway. Enjoy life I guess for the next year hahaha

Aye, the timed conditions thing is decent. Honestly, the only worries are consistency of high marks (my 79, then 76, 77), and how I can't always get 79 and never got 80, but that shouldn't matter too much ...
When you get into exams, if you're knowledged enough in subjects, then you'll see that high marks are no biggie!

[Macrophagee]

Hi, jkay__
I'm a fellow methods and spesh student here so it's been great reading your journal!!
First of all...YOU ARE DOING AMAZING IN SPESH HOW
 TEACH ME YOUR WAYS!!! 79/80 is beyond amazing and you should be so proud of yourself that is really good now so by the time exams come you will smash it.
Also, I suck at English so what is this secret strategy you have....

[jkay__]

First of all...YOU ARE DOING AMAZING IN SPESH HOW TEACH ME YOUR WAYS!!! 79/80 is beyond amazing and you should be so proud of yourself that is really good now so by the time exams come you will smash it.

Ahahahah tyty, I feel lucky because I just "get" Maths, and I really haven't put in extended effort during the year. I can only recommend practising as much as you can until you get better. Maths the speed of how fast you find the way to work out a question through linking relevant concepts to it matters most imo - of course the knowledge too.

Also, I suck at English so what is this secret strategy you have....

Writing 7-10 thematic paragraphs and rote learning. This is extremely tedious however, (I estimate 8-9 pages of paragraphs)f but if done right will definitely get high marks

[jkay__]

2019/09/30



Last day of September, holy. Only 30 days until English starts now. To reiterate my plan for this last month, it's to grind the absolute hell out of English (and maybe fit Spesh/Accounting SAC revisions for Term 4). English every day.

I feel like this journal also needs something interesting. How about my study schedule? Here's the stuck schedule I've stuck to these holidays, and will be sticking to until English exam (most likely):

6 ~ 8/9AM - Wake up, eat, take a shower, wash dishes. Maybe a bit of study
8/9 ~ 11:30/11:59 AM - Study
12 ~ 1:30/2 PM - Eat lunch, listen to music, watch videos or a movie (movie most days), or study early
1:30/2 ~ 5/6 PM - Study
5/6 ~ 7/8 PM - Eat dinner, brush teeth, rest a bit
7/8 ~ 10 PM - Study
11 PM - Sleep

That's only like 6-8 hours on average a day though. I'm trying to schedule it so I can push 10 hours, maybe 12. Maybe I'll study earlier at lunch so start at 1 and go until 5/6, then at night I start from 7 and go until 11. Today I also officially deactivated my Facebook/Messenger in order to make this extension possible and to reduce distractions, and blocked reddit (God bless Blocksite). I'll also be blocking AN too for the most part so I can't use it as a substitute Facebook I guess ahahahah. Still going to try to post every day or second day based on what I've done (probably English), and any progress I've made (probably not too much).


Some updates on study:

Got argument analysis feedback from tutor, 5/10. Hahahahahahhahah. She said that I was severely out of practise and that I was lacking some things, and also commented on structure. I really hope I can push AA to 9/10 by the end of this month (provided I listen to my tutor, it should be 100% possible).

Methods - Did Exam 1 today, 39/40. dumb, dumb DUMB mistakes. I honestly can't forgive myself, but now that I'm learning the reason I'm making these mistakes, I shouldn't repeat them again.

Accounting - You already know it.
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Peace out, until next time. Also, a toast to any Year 12s, here's to the grind.






chemistry: am i a joke to you?