Pointless. Probably don't waste your time reading this.

[rebeccab26]

Is anyone else feeling extremely shitty recently?
Like somehow whatever you do isn't good enough and isn't getting you anywhere.
And you're going to fail the exams either way because you're just too dumb to compare with everyone else
Just need to know that i'm not the only one because i seriously can't do this anymore.

[RTandon]

My life currently.

[Stick]

Yeah, I just got 34/40 for a fairly difficult trial exam for Further and I've been in a really foul mood about it. I'll probably feel better after I do another trial exam and get a good score again. :/

[rebeccab26]

Yeah, I just got 34/40 for a fairly difficult trial exam for Further and I've been in a really foul mood about it. I'll probably feel better after I do another trial exam and get a good score again. :/

34/40?
really?
do you know how overjoyed i would be to get that?
generally when smart people complain about their amazing marks it makes other people feel so incredibly stupid.
i would know, my two friends whom i sit inbetween [twins] 100% everything. they drop one mark and lose it yet tell me my mark which is quite a lot lower is "amazing"?
people actually don't understand just how much that stuff hurts

[nisha]

I know how you feel. But instead of sulking over it, do something. Even if you don't feel like it, swim -don't let yourself sink. Theres 2 weeks left. Even if you don't have any more strength, keep trying, because you will be way ahead of the ones that don't.
BTW: You are not dumb. The fact that you have are an AN member clearly shows your ability to want to do well

Yeah, I just got 34/40 for a fairly difficult trial exam for Further and I've been in a really foul mood about it. I'll probably feel better after I do another trial exam and get a good score again. :/

Stick, I know you are pro at Further. Everyone knows it. But please, remind yourself that there are some people on this forum who would love to be in the position that you are in, where loosing 6 marks is the worst mark. Show some respect for those people. You may be feeling terrible about your result, but put it into perspective.

[rebeccab26]

My life currently.

[Felicity Wishes]

Today I was quite depressed and ready to give up. I was unhappy with my mark on my psychology sac and it just really brought me down. I know how you feel, girl. *hugs* We can get through this.

[brenden]

I know where Stick is coming from. That'd probably be like a B+ in Further. I'm nowhere near his level and I'd be overjoyed with close to either end of 40 but in his defense a 34/40 in Further is not an amazing result. If I could get it as a minimum that'd be great but I know the pain.
Those twins are just setting themselves a higher standard. Your mark probably IS amazing but they've such an emotional investment in their score that coming short of their own expectations feels like murder, regardless of whether or not it's amazing. But it is insensitive for them to do that.

Is anyone else feeling extremely shitty recently?
Like somehow whatever you do isn't good enough and isn't getting you anywhere.
And you're going to fail the exams either way because you're just too dumb to compare with everyone else
Just need to know that i'm not the only one because i seriously can't do this anymore.

Yeah I've been having an absolutely terrible time lately, you aren't alone. I hate myself for my behaviour but at the same time it's draining to change. I hate myself for anything, recently lol. I haven't really done much at all after mid year results came out even though I want to get a high score so much. And then I hate myself for realising I'm wasting an opportunity that people would kill for. That people will never get. And that people that had my academic ability instead of their own wouldn't waste. I do feel like everything is a failure. Like I can't succeed, I'm not good enough. The only thought that keeps me going is being able to go to uni, graduate, and be able to recall my experience with pride for my students and help any that are going through the same thing.
Honey you've 14 days from tomorrow until the English exam. Two weeks tomorrow. You've been in school for 13 years. More if you went to Kindergarten. You have LITERALLY less than .2% of your ENTIRE schooling left and what you do now can make a big impact. This isn't intended to stress you. This is good fucking news. Two more weeks. Two weeks. Would you suffer for two weeks and be proud of yourself? Two. Fucking. Weeks. That's all it takes. Fuck everyone else. Who gives a shit. So long as you make the cutoff, everyone else doesn't matter. You aim to be the best you can do given whatever circumstances you've been dealt, not to beat everyone else. They're irrelevant. I believe in you. This community believe in you. We believe in each other. You have a huge resource here at your disposal. Use it. Write us an essay a day and I promise you I'll mark every one. Just don't stop now. No matter what, just don't stop.

[Felicity Wishes]

Yeah, I just got 34/40 for a fairly difficult trial exam for Further and I've been in a really foul mood about it. I'll probably feel better after I do another trial exam and get a good score again. :/

34/40?
really?
do you know how overjoyed i would be to get that?
generally when smart people complain about their amazing marks it makes other people feel so incredibly stupid.
i would know, my two friends whom i sit inbetween [twins] 100% everything. they drop one mark and lose it yet tell me my mark which is quite a lot lower is "amazing"?
people actually don't understand just how much that stuff hurts

He didn't mean to hurt you. I understand how you feel, honestly, but I also understand where he is coming from. Everyone is allowed to complain. Keep that in mind and don't compare your personal best to ANYONE else. Do it for yourself, because in the end, it's all for you. 

[max payne]

Yeah, I just got 34/40 for a fairly difficult trial exam for Further and I've been in a really foul mood about it. I'll probably feel better after I do another trial exam and get a good score again. :/

34/40?
really?
do you know how overjoyed i would be to get that?
generally when smart people complain about their amazing marks it makes other people feel so incredibly stupid.
i would know, my two friends whom i sit inbetween [twins] 100% everything. they drop one mark and lose it yet tell me my mark which is quite a lot lower is "amazing"?
people actually don't understand just how much that stuff hurts

No offence but you shouldn't expect them to understand. They just have different standards to you. You have to learn to deal with it.

