It was a good time to get the meeting done, the whiteboard works well and all but one technical parts were fine. I think it was good and Darcy is quite a capable and intelligent student, she just works very hard and needs to get stuck in early and also be confident in her knowledge of mathematics etc.

My writing on the whiteboard was not good and also the planning of what we were going to cover was not particularly ideal. Moving forward since I am recovering Y11, I will make sure to plan it out better and I have a stylus ordered for my computer. In this lesson Darcy also got busy with some things so it was cut short by 30 minutes, but it's all good, these things happen!

Yep it was hard and fast and mostly boosted the students confidence, I recommended he go into mathematical methods due to how easy (he also believes this) he is finding his subjects.

Importantly I think that he must actively ask and bombard his teachers with questions or ask more for what they expect/want and how then you can mould the QCAA exemplar assignments to that. I also noticed their internals are different and the school must recognise that the ones set up as the data test should not have circuit theory etc. My school was a lot closer to what my final year was like and what I have seen from other students, but it's no biggie. Most importantly for engineering he just needs to find a way of doing all the processes without relying heavily on the resources available at the school (Or atleast not blaming them which is not what is being done yet). By going above and beyond in ideas, final sketches and prototyping phases, this is the recipe for success in a somewhat difficult subject.