Should I help my classmates out just before SAC's of be selfish?
Should I help my classmates out just before SAC's of be selfish?
Should I help my classmates out just before SAC's of be selfish?
Helping them now could improve their exam performance too, which can increase your study score.
Also, helping others can be fun :)
Do agree, but sometimes it kinda sucks when you spend one of your spares discussing, say themes in a novel, with someone else really thoroughly , then in class discussions they're like: 'Wut? I don't understand, never covered this before.' GAH!
Should I help my classmates out just before SAC's of be selfish?Absolutely help them out. Stronger cohort is a benefit for you. If you can't outrank someone that is learning things from you then (??)
that's a really great question actually! I guess helping one another out can be really effective, especially since you're throwing around ideas, and you can get new ideas as well. However that said, I reckon closer to Sacs personal study would probably be the best, cos at the end of the day it's all about ranking and you want to be the best you can :)Yes, you want to be the best you can, which is entirely irrelevant to others. You can be the best you can be and have others better than you. Besides - by this logic, if you want to beat people - what's the point at them not being at their best? That's like racing a handicapped kid and calling yourself the best sprinter. You aren't the best sprinter until you race Thushan and win.
Both--keep you really good ideas for yourself and share around the average/good ones-you want a good cohort, but you need to be at the top of it :)Exactly, and if you have the best ideas and everyone else needs to learn from you - you're already at the top. You'll have a better understanding of the idea for explaining to people. And she's right, you want a great cohort. I knew I was going to be rank fourth in English from day dot. I sure as fucked helped ranks one through three, because I needed them to A+, and I sure as fuck helped everyone else because they'd be good for a backup and they weren't going ot beat me unless they earned it.
I've already offered help to many of my friends :) I'm always available to help if they need it. Just them asking me for help is a nice feeling (this might be due to the fact that it's the start of the term :P ). . When it's close to SAC dates, I still will be glad to help any one of my friends, however, I will not help anyone at the expense of my time if you get what I mean. If I feel I need to study, I'll ask them politely to come later so I can focus, I know my friends would respect that :). When I'm done and have free time, I'd go over and help.Listen to this man. Proud of you, Kesh.
Teaching also makes it easier to remember so that's something to keep in the back of my head :) I do care about rankings too, but if another person is more capable than me and scores better, I think it's fair and they do deserve the rank over me :)
I think you should help others (provided you still have time for your own study of course). Personally, I found that once things got less competitive, the general environment of the classroom was more learning orientated and everyone (including the stronger students) benefited from the more complex discussion that could be done. Also, helping others can help you to find gaps in your knowledge, and then you realise what you need to learn.Precisely.
SAC rankings will sort themselves out, and the stronger competition can push you to understand the material even better. Helping them now could improve their exam performance too, which can increase your study score.
Also, helping others can be fun :)
I'd always help others if they are nice about it. Just think about it, what are the chances that helping someone else would actually move you down a rank, and them up above you from below? They'd have to be pretty close competition in the first place (with dumb luck, your SAC rank is interchangeable), and you're getting a lot out of helping them too, as it improves your understanding of the material.Yay for logic.
This. Happened to me all the time so I just gave up.This is fair enough. People should ask you earlier, especially if it was going to throw you off your game. Happened to me as well but didn't have the same reaction.
I was also happy to help and even told my friends that they could ask me for help whenever they needed it.
What did annoy me though was when we had a SAC sometimes, it didn't start until 20 minutes into class (double class went for 100 minutes) so teacher would let us do want we wanted, people would ask me then for help and I would just get fustrated. It annoyed me so much and half the time just slightly freaked me out. never helped at these times as i found it unfair to myself who had worked and others were asking me to go over everything 10 minutes before the sac.
Another little thing I'd like to say.
During the first few classes for methods, I did not understand a lot of what the teacher said. So I couldn't complete the class and homework. So when it came to doing methods homework, I was severely unmotivated. Feeling that because I'm already behind, there's not point trying to catch up, it's a horrible subject yadayada.
If you ever do feel like this. I know it may be obvious, but seriously try and force yourself to do the work! It's an amazing feeling!
It's the first damn week and I was already confused haha. But all I needed was to force myself for 10 minutes and I was getting the processes and already into it. 1 solid hour later, done the section. :)
(Don't know if I was pointing out the obvious, but I said it anyway :P)
I think you should help others (provided you still have time for your own study of course). Personally, I found that once things got less competitive, the general environment of the classroom was more learning orientated and everyone (including the stronger students) benefited from the more complex discussion that could be done. Also, helping others can help you to find gaps in your knowledge, and then you realise what you need to learn.I found this to be very, very true last year. Hebrew was an entirely non-competitive environment and we all gladly helped each other - we (well, the five of us) had study sessions before each SAC. In the end, the rankings sorted themselves out as they should have.
SAC rankings will sort themselves out, and the stronger competition can push you to understand the material even better. Helping them now could improve their exam performance too, which can increase your study score.
Also, helping others can be fun :)
kesh, you are such an inspiration :)
An interesting discussion came up on the other thread in the water cooler. I think it's an interesting topic so I thought it deserves better exposure here :)
(Re: it's about time spent studying)
My week day consists of, waking up at 5:15 and excersising. Getting to school at 7:30-8am, studying till about 8:45. then after school. 3:30 I get home. Non academic time (lol) is from 3:30 to about 6-6:30pm. From there, 1 hour of one subject, 10 minutes break, 1h of another. So once I'm done, it's about 8:15-9ish. I do what ever I'd like to, ie, get stuff ready for tomorrow. Then I get ready for bed and sleep :)
It's only the start for me, so if I do find myself falling behind excessively, I'll make adjustments as I go. Within a few months, my standard routine should be concrete :) Provided I'm disciplined enough to follow my own rules haha.
But as I mentioned, my goals are not very high compared to a lot of you guys so I guess that's why I have a lot of spare time. So I think a lot people will look at each others time tables and think, "wow, that's a load of loafing around he does" or "she's definitely gonna burn out", but without knowing the person, their goals and their expectations, I think it's hard to make a judgement on how people study.
But I think this will be enough for me to reach the goal I desire :)
What does your day look like?
What does your day look like?
atm and on a day where I don't leave the house:
2pm: Wake up, play scramble with friends
2.15pm: Breakfast, get dressed, read the paper, give the dog something to eat, etc
3.30pm: Do any tasks my mum left me to do (washing, dishes, etc.)
4.30pm: Facebook, movies, writing AN guide, AN, IRC, Minecraft, Suits, tetris, music, etc + one meal somewhere in there (maybe 10pm?)
4.30am: play scramble with friends
4.40am: sleep
I lead a tough life :)
When I look at other people's timetables, I always think "so they're supposed to stick to that every day?" I just mix and match my time, and try to get everything done. If I have homework, I do it when I have time, ordered by priority. If I feel like I need to revise, I read over the textbook and summarise it. The only thing really routine for me is gaming and sleep so I don't stress out, but even that can be compromised!I can relate to your post. I honestly don't get how people can be so organised with timetables and what not...
I can relate to your post. I honestly don't get how people can be so organised with timetables and what not...
I go home and just watch tele. until 7-8, and then I study for 2 hours. But I do try to stay in front class, i'm only doing 4 subjects so this is fairly easy to do.
Do you think it's better to exercise during the study breaks, or before starting study?
my goals are not very high compared to a lot of you guys
atm and on a day where I don't leave the house:
2pm: Wake up, play scramble with friends
2.15pm: Breakfast, get dressed, read the paper, give the dog something to eat, etc
3.30pm: Do any tasks my mum left me to do (washing, dishes, etc.)
4.30pm: Facebook, movies, writing AN guide, AN, IRC, Minecraft, Suits, tetris, music, etc + one meal somewhere in there (maybe 10pm?)
4.30am: play scramble with friends
4.40am: sleep
I lead a tough life :)
atm and on a day where I don't leave the house:
2pm: Wake up, play scramble with friends
2.15pm: Breakfast, get dressed, read the paper, give the dog something to eat, etc
3.30pm: Do any tasks my mum left me to do (washing, dishes, etc.)
4.30pm: Facebook, movies, writing AN guide, AN, IRC, Minecraft, Suits, tetris, music, etc + one meal somewhere in there (maybe 10pm?)
4.30am: play scramble with friends
4.40am: sleep
I lead a tough life :)
When I look at other people's timetables, I always think "so they're supposed to stick to that every day?" I just mix and match my time, and try to get everything done. If I have homework, I do it when I have time, ordered by priority. If I feel like I need to revise, I read over the textbook and summarise it. The only thing really routine for me is gaming and sleep so I don't stress out, but even that can be compromised!
i find during!
Just remember you have the potential to achieve higher! I think it's important to work just that bit harder to achieve say 2 atar points higher than the cut off of your course for the previous year because the cutoff change can be pretty "drastic" in terms of how many apply (e.g. melb uni science went from 90.15 to around 92)
Kesh I swear to god a little bit ago your English goal was higher than 36...
daym pi! who ever thought the life a monash meddie could be so...CHILL :D
I know :( But I have that guilty feeling that I'm being far too ambitious. Perhaps I can alter my goals after my first SAC.
The reality of hitting A+ for each outcome hit me. I may be underestimating myself too :) Lets hope so hey!
Perhaps if you correct all my work I could aim higher ;)
I know :( But I have that guilty feeling that I'm being far too ambitious. Perhaps I can alter my goals after my first SAC.Hmmm... too ambitious...?
The reality of hitting A+ for each outcome hit me. I may be underestimating myself too :) Lets hope so hey!
Perhaps if you correct all my work I could aim higher ;)
Hmmm... too ambitious...?
Bit confused as to what that could mean. Hmm.
I feel it's appropriate to let you know that I was aiming around 38-40 for English... And at one point of the year I resigned to having Further as my increment subject and aimed for a 33. I guess you know the end of that story... right?
Heh, post it up on the forums and I will! I try to mark every essay that goes through lol.
I know :( But I have that guilty feeling that I'm being far too ambitious. Perhaps I can alter my goals after my first SAC.
The reality of hitting A+ for each outcome hit me. I may be underestimating myself too :) Lets hope so hey!
Perhaps if you correct all my work I could aim higher ;)
I think it'd be kinda cool (lol I'm weird) if I keep a portfolio of all my essay submissions this year and see the gradual improvements (hopefully!!) that I make. Hopefully it'd encourage others to work harder as well!OMFG BEST IDEA EVER. I kept some of my essays. I think my teacher has a few as examples. Emily's giving me all of her essays as well. It's seriously so good for nostalgia's sake - and more importantly to show the kids I'm helping at my school. Definitely keep that portfolio. I don't give marks out of 10, I just absolute rape essays with feedback (you may have seen)... I told my kids, you don't need marks, because you'll see less of my pen on the page over time, and if you ever find an entire essay blank, you're going to get a 50 LOL.
The reality of hitting A+ for each outcome hit me. I may be underestimating myself too :) Lets hope so hey!
Lots of people improve immensely during the SWOTVAC period.I can definitely attest to this. I did s some crazy shit (6 essay in one day), read different parts of 12AM soo many times. Had massive text brainstormig sessions with Em that went for like 6 hours a pop. I was already at a high level but SWOTVAC was like I'd reached Bowser's Castle and it was like: beast mode, activate!
OMFG BEST IDEA EVER. I kept some of my essays. I think my teacher has a few as examples. Emily's giving me all of her essays as well. It's seriously so good for nostalgia's sake - and more importantly to show the kids I'm helping at my school. Definitely keep that portfolio. I don't give marks out of 10, I just absolute rape essays with feedback (you may have seen)... I told my kids, you don't need marks, because you'll see less of my pen on the page over time, and if you ever find an entire essay blank, you're going to get a 50 LOL.
Defs do this. It's more of an incentive to write more once you realise how quickly pile is building up and the crazy amount of essays you've already done. XD I still have all of mine...hahah :P
Here's your goal. Match my mate. 100 essays throughout the year.
Here's your goal. Match my mate. 100 essays throughout the year.Out of curiosity, what ss did he/she end up getting?
Out of curiosity, what ss did he/she end up getting?
Here's your goal. Match my mate. 100 essays throughout the year.Matched. Although I don't think you were talking about me. :p
Out of curiosity, what ss did he/she end up getting?
It's Thushan, you assume 50 until proven otherwise :P
To be honest, essays are a refinement of my ideas, so less is more for me. XDYeah if I were in your position I'd be researching, reading, brainstorming, discussing, thinking. And maybe writing a practice before each SAC. Your writing... Idk, it doesn't really need improvement, but text specific language will help to get familiar with (the one before the SAC).
An interesting discussion came up on the other thread in the water cooler. I think it's an interesting topic so I thought it deserves better exposure here :)
(Re: it's about time spent studying)
My week day consists of, waking up at 5:15 and excersising. Getting to school at 7:30-8am, studying till about 8:45. then after school. 3:30 I get home. Non academic time (lol) is from 3:30 to about 6-6:30pm. From there, 1 hour of one subject, 10 minutes break, 1h of another. So once I'm done, it's about 8:15-9ish. I do what ever I'd like to, ie, get stuff ready for tomorrow. Then I get ready for bed and sleep :)
It's only the start for me, so if I do find myself falling behind excessively, I'll make adjustments as I go. Within a few months, my standard routine should be concrete :) Provided I'm disciplined enough to follow my own rules haha.
But as I mentioned, my goals are not very high compared to a lot of you guys so I guess that's why I have a lot of spare time. So I think a lot people will look at each others time tables and think, "wow, that's a load of loafing around he does" or "she's definitely gonna burn out", but without knowing the person, their goals and their expectations, I think it's hard to make a judgement on how people study.
But I think this will be enough for me to reach the goal I desire :)
What does your day look like?
I'm totally different from both of you!
I don't do subjects by hours-instead I do a subject until I've finished the homework, revised a bit on the stuff I learnt last week, look at the stuff for next week, and then I move on to another subject.
hmmm. might try and get up a bit earlier to exercies though! I wake up at 7:45 :P
Hehe, what ever works I guess :)
I haven't been feeling exhausted which is good. Perhaps I can increase the amount of study I do if necessary later on :)
I'd say staying up at 3am to do homework in general is stupid and pointless. I mean:
Going off on a bit of a tangent here - have any of you noticed that your time to revise for SACs has become far more limited? I remember literally being able to exhaust through a lot of practice content for Further last year, but this year I've had to learn to be content with revising just from a chapter review over the few days before the SAC, or a bit of StudyOn if I'm lucky enough to get a bit of extra time. Should I be concerned about this? Am I not doing enough? :/
I leave the house at 6:50 and come back at 5pm most days .
I leave the house at 6:50 and come back at 5pm most days . It's so hard doing all the homework and then revising in such a short period of time.
Have you guys started writing context essays for English?
Have you guys started writing context essays for English?We started with this one at school :)
I really wanted to do creative stories for context, but I feel that with creative, it can always be a mixed bag. I always wonder, what if the examiners can't see the link I can see... So in that sense, I feel that a more formal expression of writing like an expository or persuasive essay may be more suited for me. That way, I do have more piece of mind, and I think that if I have a deep understanding of the text(s), I can utilise that better in an essay style format over a creative story.If you enjoy it, do it. It can be a mixed bag, it isn't for everyone. You have to be one of, or all three of, brave, confident or stupid to write creatively in the exam. In any year, for any Context task, I wrote a creative short-story. Every time. "What if the examiner can't see the link?" was one of my biggest fears or questions. I think the challenge is more sticking to the prompt, as Pi said before, all of thematic links, character links, etc are applicable to the criteria. I mean, if you have a kid struggling with his identity (although that might make for a pretty shit story) - you've pretty much just 'linked' every story in GUAIA. It also had the added benefit of not needing a close relationship with the texts, just the ability to think about the ideas the context was promoting. I'm not encouraging you to write creatively (unless you'd like to for practice, it can never hurt in practice), just airing my views on the topic.
Have you guys started writing context essays for English?
Yea, we started off with this piece actually! It was kinda like the primary school, "Write your teacher a letter about your holidays" equivalent :) Just so she could get a feel for how we write.
I don't remember ever having 'homework' in year 12..
That was me in Year 12!Same but mondays and wednesdays I come back at 7:30
Hey guys I am also in Year 12 I have completed R&S in year 11 and studied Japanese and Biology in year 11, and Business in year 10. This year I want the best my subjects are chemistry, english, methods, further and physics. My question is how do you guys complete homework, study, write down notes into study notes, and revise the notes daily please help.
Welcome to AN :)
In that list of things, what do you mean by "study"? To me, study included "complete homework, write down notes into study notes, and revise the notes daily" :/
like I recieved about 100 chemistry questions last wednesday and next class was on friday
Had my oral presentation today :DExcellent :D :D. I bet you smashed it.
Armed with a battery hen cage (yes, I ended up using it Brenden!) , I think I did okay haha
Anyone else done their orals yet? :)
Excellent :D :D. I bet you smashed it.
How are you guys finding the start of Year 12 psychologically? Does anyone feel like they're more stressed than their peers? Are you all still very motivated? Is it as you expected? Different, worse, better?
I think I was extremely tense this time last year, making sure I didn't put a foot out of line.
Haha, well once I got to the end they kind of stared at me for a while, and then one of them said "Oh damn, I completely forgot to take notes" haha
I'm not going to lie, I'm struggling. Finding it hard to get the motivation, and I always feel like whatever I do is inadequate :(
I don't know, I hope I get over it soon, I just feel so overwhelmed and... lost? gaah!
I'm not going to lie, I'm struggling. Finding it hard to get the motivation, and I always feel like whatever I do is inadequate :(
Trust me, you'll look back at VCE and ask "Why did I study so hard when I could have been doing <insert enjoyable activity>?" :P
Haha, well once I got to the end they kind of stared at me for a while, and then one of them said "Oh damn, I completely forgot to take notes" hahaOMG THAT IS AWESOME!!
lie, I'm struggling. Finding it hard to get the motivation, and I always feel like whatever I do is inadequate :(
I don't know, I hope I get over it soon, I just feel so overwhelmed and... lost? gaah!
Thisthisthis. I don't feel like I'm working hard enough, haha! I'm sure that'll change.Yeah I think that's pretty natural Simby :). I think as far as advice goes the biggest tip I can give you is to remain calm within the chaos. Almost detached to a degree, but not in an avoidance way. Focus, in the middle of the warzone, if you will. Right now it seems like whatever you do, there's some enormous gap between where you are right now and where you're aiming to be, and it's like no matter how hard you chase it the distance never lessens. It's definitely okay to feel this way. There are plenty of people that have felt that way, are feeling that way, and will feel that way in the future. You've two options, really. You can battle the feelings and just shower yourself in positive thought, or you can accept your emotions but intellectually recognise them as untrue, and continue to do what needs to be done regardless. You've already got two great scores, one of them unarguably exceptional. Just know that it's been done, you have already personally done it, and recognise that you can do it again. Just keep moving forward in your mind. You feel lost, I definitely understand that. For me, instead of 'lost' it was a sort of 'trapped' feeling. As if I were in the middle of a huge, huge marketplace and everyone was hustling and bustling around me, jostling me, surrounding me, and I knew where I needed to go but this absolute sea of chaos was making it impossible. That's what I mean but sort of, accept it, but intellectually keep going. On one hand, I felt the chaos, and on the other I picture myself in a little bubble, sort of unable to hear what was going on around me and half ignoring it as I steadily kept moving through. On motivation... It's up to you. What's the reason? (Don't actually answer that)... Keep it close to your heart. There is a passion, a reason in there somewhere that means even though failure is an option, you will continue to choose success. It can be shallowly answered, "It would be nice to score highly", but within everyone is something more deeply seated. Find it, and don't let it go. Ever. During the times I felt like my bubble was popping and I couldn't get through the chaos, I'd intellectualise it by saying "Are you going to tell your future students that you gave up? You need the awesome story to tell your students, they need the faith and trust in you." and on another hand I needed it personally, to show myself I wasn't a screw up. That was my passion. Sometimes I lost it and I needed to resort to motivation (for they're two distinctly different things), and that was okay, so long as I kept going. It also gets better. Year 12 becomes habitual. At the very start for me was the worst (as well as Shenzy from memory). To the point I cried my guts out at the end of Term 1 because it was just, insanely far too much. Term 2 was different, I was more calm amongst that chaos.
Trust me, you'll look back at VCE and ask "Why did I study so hard when I could have been doing <insert enjoyable activity>?" :P"Because now I am in second year med and can now do <insert enjoyable activity> without having to worry about the GAMSAT". ;)
Probably hahaIntellectually recognise this as false. Because there's nothing further than the truth. You've already smashed 30s in two. By the way, I recently found out that I scored 20/20 for Twelve Angry Men - I've got your back. If you can't have faith in yourself, have faith in me ;)
I just feel like I won't even be able to scrape 30's in my subjects! argh
Methods has really taken me down. I struggled with a few basic things, that I needed for the whole chapter. Few classes later, I was a chapter behind. But I did finally get help, and now I'm up to date with methods. But because of all the work, I'm behind on some other subjects, but I'm getting back on track with them too :)Good to hear buddy. Keep at it! You can always give more than you think you can give. It's good to have your own back and no that no matter what happens, you've been through worse and you'll go through worse and this is just another stepping stone. That served me well and some very critical moments of the year, including the English exam when I had thirty minutes to write a piece I hadn't started hahaha.
Motivation is still as high as it was at the start of the year :D It's getting better actually. Since I was an idiot last year (arguably still am hahah) now I've been doing so much more work and feel a lot more confident.
The fact that I bounced back in methods is a sign for me that I can sorta get back up if something goes down south. Which is always reassuring :)
So far, it hasn't been very stressful yet because I worked ahead quite a bit during the holidays. However, the school work is catching up so in a few weeks I might start feeling stressed.Don't throw away your disadvantage. Keep going steady right now. Don't leave it to the point where you have to play catch-up.
Had my oral presentation today :D
Armed with a battery hen cage (yes, I ended up using it Brenden!) , I think I did okay haha
Anyone else done their orals yet? :)
How are you guys finding the start of Year 12 psychologically? Does anyone feel like they're more stressed than their peers? Are you all still very motivated? Is it as you expected? Different, worse, better?
I think I was extremely tense this time last year, making sure I didn't put a foot out of line.
Actually, that reminds me to pose you all a question: do you already have a bit of a pecking order in your mind in regards to your strength in various subjects? After a couple of weeks, I feel really confident with English and Biology, semi-confident with Chemistry and Methods and not confident at all with Specialist.
Anyone know when the exam dates are going to released?
Seems like everyone here is doing at least one subject that scales up. I have the easiest subjects and I'm feeling pressure, not about the content, just the feeling of not wanting to drop a single mark on any of my SAC's.Hi. My name is Brenden. I did English, Legal, Further, Psych, Theatre.
I suppose for me it would:I know the feeling, not so much im bad at it, more so that it's really boring... mainly because my class doesn't talk and there is this one very annoying person who shits me...
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Almost to the point where I've thought about dropping Chemistry. :/
Hey guys.
Is it against VCAA rules to have AOS2 material on SACs for Outcome 1?
Means I have to study for more :'(I'm having the same issue for physical education. The teacher is saying there will be questions on the SAC that aren't in the textbook, although he did provide is with some notes. A lot of the content he's teaching us isn't in our textbook but rather in a bunch of notes he provided us. I don't like the idea of it really, but I'm confident for an A+
Chemistry 3/4 2013 Thread
Ask :)
There are plenty of really awesome people that will help you :) (I probably won't, I'm a little stupid :P)
I know the feeling, not so much im bad at it, more so that it's really boring... mainly because my class doesn't talk and there is this one very annoying person who shits me...
That seems like an excellent option. :D Thanks
I guess I'm similar to you in that I find it to be quite boring. The classes just seem really, really draining.
Might be due to the teacher, in the way she teaches. Jumps around with a variety of ideas, instead of really helping as get the basics right, going over exam/SAC type questions. Jumbled theory a little bit... I don't know, it might work for some, just not me. And yeah, I think we all have that person aha.
Hahahahaha fuck, 'that one person', definitely.HAHAHA! I'd piss myself if that happened in my class!
The amount of times teachers would shoot me a look to stop be from cutting sick at someone. Ah, good times. One time in Psychology, a kid (been in the country maybe three years) put his hand up and asked the teacher "Is it legal to kill your wife if she cheats on you?"
Safe to say everyone flipped dicks. Dayum, that kid, man... that kid.
Has this sort of mistake ever happened with anyone?
A bit of rage time :(
I made such a simple error in my business SAC today that might've costed me a good 7% of my score minimum. It asked "what type of business is this". The answer it was after was a private run government business, which I knew. But for some reason, I wrote that it was a "service type business" because it was something I learnt last year in business..
I mean, technically it is right, but it's not in the study design so obviously it wasn't what they were after. I'm sure I lost marks for wording elsewhere, but I think I may have dug under 90%. That probably will hurt my ranking as well..
But it's the first SAC so I hope it doesn't bring me down too much :)
Has this sort of mistake ever happened with anyone?
Yeah. Most memorably. Mid-year Psych.
Of course!
Best for it to happen now than in your final exam though :)
I'm really proud of your resilient attitude mate! :) And yes it happened to me in methods last year, so you're the not only one! As pi said, at least you know you won't make the same mistake in the exam!
I wasn't talking about myself, but he did get 50 + Premiers (so that means 60/60 in the exam). He got a 50 in 5 other subjects.
M.L. ?Definitely me!
M.L. ?
17/20 for oral.. I can feel my chances of 44+ english are slipping away.. :(Well done. I also got 17/20 for my oral. Please refer to sig.
hey how is everyone going, i have my first 2 sacs coming up this week, business management and sociology.
i havent studied for about a year but my motivation is sky high, i hope to get at least a 75-80 ATAR and from what ive research/read the first SACS wont be the end of the world if i do average on them.
i had an epiphany and have really put my head in the books this week and plan to do the same for the rest of the year, im doing my VCE at a tafe so its probably different to how you guys do it.
if i could all please give me some advice on good study habits/routines to achieve a good ATAR mark i would be very greatful! i think i'll be posting on this forum more often as i need a good community like this.
Thanks! :)
Hey umirin!,
I've only had one SAC and that was for business management :) I know you'll do very well! It was/should have been very easy for me. I made a silly error which costed me greatly. Minimise your mistakes because 2-4 marks is a grade!
Honestly, that question is best answered by previous students, but from what I've heard, you should be reviewing what you learnt every day on the same day (or morning after), I do this before school as well. VCAA recommends 14 hours a fortnight but the vast majority here are against time bound studying and are more inclined to efficient study :) (I can't quite explain what that entails :P, best wait for the pro's)
There are a couple of threads floating around on how to study well, try searching for a couple :)
And please be posting, that's what we're here for, I'll continue ranting for sure.
Hows it going Machan, you're sri lankan eh? thats awesome
Did the SAC have the obvious questions like what is stakeholder, what is an organisation, macro,micro, LSO characteristics ?
I admit during the first 3 weeks i didnt study much at all beacause its been so long since i studied and that is probably me being lazy but this time i know i wont be going back to that :D.
I see, our teacher gave us a sheet for what we should study for regarding the SAC and ive just been writing it and saying it aloud and trying to memorise it because business is pretty much memorising the definitions lol.
keep ranting my friend, this place will motivate me for sure.
Heh, I'm Indian (Tamil) :)
I could try to remember some questions from my SAC..
They always asked "what are some characteristics of LSO's" So make sure you remember those!
One was asking what kind of business the company was (It was a case study type SAC), so they're looking for things like GBE's, private, public etc..
Also, there are questions on Stakeholders, we got asked to define what it is, give two examples of stakeholders relating to the case study and to also state where conflicts may occur.
There was also a question on the economical side of things. It asked to basically state one positive and one negative contribution to the environment. So you could say that it might boost the GDP of the country, and that they may start outsourcing to cheaper countries.
Then there was questions relating to KPI's, list a financial, and non financial KPI that the business could use to assess their goals. The goals were stated on the bottom of the case study and made it bleedingly obvious what to use. They talked about how they wanted to a profitable business, bam, net profit indicator and they wanted to promote staff satisfaction. Bam, staff satisfaction!
:) Hope this helps. Actually you know what... When is your SAC? I could scan and email you two of my practice SAC's if you'd like? They have the suggested solutions on them too. But I need to you to remind me because I'm forgetful. Ahahah
wow this is such a great help! im guessing not all SAC's are the same or else everyone would be cheating haha, but im sure they are very similar.
my SAC is on wednesday, if you could pm/email me them i would be very greatful :)
Haha they aren't the same, they just assess the same areas. And there's only so many ways they can articulate "What characteristics define an LSO" :P
So if you do heaps of practices, you'll definitely have done a lot of questions that my turn up on your SAC.
Can you PM me Monday afterschool? or around 6ish tonight? Because I'll be out for the day, and if you do it at 6, I'll have a notification that's hard to miss!!
ha! i thought so, i mentioned that i didnt really study much up until a week ago, do you think theres enough time to put my head int the books for the next few days? i've retained a pretty good amount of info/definitions i just need to keep revising the characteristics and do a few case study examples and just do them over.
i was also wondering if for example i just did average on these first wave of sacs (4 subjects) then i do very well or above average on all the other sacs/exams i can still get an ATAR above 80 right? from what i remember the first wave of sacs are only a small %, im still gonna study hard though
yeah no problem i'll PM you tonight
You most certainly can! I didn't do questions from the book actually. I just did two prac SAC's. I joined this class late so I missed 3 weeks of class (headstart) and the holidays for studying as well. So I also put my head down in the last few days :)
I don't wanna answer questions that I'm not too confident about haha. All I can say is that your marks go towards your whole unit marks. So unit 3 for bus man is out of 100 marks. This SAC will be out of 20. So there will be a certain score you'll need to achieve the study score that requires that 80 ATAR.
Basically, doing well now, gives you more breathing space for errors later. That's why it's better to do well now since this SAC is definitely easier! That's what angered me :P That 2 marks was so easy! But that gives me 2 marks less to lose on a more difficult SAC later on!
not sure if you can relate but im not self doubting myself when it comes to education anymore :)
I did not study in year 11. It feels amazing haha, I wished I started earlier :) But I feel I'm doing well for most of my subjects. But I should get tutoring very soon for the main three. English Chem and Methods.
haha nice, thats great you got a 17/20 which is pretty damn good
what is the passing mark and above average? its the first sac i've ever done and its a different system here in VIC
nice man, im considering tutoring for a subject or 2 but $$ is an issue
I'm actually not too sure about my marks, but I know I lost two! I knew the answers to all of them, but my wording could've screwed up somewhere, lets hope it didn't!
The passing mark for our school is 45% so 9/20 in this SAC. Average depends on the school I guess? But it's going to be very high on this SAC, and I may end up on the bottom halfish as it stands now. :( Not even the strongest cohort I think.
My parents are willing to pay for my tutoring so that doesn't really affect me :) But I can understand where you're coming from. Just make real good use of your teachers :) (After and before school etc..)
right i see, well this is tafe and already theres been dropouts and people not coming all the time etc, then there are the few people who are dedicated as hell and i hope to be like that.
but yeah because its tafe im sure its probably a similar passing score to yours (45%)
are you serious man thats a great score! its only 2 marks less 100%
Ahh fair enough, use those dedicated people as your source of your motivation! The same way I use those who are getting better marks than me as motivation too :)
I think for most schools it's around that range, 45-50
The problem with marks is because the SAC was only out of 20 marks, 2 marks is more significant :) But I'd still be happy with my score :) I did work hard, and I know other people would struggle to get what I got so I should appreciate it right? :)
If there's any advice I can give you, don't mix up public companies and companies in the public sector :)
could you go a bit more indepth with that please
kinda confused
An organisation in the public sector is operated by the government, so like the ATO. A company in the private sector is operated by private individuals. So like heaps of companies haha
Now, if a company is a public company, that means they offer their shares to the public through share markets. Hope that clears that up..
When you see like PTY LTD in businesses, what that means is that it's a private business in the share market. Proprietary (PTY) Limited Liability (LTD). PTY means it's a private business, LTD denotes that it's a public company
Don't quote me on the last bit, but I'm sure it's right? :) Don't hate if I'm wrong :P It'll be in your book for sure.
hey, i forgot to reply but thanks for the info
could you pm me the prac tests if you have time?? thanks
OH WOW! That's insane? What exactly did your teacher mean by slow..?
Great job on your sac btw :D
If you're working too slow, then I suggest you try picking up the pace a little bit.
I reckon it helps as you can do the test twice, check for mistakes etc
I find it very weird how varied the time frames are for SAC's!
I mean, Stick said his was like first week back or something? And we have ours nearing the end of term and some schools have it start of next term!
Yeah, I'm well and truly into the thick of it now. Done 4 SACs already and have 4 SACs next week; 3 of them on the same day... xDJust thought i should mention that i havent had any sacs yet ^_^ just let that sink in hahahah :D
I did beat my brother which probably made me escape embarrassment at home :P (#makinglightofanysituation)
Twins or is he in yr11?
He's in year 11. I'm in both of his 3/4 classes haha! English and Bus man
how is he in your english class? :o
Well Machan did English in yr11 too, so I'm guessing it's a similar scheme here too?
Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god!
The principal has just asked me to perform my oral presentation in front of the entire school on monday. I'm freaking out pretty badly haha, but I really want more people to know the truth about factory farming, so I've agreed to do it... :|
That's outstanding!!! Congratulations are in order :)
Must've been a stunning presentation for that to occur! How many people at your school?
Haha, it was mainly me verbally abusing teachers and throwing chicken cages at them :P
Theres about 500-600, so yeah, going to be fun...
Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god!Very proud.
The principal has just asked me to perform my oral presentation in front of the entire school on monday. I'm freaking out pretty badly haha, but I really want more people to know the truth about factory farming, so I've agreed to do it... :|
Very proud.Shit son that's motivational!
I've two things I want you to remember like they were gospel.
1) you're doing what's right and may not be easy, so regardless of how uneasy you feel, remember the first four words.
2) something that has served me well consistently through the later years of my life: your perception of you and the way others perceive you are two different things. Recognise the intertwined nature of expectation and perception. They know you are there because your speech was good. Therefore, they expect a good speech. Perhaps this fact alone would make you nervous re: failin someone's expectations, however, because of this expectation people will perceive your speech as excellent regardless. It is human nature not to change your beliefs. Racists will see something bad in anything a black man does. Homophobes will see something bad in every gay man or woman, regardless of the good. Similarly, before you even begin your speech, they think that it is excellent. Know that: there is nothing to fear but fear itself. You have got this. It's yours. You own it, and they will believe what you show them. I know for a fact that wherever I go, no matter how nervous I feel, people are perceiving me as socially confident. Just recognise that people are perceiving you as excellent regardless of any slip ups, fumbles, forgotten lines etc, and things might seem a bit better. 100% confidence in you, your speech is excellent. You will dominate so long as you allow yourself to.
Shit son that's motivational!
I'm sorry, were you expecting anything less?Much much less! Haha. Maybe you'll ace it.
:P
Very proud.
I've two things I want you to remember like they were gospel.
1) you're doing what's right and may not be easy, so regardless of how uneasy you feel, remember the first four words.
2) something that has served me well consistently through the later years of my life: your perception of you and the way others perceive you are two different things. Recognise the intertwined nature of expectation and perception. They know you are there because your speech was good. Therefore, they expect a good speech. Perhaps this fact alone would make you nervous re: failin someone's expectations, however, because of this expectation people will perceive your speech as excellent regardless. It is human nature not to change your beliefs. Racists will see something bad in anything a black man does. Homophobes will see something bad in every gay man or woman, regardless of the good. Similarly, before you even begin your speech, they think that it is excellent. Know that: there is nothing to fear but fear itself. You have got this. It's yours. You own it, and they will believe what you show them. I know for a fact that wherever I go, no matter how nervous I feel, people are perceiving me as socially confident. Just recognise that people are perceiving you as excellent regardless of any slip ups, fumbles, forgotten lines etc, and things might seem a bit better. 100% confidence in you, your speech is excellent. You will dominate so long as you allow yourself to.
No posts in this thread for over 24h.. o.o
I have my business SAC tomorrow, been studying quite a lot for it.
It's out of 20 marks I believe.. so I'm aiming for 18/20 (20/20 obviously :P) but 16 will suffice.
Not exactly sure what to expect, as in year 11 we had shit easy tests with multiple choice. All I know is, there's going to be a heap of writing space.
Ahh! I start Sacs this week :(
I have one everyday except Tuesday this week, and next week I'm fully packed!!
My main aim : to survive.
Good luck! :)
You'll survive!
My SAC's haven't been planned as a wave yet. Most of them have been reasonable spread, at least as far I can see. I probably couldn't survive if I was in your position though!
Do you have SAC's for all your subjects in this wave? 9 SAC's?? including chem pracs, but I remember you said there was only 1 prac lesson. Wowee..
Thankyouu :) Yea for all of my subjects!! It's insane! 5 for Chem, 5 for Spesh, and 1 English
Wow! How come spesh is so split up? This is all for outcome 1 right!
Yea it is! But it's like Analysis/Applications Tasks and I think there's like 2 parts for the first Topic, and 3 parts for the second Topic.
Pretty sure you'll be seeing those in Methods soon as well :)
I probably will. I'm just clueless now haha. :) Never heard the last cohort doing multiple SAC's for anything other than Chemistry at my school.
Or it could just be my school that's weird like that :PAhh PLC, up to no good. Splitting up SAC's making it easier for you. No wonder you guys are always top hehehe :P
Just had my second SAC, this one was real easy for Chemistry Titrations, 100%
You beast. Congratulations :) Mine's coming up soon :)
okay so i have failed my first HHD SAC, Got 16.5/20 for my english speech, 12/24 and 11/24 for my biology pracs and 81%,84%,81% for maths
should i be worried about my scores???? :/
okay so i have failed my first HHD SAC, Got 16.5/20 for my english speech, 12/24 and 11/24 for my biology pracs and 81%,84%,81% for maths
should i be worried about my scores???? :/
19/20 on first English SAC-oral pres Ranked number 1 of 100 I'm chuffed!!! :DD
Awesome work :DAw good luck! Is that the oral as well? :)
I have my English SAC on Thursday!
19/20 on first English SAC-oral pres Ranked number 1 of 100 I'm chuffed!!! :DDI also got 19/20 on my oral. How come you guys do it so late in the term? I was done in mid week 2
I also got 19/20 on my oral. How come you guys do it so late in the term? I was done in mid week 2
I still haven't done a single SAC for english, we're doing orals first thing next term.
We've got 2 this term hahaFor english? Wow. Which ones?
Wow! Our orals aren't till like Term 2
yeah same. ive got my text response and context sacs before the oral xD very unorthodox, but my teacher wanted to do Year of Wonders first, simply cause its awesome (i cant help but agree)
yeah same. ive got my text response and context sacs before the oral xD very unorthodox, but my teacher wanted to do Year of Wonders first, simply cause its awesome (i cant help but agree)
Oh dear! Another YOW fan. Sorry man can't handle this :P
I tried reading the book in the holidays, and I couldn't even get through it!!
Which is why I've already decided that I'm going to write on On the Waterfront, in the end of year exam :) Haha I assume that this post of mine is erupting great fury within you Jay-Wod. My bad!!
Personally, YOW is making me hate English >:(
What's so good about it??
Where's the depth? Eugh: seriously, I swear YOW has the same depth as a children's picture book/Humpty Dumpty. You can find deep stuff everywhere:
eg: OMFG! The grass is green: this symbolises a new beginning as there hasn't been grass this frigging green for ages....look at all the happy insects scuttling around, but oh no, a bird eat one of the insects. Isn't this a reference to the futility of life???
yeah, you get what I mean.
my heart bleeds :'( why are you hurting me Mcfluerry? WHY? the novel is about the human condition, and how society disintegrates in the face of adversity when survival is not guaranteed (I actually only like the book because i really like Elinor and that is about it xD). Its more deep than OTW at any rate hahaha. HATERS! come at me! (please dont actually)
my heart bleeds :'( why are you hurting me Mcfluerry? WHY? the novel is about the human condition, and how society disintegrates in the face of adversity when survival is not guaranteed (I actually only like the book because i really like Elinor and that is about it xD). Its more deep than OTW at any rate hahaha. HATERS! come at me! (please dont actually)
OTW OMG! The best! 'Definitely'
Thank you! At least someone understands :)Yeahboi!
Btw is your english sac based on OTW tomorrow?
My school doesn't teach creative essays.
You shouldn't need to be taught, as such?
No one writes creative style responses. The only styles that are taught are expository and persuasive to a lesser extent.
Yeah my teacher has never even gone over Creative essays, when I had her in year 11 she always encouraged expository writing. Persuasive has always been my favourite, I'm not creative and I hate just "discussing" the contexts (expository), I like to be able to persuade and challenge the readers perceptions. Ok, being serious, I hate English.
1 English SAC down, 5 to go :)Nice, my school has 7 :(
No one writes creative style responses.Hi there. My exam had no less than four haiku poems included within.
Hi there. My exam had no less than four haiku poems included within.
By the way, just a general apology on the big essay-feedback delay at the moment. I'm so smashed/tired when I get home from Uni and then I have more reading to do as well.
Just had my first Specialist SAC yesterday and received the results today... boy did I get lucky. XD Also, I'm not sure if this is regular practice, but for my Specialist cohort, rank 1 for each SAC will receive 100% as the awarded grade (regardless of the raw mark) and everyone else's score is calculated as a percentage based on the first rank's score. This is only for Specialist and the reasoning behind it is that it means our SAC results look more favourable to VCAA. Not sure if this is allowed, but it doesn't change the ranking overall - it mainly just allows some people to pass after moderation.Please share your Specialist mark, not the exact score, but approximately... :D
Please share your Specialist mark, not the exact score, but approximately... :D
Organic chem sac today :'(
It was so, so bad.
I know organic chem is pretty simple: there's hardly any theory to learn etc, but the sac was just really confusing, everyone was pressed for time, and the questions were much much harder than past vcaa papers and even the AN chem guide.
Aw, man. What a horrible start to the year.
I assume SACS are only going to get harder from here!!!!
And your results are only going to get better from here. Remember that the only way you can go is up.
Suppose you get B+ for the first SAC ? So what? It's not like you're going to get a B for the next one!? How can you -- you're motivation is going to press you to get that A, and then that A+! A+ from then on - trust me :D
Half the success comes from believing in yourself, guys. Don't underestimate your potential; everybody makes stupid, facepalm-worthy errors but take it all as a learning experience.
Just a bit random...
HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY! :)
Also random: HAPPY BEGINNING-OF-THE-RUSSIAN-REVOLUTION-AS-A-RESULT-OF-INTERNATIONAL-WOMEN'S-DAY
..........yay?
Lala. "I got lucky" = I got 100% but don't want to appear conceited.
Hey, uncalled for mate. Please don't put this sort of extra pressure on me. Thanks. :)Sure, my apologies :)
Just got over a wave of SACs - 8 of them in the past two weeks. It's such a great relief since I don't have any for another 6 weeks now. :D
Oh man Stick. That's intense.
I had two SACS on Wednesday: English and German.
I think I did all right in English, but in German I used the wrong text type for the prompt .
See, the prompt had the same characters as my practice prompt, but my practice prompt was a journal entry and the SAC prompt was a narrative and I screwed it up noooooooooooooooooo
*cries*
Oh well, there's nothing I can do now. I've just got to looking ahead and do my best in the SACs to come.
28/30 english sac yeahboiii
im stocked with that A+
28/30 english sac yeahboiii
im stocked with that A+
Ooo daring! Imaginative sucks!!
Did you have to write imaginative or did you have a choice?
Had my First legal SAC 2.5 weeks ago and yet the teacher hasnt marked it yet, he just keeps on saying" alot of people stuffed up", the stress is getting to me.
I have a latin, chemistry and english SAC next week. It's been nice knowing you guys.
Got my English SAC tomorrow on Year of Wonders. I'm thinking I'm going to be fine. Is anyone else studying YOW?
Got my results for my first methods SAC today...
I got 94%, kind of sad because I didn't get any questions wrong, I just lost stupid marks for not explicitly stating steps involved, etc *facepalm*
Yep. Have a SAC for it on Monday. However, I'm going interstate tomorrow morning through to Friday; interestingly, we also start SAC practice tomorrow. FML, I'm screwed for this SAC. xD
Congrats! That's an amazing result! :D and at least you made the mistake in your first SAC, so you won't make it again. :)
Geh. I just did my SAC. Urgh, I hate YOW so much.I've got mine Friday, joyous times.
Geh. I just did my SAC. Urgh, I hate YOW so much.i have mine tomorrow haha, but i like YoW. Im surprised so many people actually hate it so much! i thought it was a pretty good novel (except for the epilogue... that was a bit random and unnecessary) with multiple dimensions and angles through which the story can be interpreted. although, i personally like period dramas and anything medieval, so thats probably why i have an innate affinity for it hahah
i have mine tomorrow haha, but i like YoW. Im surprised so many people actually hate it so much! i thought it was a pretty good novel (except for the epilogue... that was a bit random and unnecessary) with multiple dimensions and angles through which the story can be interpreted. although, i personally like period dramas and anything medieval, so thats probably why i have an innate affinity for it hahah
Japanese speaking SAC next week
And spesh SAC next week!
Woo.
I have my spesh SAC next week too... TWINS!!OMG I TOTALLY SAY TWINS WHEN PEOPLE DO THE SAME THING AS ME! OMG WE DEFS TWINS!!
I don't have school next week. ;)What... I wish i had that. No damn SACs for me :)
To be honest, it wasn't so much a terrible read, and though I like to read historical fiction, Brooks' prose was too pedestrian for me. The descriptions were very basic and though there were symbols and ideas, it just didn't hold that much meaning. The epilogue was weird and for me that just added to why I hate YOW. And also because the sex scene between Anna and Mompellion, though justified in terms of the themes in the novel, was very questionable plot wise. It just felt like another teen/young adult fiction which I detest. Also, I found that if there were to be a comparison of actions before and after adversity, I thought that there should have been at least a chapter devoted to how villagers interacted before the arrival of the Plague....What is your favourite book?
Again, it wasn't so bad but it's also not worth worshipping...
Lol, I had my business SAC three weeks ago and the teachers just finished marking it, however they won't be revealing the scores to any students apparently because so many students actually failed (<30%) the test. The funny thing about it is that the teachers literally provided us with the questions prior to the SAC and people still failed, used dot point form for their responses and some people didn't even know a single characteristic of an LSO.
I'm going to have to try to get my marks from my teacher somehow, I'd like to know how I'm responding to questions so I know whether to amend the way I respond to questions or not for my upcoming SAC.
Even if they don't disclose your score to you, they'll still hopefully/probably tell you if you need to alter the way you answer questions :)I don't know but I'm so anxious to find out. I'm going to nag my teacher forever until she finally tells me, lol.
(also, is there a specific rule regarding the right for students to know their scores?)
I don't know but I'm so anxious to find out. I'm going to nag my teacher forever until she finally tells me, lol.
Nagging never fails :P I'm sure they'll let the students that care know their scores :)Well yeah. I'm confident I scored at least an A. I'm just frustrated at how shitty all the students went on the SAC. I mean, who scores lower than 5/20 on a SAC where the questions were reworded and provided to you prior to the SAC!?
Well yeah. I'm confident I scored at least an A. I'm just frustrated at how shitty all the students went on the SAC. I mean, who scores lower than 5/20 on a SAC where the questions were reworded and provided to you prior to the SAC!?
Anyway, just gotta keep focused for my upcoming SAC I guess.
How are you guys feeling? In general-- is this time of the year taking its toll, are you motivated, do you want to quit, have you lowered your goals, upped your goals? Just tell me what's going on
How are you guys feeling? In general-- is this time of the year taking its toll, are you motivated, do you want to quit, have you lowered your goals, upped your goals? Just tell me what's going onMy only issue is being nervous about SAC results. No matter how well I went, even if I was positive I scored over 90%, I'll still be thinking "what if I scored 60%"
How are you guys feeling? In general-- is this time of the year taking its toll, are you motivated, do you want to quit, have you lowered your goals, upped your goals? Just tell me what's going on
How are you guys feeling? In general-- is this time of the year taking its toll, are you motivated, do you want to quit, have you lowered your goals, upped your goals? Just tell me what's going on
Everything has been alright apart from Specialist.
I can't seem to wrap my head around the whole concept of vectors :/ and I have a SAC on it tomorrow, so not that pumped right now :( :(
aw that sucks :(
Just curious, how do you get ranked if you do a subject by distance?
I have my first Specialist SAC as well tomorrow. Doing it by DECV so I have no real idea what to expect (i.e. not like I've been given practice SACS or hints by a teacher in class). Not going to be fun, pretty sure I'm going to get destroyed.I can tell you what the DECV sacs were like last year. For all I know it might be completely different style this year, but anyway:
aw that sucks :(DECV is basically another school, so it works the same just as any other class in any other school. They don't tell you what you're ranking was for sacs though, they just tell you if you were in some kind of grade block (Very High, High, etc.)
Just curious, how do you get ranked if you do a subject by distance?
I have my first Specialist SAC as well tomorrow. Doing it by DECV so I have no real idea what to expect (i.e. not like I've been given practice SACS or hints by a teacher in class). Not going to be fun, pretty sure I'm going to get destroyed.DECV TWINS!
Not a good day today at all :(
One of our teachers passed away, at 25 years of age.
Live your life to the fullest guys, because you never know when your time is up.
Rest in peace
That sucks. :(Woah, that would have been one of the worst things to witness :(
Happened at my school last Tuesday, teacher passed away right in front of us in our English class.
Good advice.
Oh wow, jeez that sucks. For him/her and all of those who had to witness it.Him.. should probably fix that now that I think about it.
Did she pass away straight away in class? That would be horrific
Woah, that would have been one of the worst things to witness :(
I hope you're feelin okay <3
Bump.
How is everyones holiday study going?
has anyone else gotten a stack load of homeowork to complete these holidays?? its giving me way less time to concentrate on correcting the things im not really good at as well as going over work from last term
Woahh! School hasnt given us much homework ! Like for methods , finish off the chapter reviews and exercises. And do bound notes for the topics covered so far. For chem , our first SAC is next week! PRACTICE EXAMS , already? WOAHH. :( :( :( LOL. For Health, just memorise the functions of nutrients . For Eng Lang , write an essay and read a few pages of the book. It's preetty laid back atm. I dont know what they expect us to do , because I wouldve expected waaay more homework!
Yeah I actually got literally no homework.
English = Do some questions in a book
Maths = Chapter 7 in textbook
P.E = Do 5 questions (lol)
Business = A 10 page workbook
I.T = None?
You lucky lucky people...I agree I don't understand how people get on top of all their work, I think I need to schedule more time for studying.
English: Write language analysis essays, complete the oral and read and annotate how whole text (I started that much earlier so glad that I did).
Methods: Complete a practice exam, work on several exercises and another practice exam.
Chemistry: Two practice exams, begin to look at SAC 2 (synthesis of aspirin) also be up-to-date with organic chemistry (we literally went through about 4 chapters in the course of two weeks or less so very briefly, so know I have to go and study it in detail myself).
Physics: Complete practice exam questions, be up-to-date and understand electricity.
Business: Complete the rest of AOS 2 by ourselves.
I don't know, I am feeling the heat I must say. There is just so much to do and not a lot of time to do it. That's why I kind of block it out and work at a pace I am comfortable with. To be honest I have been going over some term 1 stuff, I see no point in going so far ahead but barely knowing what I am doing. I would rather go at a pace where I actually throughly understand what I am doing.
I agree I don't understand how people get on top of all their work, I think I need to schedule more time for studying.
At this stage I've already resolved to the fact that I won't get all the tasks done. Although, I probably did the absolute maximum, compared to what was actually required.
they confiscated my books!
they confiscated my books!haha, wow. You must be really REALLY eager to study!
haha...wish I was as motivated as you, stick.
Basically, I've just lazed around... :P
For some reason I'm not as motivated this year as I was last year...really gotta change that!
haha...wish I was as motivated as you, stick.
Basically, I've just lazed around... :P
For some reason I'm not as motivated this year as I was last year...really gotta change that!
haha, wow. You must be really REALLY eager to study!
My year 12 life so far summed up right there. :/ I was slightly hoping that these holidays would be my chance to get back into the 'year 12' mindset, by trying to study hard and get ahead, but this, unfortunately, hasn't happened so far. :/
Stick is going to kill it :). At least you didn't finish vce methods on the summer holidays like me that is going into insanity :P.
At this stage I've already resolved to the fact that I won't get all the tasks done. Although, I probably did the absolute maximum, compared to what was actually required.
You lucky lucky people...
English: Write language analysis essays, complete the oral and read and annotate how whole text (I started that much earlier so glad that I did).
Methods: Complete a practice exam, work on several exercises and another practice exam.
Chemistry: Two practice exams, begin to look at SAC 2 (synthesis of aspirin) also be up-to-date with organic chemistry (we literally went through about 4 chapters in the course of two weeks or less so very briefly, so know I have to go and study it in detail myself).
Physics: Complete practice exam questions, be up-to-date and understand electricity.
Business: Complete the rest of AOS 2 by ourselves.
That happens most of the time actually, lots of people actually do way more than what is required to do good.
Not saying that it's a bad thing though.
I would prioritise studying for SACs/beinguptodate/doingexercises ahead of the practise exams, but if you've finished most of the courses (which would be really scary), then by all means go ahead. Right now I would be using study guides such as Lisachem or NEAP or ATARNotes
haha...wish I was as motivated as you, stick.
Basically, I've just lazed around... :P
For some reason I'm not as motivated this year as I was last year...really gotta change that!
Yes yes yes yes! Brenden is going to kill me for this, but I haven't actually written a language analysis piece for almost a year :| And I can't bring myself to do it, I have my LA SAC second week back too...http://img818.imageshack.us/img818/9003/1286533048smileguy.gif
Yes yes yes yes! Brenden is going to kill me for this, but I haven't actually written a language analysis piece for almost a year :| And I can't bring myself to do it, I have my LA SAC second week back too...I wrote like 4 LAs during my whole life, probs why I got only a 7 :/.
http://img818.imageshack.us/img818/9003/1286533048smileguy.gifMade my day. Well now that I'm a week ahead in most of my subjects I will dedicate the rest of the holidays to chill/ English! I will write a LA some time this week!SpoilerWRITE THE PIECE! See, I told you that you were lying when you said you were going to 'try your best' but expect a thirty :P. Seriously though, I know writing when you haven't written in a while is the absolute last thing you want to do, especially when you have no fucking idea what's going on. BUT GODDAMNIT YOU HAVE TO DO WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO AND YOU HAVE TO DO THIS. Don't waste your speech mark :P
I wrote like 4 LAs during my whole life, probs why I got only a 7 :/.I will try... I'm so motivated for my other subjects but with english I'm always like... meh.
Please write more :p
I'm so motivated for my other subjects but withenglishmethods I'm always like... meh.
Hahah and I thought I was the only one who neglected a subject! Definitely seems to be more common that what I once perceived! I guess it is smart in someways. People say that if it's going into your 10%, just put in 10%... But you have to make sure you do really well in the other ones otherwise it might come back to bite you.
Yeah, for me, that subject was Theatre Studies*. Zero practice exams/SACs complete \o/. Difference is, mine didn't HAVE TO BE IN MY TOP FOUR GOD JESUS
*I never got around to doing it because I never planned on getting around to do it.
But 10% of 10% cuts down to 1% I guess? You'd end up hurting yourself that way lol. I don't know, the only subjects I ever neglected are 1/2s, because 100% of 0% is still 0%, so I never saw the point xD
Simbo, you don't even understand. I was in a class of seven in total, with six other Year 11 girls (no offence to Year 11 girls, just these ones... my God...), two of which were in VCAL, ALL of which were just absolutely mind numbingly stupid. Like. There was actually one girl that cried because I told her she wasn't in love with her boyfriend after going out with him for one day and she didn't know what 'I love you' meant. One day. And just. FUCKING ;lkefqpiwuef. I put a lot of effort into my monologue, but that's about it. I hated the class time, and I knew I was going to bomb the exam no matter what so decided to go Old-School Brenden and wing it.
YAY ENGLISH WOO WOOOOOOOO!
Creating an ensemble was like giving birth to a pinecone the size of a small walrus.HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! YES!!!! My score was 36, next was 25 or something. The class median was like 20 (this is at an above average school score-wise, guys, this class was something).
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! YES!!!! My score was 36, next was 25 or something. The class median was like 20 (this is at an above average school score-wise, guys, this class was something).
Do you believe you can get the 95+, still?
Woah, it's like our classes conspired to make these classes a living hell :0Okay, inbox me if you feel like talking to someone who doesn't really exist (people on the Internet just don't exist. Ever)
I don't know. I'm not really going to delve into it here, but I've been having pretty bad mental and physical health problems this year, and it's impacting my performance at school. I guess only time will tell. :/
The happiest thing in the world for me would be: English doesn't have to be in my top fourLit or EngLang?
Lit or EngLang?
Neither!...ESL? Hahaha
The happiest thing in the world for me would be: English doesn't have to be in my top four@brenden I think FP is saying it as a hypothetical situation.
@brenden I think FP is saying it as a hypothetical situation.
The happiest thing in the world for me would be: English doesn't have to be in my top fourIf that was true, my computer would be white-screened (if you know what I mean).
Not only does English have to be in my top 4, but Biology or Chemistry has be to as well. :/
Not only does English have to be in my top 4, but Biology or Chemistry has be to as well. :/
So who's starting tomorrow? Not me. :D
Already been at school for a week, catch up fellas :P So you could say I'm not starting tomorrow either
Really, did you only get one week off?
Yup, started the break a week before. :)
I just discovered a piece of undone methods homework that made it past my holiday homework todo list, and now that the initial shock's all over, my night before school is definitely set.
Lost my methods hw. Damn.
Lost my methods hw. Damn.The confession comes out... the night before school
Lost my methods hw. Damn.
Cough *lost.
Hehehehehehhehehehehehe.
The confession comes out... the night before school
Lose...or did the dog eat it?
Well some of you have resumed classes today while some of us lucky ones have managed to get an extra day off. I think we've all settled down a lot since Year 11, so that's a real positive to take out. It also seems that most of us seemed to fair pretty well during term 1 with no major dramas.
Anyway, make sure that you take a few minutes some time this week to reflect on how things went in term 1 and what needs to change for term 2. For me, I was pretty happy with how term 1 panned out, but some things I need to address are:
1. I need to stay more on the ball for English. For the first seven weeks of the term, I was doing really well, writing at least one language analysis essay every week. For the last couple of weeks, I've really let myself down for text response. My teacher wasn't setting much work for us to do, but I didn't act upon it and let things slide. With only one and a half weeks to go until the SAC, I've only written two essays and I don't see myself being able to write too many more.
2. I need to allocate study-free times in my timetable. These holidays, I only got three days off and two of those were days where I had family commitments. In other words, today is the only day I've actually had time for myself. I think I may have to take a day off every few weekends and make sure that I get more days off next holidays. Otherwise, I really risk burning out.
I wasn't too happy with my term 1 performance. Time to buck up for term 2 & endure those cold winter months! :DMy thoughts exactly, hopefully the cold weather can help me concentrate.
Was pretty good :)
Did a bit of revision from the holiday homework we were given but actually, to be quite honest, it felt like any other day today!
Got my English oral next week, then the written analysis the week after that. Also have a SAC for part 1 of AoS 2 for Business management.
Busy Busy Busy! Yourself?
Just like any other ordinary day aye? Well it's good that they didn't spring anything on you on your first day back :)
Good luck for your English oral next week! My oral and Lang Analysis is next week too! Aah! And I didn't start school today ; shall tell you tomorrow :P
For those of you who did start school today, how was it? :)
The wave of SAC's are beginning for me :|
I only had 5 SAC's for the whole of term one, yet next week alone I have 3! (all being AT LEAST 2 hours long)
On the bright side, I finally got my results back for my first chem SAC, and managed to pull 94% haha. I thought I bombed the last question, but by some godly stroke of luck I got full marks on it!
Oh no. You should be excited! This is the time to prove yourself, SACs are the best part of Year 12, they're like duelling battles between you and the clock ;DHaha! Thats a very good way to think of it!! I'm feeling fine for all of them except my English LA... still haven't written one yet :|
Wow, that's great. I hope you keep doing well.
Haha! Thats a very good way to think of it!! I'm feeling fine for all of them except my English LA... still haven't written one yet :|
SACs are the best part of Year 12
Really? :P
SACs are the best part of Year 12, they're like duelling battles between you and the clock ;D
Positivity is like a cloak of protection. ;D
I AM SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO RELIEVED THAT I DID "OKAY" (pathetic mark for most here) ON MY ENGLISH SAC. I THOUGHT I WOULD HAVE SCORED 30% BUT IT WAS QUITE BETTER THAN THAT ;D :-X
Je suis dropped French in year 10.
Do any of you regret dropping a language during school?
Je suis dropped French in year 10.
Do any of you regret dropping a language during school?
Je suis dropped French in year 10.
Do any of you regret dropping a language during school?
Je suis translates to "I am"... just saying 8)
It was a joke to demonstrate how poor my French is! ;)
Who's tres smart now :P
We had a good teacher, but because people at my school hated French, they took it against her. She went through so much rubbish from my previous classmates. Yet she produces some great students!
Do any of you regret dropping a language during school?
The only language we have available at our school is Indonesian...I dropped it the second I could.OHHH GERMAN, I remember I was going through the biggest head banging when I was learning modal particles and I think I scraped just a pass on the exam? haha anyway german was the death of me, more so than chem ;D
I do wish that our school offered another language though, most of my family lives in Germany, and I'd wanted to learn to speak German.. oh well, I guess there's always uni!! :D
OHHH GERMAN, I remember I was going through the biggest head banging when I was learning modal particles and I think I scraped just a pass on the exam? haha anyway german was the death of me, more so than chem ;D
I purposely had my times arranged from worst class to best class. Dad was delighted by the end of it haha.
It does give you a lot of motivation doesn't it!! I've been working harder since.
I purposely had my times arranged from worst class to best class. Dad was delighted by the end of it haha.
It does give you a lot of motivation doesn't it!! I've been working harder since.
Holy crap, I just realised I put my worst subject (English) last. :|
My last parent teacher interview was when I was in Year 7.
Teacher said I was doing pretty well and she was happy. However, when I got home I got a real tongue-lashing from my parents for not being top of the class (they were peeking at what my classmates got in their lab reports for science and saw that I wasn't top of the class) and kept comparing me to this guy who had a scholarship.
My last parent teacher interview was when I was in Year 7.
Teacher said I was doing pretty well and she was happy. However, when I got home I got a real tongue-lashing from my parents for not being top of the class (they were peeking at what my classmates got in their lab reports for science and saw that I wasn't top of the class) and kept comparing me to this guy who had a scholarship.
I've got my year 12 formal tomorrow!! :)This early in the year? :o
This early in the year? :o
I've got my year 12 formal tomorrow!! :)
I think our theme is going to be a masquerade !:( That's be so fun! We don't have a theme, which is a shame.
Omg thats so exciting! :))) What colour is your dress? :)
John Monash already had their formal like half way through term 1 . :)
Our formal is in like end of July-August ! :)
My school had a combined formal/valedictory, and they held it on like... the 21st of October. It was terribly fucking inconvenient.
Same suit as last year, maybe I'll get it altered. Maybe a pink shirt. Done.
Oh, who can forget the all mighty analogue wrist watch. :P
Oh, who can forget the all mighty analogue wrist watch. :PWhy of course! But when I first got mine, I had the bloody time of my life trying to figure out how to take the links out. I don't even remember why I found it so hard.
Lol - yeah my thoughts exactly, but I suppose my school has reasons for making it this early.
But I don't mind at all! :P
I had mine already! The teachers thought it would be less distracting if we got it over and done with in the first week of school.
My school had a combined formal/valedictory, and they held it on like... the 21st of October. It was terribly fucking inconvenient.
Well my school has on same day as GAT, and day after GAT we've got a day off! PAAARRTTTAAAAYySo lucky. I'm actually excited for the GAT (I'm just expecting everyone to laugh now). I like general knowledge tests. Even though I'll score 2 in the humanities and arts section, it doesn't matter, :p Proud to have failed history and art every year.
So lucky. I'm actually excited for the GAT (I'm just expecting everyone to laugh now). I like general knowledge tests. Even though I'll score 2 in the humanities and arts section, it doesn't matter, :p Proud to have failed history and art every year.Oh gawd. The GAT worst three hours ever. Finish it in like 1.5 hours sit there for the next 1.5hours. Do your schools let you out early? Ours doesn't. Grrrrr
Oh gawd. The GAT worst three hours ever. Finish it in like 1.5 hours sit there for the next 1.5hours. Do your schools let you out early? Ours doesn't. GrrrrrThey might penalise me a mark for getting them all wrong.
And yeah humanities section I'll be getting a fat 0
Oh gawd. The GAT worst three hours ever. Finish it in like 1.5 hours sit there for the next 1.5hours. Do your schools let you out early? Ours doesn't. GrrrrrOur school lets us leave after 30 mins LOL
Our school lets us leave after 30 mins LOL
How do you even prepare for the GAT?
lol...Not that I want to; I was refering to
Yeah, I'm not going to do any 'preperation' whatsoever for the GAT, but I'll give it a good go once I actually get in there instead of stuffing around and leaving after about an hour last year... because I ended up getting a derived score for my solo last year and if I actually took the GAT seriously, I may have gotten a higher derived score
How do you even prepare for the GAT?Previous GAT exams: http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/Pages/vce/exams/gat/gat.aspx#H2N100F2
e.claire, what happens if you miss the GAT? :SPractically, nothing. I was unwell at the time, so my school recommended me not to worry about it, considering I was in year 11 etc. The only thing that happened was that my statement of marks had 'absent' where you guys would have had your GAT results. I have no idea what impact it had on my study score though, but as i was able to complete my end of year exam, my world did not implode from missing the GAT :P
Haha a practice GAT that would be the worst!The year 10 cohort at my school has a GAT created by the school for them, which sucks pretty hard. Thankfully there's no practice GAT for twelves. Anyway I see no reason to study for it so long as I take it seriously when I'm doing it.
