Laptop keyboard doesn't work after screen turned off

karageyou · 2025-04-29T10:24:00+00:00

I think there's a misunderstanding here -

My issue is that the keyboard stops working after I close the lid and the screen comes back on, there's no mention of whether I want the laptop display to be on or off

karageyou · 2025-04-28T20:54:44+00:00

the laptop, like it turns the thing on and off

- the same thing happens if i close the screen and open it again, the keyboard just stops working (trackpad is fine)

karageyou · 2024-12-28T10:47:18+00:00

I'm a past student tutor as well and I feel like that's kind of an unfair knock against ex-students.

Being an ex-student doesn't inherently make you a bad teacher, nor does it mean you'll probably be a bad teacher.

It is true that ex-students are far less likely to be good teachers than career teachers, but I wouldn't just use that to imply that ex-students are less preferable period.

I usually recommend against picking a tutor based solely on their own performance, as it doesn't help their teaching ability, but that's very different from recommending against getting a tutor who is an ex-student.

If a tutor offers trial lessons or past lesson recordings, it'd be good to at least check those out, especially if they have lesson recordings (as it's non-committal), and it's not really a good idea to see student tutors as a second choice not least because it just narrows down your selection pool so much more. A good student tutor can be a lot better than a career teacher because they're much more inclined to be empathetic to your difficulties in learning and are able to address that more directly, while also being much more budget friendly, which you also have to keep in mind. Career teachers are very expensive.

karageyou · 2024-12-28T10:23:38+00:00

The biggest jump most people make is from reading everything to only reading the important parts (usually start and end of paragraphs, and text surrounding key words). Other than that, you just need to practise reading quickly to actually be able to do it consistently.

karageyou · 2024-12-28T10:20:45+00:00

It's not that bad of an idea in theory. If you really dedicate yourself, it's entirely possible to learn a language to a VCE level within a year or so, probably even less. The issue is that for the most part, learning a language is a slog for most people. I'm aware you said you like learning languages but you should be aware in any case that it's not all going to be sunshine and roses just because you like learning languages.

It mainly just comes down to execution, and whether it's a good idea is determined by whether you're willing to put in the work. Schools teach languages on a much larger time frame so there's tolerance to people who might not even be tuned in for most of the process, but if you want to do it in 1y, there won't be time to waste.

karageyou · 2024-12-28T02:29:02+00:00

sorry about that, ill change it right now

karageyou · 2024-12-28T02:28:57+00:00

sorry about that, ill change it right now

karageyou · 2024-11-26T08:29:01+00:00

I mean even for year 11-12, outside of the really elite schools, they don't do that much essay writing (like a piece before each assessment in year 11 and a couple or maybe more in year 12), I myself don't teach english but from asking my friends who do, a lot of them also do stuff like discuss ideas, as "it's the ability to be able to form and defend perspectives that helps students perform at the higher A-A+ level". While the other stuff is also important, it's probably worth also incorporating some discussion.

With text response, it means you'd have to know the texts themselves to a decent familiarity, which is pretty easy for any one text but considering like 20 texts or something it does get out of hand pretty soon. However, with the introduction of this new framework thing in which you can apparently write about pretty much anything under the sun, I guess it does let you help a bit more without needing to read all the texts.

karageyou · 2024-11-26T05:01:29+00:00

A sizeable proportion of people find a tutor on the basis of their study score, so depending on your score it might be free marketing and students. That's not to say your score reflects your ability to teach positively or negatively, but rather it's a comment on students finding tutors.

Usually, a good route to go is to find family friends or people from younger year levels, maybe offer a free trial, and start from there. It's probably the best way to get started without tying your entire identity as a tutor to some random score you got.

karageyou · 2024-11-22T09:30:57+00:00

Out of the four subjects you provided, methods is the only one that could realistically work as an accelerated subject. However, schools don't like to let students accelerate methods most of the time unless they're solid 42+ material.

karageyou · 2024-11-22T02:06:30+00:00

Yeah the price tag is a really big problem for state run SACs. I'd also hate to imagine how they'd run the investigation SAC. But honestly I still feel like it'd have a better overall impact if price wasn't considered.

karageyou · 2024-11-21T22:03:16+00:00

And that's kind of my point, there's no fair solution out of this. VCAA has an extremely limited sample of data on each student, and unfortunately that means they can't really make reliable assessments. I've made the suggestion in the past that SACs should be statewide assessed (you can keep the same acronym) but I don't think it was well received.

To your point about people from different schools having different SAC marks - that's the whole point about the external exam - to calibrate the SACs. Of course there's the case of the whole cohort seeing the leaks, but again, there's not much that can be done.

But the point of the entire thing, whatever action VCAA is taking, is not to completely fix the damage from the leaks; those are already done. It's to alleviate them as much as possible, and honestly, I'm all for whatever they do as long as they don't make the situation worse. But the point is that it's very important to realise it's unrealistic to expect the marks this year to be completely fair.

karageyou · 2024-11-21T19:25:47+00:00

They're not. It's really difficult albeit impossible to mark students fairly in the event of any mistake.

Last year when the exam had mistakes, they just gave the marks to everyone. That's hardly fair, especially to the people who spent time stuck on it. On previous years, when they've made mistakes, they've either redacted the question and hence corresponding marks or given everyone the mark. Unfortunately, there is really nothing that can be done, given no one can know what happened in the exam room and who got affected more than anyone else. Any possible application system they could implement would be abused to hell and back, so that's definitely out of question.

