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Tempestuously cruising through the HSC
Lumenoria:
--- Quote from: emilyygeorgexx on August 20, 2018, 08:03:16 pm ---OMG I ACTUALL FEEL YOU!!!
In my Paper 1 for the half yearly, my teacher announced in front of the class "oh have you checked your email the other advanced teacher sent you an email". I was like oh no I haven't, and basically in front of the whole class she goes that they couldn't read my writing. I full had to sit with the other advanced teacher while she FILMED ME on her iPhone and I read out my creative. Worst experience of my life.
Improving my handwriting has been a key concern for me this year so I have actually tried so hard to fix it all but I guess my hand just start to deteriorate after writing 15+ pages for some essays. My biggest tip is GET A FINE NIB PEN. I have switched to using pens that have like a 0.4mm or 0.5mm nib and you can actually tell the difference. Just go to Officeworks and test out a bunch of pens, I personally find it very fun lol. They are a bit more expensive than your normal ballpoint but I guess its better than losing marks in an exam.
I haven't been called to read anything yet so fingers crossed it does't happen this time because my school said they would not be doing it for trials!!
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OMFG THEY FILMED IT???? AHHH FUCK THAT'S HORRIFYING DUDE HAHAHAH. I'm so worried about tomorrow because this other Advanced teacher fucking scares me (although she was quite nice to me in my interaction with her today) and I do NOT want her visibly judging me while I read my essay and, particularly, my creative because it will throw me off. Her face is, in short, VERY expressive - she never holds back, basically. I'm also notorious for being horrible at pronouncing obscure words LOL so fuck
That's so funny, because I'm very nitpicking about my pens and go on an Officeworks spree about twice a week (and I always get the individual expensive pens at the pen bar, not the packs), but I've found that the 1.0mm makes it neater? I actually used to use the Uni Jetstream 0.7mm before trials, and never had any of such issues, but I can't tell if it's a direct result of this pen switch or just the fact that trials is more time-pressing than regular internal assessments. I'll try writing with some 0.5mm pens though, thanks!! :)
Praying for you girl!
This is my exam writing atm. Idk if it's redeemable for HSC hahahaha
Razeen25:
--- Quote from: Lumenoria on August 20, 2018, 08:51:59 pm ---This is my exam writing atm. Idk if it's redeemable for HSC hahahaha
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This makes me feel better about my handwriting thank you oml
Lumenoria:
Today has been so hectic, but it has been surprisingly a good day.
First period, I had English. I knew we were getting all our trial results back so my heart was beating like a motherfucker on the way to school. I was 20 minutes late to class aswell because of the traffic, which made me even more anxious because I feared someone was able to just voluntarily look at what I had presumed were hideous marks. Anyways, all of this fear was really for nothing. I ended up getting (for the sections that were legible enough for them to mark)
Discovery Essay - 15/15
Mod A - 18/20
Mod B - 18/20
This SIGNIFICANTLY exceeded my expectations, especially considering how distracted I was from studying in light of my cat's accident and other personal circumstances. What was weirder, was the fact that my Mod A essay - the one that I wrote in fucking 27 minutes with no conclusion - had a comment that read "This could've been a 19/20 if I could read more of it". LIKE WHAT ON EARTH - I was legitimately expecting 16/20 for that at best because it was definitely the worst performed module relative to the others. I was so fucking elated when I saw my 15/15 for my discovery essay though, because the first ever draft I sent in to my teacher was horrific (she told me that it was a low C range response at the time) and I remember being demoralised for the rest of the day because of how brutal her feedback was on that draft. It was so bad that I even considered leaving it as it was for trials (as a low C range response) because I truly believed it was a lost cause, but the day before Paper 1, I frantically sent my teacher a new draft after leaving it in the dust for 8 months, so that she could review my significant changes. I wrote it out to literally 8 trial papers in one day lol, thank god for that. So many people in the cohort got single digits, even people who studied really hard for the exam who usually obtain A range marks and my teacher was clearly disappointed with this. She kept referring to me as a "hieroglyphics writer" lol, which broke the tense mood a bit - she legit thought my handwriting was so bad that I wouldn't be able to read it to the other teacher. My Mod C and creative have yet to be marked, as I just verbally deciphered my essay for the other Advanced teacher so that she could mark it. Omg it was so awkward because I kept thinking to myself "wtf" at some of the shit that I wrote lol, but I was able to read it quite fluently, thank god. I really want 19-20/20 for Mod C though because I reckon it was my best section, although I am a tad contentious about this sentiment in light of my readings. I got 14/15 for creative in my first term English assessment, which I have significantly improved since then, so I'm expecting roughly a similar mark but she said that it was erring on 13-14 range? I really hope it's not 13, because that'll be really disappointing tbh.
