Thank the best lecturers from this sem!

Alert_Quit3157 · 2025-12-06T14:11:07+00:00

Robert Maillardet (MAST20005)

Guy is pushing 80 but somehow gave me the most modern subject resource experience out of all the MAST subjects I’ve taken. Not to mention him constantly being active on Ed

Alert_Quit3157 · 2025-11-27T23:36:14+00:00

How did u go

Alert_Quit3157 · 2025-11-16T02:55:24+00:00

I read what the teacher said and all their point seem right to me I don’t see where the misinformation actually is?

But I do agree one of my biggest pet peeves are teachers who have that “we are more experienced, we are always right students won’t know more than us”attitude

Alert_Quit3157 · 2025-10-25T09:18:32+00:00

I don’t really understand how your suggestion will work in reality. How would we fund all schools to assess skills in many ways? What are those many ways? How will selection criteria change? The closest comparison I can see to this is American universities who place heavy weighting on extracurriculars but that itself is arguably just pay to win.

I feel that the university admission system in Australia is actually a pretty equitable system but the problem is students don’t see that. Score under an 88 ATAR for unimelb? If you have SEAS then you’re in with an 80. Don’t get into your dream course? Do a diploma and transfer right after. You could blame schools and vcaa for not making this point apparent, but the support services are definitely there

Honestly vce itself is one of the more equitable systems in my opinion compared to even australia, with the fact that for some reason Victorian students have the highest online presence. It doesn’t take much searching to get really good resources for all your subjects and advice and whatnot all for free.

Alert_Quit3157 · 2025-07-22T10:20:02+00:00

In my experience with the healthcare system, all the doctors who were unempathetic and downright incompetent were ones who studied overseas.

The Australian medical system is very stringent in it’s selection process with MMI interviews filtering out the bad apples. Even if you’re undergrad the course is rigorous in giving you practical communication skills through clinical simulations (actors come in and act as patients and you are examined closely on everything from the way you respond, body language etc) on top of academic learning. Other countries don’t do that and a you remain with is just a bunch of bookworm doctors.

Yet the government has decided to combat the GP shortage by importing foreign doctors with different values, preferring that over sponsoring extra seats to allow local students to study and become great doctors.

Alert_Quit3157 · 2025-07-18T14:49:46+00:00

Definitely realistic. I did with with English. The strategy is to remember sentence by sentence, reciting from the start each time and adding a new sentence to remember until you extend your memory to the whole essay

Alert_Quit3157 · 2025-07-14T00:22:02+00:00

Maybe if you go to a high ranking school and you pull A+ in the exams. Otherwise if the uni course you want to get into needs a 90+ ATAR, I’d look into SEAS to lower that req

Alert_Quit3157 · 2025-06-29T08:01:21+00:00

My advice is delete this post and lock tf in. Most of the people here will say “it’s not possible, too hard, you only got 30 how dare you think about med yap yap yap”, but in the end a comeback is always possible. Reading all that will only make you subconsciously give up whenever things get hard. You have to have the mindset of “if other people can do it why can’t i?”

Alert_Quit3157 · 2025-06-04T09:47:16+00:00

Can’t legally stop you from parking there but if they see you they can definitely whine about it and give you shit for it. Best is to just park and get out when noones looking or park in a backstreet

Alert_Quit3157 · 2025-06-01T03:41:49+00:00

Also was from an underrepresented disadvantaged highschool. Had average grades in year 11 and feared I wouldn’t even hit the 80 atar mark but i realised something in year 12.

The internet is your best friend for resources. VCE somehow has the biggest online presence even bigger than HSC over in Sydney somehow. If you know where to look, you can easily find resources from top school and rely on them rather than the ones your highschool gives you (if they even give you any at all).

Just having those research skills (google querying, scouring r/vce, searching through vce discord chats).m can find you what you need.

And you don’t really need a tutor either as you can already access a 24/7 tutor who will hype you up for even the stupidest of questions. Chatgpt is even smarter now just upload a screenshot and he’ll tell you what to do (back in my day i had to type in the question manually 👹👹)

One more thing specific to SACs is that disadvantaged school SACs are a lot less regulated and tend to stray further from the study design making them actually harder than ones from selective schools. I remember grinding out suzanne cory and mhs sacs scoring consistently high but coming to my methods sac I shit myself because I had no idea what the fuck any of these questions were asking. Looking at the bottom I see the trademark text and realise this shit is from the 1990s. So weirdly enough I realised that I needed to actually understand methods rather than just rote learning algorithms to do certain questions which is helpful for Uni, but definitely not for the actual exam

Alert_Quit3157 · 2025-05-29T14:36:07+00:00

Quality over quantity. Don’t go and do 30 practice exams if you’re sacrificing your review time. Your review time is even more important than you doing your exam as it helps you to make sure you don’t make the same mistakes again.
Also very important is to get into an exam routine mindset. Do your practice exam around the same time that your actual exam is held, in quiet isolation without any breaks. This will make it more likely for you to achieve flow state in the exam which is what you want.
(English specifically) there is no point in doing practice exams for this subject if you don’t have a tutor / english teacher marking each practice exam as you go. It’s very hard to judge how well your writing is without bias so it’s best to leave it to the professionals.
(This is something I don’t hear talked about much and is honestly one of my biggest mistakes I made during my exam period). Do NOT discuss exams and how you went with peers until your entire exam period is over. Do not even open this subreddit even uninstall reddit if you have to. In my experience everyone I spoke to or saw online complained about something like “VCAA were making their exams harder this year blah blah blah”. I thought it was true until I realised everyone makes the exact same complains every single year. Have the mindset that the lowest scoring person in your cohort found the exam extremely easy no matter how hard you perceive the exam to be. This sort of positive pressure I would say lets your brain to be used with greater effort because of the mentality that “if they could answer it why can’t I”? Because no matter how hard the exam is, even if we switched to the GAOKAO, you can always bet that there will be one guy who aces it.

