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VCE Stuff => Victorian Education Discussion => The VCE Journey Journal => Topic started by: SnekiSnek on May 05, 2021, 11:30:16 am
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Going to add to this at least once a week, maybe more who knows. Starting a little later than everyone else so let's just say this is week 3 term 2 and I'll provide a quick overview of what has happened so far, even if I can just look back at it at a later date.
2019 (year 9) - completed General Math 1/2
2020 (year 10) - completed Psychology, Methods, Legal Study 1/2
2021 (year 11) - Chemistry and Literature 1/2, Methods, Further + Legal 3/4
2022 (year 12) - Chemistry + Lit 3/4, potential pickup of another subject or uni extension
So far one thing I'm finding really hard to get a hold of is motivation, it is so easy to just step away from doing work and not open my school bag when I get home from school. Literature is particularly difficult as it is by correspondence (shout out to VSV) as there is no in real life teacher or class keeping me accountable for falling a little behind. I have until June 8th to submit all tasks, so there will be a lot of cramming in the time until then to get all work handed in.
In regards to SACs, I could be doing a lot better if I did notes and completed practice questions. My first further SAC I got 83%, which honestly I'm surprised with because I did very little work and haven't started my bound reference. Most of my errors were not in content but rather silly mistakes like not labelling axes and such which is also an issue I have in Methods. I got very complacent with Further since I am doing it just for a slight ATAR boost but I know I could do a lot better. First Legal SAC was a 76% and our teacher admitted she made it hard on purpose so that we would be prepared for the exam. No one got 80 or above on that one. My weak point is task words and being able to provide enough information for mark allocation, started doing a lot more practice questions for the next SAC.
Methods I believe I'm doing ok, at least in circular functions, and I hope our SAC has at least some of that on it. Hoping to smash out a lot more literature work tonight will keep you updated :)
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Well updating this a little earlier than I thought I would, managed to complete and upload three weeks of Literature work last night, very happy with this as it feels like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders. Still a lot to do but every bit helps!
Had a Chemistry topic test today, screwed up balancing equations, maths was correct but not in the chemistry sense if that makes sense. Does anyone know how to separate chemistry/further/methods maths in their brain because I keep crossing the wires :-[
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Only a few more weeks until all my SACs decide to gang up on me, I think I have methods, legal and further in the same week :'( Next week have my last literature SAC for the semester, feeling okay about it just need to find time to watch 10 Things I Hate About You. Methods has turned into basically speedrunning the rest of the content we have before the SAC, we're behind by a lot, only just started chapter 9 but so far differentiation isn't hurting me too badly. Have a bunch of practice SAC questions to work through in legal, goodness gracious I hate civil law with a burning passion!
Haven't started my bound references for methods or further, waiting until later in the year to churn them out so that I'm not including things that I feel I have under control. Let's just pretend that's the reason instead of my massive procrastination habit.
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Only a few more weeks until all my SACs decide to gang up on me, I think I have methods, legal and further in the same week :'( Next week have my last literature SAC for the semester, feeling okay about it just need to find time to watch 10 Things I Hate About You. Methods has turned into basically speedrunning the rest of the content we have before the SAC, we're behind by a lot, only just started chapter 9 but so far differentiation isn't hurting me too badly. Have a bunch of practice SAC questions to work through in legal, goodness gracious I hate civil law with a burning passion!
Haven't started my bound references for methods or further, waiting until later in the year to churn them out so that I'm not including things that I feel I have under control. Let's just pretend that's the reason instead of my massive procrastination habit.
I got a lot of SACs in one week as well, in fact we had 3 SACs in one week lol. Do your best, don't let procrastination stop you.
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Another thing sneaking up is my first ever GAT! Bit apprehensive and a bit excited to be honest with y'all, not sure if there is even any practice I can do for it. I suppose a lot of you would've also done it in year 11 if you fasttracked a subject, I could've done it last year but the further classes were all full... oh well. Feeling slightly unwell after getting the flu shot last night, concentration for the day feels like it has hit an all-time low but hopefully this only lasts maybe today and tomorrow and I'll be back at it again on Monday.
In better news, received chemistry test back and the only thing I mucked up was the balancing equations! Good to know I only have that particular area to work on instead of a whole bunch of other stuff.
I originally thought this would be a once a week thing but honestly there's so much going on if anyone wants to read my ramblings
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Alright it's been a week, been battling a chest infection all week so haven't been at school all week :P
5 SACs in the next two weeks, not happy and don't feel prepared for any of them especially as I have missed a lot of crucial revision time
Have a public speaking competition on Tuesday which I have not written anything for
Stressed, lots of tears :'(
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Alright it's been a week, been battling a chest infection all week so haven't been at school all week :P
5 SACs in the next two weeks, not happy and don't feel prepared for any of them especially as I have missed a lot of crucial revision time
Have a public speaking competition on Tuesday which I have not written anything for
Stressed, lots of tears :'(
Rest up and try to relax. Make sure you're really well again. Have you considered trying to get extensions on SACs or anything because of illness? It's worth a try, in my mind.
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Hey all guess who's back... I'm back!
I must be the only one who's happy that Victoria has gone into lockdown for a little bit because I've been able to catch up on so much work, not only am I up to date now... I'm actually ahead! Will it last long? Probably not but just happy that I've got a little bit of spare time on my hands now
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Hey all guess who's back... I'm back!
I must be the only one who's happy that Victoria has gone into lockdown for a little bit because I've been able to catch up on so much work, not only am I up to date now... I'm actually ahead! Will it last long? Probably not but just happy that I've got a little bit of spare time on my hands now
Congrats on catching up, I wish I could catch up with my work as well.
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Hey all,
Quick update for my week, going to be short need to get back to revision for legal sac at the end of the day!
Monday (today) Legal Sac
Tuesday Chemistry exam in the morning
Wednesday Further Maths Sac in the middle of the day
Thursday Public speaking competition but it's over Zoom
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Alright time for a proper update!
Yesterday was my legal SAC and... no one finished, literally no one. I managed to write an answer in for every question but for a few of the questions (looks suspiciously at 9 marker) I didn't get to put in the depth that I wanted to in my response. Discussing with classmates, many chose to leave entire sections blank and focus on the higher marked questions but I'm hoping I can scrape my marks from every question and keep my high ranking. Our teacher did admit it was a hard SAC and civil law really isn't an area that I get much enjoyment out of.
