I'm generally a lazy person, well, especially when it comes to education. I'm sure I wasn't the only one though.
However this year I have now hit year 12, and will soon become the class of 2011.
I am currently doing
Legal Studies, English, Visual Communication & Design, Further Mathematics and Business Management.
Legal Studies, last year first semester I was ranging marks between A-B, then second semester I started to slack... which caused my grades to go lower. Now that I have hit year 12, I am worried about this subject. I know I will struggle, but since I'm the type of person to just be... lazy, I'm not sure how to study ENOUGH for Legal studies to get into my head. However, the methods of flash cards do appeal to me, and I will try them sooner or later.
English, this is my worst subject. Even though I am born here, my english writing is not very good. Essay writing can be a pain for me. I KNOW the basic structure, however, writing down points etc, I'm not very good at. Usually, people do the thinking for me, therefore when there's a topic question, I go blank. Once the teacher answers it, I go "Oooh", and I get it. However, during exam conditions, this will be very troublesome for me.
Further Mathematics, this subject is a subject I KNOW I can do well if I put my whole effort into it. However, my whole effort... is hard to get to. Problem solving can be a problem for me, especially in Mathematics. Once I get to a hard question, I observe it, try it, if I'm wrong, I don't try again. I give up. And it's horrible towards my results.
I want to get around a 40+ in this subject.
Visual Communication & Design, I enjoy this subject very much. It's my favourite subject. I love drawing, I love designing and coming with new ideas. However the only thing pulling me back in this subject is my laziness and lack of time management and organisation skills.
Business Management, first time picking this subject up this year. I dropped Accounting for it (I was horrible at Accounting). People have told me that Busman would be an ATAR boost, this gave a glow to my face. So I decided to give it a chance. Business terms, I'm not very good at. And apparently this is all "common sense", but after going through classes of Busman I realised how difficult it was and I was thinking "does that mean I have no common sense...?". I was put down. Then I realised it was similar to Legal Studies, which means I need to do a lot of memorising. But interpreting business terms is a challenge, even if it's an 'easy' word.
I want to get a 90+ overall ATAR and try for industrial design/product design. My dad does not support me of this dream. He thinks I want to do architecture (which was last year, then I realised I disliked drawing houses and had no inspiration from them). He has always put me down whenever I draw or whenever I'm doing Viscom. He thinks it's a waste of time, which hurts me because it's something I LOVE to do. Sure I'm not into Physics, Chemistry etc, but they aren't subjects I like.
My dad makes me sound like an idiot especially when he says my subjects are "dumb" and I didn't take up a challenge. Thing is, I didn't want to take up a 'challenge'. Why do them when I know I'm not into them? That'll be less motivation for me.
My dad has been putting my dreams down, and he is part of the reason why I lack motivation/inspiration for my future.
I'm also a lazy person when it comes to studying. I give up SO easily. I want to stop this habit.
I also make excuses for myself.
I want to stop already. I want to KNOW I'm a VCE student and be like everyone else and hit the books!
So basically, in this thread,
- I want to know how to overcome laziness and fears
- Study tips on each subject
- I want to hear your experiences for any subjects that I have done
- How to gain inspiration & motivation to push onwards!
Thank you!