Woops sorry for late reply, been busy.
Yeah, it's incredibly hard to stay motivated, it's quite problematic. Been trying to nag myself with tons of to-do lists and whiteboards.
Life in general's fairly average at the moment, thanks to study and whatnot.
Oh also good news, the cyst seems to have disappeared from my hand so it's only mildly weak now. I got a sore hand from a 50min English assessment but I'm assuming that's pretty normal unless I train it. I guess the stuff written in my first post became helpful eventually.
Those giant squishy...
The helpline sounds useful but I don't think I would have used it at this point in time if I was aware of it. I've never heard any of my friends talk about it, so I'm honestly indifferent so far.
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76% isn't a bad mark. Of course, you'd want to focus on maintaining or improving that mark. All I really did for software was rewrite most of the textbook in my own words, and past papers. And have people in the class I really want to beat but was unable to.
Before early Year 11, I've heard of this site... and it wasn't until a friend from Year 12 at the time recommended it to me I decided to check it out. And I've found it incredibly useful.
My English tutor regularly tells me to check for sample stuff here.
Yeah, competition's my main motiviation to actually try hard. And uni of course, but that feels so far away, even if it isn't.
As far as I can tell, my cohort is somewhat competitive, but it mostly depends on subject and people. For pretty all my subjects, we have the top 20% or so of people...
My school must be retarded or something, we got our 'half yearly' reports at the end of Term 4 last year. (Was pleased with Rank 1 Physics but otherwise quite meh)
Unless I'm missing something and we're also getting reports later this term.
Thanks for the quick response :)
I saw the doctor a while ago about RSI actually, and I mentioned the fact I had some weird cyst in my right hand (which I've since accidentally popped... twice) near the base of my wrist. He said it was normal, so I ignored it.
At the moment, with the help of a...
So my half-yearlies are approaching very fast, and my RSI in my right wrist is becoming a serious problem.
As I write notes, I get an annoying pain in the back of my wrist when I bend my it forward enough. I also have a generally weak right hand-wrist at the moment. How would I be able to deal...
It also depends on the school/culture of the school, the teachers I have pretty much say "We'd really really really like you to complete that homework, but if you don't, we won't beat you up on it" at my school.
Remember not everyone is self-motivated to study and give it their all, so they...
I'm a selective school ranked ~30, they don't offer Standard English, no point arguing if Standard or Advanced is better.
Well, I've got several months to work on English so I'd better start so it's less likely to jeopardize my chances of 94+. Gotta bust out some past papers.
Title.
I'm having massive difficulties with English, and as hard as I try, my rank/marks are in the bottom 25% of the grade. I'm confident in all my other subjects, though, and am aiming for a 94+ ATAR. Will my English bring my overall ATAR down by a large amount?
I tend to make to-do lists with timeframes in which I can complete each set of tasks. I found that not putting a timeframe (e.g. 3 days) led me to procrastinating anyway.
I'm pumped at the same time, but kinda panicking too, there's so much to be done. I've never really managed various tasks individually before, better learn now than later.