Spent so long last night revising for my chem exam this morning especially on hydrocarbons and carboxylic acids, esthers and alcohols all that jazz only for it to not appear as much in the exam as I thought it would. Bit disappointed that I wasted time studying the wrong area but I do have a SAC next week I believe where this extra study time will come in handy.
Moving into Unit 2 of literature with VSV and have some time to catch up on some work that I haven't yet submitted, also have to remind myself to read the Great Gatsby over the holidays so that I'm prepared for the next unit. I'm not sure whether or not I'm going to continue with lit as it is really difficult to get all the feedback you need without being in a face-to-face classroom. I got the results for my poetry SAC back and it was not as high as I wanted but good gracious I hate poetry and poetical analysis so I'll take it.
Studying for the first methods SAC next week as it got pushed back (again) because of the lockdown, very nervous about how I will go with that as I understand most of the content but then absolutely draw a blank when it comes to any sort of test conditions.
Also tomorrow is the further financial and recursion SAC which is actually something I am looking forward to as I do enjoy financial maths. I have to brush up on a lot of the recurrence relations and rules because I feel like that will be the area that might trip me up during the SAC. It shouldn't be too challenging but making stupid mistakes always lowers my results because I don't doublecheck some working or check what the question is asking specifically. This honestly applies to all my subjects, need to pull my head in a little about this so that I don't make the same mistakes come end of year exams.
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Alrighty was watching some X-Files last night and seeing Scully fill in her field report reminded me that I haven't updated this journal in a fair bit of time. So without further ado, here's another update!
Because my immune system sucks immensely, I got sick (again!!!!!!) during a week of SACs. Honestly feels like I should start taking vitagummies or something because this is going to be a big problem if I get sick during exam weeks. Just for an added cherry on top, I'm sure everyone here has already had a look at the exam timetable for this year and my birthday is jammed between 4 math exams! Go me! At least it's a public holiday but definitely spending the entire time studying. But I missed my methods SAC and a Chemistry SAC because I was sick.
I've started the methods SAC and... wow. I spent the whole time whilst sick trying to jam some study in when I felt okayish but none of the practice SACs, textbook questions or edrolo seemed to correlate with what was on parts of the SAC. There's only six people in my methods class and from the sound of it, that's gonna drop down to 3 at the most. A lot of people are attempting to transfer to further and cram Unit 3/4 into one semester as they believe it will give them a better result than methods.
Haven't received the official result from my further SAC but my teacher said it appeared that I would be in the 90 percents somewhere which honestly is the good SAC result I need after just feeling like I'm barely scraping by. Motivation is getting harder to come by but I've made it halfway through the year so at least most of it is behind me at this point
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I wish you all the best, I get sick often as well so I can totally understand what you mean.
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I wish you all the best, I get sick often as well so I can totally understand what you mean.
Thank you for the kind words Stormbreaker, glad to know I'm not the only one in the same boat <3
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Hey all, it has been a long while since I have updated my journal. I’m going to be completely honest… I kinda forgot that it existed, blasphemous I know. A lot has happened between my last update and now which is to be expected since it has been 3 odd months.
I always had high expectations for what I wanted to achieve in VCE and the score I wanted for my ATAR (always thought I could get that 90+). This year has been a massive humbling experience, my performance has dropped considerably and only now a few days out before my first exam have I started to really get back on track. I’ve come to terms with the fact that Methods will not be in my top five subjects, it would honestly take a miracle for me to get higher than a raw 20 something. For now I am trying to focus on getting a raw 25 to keep my uni courses open, and at the moment that feels quite unobtainable. Praying that VCAA doesn’t decide to do a 2020 on us and give methods one of the hardest exams ever in the history of the subject. Concepts and equations aren’t sticking in my brain all that well and I’m feeling burnt out from doing questions and prac exams all day.
Further is my safety net, on all the practice exams that I have done it’s been A+ and a lot of them I have been scoring 100% but I don’t know how badly exam nerves will hit me on the day. Getting above a 40 would hopefully prevent the damage methods is going to do to my score and maybe give me some confidence for next year.
Have only done one or two legal prac exams for the sole reason that I have a gap of roughly a week between my method exam and legal and I remember the content relatively well. Once I push all the math out of my brain, I can fill it with the necessary legal jargon and cases required.
I applied for school captain at my school and I think I have a decent chance of being elected. My year level coordinator, who happens to be part of the teacher leadership, dissuaded me from doing another five subjects next year as she thinks I will get the position and therefore need time to fulfil my duties. Speaking of subjects for next year I will be doing Chem 3/4, Psych 3/4 on campus but I have decided to continue Lit online with VSV as well as pick up Classical Studies 3/4. I got 100% on one of my literature SACs this year and I’m sure you can tell that I’ve been riding that high for a while. As for why I picked classical studies, I realised that I’ve been doing subjects purely for prerequisites and not something that I enjoy and I feel that Classical Studies will be able to bridge that gap and I’m more likely to do well in something I enjoy. It was between that and specialist maths but I decided that I can’t learn maths well online, of which spesh would be completely online.
I apologise for not being active, it’s been a busy year and my head has felt very cluttered and disorganised but here’s a small update. At least I’m still alive 😊
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Haha nice to see you again! Glad to see ur doing well, despite some stresses in certain subjects.
I don't really have much advice to offer, but considering the complaints that vcaa recieved last year on the methods exams form like everybody, I think they won't pull such as...interesting move again.
Good luck on exams!
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First exam done - Further Maths Exam 1
I am going to be honest, a lot of the questions on the exam blindsided me... like a lot. I did every single past VCAA exam as well as the NHT ones and I feel like a lot of the questions were completely new and had never appeared before. Don't know if that was just me or if VCAA decided that us having two years of remote learning was enough punishment for us. I am completely refusing to look at solutions online as I don't want to completely blow my hopes at getting a good score but unless I manage to get full marks on Exam 2... I don't think I will be getting in the 40s. It's a bit of a blow to my chances but I'm taking the hand that I have been given. Who knows, maybe everyone else had the same issues I had
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First exam done - Further Maths Exam 1
I am going to be honest, a lot of the questions on the exam blindsided me... like a lot. I did every single past VCAA exam as well as the NHT ones and I feel like a lot of the questions were completely new and had never appeared before. Don't know if that was just me or if VCAA decided that us having two years of remote learning was enough punishment for us. I am completely refusing to look at solutions online as I don't want to completely blow my hopes at getting a good score but unless I manage to get full marks on Exam 2... I don't think I will be getting in the 40s. It's a bit of a blow to my chances but I'm taking the hand that I have been given. Who knows, maybe everyone else had the same issues I had
Hi,
First of all sorry about how the exam went. I think you might still have chance as exam was really difficult and lets be honest everyone would have lost lot of marks. So even if you felt you did bad you should consider that everyone in the state had the same difficulty thus might have messed up the exam.
