Hey everyone! I'm Wingdings, a class of 2021 student, and this is a chronicle of my imminent year 12 experience. I go to a selective school and am doing Chemistry, English Language, and Methods this year. I'm aiming for 40+ on all three and have an ATAR goal of 99.15 (I plan to do Biomed at Melbourne Uni (minimum ATAR 96.00), but I'm trying to meet the Monash scholars cutoff too for vAnitY/oh yeah that might give an extra option)Hello! Nice to see a new journal!I hope this might be entertaining to you (or my Costco employee self in 15 years) : DMy slightly boring VCE history so farI did Chinese SL in year 10 (2019) and Bio/Music in year 11 (2020), along with 1/2s for my current subjects + Physics. I wouldn't say I have struggled too much so far, although CSL oral was definitely a bit of a pain and I found Chemistry to be quite intense (ahaha don't know anything about routine neglect). Hopefully it all pans out this year though :3
Have enjoyed your entries so far! :)
Re: EngLang, I get the trepidation, but honestly I think confidence will come with practice. If you're concerned specifically about getting everything done in time under time conditions, that's something you can work on throughout the year. You're not expected to be able to write an A+ analytical commentary right now - that's what 2021 is for!
Re: there being no prompt, I guess there's no essay topic or anything like that, but you're provided with the text(s) to analyse, so it's not like you have nothing to go off whatsoever. In fact, I'd argue there's probably more of a prompt than the essay! :)
How are you feeling for this coming week?
hahhhhhGood luck for your results, I got a chemistry SAC next week and I am freaking out. So far my scores have been well below the cohort average.
Been a while since my last update! A lot has been happening, I honestly haven't even noticed that it's already the second last week of term until now.
I went on camp last week and it was actually pretty great, although admittedly I still haven't fully recovered from sleeping about two minutes a night. Mostly, the weather was really nice because it was hot and we had quite a number of water activities. My only qualms with it would probably be the half-water, half-milk 'scrambled eggs' and baked beans served for breakfast, and possibly the very uhh, sensorially captivating smell of the river water. (it really wasn't a surprise that most people steered clear of eggs for the length of our stay)
School-wise, I've finished my Eng Lang and Chemistry SACs for this term! Honestly, neither of them went that well (Eng Lang gave us a rather annoying text type with 2000 interlocutors, 3000 social purposes and a whopping 60 minutes to respond), and I'm still a little mad that I forgot to label my results table in my practical report. (Wow perhaps I should pursue a poetry career instead?) There hasn't been any word on when we'll get our marks but I'm just not going to think about it until then. Otherwise, classes have been really relaxed recently, so not much else going on : )
Happy Friday and let's get through these last four days!
Good luck for your results, I got a chemistry SAC next week and I am freaking out. So far my scores have been well below the cohort average.Ahaha thanks, and don't worry! You've still got time and besides, Chem is heavily weighted towards the exam. Many people manage 40+ with a few less than optimal SAC scores. Good luck to you too!
This is praise that is well over what I deserve, but thank you! (and honestly, I don’t know how I made it in either.) It’s quite an enjoyable course, with a lot of faculty and peer support along the way. I love the content so far, but I miss the face to face aspect of it, as well as no clinical placements this year. :( I’m excited for when we can fully transition back to in-person classes, placements next year and more opportunity to practice the clinical skills we’ve learnt. Also a lot of partying and just having a good time, which is what uni’s for, right? I don’t think I imagined med to be any specific way - my thinking never got that far, and was instead stuck at worrying if I’d get in or not!whysHello whys, thank you so much for your reply!! You have no idea how long I've envied your unbelievable achievements so it certainly is an honour to be in the presence of such godliness T^T and I definitely feel my brain beginning to come apart at the seams just thinking about medicine sometimes xd. How are you finding med so far? Is it similar to how you imagined it?
I've always wanted to do med, just never seriously considered trying to get in because I didn't think I'd get good enough results for it. But I'm now clinging to the bit of hope that ATAR calculators have given me; guess it couldn't hurt to just sit the UCAT right? I'm shocked too that you left questions blank and still beat 97% of prospective med students?? Please allow me to access your brainwaves. That's really reassuring though, that you can afford some room for mistakes and still do well. I really hope everything goes well and that you're enjoying uni very much :)
(https://c.tenor.com/dgUh_SFKdEgAAAAd/tom-tired.gif)dedformedThank you so much for your kind words Penelope. I definitely understand your predicament (my blood pressure immediately doubles whenever I catch so much as a whisper of results: rip my poor heart December 13) so it's a huge relief not to have something huge to keep anticipating for the time being. But now that we've both been granted freedom, I think we'll have to improvise a little though and go for VCE prep bone noises instead (don't worry my arthritis isn't improving, plenty of business opportunities).
