advice for y12? (1 Viewer)

[kkk579]

hey guys, im starting y12 in 2 days and was wondering if anyone could give advice cos im lowkey scared since everything rlly counts now. one thing im scared abt the most is ranks. i dont go to a good school (ranked in the 150-200s) and although im not necessarily bad at my content in the subjects i do (4u math, adv eng, chem, phys) the problem is that i make silly mistakes which im afraid will screw up my rank and then my hsc will be ruined. i do rlly want to do well but i feel like my exam anxiety rlly hinders me. i also have high expectations from my family who want me to beat my cousin (who got 99.3 btw ). so if anyone could just give some advice to help calm myself or maybe some success stories on how they made a comeback with bad ranks that would help alot.

 

[synthesisFR]

have fun lol its ur final year

hold up.. weren't u in girra
did u fr change schools again
do u have friends now atleast

 

[kkk579]

have fun lol its ur final year

hold up.. weren't u in girra
did u fr change schools again
do u have friends now atleast

i js went back to my old school that i went to before girra HAHAHA

also to clarify i had friends at girra i js wasnt close to them

 

[kkk579]

have fun lol its ur final year

hold up.. weren't u in girra
did u fr change schools again
do u have friends now atleast

how much work u gotta put in for 4u/ how good were u at 4u cos im pre sure i know ur mark from a tutoring list LOL

 

[synthesisFR]

how much work u gotta put in for 4u/ how good were u at 4u cos im pre sure i know ur mark from a tutoring list LOL

my hsc is next year !!

 

[kkk579]

my hsc is next year !!

stop the cap and gimme advice pls

 

[synthesisFR]

i js went back to my old school that i went to before girra HAHAHA

why

 

[liamkk112]

hey guys, im starting y12 in 2 days and was wondering if anyone could give advice cos im lowkey scared since everything rlly counts now. one thing im scared abt the most is ranks. i dont go to a good school (ranked in the 150-200s) and although im not necessarily bad at my content in the subjects i do (4u math, adv eng, chem, phys) the problem is that i make silly mistakes which im afraid will screw up my rank and then my hsc will be ruined. i do rlly want to do well but i feel like my exam anxiety rlly hinders me. i also have high expectations from my family who want me to beat my cousin (who got 99.3 btw ). so if anyone could just give some advice to help calm myself or maybe some success stories on how they made a comeback with bad ranks that would help alot.

all you can do is be consistent and take it one term at a time, even doing 2 hours a week for each subject should help a lot (and make sure you spend time on every subject even english). for silly mistakes you just have to pace yourself, in early year 12 i used to panic and do like all the exam paper in 30 minutes then do basically nothing for the other 30 minutes, really isn't the best strategy. by the time you get to hsc hopefully you know how to manage your exam time a bit better, optimally you shouldn't feel like you have to write quickly (except in english/essay based stuff), and can take your time to write everything down, which should give you more time to think things through and not make mistakes. if that doesn't help then write down all the stuff relevant to the question, highlight key terms etc, that will force you to slow down and not rush into things (even if it seems like easy marks). also everyone is anxious af throughout hsc lol, its not just you, you really just have to make sure you do everything you can to stop stressing as much

 

[kkk579]

why

travelling to and from girra was exhausting

 

[kkk579]

all you can do is be consistent and take it one term at a time, even doing 2 hours a week for each subject should help a lot (and make sure you spend time on every subject even english). for silly mistakes you just have to pace yourself, in early year 12 i used to panic and do like all the exam paper in 30 minutes then do basically nothing for the other 30 minutes, really isn't the best strategy. by the time you get to hsc hopefully you know how to manage your exam time a bit better, optimally you shouldn't feel like you have to write quickly (except in english/essay based stuff), and can take your time to write everything down, which should give you more time to think things through and not make mistakes. if that doesn't help then write down all the stuff relevant to the question, highlight key terms etc, that will force you to slow down and not rush into things (even if it seems like easy marks). also everyone is anxious af throughout hsc lol, its not just you, you really just have to make sure you do everything you can to stop stressing as much

doing the paper in 30 min and doing nothing after is so real - i do the same thing and everytime i do that i make a copius amount of sillies but i js subconsciously go hella fast cos im worried ill run outta time

 

[kkk579]

all you can do is be consistent and take it one term at a time, even doing 2 hours a week for each subject should help a lot (and make sure you spend time on every subject even english). for silly mistakes you just have to pace yourself, in early year 12 i used to panic and do like all the exam paper in 30 minutes then do basically nothing for the other 30 minutes, really isn't the best strategy. by the time you get to hsc hopefully you know how to manage your exam time a bit better, optimally you shouldn't feel like you have to write quickly (except in english/essay based stuff), and can take your time to write everything down, which should give you more time to think things through and not make mistakes. if that doesn't help then write down all the stuff relevant to the question, highlight key terms etc, that will force you to slow down and not rush into things (even if it seems like easy marks). also everyone is anxious af throughout hsc lol, its not just you, you really just have to make sure you do everything you can to stop stressing as much

tips for 4u and 3u? how hard does it rlly get in the hsc and relatively how good would u have to be for a mid e4 in both?

