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VCE Stuff => Victorian Education Discussion => Topic started by: Visionz on July 02, 2010, 05:36:04 pm
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Im losing it kids. First term holiday stuffed me up. Now I leave my homework to the last minutes and my marks have dropped a little more. Homework is a real bore, at the start of the year I saw it as somewhat interesting.
I know that we've only got about 4 months left and im not exhausted or anything, I dont think ive burned out, I just think its all a bit boring. I also know that I wont be happy with anything less than 85, 90 even.
How are you guys going?
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I am feeling a tad unmotivated, despite (or perhaps because of) the giant pile of holiday homework. The worst thing is, though, despite having finished Semester 1 ranked first for English and in the top 5 for everything else, I feel like I did terribly and like I should just give up and save myself the heartache. I seem to have lost all perspective.
Bring on Semester 2, hehe.
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I'm feeling quite the same Visionz. I am generally a motivated student, sometimes even enjoying a nice spot of study, in certain subjects, but recently i've been fading. I'm pretty sure it's just the idea of homework that gets me down, not the study itself. Once i get started i'm fine but initiating a good session is near impossible with all the distractions of the holidays (mainly sleep). I think i just have to straighten up and realise how quick these months will go, because similarly i won't be happy with a score under 90. If i want it i'll have to get my ass into gear though, because i'm becoming a king of procrastination.
I'm feeling very lucky that i was rank 1 in every subject in unit 3, in an weak-average cohort mind you.
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i know exactly what you mean visionsand darcy....like my homework for eng, chem adn even umep is alwasy left to the last minute and i can never make myself to JUST DO the work....esp for eng :( it's like....it's always my lowest priority. I find myself jsut spend nights on fb, getting bored, and STILL not doing work..... only three subjects is killing me :(
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and the thing is, i can do the work...i just ceebes getting myself to just start :(
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English is the most demoralising subject. Even though it was my best sac result in unit 3 i still dislike it and can't bring myself to write an essay unless it's necessary. Right now i could be doing homework, but no im on VN haha.
I need to break my computer.
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so many people are losing motivation.
at the moment i'm so unmotivated in a few of my subjects, and have been especially in englang for the last couple of months - there is no way i can do well at this subject so i'm having trouble focusing on it. and have zero motivation for UMAT, absolutely zero.
i'm excited to go to uni though and i will most likely not be doing undergrad medicine, and so my aim of 99+ (even 98+) is no more, and id be happy just doing science@melb so i see no neeed to try that much this year.. haha, all i want is to do really well in at least 2 subjects, and not much else..
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Yeah similar to me Vexx, except ill end up doing arts@melb instead of an undergraduate law degree. Maybe. Who knows i might have a change of heart soon haha.
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ceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeebs -______________-
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I just want to go to uni.
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i wish we only had 6 months of year 12
would be sooooooooooo much better and i wouldnt burn out
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uni aint as fun as u think, serzly enjoy high school while you can.
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uni aint as fun as u think, serzly enjoy high school while you can.
yea, that thing the, i want less of the 'work' parts of year 12 and more of the good parts of year 12. :P butttt can't have it both ways :(
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uni aint as fun as u think, serzly enjoy high school while you can.
yea, that thing the, i want less of the 'work' parts of year 12 and more of the good parts of year 12. :P butttt can't have it both ways :(
If you didn't go to Scotch you could...
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Just did about 30 minutes of study, i think some congratulations are in order?
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Just did about 30 minutes of study, i think some congratulations are in order?
*claps* :P
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I regret my whole VCE experience. Gah.
Senioritis.
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What exactly do you regret? I would like to know so i can do it differently :) haha
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LOL. Ok Darcy, picking subjects I hate and not dropping them when I had the chance. Going to a shitty school like mine where cheating is rampant and the bulk of the teachers are passionless, "I couldn't get my dream job so this is plan B" type teachers. And I had to undergo a major operation on my femur in year 11 so I couldn't really do a unit 3/4 subject. And just overall being a lazy shit. Leaving everything to the last minute, from homework (which sometimes I wouldn't even hand in, omg) and studying for SACs/exams. Yep, as long as you don't do what I did/do, you'll be OK.
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Yeah i really can't be bothered doing any studying.
1st term holidays stuffed up my studying pattern, now this holidays i was planning to get so much done but basically 1 week has gone and ive done next to nothing.
Sigh.
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Right yeah well i picked subjects that i enjoy rather than those that scale, so im pretty set there.
I do feel your pain with the teacher thing, ive had a few teachers who fit that description perfectly, although i am lucky enough this year to have teachers that are genuinely interested in my learning, and reward effort as best they can.
Although through all this i'm still a lazy shit. I promise i'll lift my game soon...maybe tomorrow. Nah next week. Sometime soon anyway.
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God what a bad time to get demotivated
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Timing has never been my strongpoint
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I swear I'll stop procrastinating...from tomorrow.
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LOL. Ok Darcy, picking subjects I hate and not dropping them when I had the chance. Going to a shitty school like mine where cheating is rampant and the bulk of the teachers are passionless, "I couldn't get my dream job so this is plan B" type teachers. And I had to undergo a major operation on my femur in year 11 so I couldn't really do a unit 3/4 subject. And just overall being a lazy shit. Leaving everything to the last minute, from homework (which sometimes I wouldn't even hand in, omg) and studying for SACs/exams. Yep, as long as you don't do what I did/do, you'll be OK.
