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Student Achievers - Josh Gore
Posted on December 31, 2019
![Josh Gore](/images/_800x330_crop_center-top_100_none/Josh-Gore.jpg)
My name is Joshua Gore. I’m 17 years old, and live at home with my family in the Barossa. We are Christadelphians (this is our life), and are caretakers of a campsite with plenty of opportunities for volunteer work.
Some of my current interests are Bible study, radio-control planes, hiking, and photography.
My experience at OAC...
I spent most of my school life as a home-schooler: first in the Dandenong ranges in Victoria, then here after we shifted in 2011.
This helped me to develop good literacy and personal study skills (thanks Mum!). Then, as I plan to go to Uni, we decided to enrol at OAC for my senior years. This has enabled me to have the benefits of home-schooling, whilst still completing my SACE.
I am somewhat of a perfectionist, which has meant some weeks of working to 1, 2 or 3 in the morning trying to get things “just right” (hint to new students: research the 80/20 rule!). I appreciated the email responses at 11:30 at night, and then 6:00 the next morning! – Teachers work long hours too.
I appreciated the effort some teachers went to, to ensure that we did well. I enjoyed the flexibility to be able to study subjects I am interested in, not being tied to a school routine and being able to study from home (eating breakfast in my PJ’s during a lesson).
And today...
Although I completed my SACE in 2014, I still need to do another subject to gain an ATAR. I look forward to studying geography at OAC this year, as well as a Cert. IV in IT Networking. Next year (2016) I plan to do a Bachelor in Geospatial
Science, with the view towards becoming a licensed surveyor. So plenty of study still to come.