This year, im studying bio 3/4, which is quite fun and i'm happy to have such a great teacher! I am also doing eng, spesh, methods, chem and computing (all 1/2s) in school and take a 1/2 language outside ᵔᴥᵔHow are you finding bio? Also, what language are you doing?
Outside of school life, im pretty much boring, im still working on finding a hobby that doesnt involve being on my phone ahaha.Good luck! I feel like I'm always on my phone. Do you like to be creative?
I love wandering around, going to museums and any art galleries (so if anyone does find this pls hmu w/ new places to visit) and I also love taking photos!Have you been to Heide? I have never been inside, but I love the sculptures. I turn 16 in December, so I'm planning to go sometime soon while my ticket is still free.
It's never too late in the year to start a journal! ;D Great to see yours pop up.
Awesome about Bio. What is it about your teacher that makes you like them? :)
Lovely to meet you moonchild! I love your username! Are you interested in astronomy or astrology? ;Dhiiiii~ and thank you, a bit of both but ngl its a song title that i hold close (moonchild - rm bts) ♡＾▽＾♡
How are you finding bio? Also, what language are you doing?
Good luck! I feel like I'm always on my phone. Do you like to be creative?
Have you been to Heide? I have never been inside, but I love the sculptures. I turn 16 in December, so I'm planning to go sometime soon while my ticket is still free.
Also, The Dax Centre is awesome! Would totally recommend. I would also just love to read more about your experiences in museums and art galleries if you ever feel like sharing. I'm always looking for cool new places to go.
omg moonchild! are you a joon bias?
i cant wait to read about he rest of your journey :D
Good luck with chemistry! I find annotating chemistry formulas in my notes & doing practice questions useful.
I also did bio a year early & I definitely think that was a major factor in my overall VCE performance.
Btw, taking photos and visiting museums + art galleries sounds interesting to me - you don't need to discount these things as boring :)
hey i just wanted to ask how much is the study load for bio 3/4 compared to the 1/2 anD WELCOME TO THE LATE GANG AYYY
Hii~ i think from 1/2 you can see that the workload is quite a bit as bio is one of the more heavy contented subjects. In comparison to 3/4 bio, 1/2 is more chill ig, cause for 3/4 there's a bit of content which you build on from 1/2 and lots of new concepts which you have to know! Also theres very specific terminology for bio so when studying make sure you use these words as often as possible ♡＾▽＾♡ how are you finding bio so far? good luck!
welcome back again to another episode of moonie's vce journey ヾ(☆▽☆)
finally the holidays have come back around for the 3rd time this year! im glad that term 3 has finished, and to celebrate im gonna recap the term and see what i can improve on!
p.s this ones gonna be a bit lengthy but stick around ᵔᴥᵔ
1/ Rocky start to the term
So this term i had a bit of a rocky start, because i wasn't feeling confident with my abilities to do well in spesh, hence i switched to another subject for about two weeks and decided to change back into spesh because starting a new unit in a new subject was a bit difficult. The take away for this is that, even though a subject might seem difficult, if you have hope and faith in yourself, you can do it! I found that changing subjects for unit 2 was quite difficult. This is entirely my opinion and experience, but i found that when i jumped into unit 2 of a different subject from the one i was doing before, i felt lost and behind, it wasn't nice, and i felt worst about the whole subject changing thing (idek if im making sense tbh baahah) but i dont regret changing for the 2 weeks cause i was able to at least try something new.
2/ the end of bio content
as it was term 3, all the bio content was being wrapped up and for once i actually felt sad to receive my last booklet for the content block ╥﹏╥ actually it was pretty surprising how our whole class quickly became sad as our teacher was handing the last booklet out (ㄒoㄒ)
i didn't think i'd ever feel sad, finishing content for a subject but here i am ahaha, i think i found bio as one of my more enjoyable and fun subject. I really enjoyed learning all the things bio 3/4 had to offer and hope that i can do well for the end of year exam. definitely need to be more productive this holidays to study for bio!
