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HSC (Holky's School Conclusion)

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katie,rinos:
Hey holky,
I'm really keen to read through all of your updates (I also did 4 performances for music & am doing education now)!  ;D
Congrats on the scholarship-really amazing!! What made you choose Western Sydney?

holky:

--- Quote from: katie,rinos on August 14, 2018, 09:37:20 pm ---Hey holky,
I'm really keen to read through all of your updates (I also did 4 performances for music & am doing education now)!  ;D

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How'd you find doing 4 performances? I'm finding it really fun because I get to play around with different (ish) styles. What's your instrument? I'm a singer and I was sooo sick during trial performance which sucked heaps.

--- Quote from: katie,rinos on August 14, 2018, 09:37:20 pm ---Congrats on the scholarship-really amazing!! What made you choose Western Sydney?

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Hey thanks!
Well, I literally made a table with WSU and other unis and then I assigned them point values for different things like location and duration of degree and scholarships, then I weighted everything, so scholarships was worth more than the duration of the degree for example, and added the totals up. WSU had the highest score. Plus, I already knew I had a guaranteed offer and scholarship from a program I did in year 11.
So yeah, WSU it is :)

katie,rinos:

--- Quote from: holky on August 15, 2018, 07:50:30 am ---How'd you find doing 4 performances? I'm finding it really fun because I get to play around with different (ish) styles. What's your instrument? I'm a singer and I was sooo sick during trial performance which sucked heaps.

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I've played the clarinet for 11 years and I loved doing 4 performances. My topics were an instrument and its repertoire, 19th Century music, and 20/21st century music. My pieces were also different enough that I didn't get too bored with them and I had heaps of stuff to practise.
These were my pieces if your interested: The pieces that I played were Brahms-Clarinet Sonata no.2 , Schumann Fantasy piece (2), Milhaud-Duo Concertante and  Hurlstone-Ballade.

Must be so hard as a singer if your sick. Hopefully everything goes really well for your HSC!  ;D

holky:
Thanks for all the support guys!!
So it's only been like a day since I dtarted this but I feel like updating this lmao
So yesterday, I got my marks back for music. For my performances, I got a 19, 20, 18 and 20 (out of 20) for my songs. I'm really freaking proud bc I was soooo sick during that, to the point where I had to stop halfway through one of my songs to have a coughing fit. So I was really worried that my marks might not be amazing because of that. I was also really happy bc the song I had to stop was one of the ones I got 20 for!
She also told us our exam mark - we can't have the actual exam back yet until the end of August. So I got the second highest mark of 28/30 which I am super happy with, especially considering my teacher almost never gets us doing theory. It's super frustrating, and I'm kinda thinking about looking for a music tutor to help me keep up with and keep improving the theory.
I also got an assessment from last term back in CAFS - 40/40. My new hope is that the trial comes back 100% bc then I would have a perfect internal score. During my prep for trials, doing past papers, I realised that I finish the exam with an hour to go. I got my teacher to check my responses and she had almost no problems with my work. I was worried I might not have been using enough detail,  but she said I was actually providing more than the question asked in some cases. What does help is I usually finish the multiple choice in 3 minutes and not the recommended 35 minutes. So I'm feeling very confident with CAFS.
Oh, also in English. My teacher for Advanced marked Mod A and my teacher for Extension marked Mod C so I asked them my marks in class. So some context about my Paper 2 - my school gave us the questions and Mod C had a weighting of 20%, Mod B 5% and Mod A had no weighting. But if we didn't attempt all of the questions my school threatened us with n awards. So I /ran out of time/ and /only had time/ to dotpoint a response for Mod A. I got the highest mark of 9/20 for Mod A. I also got 19/20 for Mod C which I'm actually very happy with.
I'm hoping the rest of my marks come in quickly because I am DYING to know how I went.
Oh, and last night I edited my folio for Drama. I spent an hour just fixing up my set drawings and they look so much better now. My logbook is now about a week behind. I had it ready to give to my teachers during trials, but she didn't want them then, and asked to have them this week. She hasn't asked for them yet. Oh, also got the date we're performing. Well, dates, we're a big class. So on the 27th I submit my directors folio and our performance days are the 28th and 29th. It's kinda scary how close it is, but I think we'll be ready.
That is it for today.
This has been Holky's School Conclusion (HSC) - just a headsup I'm going to mention this at least once a post bc I'm very proud of it

Joseph41:
Loooove the HSC pun hahahaha.

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