How and why is it already almost term 3, week 5?! I don't seem to recall waking up, going to school, studying, going to sleep 20 times since July. The clock just seems to keep accelerating these days- when I'm doing things it always hits me: how is it dinner again when dinner was three seconds ago? or it's already time to practice piano again? Maybe it's a side effect of aging. If that's the case, I'm not quite keen on years lasting microseconds when I'm properly a senior citizen. :3
Since finishing the UCAT, I've had kind of a busy time: my Methods SAC that was scheduled before lockdown 5.0 got squashed in with both Eng Lang and Chemistry, so you could say I would've been happy if there was more time in between. Still, hell week is officially over for me now, hence the fantastically entertaining, long-anticipated entry you're reading now~
Eng Lang
I had my SAC on Tuesday this week after school. Definitely wish I had time to do more than two practice essays, but I went in thinking it'd probably be fine since I'm quite familiar with writing essays for U3.
The topic we got was something like: 'The evolution of Australian English shows the evolution of Australian values and attitudes. It appears we are increasingly accepting of the differences.' Now it took me a solid second to even unpack this in my head; I feel like my contention could've been a lot clearer but the multi-focus of this prompt threw me off. Should've brought my senior citizen bifocals so I could've really examined both sides of the topic. But oh well, it's just one SAC, and it's a split one too (worth 6%). Hopefully everything works out fine.
Methods
Methods is actually going pretty well, I'm very happy to say! My last SAC happened on Wednesday afternoon and I feel pretty great about it. Everything seemed really straightforward, and this time having properly learnt all the important CAS functions, I wasted no time on doing long-winded calculations by hand and had ~40 mins to check my answers. No results yet but I'm pretty sure it's a 90+. I'm really really hoping I can do well on the exam and get a good ss with enough work before that fateful November day, so I must not slack in these last 87 days!!!
Chemistry
Saturday morning: the sun was shining, the birds were tweeting, and the U4 AOS1 SAC was quite literally threatening to disembowel my ss. I've had the experience of being underprepared for assessments, but the fear had always at least driven all the content into my head a few days before.
I walk into the SAC feeling... actually kind of confident. I'd meticulously memorised all the IUPAC naming conventions, studied every physical property and reaction pathway, done a decent amount of practice questions and performed ok. Then I open the SAC paper to see a 9-mark HPLC questions staring me in the face.
No this isn't happening, I thought. Why did I really think analytic techniques wouldn't be that important?? I sighed and just got to work on the rest of the SAC. Coming out of it, I think I actually did all right. I answered everything pretty confidently (although I did guess maybe two MC?) and managed to get an answer for the last question, which most people left blank. I answered that HPLC extended response with what I did remember from lectures and the textbook; hopefully at least some of it would score some marks.
If not, I'll just stick my head in a chromatography column and watch my single brain cell melt and drag itself down the tube (serves it right)
Now I hate to make everyone always sit by the window and wait longingly for these riveting details of my VCE, but that's all for now. Must. Get. Back. To. Studying. Have a good week 5 everyone. XD
Stick to it and grab the wheel back from the procrastination monkey! :)Yet another harrowing five days of school have passed (and the procrastination monkey has awoken a bit early ahahahh.........)beep boopHi beep boop, thanks so much for your reply! Ahaha I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one still suffering the effects of bad time management, it truly is a 0/10 experience to shame all others. Best of luck to you too for all your studies (or would that be 01100111 01101100 in beep boop? xd), you'll smash everything I know! :D
... I need to work harder
Yesterday I received my Methods SAC back: exactly 90%, pretty much the exact raw 40 cutoff score on exam 2. Now, I don't want to be that person who complains... but I did think I'd get a slightly higher mark seeing as I found it so easy. Maybe I'm just way too confident for my own good? What if the actual exam is difficult? What do I do when I can only scrape together the bare minimum mark during a relatively simple, single-topic test? Sigh. It's still meant to be a good score, so I'll just be happy with it. I hope I've still got enough time to improve, else I'll have to really focus on Chem to save my med hopes and dreams.
