I cannot wait to leave highschool and go to University.
Yeah I know what you mean man. I really hated high-school for a very long time. Kids joke about school being a prison but dead set that's what school was for me lol. But extended visiting hours where you leave the prison between 3pm-8.45am the next day. We're talking daily fights, windows smashed, people thinking 4.20blaze it is just the coolest thing you can do in Year 8. If you can't wait to leave high-school and go to Uni, make sure you try hard in high-school and go to uni.
I'm hoping to undertake a Bachelor in Biomedicine...... some reassurance that its actually possible, along with any possible tips any of you may have.
Fantastic. I'm sure you're aiming for 95 because with access Melbourne, that is the ATAR requirement for Biomed, no? Haha. Possible. Possible is what you make it, especially when you've figured out you want to do well so early. I have a few examples here.
Mao: A user on AN... He graduated with an ATAR of 99.65 and is beginning a PhD in Chemistry this year. He went to a school called "Kambrya College"... and no offense to Mao, if there's a school that's full of egotistical dipshits, it's Kambrya.
(I'm totally kidding, KB is down the road from my school and I just like to hang shit on it for no reason.) Point of story is, when Mao graduated in 2008, it was the second year the school had ever run the VCE program, and it was extremely weak. Their median study score for 2008 was something like 24 if I remember correctly, making it one of the worst school's in the state.
Myself: Through Year 11 (as you'll learn if you ever decide to stalk old AN posts) I essentially didn't go to school. I literally worked at McDonald's more hours per week than I attended school. As aforementioned, I thought school was like a prison. But one day I discovered "wagging" and I was like "oh my God... this is great... I'm not even in prison and the guards can't find me trolololol"... Anywho, I just about failed. I'm talking 52% on Health and Human units 1/2 (anyone who ever took Health is laughing their ass off right now), and I shit you not, my VCE coordinator comes up to me and says "You're already so far below the attendance requirement we could expel you and you wouldn't have a leg to stand on. Miss another hour of class and we're putting you in VCAL." So here I am thinking "VCAL? Fuck that shit" - so I go to school. And here I am going into Year 12 with absolutely no study habits, no knowledge of the subjects I was taking (I never even took Year 11 Math... 40+ Further Math), and certainly no
idea what I was in for. Going into Year 12, I just wanted to score higher than 90 and prove to everyone that I wasn't a drop kick. I didn't quite make 95, but I scored about 40+ in three subjects, and I scored highly in English (re: sig). How? Grind, grind, grind, grind, grind. I just went psycho for one semester. In the second semester I burnt out a little bit and fell back into old habits etc but recovered for more study-psychosis just in time. Point of story: If I can do it, you can sure as fuck do it. Actually - click my profile, go into "Show posts", scroll down the page a little bit and there's a post with like +20 respect. Click that post and read it. If I can do it, you can do it. That's the Brendinkles.
3rd and final example: My best friend Emily. Remember the AIMs test? In Year 3, 5, 7, and 9? Turned into NAPLAN. Well, Emily was always average at Math. Like, dead state average. Not good, not bad. Funnily enough, I was above state average. But Emily, man, this girl is something else. I'm talking determination that you can't match. In Year 9 she started getting really heavy on school - in fact, in four years she only missed one piece of homework, and that's because she sat the UMAT in the same week. But yeah, in Year 11 she took Methods, just like you. Never good at Math. She wasn't anything spectacular at it. Better than average because she worked her guts out. At the end of the year the teacher approaches her and says "take Spesh next year" and she thinks "shit, are you kidding? I struggle with Methods." - and she did, she struggled with Methods. But she did the same thing in Year 12. Worked her guts out. 37 in Spesh. Yep. Average at Math, below average school, below average socio-economic area, but graduated one of the best Math students in Victoria. Oh yeah, she also scored perfectly in English. All she knew was grind.
You aren't at a disadvantage in terms of scaling. You're at a disadvantage because of your environment, perhaps. But re: the above three examples. If you want it bad, and not just kinda want it, I'm talking want it reallllllll bad, you can do it. Absoloodle, 11/10, not a doubt about it. As Furbob said above, if you are Rank 1, nothing else matters. Your SAC scores scale to the parallel exam score. So if you are 1st in your cohort for everything, then you will receive the highest exam score as your scaled SAC score (roughly). So the strength of your cohort is irrelevant. If they're weak, they're easy to beat. If they're strong, it isn't necessary to beat them. As for advice, I would take Year 12 English instead of Year 12 Lit (Emily did Lit 1/2 -> Eng 3/4, so don't stress), I would work my guts out in Methods (stick around AN and ANYTHING you don't understand, ask... This is one thing you can't afford not to do. If you want to succeed so badly, it doesn't matter how embarrassed you feel, it doesn't matter how stupid you will look, you want to succeed so you do what it takes, so you'll ask the question.) I would absolutely slaughter Software to give you an insurance policy in your final year - again, ask everything you don't understand and grind grind grind.
At the end of the day, it doesn't matter where you are or who you're friends with, what school you go to. Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work as hard. Hard work beats money when money doesn't work as hard. Nothing matters if you're ready to grind.
Brendinkles with some big-ass paragraphs: out.
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