We got our legal trial back today aswell, which was unexpected. I got 96/100 for the whole paper, which was really shocking in a good way, but at the same time, I was a bit underwhelmed by my world order section. I had received full marks on it for another internal assessment, so it was a bit disappointing to see my mark drop, but I'm not too fussed about it. I also made a really dumb multiple choice mistake aswell, I read "universal and alienable" as universal and inalienable, ugh. It was legit the first question HAHAHA. Omg. And my legal teacher ALSO nagged me about how illegible my handwriting is. In my world order essay, she legit wrote at some part "I'm going to stop here and let you read it for me. Never mind, I tried again" lol. That was literally my only piece of feedback on all my essay sections omfg.
So, for the respective sections, I received -
Multiple Choice - 18/20
Human Rights - 15/15
Crime Essay - 14/15
World Order Essay - 24/25
Family Essay - 25/25
I'm pretty happy with how things are going overall tbh. I think I'm going to get the rest of my English paper back on Thursday - hopefully I can get 92%+ overall for my English trial. I really need to get back to the grind honestly, I told myself I would start yesterday but I'm honestly so unmotivated hahaha. Hope everyone's holding up alright! Xx
Lumenoria:
Today has been a crappy ass day. Got all my trials back, finally.
Economics was first, and it was confronting af. I thought the trial was hard (we did Independent trials), but I still expected over 80% for it because it wasn't crazy difficult y'know? Well, I got 79/100 - so underwhelming. I fucking lost my 1st rank, and I legit cried when I saw it. I was so fucking disappointed in myself, because not only did I study my ass off for this exam, but I have never gotten a mark below 85 this year until now. Worst part is, although my friends were trying to comfort me, I felt like they were lowkey relishing in the fact that they took my rank which just made me feel worse - one of them even went to ask the teacher to reaffirm the fact that she took 1st place, which although she deserves, made me feel like shit. I got 15/20 for both my essays which is absolutely horrific, considering I have ALWAYS gotten in the 17-20 range for my economics extended responses. I legit told my teacher to talk to me another time when he came around to give feedback because I was so emotionally unstable at the thought of my essay marks. I literally have no clue how my mark was so distant from my expectations, because I felt relatively okay coming out of the exam and usually that is reflected in my mark. However, I do somewhat feel like the fact that I lost my laptop over the weekend and only got it back the day before the exam, contributed to this failure because instead of refining my exam technique, I was stuck making notes on the off chance that I didn't end up finding my laptop. There were a few short answer questions that I felt weren't marked properly aswell. For instance, one of them asked me to discern between demand pull and cost push inflation. My answer was "Demand pull inflation is induced when there is an influx of demand for a good/service that is reaching its supply capacity, whereas cost-push inflation occurs when there is an increase in the input price that is passed onto the consumer in the form of higher prices". My teacher circled "supply capacity" with the label "too specific", and circled "input", saying "not always". But I swear to fucking god my answer is correct, because demand pull is, verbatim, "when aggregate demand is outpacing aggregate supply". Isn't that literally the same as my answer?? I also looked at the textbook definition of cost push which says that it is "an increase in prices caused by increase in costs in factors of production" - but factors of production ARE literally inputs to the production of a good/service??? Like wtf, I legit don't understand why he deducted marks for my answer because his comments don't seem to be accurate. Ugh. I can't really contest it either because my teacher hates it when people challenge the integrity of his marking, but I swear to fucking god I should've gotten the full mark. My handwriting was also a notable issue.