3/ bad time management + chemistry = the worst of the worst
ngl, this term had been one of the hardest for chem, i dont think i spent my time effectively in class - having spend all my time revising last minute for my bio sac in chem classes. i feel like result wise, this term i havent produced the best work i could've for chem, especially yesterday when i had my test, i completely freaked out and could not do the test to the best of my abilities - i feel reason for panicking during the test was because i didn't feel prepared at all, i was completely drained from all the other assessments and just felt like i couldn't do anything. For term 4, im hoping to change that - i would really like to finish the year off well and achieve the best i can, i think i should improve my time management and really step up my game.
4/no motivation - burn out
i dont know if this is what it feels like to be burn out, but during the term on many occasions, i was completely drained, i couldn't focus on anything, couldn't get any work done effectively. i felt no motivation to do anything but had to power through because of the countless assessments/tests/sac
im really glad the term has concluded and hope to use the holidays effectively and recharge my energy for term 4 - cause i know it'll be the hardest most fast paced one (ㄒoㄒ) definitely will be attending some AN lectures and hopefully complete all the work i want to this holidays (pls send tips and help for how i should use my time this holidays, much appreciated!!)
I think im gonna end the recap off here cause its getting very lengthy, but i hope that term 4 will be better - this term has been hard and time is just flying! this term really has been hard but it's okay! im glad the holidays are here, gonna spend it resting, recharging, having fun but also seriously studying ~ (＾▽＾)
i hope everyone has a lovely holiday ~ rest up, eat lots and do something fun! (￣▽￣)ノ
make sure you rest and recover this holidays so you can come back fighting !ahaha so we meet again jeydanaazli ♥(ˆ⌣ˆԅ)
do you have any plans for the break ? :D
ahaha so we meet again jeydanaazli ♥(ˆ⌣ˆԅ)
hmm this holidays i wanna go to the terracotta warrior and the kaws exhibition aaaaa im so excited, been waiting for it hehe
Oh my goodness I really want to see the Terracotta Warriors!!
hello, so we are about one week into holidays and i feel so unproductive- Summarising notes:
i've done around 2 practice exams for bio but idk, im kinda feeling not confident. im also not feeling very motivated, like i sorta feel random bursts of motivation and then its gone again, im working on that. Im also typing my notes again?? idk if thats productive or not, but im trying to summarise everything ig?? but its a lot more than i thought,,,
i still havent really found the way i study yet, and i still havent found a way that i would take information in effectively, so if any one can help me, pls help!!
im thinking of doing posters/mind maps of all the concepts hopefully i'll start soon! Also if anyone has tips on using the holidays effectively pls let me know! ive read thru the AN article on using the holidays effectively but idk if im working to the best of my abilities
other than that i havent really started any other holiday hw oops
Summarising notes:
Summarising notes for what would be a good question to ask yourself? Are your current notes bad? Do you think its worth the time and effort? Do you have time and effort to spend on redoing notes? these are factors to consider. As my recommendation: If you're gonna summarise notes, do it in study design dot point way. Sorta like say for each dot point on the study design you would have notes specific to it. ATAR notes has a section for notes so you could just take it from them. lol.
- Study:
Concept maps and posters are great ideas. Heres a bit of how I would recommend you would do it. You do a few practice exams and mark yourself harshly. Fuck its even ok if you fail lmao. Note down what you got wrong. These are the things you should make mind maps for. Im currently making a dot point list of what I need to mention for Allopatric speciation questions. That sort of thing.
Just a reminder: Doing something is better than nothing.
Again these are sort of my recommendations and shit so take with a grain of salt. Oh before I go. You should check out Bio resources and look at how people got high study scores. They feel to me pretty motivational and the people that write them keep it pretty entertaining.
Ayy lmao ma dude have fun and cya later
Alucard
overall, i feel like its kinda chill so far, so thats goodGood to hear- best of luck with the month or so ahead! ;D
update!!Study hard and best of luck! <3 Which subjects are you feeling the most confident about at the minute? ;D
hellooooo, we are headed to the end of term 4 at full steam, which means exams are in two weeks
idk if im ready yet ahaha but im getting there! gonna briefly update before i start studying
Do you currently have headstart/orientation/early commencement for Yr 12, moonchild?ohh yess! i just finished the orientation actually! had 2 weeks of it and wow the pace of it is very fast~
What do you reckon will be your hardest and favourite subjects?
