Anyone ready to throw the towel in? (1 Viewer)

[mattsta]

Anyone ready to throw the towel in and just do the HSC next year at TAFE or something?

 

[Slidey]

An extra year of the HSC? No thank you.

 

[Meldrum]

Neither. Why should you think that? For starters, you've only done 20% of your assesments (considering the final exam adjustments and their actual weight).

The only reason you should be thinking about throwing in the towel is if...you're holding a very heavy towel which keeps asking you to put it down so it can go for a walk while you study.

 

[_muse_]

Gavrillo your avatar is very distracting haha i was just staring at it for about 2 minutes singing in my head.. crazy i know.

There have been many a time where i have wanted to give up, it especially happens when i get assessments back and i realise, hey im not doing so well after all. But i have school teachers as parents and i have this expectation from everyone that i will never leave or give up.. so really i have no choice but continue but i do get this excellent feeling that i will feel fantastic when its all over

 

[Meldrum]

Ahahaha, consider it changed, _muse_.

 

[_muse_]

omg dont change it cause of me!

 

[kami]

I keep declaring to people that I'm going to give up,lol, but I know I won't, even though my workload is so heavy I feel like screaming. If I did fail/drop out though I wouldn't exactly repeat..i'd probably do some different subjects that I've always wanted to do but couldn't, as well as a diploma to get into university, as there is absolutely no way in hell I am going to go through this exact experience again...ugh.

if u do the hsc at tafe....u dont do all ur subjects do u? but no...i wouldnt, i'd just repeat year 12

There is a guide, and a faq thread in the tafe forum about those questions.
http://www.boredofstudies.org/community/showthread.php?t=65347
http://www.boredofstudies.org/community/showthread.php?t=50109

 

[mattsta]

if u do the hsc at tafe....u dont do all ur subjects do u? but no...i wouldnt, i'd just repeat year 12

Its no different. I don't know where people get these wacky ideas from that the HSC at TAFE is some how easier or harder (two things I have heard) or that you don't do all the stuff or you do more.

SCHOOLS and TAFE don't award the HSC, the Board of Studies does. Schools and TAFE's are just agents of the Board of Studies.

The HSC at School and TAFE is the same, just taught in a different environment. The same outcomes have to be fulfilled whether done at School or TAFE before you obtain the award of the HSC (from the Board of Studies).

Things only change once you get to the age of 20 and over where you have the option of doing the HSC and getting a Limited UAI with only a minimum of 1 unit of English and a minimum of 5 units (I think 5) of other subjects. And you cannot do a maximum of 9 units to qualify for the Limited UAI. Also the Limited UAI isn't accepted for all courses at university (thats why its a Limited one). On and you also cannot accumilate a Limited UAI, you have to do all the qualifying units in 1 year.

But even if you get a Limited UAI, that doesn't qualify you for the award of the HSC. The award of the HSC is based on a minumum of 12 prelim units and a minumum of 10 HSC units. Anything less will only get you a Statement of Attainment from the Board of Studies.

What UAC and the BoS recognise are two different things.

 

[Sweets]

No way..I want to finish as soon as possible. Doing the HSC again next yr somewhere else would be stupid.

 

[Slidey]

I grow impatient. It's hard to keep motivated when your mind's pretty much at uni, but your body's stuck doing the HSC. I'm over it and I don't have a high cut-off for my course, so it just feels like it's waste of time.

 

[santaslayer]

Why would you do it again when you can flog the HSC in one hit?

 

[MuffinMan]

no no NO! don't do that...don't give in...u'll do fine!!! go for it... like doing it again means u've wasted ur previous 2 years!! keep going pal! u'll make it just fine

 

[mattsta]

Well maybe ill just do it this year, and if I do really crap ill do it again at TAFE next year and perhaps ill be better for it knowing the stuff this year.

I just have a really hard time with exams, I cant concentrate very long and I also cant remember the stuff which I have studied. They expect you to remember all these quotes for your english essays and ill keep looking at the quotes right up until we have to go into the exam and when Im writing the essay ill not remember. And then ill have to write an essay without any quotes.

 

[-Swifty-]

An extra year of the HSC? No thank you.

ditto... i couldnt do it again

 

[Zoltan]

Anyone ready to throw the towel in and just do the HSC next year at TAFE or something?

I am completely sick of schoolwork. It's such a temptation to drop out... but I won't. And even if I did, I wouldn't go back and do it at tafe, I'd just fuck off.

 

[miaomiao]

Where would you fuck off to? I might have to go there when all this is over...

 

[mattsta]

I think TAFE is a much nicer environment than school. I should have thought about doing the HSC at TAFE in the first place. Yes I probably would not have had the subject range that a school has (being TAFE they cant offer everything) but still. At TAFE the teachers actually treat you like a human. I did my year 10 at TAFE (well the CGVE which is approved by the Board of Studies). But stupid me for going to school again because the subject choice range was better (hoo hum).

Doesn't worry me if I go back to TAFE next year, I mean I ain't going to get into uni with these marks. Might as well do the bloody thing again in a place that you're actually respected (and can have a ciggy between classes )

 

[mattsta]

I bludged my ass off during and prior to the exams, and I got 88.75. If you bludge as much as me, which is mildly unlikely, then you'll be fine. Try to stay ahead in terms of your rank within your grade.

Better said than done. I did my half yearly english journey's exam just a while ago and I couldn't even get through the whole thing. I did all the questions in SECTION I and SECTION II but only got through 1 page and a half of the SECTION III essay before my time ran out. And in that 1 page and a half I had only just started talking about Rabbit Proof Fence, I had not said all I wanted to say on it, let alone the two other texts that were meant to form part of the essay.

 

[richz]

dont throw in the towel, its not too late. Just work harder and you'll receive the results

 

[GlobalOperation]

i have been so close so may times.
every time i do an exam and stuff it up and nothing stays in my head and its crap and and ........ (in through the nose, out throught the mouth)

yes i wish to throw in the towel, cause i know im going to get knocked out when it comes to the exams