I also just want to say best of luck for your exam 2 :)
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Hi,
First of all sorry about how the exam went. I think you might still have chance as exam was really difficult and lets be honest everyone would have lost lot of marks. So even if you felt you did bad you should consider that everyone in the state had the same difficulty thus might have messed up the exam.
I also just want to say best of luck for your exam 2 :)
Thank you for the kind words! It was really hard to think about it that way when I left the exam hall but at least I have been able to put it more in perspective since then. I have talked to a few of my friends from different schools and the general vibe is that it was a really hard exam
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Just going to add a little addition here: I got school vice captain!!
I am honestly happier to have received vice as it means that I don't have *as* many commitments as the captain, giving me some time back in order for school and classes. Next year is gonna be busy, either doing 4 or 5 subjects depending on my scores from this year as well as producing the school production!
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Just going to add a little addition here: I got school vice captain!!
I am honestly happier to have received vice as it means that I don't have *as* many commitments as the captain, giving me some time back in order for school and classes. Next year is gonna be busy, either doing 4 or 5 subjects depending on my scores from this year as well as producing the school production!
Congratulation on becoming the school vice captain
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First exam done - Further Maths Exam 1
I am going to be honest, a lot of the questions on the exam blindsided me... like a lot. I did every single past VCAA exam as well as the NHT ones and I feel like a lot of the questions were completely new and had never appeared before. Don't know if that was just me or if VCAA decided that us having two years of remote learning was enough punishment for us. I am completely refusing to look at solutions online as I don't want to completely blow my hopes at getting a good score but unless I manage to get full marks on Exam 2... I don't think I will be getting in the 40s. It's a bit of a blow to my chances but I'm taking the hand that I have been given. Who knows, maybe everyone else had the same issues I had
Gosh I totally agree with you here - that exam was pretty demoralizing, and I've also done all of the (current) and NHT exams, yet there were still a TON of completely weird questions. You have the right idea to not check though, I have no idea why people do it tbh as it just seems demoralizing!
I'm sure you'll smash it for exam 2, and honestly you still probably did pretty well for exam 1!
Good luck!!
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Best of luck to everyone for exam 2 :)
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Gosh I totally agree with you here - that exam was pretty demoralizing, and I've also done all of the (current) and NHT exams, yet there were still a TON of completely weird questions. You have the right idea to not check though, I have no idea why people do it tbh as it just seems demoralizing!
I'm sure you'll smash it for exam 2, and honestly you still probably did pretty well for exam 1!
Good luck!!
Thank you! The temptation to check my answers has been eating away at me but I just keep reminding myself that the answers posted may be incorrect and therefore reading them would make me feel worse. Good luck on exam 2!!!
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Should I be asleep right now so that I feel better for my exam tomorrow? Yes
Am I going to instead take a nap before my exam because it's in the afternoon after I finish some things off in my bound reference? Also yes
Have I spent the weekend scouring old exams to see where they plucked the types of questions that were in Exam 1 from? That would be a third yes
Has it been successful? No
Do I feel like VCAA changed the study design without telling any of us? Yessir
Good luck to everyone who has exams tomorrow, you got this psych students as well my fellow further students!!!
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Should I be asleep right now so that I feel better for my exam tomorrow? Yes
Am I going to instead take a nap before my exam because it's in the afternoon after I finish some things off in my bound reference? Also yes
Have I spent the weekend scouring old exams to see where they plucked the types of questions that were in Exam 1 from? That would be a third yes
Has it been successful? No
Do I feel like VCAA changed the study design without telling any of us? Yessir
Good luck to everyone who has exams tomorrow, you got this psych students as well my fellow further students!!!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SLEEP PLZ. I beg u good sir, napping won't be as effective as just getting a solid 8-10 hours. its too late for revision, plz sleep.
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Further Math Exam 2 was a disaster, didn't even finish, deflated and sad
Happy early birthday to myself tomorrow
Will be doing practice methods exams all day
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Further Math Exam 2 was a disaster, didn't even finish, deflated and sad
Happy early birthday to myself tomorrow
Will be doing practice methods exams all day
Hi,
It is fine many kids in my class did not finish as well. It was a pretty long exam
Do not think about it right now
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First Methods exam is done :) :)
Here's hoping I scored enough marks, along with tomorrow to at least get myself a 25 so that I meet prerequisites. Like further I am refusing to look at any solutions online, and I am happy because I managed to put something in for every question. It may not have been a correct answer but at least I have working out and stuff in order to maybe scrape a few more marks out of the exam
Finishing up my bound reference tonight for tomorrow and then after tomorrow I only have legal left as my last exam
(yes I still have year 11 chem exam but that doesn't matter to me at all at the moment)
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I am done with maths, I will never have to do maths again in my life (please nobody remind me that chemistry contains a lot of equations). The second methods exam was pretty... bad to be honest which I honestly expected since the first one wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I figured out how to solve one of the multiple choice questions in the last minute of the exam and put the answer in just as it was time up so I am happy that I know I got at least one mark.
Over the weekend I have two Chem SACs to do (as I missed them because of exams), one is a research poster based off an experiment we did at Ecolinc and the other is completing the booklet that we were given at Ecolinc which forms the basis of the research poster.
Only one more 3/4 exam to do which is Legal. I have forgotten all of the cases so that might be a slight issue but I have time to revise between now and Wednesday without worrying about math
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Two days until my last exam, which is legal studies. I didn't do any revision over the weekend because, honestly I feel so burnt out. My workload probably isn't as bad as the majority of people on this forum but after the last methods exam, my brain completely shut down and is refusing to hold onto any information. Need to get it together before Wednesday or I will be regretting it for the next few years
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As I have finished my last exams (besides Chemistry), I am going to share my thoughts and regrets about each of my subjects that I had this year. It's going to be long so I don't blame y'all if you don't read it, might most these later tonight as I have work tonight and should be doing Chemistry revision right now
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I would love to read that honesty.
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So I am going to start posting the first of my ‘subject evaluations’ as I am going to call them. I promise I did not forget about this, I’ve just been taking a break from looking at anything school related at the moment.