Aww. Don't be so down on yourself! Nobody is perfect, and the operation wasn't exactly your fault. You can still do really well from here :)
I've been feeling really unmotivated too. I know all the 'tricks' that work for me to do things. Like, say to yourself 'I only need to work for five minutes, then I can stop' and then the five minutes turns into a reasonable amount of time because the hardest part of working is just starting. But I feel like I'm just using strategies, and only coping rather than doing my best. I don't know, perhaps it has to do with the fact that I haven't really had a break in my education for 15 and a half years. And this upcoming semester is the last one until honours and I'm really just dreading that.
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I swear I'll stop procrastinating...from tomorrow.
lol
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uni aint as fun as u think, serzly enjoy high school while you can.
K
I just want to go to uni schoolies
:)
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so many people are losing motivation.
at the moment i'm so unmotivated in a few of my subjects, and have been especially in englang for the last couple of months - there is no way i can do well at this subject so i'm having trouble focusing on it. and have zero motivation for UMAT, absolutely zero.
i'm excited to go to uni though and i will most likely not be doing undergrad medicine, and so my aim of 99+ (even 98+) is no more, and id be happy just doing science@melb so i see no neeed to try that much this year.. haha, all i want is to do really well in at least 2 subjects, and not much else..
I've lost motivation for all but 2 of my 5 subjects and my motivation for the UMAT is waning. If you try hard enough you'll end up where you want eventually anyway, no matter what path you take (im sure theres a gazillion motivational quotes and songs on this).
I also doubt ill get into medicine at this point, it'd also be happy with Melbourne science or bio-med(Enter too high for me though i reckon). On the upside it means i don't have to make the deadly 1-2 hour one way trip to Monash every day (That would mean 4 hours a day if I'm unlucky with traffic or getting public transport).
LOL. Ok Darcy, picking subjects I hate and not dropping them when I had the chance.
I also should of really taken up that chance, i have subjects i shouldn't of taken/ didn't want over subjects i would of actually enjoyed and done much better in.
Going to a shitty school like mine ..... and the bulk of the teachers are passionless
You didn't leave a much better school lol, we got that here too. We're a chunk below average apparently. Well, except the cheating, i dont hear much of that.
And just overall being a lazy shit. Leaving everything to the last minute, from homework (which sometimes I wouldn't even hand in, omg) and studying for SACs/exams.
You're not the only one, i do that a lot too.
I'd be fantastic at vCE if i was less lazy...
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^ yeah same here with UMAT, doing nothing.
i don't really want to go to monash that much so it's fine, but i'd love to do medicine there still >_>
im putting only science as a preference at melb, cos i dont like the biomed course anymore (dont want to do calculate or experimental design, D: )
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What preferences are you thinking of?
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uni aint as fun as u think, serzly enjoy high school while you can.
K
I just want to go to uni schoolies
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schoolies aint as fun as u think, serzly enjoy VCE exams while you can.
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What preferences are you thinking of?
what do you mean?
I just said that i'm only putting science (and of course MBBS at monash first).
yours?
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schoolies aint as fun as u think, serzly enjoy VCE exams while you can.
Dont know what your plans are but mine should be good.
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I dont know about you guys, but im so motivated right now!!
Thinking about what ATAR i need to get into courses i want, make me want to study 10 hours a day and get super good scores
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good boy
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If you lose motivation now, you'll stuff up your life and bring shame to your family...
just something to think about :)
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I have less than 4 months left so its almost down to that sprint stage. Ive done a little bit of homework in the last couple of days and its not as scary as I thought. Its good to just chill listening to music then realise youve made 10 pages of notes pretty quick.
This term im gonna try to do my homework as soon as I get it like I did in first term. Thatll be the key for me. Next holidays ill go into beast mode and memorise/learn everything 10x. Itll be the most productive 1 month period of my life hopefully.
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Lol, i don't know how much homework you get, but my school barely ever gives hw... thats why in first semester i did 0 minutes to 30 minutes a night just to get what i 'had to do' out of the way
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If you lose motivation now, you'll stuff up your life and bring shame to your family...
just something to think about :)
are you serious?
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If you lose motivation now, you'll stuff up your life and bring shame to your family...
just something to think about :)
are you serious?
That's a quote from tutor JACK!
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lol 99.95, that's so azn :P
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If you lose motivation now, you'll stuff up your life and bring shame to your family...
just something to think about :)
are you serious?
That's a quote from tutor JACK!
That's rubbish
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If you lose motivation now, you'll stuff up your life and bring shame to your family...
just something to think about :)
are you serious?
That's a quote from tutor JACK!
That's rubbish
That's MOTIVATION right there! LOL
Nike - Just Do It. :)
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English, you suck. I have no motivation to write a damn practice essay. Which is why I've done a grand total of 0. AHHH. And here I was hoping English would pull through to be one of my better subjects :/
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that is sooooooo true ...
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English, you suck. I have no motivation to write a damn practice essay. Which is why I've done a grand total of 0. AHHH. And here I was hoping English would pull through to be one of my better subjects :/
i have literally about 10 hours worth of eng to do right now by tomorrow.....at the pace im wokring atm, it's gona take me 20 hours.....i could REALLY use an extra week of hols.... right ...about.........NOW
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i have literally about 10 hours worth of eng to do right now by tomorrow.....at the pace im wokring atm, it's gona take me 20 hours.....i could REALLY use an extra week of hols.... right ...about.........NOW
Wow do you start school tomorrow already? The general populus of my school have until Wednesday and I have until next week :)
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i think scotch has a shorter term 2 holidays than other private schools? but a week longer term 3 holiday.