The year 10 cohort at my school has a GAT created by the school for them, which sucks pretty hard. Thankfully there's no practice GAT for twelves. Anyway I see no reason to study for it so long as I take it seriously when I'm doing it.I think he is right.
Also, my friend told me that the GAT had something to do with determining whether your cohort is a bunch of dunces or something to help with SAC moderation but I wouldn't have a clue whether that's just something he pulled out of his ass.
I think he is right.
http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/Pages/vce/exams/gat/relates.aspx
Wtf I better tell all my mates to take this seriously then lolI told all of my mates (and everyone else) to drop their pencils at exactly 11am. Sounded like a fucking Officeworks truck fell over in my school's gym. The examiners had no idea what was going on. It was a masterpiece :')
I told all of my mates (and everyone else) to drop their pencils at exactly 11am. Sounded like a fucking Officeworks truck fell over in my school's gym. The examiners had no idea what was going on. It was a masterpiece :')
I told all of my mates (and everyone else) to drop their pencils at exactly 11am. Sounded like a fucking Officeworks truck fell over in my school's gym. The examiners had no idea what was going on. It was a masterpiece :')
Lololol.Yeah I believe most private schools make you stay there from start to finish.
Back in middle school during exams, when teachers said, 'pens down' that's exactly what we did. Few hundred students dropping or slamming their pens down onto the table, classic.
Of course we can't leave out the one person hums, everyone hums and the one person coughs, everyone coughs. XD
But yeah, I'm pretty sure most kids at my school will take this GaT seriously, we've had practice sessions and you can't even leave early, so nothing else to do apart from actually try on it lol.
I told all of my mates (and everyone else) to drop their pencils at exactly 11am. Sounded like a fucking Officeworks truck fell over in my school's gym. The examiners had no idea what was going on. It was a masterpiece :')
Yeah I believe most private schools make you stay there from start to finish.
Not my school, can leave 30 minutes in :)Lucky did anyone ever do that 'troll' stuff on their GAT?
Lucky did anyone ever do that 'troll' stuff on their GAT?
I wonder what it'll be this year...
Not my school, can leave 30 minutes in :)Haha, damn you proved me wrong.
Haha, damn you proved me wrong.
Let's rephrase, most APS schools must stay for the whole GAT.
What are APS schools?
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The west o.O
One of my teachers were telling us a section in Deer park is soo ratty it sees it almost aint apart of Melbourne.
Anyone been there?
The west o.O
One of my teachers were telling us a section in Deer park is soo ratty it sees it almost aint apart of Melbourne.
Anyone been there?
I heard that it's like Broadmeadows' younger brother that causes even mire trouble
There are probs worse places like Hoppers Crossing or like Sunshine and the like
My grandma lives near there, so watch yourself, if I show her this, you'll be sitting your next SAC with no limbs[
My grandma lives near there, so watch yourself, if I show her this, you'll be sitting your next SAC with no limbs
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On one of our excursions to the zoo; deer park was also there. And they started threatening to attack our school and our teachers. We fled like pussys... The West... Lol
People like that giver everyone a bad rep
Like I said im like 20 -30 minutes away from deer park, closer to the actually bay and where I am its pretty normal which is good
There are dickheads everywhere so thats never going to change
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Already finished school mate
The west has a beach? #wow
I got mi couzins ova dere too
Ummm werribee, altona, williamstownI really don't. Haha.
I really dont think you understand what part of the west im from
im no where near deer park
Oh shit I think are they the ones who robbed the milk bar on da corna with a syringe?nah bru. dey da ones who use da cherry chapstick. i tink it was da same shop tho.
hahahaha well deer park isn't too bad but im about 20 minutes away from thereWestbourne has a great reputation from what I hear. However there are two people that came from Westbourne last year.
I live in a nice area of the west
Its not all bad
And i think my school is slowly starting to build a reputation which is good :)
Lucky did anyone ever do that 'troll' stuff on their GAT?For one of my pieces I did a complete juxtaposition between the traits of Charlie Sheen and wolves. Eg. Wolves have special padding on the bottom of their feet to keep them warm, however, when running around looking for strippers and cocaine, Charlie Sheen just wears socks.
I wonder what it'll be this year...
Westbourne has a great reputation from what I hear. However there are two people that came from Westbourne last year.
On one of our excursions to the zoo; deer park was also there. And they started threatening to attack our school and our teachers. We fled like pussys... The West... Lol
nah bru. dey da ones who use da cherry chapstick. i tink it was da same shop tho.
ic breh, wel i gotta study for fisix (LEL U STUDY U GIMP AHAHA) nao so i c u guise tomoz
nice meeting u 2dai bby
i tink u da 1
xoxo
For one of my pieces I did a complete juxtaposition between the traits of Charlie Sheen and wolves. Eg. Wolves have special padding on the bottom of their feet to keep them warm, however, when running around looking for strippers and cocaine, Charlie Sheen just wears socks.oh yeah no doubt about it haa
For my second piece, I drew a dragon.
Unfortunately, I got <[number] for the writing section of the GAT. I personally think that's bullshit; my first piece communicated information flawlessly. p
Guys, please try to cut down on the general chat... I don't want this thread to be locked like the last :(Good point. Sorry swimba :(
what do you mean by two people came from westbourne?Moved from Westbourne to my school, due to them not liking it I think...
Moved from Westbourne to my school, due to them not liking it I think...
oh ok lolFrankston Tafe as in Chisolm?
well frankston tafe is a bit of walk from westbourne :P
Perhaps in my next practice SAC I'll just completely let go and write whatever comes to me.
Mainstream English people should read Re: Persuasive & imaginative help!Thanks for this, will come in handy.
I appreciate English, I really do, I just hope I can get to the stage where writing an essay just comes quickly and effortlessly... Perhaps in my next practice SAC I'll just completely let go and write whatever comes to me.That's exactly what practice is for :) Go for it, I reckon!
I appreciate English, I really do, I just hope I can get to the stage where writing an essay just comes quickly and effortlessly... Perhaps in my next practice SAC I'll just completely let go and write whatever comes to me.Last time I tried that was in year 10, my teacher scored me 0%, ever since then I've hated English.
Perhaps in my next practice SAC I'll just completely let go and write whatever comes to me.That actually goes somewhat well for me when writing an imaginative context so long as I don't lose sight once I start writing. But last time, I got too carried away in my story and the link to Voices of Australia went poof along the way and I copped the mark for that one.
This is more of an English question, but I've always wondered this. You know how people open their context essays with an amazing quote, have you ever wondered if you can just make up some awesome quote with some random name, that directly relates to the prompt.Of course you can :P
I ended my exam essay with a maked up quote and the quotes and examples in my 3rd Paragraph were from a book that I made up called "The life of Madita" by german playwright Robert V. Wiswe.So can't stop laughing now. Confidence boost for Context section in exam = out of the roof
I'm not recommending it though, it was just that the examples that I studied before couldn't really fit the prompt.True, but I'm the one who always gets stuck in my third paragraph, that kid at the back of the class who is pulling his hair out trying to think of any example at all in last 10 minutes of the SAC.
But I mean it is kinda an imaginitive/expository hybrid I guess, so nobody can say something against it :p
How are you guys going with your studies?
How are you guys going with your studies?Every time, each of my subject teachers say there's a SAC next week (I've managed to total 4 for next week 3 on tues, 1 on mon) it's like someone just slapped me with a wet fish. It's shocking. It's absurd how badly timed these damn things are popping up all over the place. And so much for my study schedules which went out the door when I had to go all out on methods for 3 days.
I ended my exam essay with a maked up quote and the quotes and examples in my 3rd Paragraph were from a book that I made up called "The life of Madita" by german playwright Robert V. Wiswe.
How are you guys going with your studies?
Oh my goodness that's freaking hilarious and you have no idea how tempted I am to try that.That's great, I'm sorta at that stage now except for English.
I'm starting to get really engaged with my work. I didn't have them feels in term one. Stuff is happening! I am getting stuff done! I am interested in what I am learning! Yay! Stuff!
My latest round of sacs have been really good; actually, way way better than I expected! I haven't lost any marks in English so far! My confidence is back up and I'm ready for the next lot of assessment. Bring it on! :)
Alsoalsoalso I am starting to get an impression of what my graphic novel is going to look like for unit 4 art and for unit 3 I'm doing portraiture and I just did a portrait of my sister for practice with oil pastels and it actually has a remote resemblance to her hfliuwaehfilueahuiweafgiuewgf art is exciting and I have had a sudden spurt of inspiration which I've had to document.
The next real challenge will be the upcoming German sac. It's a role play so I'll have to come up with a whole lot of spontaneous German with vocab I've only just learned. I think this will be hard, but I'm trying to prepare as much as I can because I can't afford to mess up again in German.
Apart from that, I feel most serendipitous!!!!!! I think happiness is one of those things you only find after you stop chasing after it. :P
For anybody who is feeling stressed, I totally know what it's like to feel stressed and it sucks ( to be honest I'm probably only in a temporary stage of not-being-stressed)
Keep at it, you can do this, stay optimistic, achieve your goals, you're so capable of this, you can do it! :)
That's great, I'm sorta at that stage now except for English.
Whenever I see your sig I cringe! All your subjects are language/writing, idk how you cope..!
How are you guys going with your studies?though it's not vce that i am in :p
though it's not vce that i am in :pYou're doing year 12 twice?
it's SAC period now here to, in germany we have to do 3 subjects on spesh level, I chose spesh math, physics and english :D. Had the English sac on tuesday, it was weird:
We first had a listening comprehension part, which was quite easy.
The second part was reading a text about a boy on the empire state building from "Extremly loud and incredibly close". We had then too summarize the text and analyze some features.
the third part was then too write an additional chapter of The Reluctant Fundamentalist of him on the empire state building directly after he came back from Chile reflecting deeply on a few things.
I loved my story, but when I went out of the room I realised that one of the points he reflected on in my story, the death of his 'girlfriend' Erica, actually happened a bit later :(. Otherwise I think I've done well. However utilizing the same phraseology as the author of TRF was quite hard :/.
I'm always making prose writing fun though by trying to apply the most ridiculously eloquent language possible :p. I did so in the sac :p. Used some nice vocab such as "ostentatious patriotism", "the monolithical view that Arab equals terrorist", oh and I used the word archetypal I kinda like that word :p
Tomorrow I have my physics sac hope the teacher won't make it too hard. Last time instead of given us values and letting us do calculation using those he gave us a push-botton, a capacitor (with unknown capacity), some wires and 2 resisitors (with known resistance) and a power supply as well as a volt meter and a stop watch. So with that that we had to calculate the capacity :/, did well, but it was freakin hard/weird/surprising.
You're doing year 12 twice?
I ended my exam essay with a maked up quote and the quotes and examples in my 3rd Paragraph were from a book that I made up called "The life of Madita" by german playwright Robert V. Wiswe.hahahah yes! I've made up quotes before and it hasnt been picked up on yet ;D
hahahah yes! I've made up quotes before and it hasnt been picked up on yet ;D
One of my friends quoted "the" in one of his essays because he needed more quotes hahah
I put the in quotation marks when I want to place an emphasis on it.I usually write in italics when I want to place emphasis on a word, my teacher probably thinks I am a weirdo.
I put the in quotation marks when I want to place an emphasis on it.
lol, I have no idea how the english examiners were able to read my stuff :pI was honestly shitting myself that the Hebrew examiners wouldn't be able to read my handwriting and I'll get like a 20. I'm really not joking here. Like, getting special consideration for my Hebrew handwriting was an option at some point. It's atrocious.
I was honestly shitting myself that the Hebrew examiners wouldn't be able to read my handwriting and I'll get like a 20. I'm really not joking here. Like, getting special consideration for my Hebrew handwriting was an option at some point. It's atrocious.
You know the sheets they gave you to learn cursive writing back in 2003? That's what lollymatron's writing looks like. With all the correct little flicks and kicks!
lolly, post up a hand written piece :D <3
It did deteriorate a lot before the exam...it's not quite the same anymore...Yeah. I think I can identity the sheets that you wrote right before the exam, then :P. It's easy enough to decipher though, because I just follow the flicks and kicks ;).
My next IoM essay, maybe? :PI ♥ IoM :D
Yeah. I think I can identity the sheets that you wrote right before the exam, then :P. It's easy enough to decipher though, because I just follow the flicks and kicks ;).
(seriously trying to synthesise your ideas is just not going to happen. I spent years of schooling doing the bare minimum, synthesising quickly/efficiently is like my biggest skill but THERE IS SO MUCH HERE)
(Sorry should probably cut back on individual chatter but if anyone's wondering, I'm lending Brenden my HamletnotesGold :P)
Hey, is anyone else doing the "Live Below the Line" campaign?I've got a friend doing it and they've managed to raise $270 which is great, considering I would probably bail out by the second day or something.
I've got a friend doing it and they've managed to raise $270 which is great, considering I would probably bail out by the second day or something.
i) at my school, at least 5 people do it each year
ii) someone did this in my class a couple of days ago: one of the best speeches I've heard in ages!
iii) omfg: YES!
iv) my own topic
v) re: i)
Can't believe I didn't think of iii) :(
Don't know if this is the right place to post this but yeah:Hey, I wrote up this* post just for you ;) - hang in there!
Not feeling too great atm, have not dealt with the transition to year 12 too well. Been getting sac marks for all my subjects around or just above the class average and even got a friggin 35% for my spesh sac while everyone else did so well. Pissed at myself for becoming so complacent instead of continuing to work hard during the early part of this year. I'm trying to dig myself out of this hole, but my mindset is just so negative and its becoming difficult to be positive about school. Any advice would be nice?
Welcome eclipse! :)
Side note: is there anybody else doing spesh with distance ed?
I'm not saying that it's happening to me here but outside school and browsing through forum topics just targets, I guess, my insecurity and it really does affect me. I also feel like even though I work hard, I don't think it's going to be enough to get a raw 50 for any subject. I don't know if it's because I see too many discussions about study scores that I feel overwhelmed? I don't know. And whilst I'm comfortable with my subjects, I feel like I should have chosen something that scaled up just because I feel that I'd have to work hard to get a good score because my subjects do not or only scale by a fraction. I mean, past students keep saying that oh, they always almost got perfect scores for their SACs and they aced the exam, yada yada yada. And I'm here thinking, wait, I'm barely doing any of that. What will my outcome be? :(
Another insecurity of mine is that Revolutions is so hard and that whilst I enjoy it, there's a creeping fear that I'll never be good enough. I think of myself as Gaara, he was never born with powers like Naruto yet he worked hard and he eventually got to the point where he could use his ninjustsu skills. But on the other hand, I can't keep thinking that Naruto because he's born with the nine tailed fox will always be better, because he has innate powers. And I'm here likening myself to someone who always has to work hard to achieve their dreams and not blessed with any innate intellect.
I think I'm just thinking too much but I just can't suppress these feelings . Maybe it's just VCE sickness. I don't know. I would love to read a reply!
I thought I'd be lucky to get 60% on my recent spesh SAC, and I got the result and I received a 'very high', which is 85-100%.
1. A few days ago, I felt really intimidated by people doing science/math based subjects.
2. I feel like I should have chosen something that scaled up just because I feel that I'd have to work hard to get a good score because my subjects do not or only scale by a fraction.And I'm here thinking, wait, I'm barely doing any of that. What will my outcome be?
3. Another insecurity of mine is that Revolutions is so hard and that whilst I enjoy it, there's a creeping fear that I'll never be good enough. And I'm here likening myself to someone who always has to work hard to achieve their dreams and not blessed with any innate intellect.
I would love to read a reply!Was my reply okay?
A few days ago, I felt really intimidated by people doing science/math based subjects. I don't know why I felt like that but maybe it was just because of all the talk about study scores and scaling and I'm here doing all the low scaled subjects. Everyone keeps talking about how well they're doing, how good everything is but I can't help feel intimidated or looked down upon by those doing the "Asian 5" or similar subjects not that they are literally doing anything. I just feel intimidated.Scaling really isn't a measure of difficulty of a subject either, it's a measure of something statistical of which the details I forget. I guess you have to consider that quite a few science/maths students aren't overly geared to arts subjects, or even VCE English.
I also feel like even though I work hard, I don't think it's going to be enough to get a raw 50 for any subject. I don't know if it's because I see too many discussions about study scores that I feel overwhelmed? I don't know.Yeah, I think the best approach is really to just focus on the things that you can change right now. The calculation of study scores isn't something students have to decide, VCAA does that work for us. I really do think it's best to forget about those details and just focus purely on doing the best you can and enjoying your subjects and year 12.
And whilst I'm comfortable with my subjects, I feel like I should have chosen something that scaled up just because I feel that I'd have to work hard to get a good score because my subjects do not or only scale by a fraction.I kinda figured at some point last year what's the point of education if you're just in it for a score at the end? It's much better to do the subjects that interest you, rather than just trudging through a subject you hate just because it scales up. It's easier to put in the effort when you like a subject too.
I have been trying to see the year as an opportunity to learn rather than an arena for insane competition. I don't know, maybe it's better to not focus on the rankings and to just immerse yourself in a class. The numbers will take care of themselves.
I would say to take a deep breath, and just work efficiently, and persevere, and not feel deflated and stressed when you hear someone else say they've studied for 4 hours each day on this sac, for the past 30 years, when you've only started during the weekend.
re: 1&2. BE POSITIVE! Ask yourself why you chose Revs in the first place. I'm sure you love history, or at least you are interested in it. Keep reminding yourself why. Hard work is hard, but it is worth it. Keep on going and stay positive. (nb, if the threads are making you feel sad, don't look at them. Being mentally strong during vce is key.
I kinda figured at some point last year what's the point of education if you're just in it for a score at the end?
Oh that's great that you did well, congrats! :D
Exactly what happened to me... Except I thought I'd get 50%. After that SAC, I was considering dropping the subject. I got a bit teary when my coordinator handed me back the result haha. So, I'm finding it okay. I'm struggling more with self-teaching, than actually doing the work. That's why I'm going to get a tutor. I spend way too much time trying to understand all these new concepts on my own and while its doable, it's just not time efficient, or any type of efficient.
How are you finding Distance?
I put more emphasis on being able to sit on the grass in a circle and holding hands with our eyes closed. :P
I put more emphasis on being able to sit on the grass in a circle and holding hands with our eyes closed. :PI think you're underestimating how excited you get after finishing your final exam. You'll probably want to run around everywhere, so laser tag first and then grass sitting once you get tired of running around might be a good option.
I think you're underestimating how excited you get after finishing your final exam. You'll probably want to run around everywhere, so laser tag first and then grass sitting once you get tired of running around might be a good option.This guy knows what he's talking about. +1
Side note: is there anybody else doing spesh with distance ed?
Little late, but I'm doing Spesh by distance too. :D My favourite subject by far, love it.
I get really confused haha, one second I'll think 'oh, spesh is fine,' then next second I'll be having a mini mental breakdown. So I have mixed emotions towards doing it by distance.
My proposal, after we all hold hands, with our eyes closed... We go 10 pin bowling, or laser tag...Is it sad that I've never been to laser tag?
OBJECTIONS????!!!!
Is it sad that I've never been to laser tag?I've never been either! Every time it came down to bowling or laser tag we would all debate and then bowling would eventually get chosen like usual. :P
#countrylife
Is it sad that I've never been to laser tag?
#countrylife
I really didn't expect to find anybody else doing it via distance, let alone two people! It makes me feel strangely more comfortableI suppose it makes it feel like you're not the only one in that situation. That there are other people out there doing what you're doing, in those same circumstances. For me, having another person at my school, a good mate of mine, doing the subject with me has kind of helped, so I definitely see the comfort thing.
Laser tag is nothing that special. It usually disintegrates into people right next to each other aiming at each other and just firing rapidly, hoping that when their gun comes back on their shot registers before the opponent's.
My vote would go to paintball. ;)I really wish the age limit was lower for paintball, I really do. :D
I've noticed if you take an interest in what you're studying you'll find it much easier to learn the content. I hated all my subject in year 11, especially P.E and I was actually on the brink of failing Unit 1, until I started to take interest in the subject even though I told myself "ha, like I will need to know about this stupid respiratory system crap in life". I just found ways to persuade myself "You know, maybe this will come in handy. What if I was asked questions by my children "why does less blood go to our muscles when we are resting compared to exercising". I'd be able to answer that. I guess the body is actually really fascinating.
Same applies for all subjects.
I find this really useful. Has anyone ever had similar thoughts?
I really wish the age limit was lower for paintball, I really do. :DThere are a few places in Victoria that are under 18.
Thought you guys might enjoy this reaction I found during procrastination.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMH64LCZRso
Hahaha. I love how he was so casual about it.I'm considering recording my reaction, I can already sense it will be priceless
I'm considering recording my reaction, I can already sense it will be priceless
Thought you guys might enjoy this reaction I found during procrastination.LOL love his immediate reaction "FK I did shi- Oh wait English wasn't too bad"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMH64LCZRso
And are you going to look at your results first or your ATAR?The simplest solution is probably just to open both at the same time in new tabs, go for whatever loads the fastest and hope that the website doesn't crash on you.
I've noticed if you take an interest in what you're studying you'll find it much easier to learn the content. I hated all my subject in year 11, especially P.E and I was actually on the brink of failing Unit 1, until I started to take interest in the subject even though I told myself "ha, like I will need to know about this stupid respiratory system crap in life". I just found ways to persuade myself "You know, maybe this will come in handy. What if I was asked questions by my children "why does less blood go to our muscles when we are resting compared to exercising". I'd be able to answer that. I guess the body is actually really fascinating.
Same applies for all subjects.
I find this really useful. Has anyone ever had similar thoughts?
I'm considering recording my reaction, I can already sense it will be priceless
I'm considering recording my reaction, I can already sense it will be pricelesshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7W2_x53Bns
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7W2_x53Bns7:38 in the video shows him logged into atarnotes, so looks like it is him.
Is this you, haha
Has anyone ever felt shit after getting an A+? Normally I'm over the moon, but this time I'm kind of annoyed that I made a few minor mistakes and could've gotten higher.. (this is for english btw)Every time in maths unit 1/2..
Has anyone ever felt shit after getting an A+? Normally I'm over the moon, but this time I'm kind of annoyed that I made a few minor mistakes and could've gotten higher.. (this is for english btw)
Has anyone ever felt shit after getting an A+? Normally I'm over the moon, but this time I'm kind of annoyed that I made a few minor mistakes and could've gotten higher.. (this is for english btw)
ahh, that's not so bad. try getting study scores of 48 and 49... they scale to 49.something for both of them but not a 50 lol. but ehh, everyone makes mistakes =P48 and 49 in two of the hardest subjects as a year 11 student.. more than an extraordinary achievement.
Has anyone ever felt shit after getting an A+? Normally I'm over the moon, but this time I'm kind of annoyed that I made a few minor mistakes and could've gotten higher.. (this is for english btw)That is the correct mindset!!!
That is the correct mindset!!!
Is it? :P
Has anyone ever felt shit after getting an A+? Normally I'm over the moon, but this time I'm kind of annoyed that I made a few minor mistakes and could've gotten higher.. (this is for english btw)
Has anyone ever felt shit after getting an A+?
48 and 49 in two of the hardest subjects as a year 11 student.. more than an extraordinary achievement.
Has anyone ever felt shit after getting an A+? ... kind of annoyed that I made a few minor mistakes and could've gotten higher
Mr Keshy how do you think you went? Mine was out of 25, so I'd be okay with a score of 20/25 at minimum, anything on or above 22/25 would be very pleasing.
Part A was out of 25 marks and I managed 22, made a blunder on the question on contrasting between management structures :(I also made a few silly, silly, silly mistakes for 2A. All will be recovered from this SAC though.. hopefully.. lol.
Part B, I feel I should be getting all 15 marks in this. However my wording may have let me down again and costed me a bit here. I'll know soon though!
Tomorrow I'm going to somewhere in the city for the state budget announcement with around 6-7 others from my school, having breakfast there and doing some other things too! :)
But I have to get up at 5 -_-
I also made a few silly, silly, silly mistakes for 2A. All will be recovered from this SAC though.. hopefully.. lol.
Fingers crossed :D Every single SAC, I've looked at, at least one question and said "What in the world was I thinking when I wrote that down?" :PI can relate. I've heard stories from my teacher in class that some students write crap like "strategic planning is good because it goes for 2 to 5 years" and some really, really funny responses. I actually laughed so hard that I forgot, lol. I'm guilty of this too though.
Fingers crossed :D Every single SAC, I've looked at, at least one question and said "What in the world was I thinking when I wrote that down?" :P
Oh how I can relate to this. You know how many times I have forgotten to label my axes in Maths? And it keeps slipping my mind in the SAC. I did this just today. >_<I nearly shat my pants when I realised I had mistakenly written down 66% instead of 76% in my PE SAC losing 6% of marks, lol.
Oh how I can relate to this. You know how many times I have forgotten to label my axes in Maths? And it keeps slipping my mind in the SAC. I did this just today. >_<I've gotten into a good habit of doing that but giving a SCALE is a friggen pain in the ass, every time I end up trying to scale the y-axis to my graph I fail horrendously LOL
In Business now! Just got told that only 3 people got full marks on the first question in our class.. I do hope I'm one of them, and my brother isn't :P
Twin?
In Business now! Just got told that only 3 people got full marks on the first question in our class.. I do hope I'm one of them, and my brother isn't :P
You have a bro?
^^ That better not happen to me :P
I have a Methods SAC tomorrow on Trig, hopefully it isn't too hard. But methods is not my strongest area, or my fondest for that matter :P Hope it goes well!
GOOD LUCK FOR METHODS :)
It's all about keeping a clear head and remember to breathe!
If I run out of talent during the SAC, hopefully the solve() function will come and save me haha. :)Haha, that's me when I start getting desperate on a question. If I remember though, the last time I tried to solve trig equations on the classpad I was all :o at the answer.
Friendly reminder to take a deep breath and smile.Thanks, I actually needed to be reminded :)
How'd you guys go with the SAC onslaught?
Friendly reminder to take a deep breath and smile.
How'd you guys go with the SAC onslaught?
Thanks, I actually needed to be reminded :)Always welcome :)
It was hard, having one sac a day for four days continuously, but I survived. I don't know, I'm just starting to feel numb now. Like, good mark, bad mark, it just doesn't seem to matter anymore. Is this normal? :/ I'm still trying to work hard, but at the start of the year I was determined not to lose a single mark haha ... How things have changed :p
How has everyone else been holding up? And how was methods Mr.Keshy? :)
First wave of SAC's are over for me :DWoo! Good job on getting through!
Second wave starts in about two weeks, so not too pumped about that I must say :/
But I've avoided any major breakdowns or shocking SAC results thus far, so weeew!
Always welcome :)Yeah, I'm doing all those things pretty well. I think it's more of, when you're getting so many marks back, after each other, each one seems less significant. In term 1, we only got like 1 mark back every two weeks, so it was more of a big deal. Yeah, definitely going out this weekend. Thanks though :)
I'd say it's pretty normal, but that doesn't mean it's not okay. If you know yourself, you should know these are the warning signs that tell you to do something different. Are you eating well? Sleeping well? Exercising? Keeping a balance between study and living? When you start to feel like this, you need to reevaluate and take some time for you. Maybe give yourself the weekend off with very minimal study and just go to the movies or something. (By yourself if no one else wants to go, if you don't care!)
It might be good that you've lost the 'can't lose a mark' mentality... It might be more of a detriment to yourself than a positive. Now you're free to play the 'do the best I can' game :)
That's good to hear Simba :)
But I've avoided any major breakdowns or shocking SAC results thus far, so weeew!
Wow, time really does fly in year 12!
Just over 6 months left guys!
First wave of SAC's are over for me :D
Second wave starts in about two weeks, so not too pumped about that I must say :/
But I've avoided any major breakdowns or shocking SAC results thus far, so weeew!
Just over 6 months left guys!
Friendly reminder to take a deep breath and smile.I feel sad that I haven't made it past mine yet.
How'd you guys go with the SAC onslaught?
Spent most of my last two weekends revising for my two P.E SACs (not to forget English study too) in two consecutive days, worth 60% of Unit 3. End result was well worth it.Those big 60 mark SACs are so whopping big I swear it becomes more irritating than difficult at times.
How has everyone else been holding up? And how was methods Mr.Keshy? :)
Just over 6 months left guys!
Bottom line is, in my opinion, there's simply no other place to get a kick start, some motivation, focus or even find that bit of lost determination than a library.
I met this pretty decent looking girl in the library the other day ahaha, didn't get as much work as I wanted done, but hey, made a new friend. XD
Did you impress her with your mathemacationz? ;)
No lmao, she only did further maths and when she asked me for help, I didn't know how to do the question -_-
I do methods and spesh lol, and I couldn't do a further question when it counted ahaha
How pathetic of you. :P
There are things in further which you wouldn't expect to hear anyway, equation for r2 value, standard deviation.. I have lists and spreadsheets on my calculator for that. haha
What was the question anyway? (If you can somehow remember :P) You can tell her next time if she hasn't figured it out already haha.
I've had a hectic week (3 hardest subjects' SACs; physics, chem, spesh), so just relaxing at the moment, I only have a chem SAC (follow up one) next week. :-)
But the week afterwards is English and methods... bleh
FOR CHEMISTRY ALONE I HAVE 3 SACS IN 3 WEEKS!!
WINNING~~ (prize is 3 well below expected results :D )
oh, and for some variety some spesh and english sacs thrown into those 3 weeks too.
Ahh Chem! Prac components of the SAC can be fun sometimes so I don't really mind them too much :P I've got my Organic Chem SAC tomorrow, getting some of the little doubts out of my head before tomorrow.
who's school is one of the 240 schools participating in Titration Team (Titration Warzzzz - to make it sound cooler than it already it)
aha.. ha.. ha.. if only it was the prac parts.. Nah, we did all the pracs already, over a period of 4-5 weeks, just the write up for sac 1 and sac 2 pracs (analysis + making aspirin) to go and then the sac 3 test! just great... I don't think my chem teacher could have drawn out the sacs anymore before clumping the written assessments together - our 'write up' is gonna be a solid ~3 hour ordeal ._.
I wouldn't be surprised if half the chem group has forgotten what happened in the pracs.. that was how long ago it feels >_>
Aww man! 4-5 weeks?! That's far too long. It's going to be difficult to remember a lot of it for a fair few people I suppose. How are you feeling about it all?
The only possible way one can when faced with this sort of situation.
WING IT XD
anyone neglecting there perceived 5th or 6th subject?YEAH MAN.. but actually it's my 7th subject haha: Indo SL. I'm from non-indo speaking background, so mehhh, idm getting like a 20 in it :P It's just a tad sad that I'm kinda rank 1..
You've obviously had great success with this method in the past. Can I try it for myself? :PSure man, try wing it once it a while! Really reduces the stress of having to study! but erm, a word of warning it may increase stress while waiting for results to come out :P
anyone neglecting there perceived 5th or 6th subject?
Sure man, try wing it once it a while! Really reduces the stress of having to study! but erm, a word of warning it may increase stress while waiting for results to come out :P
anyone neglecting there perceived 5th or 6th subject?
on the topic of chem;
who's school is one of the 240 schools participating in Titration Team (Titration Warzzzz - to make it sound cooler than it already it)
I never do these competitions because I'm too scared that I'll freak out and mess it up :P
anyone neglecting there perceived 5th or 6th subject?
Haha I wouldn't have done if we weren't working in a group of 3 :P
Woo. I have three student free days coming soon! How about you guys?
Haha I wouldn't have done if we weren't working in a group of 3 :PI wouldn't do it if I wass working with you in a group of 3 :P
Guys, this is a bit off topic, but I don't know where else to ask this and don't think it's worthy of making a completely new post. For anyone doing English, does anyone know of an alternative way of saying 'appeal to hip pocket', because that phrasing is so over-used and it's seems odd when I write it.haha nah interrupting is fine !! You're right, yeah "financially conscious readers" sounds kinda clunky haha.
The only thing I can think of is 'financial conscious' or something, but that again sounds strange. Sorry to interrupt. :P
I wouldn't do it if I wass working with you in a group of 3 :P
haha nah interrupting is fine !! You're right, yeah "financially conscious readers" sounds kinda clunky haha.
First thing that comes to my mind would be "Asian", but that's a bit stereotypical :P
Appeal to hip-pocket: By threatening readers financial wellbeing, the writer positions readers to feel as though they are unfairly being overcharged or ripped off.
You could paraphrase this, or you could talk about reader sell interest. Just write what fits best :P
I haven't had a SAC wave this year next week I have four ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
I have district Xcountry and I think one other student free day, girls give themselves the last day of term off to get 'prepped' for the formal that night haha.Good luck for x-country, my glory was back in primary school where I came 3rd in my district.