Subject (1/5): Chemistry Units 1/2
So Chemistry was the only year 11 subject that I had onsite this year and in terms of difficulty in comparison with the other subjects it was on the easier side. I did fairly well this year in chem and found most of it enjoyable up until the whole water unit which felt more sluggish and boring (in my humble opinion). I think that the main reason that I liked and did well in this subject was that I had a solid S tier teacher for chem. She was absolutely amazing and made the concepts engaging to learn as well as implemented any jokes or memes we made along the way into the lessons so that we would remember everything easier. Unfortunately, she is moving to the other side of the state and she won’t be teaching us for year 12 which is really upsetting. She is the type of teacher that responds to any emails straight away and always makes time to clear up any confusion that you have and I maintained around a 90 percent average.
The biggest issues that I had with chem was that, because of the fact I was doing three 3/4 subjects, I would place chem on the backburner if I had any SACs upcoming in those subjects. Was it detrimental to my learning? I don’t think it affected it that much to be honest as I stayed ahead consistently to minimise these issues. However in the month leading up to exams, chem was basically extra revision time for my year 12 classes and my teacher didn’t expect me to do any work and told me to focus on getting good exam scores (absolute angel). Another thing was the high volume of math that chem contains and I still mix up chem formulas with methods and further formulas which made it hard to separate in my head.
WHAT WENT WELL:
- Really good teacher made the content easy to understand
- Workload was consistent throughout the year, made it easy to plan time to do the work
- I understand the fundamental theories well and was easy for me to memorise
- Good class, next to no distractions
WHAT I COULD’VE DONE BETTER:
- I kept messing up math related components (ironic considering I did two math subjects) and had trouble placing what formula to apply
- Unit 2 was a slog and I definitely do not know it as well as I should
- Extra revision to remember concepts from the start of the year (ye old metals and stuff like that)
Overall I felt that chem was a good subject for me and I believe I can do well next year
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Subject (2/5): Literature Units 1/2
Literature was a bit of weird subject for me this year as I did it online via VSV as my school does not offer it. This meant that there were a lot of unique challenges involved during the year because of the fact it was online and not in a brick and mortar classroom. I don’t know how everyone on this forum feels about VSV but my experience with them this year was… ok I guess? I’m doing two subject next year with them so I hope that it will stay the same level or improve.
The thing is, I don’t feel like I really learnt anything over the course of the year. A lot of the content that was covered was concepts that I already knew from previous years and with only one hour each week over Webex we didn’t cover that much in the first place. The coursework was wildly inconsistent with how much needed to be done each week, sometimes it would only be a forum post based on your opinion about a particular theme whereas other times there would be six or so tasks that would take hours each to complete. As well as this there was very little communication with the teacher and no in-depth discussion about work that was submitted as I am still waiting on work that was submitted from term 3 to be graded. Whilst she does get back to us via IM or email, I was waiting up to a week for a response on SAC work that was due in a week which meant that a lot of work was submitted late. Most of the texts were very interesting (Gatsby, Dr Jekyll + Mr Hyde, Medea) but some, especially ‘The Life and Loves of a She-Devil’ were either mind-numbingly boring or just straight up bad texts.
Because the subject was online, there were a lot of times during the year that I completely forgot that the subject even existed. There was very little accountability for showing up to the Webex meetings besides having attendance marked and a lot of the time the meetings would go completely off-track. Many times I would forget about the weekly work and end up cramming in several weeks and submit it in one big hit. My Lit teacher didn’t care when work was submitted as long as it came in before reports had to be written which was both a blessing and a curse as it allowed me to focus on other subjects that had more urgency but also created a perpetual procrastination loop. My SAC grades fluctuated a bit, my lowest was a C+ (ew poetry) but I was consistently getting B+-A+ however I don’t know how well that will translate over to next year.
WHAT WENT WELL:
- I was able to pass well and now know the expectations set on me
- I believe my essays were really written and this was reflected in my grading
- Exposure to different media has helped me reflect on the way I view things and improved my analysis skills
WHAT I COULD’VE DONE BETTER:
- My time management of the subject! This is something next year I have to hyperfocus on improving
- Quality of work (especially as this is my English subject) and seeking feedback from other teachers even if they don’t teach Literature
- Definitely need to work on my close passage analysis and poetry
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Congratulation on finishing your year 12 exam
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Congratulation on finishing your year 12 exam
Thank you!
I hope yours went well and massive congrats for completing VCE in the two toughest years, wishing you the best :)
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Alright onto the Year 12 classes and I’ve decided that for these I will include a discussion on how I found them compared to their Year 11 counterparts as well as my thoughts on the exams. Little reminder that everyone’s experience is different and depends on a number of factors and I would love to hear everyone’s thoughts on their subjects or your thoughts on subjects that you did that I also have done.
Subject (3/5): Legal Studies Unit 3/4
Legal was by far the subject that had the biggest ‘difficulty’ jump from Year 11 to 12 out of the three that I did. Content wise it was basically the same but last year we never really discussed task words and never had to answer questions in the exact way that the task words wanted. Our SACs last year were generally questions such as ‘what is the standard of proof in a criminal trial’, ‘what is the role of the jury in civil cases’ and ‘what are the purposes of each sanction’. So as you can imagine, the first SAC that I did was a massive wake-up call on how my answers had to be structured. The lowest SAC mark I got in Year 11 was a 98, I believe my first SAC mark in Year 12 was hovering in the high 60s-70 range. I’m going to be honest that really demoralised me for awhile and made me question if I should just drop the subject altogether. It was the same for a lot of people in my class because of the fact that task words played no role in how we were marked last year.
I feel very fortunate that I am able to memorise things very easily and quickly because it definitely helped me in Legal and it got to the point that by the middle of the year I had completely stopped taking notes because they were unnecessary. Our teacher set weekly compulsory questions that made us comfortable with the task words as well as giving us 8-10 mark questions early on so that it wouldn’t scare us in the exam. Most of the time doing these compulsory questions, watching Edrolo and reading the textbook was enough to consolidate my understanding of the subject but that might be too much for some people and too little for others. For the most part Legal was interesting but I found civil law to be really bland and I hope to never have to hear about Rebel Wilson’s defamation case ever again.