Got maths back today and it almost as bad as economics. The highest mark was 81.5% lol - I got 71.5/100 which is legit horrible. But I swear it wasn't even marked properly, because lots of people got the wrong answer and were marked wrong for it? And vice versa. For example, my friend got full marks for a one marker when she wrote 50% as the answer, even though it was 82? The most annoying thing of all, was that I got absolutely NO marks for a question for NOT simplifying the fraction, even though it was theoretically correct like wtf? I got 6/21 and the "answer" was 2/7, but that's legit the same thing?? I'm kinda indifferent to maths though because everyone did shit, which kinda mitigates its impact on my sanity hahaha. I really need to work on maths coming forward though.
Got the rest of my English back (the ones I had to read to the marker because of my handwriting), and it was as I expected. I got 19/20 for Mod C and 14/15 for creative. Since I verbally presented my essay, I got absolutely no feedback on it so idk where I lost the mark. Overall, I got 96/105 for the paper, which is just over 91%. The lesson seemed endless though. Since receiving our trial, we've been going over the sheets of feedback given back to us by the markers and it has been boring af. My teacher made us adapt our creative to different stimuli today, and it was so hard because I couldn't think. I legit felt so mentally exhausted upon seeing my economics mark that I couldn't concentrate whatsoever - even my teacher picked up on this. She even said "Lumenoria you got 19 what the hell are you upset for?" lol it was so embarrassing - I told her it wasn't english. At the end of the lesson, she specifically tried to tell me that "it's not the end of the world" and that I'd work my way back up during HSC, which I thought was nice of her. Still felt like absolute crap though.
We have our HSC major work showcase tomorrow night, which I am absolutely dreading. Three people in my class got chosen for a full screening, including me, whilst others will be shown to the audience in snippets. Although I expended so much effort into my project, I fucking cringe so hard when people watch my video lol. Not keen at all.
Overall my marks for trials were;
English Advanced - 91
Maths - 71.5
Legal - 96
Economics - 79
I've been taking a break for 2 weeks now, which I intended to continue for some time, but after getting my results for trials, I feel like I am not justified in doing so whatsoever. I guess I was bound to bomb an exam at some point (as I had maintained marks over 85 for everything before today), but the fact that thy both were delivered on the same day, was too much for me. In a way, I feel like giving up on the HSC altogether because I feel like I've already ruined everything. I'm not going to let myself, but this just sucks ass. Although I'm very disappointed in economics, I think my final mark will still be roughly 85 as my 79 will be offset by my performance in previous internal assessments, but I reckon my rank has dropped to 3rd or 4th ish. I'm pretty sure I dropped to double digits for maths, although it's hard to tell when the trial average is 50% lol. It's times like these that I wish I had continued doing English Extension, because I know for a fact that it would've been counted in the 10 units since I actually enjoy English. I've legit been crying all day, and it's been great tbh.
emilyygeorgexx:
--- Quote from: Lumenoria on August 23, 2018, 06:12:39 pm ---Today has been a crappy ass day. Got all my trials back, finally.
Economics was first, and it was confronting af. I thought the trial was hard (we did Independent trials), but I still expected over 80% for it because it wasn't crazy difficult y'know? Well, I got 79/100 - so underwhelming. I fucking lost my 1st rank, and I legit cried when I saw it. I was so fucking disappointed in myself, because not only did I study my ass off for this exam, but I have never gotten a mark below 85 this year until now. Worst part is, although my friends were trying to comfort me, I felt like they were lowkey relishing in the fact that they took my rank which just made me feel worse - one of them even went to ask the teacher to reaffirm the fact that she took 1st place, which although she deserves, made me feel like shit. I got 15/20 for both my essays which is absolutely horrific, considering I have ALWAYS gotten in the 17-20 range for my economics extended responses. I legit told my teacher to talk to me another time when he came around to give feedback because I was so emotionally unstable at the thought of my essay marks. I literally have no clue how my mark was so distant from my expectations, because I felt relatively okay coming out of the exam and usually that is reflected in my mark. However, I do somewhat feel like the fact that I lost my laptop over the weekend and only got it back the day before the exam, contributed to this failure because instead of refining my exam technique, I was stuck making notes on the off chance that I didn't end up finding my laptop. There were a few short answer questions that I felt weren't marked properly aswell. For instance, one of them asked me to discern between demand pull and cost push inflation. My answer was "Demand pull inflation is induced when there is an influx of demand for a good/service that is reaching its supply capacity, whereas cost-push inflation occurs when there is an increase in the input price that is passed onto the consumer in the form of higher prices". My teacher circled "supply capacity" with the label "too specific", and circled "input", saying "not always". But I swear to fucking god my answer is correct, because demand pull is, verbatim, "when aggregate demand is outpacing aggregate supply". Isn't that literally the same as my answer?? I also looked at the textbook definition of cost push which says that it is "an increase in prices caused by increase in costs in factors of production" - but factors of production ARE literally inputs to the production of a good/service??? Like wtf, I legit don't understand why he deducted marks for my answer because his comments don't seem to be accurate. Ugh. I can't really contest it either because my teacher hates it when people challenge the integrity of his marking, but I swear to fucking god I should've gotten the full mark. My handwriting was also a notable issue.
