Class of 2014! :D

[Hotcurry]

I'm not planning to turn to valedictory if it isn't compulsory 
Lol I would rather spend time revising rather than party hard just before the exams, sorry if I sound like a nerd, but YOSO, ( you only study once  )

[pi]

^Didn't realise people who were home schooled had valedictories and whatnot, learn something new everyday I guess (in my head I'm picturing a kid getting a word-art certificate from his mum over a birthday cake with their dad taking corny photos hahahaha LOL)

Anyway back to the point, I'd HIGHLY recommend going to your school formal/social/valedictory (we had all 3 in year 12). You might not realise it now, but in 2-3 years you'll be in touch with less than 10% of your cohort (having them on fb =/= keeping in touch...). It's a great chance to get together as a group and party and socialise one last time before the serious study ahead and before many of you split and go down different roads. Sure, you may have the 1 year/5 year/10 year/etc reuninions (or maybe your school doesn't do that!), but it's really not the same as when you know each other really well and have that current comradery as you battle your way through VCE together. Even if you don't have a partner for those events, no one really cares, just go there to have fun with your school mates.

I think staying home to study is a really bad excuse (no offence), taking a night off from the books isn't going to bring down your ATAR and it'll probably do you the world of good. I've been through VCE, and I know how stressed some people can be. And I've seen those people, many of whom we had to constantly beg and borderline peer-pressure into coming, come away from a formal being totally re-energised and pumped for the term ahead. So even if you don't want to go, give it a shot! The worst that can happen is that you realise these events are not your thing (better now than in uni balls, but at least you can say you've been to one!), the best that can happen is you have a really good time and come out of feeling amazing!

Nights like these are nights to remember, and I'd highly recommend going. VCE to me, wasn't about the study, the fkn UMAT, the interviews, the rankings and all that shit; VCE was all about the good times: making sure I'd had a fun time with plenty of fun academic and non-academic memories that I could look look back on and chuckle to myself about. Make sure you have these events ticked off so you have some really fond non-nerdy memories to look back on

[Hotcurry]

Oops damn, alright you caught me  but you described my family so accurately

[datfatcat]

I'm not planning to turn to valedictory if it isn't compulsory 
Lol I would rather spend time revising rather than party hard just before the exams, sorry if I sound like a nerd, but YOSO, ( you only study once  )

YOSO? I am still studying.

[Hotcurry]

I was talking about me....:p

[Rod]

Yay finished school today.
Edit - lol only a bit more than half way through. Finished term 2 today.

So much holiday homework though :\. Some of the stuff we've been given looks so unnecessary, might not do them or might spend really little time completing them.

Anybody planning to start practise exams/have started practise exams already??

[Bluegirl]

Yay finished school today.
Edit - lol only a bit more than half way through. Finished term 2 today.

So much holiday homework though :\. Some of the stuff we've been given looks so unnecessary, might not do them or might spend really little time completing them.

Anybody planning to start practise exams/have started practise exams already??

I'm really surprised at the decent amount I have. Definitely going to do more and do practice exams.

I'm going to do a few these holidays

[#J.Procrastinator]

Yay finished school today.
Edit - lol only a bit more than half way through. Finished term 2 today.

So much holiday homework though :\. Some of the stuff we've been given looks so unnecessary, might not do them or might spend really little time completing them.

Anybody planning to start practise exams/have started practise exams already??

WOOO I can finally catch up on some Game of Thrones.. and sleep AHAHAH

I'll probably spend some time revising over Unit 3 content before I attempt some practise exams.

How many practise exams are y'all planning to do? Under timed conditions too or?

[Frozone]

Yay finished school today.
Edit - lol only a bit more than half way through. Finished term 2 today.

So much holiday homework though :\. Some of the stuff we've been given looks so unnecessary, might not do them or might spend really little time completing them.

Anybody planning to start practise exams/have started practise exams already??

I have done 2 unit 3 bio sacs and am doing pretty poorly on it, although I am seeing some improvement. Hopefully i can get at least 3 done these holidays for bio.
And I'm going to start some for psych I've been procrastinating for ages and want to get 2-3 done (realistically).
And I'll just go over the content for all my other subjects.

But yeah the amount of holiday homework is astronomical!

[Yacoubb]

Yay finished school today.
Edit - lol only a bit more than half way through. Finished term 2 today.

So much holiday homework though :\. Some of the stuff we've been given looks so unnecessary, might not do them or might spend really little time completing them.

Anybody planning to start practise exams/have started practise exams already??