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i think scotch has a shorter term 2 holidays than other private schools? but a week longer term 3 holiday.
Same with Camberwell Grammar, 2 weeks in July and 3 weeks in September :)
So we start on Tuesday
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we start tuesday as well, but i have an all day orc reheearsal tomo....FML
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we start tuesday as well, but i have an all day orc reheearsal tomo....FML
wat concert is coming up? i forgotz
btw hows ur subjects going? owning them all ey :P
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we start tuesday as well, but i have an all day orc reheearsal tomo....FML
SAME!!! :(
We're going from 9:30 to 3:30 tomorrow ><
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we start tuesday as well, but i have an all day orc reheearsal tomo....FML
wat concert is coming up? i forgotz
btw hows ur subjects going? owning them all ey :P
It's probably Foundation Day lol
We start this Wednesday (apart from y10 work experience and y9 camp) but we ended term 2 a week earlier than everyone else so 3.5 week holiday (extended to 4 cos of work experience). But we have 2 weeks next term.
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we start tuesday as well, but i have an all day orc reheearsal tomo....FML
wat concert is coming up? i forgotz
btw hows ur subjects going? owning them all ey :P
lol tt only foundation day.....no biggie :P
pfft i wish man, spech is good, chem is fine(didn't do too well in unit three, so i need to cane unit 4), uni maths is ok (got a test on everything we've done this year on wednesday which i need ot revise for) and eng is gong shite. Reli need to pull the finger out and start using my 16 spares properly this semester...... :S
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haha im sure ull be fine for ur maths and chem, but work on english if ur not feeling confident, it will rly come to bite u at the end of year if you dont put in the work :P
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8.10 start tomorrow = 7am wake up ><
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why do you guys not return to school tmr?
not looking forward to methods first thing in the morning..
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we start tuesday as well, but i have an all day orc reheearsal tomo....FML
I've had all-day rehearsals all week - FMLFMLFML.
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I'm just scared that my year 11 subject will be my highest raw. I noticed lots of people have subjects in year 12 that top that, and if I don't, I think it'll just confirm what a big waster I am of year 12...
With only four subjects I'm really ashamed...
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five subjects iffets, five not four!
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five subjects iffets, five not four!
Really? Where?
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five subjects iffets, five not four!
Really? Where?
nah, i was just telling her that she should count MUEP maths as a subject which mean she's doing five not four subjects
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Oh ok, I thought you meant you had 5 subjects, my bad. Is 6 subjects survivable in one year? Maybe I should accelerate one more but I am reluctant to do so...
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Oh ok, I thought you meant you had 5 subjects, my bad. Is 6 subjects survivable in one year? Maybe I should accelerate one more but I am reluctant to do so...
Oh don't do 6... im doing 4 and dying lol
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Oh ok, I thought you meant you had 5 subjects, my bad. Is 6 subjects survivable in one year? Maybe I should accelerate one more but I am reluctant to do so...
Oh don't do 6... im doing 4 and dying lol
lol, three propper and STILL dying......(well either that or i'm insanely lazy....and it's probs the latter)
oh yea, azure, just do a 2 3/4s in year 11, makes the load much easier. I understand ur concer about chinese, but i still think you should do it in year 11, if not chinese then y not physics??
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Oh ok, I thought you meant you had 5 subjects, my bad. Is 6 subjects survivable in one year? Maybe I should accelerate one more but I am reluctant to do so...
Oh don't do 6... im doing 4 and dying lol
Lol yeah, I'm not sure whether it's wise to do 6 in year 12 but anyway, has anyone here done 6 subjects (UMEP included) in year 12? If so, how did you find it?
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lol, three propper and STILL dying......(well either that or i'm insanely lazy....and it's probs the latter)
oh yea, azure, just do a 2 3/4s in year 11, makes the load much easier. I understand ur concer about chinese, but i still think you should do it in year 11, if not chinese then y not physics??
You mean biology? I'm considering it but unsure. If I did biology next year, I could drop one of chem/phys the following year. I dunnooooo
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five subjects iffets, five not four!
Really? Where?
nah, i was just telling her that she should count MUEP maths as a subject which mean she's doing five not four subjects
Muep counts for jacksh** lol! but i will probably take that back when I get my appalling results
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lol, three propper and STILL dying......(well either that or i'm insanely lazy....and it's probs the latter)
oh yea, azure, just do a 2 3/4s in year 11, makes the load much easier. I understand ur concer about chinese, but i still think you should do it in year 11, if not chinese then y not physics??
You mean biology? I'm considering it but unsure. If I did biology next year, I could drop one of chem/phys the following year. I dunnooooo
whateva, just DON'T DO SIX SUBJECTS IN YEAR 12
five subjects iffets, five not four!
Really? Where?
nah, i was just telling her that she should count MUEP maths as a subject which mean she's doing five not four subjects
Muep counts for jacksh** lol! but i will probably take that back when I get my appalling results
sifffff actually lol, i don;t do muhc work for umep either....lol sure is gonna come back and bite me on wednesday in our test... >.<
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yes dont to 6 subjects . 4 is killing me :P
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yes dont to 6 subjects . 4 is killing me :P
Isn't that 5 subjects?
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yes dont to 6 subjects . 4 is killing me :P
did you changed ur username????
