Hello there. You're probably here because you like a subject along the lines of Biology, Business Studies and other 'lol' subjects which drag down your ATAR and you are worried for your future.
This is my story of how Business Studies stole away my 99.95 ATAR.
So.
I thought I was a pretty smart guy back in Year 10. That's why I signed up for Accelerated Business Studies. Finishing an entire subject one year early - such wow! What an irresistable opportunity.
'Who cares about low scaling; as long as you love what you are doing, you won't fail'. That's what they all said to me.
They were right.
After failing my assessment task 1 because I decided to write out my entire regurgitated essay instead of modifying it to answer the question, I told myself that the dream was still alive. All that I had to do was to completely destroy every single other assessment task. Reread every chapter once a week, I promised myself. Topping assessment task 2 rewarded my efforts and encouraged me onward. I can do this, I thought.
No.
I WILL do this.
As the trials drew increasingly near like the ephemeral yet painstakingly slow progress of a chain of big black dominos cascading downwards, inching ever closer to the defenceless me, I realised I wasn't that defenceless after all. Indeed, in hindsight, I would probably describe the trial examination as my peak.
Every muscle in my body relaxed as I flipped through the sweat stained pages of my trial paper. Easy. Way too easy. Let me just throw out 20 pages at the marker for this external influences essay and I'll be just fine.
As expected, those predictable markers gave me double 20s for my essays. Mwahahahaha - the first step of my plan is complete!
And so, with a 97 trial mark, I walked into the HSC exam.
Such nerve, much sweat.
'Welp, I should just do the same thing that I did in the trials', I told myself.
2 months later - 93 external mark for Business Studies.
'WTF?'
'There must have been a mistake. In fact, I'm sure of it. Mhm. Definitely a mistake.'
So I ordered my raw marks.
Guess what? I misread a 6 marker and got 0 for it. ROFL.
The moral of this story is not to stress out too much over what subjects you choose and what other people spam in your ear/eyes. Believe in yourself. Study hard and study what you want to. Don't pick up the Asian 5 because you want high scaling. Do what you enjoy, and do it well so that I wont look like a nasty troll in one years time.
Best of luck to you, Class of 2014.
This is my story of how Business Studies stole away my 99.95 ATAR.
So.
I thought I was a pretty smart guy back in Year 10. That's why I signed up for Accelerated Business Studies. Finishing an entire subject one year early - such wow! What an irresistable opportunity.
'Who cares about low scaling; as long as you love what you are doing, you won't fail'. That's what they all said to me.
They were right.
After failing my assessment task 1 because I decided to write out my entire regurgitated essay instead of modifying it to answer the question, I told myself that the dream was still alive. All that I had to do was to completely destroy every single other assessment task. Reread every chapter once a week, I promised myself. Topping assessment task 2 rewarded my efforts and encouraged me onward. I can do this, I thought.
No.
I WILL do this.
As the trials drew increasingly near like the ephemeral yet painstakingly slow progress of a chain of big black dominos cascading downwards, inching ever closer to the defenceless me, I realised I wasn't that defenceless after all. Indeed, in hindsight, I would probably describe the trial examination as my peak.
Every muscle in my body relaxed as I flipped through the sweat stained pages of my trial paper. Easy. Way too easy. Let me just throw out 20 pages at the marker for this external influences essay and I'll be just fine.
As expected, those predictable markers gave me double 20s for my essays. Mwahahahaha - the first step of my plan is complete!
And so, with a 97 trial mark, I walked into the HSC exam.
Such nerve, much sweat.
'Welp, I should just do the same thing that I did in the trials', I told myself.
2 months later - 93 external mark for Business Studies.
'WTF?'
'There must have been a mistake. In fact, I'm sure of it. Mhm. Definitely a mistake.'
So I ordered my raw marks.
Guess what? I misread a 6 marker and got 0 for it. ROFL.
The moral of this story is not to stress out too much over what subjects you choose and what other people spam in your ear/eyes. Believe in yourself. Study hard and study what you want to. Don't pick up the Asian 5 because you want high scaling. Do what you enjoy, and do it well so that I wont look like a nasty troll in one years time.
Best of luck to you, Class of 2014.
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