Post-English Stress Trauma

Part I: English exams - COMPLETE!
Part I.5: Biology - easier than expected (forgot to study Macfarlane)
Part II: State rank ALL the things - in progress

[insert stuff about the grad post here]

I cannot possibly overstate how relieving it is that English is finally over.

Paper 1 was surprisingly okay - wrote possibly my longest and most structurally-sound exam essay ever, and since I stuck the question everywhere, it's either really good or really bad (woo for rewriting a new essay from near-scratch in the exam). Expect 12-13/15. Short answer was also pretty straightforward, although I'm guessing I'll still only get 10-11/15 because my 5-marker is the same length as my 3-markers... Creative was pretty dreadful even with the relatively broad stimulus: didn't incorporate stimulus at all, story is meaningless and doesn't relate to belonging, 8-10/15.

Paper 2 was devastating. My Mod A essay (which I was hoping would keep me afloat) was done pretty badly due to getting thrown off by the question on textual type (10-13/20). Mod C was slightly better than trial, but still makes little reference to the question (10-12/20).

Now, for Mod B:
SDLKFJSDLKFJSLDKFJ[insert tableflip]
*me*: does At Mornington for first Mod B exam at school
Switches At Mornington for Mother Who Gave Me Life because of the trial.
Paper 2: SPECIFIES AT MORNINGTON. QQ

Eh, well, it's all done and over now. I didn't actually get around to completing any of the dot points from the last post.

English Mystery Mark: comeatmebro

(I bet some you read that as come eat me bro, lol)

[Writing on Friday]

Biology was pretty alright, considering I only had confidence in 10% of the syllabus. The questions were surprisingly straightforward, and the number of examples that you ended up having to remember was only about two (meanwhile, in Bio Trials…)

Speaking of Trials: whoever decided to write a question about Macfarlane Burnet is a genius, since we had a 5 mark question about his/her contribution to understanding of disease. This exam had two eight markers. TWO! They were really simple though ('Demonstrate how technology...'). Did anyone look at the Biochemistry option? Average and I more or less said "we could have done this without studying," i.e. we could probably get 20/25 for it, no problem.

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Oh crap, it’s Sunday now, 4 unit is in less than 22 hours from now, and I’ve only done about 5 past papers (while having done about 8 for 3 unit, lol).
After finishing English, I was like 'screw this, I'm gonna state rank math,' so now I’m hoping to get 90+/100 raw in extension 2 and 65+/70 for 3 unit. Both are probably not going to happen since I always run out of time and screw up on standard questions

Current weak areas include:
- Questions involving the use of geometric/locus properties of conic sections
- Inequalities, especially ones involving the extended triangle inequality or trigonometry
- Circle geometry: asdf this makes my brain melt whenever I see the solutions for these, I only got lucky in the trial otherwise instant -5 marks
Other areas where I'm getting weaker or not quite up to par is harder mathematical induction (see Ruse 2012 Q14a), and integration (ARRRGGHHH I should be getting full marks for EVERY integration section).

Also, how are people tackling multiple choice? It seems that I always spend too long on the multiple choice (i.e. 2 minutes instead of the 1:30 which I should be doing for the whole test).

At a rate of 1min 30sec per mark, the entire test would take around 2h30m to finish, which leaves a 30 minute buffer for thinking about hard questions, redoing calculations, checking working out (does anyone actually get to do this?), toilet etc

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Lol, now there's less than 10 hours until the exam, and after finishing a paper at around 6pm I just thought "screw this, I'm gonna go relax now"

Did two trial papers, still feeling the same weaknesses since I didn't specifically review them.

Still hoping for 90+/100 raw

The sunset today was a brilliant orange-red colour, which deepened as the sun sank below the horizon (which I can't observe directly, since they're houses blocking my view). It must be a sine of the nature of tomorrow's paper / foreshadowing tomorrow's events!

Wow, my descriptive expression has gone from mediocre to worse

2354 hours AEDT, time to go to sleep, must press Publish before my inner-editor shows up to decimate this post. In other news, my first post before midnight for the year (y) +1 good sleeping habits

If you're reading this before 2/4U, go back to sleep/preparing, and good luck for all your math exams!

NTS: explain how to follow blogs now that the button at the top is gone