 

[Average Boreduser]

hey guys, im starting y12 in 2 days and was wondering if anyone could give advice cos im lowkey scared since everything rlly counts now. one thing im scared abt the most is ranks. i dont go to a good school (ranked in the 150-200s) and although im not necessarily bad at my content in the subjects i do (4u math, adv eng, chem, phys) the problem is that i make silly mistakes which im afraid will screw up my rank and then my hsc will be ruined. i do rlly want to do well but i feel like my exam anxiety rlly hinders me. i also have high expectations from my family who want me to beat my cousin (who got 99.3 btw ). so if anyone could just give some advice to help calm myself or maybe some success stories on how they made a comeback with bad ranks that would help alot.

I havent finished but for my acc exam bc of one mx1 at2 exam, I had my ovr rank in the low 40s. In the end im in the range to b6 (i.e. ~gained 20+ ranks in the end).

 

[Average Boreduser]

lowkey tho, it was all just stress for me in that test. Tell your parents ur gonna try ur hardest bc like,.. expectations can only hinder you.

 

[liamkk112]

tips for 4u and 3u? how hard does it rlly get in the hsc and relatively how good would u have to be for a mid e4 in both?

tbh if you put in the effort a mid e4 isn't too hard given the ridiculous amount of moderation and scaling in 3u and 4u

for 3u do textbook work then just spam past papers even long before trials (just skip the questions you don't know how to do yet), you should be pretty fine after that, not really much else you can do except trying to get ahead a couple of topics if you have time
for 4u, again you should do textbook work and do as many past papers as possible. you should also try to get familiar with the "basic" types of questions they will ask, eg they always ask basic vector stuff, am-gm proof, induction, finding exact value of trig stuff through complex numbers and roots, etc. if you can do that, that's already questions 12-14 pretty much done. past that you should just try to do as many interesting and more complicated questions as you can, q15-16 is where the real difficulty of the subject comes in (i might upload some harder proof questions sometime but it'll prob be a bit outside the syllabus, but stuff like the bos papers help. don't be worried if you can't solve everything though, it's moreso to practice how you can deal with questions you haven't seen before). for internals, the approach is a bit different, you basically should just try to master the topics you're doing as early as possible and grind out the past assessment tasks your teachers will give you, if they give you any. otherwise it's just past papers again

 

[kkk579]

tbh if you put in the effort a mid e4 isn't too hard given the ridiculous amount of moderation and scaling in 3u and 4u

for 3u do textbook work then just spam past papers even long before trials (just skip the questions you don't know how to do yet), you should be pretty fine after that, not really much else you can do except trying to get ahead a couple of topics if you have time
for 4u, again you should do textbook work and do as many past papers as possible. you should also try to get familiar with the "basic" types of questions they will ask, eg they always ask basic vector stuff, am-gm proof, induction, finding exact value of trig stuff through complex numbers and roots, etc. if you can do that, that's already questions 12-14 pretty much done. past that you should just try to do as many interesting and more complicated questions as you can, q15-16 is where the real difficulty of the subject comes in (i might upload some harder proof questions sometime but it'll prob be a bit outside the syllabus, but stuff like the bos papers help. don't be worried if you can't solve everything though, it's moreso to practice how you can deal with questions you haven't seen before). for internals, the approach is a bit different, you basically should just try to master the topics you're doing as early as possible and grind out the past assessment tasks your teachers will give you, if they give you any. otherwise it's just past papers again

okay thank you for the advice, im currently doing proofs rn and theres js so much types of qs i havent seen and its so overwhelming 4u is so different to y7 to y12 ext 1 math icl

 

[anonymoushehe]

while im here can anyone who did phys, chem or ext 1 math in yr 12 tell me what topics I should look out for?? like which topics/modules you guys think were the hardest??

 

[liamkk112]

okay thank you for the advice, im currently doing proofs rn and theres js so much types of qs i havent seen and its so overwhelming 4u is so different to y7 to y12 ext 1 math icl

yeah coz ext 1 and before is basically all computational stuff, ultimately ends up with you putting stuff in a formula. 4u has that a little bit but the rest of it is much deeper problem solving

 

[liamkk112]

while im here can anyone who did phys, chem or ext 1 math in yr 12 tell me what topics I should look out for?? like which topics/modules you guys think were the hardest??

for phys definetly mod 7 was the hardest for me because so much writing about stuff like special relativity. mod 6 can also have some challenging problems depending on what they do, but most of it just filters down to like two laws lol. mod 8 prob the easiest coz its just writing about stuff you already expect and some basic calculations

ext 1 probably the hardest was like vectors at times. otherwise probability and combinatorics can be hard, but tbh that's only when it's like the final question, otherwise it's okay

 

[anonymoushehe]

for phys definetly mod 7 was the hardest for me because so much writing about stuff like special relativity. mod 6 can also have some challenging problems depending on what they do, but most of it just filters down to like two laws lol. mod 8 prob the easiest coz its just writing about stuff you already expect and some basic calculations

ext 1 probably the hardest was like vectors at times. otherwise probability and combinatorics can be hard, but tbh that's only when it's like the final question, otherwise it's okay

tyyy

 

[v.tex]

Yea bro i’m so nervous man. I have 12 units rn as i’m super scared for 4u math. I don’t know why but i just have been feeling depressed going into yr 12 as I feel i have made a number of bad decisions involving my subject choices
I honestly feel i should have just done adv math, adv english, economics, physics and chem. But sadly im now doing 4 u math, Physics, economics and earth + english