Outline My Academic Journey

In this essay I shall outline my academic journey from 2005 to present, demonstrating both the positive and negative aspects to my schooling career. This report will also display the significant events throughout the years as well as future aspirations and hopes.
In 2005 I began my learning path at the Calamvale Community College Preschool, which is the school I currently attend. From a young age I was praised and rewarded for a gift in which I did not need to work hard to improve nor achieve high results. From preschool I moved onto Grade 1. However at the beginning of that year my teachers and parents decided to advance me to Grade 2 as I was excelling rapidly in the Year 1 curriculum. Though due to my lack of social skills I was made

Grade 6 was also the first year in which I did not receive a letter to the Awards Night, which left me disappointed. Once I moved on to Middle School I was selected into the Academic Enrichment POD, also known as Grevillea. Unlike Junior School I was surrounded by 26 other students who had similar or higher intellectual ability to me, therefore instead of the top of the class I was one of the top 5-10 students. Although this was not a poor result, I was unfamiliar with the situation and feeling. Grade 7 was also the year I attempted the entrance exam for Brisbane State High School, the school that my sister currently attends, and was unsuccessful due to poor results in Reading Comprehension. These milestones in my education alerted me about how, if I did not work hard at school and home, I would no longer be considered as a smart or talented student. Last year was the year I truly began to knuckle down and work hard for my grades. Although it was hard at first I managed to regain my intellectual ability and was rewarded at the end of the year with the Math and Technology Academic

In comparison to subjects such as History and Math, English has a wide variety of responses to each assessment piece as well as having many aspects to each concept which will only increase as I continue my education journey. Whenever there are practise Reading Comprehension questions there always seem to be more than one feasible answer to each question which only ever leave me confused and relying on luck to get a pass. I also possess less thorough right brain which means I can take up to two weeks just to plan and draft English assessment pieces, leaving minimal time for editing for genres such as narratives and literary descriptions. To improve my essay, I would set a personal due date for ideas, planning and drafting. As well as that I would also seek inspirations from my fellow colleagues and surroundings. To better my reading comprehension skills I began to read a lot more since Grade 7. As I developed more knowledge of writing styles, it would allow me to compare the simple and difficult versions of a text type and understand the type of writing style used in each specific