u/callieoftheladies

in NSW btw, I want to be a vet but there is no way i'm getting a 98.50+ atar for the assured/guaranteed pathways. these are my current marks for term 3/2 (some AT3s havent come back yet):

English Advanced - my average is 85%

English Extension 1 - avg is 83%

Physics - 60% for AT1, can't remember what I got for AT2 but it's like around the 80%-ish mark

Maths Advanced - 77% avg across all terms

Chemistry - 84%

Biology - avg. 87%

like im sure if i pushed myself a little more I could put myself back into the late 80s - early 90s range, but i genuinely CANNOT concentrate on study, i sit down and immediately disassociate until an hour has passed and i gotta get up again. i feel so overwhelmingly drained by everything. And honestly I was FINE up until term 2 hit, and all my progress went down the drain - most of my marks in term 1 were in the early 90s/late 80s, but then again they were the easier year 12 topics and not these absolute mind-boggling monstrosities that i'm studying currently.

If you guys have any study tips, please share, but also please don't be that person who goes "oh when I was in Year 12 I was studying for 24 hours straight and I got a 99.95 atar haha, you just need to lock in", I understand that you need to work hard but how do you do that when you physically cannot force yourself to pick up a pen???

anyways, sorry, rant over, i'm just really frustrated. i've been trying to fix my habits but the pressure to do well from both myself and my family is really making me feel like i should just give up all together.

got my mind set on doing chem-related stuff as I'm both good and it and like it, so thinking pharmacy. I want to do industry-related stuff so not community pharm as I've been told that it doesn't pay very well. Is UNSW Pharm good for industry jobs and if anyone here is studying pharm rn, is it a good degree in itself? Does it prepare you for the industry + is it actually useful? Also heard that UNSW offers transfer student options to other countries i.e. USA, what's the reality of this?

NSW Year 12 student here, I'm quite intimidated by the ATAR and UCAT scores required for entry into medicine and the long years of study that will follow, pretty sure it's not for me. I'm the first in my family to finish school and go to university in Australia so every day I'm finding out something new, and I just don't think I understood what kinds of hurdles I'd have to jump over to get into the doctor program, and now it's far too late to change anything.

I've already paid for the UCAT and Med-entry prep and my test is in July, so should I try and attempt it anyway? If not, should I cancel the test and save $200? Is there a way to get my money back from Med-entry? If you have any tips please let me know.