Oh boy the exam. It was not great. I spent hours revising reforms and recommended reforms as well as the VLRC and Royal Commissions only for there to be absolutely no questions on any of it. There was very little scope to talk about many of the cases that we had learnt about in Unit 4 and it felt like VCAA had cut the study design but forgot to tell us that they did. Some schools focused on the Mabo case, some didn’t and my class was part of the ones that did not focus on it. So I’m sure you can imagine the surprise and the annoyance of having to do the entirety of Section B on a case you never studied and were given only a few lines of reference material. There wasn’t much about the exam that I liked: the spaces to write answers varied (who thought three lines was a good estimate for a six marker) and there was an obscene amount of 8 mark questions in the exam. Good 10 marker though 😊. I don’t really have a rough estimate of what study score I will get but mid 30s would be very very generous so maybe hovering around a high 20s lows 30s range.
WHAT WENT WELL:
- Knew the content well
- Stayed on top of the workload well
- My writing stamina improved tremendously throughout the year and I was able to fully complete the exam early with time to spare for perfecting
WHAT I COULD’VE DONE BETTER:
- TASK WORDS TASK WORDS TASK WORDS Literally my advice to anyone doing Legal Studies is to absolutely practice the hell out of these because it determines your marks
- Made better use of answer structures to frame my writing
- Not spent about a month debating dropping the subject and instead push through the doubt
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Subject (4/5): Further Maths Unit 3/4
I’m going to say this straight off the bat: I have always excelled at maths and found it to be genuinely interesting so Further was not a struggle for me at all. The main problem I had at the start of the year was the fact I had completed Units 1/2 all the way back in 2019 in Year 9 so a lot of the starting data work I had forgotten. Luckily it all came back to me pretty quickly and this was a blessing as well as a curse as it meant that the amount of effort I put into Further dropped considerably. All year I hovered around 1st and 2nd ranked but overall I think I was 2nd as the other person put all their effort into Further whilst I chose to attempt to bring my Methods grade up (lol). I don’t really remember Unit 1 and 2 very well but I think it was a similar amount of work and the concepts were basically the same.
The exam sucked.
I did every past VCAA exam (both SHT and NHT) for the current study design and was easily getting 100% as well as having plentiful leftover time to review my answers. Going into the first exam I felt extremely confident in my ability to perform well but unfortunately that was not the case. I ran out of time in both exams, shaded a few random bubbles in the last few seconds of the first exam and left questions blank in the second exam. It was completely demoralising and a massive blow to the confidence that I had for exam season especially as they were my first exams. I was really hoping for a high 40s SS but I don’t see that happening. The exam was really a mess, there were a few questions that I had to use METHODS formulas for and the difficulty was nothing like any of the past exams. Further is extremely competitive because a lot of Methods and Specialist students choose it as well so I assume that I have been completely bumped out of the bell curve range for a 40ss.
Whilst I did not do a large amount of extra work for Further (basically completed the edrolo questions for each exercise as well as some extra handouts for areas I wasn’t the most comfortable with), I am kinda glad that I didn’t focus all my effort into it. I was angry and disappointed in myself after coming out of the exams initially but after talking to people from many different schools I realised that I wasn’t the only one who found the exam a lot harder than it should have been. It would have been more of a blow if it had been the core subject that I had studied the most for and at least I had a fighting chance with my other subjects.
WHAT WENT WELL:
- Good average in SACs (90s)
- Understood all the content in class
- Managed to stay on track during remote learning
WHAT COULD’VE GONE BETTER:
- The exam ;-;
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Subject (5/5): Math Methods Units 3/4
Oh Maths Methods, the subject I love to hate. The subject that could completely make or break my week depending on the concepts we were learning. The fact that I even managed to complete this subject will be my magnum opus. This was the subject that completely dominated my year and when I think back on VCE, this will most likely be the subject that I will remember the most. Buckle up kiddos because I have an entire book to write on my experiences in Methods and I honestly don’t blame you if you skip reading the huge wall of text that is below. This is the biggest redemption arc of my schooling life.
It is very important that I set the scene of this subject by detailing my unit 1/2 experience. Most of the year was spent remote learning and during this time I came to the very stark realisation that it is incredibly difficult to learn maths online (hence me dropping my idea of doing specialist via VSV). I started the year off strong, completely every question in every exercise up until the first period of remote learning when I stopped completely exercises completely. It was extremely hard to stay motivated whilst working online and for a lot of my other subjects, the workload had increased drastically as I was basically completing schoolwork from 7:30am-10pm every night with minimal breaks. As you can imagine I burnt out extremely quickly and Methods was the first subject to go. My SAC results hovered around the 60-70 percent mark which doesn’t sound too bad on paper but looking back on the SACs now… they were generally quite straightforward and dare I say easy. I struggled to understand the basic concepts behind basically all the mathematics and was losing more hope every day that progressed. Towards the end of the year, dropping Methods was becoming a more viable option even though I knew it would lock me out of many university choices. I wasn’t the only one, throughout the year our class of around twenty something had dropped down into the low teens. I passed the exam through the skin of my teeth and my percentage was just high enough for me to be allowed to continue the subject… if I wanted to.
Over the transition classes I spent many hours trying to figure out if there was some way to enter these courses without methods but all it turned up was three options: start one course and transfer, do bridging classes and potentially delay starting university by a year or suck it up and try and power through methods. For 15/16 year old me that was a big decision to make and I chose option 3. And let me to tell you, once I sat in the first step up class I hated myself for it. There was basically around seven of us remaining in class, everyone else had decided to drop it completely or switch to Further. I sat in that chair and couldn’t understand the content of Chapter 1 1A, I had no clue about domain or range or what function was what from an equation or what graphs looked like based on a given equation. Over the summer holidays I couldn’t understand the work set and returned to school basically with no work completed and a sense of dread. I needed a 25 ss to satisfy the prerequisite and at that point I wouldn’t have even been able to get a 1 ss.
The first SAC was delayed numerous times due to Covid and remote learning and it was about six periods long over the course of two weeks once we returned onsite. However for the week leading up to it I had done something I had never done before, I had studied… hard. Khan Academy, YouTube, Edrolo… I had used every available resource I could lay my hands on to try and understand graphs, differentiation and how to understand what the worded problems were asking for me to do. Then I became sick with laryngitis and was stuck at home for a week and was so unwell that I couldn’t look at any screens or think straight to save my life. A few negative Covid tests later I returned to school and had to complete the SAC in my study periods whilst still feeling like crap. I cried during the final period I had to finish the SAC because I was so certain that there was no way I had scraped enough marks to pass. The answers to the questions I had answered previously didn’t look right and I wasn’t entering the right equations into the CAS. I threw up after I finished the SAC.