In other completely unrelated news, I finished The Serpent, The Alienist, and Mindhunter recently, having been on a small crime drama roll (that didn't affect my ability to study properly I swear). In each, there's a combination between the suspects being established early and found only at the last second (ahem last minute last episode), makes for a lot of suspense. It's not really surprising when you think about it, but those series focused on how so many serial killers kept close to the media, craved fame so badly, did anything to stay relevant. Sometimes I wonder how socio and psychopaths, who show such a profound absence of empathy, can care so much about how they're perceived by people they'd kill without blinking. Anyways, if you like crime series, definitely try one of these; I think they're worth it. :)
Now it hasn't been that long since I spilled the excessive amount of beans on every painful detail of my VCE, so yes, I only came here to gripe for attention. Everyone please don't waste time like me and study hard! Only a few months left.
Yesterday I received my Methods SAC back: exactly 90%, pretty much the exact raw 40 cutoff score on exam 2. Now, I don't want to be that person who complains... but I did think I'd get a slightly higher mark seeing as I found it so easy. Maybe I'm just way too confident for my own good? What if the actual exam is difficult? What do I do when I can only scrape together the bare minimum mark during a relatively simple, single-topic test? Sigh. It's still meant to be a good score, so I'll just be happy with it. I hope I've still got enough time to improve, else I'll have to really focus on Chem to save my med hopes and dreams.May I just say that 90% is way above what you need for a raw 40 in methods - I got ~82% on exam 2 (with 87% on exam 1) and I got a raw 42. I also never got 90% on methods SACs, so you are in great stead!
Stick to it and grab the wheel back from the procrastination monkey! :)HAHA, I'll be sure to slam the brakes on that pesky thing! xd
May I just say that 90% is way above what you need for a raw 40 in methods - I got ~82% on exam 2 (with 87% on exam 1) and I got a raw 42. I also never got 90% on methods SACs, so you are in great stead!Thank you so much for that insight Eloise, that's so reassuring to hear! Hopefully I can just nail the exam then, fingers crossed. I drip with the burning flames of jealousy when I see those amazing maths results- you did absolutely phenomenal! Hopefully I can live up to those standards too~ good luck with what we've got left of year 12 and keep pushing on!
I love the GIFs (especially the chem one)!
I hope that your 'hell week' goes as well as it possibly can :)
Best of luck for the exam prep wingdings! You've got this.
scrolling a bit on AN today and finally binge read this up to date. WEE HAWW WE GOT ALMOST THE SAME SCORE FOR THE VATE EXAM. Twins idk yaaay ( <-- attempt at closing social distance and building in group membership. Use of phonological patterning to lower register, emulate real life speech and build social proximity.
I love your journal and the little gifs on top of the timer. I recently followed someone with the same username as you on Instagram, but turns out it was just a namesake. So that was awkward. But putting this here for future record: thank you for our conversations and good luck!
Not gonna comment on the KitKat sponsorship secret coded into the GAT greeting.
- Cantalope
I can't think of much more to say at this point other than a big thank you to all my readers this year. The AN community is an amazing one that never fails to bring its members together and brighten the high school experience, no matter what. Thank you so much for following my VCE journey. All the support I've received, incredibly kind messages, and amazing friends I've made truly made my year 12 the best it could've been. I really hope that AN all get the results they deserve and reap the rewards of their hard work. I'll update again in two days.
The aftermath updateI wanted to see The French Dispatch but not sure if it's still screening :-\
*deep breath*
Today was the day. Sleeping a grand total of three hours, shakily pacing my room, making my drinking debut (I felt nothing… why)
So without further ado:
My results
English Language: 48 (?!?!!)
Mathematical Methods: 42 (?!1@82!;?&$&!?!?)
Chemistry: 39
ATAR: 99.75
I DID IT. I CAN’T BELIEVE IT. I cannot and will not stop bouncing off the walls in pure shock (and perhaps sudden uptake of caffeine). If there is something that can be called ecstasy then this is it. A real chance to study medicine, what myself and many others dreamed about all through high school. I can’t possibly express how thankful I am (yes even with that small Chemistry flop… sigh all that tuition xd)
Once again, the support here on AN is just on a different level and I love all of you guys. I’ll update again in future when interview invites and uni offers come out!