Yay! School's out! Spent today resting, and so I'll get started with homework tomorrow! I'm planning to finish the Methods and Chem course over the two weeks, and completely a few exams for these two subjects. I'm revising unit 3 Physics thoroughly, and will complete one unit 3 practice exam. I'll probably do some reading on Electric Power too. English, I'm starting on my essays for Twelve Angry Men, and I'll also be starting with exam revision. Last but certainly not least, UMAT. Argh - UMAT prep will take a lot of this time. I'm praying all goes well with this bloody UMAT -_-

[Billion]

Where do you guys get your practice exams from?
Is my school the only school that doesn't have any? :\

Edit; also, does anyone know a place where you can print a lot of stuff for a relatively cheap price?
Thanks

[chasej]

Anyway back to the point, I'd HIGHLY recommend going to your school formal/social/valedictory (we had all 3 in year 12). You might not realise it now, but in 2-3 years you'll be in touch with less than 10% of your cohort (having them on fb =/= keeping in touch...). It's a great chance to get together as a group and party and socialise one last time before the serious study ahead and before many of you split and go down different roads. Sure, you may have the 1 year/5 year/10 year/etc reuninions (or maybe your school doesn't do that!), but it's really not the same as when you know each other really well and have that current comradery as you battle your way through VCE together. Even if you don't have a partner for those events, no one really cares, just go there to have fun with your school mates.

I think staying home to study is a really bad excuse (no offence), taking a night off from the books isn't going to bring down your ATAR and it'll probably do you the world of good. I've been through VCE, and I know how stressed some people can be. And I've seen those people, many of whom we had to constantly beg and borderline peer-pressure into coming, come away from a formal being totally re-energised and pumped for the term ahead. So even if you don't want to go, give it a shot! The worst that can happen is that you realise these events are not your thing (better now than in uni balls, but at least you can say you've been to one!), the best that can happen is you have a really good time and come out of feeling amazing!

Nights like these are nights to remember, and I'd highly recommend going. VCE to me, wasn't about the study, the fkn UMAT, the interviews, the rankings and all that shit; VCE was all about the good times: making sure I'd had a fun time with plenty of fun academic and non-academic memories that I could look look back on and chuckle to myself about. Make sure you have these events ticked off so you have some really fond non-nerdy memories to look back on

Agree 100%, if it's not obvious from my previous posts. I went by myself to formal, actually not by myself, just not with a designated date and it made no difference whatsoever. The formal has also made absulotly no difference to my study and I don't buy this "the formal is boring and there are many better things to do which are more fun", mine definitely wasn't boring and some great memories were made which I know I'll look back nostalgically at in the future looking at the photos and all. I go to the footy, study, walk around the block and help my grandma cook but these are all things I do all the time, there's only one (or a small few) of these events and they are not worth missing in my opinion if all you are going to do are relatively mundane things you will do on a daily, weekly, monthly or even yearly basis consistently over your lifetime instead of going to the event.

I'm sorry but I can't help but think that the "there are so many better things to do" argument is moreso an excuse for not going for people who have other things holding them back from going rather than an actual reason. I know that because I've used the same line myself in the past but I've learnt it's just not worth it, in fact every time I've gone out it's gotten easier and now I actually want to do these things instead of making excuses as to why I can't go and then feeling bad for having missed out on what was actually a great time, even though it's hard to recognise how great it could be when you don't even know what it was actually like in the first place.

Where do you guys get your practice exams from?
Is my school the only school that doesn't have any? :\

Edit; also, does anyone know a place where you can print a lot of stuff for a relatively cheap price?
Thanks

I got mine from TSSM however I can't recommend them due to a pretty bad customer service experience I had where it appears to me an employee outright lied to me via email (by saying a item was sent via email on the Sunday of a long weekend when their office was closed, I ordered on Friday, and even though I received the item on a Friday morning via email, the day AFTER I sent an email asking when my item was arriving to my inbox) and then simply stopped responding when I called them out and told them I didn't appreciate being lied to (in only those words), all over a pretty small order of no more than $10, when I've purchased much more than that directly and indirectly from their company. It's a pretty mundane issue which is why I haven't brought it up yet but it gives the whole organisation a sour taste in my mouth.

Officeworks does really good printing, they're a place I actually do recommend

[Paulrus]

Where do you guys get your practice exams from?
Is my school the only school that doesn't have any? :\

i'm not suggesting anything here, but a lot of schools make wikispaces sites for specific subjects where they make a lot of exams available to their students. if you googled 'vce psychology wikispaces' or something you may find some interesting stuff 

[walkec]

I second this. I've found some really great resources from Wikispaces for things at school.

[Billion]

Thanks walkec, chase and paulrus.
Will hunt some down!