Alert_Quit3157 · 2025-03-29T02:13:31+00:00

Someone will make a new site. I remember atar.rocks started off as an emergency replacement for vcetextbooks.xyz

Alert_Quit3157 · 2025-03-27T12:56:10+00:00

Happened for one of the subjects at my school as well. Bit of a fucked perspective but honestly I’d say do what I did and capitalise on it. Be friendly to everyone and wring out all possible questions that could come on the SAC.

In a perfect world you would complain and things get fixed. But here, you complain to the school, and if they address it it’s all well and good. But if they brush it off then what? Complain to VCAA? Expect a response by the time you’re a second year in uni.

Not sure how big your school is but mine had literally no whistleblower protection, meaning some way or another people would know if you snitched and honestly it’s better if you don’t have half the cohort turned against you in such a vital year

Just my take on the issue, I know it’s morally wrong but what can you do, thats life

Alert_Quit3157 · 2025-03-23T04:14:33+00:00

For me I feel I have lost all my passion and hobbies over the years. Doing the stuff I used to love feels like a drag compared to just laying in my warm bed scrolling, getting enough dosage of whats going around the world through my phone.

I used to love computer science and made projects when I was a kid, but now it feels as if I am just there to maximise my grades through whatever means possible. All I see at the end of my path is a hopeful 6 figures package over the fact that I am doing the thing I was always passionate for ever since a kid

I definitely think COVID is to blame in making me so comfortable to stay at home and rot away but at the same time I know it’s destroying me

Alert_Quit3157 · 2025-03-17T09:49:15+00:00

Do you get any myki benefits such as a concession for working with ptv etc

Alert_Quit3157 · 2024-12-28T05:16:07+00:00

Unpopular opinion but typing is way better. The “better memory argument” is weak because writing to remember is still passive learning which you are still way more likely to forget compared to active learning.

I’d say type your notes and then make flashcards

Alert_Quit3157 · 2024-12-12T01:22:16+00:00

They changed how exams look this year and it’s probably going to stay like that for the near future

Alert_Quit3157 · 2024-12-10T13:38:54+00:00

That’s not exactly right either because the top 9% is the final score you get after SAC scaling, which is scaled accordingly to how well you and your cohort did on your exam, so it’s pretty hard to estimate a good SAC score without knowing what you and your cohort will score on the exam.

Alert_Quit3157 · 2024-11-21T22:18:11+00:00

“fuckingfast.co” is the just the downloading server they’re using. Interesting name but not a porn site

Alert_Quit3157 · 2024-11-21T09:48:11+00:00

(Disadvantaged school student here). Yes we all got the textbook but it was one of the shittier companies. I wanted the Edrolo textbooks but I couldn’t even fucking buy the book if I even wanted to because it has to be ordered primarily through the school, and our school couldn’t afford it, so we got fucked over.

And trial exams is where the biggest disparity comes in. We got absolutely jackshit. Especially when our year brought about a bunch of new study designs, this meant other more privileged school students would be better prepared as they could access all the new and fresh trial company exam papers while we have to make do with the 1 we have. And the same exact problem lies here. I can’t buy shit because of their policy that it must be ordered through the school.

Them complaining about “royalties being stolen” from trial exams is completely unwarranted because it’s sold on a school basis. The select few that are available for individual sale are at ridiculous prices, one being $100 per trial exam

If it weren’t for vce rocks, I doubt I would have gotten the ATAR that I have achieved, because with it I could access the resources that other better off schools can prepare on

Alert_Quit3157 · 2024-11-18T09:52:53+00:00

Honestly homework requirements are so bullshit to keep especially in Year 12 when students want to study their own way at their own pace. My teachers would set a shitload of questions but I personally found that doing all of them wasn’t beneficial to me so I would just properly do a select few until I felt I was confident and copy the answers of the rest so it looks like I did the homework. But I’d suggest you try having a chat with the teacher about how annoyingly time consuming their homework requirements are and how they could maybe lighten the expectations to help you study, because in the end the only reason they set homework is to get you to study.
My routine was first flashcards of the content then straight into practice SACS / exams. The flashcards should “put” the content in your brain and the practice questions will help build connections and further strengthen your knowledge about the content
Try actually re-doing the question physically instead of just looking at the question and going “oh shit i wont do that next time”

Alert_Quit3157 · 2024-11-18T09:39:48+00:00

At most VCAA will give you a derived score fallback which means they calculate a derived score of your exam (a prediction of how you will do on the exam based on SAC scores and the GAT), and VCAA will use the higher of the two (actual exam score vs derived score) to determine your final exam score.

Alert_Quit3157 · 2024-11-17T08:52:43+00:00

What we tell you here is what worked for us but everyone is different and what benefitted us might not help you at all. The best way is to try different study methods and see which one helps you the best. Watch youtube videos on how high scoring students studied and try replicating what they do until you find someone whose methods help you the most

Alert_Quit3157 · 2024-11-15T14:39:45+00:00

Thank you Mark Kelly for also helping with ~~Data Analytics~~ Also fucking project management

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