I was doing accelerating mathematics (with extension 1) and I did extremely well in the preliminary course (ranked 1st and 2nd for most assessments) but in the middle of term 3 of 2017 I suddenly felt extremely demotivated, I never felt so demotivated in my life. I think cramming and not treating math seriously enough had drained me out. I didn't stay up to date with homework and so I would cram chapters worth of content around 2 weeks before my exams). Note to all people starting their prelims this year, stay up to date please.
So what happened is that by term 4 in 2017 where I start the HSC math (and ext1) course I was still very demotivated, I even thought I might've been depressed. On the first week of term 4, I didn't listen to my teacher (I self study in class anyways so doesn't matter), decided to not do any work for all lessons and just slept, played games on my phone etc. The following week I went on holidays overseas for 2.5 weeks and didn't do any maths. When I arrived back to school, I bludged all my subjects, including maths. I didn't care about my reports anymore, my family never bothers to read my report card, legit got straight A's for the first time in sem 1 and parents didn't even care. So I was about 3 chapters behind and I had 2 weeks before the test and didn't bother studying or catching up, the sight of math gave me massive headaches and made me hate life. I never felt so demotivated in my life. I bludged through my exam and I got around 60-70% for my extension 1 and ranked really average for both 2u and ext.1 which poses a problem since my school is ranked pretty low (250+ weak cohort) and receiving a bad rank for the first assessment may affect my final rank and marks quite a bit.
(Applications of Calculus, Inductions, Intergration etc. <- Topics that I didn't finish/cover which was in my test)
Throughout the summer holidays, I decided that I would drop accelerant so I didn't do any catching up for math so it's too late now. I decided to drop accelerant on the first week back to school so here I am regretting that I did not try hard enough for maths. Now I have to redo my preliminary course in 2018. Which isn't going to be too bad since my class never finished the preliminary syllabus (Circle geometry, Polynomials, Permutations etc.) so now I can revise on my weak points and catch up on the topics that I missed in the preliminary course and hopefully start some early HSC topics. Call me a bloody bragger for putting my marks/ranks but the effort I put in those marks/ranks 2 weeks before exams have killed me inside and outside (possible brain damage if that's even possible).
Dropping accelerant math at the start of the year switched my timetable a bit. Some sacrifices for dropping accelerant included that instead of getting a super nice, cool teacher for english, I now have a strict and unenjoying teacher, and the fact that I have to sit through maths for another year covering the same topics. Just thinking about the possibilities and outcomes if I had finished my math course a year early, I could've focus on other subjects and not worry about math, but it's too late now. Consequences are unavoidable.
My advice to you is to try not to drain yourself out in year 11 since prelims don't affect your HSC/ATAR.
I would love to hear your experiences if you have also dropped accelerating mathematics in your school years.
So what happened is that by term 4 in 2017 where I start the HSC math (and ext1) course I was still very demotivated, I even thought I might've been depressed. On the first week of term 4, I didn't listen to my teacher (I self study in class anyways so doesn't matter), decided to not do any work for all lessons and just slept, played games on my phone etc. The following week I went on holidays overseas for 2.5 weeks and didn't do any maths. When I arrived back to school, I bludged all my subjects, including maths. I didn't care about my reports anymore, my family never bothers to read my report card, legit got straight A's for the first time in sem 1 and parents didn't even care. So I was about 3 chapters behind and I had 2 weeks before the test and didn't bother studying or catching up, the sight of math gave me massive headaches and made me hate life. I never felt so demotivated in my life. I bludged through my exam and I got around 60-70% for my extension 1 and ranked really average for both 2u and ext.1 which poses a problem since my school is ranked pretty low (250+ weak cohort) and receiving a bad rank for the first assessment may affect my final rank and marks quite a bit.
(Applications of Calculus, Inductions, Intergration etc. <- Topics that I didn't finish/cover which was in my test)
Throughout the summer holidays, I decided that I would drop accelerant so I didn't do any catching up for math so it's too late now. I decided to drop accelerant on the first week back to school so here I am regretting that I did not try hard enough for maths. Now I have to redo my preliminary course in 2018. Which isn't going to be too bad since my class never finished the preliminary syllabus (Circle geometry, Polynomials, Permutations etc.) so now I can revise on my weak points and catch up on the topics that I missed in the preliminary course and hopefully start some early HSC topics. Call me a bloody bragger for putting my marks/ranks but the effort I put in those marks/ranks 2 weeks before exams have killed me inside and outside (possible brain damage if that's even possible).
Dropping accelerant math at the start of the year switched my timetable a bit. Some sacrifices for dropping accelerant included that instead of getting a super nice, cool teacher for english, I now have a strict and unenjoying teacher, and the fact that I have to sit through maths for another year covering the same topics. Just thinking about the possibilities and outcomes if I had finished my math course a year early, I could've focus on other subjects and not worry about math, but it's too late now. Consequences are unavoidable.
My advice to you is to try not to drain yourself out in year 11 since prelims don't affect your HSC/ATAR.
I would love to hear your experiences if you have also dropped accelerating mathematics in your school years.