Thanks for that! 'Financial wellbeing' will definitely come in handy :D
Goodluck! :D So glad that hasn't happened to me so far. Max I've had in any given week is 2, but that's because I have only 4 subjects. :P
Me me me! are you doing it? :)
Good luck for x-country, my glory was back in primary school where I came 3rd in my district.
It's a hard sport, underrated to say the least
I had my trial GAT today. lol
Does anyone else do these?
You have trials for GAT? Woah, we certainly do not do those! :o
I had my trial GAT today. lol
Does anyone else do these?
Yeah, I have mock Unit 3 exams for Biology and Chemistry.
GAT information session = free period for study.
Some teachers have decided to use practice mid year exams as SAC's instead. Is anyone else's school doing that? I'm 50/50 on it. I do seem to feel that it'd be beneficial to us if we could try applying what we've learnt thus far in an exam environment though..Yeah my school is doing that for all subjects in which a mid-year was held last year.
Thatwasis my free period to go home early :'(
That was my free period to go home early :'(At my school, year 12s have friday first lesson off and they're using that...
Some teachers have decided to use practice mid year exams as SAC's instead. Is anyone else's school doing that? I'm 50/50 on it. I do seem to feel that it'd be beneficial to us if we could try applying what we've learnt thus far in an exam environment though..Yeah this is how it is for all my subjects! :/
Yeah this is how it is for all my subjects! :/
I'm also 50/50... I mean, it's stupid that they count, but then beneficial in that it makes us actually revise unit 3 content properly so we don't perform badly
Some teachers have decided to use practice mid year exams as SAC's instead. Is anyone else's school doing that? I'm 50/50 on it. I do seem to feel that it'd be beneficial to us if we could try applying what we've learnt thus far in an exam environment though..My physics teacher uses modified VCAA exams which is a pain cause I'm trying to save them and he's pulling the curve balls straight off the papers.
What do you guys mean by 50/50 haha?haha it means I'm half for and half against something.
What do you guys mean by 50/50 haha?
The examination timetable has been released.
Specialist 1 and Literature on a Friday, and Specialist 2 and Accounting the following Monday ;_;
Specialist 1 and Literature on a Friday, and Specialist 2 and Accounting the following Monday ;_;
Only two weeks until the official end of Unit 3! I'm assuming a swarm of SACs is about to go underway? :P
A minute silence for my friends in spesh who had their first "assignment" SAC last week.
:o
My most recent spesh SAC was like "eternal punishment in hell" to quote Shakespeare. So on reading this, I couldn't help but feel shock initially, and then I was just plain indignant.
My spesh class wasn't fortunate enough to be given an assignment SAC. How can an assignment ever be classified as a SAC? It's not testing what you know; it's essentially testing how much help you can get from external sources.
That's just unfair, but I suppose schools will do what they have to do. Sorry for the outburst by the way :P
My spesh class wasn't fortunate enough to be given an assignment SAC. How can an assignment ever be classified as a SAC? It's not testing what you know; it's essentially testing how much help you can get from external sources.
My spesh class wasn't fortunate enough to be given an assignment SAC. How can an assignment ever be classified as a SAC? It's not testing what you know; it's essentially testing how much help you can get from external sources.
That's just unfair, but I suppose schools will do what they have to do. Sorry for the outburst by the way :P
Is anyone lucky to have a student free day today? I am.
I've got two next month. :D
Our assignment SACs (which were damn troublesome haha) always had tests after them with each weighed the same. So if you did well on the assignment but bombed the test the teacher knew something was up :P
Seemed fair to me.
Is anyone lucky to have a student free day today? I am.
No, but I woke up todaySounds like 2012.with a cough and headache, went back to bed and woke up at eleven. I to school at lunch time
No, but I woke up today with a cough and headache, went back to bed and woke up at eleven. I to got to school at lunch time because I had to be there for history and get info for the art sac which is tomorrow. I have four sacs this week so I can't slow down, haha. All will be well.
No, but I woke up today with a cough and headache, went back to bed and woke up at eleven. I to got to school at lunch time because I had to be there for history and get info for the art sac which is tomorrow. I have four sacs this week so I can't slow down, haha. All will be well.
No, but I woke up today with a cough and headache, went back to bed and woke up at eleven. I to got to school at lunch time because I had to be there for history and get info for the art sac which is tomorrow. I have four sacs this week so I can't slow down, haha. All will be well.
AWWWW YOU GUYS *HUGS*
I think I should be all right; it could be worse; just gotta keep on keeping on :)
That's good to hear! That's the spirit! :D
On a similar topic, how's everyone's attendance this year? Mine's perfect apart from going to the annual budget breakfast at The Sofitel to represent school! (and probably a few other excursions I've forgotten)
Mine's probably around 80%. Sometimes being at school is less productive than working at home.
Mine's probably around 80%. Sometimes being at school is less productive than working at home.
I find that i gain more at home than school unless their is something which i cant really understand and need assistance with.
எனக்கு தமிழ் புரியவில்லை
But I do understand
=You don't understand Tamil
Btw- How do you guys study for chem. Me i do a crap load of questions but i know other people spend time reading over their notes.
doesn't the vcaa have rules regarding attendances like how much classes you can miss throughout the year, or is that based on your school? :O
doesn't the vcaa have rules regarding attendances like how much classes you can miss throughout the year, or is that based on your school? :O
What are the attendance requirements for the VCE?
All VCE units require 50 hours of class time. You need to attend sufficient class time to complete work. Your school sets minimum class time and attendance rules.
My school has a 90% attendance policy for classes. But, we can leave if we have spares. I have on average three spares a day, so it works out well for me haha
but there are those days that I look at my timetable and I have just one period and I know its just a catch-up lesson and I debate whether its worth getting ready, and travelling all the way to school just for 45mins of work I can do at home, for the sake of the attendance requirement
90% attendance is a VCAA requirement, not a school requirementFuck, my school must have done me a solid and faked my attendance or something o.O
Fuck, my school must have done me a solid and faked my attendance or something o.O
90% attendance is a VCAA requirement, not a school requirement
I don't even want to think of my attendance! I'd say it would be near 70% :/I had 56% attendance for Further Math :p
Are you sure? AFAIK it's 50 hours minimum class time and that's all.
That being said, my school requires 100% attendance of lessons where there is no valid reason for the absence.
Are you sure? AFAIK it's 50 hours minimum class time and that's all.
That being said, my school requires 100% attendance of lessons where there is no valid reason for the absence.
90% attendance is a VCAA requirement, not a school requirementAttendance is a school matter, VCAA doesn't enforce any requirement like that. I'm betting your coordinators have just told you that to stop people disputing it.
Does anyone else have a 4 day weekend this week? :)
Are you watching it for Ransom?
Troy is such a bad film, reading a bit on background of the Iliad is much better preparation for Ransom.
Who has practices exams? And how've they been? :)
Who has practices exams? And how've they been? :)
2009 Unit 3 Chem. 38minutes. 90+% ... slightly better than Unit 3 Physics. last year, personal best 20minutes. <Waiting for vce physics joke>
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and nearly finished all of spesh checkpoints except ER qs.
Hmmm, I reckon I should start cramming for the GAT now yea :P
Had a Biology one today. It was actually much easier than I thought, given that I only did two papers at home for revision. Luckily these results do not count for me. :P
Got my results back for my further SAC just waiting on English, Business and I.T now lol
2009 Unit 3 Chem. 38minutes. 90+% ... slightly better than Unit 3 Physics. last year, personal best 20minutes. <Waiting for vce physics joke>
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and nearly finished all of spesh checkpoints except ER qs.
Hmmm, I reckon I should start cramming for the GAT now yea :P
Who has practices exams? And how've they been? :)
Who has practices exams? And how've they been? :)
Had Specialist and Chemistry trial exams today. I also found out that I got 99% for my Biology exam and 97% for the Specialist exam (the teacher is an efficient marker ;)). Considering I did essentially no revision for these, I'm stoked. Here's hoping I can emulate this performance on the end of year exams, when they really count.
I hope everyone else's trial exams are proving to be very helpful as well. :)
I don't know why, but I am really starting to lose motivation right now.
Any inspirational tips/advice would greatly be appreciated guys :)
Had Specialist and Chemistry trial exams today. I also found out that I got 99% for my Biology exam and 97% for the Specialist exam (the teacher is an efficient marker ;)). Considering I did essentially no revision for these, I'm stoked. Here's hoping I can emulate this performance on the end of year exams, when they really count.
I hope everyone else's trial exams are proving to be very helpful as well. :)
Back to the good old days?LOL there's nothing wrong with imparting some positivity!SpoilerOnly posting this as another member made a semi-complaint Re: Year 12 Class of 2013, REPORT HERE!
LOL there's nothing wrong with imparting some positivity!
Just reacting to another member's concern.
Personally seemed a bit boastful to me too. *shrugs*
I honestly find music to be the best way to calm my mind. If I'm angry, I sit inside the car and turn the music up! :)
When I'm angry I procrastinate and it's never a good thing!Do you know what pisses you off? Maybe you can try looking at these things and just thinking about whether or not they're truly worth getting worked up about. I mean, there are more important things to spend your time on than getting angry for trivial things that you'll probably forget about the next day. If it's something that you likely won't care about in a day's time, it probably isn't something worth getting annoyed or angry about. Easier said than done, I know, but food for thought.
When I get mad, I listen to Chopin's Raindrops. It is actually relieving. I used to listen to it quite a lot in 2012.
When I get mad, I listen to Chopin's Raindrops. It is actually relieving. I used to listen to it quite a lot in 2012.
Hmm... Around the middle of May (Eurovision time :P), my attitude to school changed a little bit and now I'm trying to relax more and enjoy the experience (without neglecting my studies of course). I guess it's finally hit me that this year will be the last year of being a child and that I'm soon about to embark on the trials and tribulations of adulthood. I really want to savour that short time remaining. At the same time, I'm really enjoying all my subjects too and I haven't really felt like my hard work hasn't paid off yet (this is seriously my biggest fear in VCE and would probably cause me to lose a hell of a lot of motivation). There's not much I can really advise you to do other than perhaps to take some time off and reflect.
Am really not great on bio, behind in chapter questions and stuff. I don't 'get' it a lot of the time, and I don't see myself working in any of the health science fields or anything. Thoughts on whether I should drop the subject?
Hello :)
No, I don't think you should, unless you kinda want to avoid science-based courses altogether?
Do you know what you want to in the future?
I was actually aiming for Science at Melbourne Uni, but I prefer the maths side of things I suppose.I don't think it's worth dropping it.
It's weird, I'm ranked in my class in the top 2 or 3 in outcomes, but I was literally the worst in the practice mid-year exam. 47%, just awful aha :/ I'm just really unsure at the moment.
I don't think it's worth dropping it.
The reason you want to drop the subject is because of one bad practice exam mark (and probably your first one too)? There's plenty of time to get good with exam questions. Even so, if you were doing pretty poorly with the subject, rather than dropping a subject it might be worth working just hard enough so that you can get a 30 and have it count as your 10% subject. But I don't think you need to do that, just keep trying your best with the subject.
With Melb Sci I'm pretty sure you can get in with just Methods and Specialist. You're also doing Chemistry so that'd cover pretty much all the BSc courses too.
What are our plans of attack for the holidays?! :)Will be doing my school timetable. Whenever someone wants to see me, I will drop homework and go see them.
What are our plans of attack for the holidays?! :)
Is anyone else getting to the point of this term when they are COMPLETELY over it!? Just need a holiday!
Hang in there guys! :D
What are our plans of attack for the holidays?! :)
I'm glad the holidays have arrived, perfect timing really. I plan on spending week 1 revising Unit 3 and the next week just studying for Unit 4.
Enjoy your holidays
Not do anything for the first week, not do anything for several days more, panic, then rush all the due work.
Why is it that I always get set a truckload of homework that will take me the whole holidays to complete? This happened last holidays and I essentially got no rest at all. :/
Why is it that I always get set a truckload of homework that will take me the whole holidays to complete? This happened last holidays and I essentially got no rest at all. :/This is where you go YOLOSWAGFUCKYOUHIGHSCHOOL, do jack shit for a week, then do a decent amount of work in your other remaining week.
Why is it that I always get set a truckload of homework that will take me the whole holidays to complete? This happened last holidays and I essentially got no rest at all. :/It's because you're doing all of the hardest VCE subjects.
It's because you're doing all of the hardest VCE subjects.
With all due respect, I take issue with this statement-what constitutes a 'hard' subject? VCE is set up in a way in which it is just as difficult to score a (scaled) 30 in Specialist Maths as Food Technology. It's because he is committed to his studies enough to endeavor to complete all the work he's set!I think you completely misinterpreted what I had said. As pi' said, I meant he is doing the most difficult subjects. There's obviously more homework involved and, one (or many) can argue that Specialist, Methods and science-related subjects are some of the most difficult and time consuming subjects, especially since the content is generally more difficult to learn.
I think you completely misinterpreted what I had said. As pi' said, I meant he is doing the most difficult subjects. There's obviously more homework involved and, one (or many) can argue that Specialist, Methods and science-related subjects are some of the most difficult and time consuming subjects, especially since the content is generally more difficult to learn.
Has anyone been surprised with how well they are doing in subjects they struggled in unit 1&2 compared to now in unit 3&4 and vice versa?
I would still echo what honey-corowa said. Who is to say that the content in science subjects is harder than arts/humanities? How can you assume that more homework is involved in maths and science, or that it is more time consuming? I've been working my ass off this term and I'd hope to think that I've done just as much work as my friends doing math/science.Of course, but I didn't mean that those were the only hard subjects. Specialist, methods and chemistry are regarded some of the most difficult subjects. The workload is also intense. I do agree though. I would find Arts/Humanities more difficult because I'm a complete newbie in those areas, but just in general, you'd rate Stick's subjects as some of the hardest in VCE. (I think this is why they are scaled up).
I must say IMHO that drama has been the hardest subject I've taken though...
I really need to have a productive holidays after wasting so much time last (this?) term. Started by organising my room today.
I have no idea how my room looks like a bombsite half the time when I just sit in one spot at my desk all day.
Something Stick rightfully brought up in a thread last week sometime and might interest a few of you -> How university worksWoah, that's actually insanely helpful! Thanks Pi :D
Feel free to ask any general uni-life questions there for a collaborated response to be created for y'all :)
Something Stick rightfully brought up in a thread last week sometime and might interest a few of you -> How university works
Feel free to ask any general uni-life questions there for a collaborated response to be created for y'all :)
Why is it so hard to sit down and get work down? <-- my dilemma after coming home from work.
It's impossible! I can't bring myself to do my school work at all haha.
Far out I've been having the same friggin problem for a few days now.... I feel so frustrated and I find it soooo hard! Especially after I've been relaxing for a while an then I go back to my table... But nothing gets done.
Same story every holiday really, haha
I'm still doing around 6 hours every day. Last holidays I was doing about 10 though. I was hoping I'd be moving through my checklist a little bit quicker, but I guess I feel more relaxed these holidays and I can say that I have (somewhat) taken a break. :/Wow, you're a gun! I only plan on getting at least 4 major tasks done but I'll hopefully get the majority done over this break.
I've been having a similar problem too (although only with English really). That being said, I'm still doing around 6 hours every day. Last holidays I was doing about 10 though. I was hoping I'd be moving through my checklist a little bit quicker, but I guess I feel more relaxed these holidays and I can say that I have (somewhat) taken a break. :/wtf, 10 hours a day? @___@
For me, for subjects like Business, Further and English, I'm happy to study for. In that I enjoy those subjects because I feel I do well in them and I understand everything. However when I think about methods and chemistry, I just can't be bothered, and I can't bring myself to sit down at a table with work from those subjects when lets face it, there's so many other things that we could be doing.
That's essentially what separates people like me from the true hard workers, I know what I'll wish I did study right now maybe a week or two into school, but right now, I can't seem to do it. I mean, I'll get it done sooner or later, but I wish it was more progressive than a last weekend bulk homework sesh.
But. #Y O L O
^Yes, its coherent, and VERY well said. +1
Especially considering that I've barely done 1 hour of homework these holidays...
Surely your chemistry teacher set you about 10000000000 hours of homework.
^Yes, its coherent, and VERY well said. +1
Especially considering that I've barely done 1 hour of homework these holidays...
Did you guys know that next term is going to be your last full one at high school? Dun dun dun dun. Term 4 almost doesn't exist.
You're all getting old!
Did you guys know that next term is going to be your last full one at high school? Dun dun dun dun. Term 4 almost doesn't exist.
You're all getting old!
Thanks! :P
But seriously, ALVWIN! Do you homework :P
You should really take a moment to sit down, and devise a plan for the holidays (if you haven't done so already).
What does the wedge between food and TV represent? I think you may have missed a label.
Alright, time to start homework! :D :D :PLol that's what I've been saying since last Monday...
Alright, time to start homework! :D :D :PStarting today as well :| I don't actually think I'll be able to get through everything in time...
It felt appropriate to save my 2000th post for this thread. Thanks so much to everyone for making my experience on ATARNotes so awesome. Let's finish Year 12 on a very strong note. :')
It felt appropriate to save my 2000th post for this thread. Thanks so much to everyone for making my experience on ATARNotes so awesome. Let's finish Year 12 on a very strong note. :')
Goodluck to everyone for this term, stay motivated and stay hungry to fulfil the goals you set out at the beginning of the year. Everyone can be successful, just believe that you can be!+1, Nicely put! :)
+1, Nicely put! :)
Alright, time to start homework! :D :D :P
I should really start now. Buuutttt, I don't have English or Further till tuesday so I guessssss they can wait till Monday evening right?
I'm starting english NOW. . . well, that's what I've been telling myself since like 3 weeks ago lol
Teacher was like, oh you can hand in your holiday homework before the holidays if you so wish ~ she gave it to us a week before holidays.
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im screwed AHAHAHAHAHAHA
Oh, and forgot to add: I think 2-3 ppl did finish the hmwk before the holidays... D=
Oh, and forgot to add: I think 2-3 ppl did finish the hmwk before the holidays... D=
Shieeee, they're keen!
English. . . finally bloody done!! With 4 and a bit hours to spare before start of school.Isn't UMEP finished for the semester? Or do school centres run throughout term time?
I think I've earned a well deserved break, before I start my UMEP maths assignment XD
English. . . finally bloody done!! With 4 and a bit hours to spare before start of school.
I think I've earned a well deserved break, before I start my UMEP maths assignment XD
Our school just had an ICT Expo. It was really fun and I'm glad to say that I've organised it. :D Yay for Yr 12 involvement.ICT Expo eh? What kind of things were you showing off?
What leadership positions do you guys have or what co-curricular activities to you do?
ICT Expo eh? What kind of things were you showing off?
Haha, nothing too fancy but basically how to use certain programs like Prezi, Edmodo, Dreamweaver, Photoshop.That's still pretty cool, and mad props for organising!
Hey guys this is a bit random but at my school all the Year 12's have a quote under their picture in the Yearbook, and I am in desperate need of a funny quote. Any suggestions? :)
Hey guys this is a bit random but at my school all the Year 12's have a quote under their picture in the Yearbook, and I am in desperate need of a funny quote. Any suggestions? :)To quote the great Homer Simpson:
Hey guys this is a bit random but at my school all the Year 12's have a quote under their picture in the Yearbook, and I am in desperate need of a funny quote. Any suggestions? :)
Our school just had an ICT Expo. It was really fun and I'm glad to say that I've organised it. :D Yay for Yr 12 involvement.I'm house captain, wooot!
What leadership positions do you guys have or what co-curricular activities to you do?
woah brock had a last name? :oJust from googling http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Brock_(anime)
Most official sources do not give Brock a last name. However, several sources suggest that in the anime, his last name is Harrison. In the July 2006 issue of K-Zone Magazine, Eric Stuart was interviewed, and he stated that Brock's last name is Harrison.
I'm leading a mindfulness session every week this term and promoting mental health. ^_^
I'm house captain, wooot!
And I'm so excited everyone, next month Alice Pung (the editor of GUAIA) is coming to our school woo!! :D
Alic Pung came to our school last week. She's pretty cool. Everyone was surprised because she is so short, but her presentation was really good. I just wish I had prepared some questions.
This term is over in two months. First exam is in three months.
Wow ::)
This term is over in two months. First exam is in three months.Holy mother of freaking god.
Wow ::)
And side question, to those of you in Chem, which industrial process are you all doing? My school's chosen the production of ammonia :)Sulfuric acid aswell
Sulfuric acid
I just want VCE to be over and done with ASAP. Four months to go. Then freedom. I hope I retain enough sanity to survive until then.
Sulfuric acid
I just want VCE to be over and done with ASAP. Four months to go. Then freedom. I hope I retain enough sanity to survive until then.
Holy mother of freaking god.
I don't think I've written more than 10 English pieces so far this year D:
Most neglected subject of mine by far!
And side question, to those of you in Chem, which industrial process are you all doing? My school's chosen the production of ammonia :)
Sulfuric acid over here too.
Alice Pung is actually an ex-Macrob girl xD
Sooo excited ...Mellina Marchetta is coming soon!
I know! I'm so bad that I haven't touched methods in like 1.5 weeks! And next week is crazy, UMAT wednesday, Thursday EngLang, Friday: Chem, Monday: Health.
and then I'm going to the sleepover at school thing on friday !
OMG year 12 is killing me!
And we're doing H2SO4 too!
Sulfuric acid aswell
Sulfuric acid
I just want VCE to be over and done with ASAP. Four months to go. Then freedom. I hope I retain enough sanity to survive until then.
When exams are over...oh boy...Then I get to do year 12 :P
Then I get to do year 12 :P
Yep! We'll be doing year 12 next year :|At least it's only 4 subjects. 10 spares a week :D
When exams are over...oh boy...
At least it's only 4 subjects. 10 spares a week :D
At least it's only 4 subjects. 10 spares a week :D
I only have 3 subjects in school this year. 6 period days.
Week 1: 14 class periods, 16 free periods. Week 2: 13 class periods, 17 free periods.
On average 10% (overall) more frees than classes.
Anyone wanna try beat that? XD
Um,yes. (don't you take like 3 subjects out of school anyway?)
I'm literally a part-time student. As in, there's a 50% chance I'm in class....:)
Hardest part about year 12 is just to keep moving, there can be so many setbacks, but if you stop moving forward you'll just get swamped with all the SACs. I was getting so sick of the whole year 12 July thing, starting August gives hope for a foreseeable future ;)
^Hey, what does your profile pic say?
Yes, I actually think these past few weeks of term 3 were the WORST of year 12 in terms of stress and just motivation, and with a flood of SACs for the next 2 weeks, i just don't know what to do :( I just want to finish school and have no more bloody hw or SACs.. Like I'm more excited to do practice exams in prep for the VCAA exams than study and do all this freaking homework.. I SWEAR, ONCE MY LAST VCAA EXAM IS DONE...
Remember that final exams are more important that sacs, so having revision is very important!
Remember that final exams are more important that sacs, so having revision is very important!We hope what is assessed in SACs would appear on the exam, one of my chem SACs had bio-like gene manipulation technology in it, THAT ISN'T ON THE STUDY DESIGN but in the textbook. The logic of it was highly questionable.. :P
We hope what is assessed in SACs would appear on the exam, one of my chem SACs had bio-like gene manipulation technology in it, THAT ISN'T ON THE STUDY DESIGN but in the textbook. The logic of it was highly questionable.. :P
By "chem" you mean "Potions" right? I don't believe Hogwarts offers "chemistry" ;) And by "gene manipulation" I'm assuming your Potions master must be dabbling in some Transfiguration assessments?
:P
By "chem" you mean "Potions" right? I don't believe Hogwarts offers "chemistry" ;) And by "gene manipulation" I'm assuming your Potions master must be dabbling in some Transfiguration assessments?Funniest thing I've seen from you in a while :P
:P
There is no such thing as motivation when you're studying for English.
The fact that is counts as one of your top 4 is pretty big motivation to at least *try*..?Does English really get scaled down by 1?
Does English really get scaled down by 1?
Hey guys do you have any protips on how I can get my mojo back? :p
Does English really get scaled down by 1?The exact scaling varies from year to year and is dependent on the mark range, but generally English does get scaled down a little. The scaling report is not exact (scaling is actually done to two decimal places iirc), but should give you a general idea.
This thread has been quiet for a while!
How's everyone travelling? :)
Hey guys do you have any protips on how I can get my mojo back? :p
Just got over a wave of SACs myself. =_= At least it looks like all my subjects will finish early or just on time. I wasn't too pleased with my English text response SAC last Friday on On the Waterfront because both of the topics on offer were really difficult. Hopefully it all pans out well. This term also seems to be fairly full-on in terms of the workload Otherwise, I'm travelling well. :)
I get a four day weekend this weekend as a 'last chance' to take a break before exams. Although, the teachers expectedly mount us up with a pile of homework to do. -.-
There is no such thing as motivation when you're studying for English.
Does English really get scaled down by 1?Yes it scales down depending on the score.
Um...has anyone else realised that we have just under 11 weeks until the English exam?
Oh, no. :(
Um...has anyone else realised that we have just under 11 weeks until the English exam?Oh wow. I should REALLY start studying for chem and methods...
Oh, no. :(
I only fear that I won't have sufficient time to revise all the content in the textbook because English is too time consuming.I am definitely not looking forward to year 12 English where I'll have to put a lot of effort into it
Oh wow. I should REALLY start studying for chem and methods...
Finished my last text response EVERR! Now off to context.
How about you guys?
Have you decided on which text response to answer for the exam?
For context I'm probs going to write creatively on The Quiet American...:P I refuse to lay eyes on Paradise road ever ever ever again.
I'm not sure about text response. I think Ransom might be better than Interpreter for me.
Same :) I've desired I will write on The War Poems despite the fact I did better in my Christmas Carol SAC. I just enjoy it so much more!
Random question, but how is everyone going with the VTAC registration? :) Have many of you submitted your preferences yet?Actually I submitted mine like a few hours ago, we had some VTAC info session last week so I figured I ought to just get it done. I've only put down 9 prefs so far though, so I'll come up with another 3 sometime later.
I remember telling my friends I liked War Poems so much more than Stasiland. They looked at me like I was crazy, saying all that stuff about "it's a poem; it's so languid and dry! How can you possibly write on that??"
But to me it's not boring at all. In fact, it's practically stuffed with metalanguage I can analyse. Definitely see myself rambling on about some random preoccupations as well.
Don't know a lot about the first one, but Stasiland is fantastic. My German teacher lent out a few copies for background on our detailed study. Just...wow. I could imagine it could be a difficult text to write on, though.Stasiland... dont get me started mate... 1. its non fiction 2. its not objectively written... conflict already + all the symbolism, motifs and pathetic fallacy used = screw it, probs not doing it on the exam HAHAHAHA
Mate I only put down one preference (bachelor of science at Melbourne University) and I've already submitted my application and paid already.well, i guess maybe mine wasn't so bad :P but at least you can go back an change + add stuff.. i just got no idea for preferences 6-12.. if only they had a course on "Being a garbage man 101" :P
Don't know a lot about the first one, but Stasiland is fantastic. My German teacher lent out a few copies for background on our detailed study. Just...wow. I could imagine it could be a difficult text to write on, though.
if only they had a course on "Being a garbage man 101" :P
Random question, but how is everyone going with the VTAC registration? :) Have many of you submitted your preferences yet?I did mine. I just have three: IT at RMIT, Monash and La Trobe.
Once you pay, are you able to still change preferences afterwards?
Very interesting seeing that my specialist teacher is making my class come in at lunchtime tomorrrow to have a 'speed up' class in order to finish the curriculum before Term 3 holidays.What's more interesting is how my P.E teacher got a job as a teacher in the first place.
I did mine. I just have three: IT at RMIT, Monash and La Trobe.
Once you pay, are you able to still change preferences afterwards?
I've got 3 different SACs all on next Thursday. It'll be a fun day.
I've got 3 different SACs all on next Thursday. It'll be a fun day.(http://www.agencym.com.au/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/this-is-madness.jpg)
My P.E teacher just emailed me saying he wants to have sacs on September 4th and September 6th. Then he wants to start AOS2 on September 10 and do the SAC on September 18.
mfw when he said that: (http://imageshack.us/scaled/thumb/542/1lip.jpg)
Alright, we geddit, you guys have now finally discovered memes... Posts of *substance* please, take this as a warning.how did u no i was new to da internet
Ummm 8 days for aos2??yes lol.
Nope. I see the last two spesh SACs as a way to catch up with the leader in SACs and to further distance myself from everyone else.
Same in physics; I majorly screwed up one of the SACs and now, it's catchup time. Although the last few SACs are going to be dead simple -.-
Chemistry, I'm actually worried about making this concept map. What happened to simple tests...
And we have English. It's a nuisance. Definitely. Unfortunately it's a pretty important nuisance for me.
Posts of *substance* please
Free marks at Scotch I see.Pyjama uniforms?
Them and their world-class pyjama uniforms.
Them and their world-class pyjama uniforms.
Hopefully you guys just view SACs as just nuisances now, right? :P
Free marks at Scotch I see.
Them and their world-class pyjama uniforms.
Hopefully you guys just view SACs as just nuisances now, right? :P
But anyways back on topic ... WE JUST FINISHED THE SPESH COURSE TODAY! :DWe're so behind :-\ Just finished kinematics
We're so behind :-\ Just finished kinematics
We're so behind :-\ Just finished kinematics
We're so behind :-\ Just finished kinematics
how did u no i was new to da internet
yes lol.
YEAR 12 formal last nite! OMG SO MUCH FUN! :)! The food was alrite and the music was pree bad. :) but yeh , so much fun! The theme was " great gatsby"!!Oooh how exciting!! Ours is on the last day of this term :D
Anyone else had there's yet?
YEAR 12 formal last nite! OMG SO MUCH FUN! :)! The food was alrite and the music was pree bad. :) but yeh , so much fun! The theme was " great gatsby"!!
Anyone else had there's yet?
OMG! That Great Gatsby theme, sounds bloody amazing! :)Wow, May? Isn't that a bit too early?
Ours was in in May haha :P
Wow, May? Isn't that a bit too early?
Some schools do them at the very start of the year and others after the exams are done. :S I had mine on the last day of Term 2.
fishandchips, does it take a long time to learn? I'm going to start now.
Same here! It was great having it the last day of term, convenient for the after party and all!! Some schools had it on a Thursday! Can't imagine too many people rocked up the next day.
My formal was last Saturday, and I can say truthfully that it was the best night that I had ever had.
My formal was last Saturday, and I can say truthfully that it was the best night that I had ever had.
My school formal isn't until the 25th of October. Yeahhh 5 days before the English exam!
Your formal, was AMAZING. :D
lol my valedictory dinner is around that time. :P Will be in celebratory mode instead of English exam mode.
I'll be in panic mode then. My English Language exam will be looming soon after then...
I'm already panicking :P
What I don't get, however, is that the rest of my cohort is so chill about the approaching exams? It's like they still think exams are 6 months away? Or perhaps they are just avoiding the thought of exams? I don't know. Either way, people get annoyed when I strike up conversation about the German Oral or the English exam or something.
What I don't get, however, is that the rest of my cohort is so chill about the approaching exams? It's like they still think exams are 6 months away? Or perhaps they are just avoiding the thought of exams? I don't know. Either way, people get annoyed when I strike up conversation about the German Oral or the English exam or something.
I feel so poor. Paid for the HTAV lectures, paid for winter sleepout, paying for jumper, and finding enough money to pay $75 per person just to get to the valedictory dinner. Sigh.At least its for a good cause :D
At least its for a good cause :D
Just curious, do many here on AN work / part-time work still?
to get the ball rolling, I deliver catalogues!!~~ Gonna be the next youngest millionaire.. not.
How would you know, eh? :P
I'll be in panic mode then. My English Language exam will be looming soon after then...
I'm already panicking :PI keep saying this, but I really should start studying...
What I don't get, however, is that the rest of my cohort is so chill about the approaching exams? It's like they still think exams are 6 months away? Or perhaps they are just avoiding the thought of exams? I don't know. Either way, people get annoyed when I strike up conversation about the German Oral or the English exam or something.
I keep saying this, but I really should start studying...
Do I get a free pass at more procrastination because I'm only doing two subjects?
no :PDamn :(
I really should start studying...
I keep saying this, but I really should start studying...
Do I get a free pass at more procrastination because I'm only doing two subjects?
I'm already panicking :P
What I don't get, however, is that the rest of my cohort is so chill about the approaching exams? It's like they still think exams are 6 months away? Or perhaps they are just avoiding the thought of exams? I don't know. Either way, people get annoyed when I strike up conversation about the German Oral or the English exam or something.
Yes, if you can guarantee 50 in at least one subject :PIf I could guarantee it, I wouldn't be worried about starting exams :P
How is everyone else going with SACs?Not too bad, decent scores in all of them and now on the home stretch. Just one more for methods and one or two for chem.
Just curious, do many here on AN work / part-time work still?
Just curious, do many here on AN work / part-time work still?Kmart once a week. My parents are very happy with the discount card which works at heaps of stores haha=)
How is everyone else going with SACs?Hmmmlike clippy I only got 2 subjects to "really" worry about SAC wise. I've got one big SAC left for each then I'm done, I can't wait until I can just focus on exam revision.
