Extra curriculars are a great way to stay balanced and maintain your sanity during year 12. I did a bunch of stuff:
- School Captain
- Peer Support
- Red Cross Blood Ambassador
- Volunteering - legacy, cancer council etc.
- Public Speaking - international womens day breakfast
- Mock Trial
-...
You have to consider a range of things before you make a declaration like that. First look at the weighting of the task, if it was 10% then it hardly makes any difference. You also have to look at how you did in relation to your own cohort. Yes you may have gotten an 11 but the highest mark may...
TRUTH! Please remember that the HSC is by no means the be all and end all. Just take it easy, work consistently and don't sacrifice sleep for the sake your own sanity towards your final exams. This is still early days, you have plenty of time.
Do whatever you feel comfortable with, I was in the same position last year except I was going in with 15, obviously I dropped a subject but I kept 13 units until the end of my HSC. Although it is difficult, it can definately be done.
If your ranks are erratic and vastly different then you...
English Advanced - 96
English Extension - 47
Mathematics - 93
Mathematics Extension - 45
Society and Culture - 98
Modern History - 91
Chemistry - 80 --> Just for laughs walked out of this exam 1.5 hours early :haha:
I know someone who state ranked this year as in 1st and she went to a school that was in the hundreds and she beat out every other student in the state for a subject with an enourmous cohort. Your school does not always define whether you get it. She said she couldn't believe she got it so goes...
Do you guys know that scene from the shawshank redemption when he finally escapes from the prison by crawling through piles of crap and coming out in the rain and yelling at the top of his lungs.
I will be renacting this scene at 4:00 tomorrow.