Any plans for the holidays?
hellooo~!
i'm back! its been a long month since i last posted on here,, but hopefully the results come out decent
so ive got one exam left until im officially done with exams this year - finally phew (edit: i'm finished nowww yayy!)
even though im not feeling the most confident about it hopefully it'll be okay,, ive got 2 days to study for it and finish up for the year yay!
i feel like this is gonna be a long post bahahaha,, aight lets get ittt
bio:
so its been 12 days since the bio exam and i refuse to open one of the bio exam solutions because i dont wanna know yet bahaha it was the start to exam season for me as it was my only 3/4 this year!
review of the exam tho - so first of all it is not anything like i had expected,, can i ask,, why was there like only half the study design on the exam?? i really did put all my effort into revising, studying, doing prac exams but only half of it was relevant?? bruhhh,,, i mean at least its done now but it was a ridiculous exam. 2nd of all,,, ahaha as soon as i opened section b i was caught off guard and i kinda think i wrote the wrong answer,,,, i think i did okay, as i think i couldve done better but yk nothing we can do about it now~
i think i couldve done it better by time managing better,, i think i spent too much time planning my answers that i almost ran out of writing time yikes
but all in all, it was a good experience for next year and i don't regret doing bio at all - if anything im really glad that i did it in yr 11
aight now i kinda wanna write like a bio 3/4 advise post or smt bahahaha
eng:
aight so like normal exam week begins with english,, the beloved english ahahaha
i think i did better than i expected, i actually finished within time frame (2 hrs for 2 essay - a language analysis and comparative)
i honestly should tried and practiced before the exam but ran out of time - whoops,,
yea not much,, just pretty happy with how i went - for the first time i wasn't panicking about an exam ahahah
i think this year for english i didnt really learn much : (( and didnt get much feedback all year,, i didnt even get feed back on any of my sac even tho i asked : (( overall it wasnt the best year for english
chem:
wowwwee i actually made it through the academic year for chem~ pretty impressive if i dont say so myself bahahaha jokesss
this year chem has been the most difficult - then spesh ahaha - but i think its been pretty enjoyable (for the most part). once again for this subject i didnt learn as much - or more so the thing i learnt didnt stick to memory as much as i would've liked,, my teacher wasn't bad but they weren't good either. they didnt really teach as efficiently,, there was just a bunch of worksheet and we were suppose to just know what we were doing,, but dont worry i did end up asking for help one on one which was more effective - i learnt much more and got lots of clarification that way so im glad~
the exam itself was pretty okay - there were a few qs i didnt do as i wasnt sure how to do it but its alright,, i think im happy that i had approached more questions than i would usually and actually tried to do the qs. overall chem was pretty okay this year, it was hard (expected) but also fun in some aspects, i learnt i was good at titrations ahahaah
spesh:
okay this one is a big shock,, how did i manage to pass this year ahahaha??? i kinda did the wrong thing and decided to focus on bio only instead of doing my other subjects and spesh has probably taken the worst from it,,, i actually have no idea how i managed to do spesh. im definitely not continuing it next year even if i wanted to (cause of the school) but i dont regret choosing it. often i find that many do regret choosing a subject, but i think it should be looked at from a different perspective, i think we should see it as an experience. in saying that i have learnt a lot through spesh, even if i wasnt spesh it self - i learnt more about myself in a way ahahaahahaha next,,,
the exam itself was very long - apparently no one finished it - and it was hard (as expected),,, yikesss but other than that i sorta went in with my limited spesh knowledge and tried my best. overall i dont think spesh is for me even if i really wanted to do it last year~ no regrets, im glad i did choose it this year
computing:
what a year, computing was actually one of my spontaneous decision i made during the last day of term?? i literally jumped into the class a day before the class ahaah and no regrets at all. i wont say im good or anything at computing but i did get to learn more coding, something i was interested in since yr 7. this year i learnt c# while previously i had learnt python and it was actually fun. it was more theory than i had expected but it was worth it cause i got to learn lots from it!
