Class of 2014! :D

[Rod]

Wow everyone is doing so well . Heaps of 90+ ATARS for our 2014ers on atarnotes this year I reckon

[Rishi97]

Wow everyone is doing so well . Heaps of 90+ ATARS for our 2014ers on atarnotes this year I reckon

You are definetly on the 90+ list Rod

[Crystall97]

Got our GA1 statements in the mail today. Not sure whether to be pleased or paranoid to be consistent in unit four.
Chemistry 94/100
Physics 89/100
Methods 91/100
English 87/100
Spesh 81/100
No idea where i pulled most of those results from. I thought i would be lucky to pass english...

[Yacoubb]

Currently on 99% for Chem, 93% for Physics, 100% for English and 95% for Methods.

[~V]

Currently on 99% for English, 93% for Physics, 100% for English and 95% for Methods.

Holy crap well done!

[Rod]

You are definetly on the 90+ list Rod

haha thanks, you will be too Rishi . Lets all keep working hard and hope for the best !:)

[Vermilliona]

Still paranoid that my school just sets easy SACs... 100% for French, 95-100% for English, 99% for Psych and 96-100% for Revs. Annoyed that we don't find out exact marks of eng and revs, but definitely motivated to keep it up for Unit 4! I hardly ever post on here but y'all are super inspirational and great and good luck to everyone

[90ATAR]

Doing really badly as of late. My school sets pretty hard SACS but I am just fucking up massively lately, kind of giving up and not caring anymore.

English: 12/20, 24/30, 13/20 and will probably get 10/30 for my most recent context which I just wrote an irrelevant story because I had no clue. I was ranked a little above average before the last SAC which was an absolute joke, I just wrote a story I had no idea how to write an essay without retelling.
Psychology: 19.92/26.92, 18.85/26.92, 9.85/16.5 and hopefully for the last one I get around 25/35. Ranked around last out of 40.
Economics: 88.75%, 100% (I think it was actually around 97%), then for the big SAC I got 24.67/40 which I knew everything and don't understand how I dropped any marks and I have an Economics SAC in 4 hours which I'm learning everything now and hopefully (but disappointingly) I can pull off a 65-70%.
Global Politics: 41/50, 40/50. Went through my SACS with my teacher personally yesterday trying to work out why I lost marks and I still don't understand how I have dropped 19 marks. He gives me marks which I tell him I don't deserve, yet takes off marks by telling me I don't have the 'best' example, when he tells us to find our own unique examples. Very frustrating but still happy I guess with the scores.
Legal Studies: 18/20, 19/20, 29/30, 24/25. Although I'm a mile above everyone else as far as I know, I still don't get how I have lost any marks except on my 18/20 SAC but not complaining.

Apart from Legal Studies I am actually gone for all my subjects now. When I fuck up once I just give up because my rank takes a hit and I go so low. In retrospect all these marks are only worth 25% but they aren't really, they attribute to a rank which I have suffered an ability to climb back up again. It is just such bullshit. I am just so stupid. Everything could easily be fixed if I did hours of study when I get home at night, but here I am on the day of a SAC and 4am trying to learn all the content for my SAC in a handful of hours despite knowing that I am going to do terribly. I have problems. Better yet, I've gone to a school that costs around 25 grand for the past 13 year of my life and just to fuck up here is just bullshit and i only have myself to blame. First I wanted to get a 96 ATAR for ANU PPE, but that is out the window. Then I wanted Uni Melb Arts which is ~94 which is long gone now. Now I want an 86 ATAR for Monash Business Marketing/Management but even that is a long-shot now. I know now that I've dug myself so bloody deep into the ground that I am going to pick up next term, actually get a tutor for something like English but I've just damaged everything beyond repair. There is no worse feeling knowing you have the capabilities and being told by all your teachers you have capabilities which they've seen, but just sitting in class literally in another place for 6 hours a day doing absolutely nothing, learning nothing, wasting time.

My social life has taken a fuckin' hit as well, although I don't mind much. On weekends I always tell myself that I will study and to forget about everything else because this can directly affect my career, and a little partying and what not isn't worth it, but in reality I'll just sit at home watching movies or going to the footy. I just sit on my fucking ass. FUCKKKKKKKK.

EDIT: Ended up falling to sleep to 'The Bookthief Audiobook' for the past three hours, so I'm gone. May as well sign my VCE away now from me and resign to a <86. effemmell.

[swagsxcboi]

Currently on 95% for Methods.

and you thought you did shit on your methods sac!

[Valyria]

and you thought you did shit on your methods sac!

A 'shit' for Yacoubb means dropping 1 mark

[senorr]

All of you guys on here are doing amazing, yet i'm around rank 4-8 for all my subjects. can I still achieve study scores of over 40?

[Yacoubb]

and you thought you did shit on your methods sac!

A 'shit' for Yacoubb means dropping 1 mark

LOL no but seriously I thought I stuffed up that SAC dismally. I did lose a few marks, but I made them up in the Application task we did. On other notes, I got 20/20 for my oral for English Yay!