I'm aware that exams begin in just over two months but I'm just neglecting the thought right now. I'd much more rather divert all my focus on SACs then allocate the rest of my time (holidays and term 4) on exams.
I only have eight SACs, thankfully.
How is everyone else going with SACs?
I am NOT happy.
WANT A COOKIE?
:D
WANT A COOKIE?
:D
WANT A COOKIE?
:D
My CPS is 2,896,060.8! I think brenden and 2/cos(c) are dominating though :( Ned three more upgrades too :D
3.6mil cps, but don't you worry, I'll be skyrocketing in no time.
WANT A COOKIE?
:D
Nah, I've unlocked 36/39, and I've got one in the shop, no idea what the other two are.
Shotgun not splitting this into "Cookie Clicker Discussion Thread". I vote b^3.
3.6mil cps, but don't you worry, I'll be skyrocketing in no time.
I've been playing for an hour and my cookies per second is up to 2.3 million. I'm using an autoclicker to help out too.Cheater cheater pumpkin eater
Cheater cheater pumpkin eaterLast time I ate pumpkin I regurgitated it so that means I am not a cheater but my CPS is at 15m now lol.
I'll just get my mum to make me cookies.I'll just get my grandma to make me cookies.
WANT A COOKIE?
:D
I am NOT happy.
WANT A COOKIE?
:D
HAD MY LAST ENGLISH SAC TODAY.Fly you beautiful bastard.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! :D
HAD MY LAST ENGLISH SAC TODAY.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! :D
HAD MY LAST ENGLISH SAC TODAY.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! :D
HAD MY LAST ENGLISH SAC TODAY.When i get home tomorrow I'll be celebrating with you! Just thinking about it is making me excited!!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! :D
My last English SAC was deliberately scheduled on Friday afternoon on the last day of term. Not a nice way to finish things off. :(Same its so cruel, they planned it I bet, they're probably laughing right now which rubbing their hands together with joy :-X
^ actually I think they're doing it for the benefit of the students. The school typically has the students' best interests at heart. A school is a business, a learning institution, and as a result, they'd want the best academic results from students to raise their status. Giving you more time to prepare hopefully translates into more work done instead of procrastination, which will only help you in the final exam, and in turn, increase respect for the school.haha I know I was joking, but yeah your very right. It also stops the end of term "its the end of term who cares" mindset from happening as much :)
Just think of it like this: the teachers would be spending the holidaysslaving overmarking those essays when they could be doing other things.
4 SACs left.
Hell yeah.
We finished the Specialist course today! First subject to be completed for me. :D We're very close in Methods and Chemistry though.
Finished methods, english, and one more exercise for further. So I'm pretty content :) For legal, there's only 1 more dotpoint to go, so that'll be done fairly soon! It's just hhd that I'm a bit worried about... I think we're just covering the points that'll appear on our final SAC in the last week of term, and then I'm just going to rely on my own revision/revision lectures to help me out
How did you guys finish english so early????Well we've done all our sacs and covered everything that was expected to be covered for this unit, and now it's just the internal exam and revision up until exams
Are any of you guys planning on going to those end of year tutorials/lectures?no money + too far to travel = home revision ;)
I'm tempted to but I'm not sure if I should as it'll cost a total of over $300 for all of my subjects and I haven't heard any of my friends from school say anything...
Are any of you guys planning on going to those end of year tutorials/lectures?
I'm tempted to but I'm not sure if I should as it'll cost a total of over $300 for all of my subjects and I haven't heard any of my friends from school say anything...
How did you guys finish english so early????
How did you guys finish english so early????
This is a question for the Methods students out there, so I apologise to those who don't do the subject, but it's probably a question that's more appropriate here. Mods, if you feel otherwise, feel free to make amendments.Methods is definitely not one of my favourite subjects, but I also kind of enjoy probability. I mean, there are some really confusing questions, but thus far it has been the area where I have performed the best and I guess that's because it's so different to the other areas of methods! It's like a nice little break from the other, more complex, areas and I think that's why it's so much better! Having said that, it still doesn't make me more motivated to work hard for methods.. bottom 2, here I come ;)
Who here is enjoying probability? I know lots of people say that they hate it, but it's actually turning out to be one of my favourite topics out of all my Maths subjects. I really hated Year 11 probability and I wasn't too good at it, but I'm finding it much easier this year since it relates more to distributions. I enjoyed data analysis in Further last year heaps but probability is taking it a step further and making it a bit more complex but still really interesting. It's also quite different to the other Maths that we get to do, so it's a pleasant change of scenery for me. Am I alone here? :P
This is a question for the Methods students out there, so I apologise to those who don't do the subject, but it's probably a question that's more appropriate here. Mods, if you feel otherwise, feel free to make amendments.
Who here is enjoying probability? I know lots of people say that they hate it, but it's actually turning out to be one of my favourite topics out of all my Maths subjects. I really hated Year 11 probability and I wasn't too good at it, but I'm finding it much easier this year since it relates more to distributions. I enjoyed data analysis in Further last year heaps but probability is taking it a step further and making it a bit more complex but still really interesting. It's also quite different to the other Maths that we get to do, so it's a pleasant change of scenery for me. Am I alone here? :P
Who here is enjoying probability? I know lots of people say that they hate it, but it's actually turning out to be one of my favourite topics out of all my Maths subjects. I really hated Year 11 probability and I wasn't too good at it, but I'm finding it much easier this year since it relates more to distributions. I enjoyed data analysis in Further last year heaps but probability is taking it a step further and making it a bit more complex but still really interesting. It's also quite different to the other Maths that we get to do, so it's a pleasant change of scenery for me. Am I alone here? :PHere's my thoughts about probability. I basically love all of it. Going into it felt weird, because the work was so different, but after getting decent at it I'm enjoying it.
Who here is enjoying probability?
VCE sucks, so glad that there's only two and a half months left.
Haha: I guess that due to the fact that it's just so different from all other parts of the course, lots of people seem to hate it.
Anyway, the chance I like it given my whole class hates it: 1.
#bringontheprobabilitypuns :P
#suckingatprob
Well perhaps, we should all keep our enjoyment of probability, discrete...
I think you should get yourself checked out because I've heard that using maths puns is a sine of insanity...
Anyone else cringing reading these posts?Aww cmon pi join in on the fun :D
Anyone else cringing reading these posts?
I don't know, generally when I try to make them I can never find a solution, I always need to be given some parameters to work with otherwise they just feel unreal.
Maybe it's cos you're being irrational.
cos(pi) = -1...
cos(pi) = -1...think you're being too negative bro
cos(pi) = -1...-1 is not even irrational....
-1 is not even irrational....
what a disaster
Hey guys.What? How? What?
Just in case you're having a shit day; I'm so retarded I just got off at South Yarra instead of Huntingdale and now I'll miss 80% of my lecture for being so silly :)
I'm so mad my coolface is nowhere to be seen.
Edit: just realised how far away I actually am from Huntingdale. Will miss 100%, may as well have stayed home. So mad brah.
Hey guys.Should've came and chilled at MHS
Just in case you're having a shit day; I'm so retarded I just got off at South Yarra instead of Huntingdale and now I'll miss 80% of my lecture for being so silly :)
I'm so mad my coolface is nowhere to be seen.
Edit: just realised how far away I actually am from Huntingdale. Will miss 100%, may as well have stayed home. So mad brah.
Hey guys.
Just in case you're having a shit day; I'm so retarded I just got off at South Yarra instead of Huntingdale and now I'll miss 80% of my lecture for being so silly :)
What? How? What?Well the train thing was frozen on Noble Park, and I was doing readings, so my time was distorted, so every time I looked up I was like "hmm... taking a while to get to Noble..."
Mate, I haven't attended one Human Rights lecture. I have to go to this one because there are examples of the formulas and stuff written on the non-recorded projector. It's attend or <50We need more of these 4chan-esque greentext stories on AN.
Edit:Well the train thing was frozen on Noble Park, and I was doing readings, so my time was distorted, so every time I looked up I was like "hmm... taking a while to get to Noble..."
and then I looked up and saw the train sign "Malvern"
>tried to get off
>doors shut
>train was express to South Yarra
>umadbro?
>somadbro
>caught train straight back to Huntingdale
>attended seven minutes of lecture
>learned nothing
>should have gone and chilled at MHS
Woah, you guys have got all the 'hip' math puns here!
But slightly off topic... I'm actually finding specialist to be pretty much my favourite subject!! It was so daunting at the start of the year because of distance and not having done gen B maths but gosh I love how challenging it is (although it still occasionally brings me into anger fits because I'm shocking at mechanics...)
Has anyone else had any subjects they thought they'd HATE at the start of the year but actually really enjoy them now? :D
Woah, you guys have got all the 'hip' math puns here!
But slightly off topic... I'm actually finding specialist to be pretty much my favourite subject!! It was so daunting at the start of the year because of distance and not having done gen B maths but gosh I love how challenging it is (although it still occasionally brings me into anger fits because I'm shocking at mechanics...)
Has anyone else had any subjects they thought they'd HATE at the start of the year but actually really enjoy them now? :D
Yeah, I must admit in my opinion year 12 chemistry> year 11 chemistry by far!
Yeah i really hated chemistry and even contemplated droping it and, now its one of my best and favorite subjects.
Yeah i really hated chemistry and even contemplated droping it and, now its one of my best and favorite subjects.
COULDN'T AGREE MORE! :DIt's so great that all the stuff in Year 11 was handy for Year 12!! ;) some other subjects have the most irrelevant 1/2 units.. cough*biology*cough
It's so great that all the stuff in Year 11 was handy for Year 12!! ;) some other subjects have the most irrelevant 1/2 units.. cough*biology*cough
Methods probability SAC tomorrow and physics SAC next Wednesday then no more SACs! I can finally relax!
Naht, let the exam revision begin.
Yeah i really hated chemistry and even contemplated droping it and, now its one of my best and favorite subjects.
Really I still have 7 SACs and my teacher really wants to do one in term 4.
Same, but I hate how -well, at least for me- when I want to know how something works and why, my teacher's like: lol jokes, I don't know/you don't need to know that for VCE. And I'm like, well, IT WOULD REALLY HELP MY UNDERSTANDING IF YOU JUST TOLD ME INSTEAD OF ME GOING TO WIKIPEDIA AND LOOKING AND GOING WTF!
Grrrr.
Though, I have to say 3/4 chem is much more interesting than 1/2.
Aw, that sucks. I've got one for chem next term, but thank goodness that will be the last sac ever!
I'm just going to write as many English essays as I can and the rest of my subjects can fend for their damn selves.My life
I just got back my English SAC and now I'm slightly upset because I thought I was going to get higher than I thought. :(
Geh.
this has been every sac for me
Oh well. I'm over it now. I'm just going to redo it (turns out I deserved the mark. Can't believe I actually thought what I wrote was good. hahaa). Moving on now...
On another topic, is anyone attending revision lectures? Is it worth the money? How should one start revision?
I'm looking into going to some chem and methods revision lectures. Does anyone know of any good ones coming up?
I'm looking into going to some chem and methods revision lectures. Does anyone know of any good ones coming up?Check out Connect Education :)
On another topic, is anyone attending revision lectures? Is it worth the money? How should one start revision?I'm hoping to go to connect for legal, hhd and further, so I'm looking forward to that! I think it's definitely worth the money if you feel that it'll help cover any areas you missed/feel weak at, etc. I mean, you could go for every subject and there's nothing wrong with that, but I personally think it's more beneficial to go to revision lectures for subjects you actually need to go for, rather than subjects you are happy with or that you already have sufficient resources for :)
I've heard less than desirable things about TSFX methods.
Best to hit up Derrick Ha or Connect for Methods imo.
I've heard less than desirable things about TSFX methods.Direct from Derrick Ha's website
Best to hit up Derrick Ha or Connect for Methods imo.
*Unfortunately, the Revision Lectures will not be held in 2013. However, Derrick is available as a guest motivational speaker. His talk includes a presentation on the study and exam techniques from the revision lectures, as well as tips and advice relating to other VCE subjects. If you are interested in having Derrick speak at your school, please click here for further information.http://www.derrickha.com.au/services/vce_revision_lecture.php
Does anyone else finish school on Friday ? :)Term 3 ends next Friday for me
Does anyone else finish school on Friday ? :)
I finish next Friday and have practice exams second half of the second week of the holidays! If only all my SACs were completed before then, I could maintain 100% focus on revision. And it's just my luck that my 2 hardest and hence worst subjects, methods and chem, are the only ones that have SACs pending term 4!
Ahh well! Push on! :D
Does anyone else finish school on Friday ? :)Yup!
Yup!
Wouldn't consider it so lucky, though.
Is it just me, or is anyone else excited knowing that as we've learnt the entire course now, it's all up to us to do whatever we want from now on?
I'm actually looking forward to smashing out these practice exams over the holidays.
And I guess the fact that I have my final SAC tomorrow makes it a whole lot easier to fully focus on pure revision.
Exactly 7 weeks from today last until the English exam.
How's everyone going,Am I looking forward to my first ever intense exam revision? Not particularly...
Looking forward to the holidayssss?
:))
How can you NOT be excited for intense exam revision? It's the best part!How can you be fullsrs o.o
*fullsrs*
How can you be fullsrs o.oIt's the eye of the storm ;)
It's like the calm before the storm. Or is it the eye of the storm? How far into the storm are we? I know the storm ends when exams are over...
It's the eye of the storm ;)Good old times in Karamja right? Fish some lobs, get a slave to make fires and kill lessers.
Nah honestly, it's fun as. Don't fear it, embrace it and change your perception on it (and you can take that advice through life).
I don't know what your perception is now, probably "oh god, so much work".
Chane it to something like "sweet, a chance to improve" or "fuck yeah, an excuse to be anti-social!" or "THIS. IS.SPAEXAAMM PERRRIOOOOD!"
Exam period is honestly like the best strategy+defence game ever. And like a level-up game. You get EXP for prac exams and teaching people, and then you fight Lessers and catch Lobbies, then level up and be like "THIS ISN'T EVEN MY FINAL FORM" and get constant positive reinforcement as you watch your scores increase and see yourself improve. It's great. (And have a fuck load of skittles, skittles everywhere)
It's the eye of the storm ;)You had me at gain exp, then once again at final form.
Nah honestly, it's fun as. Don't fear it, embrace it and change your perception on it (and you can take that advice through life).
I don't know what your perception is now, probably "oh god, so much work".
Chane it to something like "sweet, a chance to improve" or "fuck yeah, an excuse to be anti-social!" or "THIS. IS.SPAEXAAMM PERRRIOOOOD!"
Exam period is honestly like the best strategy+defence game ever. And like a level-up game. You get EXP for prac exams and teaching people, and then you fight Lessers and catch Lobbies, then level up and be like "THIS ISN'T EVEN MY FINAL FORM" and get constant positive reinforcement as you watch your scores increase and see yourself improve. It's great. (And have a fuck load of skittles, skittles everywhere)
Last English SAC done!!! Now to watch On the Waterfront again, take a teeny break and then hit the trial exams hard.
Away from all the practice exam talk!Last ever lip synching? What is going on at macrob?
We had our last ever lip synching :(((( my house did " Internet sensations" , like gagnam style and the Harlem shake , and the everyone in the audience ,who was in our house , started doing it as well. It was crazy . Pure awesomeness. Great way to end the term. :)
Are you going to do OTW for your final exams Stick? :)
How's everyone going,How can you NOT be excited for intense exam revision? It's the best part!
Looking forward to the holidayssss?
:))
*fullsrs*
Stick, you have a mammoth amount of time and certainly haven't left it too late.
Also, I'd just like to note for you guys--- some of the best English revision is actually marking other essays. I can honestly say I made big jumps in skills after marking other essays and seeing the mistakes other people made (it made me hyper conscious of making them myself). So coming up to exam revision, if you want to get quick English revision in without even writing an essay or brainstorming, then find essays that are written on the text you're planning to write on and mark them.
(admittedly, I'm also trying to make sure all essays get marked, because I know once exam time comes they're going to be storming through the forums).
I just spent 5 minutes looking for a muck up day costume and ideas for "mucking about" on muck up day, nothing good, I need something that starts with the letter "G".Same here. I'd like to go as robin hood but that $140 for the costume is just not worth it for like what, 3 hours? I'll most likely be attending in casual clothes. Was never a fan of muck up day anyway.
I really did wish they had muck up day after exams finished, I actually could not care less about this stuff at the moment lol
Hey guys :D How've your holidays been? Only a few more days to go!
How have you guys been using your holidays? Have you just been completely relaxing, hardcore studying, doing light revision/going over concepts and notes or have you hit the practice exams?
After this, only ~2-3 weeks of school left and that's it! ;D
To be honest, I've only been doing light revision and trying to organise everything, finalising notes etc. Although, if it weren't for the trial exams, I think I wouldn't have been too tired in the second week, but that could just be me procastinating, haha.Same same. But it's bad for me coz my indo oral exam is in 12 days... far from prepared -sigh-
I was looking at a Goku costume and it's like $50 plus $30 shipping from China or $100+ from some Australian website.I think I'm going to just go in jeans and maybe something else like a hoodie or something... lol
I initially wanted to do what you're most likely to be doing as well but imagine being the only one without a costume on the day...
But it seems like everyone finds it really important, I'm just not really feeling it.
It'd also be way more fun to mess around after the exams have actually finished though.
Hey guys :D How've your holidays been? Only a few more days to go!
How have you guys been using your holidays? Have you just been completely relaxing, hardcore studying, doing light revision/going over concepts and notes or have you hit the practice exams?
After this, only ~2-3 weeks of school left and that's it! ;D
Same same. But it's bad for me coz my indo oral exam is in 12 days... far from prepared -sigh-
I think I'm going to just go in jeans and maybe something else like a hoodie or something... lol
NO.He's coming in a speedo to honour our new and glorious leader
I just spent 5 minutes looking for a muck up day costume and ideas for "mucking about" on muck up day, nothing good, I need something that starts with the letter "G".
I really did wish they had muck up day after exams finished, I actually could not care less about this stuff at the moment lol
Ok phew! I feel much better knowing I wasn't the only one who didn't spam practice exams and go crazy with study these holidays. I mean, I'm not saying I did nothing. I did do some revision and a few practice exams here and there (and I was at Connect Education lectures over the past few days.. does that count? :P), but a lot more time was invested in relaxing and procrastinating..
I don't really feel bad though because I guess I'm better off resting and recharging my batteries in preparation for the next few weeks, which are going to be hectic, as opposed to burning out right before/during exams!
Ok phew! I feel much better knowing I wasn't the only one who didn't spam practice exams and go crazy with study these holidays. I mean, I'm not saying I did nothing. I did do some revision and a few practice exams here and there (and I was at Connect Education lectures over the past few days.. does that count? :P), but a lot more time was invested in relaxing and procrastinating..You were at connect? What lectures did you go to? I took the chem lectures, and think they were pretty awesome. The lecturers were great and the notes are really useful
I don't really feel bad though because I guess I'm better off resting and recharging my batteries in preparation for the next few weeks, which are going to be hectic, as opposed to burning out right before/during exams!
He's coming in a speedo to honour our new and glorious leader
(http://resources3.news.com.au/images/2009/11/30/1225805/212259-tony-abbott-091130.jpg)
You see that smile? That walk? That's you as you're walking through the front gate, not even batting an eyelash.
That's in my search history now..
Eugh, hello term 4.
I know right! 2 and a half weeks left of school. YAY!
are you guys at school?I am :)) but I'm only on the comp to double check the bus time table (no more classes for the day!)
and Alwin - your signature is seriously funny :DLOL you might be the only one who gets it... and finds it funny :P
No I don't, because I still have exams after that -.-My last one is on the 25th of november. I think I win? :P When's UMEP physics
I am :)) but I'm only on the comp to double check the bus time table (no more classes for the day!)
10 days left for me... no yay.
LOL you might be the only one who gets it... and finds it funny :P
My last one is on the 25th of november. I think I win? :P When's UMEP physics
not me
I am :)) but I'm only on the comp to double check the bus time table (no more classes for the day!)
Get back to class Floraison
Also, Lala I didn't go to school today bahahah, so that's why I'm on.Go to school! You need the edukationz to get better at chess.
Go to school! You need the edukationz to get better at chess.HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH plz, my chess skills are as great as my computah skills. There isn't anything school can teach me that I haven't already mastered m8.
Confession, ATARnotes has become my new facebook for Year 12, I check it regularly, comment every so often, it's all good. Hey it's based around VCE, can't be that bad! By reading threads on my subjects I find it sort of unconsciously sinks in!! ;)If this were a Facebook status....I'd like it! It's so true!
Question, is anyone else at the stage where they'd rather skip class and do study alone? My spares are so productive but my revision classes are so slow paced I want to hit myself in the face repetitively :(
Question, is anyone else at the stage where they'd rather skip class and do study alone? My spares are so productive but my revision classes are so slow paced I want to hit myself in the face repetitively :(Hahaha, this is what I'm doing :P I get things done at home than at school
Question, is anyone else at the stage where they'd rather skip class and do study alone? My spares are so productive but my revision classes are so slow paced I want to hit myself in the face repetitively :(YES I'm feeling exactly the same!! I'd rather be at home or in my free period cos I know I'll be far more productive..
Time for truancy ladies and gents.Haha, this is the reason I love my methods teacher! we have a system in place that if I don't rock up to class but someone sais I'm at school she just marks me as present
Question, is anyone else at the stage where they'd rather skip class and do study alone? My spares are so productive but my revision classes are so slow paced I want to hit myself in the face repetitively :(
Time for truancy ladies and gents.I think we have this discussion every year on AN, but from another point of view, shouldn't hanging out with your friends be a very good reason to go to school? That was motivation enough for me to go to school. Even once we didn't have formal classes anymore, it was worth going in because there were a bunch of people that'd be studying; without having classes to attend, it was a fairly casual and reasonably relaxed atmosphere so it was good fun.
(but tomorrow is my German oral, so technically I start on Wednesday!).good luck, you're gonna smash it ;D
good luck, you're gonna smash it ;D
I start school tomorrow (but tomorrow is my German oral, so technically I start on Wednesday!).
and Alwin - your signature is seriously funny :D
also gl SugarMinted
All the best, mate! Good luck!
Hope you nail it! :D
Hey guys, so I just got back my trial exams and such and am now in the midst of doing hardcore revision, but what I find is that I feel that I don't know anything and am having trouble with doing some questions. My question is, is it okay to feel like this? and how do you deal with improving and revising without feeling like a failure because you don't have everything down pat yet. What has been going on my mind is the mantra of 'ten times harder' ;P and that has kept me going...anyway, help!
I got my chemistry exam back and I got a C (I fucking failed, I got 45% lol) while my physics was a high A+ (96%), both were the VCAA 2013 sample ones.
You should reflect on your scores and try to see how you're going to improve them/keep them at their current high standard.
It's totally fine to be feeling like you're struggling to improve at the moment.
A way I like to think about it is that we're slowly reaching our peak, an asymptote that we will never reach but continually approach.
But although we will never reach that asymptote, there is always a space in between for you to get closer and closer and closer to that peak.
My performance doesn't peak. Think of a sine wave. That's my performance. All I can really do is reduce the amplitude of oscillation.
My performance doesn't peak. Think of a sine wave. That's my performance. All I can really do is reduce the amplitude of oscillation.I just found my new favourite way to describe my scores
Chances are that the kids who take that page seriously are capable of obtaining such an atar....
https://www.facebook.com/45andbelowVCEAdvice
omg hahahahahaha, I don't even know why I think think that image is hilarious but "Didn't really get this section. I thought we only have to read one book. So I will repeat section 1. A bit long 5.6/12" LOL
hey guys a quick question. are we allowed digital watches in the exam?http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/Documents/vcaanavigator_web.pdf Page 4
im confused because i heard somewhere that we aren't (maybe it was for umat) but today my teacher said we are. I just want to be on the safe side.
Finished my last SAC today OMG OMG OMG!!! :DHaha it's an exciting moment isn't it? :P
Haha it's an exciting moment isn't it? :PIt is, I was dancing around the school like a psycho!
I finished them last term but teachers have been finalising our coursework scores.. So now they're telling us our final mark, our rank and (scarily) the study score range they're predicting we'll fall into :o
I still have four SACs :'( >:( :-\
I'm not too sure whether 5/10 would get you a 30 (I read that the average is like 5.6/10) but may I ask why you're aiming so low?its not that im aiming low, i just cant seem to improve.
A 6/10 will guarantee you a 30+ but if you push yourself just a bit harder and get that 7/10, that will get you a 35+.
Remember too, English MUST BE IN YOUR TOP FOUR.
How hard are you trying?
Are you getting shitty feedback?
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So now they're telling us our final mark, our rank and (scarily) the study score range they're predicting we'll fall into :o
Don't listen to what your teachers say about your predicted study score. For one, they know less than jack shit and, two, it's completely irrelevant.
OMG you guys are so lucky!
2 Uni assignments due today , 2 SACs tomorrow and 1 on Monday!
#thuglyf
Mine last year was at a Chinese church. Even more wtfEven more terrifying, the Italian Oral Exams are at VCAA Headquarters in Coburg.. ???
Even more terrifying, the Italian Oral Exams are at VCAA Headquarters in Coburg.. ???Isn't that like the equivalent of entering the demons lair?
Isn't that like the equivalent of entering the demons lair?Dementors will be circling around that day, I think that part of VCAA has moved in the CBD, but this Coburg part is still a section of VCAA. :'(
Did my last SAC felt good.
MOI AUSSI :D
What a great feeling!
Mine last year was at a Chinese church. Even more wtf
Wow, this thing has 93 pages? I should pay more attention to the forums. Good luck with your final push, year 12s!
Might interest some of you
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151908095741422&set=a.131409591421.135734.119817336421&type=1
Anyway... 29 DAYS UNTIL ITS ALL OVER!!!!!
GET FUCKING PUMPEDD
Yeah one of my mates has their physics exam like me on the 13th....
Then has 12 days to study for just Indo.
But that's just bad luck, meanwhile another friend of mine has three exams on one day.
Ok, soooo, muck up day or "celebration day" is next week and I don't have a costume....I know what I want , just not where to find it in time...any good costume shops??
Hang on isn't your last day of school this Friday?
*Good time to mention a few things I've been on my mind
The end is so near, and it just hit me when I see all these year 12s hardcore study and cram to the closing hours of school.
I think it would be really important to enjoy the last few days you have at school. Maybe thank your teachers, say hi to the principal (if their approachable), do something memorable at lunchtime... etc, and GO NUTS ON MUCK UP DAY. I CAN"T WAIT FOR MINE NEXT YEAR. IT'S YOUR TURN TO DRIVE ALL THOSE YEAR 7s CRAZY!
Serious note: Just soak it in. Because I know you guys are seriously over school and can't wait until it's over... but school has been a big part of your life for soo long, and once it's gone... There's no coming back.
Reminds me of the simple days of primary school.... ahhh Nostalgia buzz...
Overall school's a bitch and I can't wait until I finish. A year a bit to go.
AND CONGRATS TO EVERYONE and I wish each and everyone of you the best of luck and to OBLITERATE THE SHIT OUT OF YOUR EXAMS ;D
Even though muck-up day is next Monday, the pranks have already started ;D
- Honey in the combo locks to slow the spinning, then vaso over the top to make them annoyingly slippery and unappealing to handle.
- Silly string and shaving foam through the holes in the lockers (somebody got in a heap of trouble today for flooding another year 12's locker with sunscreen)
- "Kick me" notes on the back of students
- Sneaking into Year 9 LOTE classes during spares
Side note, 32 days, 20 hours left!
And going as a minion was pretty cool :)
Pics or it didn't happen.Sigh. There's always that one smartass :P Ofc I took heaps of pics, it was our final day
:P
Hey HOW DID YOU DRESS UP AS A MINION?!?!? I really want to for next thursday but I don't know how to without it looking weird/cheapo :(
Sigh. There's always that one smartass :P Ofc I took heaps of pics, it was our final day
Wasn't actually going to bother to reply, but since vashappenin pm-ed me about my costume, this is how I went about it
For vashappenin and anyone else curious:Stage 1I went out and bought everything on the holidays.
(http://i.imgur.com/zG3Bz7X.png)
1 camping roll
1 hanging garden dome
lots of masking tape, glue, and wireStage 2I marked out how I wanted to cut up the camping bed roll. Sorry it's a bit hard to see, but basically used my finger nail to mark it.
(http://i.imgur.com/HLJG8TY.jpg)
1 sheet for the body
1 sheet for the head
1 sheet for the join between the twoStage 3Paint. Enough said I think :P
(http://i.imgur.com/Bh5VYc2.jpg)
Used masking tape to get the right shapes
Did yellow first, then the blue parts
Black permanent marker for the Gru logo
The final result (a bad pic I know, but the rest were in like massive groups so I'd have to crop out/edit a lot and I'm lazy :P)Stage 4 (aka take lots of pics =P)(http://i.imgur.com/kTgJqE9.png)
LOL and got swarmed by some year sevens demanding hugs
btw, do I get something for proving Mr Keshy wrong? A cookie maybe, or chocolate? Or a banana? =D
Sigh. There's always that one smartass :P Ofc I took heaps of pics, it was our final dayAlwin, that costume looks awesome!
Wasn't actually going to bother to reply, but since vashappenin pm-ed me about my costume, this is how I went about it
For vashappenin and anyone else curious:Stage 1I went out and bought everything on the holidays.
(http://i.imgur.com/zG3Bz7X.png)
1 camping roll
1 hanging garden dome
lots of masking tape, glue, and wireStage 2I marked out how I wanted to cut up the camping bed roll. Sorry it's a bit hard to see, but basically used my finger nail to mark it.
(http://i.imgur.com/HLJG8TY.jpg)
1 sheet for the body
1 sheet for the head
1 sheet for the join between the twoStage 3Paint. Enough said I think :P
(http://i.imgur.com/Bh5VYc2.jpg)
Used masking tape to get the right shapes
Did yellow first, then the blue parts
Black permanent marker for the Gru logo
The final result (a bad pic I know, but the rest were in like massive groups so I'd have to crop out/edit a lot and I'm lazy :P)Stage 4 (aka take lots of pics =P)(http://i.imgur.com/kTgJqE9.png)
LOL and got swarmed by some year sevens demanding hugs
btw, do I get something for proving Mr Keshy wrong? A cookie maybe, or chocolate? Or a banana? =D
btw, do I get something for proving Mr Keshy wrong? A cookie maybe, or chocolate? Or a banana? =D
I honestly believe this year has been the most life changing for me, but at the same time It's passed by like a blur! (if that makes any sense) I'm staring to get all sentimental and soppy because I can't believe it's almost all over! I've only been to the one high school so It's going to be really difficult to say goodbye to everything I've known for the past six years.Hahah you sound so much like me!! It was definitely the most stressful year for me but I'd agree it was the most life changing but fastest year as well and I'm definitely going to miss it sooooo much!
Oh god, I'm going to be a giant ball of tears at graduation haha! :P
Hmm I'm not too sure whether it would look too good if when my school officially farewells us while people are crying, I'm up and about celebrating lol
I'll be glad to not have to do English anymore
I honestly believe this year has been the most life changing for me, but at the same time It's passed by like a blur! (if that makes any sense) I'm staring to get all sentimental and soppy because I can't believe it's almost all over! I've only been to the one high school so It's going to be really difficult to say goodbye to everything I've known for the past six years.
Oh god, I'm going to be a giant ball of tears at graduation haha! :P
Did not feel like Muck-Up Day at all today :\
HOW SO =O
I can tell it's bad since you're on AN atm rather than out enjoying the beautiful day with your friends :(
We got kicked out of the school at 11:30am, cos they didn't want us causing havoc.
Year 12 breakfast tomorrow, and then I'm all done.Sadness, followed by mind numbing study and then a cup of juicy success.
I wonder what's for breakfast... (mmm)
I just had to show you guys a present the school have us year 12s... I guess a stress ball is appropriate for the upcoming exams ;)
If I look really carefully I think you may have edited out your school's name? Maybe using photoshop? :PHaha! I must admit I know my way around Photoshop ;) my brothers graduating year got a wine glass too which is pretty cool! But hey we got a cute jar filled with lollies too :D I've got into my head this strange plan that if I eat one of these lollies before and after each exam it will give me infinite brain power (no?... Worth a try I guess :p )
I'm kidding, but that's really nice of your school :) My year level got wine glasses with the school emblem and "Class of 2013" watermarked/printed on it. Just a shame I won't be able to legally use to it drink wine for 2 months or so
Would have preferred a stress ball =]
You've just got to make the best of a worst situation.....especially when it comes around onceYou made the best of it by getting home at 9.30am?
You made the best of it by getting home at 9.30am?
:/
It'll separate the men from the boys, that's for sure!*ahem* /women ;)
*ahem* /women ;)BasicAcid isn't doing food technology ::)
BasicAcid isn't doing food technology ::)
*ahem* /women ;)
The series of exams commonly referred to as "the asian 5" on consecutive weekdays will distinguish between the mature students of greater mental stamina irrespective of gender from those not yet come of age emblematic the bildungsroman that is VCE.