[rebeccab26]

I know where Stick is coming from. That'd probably be like a B+ in Further. I'm nowhere near his level and I'd be overjoyed with close to either end of 40 but in his defense a 34/40 in Further is not an amazing result. If I could get it as a minimum that'd be great but I know the pain.
Those twins are just setting themselves a higher standard. Your mark probably IS amazing but they've such an emotional investment in their score that coming short of their own expectations feels like murder, regardless of whether or not it's amazing. But it is insensitive for them to do that.

Is anyone else feeling extremely shitty recently?
Like somehow whatever you do isn't good enough and isn't getting you anywhere.
And you're going to fail the exams either way because you're just too dumb to compare with everyone else
Just need to know that i'm not the only one because i seriously can't do this anymore.

Yeah I've been having an absolutely terrible time lately, you aren't alone. I hate myself for my behaviour but at the same time it's draining to change. I hate myself for anything, recently lol. I haven't really done much at all after mid year results came out even though I want to get a high score so much. And then I hate myself for realising I'm wasting an opportunity that people would kill for. That people will never get. And that people that had my academic ability instead of their own wouldn't waste. I do feel like everything is a failure. Like I can't succeed, I'm not good enough. The only thought that keeps me going is being able to go to uni, graduate, and be able to recall my experience with pride for my students and help any that are going through the same thing.
Honey you've 14 days from tomorrow until the English exam. Two weeks tomorrow. You've been in school for 13 years. More if you went to Kindergarten. You have LITERALLY less than .2% of your ENTIRE schooling left and what you do now can make a big impact. This isn't intended to stress you. This is good fucking news. Two more weeks. Two weeks. Would you suffer for two weeks and be proud of yourself? Two. Fucking. Weeks. That's all it takes. Fuck everyone else. Who gives a shit. So long as you make the cutoff, everyone else doesn't matter. You aim to be the best you can do given whatever circumstances you've been dealt, not to beat everyone else. They're irrelevant. I believe in you. This community believe in you. We believe in each other. You have a huge resource here at your disposal. Use it. Write us an essay a day and I promise you I'll mark every one. Just don't stop now. No matter what, just don't stop.

i'll try...
it just seems everyone is so prepared and im still completely lost and not going to get anywhere.
i'm freaking out so much recently i can't even get as much as i want/need to done

[brenden]

Bec, organise yourself. Write out everything you need to do and do some division between how many days you have left to allocate to each task, generally. You'll feel less freak out. You probably have less than you think.
If it makes you feel any better I haven't done a full Psych prac exam yet, I've done 1 for Theatre and got <40%, only just organised my costume and props for a performance exam in 1 week from tomorrow, am a totaly Math failure lol and haven't got close to 1 essay a day average.

[pi]

Yeah, I just got 34/40 for a fairly difficult trial exam for Further and I've been in a really foul mood about it. I'll probably feel better after I do another trial exam and get a good score again. :/

I know where you're coming from (in a way), but it doesn't look good :/

"And you're going to fail the exams either way because you're just too dumb to compare with everyone else" does not compare with a 34/40 mark in one of the many trials you've done.

[slothpomba]

Is anyone else feeling extremely shitty recently?
Like somehow whatever you do isn't good enough and isn't getting you anywhere.
And you're going to fail the exams either way because you're just too dumb to compare with everyone else
Just need to know that i'm not the only one because i seriously can't do this anymore.

In VCE or Academics in general, being smart will only get you so far.

You can be a super genius but at the end of the day, if you dont *do* anything, it matters shit all.

I'll share a little story with you. Without stroking my ego too much, I reckon im a decently smart guy, most people who know me would agree. One flaw i have that pops up from time to time is losing focus at what needs to be done and not caring about deadlines. Some people have a problem about being too stressed about academics, hell, i could be the opposite of that. Last year i had an assignment for Philosophy due in, those who know me will know i love philosophy, i even read it in my spare time. You'd think i'd jump right on that assignment, hey? Nope. I handed it in, 14 days late. That was the maximum before they would refuse to mark it. It's probably something i'd love to read about in my spare time (indeed, its one of my favourite philosophical problems now and even the title of my blog below) but when it came to being forced to do it, screw that. I got some insane mark like 98%, before penalties. It was chopped down by the lateness by heaps.

Point of the story is, no matter how smart you are, if you dont do any work, it won't matter.

Imagine you're at a job and your boss takes you up on not doing your work "No, its ok boss, i'm oh so smart". Where do you think that'll get you?

Imagine your friend asks you to assemble some swedish furniture. "Hey, kingpomba, can you build this bookcase for me?". 5 hours later, "Have you built it?" "No, it's ok, i'm smart"..."Whaa....". "It's not too hard just read the instructions and read the screw drivers" "Nah, its good, i'm smart".

You realise how ridiculous that is right?

Working hard will get you much further in VCE regardless of intelligence (which is a totally fuzzy concept anyway).

More than most things in life, VCE is work in, results out. You mostly get out what you put in. All you need to do is put that effort in.

If not now, then when?

To borrow a quote from Winston Churchil, "Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential".

[Dejan]

My current life story, I feel it every single day where I self doubt my self in the sense that I won't do good and I'm never in a great mood anymore