onto the exam, it wasnt actually too bad,, i think i did mess up one code and a pseudocode but its alright! hopefully my results come out decently ahahahah overall very funn
methods:
okay so methods exam was okay,,, i did skip a few questions having ran out of time but thats okay! hopefully my exam wasnt too bad
this year for methods i didnt do as well as i wouldve liked but i did pass so thats good i guess,,, i think the exam was pretty long but at least its over now
i dont have too much to write on methods, just glad that im continuing it next year
anyways,, so thats the end to my long evaluation(?) of this academic year, it has been different and new to me but it was exciting in a way - i made new friends, learnt lots and finally this year has come to an end~
i hope all those who still have exams do their best - best of luck for you guys! and for everyone who has finished all their exams - you've done well, sit back and relax now that its over!
moonie out ヾ(☆▽☆)
I reckon next yr chem will be the hardest and then methods ahahaha so i gotta focus on those!Same, hang out with the fam, catch up on some reading (for fun 8) ) and maybe even start drawing again ::)
for the holidays, ill probably chill, try finish as much holiday hw before new year and just relax i guess, how about you?
ohohho hellooo,Hey Moonchild!
so after this very long year i have decided to possibly pause/close this journal,
though i havent been on here for long nor have i written much, i really appreciate everyone who has read through my journal and everyone who has commented! it really made this year fun and exciting! idek if anyones reading this but thanks for dropping by moonie's vce journey!
hopefully will be back to writing next yr, but for now ill stick to reading other journals!
arrivederci,
moonie out!
[journal on pause]
for english this yr my teacher isn't the best, i honestly don't feel as confident for english as i could be, but i'm trying to reach out to other teachers?? idk i'm kinda nervous because i'm not close to any teachers,, if anyone has any advice on how i can approach them pls lmk!!Definitely reach out to other teachers! It helps get you a better understanding and might even give you another perspective that you probably would have never thought on your own. Try going up to them when they are free and ask for their opinion on an essay/essay-plan for a prompt? I doubt they will say no!
but thats a summary i guess of yr 12 so far ALSOO I AM LOVING MY FREE PERIODS (wow imagine having a full day bahahaha :o)FREE PERIODS ARE LIFE!🤣
Hey Moonie!! ;Dheheh hey hey heyyyy :D
Software dev sounds really good! What is the type of stuff you do?yes yes software is very funn :) in class we code and learn the theory behind it which is actually interesting :)
FREE PERIODS ARE LIFE!🤣
idk who reads this but howdy, hows everyone doing?Howdy partner! Sort of in the same boat as you but managing along~
alsoo,, because i enjoy it, i feel like im spending too much time on it instead of other subjectsThis is literally me too bro don't worry :P
chem:Let's cry over Chem together bro ;). If Chem doesn't kill us both it will definitely be Methods. You can do it!! B E L I E V E!no further commentsso chemm,, okay so its still hard as ever and i still dont understand it (send help i cry sometimes jkjk)
sooo with the start of the holidays i really hope to get things done, alsoo the whole online learning thing - no words - cant wait for my zoom/meet classes ahahaha this is definitely okay,,,Oh lord the whole virtual school thing is honestly one of the biggest shocks in my life. It's so funny having your teacher's face super close to the camera and it can be super overwhelming. IM NOT READY EITHER BUT WE GOTTA GET THROUGH IT. I literally just had a mini-meeting with my Physics teacher and I tried so hard to take it seriously but it didn't work. At this rate, we will be graduating on Skype lol.not intimidated by having the teachers face right THEREwe did a trial of how it would work and IM NOT READY lmaoo,,
anyways, hope everyone stays safe through this ambiguous time, hopefully it passes soon so that it wont effect all of us yr 12s too much!
I hope you're finding time to relax as well during these holidays! It's not all about work ;)Thank you ;D bahaha i'm trying my best to balance the both but i find myself more on the procrastinating side :P
Im just slightly worried about all the sacs that are waiting for me when i get back,,,
Woah your so lucky your school didn’t have SACs at home! I’ve had so many! Does your school usually do one sac per AOS or 2 per AOS alike mine. If they do 1 I guess that’s why they could wait bc they don’t do many SACs anyway. I’ve heard some schools do 4-5 per year per subject but we do 4 per unit!