High School
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Well, it was either that or at 8 in the morning. nope.avi
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- Wellington
Next week marks the beginning of the second term for me in college, and I'm still left in a state of discouragement from last term. I'm not sure if it's a lack of effort, increased difficulty, stricter marking or a mixture of all three, but needless to say the year isn't going so well so far.
First assessment of the year was a math internal, not achieved. I chalked it up to the lack of revision - went into the resubmission actually knowing what I was doing, and was confident with my answer, but failed again. The assessment was applying systems of equations - and apparently I used the wrong equation to answer the question, and was instead meant to rearrange a different equation given. The kicker is that the answer to the coordinates was round (-1, 4), which sort of made it more likely for it to be the answer, plus the parabola created from my math looked exactly the same as the one on the assessment. This was my first flat out failed assessment, which left me pretty disappointed in myself, and left me doubting if I'd even do well this year as I was looking for another merit endorsement. Eventually got over it after telling myself that it was only two credits, plus there's no need to be entirely perfect.
Next was another math assessment, but applying simulations. Mucked up some things, got an achieved. Resit it and got an excellence, this gave some confidence that I might actually do well this year, and that I just need to keep at it.
I didn't necessarily hold high hopes for math since it's always been a weak point. I've worked on it, but it's at the stage that my level of comprehension of it is too weak to rely on doing really well there. I'll try my hardest with it, as always, but I'm not going to expect high marks.
English, however, is my strongest point and something I'm hoping to get into a career with at some stage. This is where most of the disappointment stems from. Had a close viewing assessment where I needed to explain ten sequential shots of a movie and explain the deeper meaning of the production techniques utilised within them. Felt very confident with my work, with a high level of explanation and lots of really deep meaning brought up... or so I thought. Ended up with a resubmission which was only given to those who were on the cusp of a grade. Turns out I was sitting in-between an achieved and merit, and in the end was resulted with an achieved plus, despite my revisions. Apparently my teacher saw it as a merit, but seeked further help and was then put down. This left me pretty guttered as English is the one subject I have full faith in and consider my 'specialty' subject. While I don't expect perfect grades the entire time, I expected a higher grade than so. Especially after someone was boasting about achieving a merit with about eighty words per a shot - while quality before quantity is definitely a thing, I'm not sure how a deep and knowledgeable analysis of a shot can be established within eighty words, but whatever...
I've also received the marking to my reading log which ended up not achieving. Needless to say my academic self confidence has entirely fallen flat on itself, to the point where it's effecting my general mental well being. It feels like I've already written off my school year so early on, and that I have small chances of success, which really brings me down. I suppose the only way from here is to just keep at it, but until the results start coming in from increased effort, it's gonna be a long and strenuous year.
A few changes to the school year have been the revision to the resubmission system - with marking being abandoned, as well as the display of where you're sitting. Instead you'd be handed a slip, shown where you were sitting at and what you needed to do to improve to the grade. This was an efficient system as it showed me where I was going wrong quickly and easily. Now, however, you get a general mark to what you need to do, without any understanding as to where you are. This seems unnecessarily vague - while their points of not spoon feeding the answers to students and students not taking advantage of it by sending in something halfassed and fixing it later, the entire point of being shown the way to improving is gone. While it does make for students to take initiative to see what they had done wrong, it often does more harm than good as it can be fairly vague - and if not worked out, leaves the student with less than satisfactory results, as displayed.
The other is the abandonment of practice final exams. Over here at least, towards the middle of the year we had practice finals that were similar to the end of year exams - except marked by teachers instead of NZQA staff. This year, they've decided to introduce an 'active learning' system, where there is no correlation to learning or even credits. The program is meant to bring back the fun of learning so they say, making school seem more of something where people want to actively learn instead of pass for credits. We're set out to have a task and do something regarding a bigger meaning - basically a class project, but on a far larger level. All I can see is this just increasing a massive level of unneeded stress on something that will be halfassed by so many, as the main incentive for doing well in school for a large amount I know, credits, aren't available for the subject. I have no clue in what I'll be doing as I haven't really thought about it - I can't really get behind something that takes away time from my other subjects, and study, for no added benefit to my end of year result.
/rants
First assessment of the year was a math internal, not achieved. I chalked it up to the lack of revision - went into the resubmission actually knowing what I was doing, and was confident with my answer, but failed again. The assessment was applying systems of equations - and apparently I used the wrong equation to answer the question, and was instead meant to rearrange a different equation given. The kicker is that the answer to the coordinates was round (-1, 4), which sort of made it more likely for it to be the answer, plus the parabola created from my math looked exactly the same as the one on the assessment. This was my first flat out failed assessment, which left me pretty disappointed in myself, and left me doubting if I'd even do well this year as I was looking for another merit endorsement. Eventually got over it after telling myself that it was only two credits, plus there's no need to be entirely perfect.
Next was another math assessment, but applying simulations. Mucked up some things, got an achieved. Resit it and got an excellence, this gave some confidence that I might actually do well this year, and that I just need to keep at it.
