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VCE Stuff => Victorian Education Discussion => Topic started by: abd123 on March 25, 2012, 02:30:13 pm
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I'm ridicuously bored, so I made this thread lol.
Anyways hello current vce students and vce veterans :).
Firstly, use the poll.
Secondly, answer or discuss of how one of your weakest subject turned out to be one of your best subject :).
and thats it :P.
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English, to being a B/B+ student in yr11 to getting 3 A+ for GAs and a 40+ SS in yr12, extremely happy with myself :)
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LOTE- In high school I was awful at French. Later, as a mature age student, I did Latin at the VSL. I never thought I'd be able to do a language at VCE level, but I succeeded. My score scaled to 49, which was my highest scaled score.
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Alright haven't done mine.
Well my most improved subject is english.
In late 2010 (year 10) to early 2011 (year 11) I was getting D+'s and C's. Once semester two has hitted in 2011 I dramatically improve to the next level and started to get B's and B+'s through the aid of an vce veteran. My year level coordinator pulled out an ex-student at my school that has gotten an English studyscore of 46, the school paid him to be my mentor and his a great mentor. We occassionally stay back in school stay back in school talking about life in general and his a great friend to me :).
A lil off topic :P
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Maths.
I did horribly in any type of maths during Year 9-11. Somehow, it turned out to be my second best subject in Year 12, now continuing maths in Uni
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Definately English. From 4/10 in my earlier years of essay writing, I now get much higher, thanks to my VCAA assessor of a tutor and the fact that I read more, and build my vocabulary.
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I haven't actually finished VCE, but I have been terrible at maths ever since primary school.
So Maths is probably mine.
In year 9, my maths teacher told me to go into Everyday maths (similar to VCAL maths at a year 10 level) I straight out told him no and that I was going to continue core maths.
In year 10, barely passing core maths, the other maths teacher told me that I couldn't do Methods and that I was simply not smart enough, I told her no and picked up Methods (she's been giving me weird looks since)
In year 11, they gave us the senior maths teacher and she started to really encourage me and everything and then BAM it just started to click. From that year on I started to really enjoy maths, simply because it's black and white, there's no grey to it.
As childish as this sounds, one of my goals now is to get a pretty decent SS for Methods and be like SUP BITCHEZ!111!1eleven to my year 9 and 10 teachers. I know they were trying to advise me, but I had wanted to do atleast core maths for a long time.
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Yeah mine is probably maths as well. Although I'm definitely not in the running for 40+ in methods, it's surprising that I'm even taking it, considering I was almost failing maths from year 5-9. Year 10 was a major turn around for me, probably because my teacher was strict (and good) so I actually did the work.
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I'd say Maths, I failed all my tests in Year 7 and 8 (did no work) and in Year 9 I managed to pass just by like a few a few marks, Year 10 did pretty well in Maths but was in foundation so it was easy as shit, Year 11 did crap because I was not used to Methods, Year 12 doing much better however still have a lot to improve on.
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Two subjects. Physics, from wanting to drop the subject at the end of year 10 (year 11 physics) and getting mediocre scores on year 11 physics test, to getting a 50 raw in year 11. And French, from being OK but not great to a 47 raw. Just persevere and work hard. It helps a lot once you start liking the subject.
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I haven't actually finished VCE, but I have been terrible at maths ever since primary school.
So Maths is probably mine.
In year 9, my maths teacher told me to go into Everyday maths (similar to VCAL maths at a year 10 level) I straight out told him no and that I was going to continue core maths.
In year 10, barely passing core maths, the other maths teacher told me that I couldn't do Methods and that I was simply not smart enough, I told her no and picked up Methods (she's been giving me weird looks since)
In year 11, they gave us the senior maths teacher and she started to really encourage me and everything and then BAM it just started to click. From that year on I started to really enjoy maths, simply because it's black and white, there's no grey to it.
As childish as this sounds, one of my goals now is to get a pretty decent SS for Methods and be like SUP BITCHEZ!111!1eleven to my year 9 and 10 teachers. I know they were trying to advise me, but I had wanted to do atleast core maths for a long time.
LOL, at the end of year 10, got 51% on my core exam. My teachers didn't let me take a 3/4 in year 11 , they didn't want me to take methods and sent a letter home when I picked GMA (spesh). To quote my teacher, ',Instead of thinking about a 3/4 in year 11, I suggest you work on making sure you pass every single one of your subjects which will be a challenge in itself'.
Well long story short, I got the highest study score at my school in Methods, Spesh, Literature and Physics.
As our year 7-10 campus is split from our year 11-12 campus, here is the dialogue upon seeing the teacher with the above quote after not seeing her for two years:
Teacher: Oh hi, how did you go in your studies, did you pass? Are you going to go to university next year?
Me: Ahh ye, I got in
Teacher: That's good, are you still thinking of a trade or planning on completing university?
Me: Pretty certain I plan on doing surgery or cancer research one day
Teacher: (Laughing) What did you really get into?
Me: Biomedicine at UoM?
Teacher: No, seriously...