Waiting for my results was one of the worst weeks of my life and I had decided that if I had failed the SAC, that would be the end of Methods for me and I would drop it. During this time our class had dropped down to four students as many left before our results had even been released. I was on the verge of an anxiety attack when our teacher handed out our SACs face down. This is the only SAC that I remember my exact percentage: 76%. With that grade I had secured top ranking of the class and an S for Unit 3. That was the turning point for me in Methods and the moment I realised that maybe I could do this subject to completion.
The rest of the year went by relatively smoothly, my productivity would drop during remote learning but I was able to generally pick myself up and put myself back on track. Towards the tail end of the year I could feel myself burning out and most of the probability unit went in one ear and out the next. I did the coursework but the SAC was held remotely and created by our student teacher who was use to teaching higher level students capable of 40-50s in Methods. No one has ever gotten above a raw 35 in methods at our school. Very quickly I was overwhelmed with pages upon pages of exam revision as well practice exams for both exam 1&2. I felt confident in myself and so attempted my first exam 1.
I got an E+. I didn’t even score in the double digits for marks.
That was a big wake up call and I did hundreds of revision questions and managed to go from an E+ to a C and then finally an A. I was one hundred percent committed to scoring decently on the exam and was (am still) hoping that I would crack that 25 ss. I walked out of exam 1 having answered every question, definitely not correctly but hopefully enough to scrape together a few extra marks. I had spent my birthday the day before cramming out methods and finished off my bound reference after I got home. Exam 2 was a little more iffy as a lot of marks were allocated to the worded box questions (which hurt my head) and being able to find the area under a curve using the rectangle endpoint method (which we didn’t even cover in class for longer than five minutes). Again I’m hopeful that I got enough marks at least for a 25.
WHAT WENT WELL:
- Was able to answer a lot of questions on the exam
- I successfully completed the year
- I was able to push through a lot of doubt about my ability to do the subject
WHAT COULD’VE DONE BETTER:
- Studied more consistently
- Not have relied on cram studying the night or week before SACs in order to pass
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Subject (5/5): Math Methods Units 3/4
Oh Maths Methods, the subject I love to hate. The subject that could completely make or break my week depending on the concepts we were learning. The fact that I even managed to complete this subject will be my magnum opus. This was the subject that completely dominated my year and when I think back on VCE, this will most likely be the subject that I will remember the most. Buckle up kiddos because I have an entire book to write on my experiences in Methods and I honestly don’t blame you if you skip reading the huge wall of text that is below. This is the biggest redemption arc of my schooling life.
It is very important that I set the scene of this subject by detailing my unit 1/2 experience. Most of the year was spent remote learning and during this time I came to the very stark realisation that it is incredibly difficult to learn maths online (hence me dropping my idea of doing specialist via VSV). I started the year off strong, completely every question in every exercise up until the first period of remote learning when I stopped completely exercises completely. It was extremely hard to stay motivated whilst working online and for a lot of my other subjects, the workload had increased drastically as I was basically completing schoolwork from 7:30am-10pm every night with minimal breaks. As you can imagine I burnt out extremely quickly and Methods was the first subject to go. My SAC results hovered around the 60-70 percent mark which doesn’t sound too bad on paper but looking back on the SACs now… they were generally quite straightforward and dare I say easy. I struggled to understand the basic concepts behind basically all the mathematics and was losing more hope every day that progressed. Towards the end of the year, dropping Methods was becoming a more viable option even though I knew it would lock me out of many university choices. I wasn’t the only one, throughout the year our class of around twenty something had dropped down into the low teens. I passed the exam through the skin of my teeth and my percentage was just high enough for me to be allowed to continue the subject… if I wanted to.
Over the transition classes I spent many hours trying to figure out if there was some way to enter these courses without methods but all it turned up was three options: start one course and transfer, do bridging classes and potentially delay starting university by a year or suck it up and try and power through methods. For 15/16 year old me that was a big decision to make and I chose option 3. And let me to tell you, once I sat in the first step up class I hated myself for it. There was basically around seven of us remaining in class, everyone else had decided to drop it completely or switch to Further. I sat in that chair and couldn’t understand the content of Chapter 1 1A, I had no clue about domain or range or what function was what from an equation or what graphs looked like based on a given equation. Over the summer holidays I couldn’t understand the work set and returned to school basically with no work completed and a sense of dread. I needed a 25 ss to satisfy the prerequisite and at that point I wouldn’t have even been able to get a 1 ss.
The first SAC was delayed numerous times due to Covid and remote learning and it was about six periods long over the course of two weeks once we returned onsite. However for the week leading up to it I had done something I had never done before, I had studied… hard. Khan Academy, YouTube, Edrolo… I had used every available resource I could lay my hands on to try and understand graphs, differentiation and how to understand what the worded problems were asking for me to do. Then I became sick with laryngitis and was stuck at home for a week and was so unwell that I couldn’t look at any screens or think straight to save my life. A few negative Covid tests later I returned to school and had to complete the SAC in my study periods whilst still feeling like crap. I cried during the final period I had to finish the SAC because I was so certain that there was no way I had scraped enough marks to pass. The answers to the questions I had answered previously didn’t look right and I wasn’t entering the right equations into the CAS. I threw up after I finished the SAC.
Waiting for my results was one of the worst weeks of my life and I had decided that if I had failed the SAC, that would be the end of Methods for me and I would drop it. During this time our class had dropped down to four students as many left before our results had even been released. I was on the verge of an anxiety attack when our teacher handed out our SACs face down. This is the only SAC that I remember my exact percentage: 76%. With that grade I had secured top ranking of the class and an S for Unit 3. That was the turning point for me in Methods and the moment I realised that maybe I could do this subject to completion.
The rest of the year went by relatively smoothly, my productivity would drop during remote learning but I was able to generally pick myself up and put myself back on track. Towards the tail end of the year I could feel myself burning out and most of the probability unit went in one ear and out the next. I did the coursework but the SAC was held remotely and created by our student teacher who was use to teaching higher level students capable of 40-50s in Methods. No one has ever gotten above a raw 35 in methods at our school. Very quickly I was overwhelmed with pages upon pages of exam revision as well practice exams for both exam 1&2. I felt confident in myself and so attempted my first exam 1.
I got an E+. I didn’t even score in the double digits for marks.