^ that will so catch on. I mean who uses politically incorrect phrases like: separates the men from the boys
:P
What's PC mean?Would I be classified as a difficultist and would you be offended if I called you ComplexAcid?
And try saying aloud, "separates the men from the boys" then say your quotes.
Doesn't feel nor sound as good, does it?
Well there are plenty male stereotypes that are not true that I embrace and make a joke out of it.
I find it funny as long as no one gets serious.
So yes, I would be making that joke.
Exactly, it's like seeing a group of girls and just saying, "Hey guys!" although they are not guys.
What's PC mean?
And try saying aloud, "separates the men from the boys" then say your quotes.
Doesn't feel nor sound as good, does it?
Well there are plenty male stereotypes that are not true that I embrace and make a joke out of it.
I find it funny as long as no one gets serious.
So yes, I would be making that joke.
Exactly, it's like seeing a group of girls and just saying, "Hey guys!" although they are not guys.
Me thinks, it is time MOVE ON NOW :)
For those of you on SWOTVAC - do you feel like you're being productive?
I wasn't productive today -- that's for sure. :-\ I think I just had an off day. I'm really tired at the moment haha.
I'm not really sure, but is this period meant to be like super-intense? Because I don't feel like I'm working at a very intense level :\
Me thinks, it is time MOVE ON NOW :)
For those of you on SWOTVAC - do you feel like you're being productive?
Aww :( Don't worry we all have those days! Just make sure you sleep well tonight and start afresh tomorrow :)
I'm not really sure, but is this period meant to be like super-intense? Because I don't feel like I'm working at a very intense level :\
I did two spesh exams today, the first I got 90% and second I got 47%... The severe fluctuation of my marks are really alarming (they were both exam 2s by the way)
Also, another question... Did any of you pick a subject to ignore because it will almost certainly be in your bottom two? I'm doing this for methods, because I'd need 40+ for it to overtake my further score and with scaling I doubt it wold beat my specialist score, but I feel so guilty for not studying for it. I've done two practice exams as revision and that's it. Now I'm feeling really uneasy because I'll basically be going into the exam blindly but I don't want to waste my time studying for it because in the grand scheme of things studying for other subjects right now will probably give me a better ARAT at the end!
EDIT: ATAR ATAR ATAR can tell my spelling will get me some mighty fine marks in English!
Anyone else sick of correcting exams?
I actually enjoy doing exams but when it comes to correcting them... zzz
I've got a pile of exams I've done sitting there in a pile, uncorrected lol
The first thing she said was that its better if I mark them, so that I know where the mistakes are.
Or maybe, the teacher couldn't be bothered too :-\
I think my productiveness has slowed down. I've just been more like "Ugh..should probably do another practice exam" rather than "Yeah! New Challenge!". I've gotta get my head straightened ASAP for this next week and a half.
Also, congrats on 100 pages!
Hehe, I read "gotta get my hair straightened ASAP" :PJeggz here's the secret VCAA doesn't want you to know: It's all about the hair
It took SIX HOURS for me and my friends to get through all of French Rev today. 9.00 - 3.00. FML XDI can't tell if you're happy or mad about that. The "FML XD" is very confusing..
Jeggz here's the secret VCAA doesn't want you to know: It's all about the hair
I can't tell if you're happy or mad about that. The "FML XD" is very confusing..
I did the VCAA 2009 Chemistry unit 3 exam
As well as Thushan's Challenge examination in his notes.
The former was really simple
The latter was ridiculous. I mean sure, I could do some of the questions, but under exam conditions?
Nliu95 found my exam hard.
My life is complete.
The latter was ridiculous. I mean sure, I could do some of the questions, but under exam conditions?
Has anyone gotten to that stage where they're just excited to do the exams, namely Englishż I'm actually excited now haha! Kind of nervous yes, but its so close and soon it'll be over!!!
Edit: YEEEE REPLY #1500 8)
Has anyone gotten to that stage where they're just excited to do the exams, namely Englishż I'm actually excited now haha! Kind of nervous yes, but its so close and soon it'll be over!!!
Edit: YEEEE REPLY #1500 8)
Has anyone gotten to that stage where they're just excited to do the exams, namely Englishż I'm actually excited now haha! Kind of nervous yes, but its so close and soon it'll be over!!!
Edit: YEEEE REPLY #1500 8)
This is random, but how did you accidentally get the question mark upside-down? :S :P
My last trial exam for English was terrible. But that being said, I feel like I know exactly what I need to do come Wednesday, and I can still see myself achieving success. The English exam is probably the one I'm worried about the most, but I'm glad that it's only worth 50%, because my SAC results were good. I know I'm going to need the nerves for this exam to get me over the line, and then I need those nerves to go away for the rest of the exams so that I can concentrate. :P
It's a weird feeling, to be honest, and I can recall that I had it last year. It's basically the point where you realise you've done your absolute best and that no matter what happens, everything will be OK. :)
Well I'm doing my last trial exams today (two for Biology), before moving towards only doing passive revision and taking a break to get myself in the right mindset. Then I'll resume practice papers for Methods, Specialist and Chemistry on Friday. :)
This is random, but how did you accidentally get the question mark upside-down? :S :PHAHAAH I didn't even realise! It's fixed now though :P it's because I was on my phone and that upside down question mark is in the same position as the actual question mark but on the next page, if you get me.. So I always press it instead of the actual question mark :P my badddd
My last trial exam for English was terrible. But that being said, I feel like I know exactly what I need to do come Wednesday, and I can still see myself achieving success. The English exam is probably the one I'm worried about the most, but I'm glad that it's only worth 50%, because my SAC results were good. I know I'm going to need the nerves for this exam to get me over the line, and then I need those nerves to go away for the rest of the exams so that I can concentrate. :P
It's a weird feeling, to be honest, and I can recall that I had it last year. It's basically the point where you realise you've done your absolute best and that no matter what happens, everything will be OK. :)
Well I'm doing my last trial exams today (two for Biology), before moving towards only doing passive revision and taking a break to get myself in the right mindset. Then I'll resume practice papers for Methods, Specialist and Chemistry on Friday. :)
I'm so so so scared for English, it's by far the most important subject for me (in terms of ATAR) but I just feel like I'll either perform really well or terribly on the exam :-\ That being said, I can't wait till it's over so I can get stuck into the subjects I love again. Best of luck for all your exams guys, smash em!
Has anyone gotten to that stage where they're just excited to do the exams, namely English? I'm actually excited now haha! Kind of nervous yes, but its so close and soon it'll be over!!!
Edit: YEEEE REPLY #1500 8)
Why can I do two 2 hour calc active spesh exams in a row but I can't sit still for more than 30 minutes while revising for English?
Just going to chuck in some school pride here that I saw a month or so ago but just re-saw now, relating to the class of 13 <3 https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151715946344822&set=vb.673084821&type=2&theaterYESSSSS!
YESSSSS!
You're not alone. Hence why I've dragged myself into school twice during SWOTVAC to do English papers under proper conditions. I simply can't do them at home.
I won't be writing any more essays for English. I think all I need to do is just prepare for any sort of question.
Plus I'll be wearing a strap around my bloody wrist for the English exam, my wrist is sprained so badly.
If I use a faint pen to relieve some of the pressure will their scanners still pick up the writing?
I won't be writing any more essays for English. I think all I need to do is just prepare for any sort of question.Why don't you buy those uniball pens (I use uniball eye micro)? They let out dark ink but you don't need to push hard so you won't have pressure on your wrists :) I'm thinking of using them because under pressure I write really fast and thus push down when using ballpoint pens, and that makes my hand cramp quicker and hurt a lot more as well.
Plus I'll be wearing a strap around my bloody wrist for the English exam, my wrist is sprained so badly.
If I use a faint pen to relieve some of the pressure will their scanners still pick up the writing?
That's why I use BOTH my hands to write. Relieves stress so much it's not funny.I envy you so much for being able to do this :P
simba I know how you're feeling. I'm stressed out as f---, I actually feel sick. About everything, but I guess English most of all. Can hardly concentrate on anything. I'm just wasting away my time and that makes it so much worse :'(
That's why I use BOTH my hands to write. Relieves stress so much it's not funny.
That's why I use BOTH my hands to write. Relieves stress so much it's not funny.
That's why I use BOTH my hands to write. Relieves stress so much it's not funny.
That's why I use BOTH my hands to write. Relieves stress so much it's not funny.
Back page of Herald Sun tomorrow: "nliu1995 announced as number 1 draft pick for 2014 AFL season"
That's why I use BOTH my hands to write. Relieves stress so much it's not funny.
Anyone else shitting bricks for exams like I am?
On a side note, I had my Year 12 Formal on Friday night, and I can say that it was probably one of the best nights of my life! Going to miss high school life, right now I can't imagine my life without it! :(
Does anyone else have their Valedictory AFTER Exams? ???
Does anyone else have their Valedictory AFTER Exams? ???Mine's like end of November haha.. I guess it's kind of good because it means we come back into a school environment after exams finish, but I feel like lots of people will be overseas/on schoolies so there may not be such a high attendance rate :P I'm still going though and so are all my friends!
The only thing scaring me now is my SAC's :(Yeah I feel the same! I guess don't really think too much about it and focus on smashing those exams since they're worth a lot more than your sacs so whatever needs to happen will happen! If you're doing better in the VCAA exams then I guess your sac marks will scale up or something, since VCAA is the standard and you are able to cope with it :)
I know there's a thread on it already, but what would happen if there's a discrepancy between my SAC marks and my exam marks? Even when taken into consideration my cohort, which may be weak.
I mean, an example is Further where I think my SAC average is a B+, but for exam one, I lose about 3 marks, and exam 2 about 7. Both A+! Same deal with methods where I'm doing a lot better in exams than my SAC's (not as good as further though).
Yeah I feel the same! I guess don't really think too much about it and focus on smashing those exams since they're worth a lot more than your sacs so whatever needs to happen will happen! If you're doing better in the VCAA exams then I guess your sac marks will scale up or something, since VCAA is the standard and you are able to cope with it :)
Just focus on the exams and you will be fine :)
Mine's like end of November haha.. I guess it's kind of good because it means we come back into a school environment after exams finish, but I feel like lots of people will be overseas/on schoolies so there may not be such a high attendance rate :P I'm still going though and so are all my friends!
We had ours last week.
I didn't end up going, because my aunty was having her baby boy :)
But apparently,some of the asian and curry parents were taking heaps of spring rolls, and there was a rush to get all the food. I guess it happens when you go to a school predominantly with curries and asians! :P
I'm worried about my SACs for English and Methods. :(
Does anyone else have their Valedictory AFTER Exams? ???
We did, but our formal was before.
Ours was on the last day of term 3 :)
Formal, and then valedictory towards the end of November
Ours was on the last day of term 3 :)
We did, but our formal was before.
Our formal and graduation are on Dec 13/18 respectively! I never knew people had them so early haha! If people have graduation before exams, how do they announce the dux?
Haha at my school it's kinda complicated. At Val we had "Citizenship Award", "All-rounder Award" and "Student of the Year Award" then at the end of the year the Dux or Duces are named based on ATARs. Often the Dux isn't the Student of the Year at Val and vice versa
At other schools they have a "Valedictorian Award" then dux later. Depends on your school I guess :)
What other awards apart from Dux do your schools have?
What other awards apart from Dux do your schools have?
My school's awarding system is, IMO, quite simple.
In year 12, there are subject awards that are determined from SAC scores only, and you can get as many awards as you wish. Quite ironically, I got the English Language award only, which demonstrates what happens when I put all my effort into the one subject.
We don't have a dux of year 12 award announced before ATARs come out, and generally my school has multiple duces :P I have no idea what that award is, apart from having your name engraved in the school assembly hall.
Although we do have excellence awards for, presumably, the top 3 in our school. The first prize is 500, and second and third are 200 each.
Dux of year 11 is an awesome prize. The school gives a $25 book voucher (which is pathetic; I won five subject awards last year and dux of year for $200 in total, and my academic excellence award last year was $400. LOL what the), but Monash Uni gives $1000...holy shite...
Dux of year 11 is an awesome prize. The school gives a $25 book voucher (which is pathetic; I won five subject awards last year and dux of year for $200 in total, and my academic excellence award last year was $400. LOL what the), but Monash Uni gives $1000...holy shite...
Hey, you chose your school over mine. Don't blame me for that.
Monash Prize winner AND KLD I see? ;)
@Brighsky, we have monetary awards too, 400$ for student of the year, $300 for citizen and not sure how much for all rounder coz didn't get that one and didn't ask.
Buttt, the money is donated to use by the local Lions Club, not the school :)
KLD?
We have subject awards that are based on SAC's and Dux obviously, on awards night which is early December (before results)
But for Valedictory, we had a bit of fun, every student got nominated an award by someone in year 12, something funny! Some of the awards were hilarious!
KLD?
Often the Dux isn't the Student of the Year at Val and vice versa
That joke...and that disclaimer...they're a bit TOO coincidental? It's a bit like saying, sure, quantum mechanics allows a car to tunnel through a wall unharmed, but will it?
Reminds me of this (amazing) joke:
A physicist goes to an ice cream parlour every week and orders an ice cream for himself and offers an ice cream for the empty stool sitting next to him. This goes on for a while until the owner asks him what he is doing. The man said well Im a physicist and Quantum Mechanics teaches us that it is possible for the matter above this stool to spontaneously turn into a beautiful woman who might accept my offer and fall in love with me. The owner says well there are a lot of single beautiful woman come in here every day, so why dont you buy an ice cream for one of them and they might fall in love with you.
And the physicist says yeah, but what are the odds of that happening!
Finally, it's unoriginal; it was on TV.
It's not amazing...the second law of thermodynamics would forbid it.
Also...conservation of mass? Even more entropically unfavoured.
Finally, it's unoriginal; it was on TV.
I just stated the truth.
Everyone's reactions confuse me. I just stated the truth.
Oh, now you've made me think of language analysis
Well I was going to tell a maths joke that began "Infinitely many mathematicians walk into a bar," but having reevaluated the joke in light of nliu1995's rigorous analysis, I have deemed it too scientifically inaccurate to be shared.
Oh, now you've made me think of language analysis
aaaaaaannnndddd that'll swiftly get the thread back on topic :P
English is sooo closeeeee!!!! What's everyone (who's doing English of course) doing to prepare now?
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yeah. English is making me have no life. Yet I'm horribly inefficient ):
The second law of thermodynamics states (roughly) that matter won't organise itself from disorder in the form of free atoms into a tightly ordered system like a living organism.
Conservation of mass dictates that you would need gas particles the mass of a person, to create a person of that mass.
You don't even do English.
Actually the second law just states that it's very very very very unlikely for matter in high entropy to form a more ordered state, but technically not impossible. But yeah conservation of mass applies :-P haha loved the reactions to your comment.Well, it's phrased that it is impossible, even though it is, as you mention, based on probabilities.
Actually the second law just states that it's very very very very unlikely for matter in high entropy to form a more ordered state, but technically not impossible. But yeah conservation of mass applies :-P haha loved the reactions to your comment.
I'm sorry, I use "English" and "English Language" interchangeably. "English Language" fulfills my English prerequisite, and thus qualifies as "English".
Contradicting nliu in science?
Well this should be good
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Alright deadset though;
I'm not going to be coming back on ATARnotes until exams are over (i.e. Until probably the day after the date in my signature).
Cheers for the entertainment throughout the last few months, and being a form of procrastination that didn't make me feel as guilty.
Good luck (not that you'll need it) and hopefully we all go well.
:)
Class of '13.
It's not amazing...the second law of thermodynamics would forbid it.Sorry, would have replied earlier but was cramming for an optional 3hour uni maths exam today :))
Also...conservation of mass? Even more entropically unfavoured.
Finally, it's unoriginal; it was on TV.
aaaaaaannnndddd that'll swiftly get the thread back on topic :P
English is sooo closeeeee!!!! What's everyone (who's doing English of course) doing to prepare now?
COmpletely off topic, I've been feeling so unmotivated I just put English under my bed and have been doing Maths and Chem hahahha.Gosh twins! I tried to write an essay three times yeaterday, but I kept getting past the intro, giving up and doing some math!
I'm not gonna do any more essays. Along with some other subject exams today and tomorrow, I'll spend some time going over text response quotes, references for expository, notes for all 3 areas, structure, etc. I also want to do some plans today on those prompts/pieces/topics I haven't really written on before so I can cover any possible situation (to the extent that I'm able to, of course). Then tomorrow I'll go over all the plans and read through my essays+any other high scoring sample essays I've got. Then I'll just hope for the best because by then I would have done everything in my power so it's just up to how nice/mean VCAA wants to be on Wednesday!
60 minutes is good because under adrenaline and time pressure you'll be more likely to write faster, so as long as you have a few minutes to proof read you should be fine :)
What I was going to do was quickly look at the topics and prompt from the other 2 sections as soon as reading time starts, then read the article for the first time and absorb it, then if the article isn't too ridiculous, go back and decide on a topic and plan in my head for that topic and the prompt, and then spend the rest of the time going through the article again (or vice versa)
Then as soon as reading time's over I'll quickly jot down my ideas/refs for the other 2 sections and get straight into language analysis. I'm definitely starting with my language analysis first, because I think it's kind of pointless not to if you've just spent reading time looking through the piece.
Usually language analysis takes me a little longer than the other 2, but I guess it differs for everyone. As long as I can finish all 3 essays in time and have at least 5 minutes (~10 would be ideal) minimum at the end to skim-proofread, then I'll be fine. Hopefully that'll be the case!
Gosh twins! I tried to write an essay three times yeaterday, but I kept getting past the intro, giving up and doing some math!
Bad Simba, bad!
Started writing an essay.
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Gave up
Maths.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheVCEMeetingPoint/Discuss all things VCE here. Check Photos/Files section to find:
This page used to be helpful :(
"For the english exam, i thought that it would be a good idea to bring scissors and a glue stick into the exam room as i have a few photographs prepared which i'm thinking would be appropriate to paste into my exam booklet for my context piece. I would advise people to follow me in doing so as a picture can tell a thousand words."
"How many words does my statement of intention need to be for section C?"
"Hey guys for the englsh exam how do we now wich book to rite on in the exam? cos theyrs like 30 books on last yrs exam and i havent red all of then."
"Deffs gonna need to pee in the 3 hours on weds. FML! Any strategies to hold it in?"
"Can we write the English exam in green pen, it's the only one with ink in the four clicker left?"
*waits with baited breath*
it's 'bated' :P
heads up before the English exam ;)
TY. lol, means I've been spelling it wrong for like 10+ years of my life or however long I've know that phrase
used to spell "latter" as "later" too lol... =\ no 50 in English for me :P
Don't you mean people? There are around 70 of them per year...
Btw, has anyone done the language analysis for Engage 2012? Would love to discuss, so stuck right now.
I'll attach it (it's free, don't panic!)
edit; oh and, most of the articles I've found online or from practice exams weren't that helpful. You'll notice that VCAA assessors spend a lot of time deliberately adding in persuasive 'techniques' for students.
Good Luck studying everyone :))
It's bed time for me =]
It's 8:30! So I'm going to assume you have an exam tomorrow, so best of luck :)
If not, then....casual handshake, glides hand over hair situation.
Okay, so there are no exams tomorrow.
*Casually glides hand over hair*
how do u guys get rid of those exam jitters and anxiety attacks?follow these steps:
follow these steps:Which cereal? There's so many to choose from
8. Eat cereal
Which cereal? There's so many to choose from
I love Nutri-Grain! :)
Cornflakes and Weetbix are more ideal to eat for Breakfast, especially for an Exam. How many Weetbix do you do? :P
6.
6.
Is there anything you're not good at??
how do u guys get rid of those exam jitters and anxiety attacks?
This just reminded me, are we allowed to chew gum in the exams?
Chewing on gum really calms me down, and I've read somewhere that it helps you mental performance etcc.....
I just don't want to be approached in the middle of the exams to ask to spit it out or something....
This just reminded me, are we allowed to chew gum in the exams?
Chewing on gum really calms me down, and I've read somewhere that it helps you mental performance etcc.....
I just don't want to be approached in the middle of the exams to ask to spit it out or something....
Are the examiners really that strict? Do they full on walk around for the whole exam duration spotting potential cheaters etc?
Varies. You get some that stand at the end of the rows, and others that will walk up and down and check the barcode of your highlighter to make sure it isn't cheat-notes.
those at my school were so kick-back last year. My friend wasn't aware of the no-calculator thing during reading time even though they tell at start, and so he did nearly all of the core on his calculator that he could during reading time.
Who's pumped and ready? :D
Around this time tomorrow we'll have just finished planning our first piece / annotating the article and started writingOMG haha!
Who's pumped and ready? :D
Around this time tomorrow we'll have just finished planning our first piece / annotating the article and started writingI'm just excited to get it over and done with! As much as I love English, studying for this exam was such a burden because I need to make sure I cover everything, you know?
Who's pumped and ready? :D
OMG haha!
The only main issue I've got now is with sleep :/
I literally try EVERYTHING to ensure that I will get a good nights sleep, yet I always seem so lie awake for hours and consequently turn into a brain dead zombie the next day :'(
OMG haha!
The only main issue I've got now is with sleep :/
I literally try EVERYTHING to ensure that I will get a good nights sleep, yet I always seem so lie awake for hours and consequently turn into a brain dead zombie the next day :'(
im just wondering, i know that it says in rules to use pen, but can i write in pencil because i tend to change my wording a lot and write faster in pencil?
im just wondering, i know that it says in rules to use pen, but can i write in pencil because i tend to change my wording a lot and write faster in pencil?
just write with a gap in between your lines of writing, and add in any changes you like. Dont write with pencil. I know someone who did this (a literary prodigy - you have no idea) and they got an ss of 37. Although you might say that that is awesome (which it is), but this kid was brilliant beyond brilliant. You dont want to get a lower mark simply cause of some faulty scanning and smudging
if i run out pages will they give me extra pages? ( im planning on leaving one line in between now )
This is a really stupid but legit question... Can I take tissues into the exam? Just in case I need them and also in case I need padding for my thumb while writing so it doesn't hurt too much.. I was just gonna keep some tissues on my table next to my pens and all, is that ok or will the supervisors take them away or something?
I honestly can't see why not, but they might be suspicious of notes or something, so maybe they'll check it and you'll be all good? Or maybe bring a sealed pack in?Yeah I was gonna bring in a sealed pack, but it's got some writing on it, so wouldn't they not like that?
This is a really stupid but legit question... Can I take tissues into the exam? Just in case I need them and also in case I need padding for my thumb while writing so it doesn't hurt too much.. I was just gonna keep some tissues on my table next to my pens and all, is that ok or will the supervisors take them away or something?
Yeah I was gonna bring in a sealed pack, but it's got some writing on it, so wouldn't they not like that?
What would happen if you suddenly had a blood nose? Will it matter if the paper gets smudged or what?
What would happen if you suddenly had a blood nose? Will it matter if the paper gets smudged or what?
What would happen if you suddenly had a blood nose? Will it matter if the paper gets smudged or what?
chamber of secrets has been opened.
Ahhh yeah, this happened to me. It's fine, they'll give you a tissue and you can wipe as much off as possible :P
Ahh thanks and hahaha Alwin.
I'm sorry :( did I offend you? Was my colloquial reference to the popularised series entitled "Harry Potter" not to you liking alienating you from the rest of my post? That was not my intended effect even though you were my primary target audience :(
Lol what?
Lol what?
Alwin is just being Alwin.^This guy knows me well :P
can we be friends? :D
YES OFC WE CAN BE FRIENDS. OHMYGOSH ILL ADD YOU TO THAT BUDDY LIST THINGO THAT I'VE NEVER TRIED USING BEFORE. DOES IT MEAN THAT YOUR POSTS SHOW UP IN MY HOME PAGE OR IS THAT JUST A FACEBOOK THING AND I HAVE TO STALK YOU THE TRADITIONAL WAY? :P
asdfmovie is gonna regret asking to be friends now.....:P
But in all honesty if a Mod sees this, what does the Buddy List thing actually do? ???
How is everyone this fine evening?
How is everyone this fine evening?panicking about English. English is to me as Voldemort was to harry potter. I NEED TO BEAT IT UP!!!!
panicking about English. English is to me as Voldemort was to harry potter. I NEED TO BEAT IT UP!!!!
How is everyone this fine evening?
(http://i.imgur.com/1LRsbSQ.gif)I thought it's past your bedtime Alwin :P or definitely nearing it for tomorrow.
Could someone please explain to me how the exam is marked out of 60?! I can tell I'm missing something probably blatantly obvious, but isn't it three marks out of 10 :oThey are marked by two examiners.
For anyone that reads this Post, what is the best "form" of clock that you have in your Exam room?
We have a digital clock that is on a projector and it even states the name of the subject as well as the start and end times of the exam. :D
Planning something a little different for context...the night before...
This better work. :p
Could someone please explain to me how the exam is marked out of 60?! I can tell I'm missing something probably blatantly obvious, but isn't it three marks out of 10 :o
Damn that's good, my school has a couple whiteboards where they cross off 15 min intervals and in past years when they forget to cross off the times... ><
Each Section is marked by two examiners, so therefore its out of 20 for each section which totals a score out of 60. :)
How is everyone this fine evening?
I'm just chillin', I might just do some light reading, but anything is probably unnecessary, and will only reinforce what I already have reinforced before haha!
Isolated showers tomorrow over south eastern suburbs, that's me! Hope it all concentrates on the hall and the building leaks water everywhere and then my cohort can take class action against the VCAA, my school and whoever else we can and get 60/60 as a derived score for our exam.
Yup. I am going to bed too..
It feels a bit weird how this exam can actually define my future (awaits people to challenge this statement).
Anyway good luck
I'm thinking of just locking the entire forum at midnight so everybody goes to bed. The number of people online right now is scary!It's always that night before the exam...okay I need to go to bed now.
Guys, good luck. You'll be super glad once the English exam is over, you don't have to worry about it again. Ever.
TWO GOLDEN WORDS.
Did you even do English mate?
Did you even do English mate?
Finished!
I think I did well. The identity and belonging prompt was really weird for me. All of my pre prepared ideas were irrelevant so I had to think of completely new ideas and evidence. Language analysis was okay but he was arguing for the council to build a community garden and the wellbeing of people so I was a bot confused.
What was the tone??
And people were loving half way into the exam which I found absolutely selfish and irritating. It broke my trail of thought once and if possibly demotivated other students seeing their friends leave.
And how bad is illegible handwriting? My writing was pretty bad at some stages.
Sorry can't edit on my phone. Link wont work.
MOD EDIT: Combined three posts into one
people left half way???
The only thing that scared me about english was the language analysis, it's so unpredictable to know just how well you went. Would 3.5 pages on VCAA paper be too short? I discussed more things in depth, than to list things and try to include it all
What's with so many pages?! I did a full 2-2.5 pages for each piece at the max!
Don't stress, none of my pieces exceeded three pages. My writing is a bit small, but not ridiculously tiny. Doesn't matter anyways, quality over quantity!
3.5 pages for LA too Edward21... it's a shame because LA has always been my strength. It's the one that I'm not meant to worry about but I'm worrying a bit now!Same, it's just so difficult to tell was I awesome or just average because for me too LA has always been a prized strength, but now I'm not entirely sure.. :-\ Hopefully if I lose a few marks on LA, I will gain more than expected for the other sections
Same, it's just so difficult to tell was I awesome or just average because for me too LA has always been a prized strength, but now I'm not entirely sure.. :-\ Hopefully if I lose a few marks on LA, I will gain more than expected for the other sectionsYes.. if we collaborate our hope will be stronger xD
Three things:The phone of an invigilator went off in mine and it was just plain awkward... :O
1. I was one of those annoying people who had to pee during the exam (curse you bladder, curse you to hell)
2. Our school told the VCAA supervisors that NONE of us could leave
3. There were about 10 people left writing in a cohort of ~100 for the last half hour (the others were just sitting there with their books closed :0 )
Oh, and 4:
HOLY MOTHER OF GOD WE'VE DONE IT GUYS, VCE ENGLISH DEMON HAD BEEN CONQUERED YAAAAAAAAAAY!!!
Same, it's just so difficult to tell was I awesome or just average because for me too LA has always been a prized strength, but now I'm not entirely sure.. :-\ Hopefully if I lose a few marks on LA, I will gain more than expected for the other sections
Anyone gonna study tonight or...?
1 whole week until methods lol
Anyone gonna study tonight or...?
1 whole week until methods lol
I'll start doing methods and spesh later today since I haven't touched math in over a week :P
maybe
Anyone gonna study tonight or...?
1 whole week until methods lol
I got Biology tomorrow. No more studying for me.
Yeah I'm back to studying for further.
Oh, who had the same supervisors from the GAT? We had the same ones. They were good. They weren't intrusive, as in they weren't walking around tables for the whole exam and checking items, they just sat at the front and did a quick walk up the classroom in a while!Yeah, we had the same supervisors last year too! But they're quite chill and don't really check much at all (didn't check our books for further last year or anything like that)
So they're definitely not past teachers?Nope. At least, mine wasn't.
Had a derp moment in exam: wrote the first page of my context piece on the last page of section A. Was disorientated, asked for new scriptbook. Realised what I had done. Had to cross it out and write it again in the right section. Still finished with plenty of time. Swagilicious.Woah, top effort on keeping your composure through it!!
Woah, top effort on keeping your composure through it!!
Had a derp moment in exam: wrote the first page of my context piece on the last page of section A. Was disorientated, asked for new scriptbook. Realised what I had done. Had to cross it out and write it again in the right section. Still finished with plenty of time. Swagilicious.
Had a derp moment in exam: wrote the first page of my context piece on the last page of section A. Was disorientated, asked for new scriptbook. Realised what I had done. Had to cross it out and write it again in the right section. Still finished with plenty of time. Swagilicious.Incredaswag
The divide between illustrious english mods and us commoners :P
I'm so pumped. No more English - Ever. I have been waiting for this day since Year 7.
I wasn't a fan of English at the start of this year, but in my redemption (Students who did ACC for Section A will understand my use of this word) of marks, I improved a lot and now I'm actually going to miss English. :(
Meanwhile many of us (myself include) struggled to finish on time :(
nek minut ... 50 RAW~~
I'll probably miss english soon, but not now :)
legit didn't finish RKTR.
I'll probably miss english soon, but not now :)
Am I the only one here who's getting more and more sick of playing the numbers game? I used to really care about getting that 90 atar, but now I'm just using these exams just to see how well I'll perform against everyone else!
Am I the only one here who's getting more and more sick of playing the numbers game? I used to really care about getting that 90 atar, but now I'm just using these exams just to see how well I'll perform against everyone else!
Am I the only one here who's getting more and more sick of playing the numbers game? I used to really care about getting that 90 atar, but now I'm just using these exams just to see how well I'll perform against everyone else!I'm sick of the numbers game, but it has inspired me the whole year so I can't really hate it.. ::)
Are you guys selling off your books or keeping them after VCE?
Are you guys selling off your books or keeping them after VCE?
Are you guys selling off your books or keeping them after VCE?Still use most of the VCE maths stuff for tutoring. Never really sold anything form yr 7 and up, so back home in the west we have nearly a library of high school textbooks from yr 7 - 10... But comes in handy a little bit since my sister is a teacher. Gives her something to look for more material from which her students don't have access to.
if anyone has younger brother, siblings or friends that may want to purchase excellent quality notes, i have some (not made bye me).
ive got chem, physics, english, methods and biology.
Are you guys selling off your books or keeping them after VCE?
Am I the only one here who's getting more and more sick of playing the numbers game?
Now where have I heard users saying to not play the "numbers game" before? ::)
It's different being told by others and feeling it yourself. I couldn't help it no matter what anyone said, until recently..Do you feel as if the numbers game has ruined your VCE experience? It ruined mine a bit I'll admit.
Do you feel as if the numbers game has ruined your VCE experience? It ruined mine a bit I'll admit.
It only happens if you let yourself get caught up in it. it's easy to get too ahead of yourself orpunish yourself with a low prediction. Don't predict , just do. You don't have to play the numbers game if you don't want to.
I actually see ATAR Clac as a lesser version of the Mirror of Erised (from Harry Potter): "Men have wasted away before it, not knowing if what they have seen is real, or even possible." Obviously I would hope no student has "wasted away before it", but no doubt many have "wasted hours and hours" trying to get that ATAR.
O__O that catapults me right into BSc at UoM
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Did anyone get an offer from Uni of Adelaide for Med today? :)
How can Nina break it? ??? Lol
You realise this is Nina we're talking about right? Technology and her don't go well at all.
I did! Yesterday night ,yeh?
But I'm not going to all the way to adelaide just to do an interview . Too lazy :(
Did anyone get an offer from Uni of Adelaide for Med today? :)
Didn't get one for Med :( But got one for dent :)
I don't do further so I'm wondering, are the things examined today also possibly examined on Monday?
And why are both exams calc active lol
I don't do further so I'm wondering, are the things examined today also possibly examined on Monday?
