I promise I do not die for like 3 weeks (or in this case, almost 4) every time I do an update (once again, this entry is going to be quite long ahaha). Holidays went by wayyy too quickly. I actually can't believe we've started Term 3 and that I'll be free of school in exactly 4 months... Before I go onto subjects and finish off last term's SAC's, I'll start off how (un)productive my holidays were. On the last day of school, I went out with some friends and we had lunch, then played pool (like tradition).
I was so happy since I could do absolutely nothing for a few days, but then I remembered I signed up to do a case competition with some friends which was due on the Tuesday of the first week of the holidays. So basically, we (there were 3 of us) went into this with a positive attitude first, then continued for the lols and the memes. The case we got was a neobank, and strategies they could implement in their next update to make them a more reputable brand and start earning profit. So basically, we worked half day everyday from Saturday to Tuesday (since it was due 5 pm Tuesday). We absolutely did not think we did that well to be honest, and we just aimed to get it the presentation finished. So, what we had to do now was sent it into the judges to judge our presentation, and if they liked our idea, we would get invited to the regional finals held THAT Saturday. Come Thursday, when the result came out, we were ecstatic we got in since we didn't expect such an outcome at all. So, on Saturday, we went to the venue they told us to in the city, and gave our presentation. The judges were nice and seems knowledgable, but I lost a bit of hope when they were asking us questions and I could see their faces just blank. After we did our presentation, another friend and I left because we had to go somewhere, but our third team member stayed behind since they were announcing the results at 4 pm. And what do you know, we got 3rd place! We actually couldn't believe it, out of the 8 teams that came to the regional finals, we were the finalists for Melbourne, meaning we got into the global finals in Canberra. So long story short, even though we got in, we won't be going because the timing of the finals in really bad, since it's in between so many SAC's for us, as well as our team member not thinking we should go since we have to pay for our flight to Canberra, accomodation, and food (since they think this seems dodgy), and they're not sponsoring this at all. But the experience we got was quite nice and I learnt a lot.
Apart from the event, my holidays were quite chill. I started school work on Wednesday, and basically just started to catch up on holiday homework and get a bit ahead of class. I went out a few times during the holidays (last week basically), to play laser tag and watch a movie, as well as a few birthdays. Last Friday, I also went to an economics lecture/event Melbourne Uni held, which basically talked about careers and pathways into economics and they also gave us tips for the final economics exam.
English Language: Okay, so I didn't do as well as I hoped. My prediction of how I went on SA was basically spot on, and even though I spent the most time on it, I choked it the hardest. I was disappointed, but seeing how I went on my AC made me feel a bit better. I improved from last time, and while it was only an improvement of 2 marks (from 24 to 26/30), this puts me in the higher range of marks for the AC. So basically, a reverse of the last SAC happened. This time, my AC carried me and my SA let me down. I also had to ask my teacher multiple times for a single mark (yes I'm one of those people) so that my grade could get bumped to the next letter. We started a bit of Unit 4 last term, but not in too much detail. However, I'm not too enthralled about the content in this Unit, and much preferred the content in Unit 3.
Legal Studies: I did the same as I did last SAC. While it's an extremely good score, I feel like I could have easily not lost the 2 marks I did. So, what I basically see from this is that I know my stuff well, but just need to make it 'individual' as to it can't be confused with another part of my answer, and basically work on my expression. We have our first SAC for U4 in 4 weeks, and we're halfway through AoS1. Hopefully we actually finish this on time with enough time for revision, unlike every time in U3.
Economics: I'm quite disappointed and disheartened by how I went in this. I walked out really confident with how I went since I knew how to answer every question and spent more than a week on revision, but I lost 2 marks on really really really (really need to emphasise this) silly mistakes. When talking about an decrease in AD, I talked about how some factor would lead to a decrease in exports, but then proceeded to write rise in X and fall in M... Another example of a stupid mistake was when a question asked about how the CAFA could rise, I did this so many times on practice SAC's and knew the answer, but on the actual SAC I only wrote one part of the answer and forgot to write down the sale of Australian assets to overseas buyers. So, yeah, as you can guess I'm a little annoyed (plus, RIP rank 1
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Accounting: Okay so, I didn't screw up the question about the GST, my friend made me paranoid. I did decent, but could have done better if I read the question more carefully. The substitute teacher initially didn't give me any consequential marks, so the original mark I got was lower than what I got in the end. I'm also a bit sad since I'm one mark off an A+ for this as well ahaha. But, he's finally gone! Our normal teacher was back today and everyone honestly felt like celebrating.
Methods: Hahahah, what a joke. I'd rather not go into this detail about this SAC, or the next SAC we'll get back. But I did pretty bad in this, and I've already accepted this is in my bottom 2 (which I suspected at the start of the year). Our normal teacher is on long service leave, so we have a replacement teacher, and from what I've heard so far, she's quite good. So, hopefully, the last SAC I do for methods I can actually do well in.