I didn't necessarily hold high hopes for math since it's always been a weak point. I've worked on it, but it's at the stage that my level of comprehension of it is too weak to rely on doing really well there. I'll try my hardest with it, as always, but I'm not going to expect high marks.
English, however, is my strongest point and something I'm hoping to get into a career with at some stage. This is where most of the disappointment stems from. Had a close viewing assessment where I needed to explain ten sequential shots of a movie and explain the deeper meaning of the production techniques utilised within them. Felt very confident with my work, with a high level of explanation and lots of really deep meaning brought up... or so I thought. Ended up with a resubmission which was only given to those who were on the cusp of a grade. Turns out I was sitting in-between an achieved and merit, and in the end was resulted with an achieved plus, despite my revisions. Apparently my teacher saw it as a merit, but seeked further help and was then put down. This left me pretty guttered as English is the one subject I have full faith in and consider my 'specialty' subject. While I don't expect perfect grades the entire time, I expected a higher grade than so. Especially after someone was boasting about achieving a merit with about eighty words per a shot - while quality before quantity is definitely a thing, I'm not sure how a deep and knowledgeable analysis of a shot can be established within eighty words, but whatever...
I've also received the marking to my reading log which ended up not achieving. Needless to say my academic self confidence has entirely fallen flat on itself, to the point where it's effecting my general mental well being. It feels like I've already written off my school year so early on, and that I have small chances of success, which really brings me down. I suppose the only way from here is to just keep at it, but until the results start coming in from increased effort, it's gonna be a long and strenuous year.
A few changes to the school year have been the revision to the resubmission system - with marking being abandoned, as well as the display of where you're sitting. Instead you'd be handed a slip, shown where you were sitting at and what you needed to do to improve to the grade. This was an efficient system as it showed me where I was going wrong quickly and easily. Now, however, you get a general mark to what you need to do, without any understanding as to where you are. This seems unnecessarily vague - while their points of not spoon feeding the answers to students and students not taking advantage of it by sending in something halfassed and fixing it later, the entire point of being shown the way to improving is gone. While it does make for students to take initiative to see what they had done wrong, it often does more harm than good as it can be fairly vague - and if not worked out, leaves the student with less than satisfactory results, as displayed.
The other is the abandonment of practice final exams. Over here at least, towards the middle of the year we had practice finals that were similar to the end of year exams - except marked by teachers instead of NZQA staff. This year, they've decided to introduce an 'active learning' system, where there is no correlation to learning or even credits. The program is meant to bring back the fun of learning so they say, making school seem more of something where people want to actively learn instead of pass for credits. We're set out to have a task and do something regarding a bigger meaning - basically a class project, but on a far larger level. All I can see is this just increasing a massive level of unneeded stress on something that will be halfassed by so many, as the main incentive for doing well in school for a large amount I know, credits, aren't available for the subject. I have no clue in what I'll be doing as I haven't really thought about it - I can't really get behind something that takes away time from my other subjects, and study, for no added benefit to my end of year result.
/rants
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- Com_Fox5
- EelX 5
So this term for English Studies our topic is Sports.
This topic I find is going to be interesting in different ways. I feel like this going to turn the work focus of the students of the Studies class completely up side down. I know my friends bar 1 have now completely zoned out of the topic due to their displeasure in Sports and several people who usually ignore school usually might actually pay attention since most of them love their sports.
I'm not really effected by this as I am indifferent by Sport.
This topic I find is going to be interesting in different ways. I feel like this going to turn the work focus of the students of the Studies class completely up side down. I know my friends bar 1 have now completely zoned out of the topic due to their displeasure in Sports and several people who usually ignore school usually might actually pay attention since most of them love their sports.
I'm not really effected by this as I am indifferent by Sport.
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- CWM_GTRacer22
Well, the food provider for my school made an announcement that the company they get chicken from recalled the chicken with the serial number that is shipped around to most of the schools around here. The recall was for the fact that the chicken may contain "extraneous materials including wood, plastic, rubber, and metal." I don't know how that happens, but it's definitely an interesting one...
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@SVX
Ooh are you already in college now ? Oo And one more thing I'm curious at is, when do schools generally start off the new school year in New Zealand ?
(I'm not going deep into the topic atm as I'm typing the texts via my mobile phone, we can just discuss further next time I reply to you either in this thread or PM you sent me about 10 days ago.
)
Ooh are you already in college now ? Oo And one more thing I'm curious at is, when do schools generally start off the new school year in New Zealand ?
(I'm not going deep into the topic atm as I'm typing the texts via my mobile phone, we can just discuss further next time I reply to you either in this thread or PM you sent me about 10 days ago.
)
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- Wellington
I'm just about out of it as a matter of fact!
In my fourth out of five years of it (year 12/12th grade). 
Depending on school, this year the starting dates for college were 1st of February at the earliest to the 5th at the latest.