[Bluegirl]

Both my methods sacs so far; skills test and application task, I've gotten 64%. Teacher remarked it's consistent.

I'm so shit at methods :p

Next skills test is Thursday. Keep putting off study


Well done on your oral score

[walkec]

Further Maths SAC tomorrow and Friday for Business Maths - no thanks.
I have an English practice SAC tomorrow after school too, which I'm actually looking forward to because I feel like I have a really good understanding of the text. I'm also excited to write it because my teacher wants us to move away from TEEL as a structure for our paragraphs and use the topic as a starting point for our discussion instead, which is a bit more of a literature skill. But I enjoy writing in this approach for Literature because I've always felt like TEEL restricts my discussion and makes my essay sound boring, haha 

[Jono_CP]

Doing really badly as of late. My school sets pretty hard SACS but I am just fucking up massively lately, kind of giving up and not caring anymore.

English: 12/20, 24/30, 13/20 and will probably get 10/30 for my most recent context which I just wrote an irrelevant story because I had no clue. I was ranked a little above average before the last SAC which was an absolute joke, I just wrote a story I had no idea how to write an essay without retelling.
Psychology: 19.92/26.92, 18.85/26.92, 9.85/16.5 and hopefully for the last one I get around 25/35. Ranked around last out of 40.
Economics: 88.75%, 100% (I think it was actually around 97%), then for the big SAC I got 24.67/40 which I knew everything and don't understand how I dropped any marks and I have an Economics SAC in 4 hours which I'm learning everything now and hopefully (but disappointingly) I can pull off a 65-70%.
Global Politics: 41/50, 40/50. Went through my SACS with my teacher personally yesterday trying to work out why I lost marks and I still don't understand how I have dropped 19 marks. He gives me marks which I tell him I don't deserve, yet takes off marks by telling me I don't have the 'best' example, when he tells us to find our own unique examples. Very frustrating but still happy I guess with the scores.
Legal Studies: 18/20, 19/20, 29/30, 24/25. Although I'm a mile above everyone else as far as I know, I still don't get how I have lost any marks except on my 18/20 SAC but not complaining.

Apart from Legal Studies I am actually gone for all my subjects now. When I fuck up once I just give up because my rank takes a hit and I go so low. In retrospect all these marks are only worth 25% but they aren't really, they attribute to a rank which I have suffered an ability to climb back up again. It is just such bullshit. I am just so stupid. Everything could easily be fixed if I did hours of study when I get home at night, but here I am on the day of a SAC and 4am trying to learn all the content for my SAC in a handful of hours despite knowing that I am going to do terribly. I have problems. Better yet, I've gone to a school that costs around 25 grand for the past 13 year of my life and just to fuck up here is just bullshit and i only have myself to blame. First I wanted to get a 96 ATAR for ANU PPE, but that is out the window. Then I wanted Uni Melb Arts which is ~94 which is long gone now. Now I want an 86 ATAR for Monash Business Marketing/Management but even that is a long-shot now. I know now that I've dug myself so bloody deep into the ground that I am going to pick up next term, actually get a tutor for something like English but I've just damaged everything beyond repair. There is no worse feeling knowing you have the capabilities and being told by all your teachers you have capabilities which they've seen, but just sitting in class literally in another place for 6 hours a day doing absolutely nothing, learning nothing, wasting time.

My social life has taken a fuckin' hit as well, although I don't mind much. On weekends I always tell myself that I will study and to forget about everything else because this can directly affect my career, and a little partying and what not isn't worth it, but in reality I'll just sit at home watching movies or going to the footy. I just sit on my fucking ass. FUCKKKKKKKK.

EDIT: Ended up falling to sleep to 'The Bookthief Audiobook' for the past three hours, so I'm gone. May as well sign my VCE away now from me and resign to a <86. effemmell.

I think it's okay to express disappointment, contrary to popular belief, I think it is a sign that internally you DO care about what marks you receive.

If you are getting those amazing marks in Legal, Global Politics etc without too much effort, imagine what will happen in the exam? You'll be ranked against guys (like me) not that I do these subjects, but work damn hard to get respectable sac scores and probably are extremely tired come exam time.

In many ways, I would prefer your position over mine. My politics teacher told me "I can only control what I can control", and I think this is good advice even if this is based on effort or in my case a lack of 'aptitude' or otherwise known as natural talent.

You're lucky you do not do Further Maths (actually no I take that back, you may be a superstar at it). This will be like my last subject but I still need 25+ to keep all course options open.

I get frustrated that even when I am trying my very hardest I am not really getting the marks that I am aiming for. If you are receiving marks, which you do know that "not everything was 100% effort" I would see this as a tremendous positive. It means that improvement can come much more easily and that you remain fresh for the exams.

At the moment, I am purposefully doing less hours of study in the lead up to the holidays, as a mental recovery break. I am still doing a little more perhaps in comparison to others but not a crazy amount like I used to. I am trying to implement the advice given to me by many fantastic users on this forum, for which I remain grateful.