Defining VCE moment?

[Curry_bro]

'you can retake the sac if you want, but I dont think you should worry too much about your ranking, i have that under control'.


That sentence doesn't sit too well.

oops. was meant to read 'you can retake the sac if you want, but i dont think you should worry too much about your ranking. I have that under control'
forgot the fullstop. i didnt really understand what my coordinator was saying either, but im literally quoting her nevertheless, she is an amazing woman

[Wazzup]

41 in english. Dang...

[brenden]

Your teacher meant she was going to skew your marks upward web entering it into VASS.

[jazza97]

oops. was meant to read 'you can retake the sac if you want, but i dont think you should worry too much about your ranking. I have that under control'
forgot the fullstop. i didnt really understand what my coordinator was saying either, but im literally quoting her nevertheless, she is an amazing woman

I meant the insinuation of cheating.  That is not amazing.  That is wrong on so many levels, can't believe you don't find this appalling.

[academicbulimia]

Hmm. I'm not sure there's any one moment that could possible encapsulate my entire VCE, as colourful as it was. There is, however, a moment that jumped out at me when I read the post and quite possibly one of the VCE moments I won't forget for a long time.
Essentially, I'd received some really bad results at the end of Term 1 and my English teacher sought me out after school to ask me if I were okay. I ended up bawling my eyes out for an hour in an empty room while he sat there listening to me rant and gasp for breath haha. It was the same day I began the blog I kept throughout Year 12 as an outlet, the same day I decided to be a teacher, and the same day I decided to actively make sure everyone else was doing well instead of just helping when they asked me.
I wrote on my blog:
I was fine enough, but my English teacher - if you're there, God please bless him - came to my room last period to ask if I were okay; I seemed upset at the end of English. Just to ask me if I was okay. It was the question that set me off mostly. People ask it lots with that cocked head, pushed-down eyebrows and sharp sentence - but this time he was really asking. It was as if he could SEE. As if he could just see what was in my head- God, curse him for that.
Cue second breakdown. I almost made it through term 1 with only 1, but on the last day I just had to double my total. So I sat in a room and cried in front of another grown fucking man. Credit to him. What a truly wonderful person. It is not important for me to write down the words that were said in the classroom but I'll always remember that man for who he is.
I also decided to help fellow students as much as I can. Fuck the system. You can give me a fucking competition you utter prick, but you will not change who I am. There is no reason why plenty of people can't get equally good scores. I won't let you taint the good in me. You don't fight society through apathy. You swim with the stream and jump out of the water whenever the fuck you feel like it. So yes, I'll play the game, with my own damn rulebook.
Exhale.

That was a pretty defining moment.

Inspirational. Faith in humanity=restored.

[brenden]

I meant the insinuation of cheating.  That is not amazing.  That is wrong on so many levels, can't believe you don't find this appalling.

He doesn't even understand what his teacher said, relax.

[JCore]

I meant the insinuation of cheating.  That is not amazing.  That is wrong on so many levels, can't believe you don't find this appalling.

Pretty much this. That's fucked up.

[jazza97]

He doesn't even understand what his teacher said, relax.

How can you possibly not understand that? of course he understands it...he said earlier that he knew for sure that he had slipped to middle rank and then says that his teacher has his ranking 'under control' and can retake the sac despite no insinuating circumstances (this is an assumption i am making)..  Surely he would have deduced that his coordinater has upped his ranking, hence the 'she is amazing'

[thushan]

Hmm. I'm not sure there's any one moment that could possible encapsulate my entire VCE, as colourful as it was. There is, however, a moment that jumped out at me when I read the post and quite possibly one of the VCE moments I won't forget for a long time.
Essentially, I'd received some really bad results at the end of Term 1 and my English teacher sought me out after school to ask me if I were okay. I ended up bawling my eyes out for an hour in an empty room while he sat there listening to me rant and gasp for breath haha. It was the same day I began the blog I kept throughout Year 12 as an outlet, the same day I decided to be a teacher, and the same day I decided to actively make sure everyone else was doing well instead of just helping when they asked me.
I wrote on my blog:
I was fine enough, but my English teacher - if you're there, God please bless him - came to my room last period to ask if I were okay; I seemed upset at the end of English. Just to ask me if I was okay. It was the question that set me off mostly. People ask it lots with that cocked head, pushed-down eyebrows and sharp sentence - but this time he was really asking. It was as if he could SEE. As if he could just see what was in my head- God, curse him for that.
Cue second breakdown. I almost made it through term 1 with only 1, but on the last day I just had to double my total. So I sat in a room and cried in front of another grown fucking man. Credit to him. What a truly wonderful person. It is not important for me to write down the words that were said in the classroom but I'll always remember that man for who he is.
I also decided to help fellow students as much as I can. Fuck the system. You can give me a fucking competition you utter prick, but you will not change who I am. There is no reason why plenty of people can't get equally good scores. I won't let you taint the good in me. You don't fight society through apathy. You swim with the stream and jump out of the water whenever the fuck you feel like it. So yes, I'll play the game, with my own damn rulebook.
Exhale.

That was a pretty defining moment.

Woah....! That is one defining moment mate.

As for me...it was round March-April in Year 12. I had noticed that I was perpetually tired all the time. Pretty much all the time. I was never able to study, I was never able to do anything focused. Stress and pressure were on me. Tension @ home was present, until one day it came to a head and I came to school the next day, having basically burnt out and simply wanting to...I don't even remember.

My Head of House took me into his office one day and I spilled. I will not forget that day.

Nor will I ever forget the number of times my friends have picked me up from rock bottom where I simply wanted to scream and say "F**K VCE, F**K MEDICINE, F**K EVERYTHING AND F**K YOU ALL!"

[Curry_bro]

oh gosh... There seems to be a vrry bad misunderstanding going on here :S oh damn... Its probably because Im not very good at recounting things and I tend to miss really important facts. I'm really sorry about this.

Ok let me explain. I was very ill during the sac I did, and I was so upset because I went down to 5th rank in a cohort of 13. My coordinator is russain who came to aus a couple of years ago, so sometimes she uses words that arent correct. The sac I didn't do so well on was an experimental report. When she said 'whether you so ur sac or not' she meant I cud either do the whole experiment again, or do another assessment to make up for it. So instead of doing the whole sac/again, the coordinator organised that I do another report using second hand data (hence the 'have ur ranking under control'). I did the altered version of the sac (which had questions different to the original sac to prevent cheating.) I never got to first rank by the eay, but I did finish at a decent 2nd

[Curry_bro]

and for the record, I denuinely didn't understand her at the time, but I did afterward when she organised the makeup assessment. And when I said 'she is an amazing woman', its because she really helped me out when I was getting really depressed about my unit 1 and 2 english scores. She really pulled me out of the dumps.

I'm sorry for making it sound as though I was cheating. I wrote a blotchy summary earlier to prevent myself from writing too much. I'm sorry again that my laziness and lack of skill caused terribke misunderstanding. And I would never cheat with rankings. That's not on. And besides, my coordinator can't change ranks without my teacher and principal knowing No room for shifty business.

sorry alondoek for hijacking this awesome thread. I'm seriously very sorry about all of this :/