And why are both exams calc active lol
Alright so if you struggled with Internet networks or matrices/graphs/probability or whatever was on the exam today, make sure you learn how to do it so you're ready for Monday :)
Btw, for those who've done a science, how have you found it? Long/Short/Hard/Did enough practice? Because I'm going to assume that it'll be pretty similar to Chem.
Hmmm.....Well a lot of people found Bio easy, but then a lot of people found Psych hard. =/
Is it just me or is anyone else getting a lot of pimples?Haha adolescence or VCE stress? I've noticed more, but it could be getting older, who knows? :P it's not on the study design ;)
And my face seems to be a lot more oily as well lol
OH MY GOSH!
I just realised this day last year was the day I joined AN :')
Just wanted so say a quick thank you to all of you! I never would have thought I would meet such supportive, insightful and helpful people online but you've obviously proven me wrong there!
I think they're more likely to mix stuff from unit 3 and 4 for chem, more than bio and psych.
But did they mix stuff in bio and psych?
From what I've heard, a LOT of people were not happy with Psych.
You're all going to hate me for saying thisYou're right, I hate you for saying that.
but I hope the chemistry and physics exams are absolute torture :P
The exam difficulty doesn't change the scaling; that's set by who's doing the subject.Expecting a 120/120 with the A+ cutoff at 80 eh?
It'll just change the grade cutoffs.
The exam difficulty doesn't change the scaling; that's set by who's doing the subject.Didn't use the right terminology there. I meant if its easy, everyone is more likely to do well and all those stupid mistakes my brain is apparently so fond of will set me back more.
It'll just change the grade cutoffs.
That's not happening for any of my subjects119/120?
Torture and violence is never the answer! :PWE KNOW WHAT THE LAST QUESTION IS? WHY DIDN'T I GET THE MEMO?
How are we preparing for that last question on the chem exam?
Lol, no. I'm pretty sure that counts as cheating! :o However, the last question is an "essay type" question, worth 7 marks or something like that.Woah, is it seriously? How did you find out?
Also, thushan, you're not in year 12, are you? ???
Woah, is it seriously? How did you find out?
A 7 mark essay type question? The only thing i can think of with that, is talking about equilibrium principles.
Torture and violence is never the answer! :P
How are we preparing for that last question on the chem exam?
I'm with Clippy, I never heard about this!??!
Yeah, the practise ones I've seen are equilibrium and Le Chat's principles as well as vol. analysis and the structures of a protein. Could be anything though, when you think about it.
Yes, but I don't do free advertising. ::)
Look, it seems like that extended question or whatever will be a bit difficult to prepare for, given the lack of information and resources. We'll just have to suss it out on the day.
Actually, just on that note, after doing the AN chem practice exams I asked my teacher if it could be an essay-ish type question, and he said it would only ever be a critical analysis of experimental design. Not that I can doublecheck on the SD because of this bloody 503 error >:(
Care to explain?
I think he means that we only have one sample VCAA paper to go off. Every other resource (including the AN book) is basically an attempt to emulate the sample paper. Only VCAA knows what they want to assess in the 6-mark questions, and the only thing we (AN, NEAP, etc.) can do is guess what they might ask in these questions and write questions accordingly in our books.
Couldn't have said it better myself. Of course, I didn't intend to offend anyone by suggesting that their guesses are inaccurate, but we essentially won't know until the day of the exam because VCAA hasn't given away very much.Yeah, I wouldn't read in too much into the sample exam. Our bio exam was nothing like the sample.
Did anyone get an offer from Uni of Adelaide for Med today? :)
I gotta ask is the cat in your display picture, your cat or is it a picture from the internet? :-\
Yeah, I wouldn't read in too much into the sample exam. Our bio exam was nothing like the sample.
Self-portrait
Self-portrait
On this note, did anyone else notice that the sample exam for Chem was just a bunch of questions taken straight from previous years papers? Not even kidding.
That was for physics.
And I haven't done any chem practice exams except for the sample one so I'm not too sure.
#bottomsubject
Congrats nliu1995, the Class of 2013 MVP :)and Alwin for
Sigh... my printer ran out of ink. Not a good time for this to happen. :|
egad, the same thing happened to me today...:/
wtf
How do you cope? I've been trying to do all sorts of stuff to get around it to no avail. :P
HI FIVE! My dp is a self-portrait too! :P
Yeah, mine too.
Guys :(
I don't know what to do, I missed my application deadline for medicine at Monash (closed yesterday). I've emailed them and filled out a late application, but I fear it's destined to be rejected. If it is, I'm completely and utterly screwed for doing med.
What should I do?
omg scared me. *phew*
Just saw your other thread by the way. I think if you got the email on the 24th, the deadline is 1/11 and if you get the resend email on the 27th (I got the resend email), the deadline is 3/11 but they might have just extended the deadline to 3/11 without telling everyone, so don't worry, it should be fine. Good luck though!
nah paid a trip to the local ink store. can't survive without my printer :p
I can't be the only one who has been doing all their practice exams on PDFs?
This. I didn't see the need to print any and ended up doing ok in VCE. Save the tree.Yeah I mean I'm totally for the environment.. not really. I just like to do them on the computer and write in my book. I can feed my computer addiction AND learn simultaneously.
Personal preference though, some people apparently "can't do them looking at a screen" or would like to imitate exam conditions for every exam. I still say save the trees! :P
Got my printer for $0.06 off eBay. Works well. You can find late 2000s model printers for like $5 or even free. Oh and yes I'm proud I outbid the guy who had the $0.01 bid.The thing is the printer can come cheap enough, what sets you back a lot is the ink or toner. HP ink cartridges for my printer are like $40 each and considering the junk prints at a rate of like half a page in a minute, I prefer to raid the school laser printers.
The thing is the printer can come cheap enough, what sets you back a lot is the ink or toner. HP ink cartridges for my printer are like $40 each and considering the junk prints at a rate of like half a page in a minute, I prefer to raid the school laser printers.
In fact I just print all my exams off at the school printers, makes me feel like a cheapskate but last year so why not? ;D
The thing is the printer can come cheap enough, what sets you back a lot is the ink or toner. HP ink cartridges for my printer are like $40 each and considering the junk prints at a rate of like half a page in a minute, I prefer to raid the school laser printers.
In fact I just print all my exams off at the school printers, makes me feel like a cheapskate but last year so why not? ;D
Can't even do that, costs me 50c per page.
omg IKR, it's a bit sad but god damn officeworks paper is the nicest feeling paper in the world HAHA. Their binding is pretty cool too (you get to pick colors), it's probably not necessary but for an extra dollar or so why not.
On the point of laser printers, best purchase I've made all year. I was out after school once and saw a brother HL2135 for 35 dollars or so, needless to say it was pretty weird sitting on a bus with a printer :P (and the speed and duty cycles of lasers are so much better than the old inkjet)
...yeah printing excites me :)
Wait crap...I remembered the wrong printing size
That's for A3
A4 is 5c as well
I'm really forgetful now. Got 4.5 hours of sleep this morning, did around 6 hours worth of exams today while trying to help a uni friend with physics (and she's really not that good)...I'm tired.
LOL I considered saying something similar to that about the paper, but I didn't want to sound creepy or anything. HAHA!
Wait crap...I remembered the wrong printing size
That's for A3
A4 is 5c as well
WOAH! At my school it's 1 cent per page! And the way that the machine works is not through the use of a library card but through a PIN system, which is flawed because you can pretty much punch in 4 random numbers and get someone else's PIN and print using their money. :P
LOL! We have like a system called "PaperCut", and its linked to our school login. Sometimes in the library, some people print on other people's accounts when that student goes to collect their printing (which is at the other side of the library). :PWe have the same thing!!
I guess some people don't realise that there is a "Lock this computer" function. :P
We have the same thing!!
But OMG I hate how it gives you statistics on how many trees of paper you've used!
I'm a murderer :'(
I guess you guys are gonna hate me over how I can print for free? :P Well that is up to a certain mysterious number of pages that I have yet to reach... after that, I think they send you a nice bill for doing the honours of emptying the toner.
Didn't know so many of you had to pay for printing at school!
I know right! It makes me feel guilty, every time I log into it. :'(haha yes! I've never actually tried to transfer money (no need, I don't think anyone EVER runs out of printing allowance. ever.)
And even the bit about the amount of carbon dioxide or something being emitted. =/
Are you allowed to transfer money to another student's account? I used to be able to at my old school (Had the same system), but its disabled at my current school. :P
I guess you guys are gonna hate me over how I can print for free? :P Well that is up to a certain mysterious number of pages that I have yet to reach... after that, I think they send you a nice bill for doing the honours of emptying the toner.Well in VCE we get a budget of $50 per term at 5c per sheet... I've never used up all my printing money in a term! (even when I had the great idea to print out like 30 practice exams plus solutions haha)
Didn't know so many of you had to pay for printing at school!
Well in VCE we get a budget of $50 per term at 5c per sheet... I've never used up all my printing money in a term! (even when I had the great idea to print out like 30 practice exams plus solutions haha)
I've got the same thing as Damoz "PaperCut". My school I think is 5c for a black and white, 25c for a colour. It's ridiculous really.
25c for colour? Thats a big jump in price from black and white. =/We don't even get assigned printing credit for the year. You can purchase a $5 "voucher" to redeem via papercut and that stays in your account.
I think its roughly 15c for us.
We don't even get assigned printing credit for the year. You can purchase a $5 "voucher" to redeem via papercut and that stays in your account.
A mysterious number? Your not told of the number? ???My school's mentality: If we tell you the limit to what you can print, everyone's just going to print right up to that limit.
That's actually quite scary, especially if you do a lot of printing in one go. =/
My school's mentality: If we tell you the limit to what you can print, everyone's just going to print right up to that limit.
I guess since we don't know, we're supposed to be more careful but I'm not too sure whether the students at our school actually care or are even aware for that fact. We pretty much take free printing for granted.
That's basically it, that no-one as far as I know has been shot by the school for printing too much. I've heard teachers copping it since they sometimes print practice exams for classes at a time, but I reckon since you're a teacher they probably would waive it (and I suspect they're actually part of a plot to intimidate us to print less).
All in all, our school has never really taken charging for printing too seriously, unless you use the library photocopier which can do A3 THEN you have to pay, but no-one uses that so it's all good.
Further Exam 2.. Come at me bro*!;)
Speaking about printing and stuff, does anyone here actually use a fax machine?
I like the whole concept of it, but I don't fully get how they work - how do you get charged?
I know it uses the phoneline, so does your telco just charge you per sheet you send or something?
I used to have one, but from memory, you don't get charged. Check with your home phone provider just to be sure because it might depend on that. :)
Well my mate just completed VCE.
English, bio, Eco, psych and further lmao
Spamming our Facebook newsfeed but it's unfortunate he'll have no one else to go out and celebrate with for at least another few days haha
Well my mate just completed VCE.
English, bio, Eco, psych and further lmao
Spamming our Facebook newsfeed but it's unfortunate he'll have no one else to go out and celebrate with for at least another few days haha
Well my mate just completed VCE.
English, bio, Eco, psych and further lmao
Spamming our Facebook newsfeed but it's unfortunate he'll have no one else to go out and celebrate with for at least another few days haha
Well my mate just completed VCE.
English, bio, Eco, psych and further lmao
Spamming our Facebook newsfeed but it's unfortunate he'll have no one else to go out and celebrate with for at least another few days haha
I can't swear here, but I'd like to say...go die in a hole, covered by cockroaches, filled with nitrogen(I) oxide gas and let the hole burn.
My first exam hasn't started yet either, and my last exam is in like three weeks -.-
UMEP physics 18th
uni chemistry exam to skip first year chemistry on the week of the 25th
UMEP physics 18th
uni chemistry exam to skip first year chemistry on the week of the 25th
UMEP physics credits for a whole year.
UMEP maths doesn't.
UMEP physics credits for a whole year.Wait so if u do UMEP maths u will still have to do accelerated maths 1 and 2 in uni?
UMEP maths doesn't.
You still have to do accelerated maths 2.0.o never knew that
All I can say is that when I finish my exams I'm going to have a lifes worth supply of toilet paper to use.
Well my mate just completed VCE.
English, bio, Eco, psych and further lmao
Spamming our Facebook newsfeed but it's unfortunate he'll have no one else to go out and celebrate with for at least another few days haha
LOL! Congrats on 1000 Posts! :D
Cute.
???
pi, you scare me sometimes. :'(
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHA!
Awww :)
quick question for everyone here:I know them feels! I generally make a list of all that I want to achieve, and just work through it until everything is crossed off. It helps appease the guilt and that nagging sense that more could be done. :)
how do you know when you've done enough studying for one day?
it's hard to know when to stop, whether i should do more work, etc
exam time makes you feel so guilty for doing anything other than studying!
haha thats awesome! i'll definitely try it out tomorrow :D
UMEP physics credits for a whole year.
UMEP maths doesn't.
just a side note: MUEP maths credits for the whole yearGuessing he'll move onto second year chem and/or physics (not sure what the prereqs will be with maths there, i.e. physics might need the harder math)? If you're going to end up with a semester or two where you can take a lighter load because of doing units early, it's probably best to leave the gaps until later years, that way you'll have more time when you have the harder third year units, rather than having a gap during the easier, first year.
@nliu, no physics or chem in first year? whatever will you do in all that free time you'll have next year? :P
I know them feels! I generally make a list of all that I want to achieve, and just work through it until everything is crossed off. It helps appease the guilt and that nagging sense that more could be done. :)
Definitely going to try this as well. I've got 8 days until my last two exams now, and I can just feel my brain already trying to switch into holiday mode.
just a side note: MUEP maths credits for the whole year
@nliu, no physics or chem in first year? whatever will you do in all that free time you'll have next year? :P
I've got a question to anyone who has done an exam at 3pm. Any tips on the leadup to 3pm so I can be fully awake, rather than be in that weird mental state where my brain just relaxes in the afternoon?
I've got a question to anyone who has done an exam at 3pm. Any tips on the leadup to 3pm so I can be fully awake, rather than be in that weird mental state where my brain just relaxes in the afternoon?
Just for those who wanted it:
Study Score Predictor
WARNING: it's kinda rough, so I've included other sources in there (Mao and Paul) but yeah. We each used different methods for prediction but I've put it all in there with the vcaa data. Just plug in values and let me know if anything goes wrong.
Good luck with your remaining exams and don't stress! The marks will work themselves out in the end :)
I'll make a proper one later when I have more time and post it on the Victorian Technical Score Discussion Board
Can't seem to get the study score to pop up, probably typing something wrong haha
Can't seem to get the study score to pop up, probably typing something wrong haha
Am I the only one here who's getting more and more sick of playing the numbers game? I used to really care about getting that 90 atar, but now I'm just using these exams just to see how well I'll perform against everyone else!
Slipping back to old habits so soon? :P [in david attenborough voice] "Here we have the rare, ATAR and Study Score addict" :P :P
Just for those who wanted it:I've put in all the values inc. year, high/med, grade range and score and the SS isn't coming up :-[
Study Score Predictor
WARNING: it's kinda rough, so I've included other sources in there (Mao and Paul) but yeah. We each used different methods for prediction but I've put it all in there with the vcaa data. Just plug in values and let me know if anything goes wrong.
Good luck with your remaining exams and don't stress! The marks will work themselves out in the end :)
I'll make a proper one later when I have more time and post it on the Victorian Technical Score Discussion Board
I've put in all the values inc. year, high/med, grade range and score and the SS isn't coming up :-[
I don't think you are meant to put in Scores. Just use the drop-down menu and select the grades, then it should come up. :)Ok I finally figured it out, but I think it's quite...um inaccurate. I put in the exact results from VCAA that I got from last year for my 3/4, it came out with a 41 when I got a 44, so it's sort of right, but sort of off the mark..
Ok I finally figured it out, but I think it's quite...um inaccurate. I put in the exact results from VCAA that I got from last year for my 3/4, it came out with a 41 when I got a 44, so it's sort of right, but sort of off the mark..
Is not working at all for me :/
Ok I finally figured it out, but I think it's quite...um inaccurate. I put in the exact results from VCAA that I got from last year for my 3/4, it came out with a 41 when I got a 44, so it's sort of right, but sort of off the mark..I gave it a shot with what I had back when I did yr 12. It seems to overestimate study scores by a fair bit, e.g. for spesh it gave around 6 higher than the actual (putting a B+ in one of the entries and 47, I don't think so). I had a look at the code behind it, and not sure too much what you've done differently. Mao's old Study Score estimator was always really close to the scores I actually got. Besides making it easier to enter things and and putting the grade distributions on the side and Paul's stuff, I don't really see anything new. I know you put effort into it, it's just that it's feels like it's taken other peoples work and ideas and just made things look fancy, and then skewed the actual function of the thing.
I've got a question to anyone who has done an exam at 3pm. Any tips on the leadup to 3pm so I can be fully awake, rather than be in that weird mental state where my brain just relaxes in the afternoon?Go to sleep like 3am :) I really can't do morning exams, I love 3pm. That way there's no pressure to fall asleep early.
Which subject are you trying to use it for?
Besides making it easier to enter things and and putting the grade distributions on the side and Paul's stuff, I don't really see anything new.That's a great improvement though, in my opinion. Making an easier to use study score predictor is something we always planned to do, but never really got around to finishing. Especially considering that I don't think most people know how to use Mao's study score estimator since it requires a bit of extra effort to work out how to use.
Let's just say it's still in Beta! :DWhat I said was probably a little harsh and well yeah I know it was made in a short space of time, it's just that overestimating by that kind of margin can give people a false sense of security, and well a rude shock on results day.
It's so much easier to use which is great!
https://www.facebook.com/UniversityOfMelbourneConfessions/posts/500140796760756?comment_id=55174775&reply_comment_id=55174956&offset=0&total_comments=62¬if_t=feed_comment_reply
Repping year 12s, get around it
How much time do you have up your sleeve? O_oPerhaps quite a bit?
Ok I finally figured it out, but I think it's quite...um inaccurate. I put in the exact results from VCAA that I got from last year for my 3/4, it came out with a 41 when I got a 44, so it's sort of right, but sort of off the mark..Hmm. That's interesting, what subject?
I gave it a shot with what I had back when I did yr 12. It seems to overestimate study scores by a fair bit, e.g. for spesh it gave around 6 higher than the actual (putting a B+ in one of the entries and 47, I don't think so). I had a look at the code behind it, and not sure too much what you've done differently. Mao's old Study Score estimator was always really close to the scores I actually got. Besides making it easier to enter things and and putting the grade distributions on the side and Paul's stuff, I don't really see anything new. I know you put effort into it, it's just that it's feels like it's taken other peoples work and ideas and just made things look fancy, and then skewed the actual function of the thing.I know, thanks and btw removed it from my original post. I knew it was off because I only have 2 sets of data to work with (my methods and physics scores) which are kinda high.
EDIT: It really overestimates on the lower end... really don't want people to be getting a false hope here.
Let's be honest about the whole 'studying at uni' thing. Last year before Year 11 exams I studied at the State Library and my local library a bit. Now when I get to the State Lib at like 10:03 and already all the desks are full I think, seriously? Year 11's don't need to worry about 1/2 exams, they shouldn't take our spots that we need for Year 12 study :P
But I know next year I'll probably rage at the Year 12's for taking uni student's spots haha
Perhaps quite a bit?
Hey guys, been using this site for a while now but only just registered >.>I'm not sure why you're concerned about the average ATAR mark of your school, even if you were at a larger school it doesn't really have anything to do with the score you get or the scores that future Year 12 students at your school might get. There might be some kind of trend with the two, but that doesn't particularly mean anything. If you're the only person getting an ATAR from your school (unless others are doing the VCAL/VCE mix?), then you'd expect the average to be your ATAR.
Thought this thread would be a pretty good place to ask for help/advice from other year 12s... There's one question that's actually been bothering me for ages. If I'm not in the right place to ask this, are you able to point me there? :)
I am the only one completing VCE at my school, and I was wondering what effect this would have on my school's average ATAR mark for the year. I mean, is an average even considered in this case?
Thanks.
Oh, I'm worried. Don't you have exams Alwin? :P
We're well into the VCE exam period, yet I still have 5 to go :'(
We're well into the VCE exam period, yet I still have 5 to go :'(
Me Aussie too
It's Alwin, even if he does "crash", he'll bounce back up like a rubber aeroplane and continue soaring through the air.
Did you make that Profile Pic on paint or did you get it off Google?
Ironically I actually want to be an aerospace engineer. And there is a method behind my "madness" :P
U r not nliu1995
I've never really understood what that means. Are we supposed to be reassured by the fact that while you are self-admittedly insane, you're going about your insanity in logically thought out steps?
What's important to me wouldn't be 'how you're being a crazy person', but instead, the fact that 'you are a crazy person'.
While I'm already ranting - what is with the saying 'taking a stab in the dark'? Why are you stabbing people? And why are you so nonchalant about it that you're doing it without any awareness of whomever you're stabbing? It's a terribly inefficient method of stabbing people as well. The 'actual number of people stabbed' to 'stabbing motion made' ratio must be incredibly low. In this instance you're demonstrating both madness AND a lack of method.
We're well into the VCE exam period, yet I still have 5 to go :'(
Samesies my friend :( BUT THIS TIME IN A WEEK I WILL BE STREAKING AROUND THE SCHOOL IN ACT OF DEFIANCE BECAUSE I WILL BE DONE WOOOOOOOOT!!
Plus it's my 18th two days after my last exam ;D
I apologize.So many big words. :0
I was attempting to elicit humour through the juxtaposition of SocialRhubarb's sophisticated language describing your mental state with my "lolcat" language which referenced another well known ATARnotes member whom we can relate to and whom is also known for convoluted language of such.
I've never really understood what that means. Are we supposed to be reassured by the fact that while you are self-admittedly insane, you're going about your insanity in logically thought out steps?
What's important to me wouldn't be 'how you're being a crazy person', but instead, the fact that 'you are a crazy person'.
While I'm already ranting - what is with the saying 'taking a stab in the dark'? Why are you stabbing people? And why are you so nonchalant about it that you're doing it without any awareness of whomever you're stabbing? It's a terribly inefficient method of stabbing people as well. The 'actual number of people stabbed' to 'stabbing motion made' ratio must be incredibly low. In this instance you're demonstrating both madness AND a lack of method.
I apologize.
I was attempting to elicit humour through the juxtaposition of SocialRhubarb's sophisticated language describing your mental state with my "lolcat" language which referenced another well known ATARnotes member whom we can relate to and whom is also known for convoluted language of such.
I like this guy.But we're cool, right?
I don't like this guy
This is basically just for b^3 because I can't attach things in pm, but I really can't stop you from downloading it...Better. Doesn't seem to over-approximate anymore.
there's still some bugs/glitches I think
There's a spelling error in the spreadsheet, lol.
"Calculated"?
There's a spelling error in the spreadsheet, lol.
I thought I was done with English this yeah :(
Sorry, couldn't help myself. :P
But we're cool, right?
no no Damoz, it was a erm deliberate act of misspelling I wonder if this will fool them XD
Your name is a spelling mistake :P
kidding
Your name is a spelling mistake :P
kidding
Me or Alwin? ???
Take a look at this!According to a real dictionary
SoulUrge Number: 1
People with this name have a deep inner desire to use their abilities in leadership, and to have personal independence. They would rather focus on large, important issues, and delegate the details.
Expression Number: 5
People with this name are excited by change, adventure, and excitement. They are dynamic, visionary and versatile, able to make constructive use of freedom. They fight being restricted by rules and conventions. They tend to be optimistic, energetic, intelligent, and to make friends easily. They may be changeable, restless, untidy, and rebellious.
More commonly: Alvin, Alwyn, Alwynn, Elvin, Alwine, Allwin, Aswin...
Only the REALLY awesome babies get called "Alwin" XD
BOY DOES THIS THREAD MOVE FAST! 8)
Methods better be hard tomorrowand I'd just reached that point where I was feeling okay about tomorrow
and I'd just reached that point where I was feeling okay about tomorrow
Methods better be hard tomorrow
Define hard? People found last year's exam 2 hard, but that was doable in 70 minutes.
Define hard? People found last year's exam 2 hard, but that was doable in 70 minutes.
nliu logic
Heffernan 2010 exam: gets 79/80
Kilbaha 2010 exam: gets 79/80
Conclusion: Heffernan=Kilbaha
(From the spesh thread)
Need I say more? :P
Hey, I'm just proving a point about these exams. Heffernan is harder than you think, guys :PPSA: No-one please +1 Nliu. His respect is at +69, and since I need to smile about anything at this point, I'll take it.
Hey, I'm just proving a point about these exams. Heffernan is harder than you think, guys :P
PSA: No-one please +1 Nliu. His respect is at +69, and since I need to smile about anything at this point, I'll take it.
Heffernan is hard, but if we were using your definition of Hard then I would resort to saying that its EXTREMELY hard. :)I'm not saying never. Just until after Thursday :P
WOW. Just wow. :P
I'm not saying never. Just until after Thursday :P
Too late. Its already up to 70 - Someone gave another Vote.=/*sigh* Oh well.
Unlucky, clippy.
It's not like I can control how people vote.You can, and you should. Shame on you for ruining his day. Shame, shame, shame.
I'm not sure why you're concerned about the average ATAR mark of your school, even if you were at a larger school it doesn't really have anything to do with the score you get or the scores that future Year 12 students at your school might get. There might be some kind of trend with the two, but that doesn't particularly mean anything. If you're the only person getting an ATAR from your school (unless others are doing the VCAL/VCE mix?), then you'd expect the average to be your ATAR.
For any statistical moderation they do on your sacs, well I'm assuming you're in a small group partnership with another school and all that has been dealt with. If you're not in a small group partnership, they have ways of dealing with that too.
*sigh* Oh well.
Guess that's what happens when you hope for
MVP 2013
to stop being so awesome
just down vote all his posts clip? I'm kidding :PIf you guys contact Brenden, I think he'll give you a custom title.
btw nliu do we (pi discounted you out of the 2013 graduating class even tho you got one more vote than me) get anything for winning?
Just bragging rights to non-AN member friends? 8)
yay... now I can sound more nerdy democratically =P
PS: How'd everyone go in Methods, easy? :D
I am so angry about this so I'm going to post it again here
There goes my 40.
And I'm a retard, anti diff (x-a)^2 and I'm fucking turn it into (x-a)^3 /3 instead of fucking expanding (x-a)^2 and antidiffing from there.
And I fucking fucked up the binomial expansion of (x-a)^3 as well.
Fuck.
I am so angry about this so I'm going to post it again here
There goes my 40.
And I'm a retard, anti diff (x-a)^2 and I'm fucking turn it into (x-a)^3 /3 instead of fucking expanding (x-a)^2 and antidiffing from there.
And I fucking fucked up the binomial expansion of (x-a)^3 as well.
Fuck.
I am so angry about this so I'm going to post it again here
There goes my 40.
And I'm a retard, anti diff (x-a)^2 and I'm fucking turn it into (x-a)^3 /3 instead of fucking expanding (x-a)^2 and antidiffing from there.
And I fucking fucked up the binomial expansion of (x-a)^3 as well.
Fuck.
Ah god dammit, I should've seen that lol.
I guess I crumbled under exam pressure haha
But yeah cheers nliu and Damoz, I'll keep that in mind.
Gonna study spesh after I have lunch until around dinner time then get back on methods afterwards.
And lol yeah I simply fucked up Stick
Nek minnit...notorious question in which 99% of the state misinterprets...
Hey, for that avg value question, I left it as +/-root(27/12)? -1 do you reckon for not simplifying?
Yup. All answers must be simplified. Some people didn't get that far, so you just gotta hope that at least one or both of them give you the mark. :)
Damnit! So here's hopes for a 38/40
Hellloooo just looking for any tips to memorise notes? ive been doing a lot of practice exams with notes and when i try them without notes i can remember a few but not as much as i should, any tips would be appreciated :) thanks
its mainly for business and legal since they have a lot of content to cover
Cue cards or application examples can really help! Especially the latter. :)
A lot of people had their first exams today! I think for a few, they're going to to have a heap of exams these next few days!
bored while watching a guillotine hang over you? interesting...
My first exam STILL has not started. Sigh. It's like boringly watching a guillotine hang above you.oh shit this is gonna be me next year... why must you be so late eng lang :(
oh shit this is gonna be me next year... why must you be so late eng lang :(
My hand is still recovering from the pain of writing so fast due to misreading the time at the start :(One of the many joys of HHD
Did people find it easy or hard? I heard that people found it relatively straightforward overall; spesh needs an exam where like 99% of people get 38/40 and then only a few get 40. From past VCAA data, that's not happening.
Really? Everyone I've spoken to said they found it quite hard! But having had a look at the paper myself I think it might have been the "under-exam conditions pressure" talking. Wait so you think it'll be hard haha?
Did people find it easy or hard? I heard that people found it relatively straightforward overall
I doubt. I cannot ever rely on VCAA to write a difficult exam for spesh now, given the trend in the last few years.
But we'll see in two days.
I saw the paper myself; it doesn't look that hard either.
You don't need to rely on VCAA though do you? Just get 100% and you're fine even if the exam was easy...
I have to rely on VCAA. I get 78 or 79/80 for ALL exam 2s now, regardless if they're Kilbaha or Heffernan or Neap. Write me an easy exam and I'm screwed.How could you possibly be screwed. If its easier = you still do well, unless I'm missing some nliu logic here?
The main issue was that unlike in previous years, there was a relatively heavy amount of number, arithmetic and algebra skills required because not everything worked out as nicely.My mental arithmetic is so bad. My formula sheet was covered in simple calculations just so I could be sure I was doing things correctly. I'm almost certain I even screwed some of those up.
I have to rely on VCAA. I get 78 or 79/80 for ALL exam 2s now, regardless if they're Kilbaha or Heffernan or Neap. Write me an easy exam and I'm screwed.
How could you possibly be screwed. If its easier = you still do well, unless I'm missing some nliu logic here?
My mental arithmetic is so bad. My formula sheet was covered in simple calculations just so I could be sure I was doing things correctly. I'm almost certain I even screwed some of those up.
My logic is this.Do you reckon its a subconscious thing? Where your mind decides "You know what, no. Nliu is pretty awesome already (#MVP2013) let's knock him down a peg"
Make it like one of the previous physics exams where 107 people get 100% and I'll be one of those people on 99%. Still.
Is putting a line of staples down a few pages of notes sufficient for a "bound" reference?
My logic is this.
Make it like one of the previous physics exams where 107 people get 100% and I'll be one of those people on 99%. Still.
Yes, you can have staples for it. :) Make sure its secure and all pages are stapled together.
If your allowed to do something such as the Image attached, I don't see why there would be a problem with staples. :P
I'm confused? ???
I drop marks regardless of how easy the exam is. It's annoying. If the exam is like Kilbaha level, I'll probably still drop one or two marks; if it's Heffernan standard, I'll still drop a mark or two.
My brain would drive you insane to death. You do NOT, under any circumstance, want my brain until you fully know what it means for you.
My brain would drive you insane to death. You do NOT, under any circumstance, want my brain until you fully know what it means for you.What does it fully mean for me? Can we do a timeshare thing?
I'll book it out for November. You guys can have it whenever else you want.
Well do you want to swap just for the next week or so?
I feel like I might be a little late to the 2013 discussion thread but hey guys!
So is that a yes or a no
Don't worry! You're only 141 Pages late. :PDon't worry either! The 2014 discussion thread is gonna be crazy next year
You guys would all go mad if I lent you my mind. Within a day you'll be wondering how I live.I'm intrigued if anything. I want to try your mind more now.
Seriously. My mind shifts focus every half a second; I get things done because I multitask.
You guys would all go mad if I lent you my mind. Within a day you'll be wondering how I live.
Seriously. My mind shifts focus every half a second; I get things done because I multitask.
You guys would all go mad if I lent you my mind. Within a day you'll be wondering how I live.
Seriously. My mind shifts focus every half a second; I get things done because I multitask.
I always thought that if you actually swapped brains with someone, since your brain is the centre of all your consciousness and memory, it would just be you living in someone else's, let's face it, probably less attractive body.Didn't realise Ryan Gosling was doing year 12 this year.
You can swap my brain with Jennifer Hawkins' husband's any dayAnd that picture is about 10x more applicable...
Guys, I think we're derailing...just a tad :PBut the productivity in here is through the roof!
In other news, pumped for maths examsspeshmethods guys?
Yes, I'm pumped for tomorrow's Exam 2. :DWhere will Tasmania Jones's shenanigans lead us next?
Where will Tasmania Jones's shenanigans lead us next?Into a deep dark pit of despair.
How are we all adjusting to the temperature change?
I've got bugs in my room lol, the perfect symbol of summer beginning
I did not fall asleep last night for an hour. I just kept chatting with a friend of mine in preparation for her Physics for Biomed exam today until about 2 LOL. Woke up at 9.20; swotvac is doing weird things to me.
Same one, yeah
Actually I didn't get tired because of that; I got tired that day because I went to bed at 1, woke up at 5.30 and couldn't fall asleep again.
I feel proud at being able to finish VCAA chemistry exams and still get over 95% with that much sleep.