That was a big wake up call and I did hundreds of revision questions and managed to go from an E+ to a C and then finally an A. I was one hundred percent committed to scoring decently on the exam and was (am still) hoping that I would crack that 25 ss. I walked out of exam 1 having answered every question, definitely not correctly but hopefully enough to scrape together a few extra marks. I had spent my birthday the day before cramming out methods and finished off my bound reference after I got home. Exam 2 was a little more iffy as a lot of marks were allocated to the worded box questions (which hurt my head) and being able to find the area under a curve using the rectangle endpoint method (which we didn’t even cover in class for longer than five minutes). Again I’m hopeful that I got enough marks at least for a 25.
WHAT WENT WELL:
- Was able to answer a lot of questions on the exam
- I successfully completed the year
- I was able to push through a lot of doubt about my ability to do the subject
WHAT COULD’VE DONE BETTER:
- Studied more consistently
- Not have relied on cram studying the night or week before SACs in order to pass
Oh boy... that was one heck of a ride! Thanks for taking us along though.
All the best with your VCE results ;D
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Howdy all!
Going to drop my raw scores below for the subjects I did this year and my thoughts on the scores:
Further (35): My exam was not the greatest (big whoop whoop for my CAS deciding it didn't want to work anymore) and whilst I was hoping for a 40, I'm not completely mad about the score I got.
Legal (33): This was a surprise for me considering I didn't like the exam all that much. My teacher marked our SACs really harshly and that made me somewhat demoralised for the exam but I managed to scrape an A
Methods (28): Hardly an impressive score considering some of the others I have seen on this site but I always knew methods was going to be my bottom subject and it won't count at all towards my ATAR (yay 7 subjects things), but I am beyond happy that I managed to get above the prereq score. The scaling I will get from this won't be half bad either.
The biggest takeaway from this year is how much effort required to achieve amazing study scores and I am thankful that I now know how to designate my time accordingly. There's still hope for me to get a 90 ATAR if I can scrape some higher 30s or 40s scores next year. I'm proud of myself for putting myself in a good position for next year.
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Well here we go, the final year of high school. I must admit I thought it would have felt more different to return back to school but it feels the same as the last two years. This year I am completing Psychology, Chemistry, Classical Studies as well as Literature and I picked up 3/4 Physics purely because I missed maths. Because of the fact that Class and Lit are both through VSV, I have ended up only having one class per day which also contributed to my decision to pick up Physics. I haven’t been able to attend a Physics class though because our teacher was a close contact for COVID and hasn’t been here since the first day. If anyone has any resources for catching up to speed with 3/4 Physics I would really appreciate it as I haven’t done the first two units.
So far I am really enjoying my classes but I am already behind because my school laptop broke first week back and I only just got it repaired and given back in the last few days. It hasn’t been that hard to catch up but I am maybe a lesson or two behind where I want to be at the moment. This year I really want to focus on getting better study scores so that I can achieve the ATAR that I want and last year was a big lesson on how much effort I need to put into school. I am still unsure of what I want to pursue after this year is over but I hope that I will be able to figure out things as I go.
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Week 3 into Year 12 and I am already behind on work because I can’t seem to break the hold that my procrastination has over me. In the next two-three weeks I will be having my first SACs for all my subjects and at the moment I am feeling like I am already really struggling to keep on top of the workload. So far Physics is the easiest subject, even though I didn’t do Unit1/2, and I really don’t know if it is because it is basically just maths with some keywords sprinkled in or I’m not getting it but am in a false sense of security. Chemistry, which is again maths at the moment, is really making me want to hit my head against the wall with the insane amount of calculations required for one-mark questions. Psychology is ok at the moment, a lot of content but I feel like once I start my note-taking it will stay in my head long enough for the SAC. Classical Studies is actually fairly fine, I am really enjoying the content and my VSV teacher does not assign too much weekly work. Literature on the other hand has an insane amount of work required to complete each week and I don’t feel any motivation to do it because honestly A Taste of Honey sucks. I don’t know if it is too early in the year to write off a book but I checked the specifications for the Lit exam and I don’t have to choose a play, at least not A Taste of Honey.
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So I forgot to upload my last week’s journal so I just put it up before, don’t be confused it is no longer week 3 it is week 4. I am very behind all my subjects now because of a combination of being sick, school events running during and after school, and work. I really need to sit down and just plough through my notes so that I am up to date but I can’t find the energy nor motivation to do that. It’s a bad sign that I am already not motivated this early in the year because I need good scores and all my SACs are coming up in the next two/three weeks. Yes I am writing this in order to procrastinate work but anyways, short little update.
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Hello friends!
A few things have happened since my last update and most surprising is me providing an update in a somewhat time appropriate fashion! I had my first breakdown of Year 12 last week in a Macca’s car park so not quite sure what to make of that but I feel like it has reset me in terms of motivation. I have basically caught up on all the psychology notes since the start of term and also caught up in Literature. Next week is going to be hell week as I have my psych, physics and lit SACs all during the week and psych + physics are on the same day back to back. My preparation for psych is reading the notes and completing practice questions just to make sure that everything sticks to memory whereas for physics I am really unsure where to start with my revision as we do not do many questions in class and mostly cover the theory. My physics teacher assigns little to no homework and I have completed a few edrolo questions on each topic but that is basically the extent of what I do for physics. I haven’t been able to write my practice SAC for Lit because I can’t seem to think of how to word my essay and the reasoning I want to get across. I have never been a big fan of comparative essays especially when they are comparing a play to the film adaption.
A small issue I have with classical studies is that, because I do it via VSV, I can only try to communicate with my teacher through email or by instant messages on the website and she has not replied to any emails or messages I have sent throughout the term. I don’t know what to do about it as I need clarification for last week’s work but have heard radio silence however she has marked my work from two weeks ago. Is it worth bringing it up with the teacher at my school in charge of VSV or should I just leave it and attempt my best on the work?
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Hey SnekiSnek!
A small issue I have with classical studies is that, because I do it via VSV, I can only try to communicate with my teacher through email or by instant messages on the website and she has not replied to any emails or messages I have sent throughout the term. I don’t know what to do about it as I need clarification for last week’s work but have heard radio silence however she has marked my work from two weeks ago. Is it worth bringing it up with the teacher at my school in charge of VSV or should I just leave it and attempt my best on the work?
I think that you should tell your teacher in charge of VSV, the communication issues you have with your VSV teacher. Your education should be at the forefront and it seems your teacher is being callus and is frankly ignoring you. Its a unit 3/4 subject and I'm surprised there are teachers like this out there.
