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This update is a bit emotional. Feel free to skip it if you like.

I had my last day of school ever, today. I thought I would be happy, but I was still kinda sad. I started crying yesterday with my friends because they were crying first and then I was crying. It felt kinda weird, when I was in yr 7 my blazer was too big (still is). But now its like I've grown into it and becoming an adult. Before the last bell, my friends were crying and I was crying. Again. I always thought I would be super happy, sometimes even we surprise ourselves. Tmr is muckup day. Hopefully, there will be no waterworks then. But I reckon there will be some at graduation. T-9 days until my eng lang exam.

Keep it up '22ers! We're almost there.

Signing off,
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Fellow Spesh student here! Omg the exams are sooo hard….

I’ve been getting high A/A+ marks all year for the SACs, and have just started doing them. We did two in class this week (2022 Heffernan I think) and they were sooo difficult. I got 43% for exam 2, and 58% for exam 1….

So basically; ur not alone…. Spec is a nightmare. Lol

I know that everyone is aiming for the top of the top, and all students desire for the esteemed 99+ or god forbid the 99.95 ATAR; but how hard is it to actually achieve such a thing? I'm basically only posting this in spite of the old and now retired ATAR notes website which had many forums of 99+ students telling others what they did and how hard they studied to achieve their score. As such, are there any individuals who achieved incredibly high study scores or ATARs and are willing to share how hard it is to actually achieve such an unfathomable score. Another reason I'm asking this is because I have a family friend who achieved a 99.50 ATAR and he said that he honestly didn't study that hard. I don't believe him at all because he went to Melbourne High School which is a prestigious selective school in Victoria; meaning that studying till death would be the norm for those students and thus he thought that he honestly didn't study that hard. Apart from that, I would love to hear what ATAR goals some of you guys and girls are aiming for and why; also how you plan or did to achieve your goals.

Update in the last week of the holidays, just spent a lot of money on my muckup day costume but I think it will be worth it. I completely forgot about getting documentation for my SEAs and VTAC and have booked in to see my doctor next Wednesday, so hopefully not too late. I have done one practice exam for each subject which is not as many as I had hoped to do but work screwed me over by rostering me on every day of the holidays and I really don't have the energy to do them after shifts or before shifts. It finally feels like all the puzzle pieces are coming together of everything that I have done in the past 5 years of high school. I am struggling with some questions and when I look at the solutions, I know exactly what to do but when looking at the papers without them, it feels like I don't understand. Guess it is all down to practice, practice, practice.

I hope everyone is taking care of themselves so that you guys don't burn out before exams. It's happening to a few of my friends who have done nothing but study over the past few weeks and now they can't remember content or struggle to answer questions