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The Depresso Expresso (fun_jirachi's HSC Journey)

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fun_jirachi:
Yesterday was the last tennis weekend of the season, and consequently the last of my high school career. Really put in everything those two games; I played with one of my first doubles partners and came out with a W, but even though I lost my singles I put in more hustle than I've ever done before. I couldn't shake off my tiredness for a while, and I heard my opponent exhale 'no way' as I got to a ball he thought I'd never get to. Running for every ball and fighting for every point no matter what made me feel like regardless of the result, the six years of training rain, hail or shine were worth it.

But at the end of all this, this is one of the first journeys coming to a close this year. It made me realise that high school is more than just study and the HSC, and I came away and will come away with lots of new friends and experiences. Six seasons of tennis and six seasons of the pain of wet weather fitness ended yesterday, and it was pretty sad. I want to finish the year, and at the same time I don't. It's moments like these that make me actually like school and wish my journey would never end. Now, I go into the last football season of high school; my fifth. After looking back on tennis, I really want to put more effort into this; I looked back on those six seasons and felt I could've done more.

Studywise, everything is going okay! Exams in two weeks, but I'm not stressing out too much, everything is under control. Probably need to take more care of myself sleepwise and mentalitywise because at this rate I will definitiely burn out around May-June.

Hope everyone else is feeling great! :D

fun_jirachi:
It's been two weeks, and exams are looming. English is tomorrow morning, and MX1 is on next Monday, Chemistry on next Tuesday, Physics Depth Study Exam on Wednesday. But most worryingly, MX2 and Physics back to back on Friday. And my physics teacher (who is writing the exam) has indicated he's going to make it harder than any other physics exam we've had to date, and to be fair, that would be pretty brutal.

I'm nervous most for English, but afterwards, it's not terrible; I'm 1000x more confident with STEM than I ever will be with English. After assessment 1, I am afraid of choking given I've done it before, and doing so again will screw me up for the rest of the year, but up until now, I've followed my plans for studying (mostly ;) ) and done all the work, so I guess all I can do is just go in and do it, and do my best. Hopefully all goes well and I actually read the question and don't do anything stupid.

Still need to take better care of myself though (not doing the best at the moment), hopefully I can get through all this and get to a happier time where it's easier to do that :)

Hope everyone else is having a great start to the month! :D

jamonwindeyer:
Best of luck for the tasks mate! Look after yourself

meerae:
Good Luck for your upcoming assessments!

fun_jirachi:

--- Quote from: meerae on April 03, 2019, 09:09:49 am ---Good Luck for your upcoming assessments!

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--- Quote from: jamonwindeyer on April 02, 2019, 10:12:05 pm ---Best of luck for the tasks mate! Look after yourself

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Luck must've really come through because these exams didn't really feel like exams (they went oddly fast, and difficulty was a bit meh), so thanks a lot guys!

On a subject by subject basis:
English: We had to study three questions given a week prior to the task, one of which would be given in the exam. I prepped for all three, because I was paranoid if I missed one I'd fail entirely (that's a show of my confidence in English). They happened to pick the one that objectively would discriminate between students the least, so I'm not too sure how that's going to go for me. It's all RNG from here, seems like a pretty crappy dice roll :(
4U: I got all but one question out + one or two silly mistakes (still kicking myself, easy marks) , and judging by everyone's reaction after the exam, I've done not spectacularly but enough to keep myself afloat rankings wise. Considering I have a pretty solid cohort, this bodes well :)
Physics: I feel like Physics is the one subject where you can do a question instantly, but always second-guess your answer (does that look right? a bit big? a bit small?). This exam came basically an hour after 4U finished so I was pretty tired, but I was also doing that self-questioning the whole exam. Did not help, but I did all the questions, and it was a relatively hard exam, hope I did them right :)
3U: I think this was the exam I was happiest with. With only one silly mistake (which I am also kicking myself for, it's literally because I can't read), I could potentially get really close to 95%. Given also that I flunked ranks wise in the first assessment (even with a 59/65), this was a big confidence booster, this could go well :)
Chemistry: A ton of weird curveballs, and I started to randomly BS a few of the curveball questions. And for what is perhaps the more mathsy half of the syllabus, I wasn't expecting so many wordy questions, and so little calculations. Definitely got thrown off a bit, but should still do relatively okay :|
Physics Depth Study: The first few questions were an absolute breeze (unless I did something stupid), but the last question was super conflicting. Basically everyone got different answers, it's all so weird :)

But overall, it's probably one of the better exam periods I've had; felt reasonably comfortable doing the exams, and studying wasn't exactly the long hard slog I thought it would be (except prepping each English question in depth). This is going to step up a bit though, but for now I can study and chill for the next twenty days until next term :)

Today I did get a nice cooldown after exams, went to a friends place and just unwound, then went into the city to eat and watch Captain Marvel. It was a pretty damn good movie, and overall a damned good day. A good way to end the term, stress has been released :)

Hope everyone else has had a great week so far :)

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