June 17th 2020Hello it’s time for a proper update because I’ll disappear pretty soon… these sac weeks remind me so much of year 11 exams which sucks ;(
EnglishJust did a text response and oh my what a d i s a s t e r. So bad that it was actually worse than my creative which is saying something. Luckily, we’re headed to language analysis is something that I can somewhat do. The English gods better grant me some magical english powers so that I can obtain that raw 35
SpecialistWhere do I even begin.
Sometimes I get it, sometimes I don’t. Learning a vast majority of U3 content independently was a nightmare and it’s left a lot of holes in my knowledge that is so time consuming to fill. There will be concepts where “oh yeah I get it”, but then they’ll give me a question that has a different angle for tackling it and I’m— lost??? Hopefully I get better at knowing the right method to tackle questions. DE’s are the bane of my existence at the moment so hopefully I can up my game.
MethodsThere’s some hope for me in maths.
I’m slowly (but surely) getting better at application questions. I enjoy methods much more than I do spec and I find it miles easier because most of the topics I do on methods I cover on spec first.
I got to do VCAA exams which I find are doable. But then I’ll do sacs from other top-performing schools and I— wow I struggle so much it’s actually disheartening and makes me lose confidence in my abilities. Am I good at methods or is my school just dumbing it down so as not to discourage us? Probably the latter.
PsychologyUh, not really much to say really. Just finished learning and memory. We’re on to U4. Psych is pretty easy to grasp but there’s just so much content I find it very time-consuming. A SAC coming up soon and I'm slightly worried because the teachers have been warning us that it'll be difficult one.
BiologyI’m not excited to learn about evolution AT ALL. Just not my cup of tea. I absolutely loved the previous AOS which was immunity and evolution is just a massive downgrade for me. SACs have been okay though so there’s that.
UCAT: Have been doing 1 hour of UCAT per day. Have done a couple of mocks. Not too hopeful given that these mocks indicate nothing but I’m hoping to get around 10k questions before my actual test date. I’ve only done around 7k at the moment. Starting to feel the pressure because I’ve got less than a month to go. My expectations for my UCAT is even lower than my expectations for english so that says something.
GeneralWow. Wow I think I got too cozy during the lockdown period because now I am feeling the full force of year 12. I have so many sacs to study for it’s insane and they're all within next week. This coupled with the fact that I haven’t had the time to exercise and some body image issues and you got s t r e s s. I’ve been managing things well but I feel so underprepared whenever I don’t spend as much time studying for SACs as I did for them last year (which I know is impossible given my workload nowadays). I won’t leave this on a negative note
(I know you guys are probably realising that I'm a pretty pessimistic person lol) Got back my English SAC (the dreaded creative, 3 months late) and it wasn't a failure but there's heaps of room for improvement but at least I know where I lost the marks in