the journey to surviving the apocalypse (vce journal)

22/02/23
I had my first SAC of the year… and I absolutely flopped it. It was for Japanese, so it’s understandable that it’s difficult. I’m not expecting a high score for it anyway, I’m aiming for a 30ish so that scaling can save me.

But it does sting a bit. </3 I’ve always been that kid in the Japanese class that was expected to do well, and I’ve been dux of my class from every school I’ve been in for as long as I’ve been studying Japanese. So I don’t wanna disappoint my teachers and friends who expected me to do well, but I don’t think I’m gonna reach their expectations. :/

Which sucks but it is still the first SAC, if things go really badly I can always turn things around. But currently praying to all the gods out there to give me strength in this.

Status update on my other subjects:
General - no longer behind! In fact I kinda went overboard and finished the first AOS so I’m chilling in that for now.

Chem - slightly ahead, I’m absolutely loving the topics right now so I have motivation to continue working. I definitely need to practice more questions though as I’m fine with the theory, but not really the application.

Englang - I need to cover more metalanguage, and I need to practice short answer questions badly. I have a SAQ SAC coming up soon, so this is gonna be my priority for the next little bit.

Methods - … we’re getting there. I’m not behind anymore which is great, but methods and I are just not vibing. I’ve accepted that I won’t get a good score in it so I’m not too stressed and have decided to put my focus onto subjects I’m better at so I can get a better score in them.

Current mood: missing biology 3&4 badly </3

28/03/23
Update: Got the Japanese SAC back! DID NOT FLOP IT!!!

Definitely did not do as well as I usually do with my other subjects, but I’m very pleased considering I was expecting the worse case scenario. Last year, I flopped my first Japanese SAC and I’m happy to see that I made major improvements.

Specifically, I got pretty decent marks on the listening section, which I absolutely abhor. I’ve been working hard on that, so I’m glad my effort paid off. I’d like to continue improving though, since I’m still not doing as well as I could, and I also need to work on my speaking skills.

TERM 1 IS OVER! Wow… that’s really scary… a lot of stuff happened between the last update and now so let’s speedrun.

Chem
I got the score for the chem test I did when I sick… AND I DIDN’T FAIL! Me and this other dude in my class tied for rank 2, which is kinda insane considering I literally ran out of time and had to speed run like 3 pages without double checking my answers. Maybe the batteries were a good thing??? Either way, very proud of myself for not failing that.

I also sat my chemistry U3 AOS 1 SAC, it went as smoothly as I could hope for. Ended up with a 48/50, which is not too shabby. I was very happy with that. Redox is my favourite topic in chem. (Not a popular opinion in my class)

Our next SAC is week 2 of term 2, which is terrifying so I gotta get myself together to prepare for that.

English Language
I got my English language SAQ SAC back, and, once again, not too bad. The upper beings must’ve blessed me because I managed to pull an 18/20, which is fantastic considering I literally cried over it after I finished the SAC… yeah it was not a good day.

I also sat a second SAC, which was an analytical commentary. I haven’t received the marks for that one yet, I’m not feeling confident about my paragraphs but it is what it is. Will update on how that turns out

01/05/23: Got the SAC back, was kinda mid. 23/30, but I’m not complaining. This means that for the total outcome I achieved a 41/50 which is pretty solid and is considered a pretty high score on the VCAA rubric that my teacher bases his marking on so you know what, I’m very happy with that. Can only work harder from here!

Japanese
Sat a writing SAC for Japanese, in which I got a 13.5/15. It was one of the best essays I’ve ever written so I’m very happy about that.

General
We had our data analysis SAC and it was probably one of the worst SACs I’ve ever sat in my life. Nobody in the cohort felt good about it. It wasn’t that the content is hard, like it was really easy but the questions were so confusing and there was no marking scheme so we didn’t really know what was expected of us?

It was split into 3 parts, and I cried after part 2 so yeah. Not excited to get my marks back for that one.

It does really upset me though, because I do quite well in the practice exams I’ve done for general so far. I’m very comfortable with test and exam-style questions. But it was an application task and I just don’t do well with those, and I feel like I screwed myself over because I know I know the content, and I know I can do well.

But, at least the exam is worth 60% of the study score. As long as I try my best in the SACs, (whether that means getting a high grade or not), I can still pull through with a decent score if I can do decently on the exam… hopefully.

UPDATE: I got a 36/40! I am very pleasantly surprised, I was not expecting to get that. I’m so happy that I didn’t fail haha, there’s still hope for me.

The plan for these holidays is to get my copious amounts of holiday homework done, do some pre-study for the next AOS, and enjoy my birthday!!

Well, have a lovely holidays everyone! Take a break and relax.

i completely gave up on this, (and VCE too ngl)

but i know people enjoy seeing other’s results so )

VCE RESULTS 2023
Chemistry - 35 (scaled 39)
English language - 33 (scaled 35)
Japanese - 33 (scaled 41)
General maths - 40 (scaled 38)
Methods - 29 (scaled 33)
Biology - 39 (scaled 40)

ATAR: 92.80 (!!!! WTF!!!!)

to those who read my year 11 journal and knew that my goal this entire time was to get a 90 and be the 6th person good enough,, i did it <3