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yes dont to 6 subjects . 4 is killing me :P
Isn't that 5 subjects?
Uni amths is not really a subject...it doenst really affect me:D luckiily
yes dont to 6 subjects . 4 is killing me :P
did you changed ur username????
yes i did :)
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yes dont to 6 subjects . 4 is killing me :P
Isn't that 5 subjects?
Don't really count it as 5.
Everyone at school is like "OHHH BUT YOU DO UNI MATHS SO OF COURSE UR FINDING IT HARD TO JUGGLE YOUR TIME."
Doing uni maths is no excuse. Maybe uni chem or bio with the prac sessions but most monash programs aren't that *advanced*, can't say about the melbourne ones though.
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Oh ok, I thought you meant you had 5 subjects, my bad. Is 6 subjects survivable in one year? Maybe I should accelerate one more but I am reluctant to do so...
Dude do not even consider 6. Wayy too much work.
Definitely do Chinese in year 11, i regreted not doing it, theres a lot of work to do for chinese if you wanna do well. So do it earlier.
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^ doing six is fine.. i have the worst time management skills and i am managing (kind of.. ).... if you had moderate skills at least, you can smash it..
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Oh ok, I thought you meant you had 5 subjects, my bad. Is 6 subjects survivable in one year? Maybe I should accelerate one more but I am reluctant to do so...
Oh don't do 6... im doing 4 and dying lol
Lol yeah, I'm not sure whether it's wise to do 6 in year 12 but anyway, has anyone here done 6 subjects (UMEP included) in year 12? If so, how did you find it?
I was considering doing six this year originally actually, but (thankfully?) I wasn't allowed by VCAA to do Philosophy 3/4 with MUEP Philosophy. I'd probably die if I did both. Listen to everyone else - just about everyone I know either did one repeat subject when doing six, or started off doing six but dropped down to five pretty soon. The only person I know who did six subjects (five+one UMEP/MUEP) where ALL were absolutely new was the MGS 99.95 from two years ago who said he slept four hours a day in year 12...
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Evangelion! Im doing 6 and haven't dropped any subjects><
And two of my subjects are outside of school (one being englang which is 4hrs/wk) so that adds travel times.
ALSO I will definitely not be getting a perfect score, but still pretty sure that my results won't be too affected by doing 6.
Uni chem is just one evening per week gone, and then 6 full days throughout the year. It's really not that much! Because cramming is definitely possible for the exams even though i do zero work during the year my test/uni prac average is an H1 (along with mostly everyone) since uni assessments are fairly easy (for chem at least).
if you want to do six, do six.
andddd if i drop any of the subjects im doing, i risk the chance of doing worse as i dont know what i will do better at.. as im rank 1 for PE, further is so easy, and methods im quite highly ranked too without much work; i wouldn't drop uni chem as adds to my enter + looks good when applying for USA colleges. uni chem also makes normal chem quite easy, and so im rank 1 without that much work (still doing quite a bit for exams and sacs though), so this could be you with another uni subject+vce?
And so im not dropping any of these four, since i could screw up PE or Further or methods! If i study for all then i am almost guaranteed to do well in something! i also have psych if i really needed as a back up (which is why doing 3/4s in year 11 is the best).. my only concern is i wont be doing that well in englang, i am quite lazy so if i wanted to i could do better, but still not well.. i will try and study hard this semester in everything, but with my time management skills improving, i am getting better espeically since im so close to the end!
6 is absolutely fine, don't be disheartened by what everyone says.. i still go out quite a bit, and although i do 'give up' at times, examples methods where i stopped going to classes for a little.. i have stayed with it all and have not done badly as a result! so now i will attend all my classes, but when we start doing matrices in further i wont be going since it's pointless ahah.
just my two cents..
OH AND EDIT;
im also doing the UMAT which i haven't really studied for, and the SATs which i will begin studying quite a bit for in august for 2 months, and then beginning study for my SAT II subject tests.. yeah so im doing heaps of stuff, and i can manage, why can't you?
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LOL it seems ironic that the people who are doing 4-5 subjects seem to be struggling with it and the people who are doing 6 seem to feel just fine :D Maybe it's not as bad as people think then...
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Yeah, i have no motivation.
Finished no homework
Don't really give a fuck.
I never used to be like this aha.
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Evangelion! Im doing 6 and haven't dropped any subjects><
And two of my subjects are outside of school (one being englang which is 4hrs/wk) so that adds travel times.
ALSO I will definitely not be getting a perfect score, but still pretty sure that my results won't be too affected by doing 6.
Uni chem is just one evening per week gone, and then 6 full days throughout the year. It's really not that much! Because cramming is definitely possible for the exams even though i do zero work during the year my test/uni prac average is an H1 (along with mostly everyone) since uni assessments are fairly easy (for chem at least).
if you want to do six, do six.
andddd if i drop any of the subjects im doing, i risk the chance of doing worse as i dont know what i will do better at.. as im rank 1 for PE, further is so easy, and methods im quite highly ranked too without much work; i wouldn't drop uni chem as adds to my enter + looks good when applying for USA colleges. uni chem also makes normal chem quite easy, and so im rank 1 without that much work (still doing quite a bit for exams and sacs though), so this could be you with another uni subject+vce?
And so im not dropping any of these four, since i could screw up PE or Further or methods! If i study for all then i am almost guaranteed to do well in something! i also have psych if i really needed as a back up (which is why doing 3/4s in year 11 is the best).. my only concern is i wont be doing that well in englang, i am quite lazy so if i wanted to i could do better, but still not well.. i will try and study hard this semester in everything, but with my time management skills improving, i am getting better espeically since im so close to the end!
