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fantasticbeasts3:
Congrats on that amazing mark!!! Well done! (And how good is this journal thing? You'll look back on this journal and your year and see how quickly it's all gone!)
Story on how I thought I bombed an exam and actually killed it: my HSC Legal exam - thought the highest I could get was 80, but my marks ended up pushing my overall mark to a Band 6 (my projected mark was high Band 5!)
Lumenoria:
--- Quote from: Hannahco on March 30, 2018, 06:16:27 pm ---Hey everyone!
There's under a week until my first exam and I am both terrified but can't be bothered at the same time which is kind of scary. English, Religion and I think Music all weigh 10% and Genny Maths weighing a whopping 30%!!!! Maths is definately the exam I'm most worried for as it is by far my weakest subject!
Okay rant time .....
So, the other week we had a listening task on Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince and you had to link it to Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. It had a 5 marker based directly off of the excerpt you were listening to and then a 15 marker where you had to bring in your knowledge from Julius Caesar to enhance it and rah rah rah. When I went out of the exam I was absolutely guttered with how I went as I didn't think I understood or answered the question correctly. When my teacher was handing them out in class yesterday I was mentally preparing for 70% which is still a good mark but not as good as I would like. She gave mine back, mark down on the table and I slowly lifted it up to see I GOT 95%!!!!! I was honestly shook and didn't think I deserved it.
I'm glad and thankful that I have this little journal thing where I can be proud of myself and just rant because at school lots of people were disapointed with their result so I didn't want to tell them mine cause then they'd feel even worse.
Anyone else have any stories where they thought they bombed out but actually killed it? (or vise versa??)
Thanks guys xxx
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HAHAHAHAHAH YES OMG!! My first Advanced English assessment of Year 12 was weighted 30% (AOS half unseen texts/half creative) and I legit walked out of the short answers thinking I did well, but then my friends, who were all discussing their responses to the last mini essay style question (5 marker), kept mentioning the "text you had to do" - what. So basically what had happened was, in the last question of discovery in the short answers, you had to analyse text 4 and another of your own choosing - I had just read the actual discovery statement and assumed I could use any - so I did text 1 and 3. In that moment, I was GENUINELY preparing for a 70% or something because I probably 3 marks already, so the max I could get for that section was 12 - and that was, assuming I got full marks on the rest which I was not too confident about to begin with. I was so mad at myself for fucking up for first English assessment, but I came to accept my fate of 70%. What's worse is, I also thought my creative was also horrendous - I handed in multiple drafts but for some reason I never reached a point of entire satisfaction with it. So anyway, results for all my subjects start coming back and I had gotten 85+ in all my subjects which I was elated with but I knew English would completely destroy that. All my high achieving friends were feeling so sorry for me. Come day of results, my teacher asks me to hand out the papers and everyone's getting single digits for the short answers, so I knew I was fucked. And wtf, I look at mine and it has a 12/15. WHAT THE HELLL. (ok it's not that good but given the circumstances it was most definitely was) I literally screamed at my friend to share my relief "DUDE I GOT 12", to which she responded "I got 7..." Mind you, she had completely the paper confidently and had ranked 3rd in Advanced English last year. Immediately I felt terrible but I couldn't fathom how she got so low when that never ever happened. Then I awkwardly returned to desk, which had my creative on it, so I kinda hesitated to sit but fuck I got 14/15 on it - 93%. I was legit shook. My marks for English Advanced totalled out to 87%, which made me rank 2nd overall. That was probably one of the best days of my life. I've never been one of those people who say "I failed this" and end up acing it, I always think I fail and actually fail. But for that not to happen, was truly a blessing to my soul.
Another instance is when I got thrown a complete curveball in Legal. I legit thought my essay was so shitty but I got 100%. I literally screamed "THIS MUST BE A MISTAKE!!!" Now I'm ranked 1st HAHAHAHHA
Hannahco:
--- Quote from: Lumenoria on March 30, 2018, 11:46:49 pm ---HAHAHAHAHAH YES OMG!! My first Advanced English assessment of Year 12 was weighted 30% (AOS half unseen texts/half creative) and I legit walked out of the short answers thinking I did well, but then my friends, who were all discussing their responses to the last mini essay style question (5 marker), kept mentioning the "text you had to do" - what. So basically what had happened was, in the last question of discovery in the short answers, you had to analyse text 4 and another of your own choosing - I had just read the actual discovery statement and assumed I could use any - so I did text 1 and 3. In that moment, I was GENUINELY preparing for a 70% or something because I probably 3 marks already, so the max I could get for that section was 12 - and that was, assuming I got full marks on the rest which I was not too confident about to begin with. I was so mad at myself for fucking up for first English assessment, but I came to accept my fate of 70%. What's worse is, I also thought my creative was also horrendous - I handed in multiple drafts but for some reason I never reached a point of entire satisfaction with it. So anyway, results for all my subjects start coming back and I had gotten 85+ in all my subjects which I was elated with but I knew English would completely destroy that. All my high achieving friends were feeling so sorry for me. Come day of results, my teacher asks me to hand out the papers and everyone's getting single digits for the short answers, so I knew I was fucked. And wtf, I look at mine and it has a 12/15. WHAT THE HELLL. (ok it's not that good but given the circumstances it was most definitely was) I literally screamed at my friend to share my relief "DUDE I GOT 12", to which she responded "I got 7..." Mind you, she had completely the paper confidently and had ranked 3rd in Advanced English last year. Immediately I felt terrible but I couldn't fathom how she got so low when that never ever happened. Then I awkwardly returned to desk, which had my creative on it, so I kinda hesitated to sit but fuck I got 14/15 on it - 93%. I was legit shook. My marks for English Advanced totalled out to 87%, which made me rank 2nd overall. That was probably one of the best days of my life. I've never been one of those people who say "I failed this" and end up acing it, I always think I fail and actually fail. But for that not to happen, was truly a blessing to my soul.
Another instance is when I got thrown a complete curveball in Legal. I legit thought my essay was so shitty but I got 100%. I literally screamed "THIS MUST BE A MISTAKE!!!" Now I'm ranked 1st HAHAHAHHA
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OMG YESS!!! Honestly so amazing man! You sound hella smart hahaha
Hannahco:
--- Quote from: fantasticbeasts3 on March 30, 2018, 07:31:46 pm ---Congrats on that amazing mark!!! Well done! (And how good is this journal thing? You'll look back on this journal and your year and see how quickly it's all gone!)
Story on how I thought I bombed an exam and actually killed it: my HSC Legal exam - thought the highest I could get was 80, but my marks ended up pushing my overall mark to a Band 6 (my projected mark was high Band 5!)
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Its honestly such a cool concept hey! WOOAAAHH in legal as well! Congrats that's insane!!
Hannahco:
Hey everyone,
WE MADE IT TO THE HOLIDAYS!!!!!! Finally! So I've got 3 free days then 11 days of busy and full on days singing in a band up at Grassyhead for a big conference. So I'm not sure how much homework I'll be able to squeeze in. On that homework topic, I honesty have no idea what I should be doing and how much. I can't look over my mid year exams because we don't get our marks back until the first week of term so yeah just unsure atm.
Hope everyone is doing well and to all those students who have holidays I congradulate you. And too all the uni students going back, I feel for you.
Hmu if you have study tips and ideas for this break.
Thanks guys and see you next time :)
Love Hannah
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