roly omhg so peak tysmm. maybe ill ask my parents for that next year (sometime in vce)
Pperfectvelvet
- Aug 11, 2024
- Joined Jul 22, 2024
FinFin-3rdYearUni got it, ill grind french and do well
FinFin-3rdYearUni thank you so much! My school does a foreign exchange programme, but it doesn't offer any financial aid and is too expensive. Is there any other way to immerse myself in French? How do I even score high in French? Do they expect native level fluency and pronunciation?
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roly do penpals work? i cant find any french people in my neighbourhood that are willing to help. my local library offers a penpal program though so I can try to connect with a French person then.
FinFin-3rdYearUni honestly a god. yeah french seems REALLY competitive and I want to get around 40–45 raw (yes, i know this is very unrealistic; its just how im wired). I am sucking up to my teacher so badly, and I think my french is rapidly improving. Not enough to excel in Year 9 French, but enough to pass by a satisfying (for a french beginner) margin. i want to take french as my "fun subjective" (i know this sounds counterintuitive, but studying for french or maths doesnt really feel like a chore. do you have any tips or resources that you can share with me? did any of your friends score really high in french? what did they do? once again, thank u so much. your replies have been SOO helpful
please send help
BengaliCamel
nossal actually doesn't rank as well as MHS and macrob. Those two are in the top 10–20 range, while Nossal is near 30s range. nossal is in the east, which is VERY well developed. The west (and some parts of the north) are considered to be more "ghetto" and underdeveloped than the other suburbs and parts of Melbourne. I think that speaks volume about the type of people that attend Nossal vs Suzanne Cory, or any other school for that matter! Suzanne's location doesn't attract high-performing students; they prefer macrob and MHS, which are closer to them. A handful of city kids (no hate to them; I just can't think of a better adjective or word to call them) are enough to change a school's reputation. The higher a school's reputation, the more competitive it is, and the more smart or rich kids it attracts. It is a cycle. Is this bad? Not necessarilly. Suzanne has good kids, albeit not as good as the other sehs or private school kids. It is still a selective entry school and still has difficult sacs and exams. IDK if this clarified your question, for this is more of a prolix than a structured response. LMK if you have other questions- Edited
Once again, I have a contextual prolix that can be summarised into a handful of questions. This discussion is about French for VCE. Busy people scroll to the end and focus on just the questions in bold. The context paragraph below might be helpful though...
o h m y g o d. I'm actually so cooked for French. I started French at the beginning of this year (year 9) since I joined a new school and I slacked off for the first half of the year. I recently found out how well French scales and I am tempted to do it in VCE. I'm paying more attention, and I am actually doing really well. However, no matter how deep I dig, I cannot find out any information about VCE French except for trauma venting and multiple exam-fearing ramblings. French sounds like something I should have written a book about when I was 5. Everyone is saying that the majority of people get 20–30 raws, which is CRAZY low. I have a couple of main questions regarding VCE French:
- **Is French impossibly difficult and can someone in Year 9 who only started to take it a semester after they started the language be able to get a raw 40-45 in VCE (within the timespan of 3 1/2 years)
- How can I practice French? I already listen to french music with french subtitles on the side, watch French cartoons with both French and English subtitles, read French articles in conversational French, and watch French YouTube videos.
- What does VCE French even look like? What are the expectations and what are the assessments like? I've tried researching the internet, but everyone except for VCAA is quiet about French.
- Should I take French as a VCE subject? I'm still going to continue learning it because I think it is very cool, but should I do it for VCE?**
Thank you so much. Good luck with all of your exams and SACs, you'll do great!
YR10SEHSASPIRANT LMAOO THATS ACL SO FUNNY
is there anything else i should know??
BengaliCamel majority of schs, and sometimes by extension nossal, haters use the schools' rankings to demean them. But you have to understand that schs is in the far far west, and isn't really the top preference for majority of people. macrob and melb high are in the city and more accessible, so all the high performing students apply there and get accepted. Plus, macrob and melb high attract richer kids, so those kids can afford crazy expensive tutors and skyrocket in vce. Ultimately, the sehs schools look like this: similar opportunities and culture, different cohorts. its up to you how you use the opportunities provided by your school
MMHS ON GODD
we don't deserve all that shitStallmanAprecciator also, thank you so much for your detailed response! i really, really appreciate it
ACER12 you have a bunch of programs and days. so in schs, you have a vertical hg structure, so your hg will have a bunch of people from other year levels. the year 9s will have a primus project which is like a teamwork thing to improve team bonding (idk, it didnt help me, but it might help you). you also have two city days (WE DID ROCK CLIMBING. SUPER DUPER FUN) and phillip island camp. the first term is crazy funn and relaxed
schs consistently ranks low... but that DOES NOT mean that it is a bad school. schs is faarrr more relaxed than the other schools, so the students here definitely have better mental health than those of other schools. so many opportunities are offered here and youre also given the resources to create opportunities for yourself. try out for everything, even if you think youre not going to get in. i tried for this maths competition, i didnt get in. maths is one of my stronger points. im utterly terrible at english but i still tried out for the interschool debating team and got in. i recently even went to monash to compete. youll never gain opportunities unless you try. this is coming from a current schs student. dont listen to the rubbish people say about schs being an underperforming school. good luck to everyone and i hope this school does a lot of good for you (and vice versa)
YR10SEHSASPIRANT so real. im so scared at the same time tho. cause im trying to get into a competitive course at a competitive school. what if i dont do well and flunk my atar
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StallmanAprecciator but if it heavily relies on pseudocode, then how does coding help so much? also, do you think my electives will be enough to cover the "basics" of coding/python. the definition of basics seems to be a bit flexible.
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Also, I will really appreciate it if former or current algorithmics students would allow me to ask them questions in DMs. There is not a lot of discussion, information, or resources for this particular subject, so I am quite scared to take it. Additionally, please do NOT advertise for tutoring services. I would rather not push tutoring bills onto my middle-class parents, for the middle class in this economy, to put it in colloquial terms, is broke!
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I really only have two questions (for ex- or current algorithmics students), so if you want to save time, please scroll down to the end of my post; the questions are in bold. I am planning (hoping) for quite a high atar as both the university and undergrad course that I am trying to apply for are HIGHLY competitive. The paragraph below is a (ironically long) context summary.
I'm going to start off this post with a very disappointing statement for ex-Algorithmics students: I have zero prior experience in coding. However, as my electives, I am taking robotics and information technologies, which will briefly introduce me to coding (and algorithmics in general; what a great bonus!). My school suggests that possible vce pathways for these two electives are computing and algorithmics, and that no prior knowledge of coding is necessary for algorithmics. This has spurred two major questions:
Is coding knowledge ACTUALLY not necessary for algorithmics HESS? Majority of students argue that their background in python has helped them immensely (I am going to briefly learn coding as part of my robotics and information technologies electives and I go to a selective entry school in Victoria (does that even make a difference?))?
If there is something you could do differently to earn a higher RAW study score for VCE Algorithmics, what would you do?Bonus: What resources did you use to get ahead/do well in class?