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owidjaja:
Hey guys,
The fact that my HSC exams are coming up is slowly sinking in. I haven't done a lot of practice essays but I did do a practice short answer for Society & Culture. I'm aiming to rewrite my Trial essays and short answers but I'm still feeling the after effects of Trials even though there are three weeks left this term. I realised that even though Trials went for 2 weeks and 1 day, that took up a significant portion of the term. And then when we include Graduation Mass, Graduation Assembly, Year 12 Brunch and Formal, that's taken up another week of school.

Anyway, we're still slowly getting back Trial marks. To be honest, my ranks aren't as bad as I thought. My marks, well, could be better, but my teachers essentially dedicated a full on double-period assembly explaining how our marks will be moderated. I would find it useful if my English teacher didn't tell us already, but in the assembly, they used previous students' marks (unnamed of course) to actually prove what they were saying. This is why I'm emphasising more on rank than mark because ranks matter.

At the moment, my ranks are:
English: 5/53
Math: 11/30-something
Physics: 4/14
Modern: 1/19
HIX: 1/4
SAC: 3/20-something
SOR: Unknown

At this point, I'll take any rank that's at least in the Top 10, but my math rank isn't too bad.

I'm also in the process of convincing my History Extension teachers to send my Major Work to the HTA History Extension Prize. My teacher is reluctant to send it because she finds it pointless. Okay backstory: last year, it was the first time she sent something to the HTA competition- two entries in fact. But none of them won the competition. When HSC marks and everything came out, one of the students who had their essay sent to the competition got a state rank. Because of that, my teacher doesn't really believe that there is any point in sending Major Works to the competition. At the moment, she said she will talk to the other HIX teacher (who was on maternity leave but is now back at school) and may consider it. I'm just concerned that the due date is next Friday- by due date, it means that my project needs to arrive at the HTA place by next Friday and I need to do some refining. I've just figured how to do end notes so I need to make a few changes.

On another note, I'm in the process of finishing off applications for uni scholarships. Just finished my UNSW scholarship applications (tbh I used my previous responses to answer a good percentage of them) and because of that, I used them for my Western Sydney Uni Leadership Scholarship application. I just need to scan some supporting documents.

Also, I got called up for another interview! I applied for Early Entry at UOW and they just emailed me that I need to book an interview. I'm a bit anxious because this is a good thing but now I'm wondering if I've applied for too many scholarships- is there even such thing as applying for too many scholarships? I'm not even sure if UOW is in my UAC preferences. Do I need to change it now and put in UOW as one of my preferences? How in the world am I gonna decide when I've been aiming for UNSW all this time?

Anyways, see you soon!

- Olivia

fantasticbeasts3:
Congrats on those ranks -- awesome positions to be in the lead-up to the HSC!!

And congrats on that UOW interview as well!! There's no such thing as too many scholarships; think of it as broadening your horizons lol (and increasing opportunities for saving money on education hahaha). I think with the UOW early entry scheme you need to put them at the top of your preferences -- at least that's what I had to do. Even though you are set on UNSW, it doesn't hurt to apply for another uni. You'll decide when the time comes, and your gut will tell you the right thing.

All the best!

owidjaja:
Hey guys,
Graduation is coming up soon and that's kinda freaking me out even more. I've barely done studying during the past few weeks- it's been difficult for me to get into it because I'm still feeling the after-effects of Trials. I finished my Modern notes and I'm almost done with my SAC notes because we're still going through content. To be honest, we're not gonna finish Modern on time because we've only looked at the Battle of Stalingrad. We're so far behind my teacher's making us come back to school after formal. To be honest, I don't mind- I'm just stressed I haven't done any past papers.

I've also finished a good bunch of my scholarship applications. I've finished my Co-op, UNSW general questions, WSU Global Leadership application and USyd Women in Engineering scholarship- I just need to scan my documents. But I need to find a photo of myself taken in the last 12 months for Co-op and that's been proven difficult to find -_- I'm also a bit annoyed that FEAS hasn't opened yet. I've spoke to 2 ambassadors and they keep saying: "FEAS applications will open at ____."

We had a school career expo yesterday and a whole bunch of universities and other colleges came. It was cool because they had UNSW, USyd, UTS, UOW, Macquarie Uni and WSU- those were the universities I had questions for. Most of the time, I asked about their scholarship applications because I'd rather ask someone face-to-face about scholarships rather than call people- to be honest, I get anxious when I have to call someone. Anyway, I collected a whole bunch of undergrad books even though I already have them at home. Anyway, I kinda wished the UNSW Co-op representative read my application but at the same time it's probably a bit unfair because based off her name tag, she kinda looks like she has a higher position in the scholarships/co-op section. A lot of the ambassadors were able to answer my question but there were a few that they weren't sure with. Like with UTS, they're still not sure when they'll get back to me with Women in Engineering and it's been 2 months since my interview- it would be great if they could actually update me. The last time I contacted UTS was via email and they said they're still "processing my application" because there was a lot of applicants. The UNSW ambassador wasn't also able to answer my question on FEAS. There was actually a chemical engineering student and when I asked her about FEAS and how FEAS ambassadors at Open Day said applications "will open next week", she said she doesn't know but if they promised it would be open next week then honestly it's quite disorganised of them to not have everything prepared. It was nice that she was honest about that but also annoying that UNSW is a bit disorganised with FEAS.

On another note, I'm still tossing around as to whether I should go to UNSW Engineering Girls Day Out. The cool thing about the day is that you do lab tours and stuff but the engineering fields they offer are a lot of "obscure." They're not offering things like civil or mechanical or electrical engineering, it's like aerospace and humanitarian engineering. I really wanna go but my mum is reluctant to let me go because I've done a lot of UNSW stuff and gone to Open Days numerous times so she thinks I "already know enough on UNSW." I don't know, I can't really decide -_-

Anyways, see you soon!

- Olivia

Mada438:

--- Quote from: owidjaja on September 12, 2018, 01:06:16 pm ---Hey guys,
Graduation is coming up soon and that's kinda freaking me out even more. I've barely done studying during the past few weeks- it's been difficult for me to get into it because I'm still feeling the after-effects of Trials. I finished my Modern notes and I'm almost done with my SAC notes because we're still going through content. To be honest, we're not gonna finish Modern on time because we've only looked at the Battle of Stalingrad. We're so far behind my teacher's making us come back to school after formal. To be honest, I don't mind- I'm just stressed I haven't done any past papers.

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Amen to this!
I've just started my stuydying again after trials and its honestly very erratic. It's also stressing because we're FINISHING OUR HSC for good and that brings a whole host of feelings itself!
I really need to get on top of my notes. Our modern teacher left huge gaps in our options so i have to teach myself half the stuff again and we also haven't done past papers. We just watch documentaries and have banter.

Hope all is well, Adam

owidjaja:

--- Quote from: Mada438 on September 12, 2018, 03:30:09 pm ---I really need to get on top of my notes. Our modern teacher left huge gaps in our options so i have to teach myself half the stuff again and we also haven't done past papers. We just watch documentaries and have banter.

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We're the opposite- since we're so behind in Modern, my teacher is like "usually I'd show you a clip but we don't have time" so we're rushing through the content and my teacher is bombarding us with sheets we need to read ourselves. To be honest, I'm not sure if I can retain any information because it's really overwhelming.

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