I feel proud at being able to finish VCAA chemistry exams and still get over 95% with that much sleep.Jealousy levels rising...
Jealousy levels rising...
But yeah this heat is starting to get to me too. Un/forunately it's not sticking around for much longer. Classic melbourne, it's going to be raining again for the next few days.
Or...we'll have a power outage at my school, like last year's year 11 physics exam semester 1.
Had to have that one rescheduled, but if it happened this year...my derived scores would be so bad, because I didn't really try for that GAT and I'm like rank 2 for everything except English.
Or...we'll have a power outage at my school, like last year's year 11 physics exam semester 1.
Had to have that one rescheduled, but if it happened this year...my derived scores would be so bad, because I didn't really try for that GAT and I'm like rank 2 for everything except English.
Or...we'll have a power outage at my school, like last year's year 11 physics exam semester 1.That's funny, my school had power outages before but there was this time when no-one even realised. Clocks and calculators are on batteries, your pencils still work, is it all dark when the lights are out at your school?
Had to have that one rescheduled, but if it happened this year...my derived scores would be so bad, because I didn't really try for that GAT and I'm like rank 2 for everything except English.
That's funny, my school had power outages before but there was this time when no-one even realised. Clocks and calculators are on batteries, your pencils still work, is it all dark when the lights are out at your school?Yes, lights all go completely out. I don't know about you, but my eyesight in pitch black is slightly deficient :P
So yeah. I'm a person who makes lots of dumb mistakes; says volumes about me, right?Hardly. It's like you haven't even met some of us :P
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/vce-maths-examination-fails-to-add-up-20131104-2wx77.html ??? that wouldn't be a nice experience at all
Hardly. It's like you haven't even met some of us :P
Guys go and study or sleep. This thread has increased by ~40 pages in 2 weeks...This is the Class of 2013 Discussion Thread? Oh wait, I forgot that cranky Class of 2011 moderators could boss us in our own thread. Damn it.
Guys go and study or sleep. This thread has increased by ~40 pages in 2 weeks...
Yes, lights all go completely out. I don't know about you, but my eyesight in pitch black is slightly deficient :PHaha, I know this makes my school sound like it's set in a sunny backyard, but we turn off most lights since there's enough sunlight through the windows during most of the day except when it's raining.
Still, nothing beats the robot last year. That was shocking.Was the giant robot something that was amusing or annoying?
I don't think I HAVE met any of you in person, except like two of you (they know who they are).
Was the giant robot something that was amusing or annoying?
It's relaxing time for me at the moment (and tomorrow of course). :D Plenty of time to sleep tomorrow, Methods is at 3 PM!
You've made nearly 100 posts in the last 12 hours.
You've made nearly 100 posts in the last 12 hours.wow
wow
such impress
so achieve
much atar
wow
You've made nearly 100 posts in the last 12 hours.
LOL! :P Do you have my Profile like bookmarked or something? ???
LOL! :P Do you have my Profile like bookmarked or something? ???Kinda...
I don't like to study a lot during Exam period, because otherwise I get tired easily. I made sure that 90% of my exam revision was done before Exams started. :)
LOL! :P Do you have my Profile like bookmarked or something? ???I knew someone wasn't cramming tonight, you there chilling as cool as a cucumber, spending the afternoon and night making 100 posts since exam 1.
I don't like to study a lot during Exam period, because otherwise I get tired easily. I made sure that 90% of my exam revision was done before Exams started. :)
TheBoyWhoDerped, well played good Sir.*tips fedora*
lol, no. I just clicked on your username next to one of the 90-odd posts you've made today.
I'm so confused by TheBoyWhoDerped's Post. ???http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/doge
Wait, which Posts got removed?
i swear damoz was part of the furnature last night and nliu, i am pumped for spesh! watched kung fu pands last night and i am so motivated for everything right now
So the thread ended up with the same fate as the old one :P
Ahh *sadface*
Can't say I'm surprised the thread got moved though haha, everytime I'd log on the thread would have moved like ten bloody pages!
Anyway, who's pumped for methods exam today!? :)
None, but no posts in this board (ie. this thread) contribute to post count :)
I took one night's sleep... and look what happened
like 200 new pages and moved by mods :P
and I so wanted to upvote some of those posts as I was scrolling through!
guys, lets make a new class of 2013 thread!
LOL my post count dropped by 126... perhaps I bit too much posting on this thread :P
lol 5.5 hours between now and methods.. What do we do?
So the thread ended up with the same fate as the old one :P
Not my fault this time. And lol over the decrease in post count complaints. It's a meaningless number, guys. The respect you generate says a lot more about you than your post count, and even that can be a bit misleading (eg: me). I lost around 400 posts last time - I think I only lost about 100 this time (probably due to the fact that I haven't contributed much to the intense conversation running since SWOTVAC).Omg Classpad 330 >:( it takes like 30secs to review a graph, and gets stuck solving things for ages :'( by which point I have to quickly take out the batteries and restart it because it can take up to 10 minutes thinking. I really don't like it haha. I wish there were more actual physical buttons to press like the other graphing ones...
I'm feeling normal about Methods Exam 2. I know I probably need to be a bit more diligent with time. And please don't fail me, Casio Classpad 330...
Not my fault this time. And lol over the decrease in post count complaints. It's a meaningless number, guys. The respect you generate says a lot more about you than your post count, and even that can be a bit misleading (eg: me). I lost around 400 posts last time - I think I only lost about 100 this time (probably due to the fact that I haven't contributed much to the intense conversation running since SWOTVAC).
I'm feeling normal about Methods Exam 2. I know I probably need to be a bit more diligent with time. And please don't fail me, Casio Classpad 330...
pi, can we please make a new Class of 2013 Discussion Thread, and we all promise to keep on track with proper school and academic work. I know that some of us will be gone after Exams, but a lot of us are still staying. So can we pretty please with a cherry on top, make a new Thread? :'(
No. There is only a few weeks of yr12 left (having a thread like that in uni would be kinda lame) and you've got this thread here which is still getting replies.
You ate sensible people? Are you sure that's sensible?
Oh oops. Typing on my small phone screen while lying down :0
You ate sensible people? Are you sure that's sensible?
Omg Classpad 330 >:( it takes like 30secs to review a graph, and gets stuck solving things for ages :'( by which point I have to quickly take out the batteries and restart it because it can take up to 10 minutes thinking. I really don't like it haha. I wish there were more actual physical buttons to press like the other graphing ones...
bored while watching a guillotine hang over you? interesting...
I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH MYSELF FOR THE NEXT THEEE HOURS!right now I'm sitting outside and flicking rocks around...
I DONT KNOW WHETHER TO STUDY OR NOT IM FREAKING OUT GAH I HATE EXAMS!
I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH MYSELF FOR THE NEXT THEEE HOURS!right now I'm sitting outside and flicking rocks around...
I DONT KNOW WHETHER TO STUDY OR NOT IM FREAKING OUT GAH I HATE EXAMS!
I'm a bit out of practice with the classpad but I'm pretty sure you could just press clear and it would end the calculation it's doing, saves having to pull out the batteries (god those batteries are so hard to get out) :)Oh my god. WOW thanks! I feel so awkward now haha..
I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH MYSELF FOR THE NEXT THEEE HOURS!right now I'm sitting outside and flicking rocks around...
I DONT KNOW WHETHER TO STUDY OR NOT IM FREAKING OUT GAH I HATE EXAMS!
I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH MYSELF FOR THE NEXT THEEE HOURS!right now I'm sitting outside and flicking rocks around...
I DONT KNOW WHETHER TO STUDY OR NOT IM FREAKING OUT GAH I HATE EXAMS!
So has anyone still not had their first exam yet?
Already confident that I've achieved the ATAR that I need so I'm just going into the business exam not giving a shit 8)
(and good luck for Lit and Revs and any other subject today! :) )
Thanks, my bullshitting skills are going to activate today :D Thanks, non existent history teacher!
YAAAAAAY! I survived revolutions :) stoked.
Part of the furniture is a thing that comes up on your profile depending on how much you've posted. You'll notice people with like 100 posts have 'contributor' or something of that sort, and when people get to 5000 posts or something insane it becomes "Wtf, I've posted so much I don't know what I am anymore?!" or something like that.
No lol. I know the Rankings and their caption title, but I don't know what the phrase, "Part of the furniture" itself means. :P Whose the furniture? ???Furniture is a usually constant/permanent part of a household or living environment. Hence 'part of the furniture' means someone or something is so common to that environment it's like they're furniture, or around all the time.
Furniture is a usually constant/permanent part of a household or living environment. Hence 'part of the furniture' means someone or something is so common to that environment it's like they're furniture, or around all the time.
Woah I've been misreading this thinking it's 'part of the future' for the past year!!We here at AN Media Incorporated Property Trademark Copyright Industries Limited have been to the future via our time-travelling devices (we have both Time-Turners and TARDISes at our disposal) and we can confirm that you will most certainly be a part of it.
We here at AN Media Incorporated Property Trademark Copyright Industries Limited have been to the future via our time-travelling devices (we have both Time-Turners and TARDISes at our disposal) and we can confirm that you will most certainly be a part of it.
wish I could say the same about spesh...Inb450raw
I miss the +1 button for this Thread. :'(
Bring it on track and maybe we can get it back :P
I have two exams left, chemistry and business! But I'm really looking forward to business!
pi, can we please make a new Class of 2013 Discussion Thread, and we all promise to keep on track with proper school and academic work. I know that some of us will be gone after Exams, but a lot of us are still staying. So can we pretty please with a cherry on top, make a new Thread? :'(
No. There is only a few weeks of yr12 left (having a thread like that in uni would be kinda lame) and you've got this thread here which is still getting replies.
Let him have it, he's just jealous that he didn't get a thread as good as ours! ;)
while we are on this topic what does the respect under our names refer to? it's been bugging me.
while we are on this topic what does the respect under our names refer to? it's been bugging me.
lol.
Ugh... I'm procrastinating. Today is my last day of studying for VCE exams. I only have three trial papers to do, but I'm really struggling to bring myself to do them. =_=
Ugh... I'm procrastinating. Today is my last day of studying for VCE exams. I only have three trial papers to do, but I'm really struggling to bring myself to do them. =_=
Exact same boat as you *hi five!*
But I'm going to take my dog for a long needed walk (He's becoming obese because I've spent too much time studying lately and neglected giving him much exercise :P ) Then back to study hopefully with a clearer head :D
Maybe go for walk of something too :) Some fresh air can literally do the world of good for concentration and motivation :D!
I go for 2 runs and a walk a day! :P Perhaps I take it too far, but it really clears my head and allows me to sit down and focus!
Lol I only have one more exam to study for that's on Tuesday but just the fact that I'm so close to the end is making it difficult for me to concentrate hahaha! But then I remember that once that exam is over, I won't have to study again for a loooooooooong time, and I can sleep in til whenever I want and watch anything at any time and just do whatever and it won't matter. But don't give up so close to the end :D
Lol well if you guys remember, I used to have the date and time my final exam ends in my signature.
I used to shiver at the thought of putting my pens down for that very last time.
It seems so surreal that I'm less than 4 days away from finishing all of this, but I still have 3 exams to go.
Off topic, does anyone know how to unsubscribe from a thread/stop receiving notifications? Thanks.
Maybe irrelevant, but does anyone know if its too late to prevent my results being released to the newspaper? Considering my performance over the past few days, I'd really like to avoid having my results being made public. :/
Please and thanks :)
Off topic, does anyone know how to unsubscribe from a thread/stop receiving notifications? Thanks.
I'm pretty sure if you contact your VCE coordinator, they'll be able to change around this preference. Otherwise, if it cannot be changed, just remember that your scores will only be released if they're 40+, and that's not something to be ashamed/embarrassed about :)
Lol meanwhile I'm struggling to get a 40 in any of my subjects
2 exams left ! Chem and Eng Lang :)I'VE BEEN DOING THAT TOO! I slam dunk my practice papers, etc into the recycling bin then proceed to dance around like some sort of stoned hyped up alcoholic. Seriously, my victory dances are quite the spectacle ;)
After each exam , I've taking all my books for that subject out of my room and just admiring the emptiness . It is such an amazing feeling xD
Lol meanwhile I'm struggling to get a 40 in any of my subjectsDude don't give up! Seriously, YOU CAN DO IT!!! And even if you don't get 40s, at the end of the day as long as you get into your course/ are able to find a pathway into your course it's all good :D
WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
DO YOU NOT LOVE US? D;
see the "reply" button at the top and bottom of the page? next to it is a button called "unnotify" ikr, i wonder what it does... =P
I do love you guys! I want to unsubscribe from the exam discussion threads because everytime I look at them, I fear a solution will come up and it's going to be different to what I got :P Sorry, I mean not getting notifications in the "show new replies to your posts" tab.ohmygosh my life for methods!!
Yeah I know, I'm pretty confident I'll be getting into the course I want but it's just the fact that I won't have any 40+ raw study scores hah while I thought you were going to be ashamed if you "only" got low 40s. :PAhh fair enough! Well definitely don't lose hope though! For drama last year I truly believed I would get a ~32 and ended up with a 38. We tend to underestimate/ over critique ourselves a hell of a lot.
Theoretically speaking, I only needed 37 on English, Physics & Methods, 32 on spesh and 25 on chem to get into BSc at Melbourne last year lol
You know VCE has F**ked you up bad when you start to have dreams about your subjects. Just recently today i dreamed repeatedly about a stupid continuous probability problem from methods.
You know VCE has F**ked you up bad when you start to have dreams about your subjects. Just recently today i dreamed repeatedly about a stupid continuous probability problem from methods.
You know VCE has F**ked you up bad when you start to have dreams about your subjects. Just recently today i dreamed repeatedly about a stupid continuous probability problem from methods.
I think before Revs I dreamt that all the dates and figures we were learning were part of a conspiracy o_OIts a historical conspiracy, it goes back as far as the French revolution.
I think before Revs I dreamt that all the dates and figures we were learning were part of a conspiracy o_O
Why has this thread been moved?
people were apparently talking about 'non-VCE' related things. :-\
Guys go and study or sleep. This thread has increased by ~40 pages in 2 weeks...and on a side note:
You've [Damoz/Caparva] made nearly 100 posts in the last 12 hours.
NUUUUUUUUUUUU
our exalted leader decided that:Guys go and study or sleep. This thread has increased by ~40 pages in 2 weeks...and on a side note:You've [Damoz/Caparva] made nearly 100 posts in the last 12 hours.
NUUUUUUUUUUUU
our exalted leader decided that:and on a side note:
A bit late to the dream sharing discussion but my stand out dream was a week before the methods exam, I forgot to fill in the MCQ answer sheet and when I came out I was begging my VCE coordinator to go into the exam room and fill in the answer sheet for me....needless to say I was so conscious of making sure to fill out the MCQ answer sheet in my real exam *phew* I think the dream actually helped me in that respect :P
I have a feeling I'm going to doze off in the exam Stick :\
Really don't like the 3pm starts. :/
I had a colossal panic attack when I got up because I thought I had chem! I just SHOT straight up out of bed, and then looked at the time table again then dropped back down. Was scary as hell hahaha
I could imagine, 11.45 was bad enough for me! Are you just chilling out for now?
I've done so many practice exams for chemistry, but I'm still nervous of making silly mistakes? :-[
I've done so many practice exams for chemistry, but I'm still nervous of making silly mistakes? :-[The worst thing you can do is worry about it! I did like 75 practice exams for chem, got high marks on almost all of them especially towards the end yet still proceeded to make silly mistakes because I was so worked up about it! You've just got to back yourself in knowing that you know the course as well you possibly could, and then do the exam just like you're doing practice questions.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH!
Damn, if only it was past 11:45pm, I would've totally trolled you and said that you had infact missed the exam :P
You just made my day Mr Keshy 8)
I've done so many practice exams for chemistry, but I'm still nervous of making silly mistakes? :-[
Haha, damn is was scary!
Chem really isn't my best subject, so I know there's stuff in there that'll just blank out on. What's going to trip me over is stuff like the equations for the cells, I'll probably make a mistake with a half equation or the overall equation. But the good thing about these exams is method and consequential marks, which can save (some of) us big time!
The worst thing you can do is worry about it! I did like 75 practice exams for chem, got high marks on almost all of them especially towards the end yet still proceeded to make silly mistakes because I was so worked up about it! You've just got to back yourself in knowing that you know the course as well you possibly could, and then do the exam just like you're doing practice questions.Gah this unfairness haha. It's just scary with one 2.5hr that has topics ranging from electrolysis and alkaline fuel cells to enzymes and biomass :o I guess there's 30 less minutes VCAA lost by combining them haha
I dreamt that I couldn't write quotes, I could remember them but just couldn't physically write them, it was terrifying.
What are the odds for getting a 40+ in revs?
Who else has one exam standing between them and freedom? :D
Who else has one exam standing between them and freedom? :D
I AM RE-ACTIVATING FACEBOOK AGAIN TOMORROW! :)
Add me!
I forsee you might have some difficulty guessing my real name tho... :P
@nliu: I have 4 left. Do I only receive 4/5 of the intended "screw all of you" :P
I have five left. FIVE left. Screw all of you that have 1. Or are done.
Physics, Chemistry, English Language, UMEP physics, exam for uni chem to skip first year chemistry next yearYou're doing Chem 2? Yikes. I'm not doing it myself, but while Chem 1 last semester was really straightforward I've heard that Chem 2 is just a nightmare.
Who else has one exam standing between them and freedom? :DFood tech on Friday :)
FFFFFFRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEDDDDDDDDDDDOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :DI'll be celebrating in approximately 4 hours :D
FFFFFFRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEDDDDDDDDDDDOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D
OH MY FREAKING GOD VCE DEMON HAS BEEN ANNIHILATED!!
Now to reactivate my Facebook after ten months without it and look forward to my 18th day of birth on Thursday :D
Life is good.
Excited that it's all over in less than 24 hours.
A tad worried about my ATAR though but I bet I'm fine hah
1. Delete a tonne of Facebook friends: complete.OMG so weird, that's literally the EXACT same as what I've done!!
2. Throw away a crap load of stuff accumulated over the course of VCE: complete.
And then there's me and nliu and MJ and BrightskyI know it's sad, but goddamn that picture is hilarious. Especially with Alwins addition in his DP
OFF TO STUDY
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The other day I left my skype open on my sister's laptop.
She changed my middle name to "Vegan"
My profile pic is now a screenshot from a vegan video game with the caption " Mama loves animals."
Before i changed it, my skype mood read #Idon'teatanimals #yesthatincludesyeast.
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For those finished and are keen to learn more / ask questions! How university works
hahahaa :p I'm vegetarian, going vegan during these holidays.
Omg today is really a glorious day. Like there's so much freedom in my life for the next couple of months and argh I have so much I want to do and just asdfghjklrjdmskr ;D
It feels good to finally be free after a gruelling 10-ish months of working so hard :')
Will miss year 12, probably one of my favourite years of school, but at the same time I don't EVER wanna go down that path again.
And then there's me and nliu and MJ and Brightsky
OFF TO STUDY
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(http://i.imgur.com/5opnkum.gif)OMG Ugly Americans. I knew there was another TV show I'd forgotten to add to my list.
Excited that it's all over in less than 24 hours.
A tad worried about my ATAR though but I bet I'm fine hah
This is me right now:
One hour after finishing my last exams: YAY FREEDOM!!
One day after finishing my last exam: SO BORED!
Don't know if you'll come back on this site, now that you're done with Vce haha..
BUT CONGRATS YOU'RE FREE :D
Omg I've been feeling the same. I was dying for exams to be done for freedom but now I'm just bored. Literally woke up and the weather just made me feel like I didn't wanna do anything, so I read a book from front to back cover from 10-4, only getting up to pee/eat every now and then. And ever since I've been bored out of my brains! Needa find something else to do rather than just sitting and reading/internet/watching stuff because it makes me feel so unproductive! Might take on sewing again and make some clothes or something :)
Majority of my time will be spent preparing for my university course. :)
This is me right now:
One hour after finishing my last exams: YAY FREEDOM!!
One day after finishing my last exam: SO BORED!
Omg so true. I think it might get better once the weather changes. Let's hope.
This is me right now:
One hour after finishing my last exams: YAY FREEDOM!!
One day after finishing my last exam: SO BORED!
See! I warned you all.
This is me right now:
One hour after finishing my last exams: YAY FREEDOM!!
One day after finishing my last exam: SO BORED!
I think I'm just going to immerse myself in reading and the occasional exercise and cleaning the house.
I think I'm just going to immerse myself in reading and the occasional exercise and cleaning the house.
Why haven't you started studying for uni? ???I don't know how to do that :P
I feel a bit under the weather.I hope you recover soon :D
I have a list of about 30 books I've put aside for post-exam reading.Wow. That's nice. Apart from the books I bought, my main resource for books is the library. I'm currently interested in reading about literary theory and I might dabble into reading about causes of corruption and all that politics jazz.
I don't want to see the light of day for a few weeks to be honest. Sleep all day, read all night.
Trecked to the library yesterday <3 I'm starting with fiction (The God of Small Things), and just seeing where that takes me
Yay, I'm excited for you all. :)Gah lote life haha, I'm stuck between languages being completely skill based and how much study I need to do :-\
Hurry up German exam...:P
Gah lote life haha, I'm stuck between languages being completely skill based and how much study I need to do :-\
Hurry up German exam...:P
HELL NO lolly :P
I'm not ready to tackle that thing. I mean, I like German and all. I just don't like it when my German's being tested, marked and scrutinised by a couple of whimsical, stringent and native VCAA German examiners.
(excuse the outburst).
On Monday I'm going to kill it with fire. >:D
Ooohhh...k. Now questioning your sanity :P
Being a serial killer doesn't make you insane. You would be perfectly sane if you had proper reasons for killing people.
What if it went down like this: "Listen Colonel Mustard, I'm real sorry I have to do this, but I made a list of pros and cons and after some lengthy deliberation, I decided that the best path forward would be to kill you with the wrench in the observatory."
Of course, if you thought life was a game of Cluedo that probably would be grounds for insanity.
I lol'd
I'M FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! :D
Farewell VCE - Not gonna miss you at all. :P
I'm done with the VCE component of VCE. I'm not going to miss that.
Although with two uni exams coming up...I still have to study :P
LOL! Definitely not gonna miss school. :P
That sucks. Will be over soon and its well worth it anyways. :)
Growing a stubble (no. 4 on my to do list: complete).
Nice. I have to see it at the AN meet this year...
If it's before the ATARs are released, I won't be there, since I'm going on a family holiday.
Chances are we saw each other at the Premier's Awards Ceremony this year, sitting in the very same row. :S
Also, you may wish to revise the message about tutoring in your signature. :P
No, it's the "next year and in 2014" bit. :P
Is there an AN meet up?
Planning on doing an all nighter on the night before we receive the atar/ss results texts?
I don't see the point of this. I don't think my results are going to change if I stay up the whole night?
Guys, sleep. Best thing you can do before you get your ATAR. Saves you the agony of waiting 8 hours/.
I wont be able to sleep, guaranteed. So it's watch a whole nights worth of tv shows and drink coffee -or- toss and turn not being able to sleep anyway. I have insomnia when it comes to that stuff.Yeah. I know sleep is good ect.. but when it comes to waiting for one number that depicts a year of hard efforts I'm just going to stay up, I can't possibly go to sleep!
Yeah. I know sleep is good ect.. but when it comes to waiting for one number that depicts a year of hard efforts I'm just going to stay up, I can't possibly go to sleep!
HAHA here you guys are anticipating ATARs and I'm here still waiting to sit my final exam!
Anyway, yeah I think I'd be way too anxious to get proper sleep that night, my friends and I are definitely planning to all nighter :)
a Skype convo or something?
Fell asleep at 4pm. Woke up at 7pm. Thought it was 7am and made breakfast and had a shower. Took me about an hour to realise, oh what sleep deprivation does to you!
Is there a skype group happening these holidays because if I can get my internet working to a conference call standard I am totally down, and besides life has no meaning anymore because study was such a huge part of it and now that went and left. My skype name is silverpixeli same as AN.
Yeah, I already started it lol. I'll add you now.
What have you guys been doing?
What a good idea.
Add me, I need company as time comes closer! maddi.mermaid
Random question, but does anyone know what happened to damoz?Seems like he deleted his account
So...compulsory exams all done.Yay!
Yay!Yep, apparently willingness to give up time next year, being a captain in high school and doing volunteer work on top of A+ grades didn't make the cut? :'(
On another note, has anyone else here applied for the Access Monash Ambassadors program?
Yep, apparently willingness to give up time next year, being a captain in high school and doing volunteer work on top of A+ grades didn't make the cut? :'(You'd be surprised how intense some of the other applicants are, don't take it to heart too much.
Yep, apparently willingness to give up time next year, being a captain in high school and doing volunteer work on top of A+ grades didn't make the cut? :'(
Yay!
On another note, has anyone else here applied for the Access Monash Ambassadors program?
Cold canvasing always goes a long way.Pls explain
Pls explainBasically just going to anyone you might want to work for (walking around Chaddy is a good one) and handing out your CV, even if they're not currently hiring. Print out 20-50 copies and just walk up to the counter and ask if they'll hire you or at least keep your CV with them until they are hiring. You'll more than likely get an interview at a couple of places, and it's also a good way to learn what your options really are. It's easy to be close-minded and think that Maccas or K-Mart are the only places to work, but that's definitely not the case.
Basically just going to anyone you might want to work for (walking around Chaddy is a good one) and handing out your CV, even if they're not currently hiring. Print out 20-50 copies and just walk up to the counter and ask if they'll hire you or at least keep your CV with them until they are hiring. You'll more than likely get an interview at a couple of places, and it's also a good way to learn what your options really are. It's easy to be close-minded and think that Maccas or K-Mart are the only places to work, but that's definitely not the case.My plan for next year woo!
Plus with somewhere like Chaddy where there are hundreds of stores it's good exercise too haha.
It's easy to be close-minded and think that Maccas or K-MartWhat do you propose? I'm only 18 and inexperienced. Don't really know what I could be hired for. Is doing Cert II Business enough or do I need more qualifications. I"m itching to get out of maccas.
What do you propose? I'm only 18 and inexperienced. Don't really know what I could be hired for. Is doing Cert II Business enough or do I need more qualifications. I"m itching to get out of maccas.18 with up to three years experience at Macca's. you'd be surprised how happy people are to hire people out from Macca's. do what e suggested and just hand your résumé around. See what happens :)
What do you propose? I'm only 18 and inexperienced. Don't really know what I could be hired for. Is doing Cert II Business enough or do I need more qualifications. I"m itching to get out of maccas.You'd be surprised. I have plenty of friends who'd never worked a day in their life before turning 18 yes still managed to get retail positions or better once they were in uni, just by cold canvasing. (Prospective) Employers are easily impressed by a good resume, and will find a way to hire you if, as Stick said, you get your foot in the door.
You'd be surprised. I have plenty of friends who'd never worked a day in their life before turning 18 yes still managed to get retail positions or better once they were in uni, just by cold canvasing. (Prospective) Employers are easily impressed by a good resume, and will find a way to hire you if, as Stick said, you get your foot in the door.
Would this even apply nearing the end of January? I really want to find a job as well but I have no idea where to go.Yeah - it might take them a month or so to get back to you (hiring typically picks up in Feb/March, but they'll appreciate your enthusiasm!
If you guys are interested, I could write something up on how to put together CVs/cover letters/application forms?
Yeah - it might take them a month or so to get back to you (hiring typically picks up in Feb/March, but they'll appreciate your enthusiasm!
Stick is exactly right. It's all about the experience you get from working anywhere. A lot of the skills are universal, especially when you're just picking up your first job.
If you guys are interested, I could write something up on how to put together CVs/cover letters/application forms?
Hmm. I looked online for some jobs, but as I've only worked for a bit as a receptionist at a medical centre, I don't know exactly which jobs I would be capable of doing, and hence which jobs would be worth my time applying for.
hopefully working there doesn't put me off having KFC again
you can get these sample templates on google though, sooo it's probably not necessary. :)
I worked at KFC near school for almost 3 years, quit halfway through year 12 because of school workload even though i was only on 1 shift a week. I guess it depends on the management team but its not a bad place to work. The pay is okay once you finish your training and the people were generally friendly. I worked in the kitchen rather than front of house and it was a very demanding role with a lot of product to cook and a kitchen to keep organised and clean all by myself, the other option was working on the counter/drivethrough and packing the meals people ordered, so if you're okay with people that was generally the easier option since there were plenty of people but usually only 1 cook.
The point is its an okay first job. I wouldn't say it makes you hate the food but your uniform will forever smell like kfc so dont wear good pants with the shirt they give you if you do end up working there :)
EDIT: forgot to say that once you work there a while you can kinda work the shifts you want, they give new people the later shifts but after a while you can ask for better ones. The close shifts go really late and involve a lot of cleaning and are generally seen as the worst shifts. I guess my evaluation was based on being there for three years, so it's important to mention that it was pretty bad at first but got better and became okay after a year or so.
Have you considered tutoring nliu? Or working for a lecture company like connect or tssm or something?
I worked at KFC near school for almost 3 years, quit halfway through year 12 because of school workload even though i was only on 1 shift a week. I guess it depends on the management team but its not a bad place to work. The pay is okay once you finish your training and the people were generally friendly. I worked in the kitchen rather than front of house and it was a very demanding role with a lot of product to cook and a kitchen to keep organised and clean all by myself, the other option was working on the counter/drivethrough and packing the meals people ordered, so if you're okay with people that was generally the easier option since there were plenty of people but usually only 1 cook.
The point is its an okay first job. I wouldn't say it makes you hate the food but your uniform will forever smell like kfc so dont wear good pants with the shirt they give you if you do end up working there :)
EDIT: forgot to say that once you work there a while you can kinda work the shifts you want, they give new people the later shifts but after a while you can ask for better ones. The close shifts go really late and involve a lot of cleaning and are generally seen as the worst shifts. I guess my evaluation was based on being there for three years, so it's important to mention that it was pretty bad at first but got better and became okay after a year or so.
Have you considered tutoring nliu? Or working for a lecture company like connect or tssm or something?
how much were you paid hourly for the job? I need an idea because i will be supporting myself next year during university.From memory I was on $13 when I was 17 and I think it was more like $16 or $17 for an 18+ employee, but it's slightly less for the first 6 months (training). There are likely better paying jobs out there and the thing that stick said about giving less hours to 18+ employees is true.
Eugh I've pre much applied everywhere and nothing, I might just resort to fast foods. Is it as bad as people say?
sup guys its been a while;
went to schoolies now im back and i needa find something to do that may actually benefit me in life
literally my schedule for the past 3 days have been for me:
- wake up around 11 am, shower breaky etc
- play ps3/got my phone next to me so i go on facey as well til around 1pm
- eat lunch
- play more ps3/watch youtube videos/watch tv shows/surf internet til around 4-5pm
- go gym for an hour or so
- come home eat dinner
- more ps3/surf the net/facebook/anything i feel like til about 2-3 in the morning
haven't gone outside in the past 3 days as im kinda sick of my friends after spending a week straight with them
so yeah, you guys getting a job or something?
thinkin of applying at a retail shop or something
might go apply at some retail shops next week, definitely going outside tomorrow though, needa get my hours up
and shiiiit 12 days til the big day
Yeah, Stick has pointed out a conundrum for us right now. We really can't advertise ourselves now because we don't have the results. Although I guess you could tutor Further.
Do teachers like it when past students offer to tutor kids at school?
Stick, aren't you afraid that maybe those students won't like you? I don't know, I personally wouldn't want my peers to be my students, just in case something goes wrong.If they don't like you in the first place, then they won't really come and ask for tutoring, if you start and the don't turn out liking you then the worst that can happen is they don't do another session with you, which if the sessions aren't going great or the student isn't getting anything out of it, then isn't a bad thing if you don't continue with them.
Hey (unfortunately) I just found out today that my school is underrepresented at UoM and I intend to go there, I didn't apply for SEAS. DAMMIT :-[ no one told me anything :'(
I think underrepresented schools SEAS happens automatically? (Iirc don't get your hopes up just on my words).I would hope that would be the case, considering you enter your school in VTAC, but I doubt it..
I would hope that would be the case, considering you enter your school in VTAC, but I doubt it..
Pretty sure (like 75%) that its automatic. Even if it isn't, it doesn't usually provide a huge boost since there are so many schools out there that are technically underrepresented (and all things considered, there are much worse/impacting SEAS factors than that one).
Actually (and sorry Edward21 if you didn't do this) you had to fill out the details of section 1 on the SEAS application - basic details like gender, DoB, school etc. Apparently they use this info to check if you're eligible for stuff like under-represented school... so if you didn't do that section... sorryThanks for your help, hopefully I reach that Clearly In ;)
http://www.vtac.edu.au/who/seas/categories.html
* By submitting category 1, you are giving permission for the following information to be passed onto institutions to which you have applied:...Under-represented school-to identify if you attend one of various under-represented schools identified by institutions under this category-also refer to Category 6 if you are applying to La Trobe University, Federation University Australia or Victoria University.