Do you guys ever feel like giving up during VCE

[Blair1994]

This is for current/past VCE students, have you ever felt like theres no point working hard when all you get is a below average score? THis past week I've had 3 SACS, been studying non-stop, going to bed late, waking up early and now the best i can probably hope to achieve is a B. Any of you guys experienced/experiencing this?

[xZero]

Yup, when i got my exam result back for psych mid year it was so shit that I was thinking of giving up in psych... and i did

Happens in english as well, if i don't do any work i get B, if i work my ass off i still get B so i just ended up saying: fk this all i need is 30 in english and get higher in my other subject to make up for it

[Greatness]

'Never, never, never, never, give up.' Winston Churchill
Altho you may be down and out, dont let yourself down. Dont throw away all those hours you have slaved away thus far. Keep at it, consistency is the key.
If you receive sac marks which arent what you were expecting, use it as motivation to do better in your next sac. Examine your mistakes, learn from them and make sure you dont make the same mistake again.

[Water]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z5-P9v3F8w

[taiga]

VCE:

"Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you"

[schmalex]

If you're not getting enough sleep, that could be hindering your success. Try calming down, focusing, sleeping well, and not worrying so much. Sometimes stressing less is all it takes.

[binders]

This is for current/past VCE students, have you ever felt like theres no point working hard when all you get is a below average score? THis past week I've had 3 SACS, been studying non-stop, going to bed late, waking up early and now the best i can probably hope to achieve is a B. Any of you guys experienced/experiencing this?

yep, had that feeling often. Sometimes i've given it everything i had, lost sleep, revised and revised, worked on my weak points and still not got a payoff in marks.  I just chalked it up to experience and keep trying.  I dropped philosophy after unit 1 partly because of this frustration, did unit 2 the next year, then 3/4 after another break.  If i'd dropped it and given up, i'd probably have a nagging feeling about it - could i have done better if i'd continued?  I still didn't do very well, but i feel satisfied that i've explored my potential in that area.

Despite what some will tell you, not everyone can manage to get within cooee of 100% on every assessment by just trying harder.
If you've tried, and understand the material, then you can feel good that you've learned something well.  A B isn't such a bad grade, even if it isn't as good for your motivation (or your ego) as an A.  You may be suffering from grade inflation, where you perceive a B as an E.  It's not.  When you get to uni, you may well be over the moon about getting a B-equivalent.

[Dr.Lecter]

everyday

[chrisjb]

This is for current/past VCE students, have you ever felt like theres no point working hard when all you get is a below average score? THis past week I've had 3 SACS, been studying non-stop, going to bed late, waking up early and now the best i can probably hope to achieve is a B. Any of you guys experienced/experiencing this?

I can't say I've ever felt like giving up, but I have felt immense frustration. I always feel like I *should* be studying and I always think that I have never done enough work. There's always more and more ways that I can improve and get better at work and it's frustrating to know that I can't be the best at everything I do and bad sac scores really do hurt for this reason. They're at least partially linked to my sense of worth.

I also know that I need the VCE and a good ATAR score if I want to do what I want to do, so I just have to get over bad sac scores and try to forget about them and focus on the future only. I have found this task easier as I have gotten older.

Whenever I feel down about studying or VCE or SACs or School in general, I just think of how much fun I will have next year (gap year) and how much fun I will have if I finally get through to my desired profession (duty barrister with legal aid [yes, laugh all you want but I see it as a good, purposeful application of a law degree and I'm quite happy to sacrifice money]).

So for me it's not so much a feeling of wanting to give up, more a feeling of fear that I might not get what I want at the end of the year along with an intense craving for the ATAR score I want. When I do badly in a SAC I feel very disappointed that I have failed a small step of my journey, but it also fuels a desire to do better next time.

Despite what some will tell you, not everyone can manage to get within cooee of 100% on every assessment by just trying harder.

I could not agree with this more. I go into sacs sometimes where there is no reason that I should loose any marks- I've done the work and covered everything in a huge amount of detail... Then I always end up choking and messing something up. Then there's the opposite situation where I go into a sac having done very little work and manage to ace it. I started to doubt the correlation between work and scores about a year ago. I think it must have something to do with my mindset during sacs that I am pushing myself harder for versus ones where I don't have huge expectations of myself. However, I know that studying less is hardly an action plan for VCE so I'm resigned to the fact that I will have to endure. (And I'm sure that this isn't the case for some people out there)

[pi]

Swarley sums it up beautifully
"Work hard now or work hard for the rest of ur life"

+1, a couple of years of pain, for decades of gain. I'm in.

[Ghost!]

Try getting some more sleep, sleep is quite underrated in terms of education.

[iNerd]

Try getting some more sleep, sleep is quite underrated in terms of education.

So fucking important.
You don't want to be accumulating a sleep debt 'cause it has immediate psychological effects and in the long term physiological effects.

If anyone wants a full list, PM me.

[Souljette_93]

Swarley sums it up beautifully
"Work hard now or work hard for the rest of ur life"

+1, a couple of years of pain, for decades of gain. I'm in.

There was one saying I held to myself throughout VCE, and that was: "short term pain, long term gain" and that what made me go through it, I knew it was going to end, I just had to patiently go through it.


Everybody's advice here is great and was what I was going to say, but to put it to the end: dont let yourself lose hope.

[Blair1994]

yeah pm me too please

[Hodgeyhodgey]

Me too please