Haha, you're way ahead on the bio prac exam count, I haven't started. Keep up the work, and I admire you still fitting fitness in, it has been one of my biggest struggles this year and I am not doing any at the moment......
Hey!
Thank you! That means a lot!
. There have been times when I was tempted to drop exercising and yoga. But, I am glad I stuck to my habit.
It's ok. Even fitting in 5 mins of a workout is great! Amazing! This is going to sound cliche but anything is better than nothing! Think of it like this. Exercising helps and motivates you to study! It literally increases your concentration! Your mind will be refreshed and ready for anything! So, it's an added bonus for revising for biology! It will help you and guide you on your road to success!
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Venter Outer-er
I feel dead, look dead and am breathing deadness right now. If anything, I think the holidays have drained the energy from my soul and mind. For example, when I reached the short answer of the practice biology exam, I was literally skimming for the ‘easy’ or ‘1 mark’ questions because I just could not be bothered! So, leaving that exam not even half-finished, I moved onto the methods exam 1 booklet our school gave us. I looked at the rest of the questions on the exam, was like ‘yeah right!’ and moved onto how to differentiate a simple function. I think I have become lazier. Especially for methods.
Like, all my methods friends have finished the exam 1 booklet and they’ve been stressing about the methods exam. Then there’s me who hasn’t even finished the exam 1 booklet and am stressing even more. I know I shouldn’t compare myself to others and just stay attuned to my own progress and stuff. But, that’s really disheartening, given that they’re ‘those’ people who achieve 90% and above on their SACs and don’t think that’s good.
Literature
On a happier note, I had my Lit Excursion today which was cool! We travelled around the city and learnt lots about Aboriginal history and artwork and were released early! So, technically, my first day of school is tomorrow. Yay. Well, I have a free first period so it’s not that bad but still ...oh no ...specialist.Okay, to be honest with you, I don’t really get what we’re doing in Literature. Like, I feel that we’re doing really random stuff and aren’t even studying our assigned text? What’s up with that? So, I read the whole book for nothing? We bought it for nothing?
Methods
I’ve got some exciting news for methods! So, in tuition, we did an exam 2 mock exam and I got 91%! Yay! Way higher than exam 1 which is weird but a pleasant surprise! Yeah, it might not have been that hard but still! If I start achieving that mark on my practice exams, hope may not be lost for methods. But rekindled. For motivation’s sake, I’ve kept the goal of achieving raw 50 in methods. Yeah, it probably might not happen. But, you never know. VCAA’s scaling and moderation is a curious thing.
I feel so done for methods and doing those trial exams have really made me realise that methods is H A R D! Like, no joke. Those exam 2 application questions always have me drilling my eyes into the question, trying to break it down into a million pieces to make it easier to understand but sometimes it just never works! Your mind has to be like Albert Einstein’s in my opinion to understand methods. It’s just mind-boggling! All of a sudden, even the methods exam 1 is starting to get hard. Everything is getting hard.
Biology
Okay, I’m actually moderately happy! I’ve done all the VCAA exams up until 2010, currently doing the 2010 exam 1. I’m actually doing stuff for biology! Isn’t that amazing! My stack of exams is slowly increasing in height every day and it’s making me motivated. I think I’m putting more effort into biology because it’s easier, like I even made an error book for it, but like I’m happy with my progress.
Specialist
Let’s not go there. Haven’t finished off all the exercises and have an exam in like 18 days. I’m dead now. Deader.
Chemistry
I have an exam this Friday. I don’t want to fail it. My goal is in the 90s for chemistry as I’ve gotten two 90s in the subject. Now, that’s good, for me. Our exam score goes to our 2020 Chemistry 3 4 teacher so double motivation. During the holidays, I’ve been trying to understand and learn organic chemistry naming and drawing compounds as I still cannot wrap my head around it. I just don’t get it. I’m good with the mathy parts of chemistry. Yay stoich, moles, latent heat. No yay organic chemistry. It’s messing with my brain. If anything, that’s going to bring me down in the exam. EEEEK.
Psychology
My first class of the week was today but I missed it because of the excursion. Sad sigh. It’s probably my favourite subject. Our next class is Thursday which is like a million years away.
St Johns
I completed the Provide First Aid Course on Saturday! It went for 4 hours. We had to do a multiple choice test, practice CPR skills and review how to administer an epipen and ventolin. I thought I would absolutely bomb the multiple choice test, but I did alright. 4 wrong.
I don’t think I’ll be coming back to St Johns until Presentation Night which is basically Awards night. That was too bad because we’re doing our proficiency badge in caring for animals! And one of the youth leaders were going to bring their dogs. Extreme sadness.
We have people coming over. It’s like 7:42 already and there’s no one here yet. We’re celebrating a festival. It’s getting dark and…
Have I told you guys about the screams that pierce the air (and my eardrums) during the day? My house is literally in front and center of the park(with a playground). And from when I wake up, to like 10 pm at night, there are always kids screaming and yelling and talking and yelling and screaming and kicking! And it’s so annoying! There are also teenagers who play basketball and who yell and scream and laugh and it’s annoying. I mean no offense but I literally need extreme quiet to study and even in the library, there are always people talking so my home is the best place. You know I love you neighbourhood kids/teens!
Even at night as I rest my head on the pillow, I hear the comforting thud or bounce of a basketball on the ground as I drift away into my dreams. It sort of lulls me to sleep. I think the same person shoots hoops at like 10 pm at night. What dedication.
Okay, I was going to post this later in the week when I have edited it. But, I’ll post my incessant and detailed rambling now to be read by the wide public.
See you guys!