Do you feel confident about achieving the UAI which you are aiming for? (3 Viewers)

[timmii]

Just spent an excruciating period of time at a family get-together tonite....Had to answer individually everybody's standard questions and smile pleasantly at the platitudes of "we're sure you'll do well", "you should get in" etc etc......its so irritating, how can anyone (let alone ppl who still call it TER, if they even know that much about it) know????

Sorry.....venting...sick of all the unthought about responses of how i'll do.....when i'm having serious doubts about myself atm.

 

[schwang_thang]

Originally posted by flyin'

neway, sometimes when i feel really good and think that my school will do well, i think i could possibly get 99.5+

but at other times, reality strikes home and i feel i might just pull of 99

so im not too confident right now

whoa....talk abt high standards!!

 

[Ultimate]

Yeah originally, after the HSC exams I felt as though I would get 99.5+ now I feel a little less confident as the HSC results come out in 3 days time.

 

[flyin']

Originally posted by schwang_thang


whoa....talk abt high standards!!

if you aim higher ... and still dont reach your goal ... you will still be higher that if you aim for mediocrity ...

 

[Ultimate]

Originally posted by flyin'


if you aim higher ... and still dont reach your goal ... you will still be higher that if you aim for mediocrity ...

Yeah I agree, just like that quote on the bored of studies page states :


"Remember that an archer, at long distances, must aim higher than his target in order to hit it."

 

[schwang_thang]

Originally posted by Ultimate


Yeah I agree, just like that quote on the bored of studies page states :


"Remember that an archer, at long distances, must aim higher than his target in order to hit it."

yeah i guess...but the chances of disappointment r high
thats y i tell every1 im aiming pretty low, if i do crap then they're prepared, if i do well then its a pleasant surprise

 

[hornet]

Yeah confident. Aiming for =>90. Though a 85-90 wont be bad, I will still get into my course, so I'll still be happy.

Basically.... if its enough to get into uni, I will be happy, by increasing amounts (ranging to "OMFG wtf how awesome!!" for about a week). If its not enough, I will be seriously, seriously dissapointed.

But overall, yeah, i am confident. waiting is killing me tho!

 

[Ultimate]

Originally posted by schwang_thang


yeah i guess...but the chances of disappointment r high
thats y i tell every1 im aiming pretty low, if i do crap then they're prepared, if i do well then its a pleasant surprise

if you know and accept that you've done your best I don't think you can be disappointed.

 

[flyin']

Originally posted by Ultimate


if you know and accept that you've done your best I don't think you can be disappointed.

thats true but more often than not ... people dont give there 100% and just give a half-hearted attempt ...

 

[InfiniteQ]

Originally posted by flyin'


thats true but more often than not ... people dont give there 100% and just give a half-hearted attempt ...

Then there's the regret...

 

[flyin']

Originally posted by InfiniteQ


Then there's the regret...

its not really regret ... i didnt give the hsc my all ... and that my fault for being stupid ... i knew i should have ... but procrastination and laziness took hold ...

 

[Ultimate]

Yeah but you can't expect that you can work every hour and every day in the lead up to the HSC. Everyone procrastinates a bit and gets a bit lazy but that is part of the process.

I don't think that its something you can really regret. I know that if I did the HSC again, I don't think I would have approached the HSC any differently.

 

[flyin']

procrastination meaning that i left the whole physics course to be learnt in three days before my trials and deciding to spend the day before cramming and realising that i had to study my option that same day (quanta ...) ... that is what i mean by laziness ... as well spending my class time talking and daydreaming ...