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The Depresso Expresso (fun_jirachi's HSC Journey)
fun_jirachi:
--- Quote from: mango8 on May 12, 2019, 04:59:54 pm ---Popped back onto your journal after a bit and it's still really interesting! Great job on your English mark! Yes I love creative a million times more than anything else! You can basically write whatever you want and it can't ever be 'wrong', just have fun with it! And Physics too! Congrats on all your amazing achievements! Lol I don't know much about hsc but all the best for whatever's coming up next, make sure to rest and chill out too, and take good care of yourself. Excited to hear about how the week goes.
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Thanks for this! Just a few replies to this:
- I actually don't know whether to be happy or sad or whatever about English; I've been average for years :)
- With Physics, was definitely expecting a bottom half result, but did better than expected. It's not great, but I can still revive it :)
- Might have slightly failed to chill out, because I'm pretty close to exploding :(
Got my report last Tuesday, just wasn't really bothered to update the journal :( It's pretty good, and I think it's my second best result overall, the best since Year 10 Yearlies. Just have to keep pushing with this and I'll get the results I want :) Not going to share the estimated ATAR just in case it's horribly off, but it's always going to be in the back somewhere as a benchmark to beat.
Ranks :)
English - 54/210
3U - 4/168
4U - 6/123
Chemistry - 31/117
Physics - 44/126
Physics and English and to a lesser extent Chem aren't quite there yet, but it's definitely something to work on :) So far it hasn't been a good week, but we'll see if that changes over the rest of the week :) Nothing really happening until Week 8, where I have a few more exams, so posts might dry up a bit.
Hope everyone's having a good start to the week :)
fun_jirachi:
Just realised I haven't posted in about a month, so here's a quick one to make myself feel like I haven't missed anything with posting :)
It's exam season yet again (a Year 11 friend of mine kindly put it as 'every time I turn around again you guys are doing exams again'). 4U is Monday, 3U on Thursday, sandwiching Chemistry. It's a pretty short exam period, and it's definitely not as stressful as half-yearlies, as the content hasn't actually started to get as difficult as I thought yet.
On another note, trials seem terrifying. We have a three-week exam period, but I'm doing all mine in the first two weeks. The upside is I get a whole week to screw around afterwards before graduation (also with the HSC timetable, I have ages to prepare and in between exams so I don't mind kicking back for that week and indulging myself), but the downside is that I have 6 exams in 2 weeks, and 3 in three days. It's not terrible but it's not what I'd like either.
Will update sometime next week with how everything goes :)
fun_jirachi:
--- Quote from: fun_jirachi on June 15, 2019, 05:47:55 pm ---Will update sometime next week with how everything goes :)
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Well shit. My bad :)
It's now the holidays and it's really starting to hit home; there's less than a term left of high school, ever. About three months from now it's all over. Honestly, it's been a blur and now I realise how valuable high school is and all the opportunities I've watched fly away and missed. But aaaanyway sentimentality is totally unnecessary right now because ahead of me is a holiday I won't even enjoy properly, UCAT and Trial HSC. Really going to have to start grinding hard (even though that's also what I told myself last holidays, the holidays before that and the holidays before THAT (don't need to mention I failed at those though))
Exam results: not quite as good as last time, but to be fair the 3U exam was total BS because out of 54, half my class got 53 or higher, with a median of 52.75. So basically getting nearly full marks like I did last time suddenly doesn't make you good, it makes you totally mediocre. I also got 20/20 on the last section of the 4U exam, only to find out I screwed up simple arithmetic in the first section, so I lost marks I should definitely not be losing so um yeah my rank is going to drop a bit :(. And as for English, they changed their definition of a discursive five times in the space of two weeks, and the marker apparently had a different view completely (judging from the feedback sheet) and doled out 15/20's like you sprinkle grains of salt in your cooking. around 60% of the grade got 15s, and basically 90% of people who did better wrote a creative imaginative piece, so everyone's wondering if by choosing a newer text type we got screwed entirely. Seems biased
Content: finally starting to get juicy and confusing, which is totally cool and I love it. Forces me to actually work to understand things and ask questions which I have never done before.
Hope everyone at school has had a good term :) Finish strong :D
fun_jirachi:
To be honest, in recent times I've kinda forgotten about this journal doing all the other stuff (usually just study :P and procrastination) so uh my bad.
So just a few updates this time:
- Recently finished up a holiday where sure, I studied a bit but mostly wasted it again, despite me swearing I wouldn't do that at the very start of the holiday
- Trials are in a few weeks and I'm slightly but not really screwed; I'm still reasonably relaxed about everything
- Did UCAT today and got 740/890/880/800/562 so that was pretty damn cool
Might add some more to this unless I forget. Just kidding... unless?
Hope everyone has had a great July!! :D
fun_jirachi:
--- Quote from: fun_jirachi on March 17, 2019, 09:54:55 pm ---But at the end of all this, this is one of the first journeys coming to a close this year.
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Well, after Saturday, yet another journey comes to a close. I won't be playing high school football anymore.
I really put everything in. We lost 4-2, but jockeying every guy, trash-talking on set pieces, cheering for your mates when a skill move or a dribble came off, and trying to deck at least three people made me feel like the game would never end until inevitably it did. The banter was hilarious that game, but as we went up in cheers for the other team, shook hands, said good game, it was pretty sad. People say life flashes before your eyes when you die, and I felt that but not really when I walked off the pitch. The goals we scored, the goals we saved, all the last-ditch tackles and bookings, the banter and on-field arguments with the ref. Nuts.
But perhaps more dauntingly I won't be playing high school sport anymore. It's just a long black tunnel of study until November 11th when the HSC is over. Trials start on Wednesday, in two days. I finish the following Friday. It's nice to think that this time in 11 days it'll all be over for the most part considering my HSC timetable is pretty tame, but the truth is a month after I finish Trials I graduate. Then it's the end of another journey. Then what next?
Good luck for Trials y'all (what's left of it for some of you and what's to come for everyone else), you'll smash em :)
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