Got maths back today and it almost as bad as economics. The highest mark was 81.5% lol - I got 71.5/100 which is legit horrible. But I swear it wasn't even marked properly, because lots of people got the wrong answer and were marked wrong for it? And vice versa. For example, my friend got full marks for a one marker when she wrote 50% as the answer, even though it was 82? The most annoying thing of all, was that I got absolutely NO marks for a question for NOT simplifying the fraction, even though it was theoretically correct like wtf? I got 6/21 and the "answer" was 2/7, but that's legit the same thing?? I'm kinda indifferent to maths though because everyone did shit, which kinda mitigates its impact on my sanity hahaha. I really need to work on maths coming forward though.
Got the rest of my English back (the ones I had to read to the marker because of my handwriting), and it was as I expected. I got 19/20 for Mod C and 14/15 for creative. Since I verbally presented my essay, I got absolutely no feedback on it so idk where I lost the mark. Overall, I got 96/105 for the paper, which is just over 91%. The lesson seemed endless though. Since receiving our trial, we've been going over the sheets of feedback given back to us by the markers and it has been boring af. My teacher made us adapt our creative to different stimuli today, and it was so hard because I couldn't think. I legit felt so mentally exhausted upon seeing my economics mark that I couldn't concentrate whatsoever - even my teacher picked up on this. She even said "Lumenoria you got 19 what the hell are you upset for?" lol it was so embarrassing - I told her it wasn't english. At the end of the lesson, she specifically tried to tell me that "it's not the end of the world" and that I'd work my way back up during HSC, which I thought was nice of her. Still felt like absolute crap though.
We have our HSC major work showcase tomorrow night, which I am absolutely dreading. Three people in my class got chosen for a full screening, including me, whilst others will be shown to the audience in snippets. Although I expended so much effort into my project, I fucking cringe so hard when people watch my video lol. Not keen at all.
Overall my marks for trials were;
English Advanced - 91
Maths - 71.5
Legal - 96
Economics - 79
I've been taking a break for 2 weeks now, which I intended to continue for some time, but after getting my results for trials, I feel like I am not justified in doing so whatsoever. I guess I was bound to bomb an exam at some point (as I had maintained marks over 85 for everything before today), but the fact that thy both were delivered on the same day, was too much for me. In a way, I feel like giving up on the HSC altogether because I feel like I've already ruined everything. I'm not going to let myself, but this just sucks ass. Although I'm very disappointed in economics, I think my final mark will still be roughly 85 as my 79 will be offset by my performance in previous internal assessments, but I reckon my rank has dropped to 3rd or 4th ish. I'm pretty sure I dropped to double digits for maths, although it's hard to tell when the trial average is 50% lol. It's times like these that I wish I had continued doing English Extension, because I know for a fact that it would've been counted in the 10 units since I actually enjoy English. I've legit been crying all day, and it's been great tbh.
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Congrats on your English results, you actually smashed it!! You should be so proud babe ;D
As for your Economics and Maths results, it may as not be as you hoped and I know you studied soooo hard so it's okay to be a little bit upset. I already can tell that you're actually going to smash it in the HSC (considering it makes up 50% of your HSC) and you'll definitely feel proud of yourself!!
Also huge congrats on your Legal marks omg!!! It's actually so funny because my teacher is giving us different sections back each day (as part of some exercise she wants to do) and it just happens that I currently have the same marks as you for the sections I have gotten back (okay maybe I got 19 in the multiple choice AHAHA). Tomorrow I get both 25 markers back and I am actually going to die LMAO pray for me
Hope you feel better soon, all the love XX
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