6 is absolutely fine, don't be disheartened by what everyone says.. i still go out quite a bit, and although i do 'give up' at times, examples methods where i stopped going to classes for a little.. i have stayed with it all and have not done badly as a result! so now i will attend all my classes, but when we start doing matrices in further i wont be going since it's pointless ahah.
just my two cents..
OH AND EDIT;
im also doing the UMAT which i haven't really studied for, and the SATs which i will begin studying quite a bit for in august for 2 months, and then beginning study for my SAT II subject tests.. yeah so im doing heaps of stuff, and i can manage, why can't you?
Key words at your last bit - "haven't really studied for" and "which i will" - you're not managing the "heaps of stuff" at the moment are you?
Maybe I'm just bitter because the time I spend in co-currics per week (ignoring social commitments and the like...) is about the same amount of time as three subjects, but I honestly don't think I could handle doing six subjects full-time - or at least, if I did, I'd have to do minimal work for at least one.
The other problem I think you're having is that a lot of your subjects (as you present them) aren't having all that much work done in them, in particular Uni Chem. I don't mean to sound offensive, but the workload you portray seems closer to five subjects anyway (or similar to my example of "doing minimal work for at least one") - the problems I'm alluding to are people who do six subjects in year 12 whilst intending to work in all of them (hence why I brought up people repeating subjects as an example of how some people manage to do six).
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I don't think you can count UMAT or SATS for anything, like I wouldn't use them as an excuse for workload , not putting down your workload or anything vexx, you're doing an amazing job :D.
Just saying, UMAT...all these things, don't deserve to have a "oh it was hard for me in year 12 cause I did it" label.
And, with 6 subjects, you're more stressed and motivated to do more. With 4, you're like "meh."
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Evangelion! Im doing 6 and haven't dropped any subjects><
And two of my subjects are outside of school (one being englang which is 4hrs/wk) so that adds travel times.
ALSO I will definitely not be getting a perfect score, but still pretty sure that my results won't be too affected by doing 6.
Uni chem is just one evening per week gone, and then 6 full days throughout the year. It's really not that much! Because cramming is definitely possible for the exams even though i do zero work during the year my test/uni prac average is an H1 (along with mostly everyone) since uni assessments are fairly easy (for chem at least).
if you want to do six, do six.
andddd if i drop any of the subjects im doing, i risk the chance of doing worse as i dont know what i will do better at.. as im rank 1 for PE, further is so easy, and methods im quite highly ranked too without much work; i wouldn't drop uni chem as adds to my enter + looks good when applying for USA colleges. uni chem also makes normal chem quite easy, and so im rank 1 without that much work (still doing quite a bit for exams and sacs though), so this could be you with another uni subject+vce?
And so im not dropping any of these four, since i could screw up PE or Further or methods! If i study for all then i am almost guaranteed to do well in something! i also have psych if i really needed as a back up (which is why doing 3/4s in year 11 is the best).. my only concern is i wont be doing that well in englang, i am quite lazy so if i wanted to i could do better, but still not well.. i will try and study hard this semester in everything, but with my time management skills improving, i am getting better espeically since im so close to the end!
6 is absolutely fine, don't be disheartened by what everyone says.. i still go out quite a bit, and although i do 'give up' at times, examples methods where i stopped going to classes for a little.. i have stayed with it all and have not done badly as a result! so now i will attend all my classes, but when we start doing matrices in further i wont be going since it's pointless ahah.
just my two cents..
OH AND EDIT;
im also doing the UMAT which i haven't really studied for, and the SATs which i will begin studying quite a bit for in august for 2 months, and then beginning study for my SAT II subject tests.. yeah so im doing heaps of stuff, and i can manage, why can't you?
Key words at your last bit - "haven't really studied for" and "which i will" - you're not managing the "heaps of stuff" at the moment are you?
Maybe I'm just bitter because the time I spend in co-currics per week (ignoring social commitments and the like...) is about the same amount of time as three subjects, but I honestly don't think I could handle doing six subjects full-time - or at least, if I did, I'd have to do minimal work for at least one.
The other problem I think you're having is that a lot of your subjects (as you present them) aren't having all that much work done in them, in particular Uni Chem. I don't mean to sound offensive, but the workload you portray seems closer to five subjects anyway (or similar to my example of "doing minimal work for at least one") - the problems I'm alluding to are people who do six subjects in year 12 whilst intending to work in all of them (hence why I brought up people repeateing subjects as an example of how some people manage to do six).
Hm very true. Although it does depend on the individual, i mean i guess some people will be able to handle 6. But i'd imagine most wont, or wouldn't want to. And it would depend on the subjects themselves. Eg. Spesh will consume up a lot of time.
But vexx, if you can handle it, i respect you dude xD
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EZ,
as you may/may not know, i am not the strongest of english students, so my arguments were pretty weak :p
basically: doing a uni subject is barely counted as an extra subject, they are very crammable; and so shouldn't take up that much time. this applies to quite a few subjects (some i've never spoke to people about so i don't know.. uni chem and uni maths is a definite, along with some of the arts subjects/sciences)
at the moment: i'm focusing on all my subjects, and will be for the remainder of the term.
whoever is choosing to do six, you will be able to, since its pretty much just 5, with a uni one that possibly makes another vce subject easier, and can be crammed; so the time lost is not too major..