A huge congrats to everybody who received their results today. You’ve all worked so hard and truly deserve all the success and happiness in the world.
Wishing everyone an amazing post-ATAR celebration,
~Wingdings
Wow thats an insane result, congrats!!! Well deserved 🥳🥳🥳🥳
Hey SmartWorker, I think I saw your atar reaction on Youtube. Congrats!
Hey! It's been really fun reading your journal through the year. I never managed to upkeep mine but yours was an amazing read, so thanks for that. ;DHey vehura! First off, thank you so much for your reply; your read really means a lot to me :-[ Wow, Lygon St?! I haven't been there since year 9 city week but would absolutely love to visit again. That's a lot of screenings as well, it must be super popular so looks like most people agree with you ;D I'll definitely go and check it out as I'm a bit of a sucker for a nice interior and I LOVE the look of the film poster already (kinda Grand Budapest vibes?!)
I actually saw this film on Saturday night and really enjoyed it! If you fancy a trip to Cinema Nova in Lygon St, it's one of their regular films and they have around 10 sessions of it a day I think. They've even changed the decor in the bar to match the film, it's really cute. If you get the chance to see it I really recommend it!
I look forward to reading the rest of what's to come for you :D
Congrats Wingdings. ;DJoesph41, thank you! Your congratulations really mean a lot to me. The sight of your iconic schwa has motivated me through EL all year 8) ;D
What incredible results, Wingdings! Congratulations! :)LM, thank you!! Congrats on finishing VCE too, I'm certain you did totally phenomenal! Happy celebrating before uni comes to claim our last brain cells :')
Congrats! What a fantastic result! How are you celebrating? ;DHey Laura, thanks so much for your reply!! Mostly just lots of food, lots of movies, and a few months of faceplanting on my bed basically. Such a relief to be done ;D
That's an incredible result! You should be so proud of yourself!!! I'm so happy for you, congratulations!Geoo?!??! I FEEL SO RECOGNISED HAHA thank you so much!! It really means a lot :-[
Amazed, but not surprised. Bless them with your presence you bean can!Heinz quakes at this statement. Thank you so much Penelope, your sense of humour and amazingly uplifting replies are what has kept me going this whole year. Congrats again on smashing VCE to bits, so excited to see where uni takes you! [not crying]
What an incredible result! Congratulations, you worked so hard on this :)Ty so much Eloise!! You did so phenomenal as well, congrats again to you too <33 excited that we're both starting uni soon, maybe I'll see you around!!
Wow thats an insane result, congrats!!! Well deserved 🥳🥳🥳🥳SAYS YOU! Thank you so much, here's to hoping we both get into med! ;D
Amazinggggg Wingdings!!! You should be so incredibly proud of yourself!! Reading your journal has been amazing and good on you for keeping up with it! You're an inspiration and I can't wait to see what the future holds for you :DHey bluebird, your kind words really mean a lot. Thank you so much for the well wishes, I can't wait to see where year 12 takes you! All the best for next year, you will absolutely crush it!! <3
Congrats Wingdings!!! So proud of you for completing Year 12 in such a difficult year.TD, thank you thank you! I'm so so honoured by your reply, sincerely hope you'll have an amazing year at uni next year as well!
Congrats Wingdings! Amazing work this year all the best for the med interview 8)OMG CHOCOOO thank you sooo much! Yes hopefully I can be just like you in a few month's time 8)
Congrats wingdings!!! With your amazing UCAT and ATAR, you've put yourself in a very good position for monash med!! All the best for your interview!!Thank you so much Evolio!!
Hey wingdings, a belated congrats on your results. I know this is a VCE journal but I really want to see you record your post vce aspirations and uni journey. Just because VCE has ended doesn't mean that this journal has to end too. :)Beep boop, thank you so much! Uni journal is definitely something I want to try, I'm so honoured that you'd want to see more of my study struggles xddd anyways, thanks again for your support. Congrats to you too on your undoubtedly amazing work this year; wishing you a very smooth and successful year 12 (which I will happily follow along with if you decide to document it) ;)
congrats again!
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I'm going to be studying Radiography and Medical Imaging at Monash this year;Congrats Wingdings, and enjoy your radiography course!