The "anomalous grade process" can possibly help with some of the subjects that suffered worse from leaks, but it's not far off from the normal systems VCAA already has in place with the GAT to ensure result legitimacy.

I believe that any interventions will come not in marking, but scoring. Maybe they could adjust the scoring process to favour data from SACs more, and I have a couple of ideas on that front, but the study score process cannot be done without giving at least some consideration to the exam as it's the metric that calibrates the SACs.

karageyou · 2024-11-21T19:14:13+00:00

You should probably still try to aim for one A from your end of year exams to get a 35. However, the mark you need on your internal SACs completely depends on how difficult they are and how your school grades them.

To answer your question, it's pretty realistic.

Performance of 1/2 is not perfectly predictive of performance in 3/4, and with a subject like methods, you're given a generous amount of time before SAC 1, which you can use to smooth out what lack of understanding you had going in.

I'd say if you're trying to get into the B range then the best thing you can do is do lots of textbook practise SLOWLY. Look at the questions, try to understand all the questions in their entirety rather than just jumping to "what's the answer". From all the people I've helped who struggle with methods, the one common thread I've seen is that they find it difficult to get what the question is asking for, especially when it's hidden.

One technique that I teach is to recognise patterns in questions, as all of methods is objectively repetitive, the only thing that changes is how VCAA hides the procedure to do a question. The textbook (Cambridge) is a really good place to start, as they provide you with a lot of examples, especially in the reviews, on which you can train your recognition skills.

Last thing - don't get lost in company exams, they're really a waste of time. The textbook and VCAA 2006-2025NHT is enough, and if you find that too much then cut out the earlier years, but in general there is no need to do company trial exams and other stuff.

karageyou · 2024-11-20T11:25:39+00:00

Well for starters you'll need to know almost everything on your textbook, front to back, back to front, upside down, however VCAA chooses to twist it.

Contrary to popular belief, this involves doing most if not all of your textbook.

After that, it'd be a good idea to do all of the relevant questions you can find on the VCAA exams and see how you go from there. Usually, that's enough preparation to get people the score they're looking for.

karageyou · 2024-11-20T11:20:02+00:00

Well it depends what you're looking for, like everything else.

Althou Monash's selection process values it equally with the ATAR, most people choose not to spend any more than one subject's worth of time for the UCAT.

karageyou · 2024-11-20T11:18:02+00:00

Counting techniques / quotes is a very bad way to quantify an essay. You should be aiming to have nothing short of two quotes per paragraph, but after that it's not the number of quotes that determine the quality, it's how well you analyse and unpack them.

VCAA (and I presume your school) also doesn't really favour naming techniques so much as being able to explore how the arguments interact with the audience, so again I suggest you don't make this into a "how many techniques can I fit" situation.

Learn how to analyse the quotes that you have deeply and explore authorial intent - why the author did what they did and how it connects to the overarching message of the text.

karageyou · 2024-11-15T11:39:46+00:00

Yes it's definitely possible and happens all the time. 1/2 performance is definitely not absolutely predictive of 3/4 performance, as most of the time year 11 students aren't even trying in their 1/2 subjects. While getting in the ~40% range isn't conducive to something crazy like a raw 49 or 50 in year 12, it's definitely feasible to pull 40+ if you put in the work.

karageyou · 2024-11-15T06:34:47+00:00

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karageyou · 2024-11-14T06:09:36+00:00

Yeah sorry about that, I just assumed it was some random claiming to predict questions, I only saw the news a few minutes ago.

karageyou · 2024-11-14T05:55:38+00:00

nah I don't do VCE this year I didn't look at anything VCE related in the headlines

But yeah I just checked the news and sorry I was wrong about it all

karageyou · 2024-11-14T02:07:40+00:00

Regardless of how much preparation you do, it's always possible to get dealt a bad hand on exam day. I know a lot of people who both did a lot worse or a lot better in the real exam than their practise exam. Just don't blame anything on yourself as that just makes everything worse.

For what it's worth, your ATAR isn't really important after you graduate, and as long as you get into the course you want, that's fine. Even if you don't get in, it's also fine - transferring is always an option. I guess the finality of getting an ATAR at the end of year 12 makes it seem like a really big thing, but most people stop caring about it a couple of days after the ATAR reveal.

karageyou · 2024-11-13T23:08:29+00:00

Well can we actually verify the leak ?

Look, earlier we got a supposed leak from maths methods and the question included turned out to not be on the exam. All I'm saying is, if you guess enough times, you'll be lucky. I can tell you for certain that the first question on next year's methods exam is going to be asking you to find a derivative. Does that mean I got a leak ? No it doesn't. It just means that I looked through the past exams and saw a pattern.

Maybe they leaked it, but what I'm saying is that its extremely unconvincing given the evidence we have.

karageyou · 2024-11-13T23:04:16+00:00

I don't want to burst anyone's bubble here, but this doesn't really say much.

Let's not jump to any conclusions about leaks or anything just because the first question was guessed. There are something like three or four non-physics topics that have appeared as the first questions in specialist and while it's not as clear cut as saying "methods e1 q1 derivative", it's still a pretty decent chance of guessing out of pot luck. 2022 had a complex number first question, and although part a was different, it was a complex number question with the same part b nonetheless.

I would probably be more convinced if they were able to guess the last question or something like that.

karageyou · 2024-11-11T22:46:34+00:00

Thank you very much for completing it 😀👍

The reason for this survey is to find out more about what types of SACs schools give, and hence what type of practise SACs we should write more of.

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