Year 12 Class of 2013 Discussion Thread

[simba]

Friendly reminder to take a deep breath and smile.

How'd you guys go with the SAC onslaught?

First wave of SAC's are over for me
Second wave starts in about two weeks, so not too pumped about that I must say :/

But I've avoided any major breakdowns or shocking SAC results thus far, so weeew!

Just over 6 months left guys!

[brenden]

Thanks, I actually needed to be reminded

It was hard, having one sac a day for four days continuously, but I survived. I don't know, I'm just starting to feel numb now. Like, good mark, bad mark, it just doesn't seem to matter anymore. Is this normal? :/ I'm still trying to work hard, but at the start of the year I was determined not to lose a single mark haha ... How things have changed :p

How has everyone else been holding up? And how was methods Mr.Keshy?

Always welcome
I'd say it's pretty normal, but that doesn't mean it's not okay. If you know yourself, you should know these are the warning signs that tell you to do something different. Are you eating well? Sleeping well? Exercising? Keeping a balance between study and living? When you start to feel like this, you need to reevaluate and take some time for you. Maybe give yourself the weekend off with very minimal study and just go to the movies or something. (By yourself if no one else wants to go, if you don't care!)
It might be good that you've lost the 'can't lose a mark' mentality... It might be more of a detriment to yourself than a positive. Now you're free to play the 'do the best I can' game

First wave of SAC's are over for me
Second wave starts in about two weeks, so not too pumped about that I must say :/

But I've avoided any major breakdowns or shocking SAC results thus far, so weeew!

Woo! Good job on getting through!
Jesus, you're doing pretty well. I averaged like... two break-downs per term HAHA.
You got through Wave 1, Wave 2's got nothin'.

[Sapphire]

Always welcome
I'd say it's pretty normal, but that doesn't mean it's not okay. If you know yourself, you should know these are the warning signs that tell you to do something different. Are you eating well? Sleeping well? Exercising? Keeping a balance between study and living? When you start to feel like this, you need to reevaluate and take some time for you. Maybe give yourself the weekend off with very minimal study and just go to the movies or something. (By yourself if no one else wants to go, if you don't care!)
It might be good that you've lost the 'can't lose a mark' mentality... It might be more of a detriment to yourself than a positive. Now you're free to play the 'do the best I can' game

Yeah, I'm doing all those things pretty well. I think it's more of, when you're getting so many marks back, after each other, each one seems less significant. In term 1, we only got like 1 mark back every two weeks, so it was more of a big deal. Yeah, definitely going out this weekend. Thanks though

I like the sound of that game better.

People around here seem to really care. I've never seen so much altruism in one place.

But I've avoided any major breakdowns or shocking SAC results thus far, so weeew!

That's good to hear Simba

Just over 6 months left guys!

Wow, time really does fly in year 12!

[Jeggz]

First wave of SAC's are over for me
Second wave starts in about two weeks, so not too pumped about that I must say :/

But I've avoided any major breakdowns or shocking SAC results thus far, so weeew!

Just over 6 months left guys!

                  

[lala1911]

Continue working hard everyone.

Spent most of my last two weekends revising for my two P.E SACs (not to forget English study too) in two consecutive days, worth 60% of Unit 3. End result was well worth it.

[Checkmate]

Friendly reminder to take a deep breath and smile.

How'd you guys go with the SAC onslaught?

I feel sad that I haven't made it past mine yet.

3 week long SACs all at once in three weeks time. I had a pretty good reaction after frowning when the English context, SD and methods application all just "seemed" to land on a similar date and then the pure and utter shock when I looked at the dates properly. It's almost as if I'll have exams that week!

Spent most of my last two weekends revising for my two P.E SACs (not to forget English study too) in two consecutive days, worth 60% of Unit 3. End result was well worth it.

Those big 60 mark SACs are so whopping big I swear it becomes more irritating than difficult at times.

[Mr Keshy]

How has everyone else been holding up? And how was methods Mr.Keshy?

