POST 9 - 28/02/24
hello, mr casually cruel, being the craziness of year 12. officially in the fifth week of this treacherous journey, and i don’t hate it but i am not loving it either. study periods are proving to be super beneficial for me because i’m able to smash out all my homework and solely focus on revising at home, which is great i guess. today is a curriculum day for me, which i am using to make my bound reference for general and do my extended investigation written task (i’ll talk about that later) and sac revision for both psychology and general.
i did a practice english sac yesterday for the novel ‘we have always lived in the castle.’ i chose the hardest prompt because at first glance i thought it would be easy, but it was a ‘how’ prompt so i didn’t really link my whole essay to that. but hey, they call it practice for a reason! i have my real sac in two weeks after school, so that will be interesting. to be honest, english is the only subject that i am fine with getting a 70% in because the teachers (sac’s get marked by two teachers) mark harsher than the vcaa examiners.
psychology is also going well. i did a topic test the other day on the second half of area of study 1 and got a 78 (should’ve been 86 if i didn’t make stupid mistakes + worded clearer) but it was also practice AND i didn’t study, so i can live with that. my psychology teacher is so good (i feel like i say this every time) but she explains every time in a detailed yet simple way and the concepts just stick to be. my sac for that is next monday and also after school. i have no idea how long it goes for because they haven’t made anything clear other than it being a case study and being after school.
i also have my general math sac after school next week (i’m going to talk about this whole after school sac dilemma) which goes for about 90 minutes so i’ll finish it around 5pm T_T. i haven’t even started studying or practicing, but i feel very motivated today so i’m using that to my advantage.
business management is fine. i did the sac last friday and am quite confident, probably going to lose a mark or two for sure but it isn’t the end of the world. i have no business classes this week because the school likes to throw spanners into the timetabling (and i’m not at school for my friday class meaning i miss that too) so i have to do some stuff at home in my own time which i am not devastated about. i love working at my own pace, it is so much less stressful.
extended investigation is also going great. i hope my teachers don’t roam this website, because confession: i did absolutely no work for the subject last week and submitted my work two days late AND haven’t read any articles like what was expected. the articles are a huge pain in the ass, so don’t blame me for not wanting to read them. they’re tedious, wordy, and so many have been irrelevant to what i want to read. i have to submit a 500 word response that justifies my research methodology, that (surprise) i haven’t started. that’s due friday oops. i should do that today if i feel like it, or i’ll do it on the train ride to the city on friday for toptalks if i don’t get stuck standing during peak hour. i’m also meeting with a long-time online friend that day, and we are meeting at an aesthetic japanese cafe which is going to be amazing (matcha for life). also matcha does NOT taste like grass i don’t want to hear it T-T.
i love talking so much, so i’m going to talk about why my school does (most of) the sac’s after school. a lot of it is for authentication, so like if we did our english one’s during class, people will share the prompts, because they got circulated from monday when some classes did it before mine. fair enough. same with general, because people probably will write questions in their bound reference and share it around. one year, which is why we do them after school, some kids did a sac before their friend, and wrote answers in the bound reference to share. for a question that had part a, b, c etc., the kid who did the sac later answered parts b and c, and didn’t answer a, which you needed for the later parts of that question and suspicions were raised. like, if you want to cheat, please put some effort in doing it properly!? so we have to do them after school. psychology i’m not too sure why we do after school. but fun fact, the teachers don’t get paid for supervising our exams, which sucks for them because it is their time, and many of them have families, so doing unpaid overtime is a bit poor on the governments behalf. and then they wonder why teachers are leaving the job in record numbers…
i’ll stop talking because i want to do my bound reference, but i hope everyone is taking care of themselves throughout this stressful year. take breaks, relax, and don’t overwork yourselves because you need you’re energy for october and november. bye for now!!