(I'm not going deep into the topic atm as I'm typing the texts via my mobile phone, we can just discuss further next time I reply to you either in this thread or PM you sent me about 10 days ago.
Sounds good dude 👍
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- Viraax_The _Wolf
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so board right now. My food tech teacher is going on a rant
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- Com_Fox5
- EelX 5
I got the 2nd Highest in the Drama Half Yearlies, ranking at 77%. I was suprised as I thought the writing portion made me fall flat on my face.
So at the moment I got 4 of my tasks back and 3 of them were better than last time (everyone did worse than before in Japanese), all there is left is English.
So at the moment I got 4 of my tasks back and 3 of them were better than last time (everyone did worse than before in Japanese
), all there is left is English.
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BobK
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Board? Is that a new way of saying "woodie" or something?
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- EelX 5
I remember that happening in my Primary School but with the Simpson's Theme. It fitted to since it was used when we had to go to class so everyone ran to the classrooms XD.Nothing particularly interesting happened today, apart from the bell being changed to the Star Wars theme.
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- Keasbey, NJ
- Smurfybug
- Smurfybug
So tomorrow we aren't off from school but presumably it's Senior Ditch Day because of Ascension Thursday. Everyone is trying not to come meanwhile some of my teachers say if we don't come (which I am) then they're not teaching us the new lesson and we still need to take our test. Being that we're Freshmen I don't get some of my weirdo friends But hey, at least I'll be in an empty classroom with 2 or 3 other kids then.
But hey, at least I'll be in an empty classroom with 2 or 3 other kids then. 
- 3,288
- Southern Carolina
- PeteWheet
I've just taken my AP Calculus BC exam.
The first part was brutal and the free response damn well killed me. I couldn't even do one question, 9 points potential lost. But oh well. I did what I could and hope for the best. One academic year of the course alone is enough to make you want to retire from any complicated math course, but I won't regret taking it. I feel bad for my other classmates who did drop it because they're possibly gonna have to go through it again when they go to college too. Such is life.
I made it through this horrific senior year in which I was told was suppose to be the best one yet- it hasn't. Really hasn't. So much drama and unnecessary events happened I wouldn't want to do it again. But in a few weeks, I'll be leaving high school and head off for college- kind of a bittersweet.
The first part was brutal and the free response damn well killed me. I couldn't even do one question, 9 points potential lost. But oh well. I did what I could and hope for the best. One academic year of the course alone is enough to make you want to retire from any complicated math course, but I won't regret taking it. I feel bad for my other classmates who did drop it because they're possibly gonna have to go through it again when they go to college too. Such is life.
I made it through this horrific senior year in which I was told was suppose to be the best one yet- it hasn't. Really hasn't. So much drama and unnecessary events happened I wouldn't want to do it again. But in a few weeks, I'll be leaving high school and head off for college- kind of a bittersweet.
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- Gerarghini
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I still have 4 weeks to go and I'm just trying to graduate from here.
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- Ontario, Canada
- B-Line98
I still have 5-6 weeks left, and just want to pass and graduate. Senioritis kicked in yo.
- 14,417
- Wellington
Two personal responses due on Monday, and a math internal on Friday, on my first week back no less.
Test went pretty well. Studied well beforehand, and the test didn't throw up any unexpected events. The only problem was getting the amount of content needed within the time limit - it felt pretty harsh with the amount of work we had to do being fairly time consuming, but a rather slim time limit. I pulled through, just.
Personal responses didn't go so well. One of mine was not accepted due to it breaching the criteria of it being a previously studied text, which initially forgot about but hoped that it would slide due to the work in class being more oriented to the music video rather than the lyrics which I based my writing off.
The teacher understood my mistake, but it still requires a 2/3 on my engagement report and an email home which of course will set my parents off. Feels a tad harsh as it's not like I slacked off - it was a simple misunderstanding. I still had poured my complete effort into my work to ensure it was of a high standard.
Then I got an unexpected Excellence/A on my media studies assessment which perked me up considerably as I was under the assumption I'd be just barely scraping through at most.
Economics test coming up in a couple weeks, but I'm happy with the current topic in the sense I'll need minimal revision as it's all been clear in class and rather self explanatory. Another four week history project coming up, however I'm making sure I won't leave it to the evening before it's due this time.
Hopefully.
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- United Kingdom
- ask
Well, I finished my IT coursework last week, and I've just received an email from my teacher based upon my mark.
74/80.
Yay.
Now, if I actually do pretty well on the final exam (which is like a month from now), I could end up with getting an A* overall.
74/80.
Yay.
Now, if I actually do pretty well on the final exam (which is like a month from now), I could end up with getting an A* overall.
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- killvvill
So I got a copy of my yearbook today, and here's some of the better senior quotes:
BobK
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Too bad I can't read any of them.
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BobK
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All I'm getting is a 571x800 pixel image with Firefox on my desktop.
Edit: tried another browser, same thing.
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I can read some of them when zoomed in 250% with a browser called torch
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