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yeah i know i can't really count UMAT, but over the next few weeks i will be spending the weekends hopefully studying, otherwise i should really cross that off. but SATs im sort of allowed since i will be doing a little bit almost every day for 2months during a pretty stressful time (august, september), and i will cross this off if i don't go by what ive said..
i don't complain about doing so many subjects, nor say it was harder for me, since it is my choice. yes im sure many coudn't handle it, but many can, even if they don't think so initially (i didn't at the beginning).
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okay vexx, I wasn't dissing you or anything. (Y).
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okay vexx, I wasn't dissing you or anything. (Y).
ahha nahh i realised what i said did actually sound slightly silly ;o
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@ Azure:
EZ got it in one......it reli depends on the amount of co-curricular stuff you plan to do. e.g. i know i do a *shite* load of extra stuff that eats up lots of time (despite my parent's protests :P ). It's about the balance YOU want.
If for a year, you reli can put ur head down and study and ignore eveything thing else and that's what you reli wanna do, go for the six subjects, hell, if that's what you will actually do, ur gonna get one near perfect enter, but IMO, i would urge you to sacrifice a bit of ur enter and actually take advantage of the opportunities you are still fortunate enough to be able to get while ur still in high school. Having said that, i commit to way to much and that's how i get screwed over with work >.<
Bottom line, if you just want an enter out of school, i have every faith in you being able to obtain a VERY high enter azure, but please remember you can't just measure the sucess of ur high school career from JUST ur enter
Oh and vexx, trust me, uni maths IS NOT CRAMMABLE.....i've got a test tomo on everything we've learnt this year....closed book...and I"M SCREWED....hence y i'm on vn complaning about it rather than studying :P ....but yea.....UNI MATHS IS NOT CRAMMABLE
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^ sorry tram, maybe the people i'd spoke to were good at cramming hehe....
and yeah i agree, ECs can definitely add a lot of time, so if your doing heaps of ECs (as in very time-consuming ones) then maybe 6 is not the best option...
ahh well, i guess it is all up to the person, i shouldn't assume these things.
but azure: it's definitely possible, listen to what everyone is saying, but it is possible.
alsoooo realise that people do IB are all doing 6 subjects (three of which are the standard course with uni level - HL courses) and a lot of ECs, also doing other tasks like ToK and EE.. not all of them are extremely intelligent, but they manage. if they can, so can we.;p
yesyes different system but its comparable.
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Oh and vexx, trust me, uni maths IS NOT CRAMMABLE.....i've got a test tomo on everything we've learnt this year....closed book...and I"M SCREWED....hence y i'm on vn complaning about it rather than studying :P ....but yea.....UNI MATHS IS NOT CRAMMABLE
i do no co-curriculars so I suck since I am not managing :P
anyways, tram does UMEP, I do MUEP and MONASH COURSES ARE CRAMMABLE. They make it easier for us, those kind people LOL.
IB people are pro, I feel guilty about our vce system.
and Tram- GET OFF VN.
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fine, fine, GETTING OFF
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actually peoples, i might take what i said back, or atleast delay it..
at the end of the year i will see how i really did.
who knows i may fail everything;)
goodluck for test tram!
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no vexx, I think doing more subjects is better for you, I just realised how incompetent I am. You're gunna gun it :D
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wow definetely while i feel as though i havent been that productive and having not started school yet i am still un motivated and seeing u people makes me feel sad D:
i should start studying
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goodluck for test tram!
thx vexx :) got it in two hours...MUST.....GET OFF....VN...AND....STUDY....
no vexx, I think doing more subjects is better for you, I just realised how incompetent I am. You're gunna gun it :D
iffets, stop it alredy with the incompetent crap srsly, i mean....at least you got 152 wpm right? :P
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I'm going to fail school and most importantly life! :'(
I have lost motivation for everything even living :|
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why tf would you do 6 when you have a 44 from last year?
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why tf would you do 6 when you have a 44 from last year?
because i don't really want to use that 44 as a top 4 subject... im going to do terrible in english, so i must compromise with doing well in everything else... i may end up using it but who knows..
and im doing 6 since there isn't anything i could really confidently drop..
edit; oh and it's a school rule that i have to do four subjects at school so the only subject i could drop was my uni subject, and i see no point in dropping it.. if this wasn't a school rule, i wouldn't have started off doing further.. but i don't really mind right now to be honest, cos i might do well:)
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vexx, have you thought about accelerating two of your subjects last year? (I.e. doing 2 in Year 11)
i regret not doing two so badly. but unfortunately, at my school you aren't allowed to unless one is outside of school. i would have done further as my other, then only do 5 this year!
if you are considering doing two, definitely go for it XD
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umm cherry.... that is exactly me, it's also a school rule that you cannot do six subjects.. and i got in heaps of trouble when i told my co-ordinator i was still doing uni chem (said i was going to drop it)
oh well..
hahaha
goodluck breaking history! yay
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umm cherry.... that is exactly me, it's also a school rule that you cannot do six subjects.. and i got in heaps of trouble when i told my co-ordinator i was still doing uni chem (said i was going to drop it)
oh well..
hahaha
goodluck breaking history! yay
We've only got blocks for 5 subjects in year 12 but we're allowed an extra uni subject. However, they prefer you to do 4 VCE + 1 UMEP in year 12. But it's been done before.