It was okay I should've been preparing better though!

Just over 6 months left guys!

That's like.... 15 million seconds! haha

I've found some love for methods in the past few days. It's just one of those subjects where if you have no clue why something happens, you just want to give up on it. But if you do know what's happening, it's rewarding

Derivatives are so fun!

I was contemplating going to the library for a very long time and I got around to it last week (better late than never right?), and I can't recommend it enough! It's the very reason for what I said above. Normally for something like methods, I'd read some page, come close to fainting, pack the book and study another subject, or worse, stop studying altogether that day. But when you're at the library, you can force yourself to study and if you don't, you're going to end up doing absolutely nothing.

The other thing is that if you don't get something and keep putting it off, you end up getting more and more behind as days go by, and this was the case for me, so if I were at home, I would've said that there was just no point and given up, but again, the environment in the library forced me to actually do something, so I did go back a few subchapter and low behold, everything makes sense all of a sudden haha.

Furthering from all that that, seeing your competition study is also a motivator to want to do better

Bottom line is, in my opinion, there's simply no other place to get a kick start, some motivation, focus or even find that bit of lost determination than a library.

[Will Sparks]

Bottom line is, in my opinion, there's simply no other place to get a kick start, some motivation, focus or even find that bit of lost determination than a library.

Lol, I hate how TV shows and just the general society makes libraries look like a place where only 'nerds' go and spend their time.
It's a great place to force yourself to study with a great environment and a shitload of resources around for your personal use. Though ironically, I met this pretty decent looking girl in the library the other day ahaha, didn't get as much work as I wanted done, but hey, made a new friend. XD

[Mr Keshy]

I met this pretty decent looking girl in the library the other day ahaha, didn't get as much work as I wanted done, but hey, made a new friend. XD

Did you impress her with your mathemacationz?

[Will Sparks]

Did you impress her with your mathemacationz?

No lmao, she only did further maths and when she asked me for help, I didn't know how to do the question -_-

I do methods and spesh lol, and I couldn't do a further question when it counted ahaha

[Mr Keshy]

No lmao, she only did further maths and when she asked me for help, I didn't know how to do the question -_-

I do methods and spesh lol, and I couldn't do a further question when it counted ahaha

How pathetic of you.

There are things in further which you wouldn't expect to hear anyway, equation for r² value, standard deviation.. I have lists and spreadsheets on my calculator for that. haha

What was the question anyway? (If you can somehow remember ) You can tell her next time if she hasn't figured it out already haha.

[Will Sparks]

How pathetic of you.

There are things in further which you wouldn't expect to hear anyway, equation for r² value, standard deviation.. I have lists and spreadsheets on my calculator for that. haha

What was the question anyway? (If you can somehow remember ) You can tell her next time if she hasn't figured it out already haha.

I'm not entirely sure, but it had something to do with plotting points and something to do with the calculator.

And ahaha it's been about a week, I'm pretty sure she would have figured it out by now.



I've had a hectic week (3 hardest subjects' SACs; physics, chem, spesh), so just relaxing at the moment, I only have a chem SAC (follow up one) next week. :-)

But the week afterwards is English and methods... bleh

[Mr Keshy]

I've had a hectic week (3 hardest subjects' SACs; physics, chem, spesh), so just relaxing at the moment, I only have a chem SAC (follow up one) next week. :-)

But the week afterwards is English and methods... bleh

That's good I have a Chem SAC the following week, and that's the only one that's been set. I've been lucky that my SAC's have been spread apart really well! (for now  )

[Professor Polonsky]

I haven't had a SAC all term, apart from the Physics EPI which I did over the term break.

On the other hand though, I have Further on May 29, Physics May 30, English June 5, Further (part 2) June 7 and Spesh June 11.

[Alwin]

FOR CHEMISTRY ALONE I HAVE 3 SACS IN 3 WEEKS!!

WINNING~~ (prize is 3 well below expected results )

oh, and for some variety some spesh and english sacs thrown into those 3 weeks too.