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The End of an Era

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Potatohater:
So today was the day of the mock paper. My friend and I, (who I will call V in the spirit of the art of travel hehe) got a bit lost and turned up half an hour late. We were at the right platform in time and everything but V looked up the tracks in the opposite direction of our train, panicked, heard it was going to Hornsby and told me that was out train, so we ran to the other platform and made it onto the train. Turns out the train was going to Hornsby, but via the city which is totally the wrong direction. We realised this after we got on the train and had to get off at the next stop and go back, meaning we missed our express train. As if that didn't make us late enough we also got lost because the two of us can't agree how to read a map (can I just say I was right, I am the geo nerd afterall) when we got there there was only a single table to share which was a bit squishy and meant we could see each others work and talk so the exam conditions illusion was completley shattered. We still got the full amount of time though at least. I found the questions quite nice to answer despite my incomplete mod C preperation, I hope the HSC questions are as good as those ones but I know I can't rely on that so will still need to prep more, however I do think it was a confidence boost for sure.
We then procrastinated in the shopping centre for a bit too long...

This afternoon I've been trying to work on my creative but am kinda getting nowhere. I have ideas, but they are either so conceptual and vauge I don't know how to turn it into a plot, or I have a plot but can't excecute it how I would like. The creative is my time to shine but right now I ain't doing much shining on the paper. I do have creatives I've written in the past but I'm worried about either being too personal or too stereotypical, and my trial one didn't do as well as I thought it would. I have some ambitious ideas and/or good concepts but not enough time to excecute them. Arrgh why did I leave my AOS prep so late!? Especially the creative!

3 days to go....

Until next time, Taylor  :)

Potatohater:
Wow, havnt updated in a while cause I was so caught up in everything - so much has happened but I'll TRY to keep it as short and sweet as possible
16th October - English paper 1
Meh, it was alright, I did what I could and hopefully I'll get a average to high mark - hopefully I can scape into band 5 range
17th October - English paper 2
Better than paper 1 although my Gatsby paragraph on infidelity for mod A was a mess, as was the Art of travel paragraph for the unease caused by a landscape. For Hamlet I forgot some quotes, particularly in the procrastination paragraph which had no textual evidence whoops.... The play is riddled with inaction yet I couldn't think of any at the time - naturally they all came back to be the next day ugh!
23rd October - Genny Maths
Pretty damn good as far as I'm aware of right now I only mucked up the beers and the jewellery box but could be a few more errors idk of yet. I'm annoyed about the jewlery box though cause I know how to do it but after reading "the cube of h" my brain thought "let's square root it!" Gosh damnit Taylor!
25th October - Biology
Best exam yet! I knew the answer to every question, now it just comes down to how well I answered them. People kept leaving during the exam though which made me nervous.
31st October - Geography
My best subject yet I feel meh about the exam. I think I probably actually did well but I feel like the questions didn't really give the oppotunity to show off as much as I would have liked. I think my extended responses also kinda got a bit waffely but hopefully my points still come across well enough. I didn't get time to check over any answers which is also annoying so hopefully I didn't make any silly mistakes. Regardless of how I go externally I've been getting over 90% internally so I know I'm good at geo - one exam isn't going to change that.
7th November - Drama
Future results still in the making  ;)

Edit from 7th November: Drama was good! They don't give enough time to write everything which is a shame so my arm died and got covered in ink (I'm a right hander, we can get inky hands too!). Overall I hope the mess gives way to present something beautiful to the markers. So yeah, quite happy with my performance  :)

So yeah there's my relitavley quick summary of the past 3 4 very hectic weeks
Until next time,
Taylor  ;D

Potatohater:
Today I spent most of the day looking for a formal dress instead of studying, whoops..... Oh well at least I have one that actually fits me now.

Other than that I only wrote 2 3/4 ish essays and read some example paragraphs. I don't know why but despite having the past week to solely focus on drama I can't seem to get myself to stress enough to get my ass into gear. I feel like the fact that it's only 40% of external marking and I already know everything (I think) from my trial study, I've approached it in a bit too chill of a manner. Sure my trial marks of 17/20 for both essays is good but I should really have been using this time to get them to 20/20 - and I've been too relaxed to do so, argh!
Hopefully tomorrow I'll finally realise how close it is and actually enact the plan I've just made for myself: to pretend it's a school day and write one essay every period, then finish the day off with a full past paper. Hopefully it won't be too torturous since I love the subject and actually care about what I'm writing for once (unlike English)

Let's see how that goes then hey?
Until next time, Taylor :P

Potatohater:
FINALLY FINISHED!!
I can't believe it! It's nice knowing I can relax and not feel guilty about study but at the same time I still haven't gotten my head around the fact there's nothing to study for! I feel like I should be  to whipping up a biology video to watch as I eat my belated lunch and start doing some school work, as that has been the routine for so long now, but there is nothing to do. I keep saying I'll do "this, this and this" after the HSC but I never actually kept track and now the 4 month holiday is here I don't even know where to start. I'm sure I'll find enough to keep me occupied though. I think today I should pack for camping, some other little house keeping tasks and look for a new job, but yeah, it's all so strange. I reckon I'll keep this journal going up until ATAR release because I feel like that is the moment year 12 truly ends.

See you all tomorrow (to those coming to the meet up)!
 
Until next time,
Taylor  ;D

katie,rinos:
Congrats Taylor!!  ;D
See you tomorrow  :)

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