Hello guys! Long time no see! (see what I did there, lol).
But nevertheless, I have been lurking around the forums, especially around the VCE Journal thread hoping for someone to post. Yes, I am desperate!
Seriously though, it has been an extremely long time but not much has happened. Actually, let’s scratch that, a considerable amount has happened.
Let’s start off with Methods, the most demanding subject currently(but not for long):
This is my Methods SAC 2 List of Accomplishments I have achieved so far in terms of preparation:
Neap Exam 1 CAS Active
Neap Exam 2 CAS Free
School Prep CAS Free
School Prep CAS active. Have repeated.
School Set of Questions CAS Active. Have repeated
Tuition Questions
When I was doing the school SAC preparation questions, I said that I would do 5 pages each day for the CAS Active and 10 pages each day for the CAS Free. For the CAS Active, when I was doing the questions, I purposely took a long time to do them so I really sunk into the depths of the question and really tried to understand the question itself but also what the questions were asking. Sure, it took an extremely long time. But what I need to focus on right now is how to actually understand the question and then implement the correct working out steps that will get me the solution. I took it real slow but it was really worth it sometimes. I got questions right that I maybe wouldn't have gotten right if I hadn’t taken it real slow and steady. I want to know if this strategy is working or if I’m just wasting my time and not going hard core with understanding the question AND doing it with time restraint. I will never now until I get the result of my SAC 2 or when I am actually doing SAC 2. I want to document the strategies I am using so that I can look back and see if it worked or not and it can also hopefully help people when they are struggling.
There were questions I wrote down on sticky notes that I didn’t understand but over time I either looked at the solutions and understood it or I emailed friends and they showed me how to do it. I am just glad that I got those trouble questions out of the way. But then new questions popped up today but it’s okay. I’ll give it some time and come back to them and repeat and hopefully I will think of the solution.
FUN Adventures(not studying)
So, let’s run away from methods for a second and actually talk about something I did on the holidays not a part of studying. So on the day after the holidays, my family and a couple of other families packed up our suitcases, ready to head to the Mornington Peninsula for some hot springs and other cool stuff. But first, my family went to Mcdonalds (we were the last ones) and we quickly ate our breakfast and then we journeyed to the unknown. Personally, eating at McDonalds wouldn’t be a first choice for me (Nandos, I’m looking at you)but breakfast is good Well, at least, it was the unknown to me. It was an hour and a 56 minute ride. I think. It actually didn’t feel that long though. But after I felt like vomiting. It wasn’t a great feeling.
We went to the hot springs that day after having lunch and it was an amazing and extremely cold place but that was okay. No pain no gain. The hot springs were quite hot at first but when you got used to it, it was so calming. I felt like sleeping but I closed my eyes and just sighed. It grew dark quite quickly but there were these magical light everywhere and I felt like I was in Fairyland or something. It was magical. But every time I got out of the water, it was pure pain. I felt the chills.
That night, me any my family friend buddies, watched a movie but I fell asleep like halfway through onto my brother. He didn’t mind.
The next day was a lot of walking. But nothing I couldn’t handle. We saw some forts that were used in World War II and it was pretty surreal. We also looked at some prisons and the bars were still there! If only I could time travel back into the past and see the prisons for what they really were and how the prisoners lived and such. We saw the beach also. We also went into this really big rock with really awesome designs engraved onto it by nature and it was awesome. We took plenty of photos, no doubt sucking up all the storage space.
That night, I watched The Nun. Have I mentioned that I love horror movies? They’re amazing and full of twists and backstories and scares and scary things and more scary things. It’s great. It wasn’t as good as I expected though. But I watched it. Then we watched another movie which was the complete opposite. It was a comedy.
The next day we ventured out of good ol’ Mornington and headed home. That was a nice trip and we hadn’t had those in a long time where you stay in a house altogether with everyone, enjoying a good break. I mean, who knows when we’ll get to do it next time?
TIME TRAVEL TO NOW, PRESENT DAY, VICTORIA.
Hello guys!
I’ve been gone for more than a month which I did not expect at all but it happened obviously.
It’s pretty chill at the moment, since I have no SACS looming. However, I do have bucket loads of homework and I have a psychology test on Monday which I have not studied for at all. I am dead. I’m going to go through as much revision as I need to by paying close attention to the key ideas. We just finished looking at the visual illusion with the two lines. One is a feathertail and the other is an arrowhead.
Specialist has been going ok until I go my test back today. I got 24/27.89%. Not that great. I could have done better and of course it’s because of my biggest enemy: silly mistakes. They’ll always be there but I shall conquer them.
In Literature, we have moved onto Post Colonialism and I am very excited for this topic since we’ll be looking at a range of media to connect ideas together. For example, we’ll be looking at music videos, studying Disney films and reading other books which relate to the idea of Post Colonialism and the Hamilton Case which is the book we are studying for this unit. A few weeks ago, we went to the Much Ado About Nothing play at the Arts Centre and it was nothing I had ever seen before. It. Was. Amazing. Pure bliss. That was the first play I had watched and boy, are my expectations high for whichever one I’m going to watch next. The play was modernised which made it even more interesting.
In chemistry, we’ve been looking at water. The whole of unit 2 is literally just water. We’re looking at concentration and dilution and stuff. Lots of formulas that I need to imprint in my mind.
In methods, we’re doing probability. We’re upto Continuous Random Variables since we’ve finished Discrete Random Variables. We only have 3 chapters left until we finish the whole methods course! It’s exciting but sad at the same time. After this year, I’ll never ever do methods again ever. Probability is very CAS heavy so I’m being extra careful when typing in the values and the commands.
Biology is pretty chill and I really need to write my notes for the content we’ve gone through in class in my own words instead of mindlessly copying it from the textbook which is what I used to do.
I’m also applying for school captain which is cool. We need to submit an application with 4 references and then do a speech in front of the whole school and also on the same day or the day after have an interview with the board of selectors. I just want to try because I know I’m going to regret it if I don’t. It’s still an achievement if I try and don’t get in. Even if I do get in, I might reject the position. It’s all a learning experience and that’s all I’m looking for. I need to finish my letter in a week, it;s due next Friday.Eek!
So, I’ll go now.
See you!
P.S Happy to be back