It's now Christmas and being forced to be stuck inside has made my motivation and productivity lessen so let's set out a list of some of the stuff to get done!
English Advanced
So for this subject I have quite a bit to do that I have been neglecting and that is to thoroughly go through the resources provided to me by the school and make further extensive notes to them. I also have been aiming to use the feedback I have received for the first task and rewrite my essay and send it off to my mentor ( School teacher thing), because my actual English teacher lowkey sucks. After finishing all that hopefully I'll be done with module A and can move on to getting a head start with Module B. I have to head to tutoring so I'll be going through a bit there but I wanted to do some self prep on my own to get a sufficient understanding of the content.
English Extension 1
Extension 1 much like Adv I have to go through the resources given to us by the school and just work through them adding on notes and doing some more extensive work. I also got my notification for my assignment that is about reading a canonical piece of literature and finding an academic reading on it while also making a creative piece and highlight how you've drawn inspiration from the literary world of that book. I was tossing up between Metamorphoses or The Picture of Dorian Grey, but I think I'm going to go with the latter since I've read it before when I was younger and I have the hard copy at home. It's also a very interesting novel and when I was reading it previously I was a bit confused because I couldn't understand the complexity of the character. I think if I read it now however, I'll have a deeper understanding of it. Before the assignment came out I had also been wanting to have a read of it again so this is the perfect excuse haha.
Maths Advanced / Extension 1
Maths to be honest I have been dreading. I have put it off for so long but I really need to get a handle on it. It's pretty much the same problem for both of them, but I need to work through all of my past content. I don't have a proper fundamental grasp of the concepts and I only work through with a very surface level knowledge. This is fine for just regurgitating maths problems that I have seen and done before. But those that require a more intensive use of problem solving is what really gets me stuck. Maths has always been something that even if I wasn't expecting it I did better than average most of the time so I guess I've just really taken advantage of that and become very nonchalant with it. However, I have realised that will no longer work and I absolutely have to make a much more serious effort.
Physics
The kind of opposite (but not really) can be said for physics. I have always absolutely SUCKED at physics. I'm not even trying to be like modest or anything, because why bother, but like I'm literally the worst and have always bunked all my science exams since year 7. Now this may bring up the question of why even bother with it. Well, to be fair first of all the teacher that I've got honestly has really changed my mind on it and Physics itself is more seemingly enjoyable to be honest. I guess it's true when they say that a teacher really can affect what you think of a subject. And also, I didn't want to limit my options. I mainly am considering a computer science degree but with the wide variety of engineering degrees that exist, what if I find one that really appeals to me. Because I've always been pretty into STEM and I might consider it more seriously in the future. While it may not be a prerequisite its a well known fact that physics is almost essential to an engineering degree and therefore I want to at least learn the fundamentals of it before giving up.
I need to work hard this holidays though, because last year messed me up in physics more than the other subjects because the pandemic stopped me from pretty much half of the schooling year. Even after schools opened back up, I still had to skip so much as a result of taking care for my grandparents. And the first HSC task, I really expected to do better since it was very math based (which is more of my strong part) yet I did disappointingly not well so I really have to work hard and get better. I have some tutoring resources for the first module which I missed, and alot of work from school (because my teacher is the best and works really hard for our class 🥺) and then after covering all of that I'm going to work through some of the textbook and make some notes.
Software Design and Development
Software is one of my best subjects right now. It's always one that I've been confident in and that's probably because I can say with confidence that coding and technology has been one of the closest things I have to a hobby. My school for some reason has one of the worst stem faculties I have seen which surprises me, because me putting this school as number 2 when apply for selective high schools definitely did not expect this. However I'm stuck with it for now and was able to apply for Software as a subject through distance education. Honestly, I'm glad that this was the case because I doubt my school would've been able to sufficiently guide me through this subject anyway lol. Distance ed has honestly been an interesting experience, I've usually used my study periods for a bit of mucking around but it didn't end up being much of a problem because I always did the work to a pretty high standard anyway. I've been more serious this term for sure and have even tried to build a stronger relationship with my teacher so that I can have a better sense of support through the subject.
Business Studies
Business as most people know is just done entirely through ROTE learning and honestly I considered it a bit of a bludge previously. However, (definitely not surprisingly) I didn't end up doing too well. But I know that this is a subject that if I put the sufficient amount of effort into I can most definitely perform well as long as I do the best that I can. I've already been working on that and hopefully that paid off. We haven't gotten the marks back for the first task but my teacher did tell me that I have greatly improved so I guess that's a push in the right direction.