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Hi! I was selected with 4 other students in my grade to apply for the KLD Young Scholars Program. I am about to write my application (Due in 9 days) and was wondering if anyone had any advice and could potentially read through my app and give some feedback. I am not from a rural school so although I don't need this program (I believe it is aimed at rural school students) I really want to get in. I have a good amount of extracurriculars yet am struggling to brainstorm for what my greatest achievement is. Could possibly any past applicants tell me what they put (Ik it will differ greatly to me) but just for some direction? I would really appreciate any help, and if you are willing to read over it I will dm it to you through Reddit or Discord. Thanks. :)

like my scores are in the 60-70 and i cant say i put my all but i just dont konw hwo to study or score marks in english main. any tips or advice on what to do?

spent years and years and years day dreaming and studying hard to become an anthropology but with exams approaching im realising more and more that idgaf and am day by day less able to find the problem with bum maxxing and just working in hospo making enough money to go see the supercars once a year until i die. anyone else experiencing this as a side effect of exam stress or am i genuinely having a revelation about my lifes purpose

for notes taking, tons of practise quesrions and past papers..?

sorry for another one of them posts but im really stuck deciding between the two.

long term, im wanting to become a doctor. didnt sit the ucat this year (stupidly) so direct entry med is out of the question, leaving only unimelb med post grad (interstate isnt really an option). now im tossing up what i should do with my bachelors.

Option 1: Uni of Melb

do a bachelor of science, sit the gamsat and hopefully make it into med

Pros:
50-65 min commute
more time to work out if i even want to do med
parents would be happier that im at melb lol
i like the campus vibes a lot better than monash
Cons:
worried abt how so many people say its so much harder to make friends at melb
im really questioning if i have the ability to get into med, given its so so competitive, especially to get a csp place
if i didnt get into med, my fallback would be engineering, but then im spending 6 yrs getting a qualification i couldve gotten way quicker at monash + w/ wayyy more hecs debt

im looking at majoring in chem (bc favourite subject), but if i were to do engineering as a masters taking a civil engineering major would shave a year off that. however, what if taking an engineering major nukes my chances at med bc my gpa would be lower with all the harder classes?

Option 2: Monash

do a bachelor of engineering (masters accelerated program), just go be an engineer

Pros:
heard its a lot easier to make friends there
would come out with the same degree in less time and less hecs debt
engineering program there seems a lot better than at melb
Cons:
parents would not be pleased with a monash degree lol
75-100 min commute

Some other notes:
making friends is really important to me at uni after some of my high school experiences
i dont really have any passion for engineering, it just seems like the only career thats relatively stable and plays to my strengths (maths, science), but unfortunately it seems like the pay isnt that great (considering the amount of time and hecs debt id be going thru with the unimelb path)
i do have other reasons for going into med, but i wont act like the pay isnt a contributing factor
ultimately, dont really care what my parents think of the uni that much bc its not like theyll stop me from going to one of the other lol
with engineering, id be looking at becoming a civil engineer

unfortunately i’ve cried in front of this woman thrice this year…embarrassing! the english burn-out is no joke though the thought of sitting down to write an essay or make an analysis bank genuinely sends shivers down my spine

she can bill me for therapy at the end of the year

HOW DO YALL ENGLISH HIGH ACHIEVERS actually get marks that high?

Im currently doing langston hughes and I could not think clearly. sometime is the ideas that stops me, sometime i just don‘t know how to write it out. like Im so horrible that it took me to write introduction and half a body for 1 hour, and most of the time my writing is bum after I proofread, my writing are often drove off the prompt or is nonsense.

I need ways to practice my English that can help me writer clearer and quicker please please please share your method.

thank you 🥲

im at like a horrible horrible average because i just cannot beat the pickiness of our teachers, they genuinely search between the lines for a slight slip up and have the most ridiculous questions that make no sense with stupid case studies that are overcomplicated

but i really really want the 40+. has anyone in a selective school had a terrible average but made it up on the exam and got this?

thanks!

why does hhd unit 4 have me DYINGGG. as someone that can’t memorise, the SDGs, WHO goals and objectives are my worst nightmare. all of this damn memorising just to scale down 4 fml.

i know you have to learn definitions and all that in other subjects but if you understand the concept you’ll usually be able to kinda bullshit if you’re not sure. this is just horrible for people who struggle to memorise

