Late VCE journal from aspiring journo

marshmallow

A little bored, also given up on studying so Imma give an intro on my subjects✨

Lit- Going ok, we're doing Uncle Vanya rn and it's a play which sucks. Having to read and act out the play in class also sucks. Idk how to pronounce Russian names lmao...Earlier we did Dracula (fun) and Olive Kitteridge (not fun). Teacher is not the best, I swear 50% of the mark she gives depends on her mood. I got a really nice class tho, all the ppl are super nice so I cant complain🤷‍♀️ Marks wise its a pretty competitive class, I got rank 1 at the start of the year BUT THEN I DROPPED💀💀💀
English- My fav subject, we're currently doing We Have Always Lived in the Castle which I really like. Last term was the film High Ground and it was pretty hard, it was so annoying to analyse camera techniques, like I thought this was English NOT Media??? Anyways, the subject is easier but bit boring, like everyone just doing English cuz they have to and there's zero motivation. At least we have a super loud teacher that keeps us awake
General Maths-Started off strong w Data Analysis (mainly cuz we figured out how to work out the median in Yr 7), but Financial is killing me, why r there so many types of compound interest???
Psych-My worst subject although it's getting better, the first SAC of the year I did really bad. I got 65%, but ig I cant complain cuz the average was 55% or smth😬 I got a shit memory tho, I just cannot remember any of the terms despite having just studied abt Memory & Learning so I'm banking on Quizlet to haul me thru the exam
Japanese- One of my good subjects. So far my marks have been really good although I did stumble thru Outcome 2, lost quite a few marks. Workload is a bit annoying, you need to submit something every week where in all my other classes I never submit anything lmaooo
Will give updates on my subjects when I remember😉

marshmallow

Finished the GAT today thank goodness!!! I got flashbacks from NAPLAN which I lowkey got PTSD from♥ It started out fine then 3 questions in the world started ending, like Part B we were meant to figure out morse code, wtf???
Supervisor did not help either. Basically I struggled, everyone struggled, a girl behind me actually fell asleep and started snoring lmao. My friends and I all guessed half the answers except my one girlfriend who does spesh maths and aced the whole thing🙄 Literally hate VCAA, they gave me false hope things would work out. Anyway what I know now is that I CANNOT miss any exam.
Also have 2 SACs this week on the same day, Friday out of all days. I swear everything's happening all at once. See yaa

Anonymous2007

marshmallow
Couldn't relate more, part b was something else my god 😭 like at some point I got so sick of it, I started guessing the questions towards the end. Lmaooo one of the students sitting behind me was asking the supervisor for help 🤣 like bro forgot that he was sitting for a GAT.
Dw I struggled too, one of my friends guessed everything and left almost an hour before the timer finished. And the worst part, one of the guys sitting in front of me started speaking to me during the GAT.... the ppl at my skl r so unserious 😭

marshmallow

Anonymous2007
damn bro lucky u guys could leave
we had to sit down the whole 2 hrs, tho i ended up working to the last second 😫

FinFin-3rdYearUni

I barely remember anything from my GAT in 2020, but I do remember getting better scores in the GAT than my actual subject study scores. Hope it all went well though, best of luck for the rest of the year!!

ash73

I'm reading Ts to prepare myself mentally 😨im planning to do gen maths, math methods, English, bio, chem and Tamil, (I'm just in year 9 it’ll prolly change), but I hope to get bio or methods as an early vce subject next year. So uh ye! But good luck to u guys!

KingYen

ash73 That's a good list of subjects!

velvet

the GAT sounds so lame lol.
ik it has purpose but like...💀

marshmallow

Quick update.
I am fully stressing rn. My Maths SAC is tomorrow, I have no idea what I'm doing, I spent 30mins on one question and didn't even get the answer, and my eyes are literally burning from staring at the calculator for so long.
Also for my Psych SAC, also tomorrow, I'm meant to hand in a paper logbook of my experiment, and despite many warnings not to lose it I think I actually lost it. So for the past 45 mins I've been digging around my room like mad. If I end up finding it in my locker tomorrow morning I will cry.
I've been a little sleep deprived lately, I just need these SACs done so I don't end up looking like that guy from Beetlejuice.

KingYen

marshmallow Its okay! Make sure to take some breaks in between! Keep it up!

Anonymous2007

marshmallow you got this!!

Anonymous2007

marshmallow

Hey, for psych — did you guys already do your experiments and write everything in your logbooks? I’m a bit confused about how this SAC is actually going to be done, and I was wondering if you’ve already done it so you can explain how it works. My teacher said we’re going to write everything down on a poster, but like… can we even study for this SAC? 😭

marshmallow

Anonymous2007
Sup, for us, we wrote most of the logbook, like methodology section etc before doing the experiment, then wrote the analysis section later. The SAC poster was done on computer, in SAC conditions, where we had to sit with the laptop screen facing the teacher so we couldn't cheat. The marks come from both the SAC and the logbook. You basically use the logbook as a cheat sheet and transfer the info you wrote there onto the poster. Hope this helps!!!

Anonymous2007

marshmallow righttt ok that makes so much more sense thanks
Also what experiment did u guys choose to do

marshmallow

Anonymous2007
We all got to choose our own to do, I did mine on the effects advertisement has on consumer choices 🙂

Anonymous2007

marshmallow
righttt, bc my my class had to do the same topic 😭 also did u end up finding ur logbook 😭

marshmallow

Anonymous2007
YES IT WAS IN MY LOCKER 😡😡😡

marshmallow

Now I'm on here might as well give an update. After my SACs I have no motivation or energy to study, but I still have one more to go😥😥
Idk how I am going to even start working. I've been sitting at my desk all day trying but getting nothing done.

Also lately my biggest worry is the fact I've been invited to a girl's 18th, and I don't really want to go but my FOMO is probably going to force me to go anyway. And by 18th, I dont mean have a few drinks, I mean a full blown thing with drinking, smoking and drugs. Which I dont wanna do.
Ik the best option is to not go in the first place but stilllll. Party is next month so I have plenty of time to think this thru.

I think now I get why all the Yr 9s here want to get into SEHS so bad, if I'd known that SEHS was a thing in Yr 9 I would've signed up too. Surely the crowd must be much better than my pathetic public school, which had a grand total Google rating of 2.6, before reviews got turned off.

Apologies for this update, it's very unrelated to studying but I really needed to get this off my chest. Have a happy weekend everyone!!!

Anonymous2007

marshmallow After my SACs I have no motivation or energy to study, but I still have one more to go😥😥

That's literally me right now 😭😭

marshmallow

Did a practise SAC for English and bombed it bad✨✨✨ I finished with time to spare but I kinda just sat there blank for a bit.
I have a week and a half to turn this around, memorise a buttload of quotes and do sample essays. WHALITC is a easy book, but I gotta find some cool ideas cuz everyone is gonna say the same thing abt feminism, male dominance, etc etc... To make things worse, this SAC is AFTER SCHOOL. The last time I had a English SAC after school I didn't do too well, and I can kinda see where this one is headed already.
In some better news, I think I have cracked the code to how to study well and get in the zone!!! I've been listening to piano/lofi chill music whilst getting a scented candle going. It worked well for Japanese and Psych, but not as well for English, which is what I really need to work on 😰😰😰

Semester 2 has also officially started. I'm really nervous abt getting my results for my recent SACs, I don't know whether I want to see them or live blissfully unaware. I may/may not post my results here when I get all of them back.

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