hi, im in year 11 this year and I completed biology as my 3/4. I received a study score of 36 which will scale to 37. I was happy when I received it but now I'm not sure how I feel about it :/ looking at the herald sun is making me feel shit because I can see the names of people from my school and ugh. plus, my friend keeps telling me who got 40+ when I dont really care to know right now. Idk. I know I could've done better because I completed 40+ practice papers so I feel disheartened. can someone please make me feel better because I feel so overwhelmed right now
I was in a fairly similar position in year 11. I ended up with a 37 in psych (which scales down to 36). This was still a score to be proud of, and the highest at my school, but nonetheless I was disappointed because the effort I put in and how well I'd done during the year both pointed to doing better.
At the end of the day, I had to rationalise it. It was a score to be proud of and I was definitely on the right track. Having done a subject early also gave me an opportunity to learn about how to tackle year 12. So rather than devoting my energy to what other people I knew got, or to feeling disappointed, I let myself be proud and used my energy to reinvigorate myself for year 12, ready to go on and use what I had learned from my experience with psych.
Despite the fact that psych was what I was most interested in (hence doing it early), all of my scores except for methods beat it. In hindsight this was probably one of the best things I did for myself in year 12
You should never really base something of one person's experience though; however, a lot of students I've worked with have tended to do the same thing. That is, they feel they've not done as well as they could have in year 11 and then smash year 12.
PS: 36 is a great score though and if you got that on everything you'd be well into the 90s ATAR-wise