Class of 2014! :D

[aqple]

I find that year 12 is a lot easier than I expected, is this just me? I am working bloody hard and putting in around 25 hours of study a week,  but it's not stressful at all. It might have to do with the fact that I'm actually doing subjects I enjoy...dropping maths and doing two English subjects would have to be the best decision I've ever made in my schooling life

And to everyone who is feeling down with their performance for unit 3...there's still unit 4 AND the exam. There are still so many opportunities for you to achieve the ATAR you want. There's still so much time before the dreaded exams...work hard and keep the motivation going guys!

I don't mind it I quite enjoy the satisfaction of good results, because it's an affirmation in the fact that my hard work has paid off. I also often find myself envisaging the 15th of December, and opening that text from VTAC with my dream ATAR, and that's honestly my primary source of motivation. I can say this from Biology and Further results - it really confirmed to me, not just academically, but in general, that I was capable of scoring well, and no one, NO one, could tell me I couldn't do anything I had set my mind on.

Lol this is exactly me!

It's really frustrating and I will definitely be using the next month (have 3 weeks of holidays after next week) to just smash it out and get ahead.

Definitely. At this time of the year heaps of people slack off and take a break after completing unit 3 and starting unit 4, take the opportunity to get ahead of everyone else.

Is there a World Cup thread or are we discussing it here lol
I'm excited, got my poster up and everything 

[sparked]

Haha yah! World Cup banter is in here.

[Reus]

Next 4 games I predict

Winners of Group C
Colombia
Ivory Coast

Winners of Group D
Uruguay
Italy

#DFBftw

[sparked]

Do you even sleep? Hahaha go to bed

I'm exhausted... sleeping now, lots of work to do tomorrow D:

[Reus]

Well sleep does not exist while the World Cup is on!
Night

[Paulrus]

I find that year 12 is a lot easier than I expected, is this just me? I am working bloody hard and putting in around 25 hours of study a week,  but it's not stressful at all. It might have to do with the fact that I'm actually doing subjects I enjoy...dropping maths and doing two English subjects would have to be the best decision I've ever made in my schooling life

And to everyone who is feeling down with their performance for unit 3...there's still unit 4 AND the exam. There are still so many opportunities for you to achieve the ATAR you want. There's still so much time before the dreaded exams...work hard and keep the motivation going guys!

yeah i'm not really enjoying some of my subjects, which is making year 12 a lot more draining. unfortunately our school kinda sucks in terms of offering subjects
i'm hoping to make up for an extremely lazy unit three by going HAM for unit four. my marks have been pretty good so far, but i'm so far behind i'm barely hanging on hahah. if you've noticed i've been away in bio a bit recently, it's mostly cos i hadn't done the homework and stayed home to avoid her wrath

but yeah these holidays i'm gonna try work ahead, so i can make sure i don't fall behind again. as long as the world cup doesn't get in the way (it totally will)

Next 4 games I predict

Winners of Group C
Colombia
Ivory Coast

Winners of Group D
Uruguay
Italy

#DFBftw

i'm gonna agree with these, except i reckon japan vs. ivory coast will end up a draw. still pegging germany to win the cup
either that or ireland will win, but krum will catch the snitch 

[chasej]

I understand the studying smart and not hard analogy. To be honest, I always find this a difficult component to balance. E.g. sometimes I don't even know what studying smart is... Depends on the subject I presume. E.g. for Australian Politics in the first SAC I completed heaps of practice SACs and didn't do any further notes. Then in the second SAC I did heaps of practice SACs + refined notes. And there was only +1% difference....

I always feel as though 'my hard work' never pays off. I am constantly searching for the reasons as to why this is the case...

And once you study hard but don't get the marks you want, this hurts like hell. I remember when I failed my first Further Maths SAC I was crying so much and didn't speak to anyone for 2 days.

I like to think I study "smart" and I often do less than expected in SACs, not commonly, but in my VCE career there's been about 4 SACs where I did significantly worse off than I thought. Studying smart doesn't guarantee you a good result in my opinion, you can reduce your chance of doing badly, and increase your chance of doing well, but not eliminate failure. It is part of studying smart to have the ability to accept lower than expected marks as part of life and keep grinding to get higher SAC marks.

At the beginning of economics I got 90% for first SAC, 87% for second, quite high for most people, but less than what I wanted, I put it behind me and studied hard, learning from where I went wrong to improve, next SAC I got everything except for 1 mark, finished with 98% on it.

Are you sure you are studying "smart", like it's one thing to spend hours doing practice SACs but another thing to actually learn from your mistakes. My best SAC result this year hasn't come from endless practice SACs but really ensuring I learn what questions ask and what to include, and ensuring I know the necessary information.

This is basically all you can do to ensure good marks. There is no infallible study method which ensures a 99.95 ATAR.

[Jono_CP]

Yes, thanks for the advice.

I will try and be even more active to study smarter and not harder in Unit 4.

[walkec]

I find that year 12 is a lot easier than I expected, is this just me? I am working bloody hard and putting in around 25 hours of study a week,  but it's not stressful at all.

I second this. I feel like I should be more stressed  those early morning saturday starts are beginning to pay off 

[Yacoubb]

unfortunately our school kinda sucks in terms of offering subjects

Mine too. I would have done VCE so differently had my school offered more subjects. I guess going to a school with 40 year 12 students means this. I would have done Methods and Bio as 3/4 in year 11, and done Specialist, Chem, Literature and English in year 12!

[Reus]

I find that year 12 is a lot easier than I expected, is this just me? I am working bloody hard and putting in around 25 hours of study a week,  but it's not stressful at all.

Same goes! I feel like I need to be stressed because of the context haha.

but yeah these holidays i'm gonna try work ahead, so i can make sure i don't fall behind again. as long as the world cup doesn't get in the way (it totally will)i'm gonna agree with these, except i reckon japan vs. ivory coast will end up a draw. still pegging germany to win the cup
either that or ireland will win, but krum will catch the snitch 

LOL
Well Uruguay was an upset! Cavani

[Rod]

HONDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

[Reus]

I sense a Yaya Toure upset soon!

[Reus]

Well well well Cote d'Ivoire fire back 2!

[Rod]

You know ivory coast have never gone past the group stage? Hope they do this time, hope both japan and ivory coast do!