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Yes, I'm definitely doing two! Just that I don't know if I should do Maths + Chinese or Maths + Music hahaha. My school doesn't allow me to do 2 3/4 either, but I'm gonna make history and be the first person to do so :D
(I used to have a senior '09 who did 6 subjects (5 subs + UMEP) "illegally". She asked the co-ord to let her "try" the subject first to see if she liked it and after that she'll decide if she'll choose UMEP over it or vice versa. In the end she never stopped classes and managed to do 6 without official approval. :P)
Lol my school is actually "encouraging" me to accelerate 2 lol so I don't get 6 in year 12. I was going to accelerate 3 before, but now I realise that it might not be such a good idea...
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do two subjects if you can...
it just helps so much if you get decent scores, because it just makes yr 12 just that bit more stress free knowing you've got one or maybe even two subjects as a safety net.
I got two 44's last year which both scale to 45, so in terms of my desired enter of ~98 im already halfway there. last year though i worked hard and probably did more work in terms of hours than this year. But as a consequence i now only need to work really hard on english, and prefereably get high 30's/low 40 raws for my 3 other subjects (physics, chem, methods)
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If only our school let us do two 3/4s in year 11..
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sif not? that's gayyyyy you can alwsy do the other subject outside school tho....they actually can't stop you....
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sif not? that's gayyyyy you can alwsy do the other subject outside school tho....they actually can't stop you....
most outside school subjects need approval from school.. i wasn't allowed to do english language at CAE because of this, luckily RMIT doesn't require it.
i would not have been bothered to be travelling to RMIT twice a week for 2 hrs though, missing out on many hours of class time each week. so a second subject was not an option..
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sif not? that's gayyyyy you can alwsy do the other subject outside school tho....they actually can't stop you....
Hm for our school they can, we have to go through interviews to 'approve' subject selections for vce.
Unless you are a genius, there is very little chance you can do two 3/4s. Some people were even rejected and not allowed to do any 3/4s in year 11. That's how tight they are.
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mmmm well i think to do two three fours, you need a gpa of 9.5, but luclly, i actually got to do two with a gpa of only 8.8 as i had done the 1/2s for MM and chink in year 10
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mmmm well i think to do two three fours, you need a gpa of 9.5, but luclly, i actually got to do two with a gpa of only 8.8 as i had done the 1/2s for MM and chink in year 10
Are you allowed to do three 3/4s at your school in year 11? Bit of a stupid idea though I 'could' hypothetically do it, I've long since abandoned the idea lol :P
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mmmm well i think to do two three fours, you need a gpa of 9.5, but luclly, i actually got to do two with a gpa of only 8.8 as i had done the 1/2s for MM and chink in year 10
Are you allowed to do three 3/4s at your school in year 11? Bit of a stupid idea though I 'could' hypothetically do it, I've long since abandoned the idea lol :P
i feel stupid for wasting my year 10. :(
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mmmm well i think to do two three fours, you need a gpa of 9.5, but luclly, i actually got to do two with a gpa of only 8.8 as i had done the 1/2s for MM and chink in year 10
Are you allowed to do three 3/4s at your school in year 11? Bit of a stupid idea though I 'could' hypothetically do it, I've long since abandoned the idea lol :P
well.....hmmmm don;t think you would be able to do three 3/4s AT school.....and i mean any school, but i think you could do two at school and one outside school
i feel stupid for wasting my year 10. :(
lol, i think it's MUCH MUCH worse to waster year 12 than waste yr 10, and that's what i've been doing all year so far......and now i'm trying to change that..... lol, gun this year and yr 10 means jack all
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mmmm well i think to do two three fours, you need a gpa of 9.5, but luclly, i actually got to do two with a gpa of only 8.8 as i had done the 1/2s for MM and chink in year 10
Are you allowed to do three 3/4s at your school in year 11? Bit of a stupid idea though I 'could' hypothetically do it, I've long since abandoned the idea lol :P
depends, my time table clashed when i did 2 3/4's in year 11 so i never ended up going to chinese classes at school (not that they were helpful anyway lol)
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My school has similar timetables for Year's 11 and 12 so that doing a 3+4 shouldnt be a problem, you should check it out if your school's timetable system is like this
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mmmm well i think to do two three fours, you need a gpa of 9.5, but luclly, i actually got to do two with a gpa of only 8.8 as i had done the 1/2s for MM and chink in year 10
Whats GPA? LOL, yeah i think normally for two 3/4s, one is normally language done outside of school.
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gap is a grade point adverage e.g. all your grades are converted to a numbers (A+=10, A=9, B+=8 and so on) and adveraged. It's just a way of quantifying how well you are doing basically.
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Oh i see, it is only your school that uses this?
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lol, i think it's MUCH MUCH worse to waster year 12 than waste yr 10, and that's what i've been doing all year so far......and now i'm trying to change that..... lol, gun this year and yr 10 means jack all
If you pester people enough and show that you possess adequate intelligence to do those three, it's possible. I know someone who did that, and some schools like balwyn prefer you accelerate through their program...
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gap is a grade point adverage e.g. all your grades are converted to a numbers (A+=10, A=9, B+=8 and so on) and adveraged. It's just a way of quantifying how well you are doing basically.
lol i never knew my GPA, didnt even know we had one hahaha
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People at my school were allowed THREE 3/4s in year 11- and you wouldn't call them geniuses.... they didn't go well either (as in study scores in the 20s)
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People at my school were allowed THREE 3/4s in year 11- and you wouldn't call them geniuses.... they didn't go well either (as in study scores in the 20s)
and what school was this? :P LOL
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People at my school were allowed THREE 3/4s in year 11- and you wouldn't call them geniuses.... they didn't go well either (as in study scores in the 20s)
and what school was this? :P LOL
A very crap one! However the teachers are good though :)
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People at my school were allowed THREE 3/4s in year 11- and you wouldn't call them geniuses.... they didn't go well either (as in study scores in the 20s)
I would have killed for an opportunity like that!
