Term 1 Week 5GeneralSo I didn't go to school today because I was exposed to covid over the weekend. I decided to take a day off as a precaution because of the incubation period and all that. I think it's around 3 days (exposure was Saturday) so if I test negative in the morning I will go to school. I just really don't want to give it to anyone at school because there's a lot of SAC's coming up for a few subjects and it would suck if people missed them because I gave them covid.
Moving on!
I finished The Younger Wife by Sally Hepworth (✰✰✰✰) and I'm onto Take Me With You When You Go by David Levithan and Jennifer Niven. Reading is relaxing
EnglishSo I didn't quite get the 30/30 I wanted on my Creative SAC, but 29/30 is pretty close so I'm not complaining. I was pretty amazed that I got it and so happy
It was almost like, "I can actually do this!" and made me feel a lot less scared for Year 12, because at least now I have a bit of an indication of how much work = what sort of mark. I put in a decent effort for my creative and really made sure I communicated with my teacher on how to improve, and ultimately her feedback was crucial (as is often the case with teachers), so I'm really happy with a mark like that so early on.
SpeshI had a topic test on tuesday and got 82% which I was pretty happy with! Although it was nowhere near close to my Year 11 average, I'm reminding myself that that was
Year 11, which seems worlds away now. Year 12 is totally different, especially with spesh and methods, where the tests are no longer asking you questions that could be from a textbook, but instead exam-style questions where sometimes 'where to begin' is the hardest part. I must say I made the dumbest mistake on the test by factoring tan^2(x) out of an expression and not leaving the factor in there. Like just dividing it with no reason. If I'd instead subbed in a trig rule or something I would've got the right answer, but no I was like
DiViDe ThE wHoLe ExPrEsSiOn By TaN^2(x). You learn!
Chem Is so fun rn. I'm over the fact that my teacher isn't exactly who I want her to be. It's ok. She is letting me do my own thing in class and providing me with extension work sometimes, so I'm grateful for that. I really look forward to chem these days, partly because I am just LOVING AoS1. Like is anyone else like that??
My only problem rn is Fuel cells, I still don't really remember how to draw them when I'm asked, and my SAC is next week. (fingers crossed I can do it). I understand the basic concepts. I'm starting revision for the SAC with checkpoints, edrolo and the atarnotes topic tests (although... can anyone else comment on which type of data book they are using? The data book I've got doesn't include some heats of combustion that the one they seem to be using does. I'm using the current VCAA data book)
FrenchI just was about to type: "loving french rn" and then realised that I am actually really enjoying school. French is a particular favourite right now because I did my practice oral SAC last Wednesday and totally winged it and she gave me a VH. I'd spent hours the night before stressing because I hadn't memorised what I wanted to say even though I'd really tried. When I got to school, I found out that some people hadn't even finished figuring out what they were going to say, so my teacher said we could take in our draft. That gave me some confidence and I was much less scared so I put up my hand to go first and I'm glad I did.
I've also been ATTACKING Duolingo with fire these past few weeks. I have nearly a 30 day streak and I'm powering through. I figured the extra vocab practice would be good, and since I have a pretty good grasp of the grammar it's not really a disadvantage to use Duolingo. I think Duolingo is fine for learning a language to some extent, but for many languages there are complex grammar systems that don't really match English and I'm not sure Duo teaches that aspect very well. But don't get me wrong, it is
great for learning extra vocab that could be helpful in the exam!! Who knows?
MethodsDon't feel I really need to update methods atm because not much has happened in the last week. We're doing transformations which is good because that's one of my weaker areas and I'm getting some good practice in.
Thanks always guys!! Hope everyone is going well!
Lemur