This is my second time posting here and uh so. Basically I've failed every single unit 3 and 4 psych SAC except the poster one and biology too Ive failed every single SAC. Unit 1 and 2. And I have a bio SAC tomorrow and I've barely studied because of Ive been so depressed lately and we've since I started year 11 I haven't been doing much work at home, VCE really just screwed me over and not a day goes by where I don't think of killing myself.ive learnt to accept my failures and I've become absolutely passive and numb to failing, I don't care about it anymore, literally. And Ive barely tried. And I have no idea what I want to be when I grow up the thought of it makes me want to die because of the economic landscape I'll never do smth I enjoy. I wish my parents were supportive of me and my.likes but they aren't and. Fuck now I won't even be able to become what they want me to be (rich doctor whatever) because I'm simply not cut out for it just look at my grades. It's like they're blind to it, they still think I can succeed and be some business owner. I shouldn't be in this school I don't deserve to, the 30k is not worth it. Im sorry for this rant but I literally want to buy some weed and go against all my morals to feel smth and really be the bad guy I think I am, then I know for sure that I'm at least bad, that's smth. I've been living a lie all my life just pretending to me the high achiever my parents think I am, pretending I actually care. Giving what they want until they realise I've been creating an image for them. When I'm finally tested in year 12 they'll realise. And I can't even drop out. I'm just stuck in this seemingly perpetual cycle and it's starting to look like there is no light, if there even is an end to it. I just want to earn and work and live life, not this fucking pretentious study. Man I'm not cut out for this, my joy for learning is tarnished by the system and it's not like I get a kick out of passing anymore, there's no sense of relief getting an A, there just isn't.also something I just realised recently was that I don't think I'll ever grow to reminisce my youth, I don't think there really will be anything positive to remember. I'm trying real hard to think of anything, but when I'm 50 i doubt I'll look back on my youth like a fucking boomer because it sucks.

how do you start exam prep??

when do you start??

idk can someone just give an overview of how they do it i dont know how or where to start?

any tips on how i can get my spark back quickly 😞🥹times are getting tense ..

im so so torn. memory police is the book we're doing now. if i stick to it, ill save so much time. but i do know its more basic.

we did mary oliver first, and that was so so fun and i also think its more niche? so maybe more chances to stand out idk. but omggg so much time to go back and revise it, i dont have that much time.

help!!!!!!!!!!!

english exam ofc :)

i literally dgaf about saints vs suns but free footy tickets are free footy tickets....

Got my SAC back a few days ago and i'm predicting my SACs to scale to 90%. HYPOTHETICALLY, could I still get 45-47 SS if I full mark Exams (which is very unlikely but HYPOTHETICALLY)

if this is you just know youre appreciated.

one of my classmates does this, ill be like "hmm i wonder when we're getting our sacs back" bc im too nervous to talk in front of the class and the absolute queen goes "yeah wait [teachers name] when are we getting the sacs back?" and everyone gets and answer and its just so helpful to all the confident people thank you so much

Hello! i had a situation at school today where i got pulled in by the head of my grade (year 12) discussing my last SAC that i have done for methods.

For back story i suffer with medical condition that barely allows me to go to school and my teachers just think that im just a student who doesn't show up, so i already know im not seen as the perfect, good-grade student.

I dont get the best grades as i deal with a lot of stuff outside school but it doesnt mean i dont try , i always do the most i can independently as im a really quiet student and am alone in all my classes aswell.

I recently had a method SAC , two to be exact , scheduled part one on a monday and part two on the wednesday that same week, as i have been away and thoses were my makeup days. I did the first one not that confidently and the second one better but heavily relied on my CAS calculator as it was a tech sac. On the night before wednesday for my part two sac i stayed up with the help of AI for my study (not advocating AI) and just did all the revision i could, i tried more than the first one., and for that sac it resulted in me just writing the answwer in some questions without working out, which can come off suspicious but to be fair they werent "show that" questions.

I can say I'm definitely not the best in methods at all and my teacher knows that because I never really have ever tried but have passed. But for this SAC i got taken in and accused that because it was makeup, my answers looked plagiarised, or I might've cheated, or the working out made no sense. I had to fill out a report.

i didnt know anything about the sac, no one was going to remember an 11 page sac and share around and jeoprodise their mark, and my working out mighve not made sense but tbf half the time i dont understand what im even doing and i didnt cheat because how am I supposed to anyway? there was a teacher in my room so i wouldve been caught.

They want me to prove my making me sit another test which i find so unfair and stressful and i have so much to catch up with sacs and coursework vause im almost never there. And this brings me to this same problem that happened not even 2 weeks ago my teacher has accused me of cheating on my English language SAC ( i got a 73% not a hugh enough grade for it to be suspicious) and wrote a whole angry paragraph and scribbled it out and said she had a bad day then wrote a bunch of condescending feedback on my SAC. This is what happens when i try. I don't know what to do but i feel targeted and that they view me as a student that im not and it makes me not want to go or try.

Now im forced to prove myself just because i got correct answers from my CAS calculator and could get into huge trouble affecting my VCE and future.

I do feel targeted and i always have, im not sure if this has to do with being the only arab girl and being quiet but im an axious person and i stuggle a lot.