VCE Extended Investigation Discussion Thread!

[Maddie Trinh]

Hahahah sorry for the late reply but I haven't even began data collecting yet for my research. Finding participants for my subjects has been the hardest thing this month and so far, I've only managed to find just one. I need 6 by the end of this week and i'm wondering how in hell I'm ever going to do that.

On a side note I'm really pumped up for the oral report, I need to change my background a bit but everything else is okay. Hmm i don't know about the scaling for the final report but I'm pretty sure the critical test goes up by a lot. Apparently even a 70% is considered high O.o

[Photon]

Hahahah sorry for the late reply but I haven't even began data collecting yet for my research. Finding participants for my subjects has been the hardest thing this month and so far, I've only managed to find just one. I need 6 by the end of this week and i'm wondering how in hell I'm ever going to do that.

On a side note I'm really pumped up for the oral report, I need to change my background a bit but everything else is okay. Hmm i don't know about the scaling for the final report but I'm pretty sure the critical test goes up by a lot. Apparently even a 70% is considered high O.o

Oh that must suck. I didn't like doing a literature review because it's not as exciting as the other options but getting work done is a lot easier as well.

My oral is tomorrow and I'm nervous that my oral won't be good enough or the assessors  would ask really hard questions.

I hate how critical thinking is really important because it's so confusing. It requires a bit of creativity and I'm not creative at all. I'm going to have to cram like hell over the holidays to get a decent score on the test.

Good luck with finding your participants. I'm sure you'll figure something out.
 

[Photon]

Critical thinking hype!!!!

[Abdullah3878]

Can you please help me with coming up with a EI topic
I got an interview at ebss and has no clue what to do for EI like what would I even I say if they ask me what is your rough idea for a possible EI
I enjoy physics and chemistry not that keen on bio will still do it though



Thanks

[Maddie Trinh]

Critical thinking hype!!!!

Hahahaha I got owned by the critical thinking test. I was so tired that I mixed up the two 6 mark questions and only realised half way through what I was doing. Here's to hoping I scrape by with 3 marks for each.

Can you please help me with coming up with a EI topic
I got an interview at ebss and has no clue what to do for EI like what would I even I say if they ask me what is your rough idea for a possible EI
I enjoy physics and chemistry not that keen on bio will still do it though



Thanks

Wow, ebss is tough for making all their year 11 kids do E.I. since it can be quite a taxing subject if you don't find a topic your interested in doing at all. Seriously though, I guess a question like this is really one for the science teaches since I ended up choosing a humanities topic for E.I 

However if I had to say something, I guess try looking at  current science magazines particularly journals focused around physics and chemistry. That way, you can gain insight into the current 'hot' topics for research however I think regardless of the topics you choose right now, as long as it's something not too mainstream and you can convincingly argue is substantially important for society than your set for the interviews. In fact that might be a good place to start if you really want to look for something unique to research by focusing on the current issues society faces today. Well that's all the advice I can give but if you need any more ideas I found a website online which might be of some help:
https://www.sciencenews.org/search/seek?for=chemistry

Mads

[antony01001000]

I got thoroughly destroyed by the practice test but I don't feel too bad about the actual one this year.

Yeah it sucks, quite a bit of people managed to drop the subject but those who don't want to do it but are forced to are going for the bare minimum.

How's your EI topic going Maddie? Have you started your final report yet?