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(Raw study scores are the minimum scores I want to achieve)
Atar Want: 90
Atar Will Settle For: 85
Atar Needed: 82
Atar Expecting: 86

Food Studies -
GA 1: A
GA 2: A
GA 3: A+
Study Score: 43

Chemistry -
GA 1: C+
GA 2: B+
GA 3: C+
Study Score: 34

English -
GA 1: B
GA 2: B+
GA 3: C-
Study Score 33

History (Revolutions) -
GA 1: B+
GA 2: B
GA 3: B+
Study Score: 34

Legal -
GA 1: B
GA 2: B
GA 3: B
Study Score: 35

Further Maths -
GA 1: C+
GA 2: B+
GA 3: C
Study Score: 35

If any specific I would predict how to go from the alkane/ene groups to hydroxy to carbonyl will be on there along with halos

I would guess just mainly reagents and how to draw molecules as they are converted (i.e primary hydroxy to carbonyl (carboxylic acid)

Some example questions:

A Hex-3-ene has a Br added, what is the IUPAC name for it?

State the reagent(s) required to convert hex-3-ene to hexan-3-ol

what specifically about pathways?

What type of history are you doing? There are 3 types VCAA have.

I can speak on History - Revolutions and for that as many quotes as possible is preferable, but if I have to pick a minimum number I'd say at least 5 per revolution. But I would use quotes that fall into multiple categories to be useable in a variety of questions.

An example: "The machine gun became for them the principal instrument of political persuasion" -Richard Pipes

Can be used to support an answer talking about Bolshevik power, the use of violence, intimidation, how leaders consolidated power, the Constituent Assembly, Lenin's methods, etc. These types of quotes are very useful to remember because they can applied to a lot of questions.

I'd be very happy to explain any of the quips listed if people don't understand

Hello this was something a friend and I did as a different way of remembering individuals in the French and Russian Revolutions (those are the two our school did). Feel free to add your own quips for other figures for both the revolutions or which ever ones you are studying

Lenin - The guy with the forehead
Trotsky - The guy with the train
Nicholas - The incompetent fool
Kerensky - The guy who was there
Alexander III - The bread roll guy
Stolypin - The guy with the necktie
Rasputin - The guy with the eyes
Alexandra - The ma'am with no damn plan
Marx - The dude who wrote a manifesto
Kornilov - The gun guy
Kollontai - The first fancy government lady
Dzerzhinsky - The 'no evidence needed' Cheka man

Louis XVI (16) - the clown
Louis XV (15) - the dead one
Louis XIV (14) - the Sun king
Antoinette - the hair was a boat lady
Necker - the compte rendude
Lafayette - the American Frenchman
Sieyes - the poor mans' advocate
Robespierre - the terror deity guy
Danton - the gremlin man
Marat - the 'my man' man (we loved Marat)
Corday - the stabby stabby lady
Brissot - the yummy war guy

Forgot to write an update on Monday, so here it is. About the mc question with the molecular formula my teacher said it was a mistake and was literally impossible, so we all got a free mark lol

No if you don't meet the prerequisites (the study score) you are not going to receive an offer, even if you get the atar required, you need to meet the prereqs.

Queen_Of_Flora

I have my chem feedback class this Monday, so I'm hoping something was a typo. I will post again with a solution if nobody finds one.

Queen_Of_Flora

OH THAT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE NOW

Thanks for that <3

Year 12 here (nearly former Year 12 lol)

Stay on top of any and all holiday homework! I have had stressful nights worrying about getting my homework done because I left it last minute. Sometimes it might be the evidence from homework/coursework tasks that get you your S to pass the subject. It was reassuring to know when I walked into my SACs that I had my S already because of my coursework.

Another piece of advice, have folders to keep activities and any practice SACs that you are allowed to keep, so that way you have resources to look back on to identify areas to focus on.

Year 12 is long and stressful, draft a study plan early on, and plan your time around assessments and exams.

This one is a personal preference but type/print your notes rather than handwriting. I found this gave me more time to do practice papers and pull out key concepts in class while I had access to the teacher. If you do use this method I recommend (depending if the subject warrants it) handwriting your own summaries of the notes and highlighting key parts.

Finally complete practice papers! This is the best way to familiarise the structure of assessments and exams. Ask your teachers to provide papers or questions to practice on and seek that feedback. Plus if doing English practice prompt breakdowns as there is only so many ways VCAA can ask a question. I remember right before my legal exam (I did it last year as an access student) I broke down a 10 mark question with my teacher and the 10 mark on the exam ended up being very close to what I did.

I wish you good luck for your year 12 year, but just remember don't be too hard on yourself if your scores aren't what you expect. There is always going to be a way to get to your career, but it relies on the effort you put in.

Justify who was your favourite individual/movement/event/group in the revolutions you studied. Me first

Studied French and Russian

Favourite French Fry - Maximilien Robespierre; the head choppy man himself. What's not to love about the dude, I don't know what it was but the lesson I had about him was my favourite. The face of the Great Terror, he did not a lot of great stuff, but was a cool dude. Close second was the martyr himself, Jean-Paul Marat.

Favourite Russian - The man, the myth, the legend that has a really addicting song that gets stuck in your head. Its Ra-Ra-Rasputin, lover of the Russian Queen. He was a man of mystery and integrated his way into Russian politics. It was interesting to see his rise, only for him to be killed because he was too hot for Russia. Close second would have to be the dude with the dope train, the main man Leon Trotsky.

Might as well add my hopes lol (all unscaled)

Units 3/4 English: 38
Units 3/4 Further Maths (already done): 31
Units 3/4 Legal Studies (already done): 32
Units 3/4 Food Studies: 46
Units 3/4 History Revolutions: 39
Units 3/4 Chemistry: 37

Another question

From the same indicative exam I did there was a multiple choice question about structural isomers for the molecular formula: C4H11Cl

With the question asking how many structural isomers can be made from that formula. My question is how is it possible for a 4 carbon chain to have 11 hydrogens and a chlorine when a standard butane has 10 hydrogens?

The options for the question were:

A) 4
B) 6
C) 8
D) 10

Queen_Of_Flora

First off amazing scores, go you!

Second of all based on study score calculators (both on places such as atar notes and deakin) it is very very difficult to get a 50 in food studies, its basically a 99% and above average required. However very high scores like you currently have will probably see a high 40s study score, around 47-49. Still a very impressive score.

Good luck with the rest of the year, and don't be so hard on yourself if you don't get the 50