Year 12 Class of 2013, REPORT HERE!

[Yendall]

a Skype chat

[SenriAkane]

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ugh, why would one do that -------------------------
22:03 < jayvee> Q-bean-laptop: parse error

[nosuperstar]

yeah i can see your a science kid (eww ) haha nah im reppin' the humanities

YOU, THAT SIG, AIMING FOR A 50 IN LEGAL, ME TOO *HIGH FIVE* 

Humanities <3 Did 3 this year, technically 'business' related subjects, but still, such a beautiful category, I would defs have continued with Business Management and done Economics over IT apps. -if i had the chance-

[Stick]

thankyou stick, it's been a tough year.

Yeah I know. I need to seriously start my holiday homework tomorrow though. Still have lots of English and Biology work to complete.

[nosuperstar]

Yeah I know. I need to seriously start my holiday homework tomorrow though. Still have lots of English and Biology work to complete.

English, ugh.
I hate the fact that it's a compulsory subject.

[nisha]

Yeah I know. I need to seriously start my holiday homework tomorrow though. Still have lots of English and Biology work to complete.

Uhh. Stick, man. Can you please just chill?

[Stick]

I don't mind it being compulsory, but I hate that it has to be in the top 4 in the calculation of your ATAR. I wish my school offered English Language.

Nisha, you actually have no idea how much compulsory work I have to do. I think I made a list and a fair few people had a heart attack.

EDIT: Here's the list. Enjoy.
Re: Starting to study for year 12

[DisaFear]

Need to start a petition to force Stick to relax
What do you say Stick, 100 signatures, we good to go?

[nosuperstar]

I don't mind it being compulsory, but I hate that it has to be in the top 4 in the calculation of your ATAR. I wish my school offered English Language.

Yeah, if only it wasn't in the primary 4, need a 35 at least though, I still don't understand how to go from the marks I got this year (C's to E's) to 35+ standard.

If my school gave us a choice between English or Lit, probably would have done Lit, but English is compulsory to even those students.

[Stick]

The list above is mandatory! I have no say in the matter!

And I am relaxed and calm!!!!! I haven't even mentioned worrying about my results once.

[nosuperstar]

Just checked out the post, in comparison, I didn't get much homework for my subjects, just alot for English, compared to the year 11 head start homework I had last year, I can definitely feel the weighing on the importance of English this time around.

[nisha]

I don't mind it being compulsory, but I hate that it has to be in the top 4 in the calculation of your ATAR. I wish my school offered English Language.

Nisha, you actually have no idea how much compulsory work I have to do. I think I made a list and a fair few people had a heart attack.

EDIT: Here's the list. Enjoy.
Re: Starting to study for year 12

Stick, I can dethrone you easily. This is what I did JUST FOR ENGLISH, last year holidays:::
-Read The reluctant Fundamentalist 4 times
- Answered all questions (which was about ....20 questions EACH OF WHICH i wrote paragraph answers. I ended up writing close to a 45 page analysis)
-Researched my issue completely and had a plastic pock folder of all arguments (for and against) which supporting articles and evidence.
-Written my powerpoint (cbbs doing the speech as I could just do it all on the day)
-Read through 2-3 other books similar to TRF to get the context of the book right (analysed those according to themes) and wrote ~5 essays total
-Read GUAIA twice and highlighted and annotated the book
-Re-went through the book and took out quotes and key themes that were common
-Wrote ~5 text responses on my context book (which was stupid...but I didn't do 1/2 English so I didn't know the different types of essays)
-Wrote ~4 text responses for TRF
-Read the newspaper everyday
-Cut out every article I found semi-interesting and wrote a page analysis on each ( I still have the scrapbook)
-Read the business section ( to kind of de-code what the HELL they are saying. The words they use are hard to distinguish so I practised so that I could get the gist out of any article)
-Wrote 2 LA's.

So there ya go. And I was chill about Year 12. So calm down.

[Stick]

Yeah, and I already finished the work for Chemistry, Methods and Specialist (don't eat me!). I'm hoping to finish Biology this week and work on English fairly constantly throughout the entire holidays... So I think I'll get heaps of rest if I only do 2 hours of English a day.

By the way, your list is having the reverse effect on me - now I feel bad for not doing enough.

[brenden]

For anyone who's all like "oh no english blabla" I'll mark all your essays and stuff (planning a thread) and was toying with the idea of sporadic English days at Monash Library or something like that to boost productivity and motivation levels and stuff.

[Stick]

Sounds great, brenden! I must say, the 2011/2012 cohorts have been really generous (well, to me personally) with offering help and I'm so glad we have this support network in place going into Year 12. I can only hope we will pay the favour forward at the end of next year.

And I'm calm! I don't know how to tell you people that I'm not worrying for once! What do I have to do?