All the best,
beep boop
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Hey SnekiSnek!I think that you should tell your teacher in charge of VSV, the communication issues you have with your VSV teacher. Your education should be at the forefront and it seems your teacher is being callus and is frankly ignoring you. Its a unit 3/4 subject and I'm surprised there are teachers like this out there.
All the best,
beep boop
Thank you for the advice beep boop! I did indeed email my supervisory teacher today as I never seem to be able to find her around the school (she's a very busy woman) and ironically I have not heard back from her either about the matter however she sent me an email about something else completely unrelated. Still no word from my Classical teacher and I hope this doesn't continue all year because I really enjoy the subject and am hoping that my passion will lead to a decent score but it will be hard without any teacher feedback
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Wow guys it’s been a while since I have updated my journal, I don’t know if anyone is still interested in what is happening in my life but without further ado let me post a giant update to encapsulate the last three months.
Subject Updates:
Literature: Honestly Lit is going so much better than I expected it to go, two SACs down and the third is next week. My A Taste Of Honey essay was horrible, I didn’t know where I was going with it and I would rank it as probably the worst essay I have ever submitted but somehow managed to scrape a B+ on it. We moved onto Dracula for our creative and I loved that so much, it is one of my all-time favourite novels so being able to do that for weeks was amazing. I scored an A on that SAC and I was really happy with the piece I was able to write for it. Right now, we are doing A Ladies Paradise and I just finished the book today after putting it off for way too long and the novel was more enjoyable than I thought it would be. I feel like I am going to find it easy to apply a Marxist and feminist lens to the novel as it is very in your face about how the themes are portrayed.
Classical Studies: For the two SACs that I have done so far, I have received the results back for one and I got 42/50 for the passage analysis. I’m not sure how to gauge how well I am doing as, honestly, this just feels like Literature but reskinned with Ancient Greek texts and more of a focus on sociohistorical context. The other SAC, a comparative essay, I feel somewhat confident with but I don’t know for sure until I get my results back. We’re moving on to looking at statues and vases so I’m not sure what the next SAC will entail. Overall, I really like Class Studies and the content that I am learning even though I don’t think it will relate to what I want to do in the future at all.
Psychology: For both SACs I have gotten high 90s and the content is pretty straightforward and easy to understand. I really bludge through this class as my teacher just talks through powerpoints and that is the extent of the work that we use to learn (besides Edrolo) so I don’t know how well I am going to feel prepared for the end of year exam. Most of my revision is reading the relevant textbook chapters either the night before or morning of a SAC day and doing a few practice questions for anything that involves models. Our teacher is away at least once a week and the other psych teacher has been unwell with covid and the flu so our classes are very behind where we should be so there is going to be a lot of SACs within a short period of time.
Chemistry: I have been scraping through Chemistry doing the bare minimum because Unit 3 was ridiculously boring in my opinion. I got 70s on the two SACs and am around ranked 2-3rd in the class but I haven’t been paying attention in class or doing any of the work besides a few questions sporadically. For Unit 4, I am already finding it more interesting and am going to try harder to do better on the remaining SACs and the exam in order to compensate for my lack of effort in the first half of the year. I have the first organic chemistry SAC on Friday and I am feeling confident on this one as I have done the assigned questions and 100% on the practice SAC we did today.
Physics: Only three of us are passing physics and I’m lucky enough that I am one of those three because my prior methods knowledge came in clutch for a few of the SAC questions on both SACs. I understand the content really well when we are learning it and it is the only subject that I am consistently completing the homework for but as soon as I get into a SAC, I panic and use the wrong formulas and can’t remember how to apply my knowledge. My teacher is super knowledgeable and passionate about the subject (he did it at uni and only recently graduated) so I guess that’s why I like the subject. Have the research SAC this week and I’m hoping I can write a decent explanation about how Tesla coils work in order to get a good grade.
As a side note: I’ve decided that I want to pursue physics at university and do a bachelor of science with a diploma of mathematical sciences or a bachelor of mathematical physics. Hope I can get in even though I didn’t do specialist 😊
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Hi SnekiSnek!
Good to see you here again! If you don't mind me asking, did you sort out your communication issues with your VSV teacher?
Are you planning anything for the upcoming holidays?
beep boop
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Hi SnekiSnek!
Good to see you here again! If you don't mind me asking, did you sort out your communication issues with your VSV teacher?
Are you planning anything for the upcoming holidays?
beep boop
Hey Beep boop!
Yes I did manage to get in contact with my teacher eventually! Turns out the email address we were given for her was outdated and that was why she hadn't received any of my messages. Of course there was some other drama where they lost one of my SACs lol
I am planning on catching up on some notes during the holidays as well as play some video games because it has been a hot minute since I've been able to. What are your plans?
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(Small little update here to try and bully myself in being consistent with posting for the rest of the year)
My Chemistry SAC did not go as well as I thought it would and I am pretty sure that the inventor of the IUPAC naming conventions is rolling in their grave right now based on how I named some of the molecules.
For Physics, I am really not sure how well I am going to score because I feel like my explanations of some of the key concepts (yay electromagnetic induction!) were a little muddled and hard to follow. I can explain the concepts orally but being able to write it down in a way that makes sense is super difficult for some reason.
Today I really wanted to write my practice Lit essay as the SAC is next week but I am having a complete and utter brain breakdown at the moment and can't word what I want to say properly
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I am planning on catching up on some notes during the holidays as well as play some video games because it has been a hot minute since I've been able to. What are your plans?
I'm gonna binge watch some shows I've missed out on and patiently waiting for the new minions movie.
Hopefully I can get the rest I need these holidays. ::) ;D
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So uh I got covid the first week of holidays and it has completely wiped me out, all that planning to do a bunch of schoolwork over the holidays? Yeah that did not happen. So I am still very behind on Unit 3 notes for all my subjects and I don't know when I am going to get time to catch up again.
Anyways a few more SAC results:
Chem: Didn't do that badly to be honest in comparison with everyone else and the errors were just silly little mistakes so I feel like I understand the content reasonably well
Physics: 19/22 on the SAC!!!! This has been the best result I have gotten for physics all year and I did a lot better than the next person so feeling pretty great about it right now
Literature: No result yet
Classical Studies: Got another decent score and about on par with what I expected
A lot of stuff went down on the last week of school that really affected my motivation and mental health, so the Lit sac probably wasn't that great, but I am slowly recovering