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Oh i see, it is only your school that uses this?
i have absolutely no, idea....having said that, i would be very surprised if i my school was the ONLY schol to use a gpa system to rank kids
gap is a grade point adverage e.g. all your grades are converted to a numbers (A+=10, A=9, B+=8 and so on) and adveraged. It's just a way of quantifying how well you are doing basically.
lol i never knew my GPA, didnt even know we had one hahaha
lol tt, that's probs cos you never needed to find it out cos you were already wayyyyyy over qualified :P i had to take my case up with jones and convince her there was no point me repeting the 1/2 of methods or chink to allow me to do both
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we have it, but its a percentage.
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People at my school were allowed THREE 3/4s in year 11- and you wouldn't call them geniuses.... they didn't go well either (as in study scores in the 20s)
I would have killed for an opportunity like that!
Hahaha really? I guess it'll be good for those who have the time/are dedicated to school :)
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People at my school were allowed THREE 3/4s in year 11- and you wouldn't call them geniuses.... they didn't go well either (as in study scores in the 20s)
I would have killed for an opportunity like that!
Hahaha really? I guess it'll be good for those who have the time/are dedicated to school :)
Or are over ambitious about vce.
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People at my school were allowed THREE 3/4s in year 11- and you wouldn't call them geniuses.... they didn't go well either (as in study scores in the 20s)
I would have killed for an opportunity like that!
Hahaha really? I guess it'll be good for those who have the time/are dedicated to school :)
Or are over ambitious about vce.
everyone here is :P.
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People at my school were allowed THREE 3/4s in year 11- and you wouldn't call them geniuses.... they didn't go well either (as in study scores in the 20s)
I would have killed for an opportunity like that!
Hahaha really? I guess it'll be good for those who have the time/are dedicated to school :)
Or are over ambitious about vce.
everyone here is :P.
haha have you seen some of the SS predicitions in the signatures of people in year 10??
they're in for a pleasant surprise
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People at my school were allowed THREE 3/4s in year 11- and you wouldn't call them geniuses.... they didn't go well either (as in study scores in the 20s)
I would have killed for an opportunity like that!
Hahaha really? I guess it'll be good for those who have the time/are dedicated to school :)
Or are over ambitious about vce.
everyone here is :P.
haha have you seen some of the SS predicitions in the signatures of people in year 10??
they're in for a pleasant surprise
seriously? I didn't think the year 10s had predictions. I chose not to because I know I'll probably disappoint myself.
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People at my school were allowed THREE 3/4s in year 11- and you wouldn't call them geniuses.... they didn't go well either (as in study scores in the 20s)
I would have killed for an opportunity like that!
Hahaha really? I guess it'll be good for those who have the time/are dedicated to school :)
Or are over ambitious about vce.
everyone here is :P.
haha have you seen some of the SS predicitions in the signatures of people in year 10??
they're in for a pleasant surprise
seriously? I didn't think the year 10s had predictions. I chose not to because I know I'll probably disappoint myself.
agreed. how can yo predict when you haven't even studied the subject itself? I understand the predictions that people make during yr12, but years below that is just plain ridiculous.
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People at my school were allowed THREE 3/4s in year 11- and you wouldn't call them geniuses.... they didn't go well either (as in study scores in the 20s)
I would have killed for an opportunity like that!
Hahaha really? I guess it'll be good for those who have the time/are dedicated to school :)
Or are over ambitious about vce.
everyone here is :P.
haha have you seen some of the SS predicitions in the signatures of people in year 10??
they're in for a pleasant surprise
seriously? I didn't think the year 10s had predictions. I chose not to because I know I'll probably disappoint myself.
agreed. how can yo predict when you haven't even studied the subject itself? I understand the predictions that people make during yr12, but years below that is just plain ridiculous.
So god damn true! LOL
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Just ask Paul the octopus to make the predictions for you :P More accurate!
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Just ask Paul the octopus to make the predictions for you :P More accurate!
lmao .. its so cute :D
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People at my school were allowed THREE 3/4s in year 11- and you wouldn't call them geniuses.... they didn't go well either (as in study scores in the 20s)
I would have killed for an opportunity like that!
Hahaha really? I guess it'll be good for those who have the time/are dedicated to school :)
Or are over ambitious about vce.
everyone here is :P.
haha have you seen some of the SS predicitions in the signatures of people in year 10??
they're in for a pleasant surprise
lmao. also the people with page long sigs with all their SAC results are F.....s. like no one cares
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People at my school were allowed THREE 3/4s in year 11- and you wouldn't call them geniuses.... they didn't go well either (as in study scores in the 20s)
I would have killed for an opportunity like that!
Hahaha really? I guess it'll be good for those who have the time/are dedicated to school :)
Or are over ambitious about vce.
everyone here is :P.
haha have you seen some of the SS predicitions in the signatures of people in year 10??
they're in for a pleasant surprise
lmao. also the people with page long sigs with all their SAC results are F.....s. like no one cares
tell me about it *_*