Tony's Year 12 VCE Journey Journal

[wsdm]

Hey! I'm Tony and welcome to my Year 12 VCE Journey Journal!

In reality, I should have started this journal at the start of the year, but it's whatever. So, in this post, I'll record my events starting from the beginning of the year until now (June 2020), but throughout the thread, I'll add some events that were interesting or things that contributed to my overall results.

A bit of background information, I did Chinese Second Language as a Unit 3/4 subject and surprisingly, by my prediction, I attained a raw score of 27. Not the best, but also not the worst. This year, I'm undertaking English, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematical Methods and Specialist Mathematics (yes, I know, the dreaded Failure Five ). I'll go through my journey journal in months so it's a bit easier for me (and for you to read).

REASONS FOR MY SUBJECT SELECTION

- Chinese Second Language: I didn't have the opportunity to learn about my own background, so picking to do Chinese Second Language as a knowledge base was beneficial to me.
- English: Yeah, I can't say much about this. It's compulsory, lol.
- Chemistry: I was apart of a STEM class in Year 10, which was basically an advanced class that was science-orientated. Chemistry has always been an interesting subject for me.
- Physics: I enjoyed having a mathematical concept being applied to science, so I felt like Physics was the driving force to my desire for maths.
- Mathematical Methods: I desire mathematics.
- Specialist Mathematics: I desire mathematics.

JANUARY

I don't really remember much about January, school wouldn't have started for me anyway. However, I do remember studying ahead for my subjects, especially Chemistry, since that was my weak point in Year 11. January went by pretty fast.

FEBRUARY

We returned to school in February. The 2020 Year 12's. There wasn't much happening in February, but it was the month of my first SAC.


SACs (subject/mood/percentage/thoughts):
- English / / 73 / The first English SAC was a creative response SAC. I know myself as being an absolute failure when it comes to English, but seeing as I got above 70 for my first SAC, I was satisfied with my mark. Here's to better marks in the future. 

MARCH

March was the month of my second SAC. Other than that, it was just any other normal school month, learning content and watching videos on Edrolo. 

SACs (subject/mood/percentage/thoughts):
- Chemistry / / 70 / It was a SAC on the analysis of experimental data. Honestly, I don't know what I thought about this SAC. I lost a lot of marks on analytical stuff and pre-prac values. Some were because of silly mistakes which I've now learnt to avoid. This was a so-so SAC for me.

APRIL

Online learning started around this month and we were supposed to have our Analysing Argument SAC for English but instead we were told to do three (3) tasks during the period of online learning. I received Medium/High/High for the three tasks. Very happy about that. We were told of a validation task when we got back to the classroom.

MAY

I attended the Virtual Careers Expo and I got some neat information regarding careers and university opportunities from that. We were now on our second month of online learning.

And that's all for now, folks! I hope to update this after the end of every month. Good luck to all of you! 

[ashmi]

Hey Tony

Welcome to the Journey Journals! Trust me, there is no such thing as starting a journal too late (You will be hooked onto these journals with no time at all)

Love your subject selection (Go Physics gang! ) and is there anything that you want to particularly do in the future? Also do you have any hobbies outside of school?

Either way, I'm really looking forward to seeing new journal updates in the future!

[wsdm]

Hey Tony

Welcome to the Journey Journals! Trust me, there is no such thing as starting a journal too late (You will be hooked onto these journals with no time at all)

Love your subject selection (Go Physics gang! ) and is there anything that you want to particularly do in the future? Also do you have any hobbies outside of school?

Either way, I'm really looking forward to seeing new journal updates in the future!

Hi, Ashmi!

I'm sure I'll add to this journal weekly rather than monthly due to its addictive nature, but we'll see.

Regarding your questions, I feel like my career will be dynamically-based, i.e. switching professions but mainly sticking to one specific field. My first premature thought of a career was to be an astronaut! Honestly, it was one of those phases were I watched 2001: A Space Odyssey (amazing film, would recommend it) and I thought "Wow! Is this what it's like to be up there?", but yeah, that was little old, child me. My second option was to be a pharmacist, it was technically going to be my first and last career choice, since I wanted to follow in the footsteps of my cousin and being a pharmacist seemed to be a chill way to converse with people and help them at the same time. Come 2019 though, that was when I thought of doing something related to a mix of science and engineering. What could be better for me, an aspiring innovator, than an amalgamation of those concepts? So, I'm hoping to get into a double degree (BE/BSc) at Monash University.

I'll briefly sum up my hobbies: drawing, doing maths (you'll either love me or hate me for this), gaming (i am very deprived of this), I used to swim and practice martial arts but due to personal reasons, I've stopped doing that, although, I want to get back into martial arts, it's a great stress reliever. 

[wsdm]

GOALS AND ASPIRATIONS

Ah, what's a journal without goals? At the beginning of VCE, my overall ATAR goal was virtually unattainable for me, it was an ATAR of 80.00+. (i was very lazy and didn't get any classwork done, nor any homework) I stuttered in keeping up with study habits and was mainly living as a procrastinator by day and nigh. But now, my overall ATAR goal has now changed to a 95.00+. I wouldn't have able to set this goal without having the people around me support the things I aim to do. My teachers, classmates and mentors have all contributed to drag me out from the depths of my NEET lifestyle and due to that, I've been trying hard to achieve scores I wouldn't have been able to achieve two years ago. One of my several aspirations is to become an astrophysicist. Right now, it might seem impossible for me, but I believe I can reach that point. VCE is just one of many checkpoints on a long highway to that destination.