Me: (serious expression on the face) Look, here's my student card. I'm serious, Biomedicine at Melbourne.
Teacher: (Teachers jaw literally drops) What the fuck?
It's a good feeling man, work hard for it.
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Peanuts11, you should have been like "in your face, bitchhh!" - you're a legendd!! congrats mate!
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Peanuts11 that story is inspiring. You are a legend.
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Hard to say... my best subject is maths, but I have always been good at maths since primary school. I haven't really significantly improved at any subject :(
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I haven't actually finished VCE, but I have been terrible at maths ever since primary school.
So Maths is probably mine.
In year 9, my maths teacher told me to go into Everyday maths (similar to VCAL maths at a year 10 level) I straight out told him no and that I was going to continue core maths.
In year 10, barely passing core maths, the other maths teacher told me that I couldn't do Methods and that I was simply not smart enough, I told her no and picked up Methods (she's been giving me weird looks since)
In year 11, they gave us the senior maths teacher and she started to really encourage me and everything and then BAM it just started to click. From that year on I started to really enjoy maths, simply because it's black and white, there's no grey to it.
As childish as this sounds, one of my goals now is to get a pretty decent SS for Methods and be like SUP BITCHEZ!111!1eleven to my year 9 and 10 teachers. I know they were trying to advise me, but I had wanted to do atleast core maths for a long time.
LOL, at the end of year 10, got 51% on my core exam. My teachers didn't let me take a 3/4 in year 11 , they didn't want me to take methods and sent a letter home when I picked GMA (spesh). To quote my teacher, ',Instead of thinking about a 3/4 in year 11, I suggest you work on making sure you pass every single one of your subjects which will be a challenge in itself'.
Well long story short, I got the highest study score at my school in Methods, Spesh, Literature and Physics.
As our year 7-10 campus is split from our year 11-12 campus, here is the dialogue upon seeing the teacher with the above quote after not seeing her for two years:
Teacher: Oh hi, how did you go in your studies, did you pass? Are you going to go to university next year?
Me: Ahh ye, I got in
Teacher: That's good, are you still thinking of a trade or planning on completing university?
Me: Pretty certain I plan on doing surgery or cancer research one day
Teacher: (Laughing) What did you really get into?
Me: Biomedicine at UoM?
Teacher: No, seriously...
Me: (serious expression on the face) Look, here's my student card. I'm serious, Biomedicine at Melbourne.
Teacher: (Teachers jaw literally drops) What the fuck?
It's a good feeling man, work hard for it.
You should be like aww yeah and walk off holding a giant radio on one shoulder playing 'Can't Touch This'.
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Probably English. C+ to B+ grades from year 7-9 but for some reason I improved drastically in Year 10-12 with A+ being my average
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Definately English.
Sorry to pick on you ... but the irony :)
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I bewlve my engrish has improv a lot dis year 2,
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I bewlve my engrish has improv a lot dis year 2,
lol'd.
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The awesome feeling of beating Paulsterio in English and Spech after he bagged me all year for:
1. dropping english language and picking up english in year 12
2. bragging about his no.1 sac ranking for spech
:P :P :P :P :P
lol jks.. he has the last laugh cause he raped me in umat and got into med.. D:
but seriously.. if you told me i was gonna get 43 in english at the start of the year i would have literally cracked up cause i hadnt had any good english teachers all through high school and was also picking it up with pretty much no idea of how to write a proper essay..
and also pretty much winged the end of year exams for spech (cause i had accounting on the same day as exam 2) and got really lucky with how easy it was..
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English. I've always had reasonable skills but I was lazy as fuck when it came to writing essays. Blatantly copied a sample essay in year 10 and received a low for it. Ever since then I've improved my game.
Considering the circumstances I had, I'm VERY fortunate to walk away with a 37 in English (A,A,A). Would have been even higher if teachers cross-marked SACs.
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Accounting-
got like a 76% on my yr 11 end of year exam, but i forgot my calculator
Methods also saw LOTS of improvement, thanks to certain people changing my perspective on maths.
English didnt improved a lot too,
my english teacher was awesome, probably the best in the state and i'd bet $100 probably top 10 in this country if you could rank english teachers
i have an accounting group presentation due tomorrow. not even half way through it yet. longgg night ahead
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Science, from like year 7-9 I was getting C's and D's and now I'm almost top of the cohort in Biology and doing pretty well in Chem and Physics :D
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@English: Year 7 till year 10, I averaged A+'s throughout — no effort at all. This year, it feels as if I'm falling significantly, receiving B/B+'s. My teacher is new to the school, and unfortunately is very lazy and somewhat very naive. I hope for this to improve throughout the year progressively or maybe I should just continue putting no effort at all and perform all I can. I'll strive harder in Year 12. @Biology, definitely. I was very uninterested in it and lacked momentous knowledge, although this year I seem to be doing exceptionally well than I expected. From C's and D's, to B+'s and A's thus far. I hope to maintain these marks. I'll be happy with a 40+ SS for Biology, it will suffice.