just a few tips... yes everyone can provide some.. like study the dot points, write paragraphs etc... but there's a deeper level to it all, so ill go into that.
The MOST IMPORTANT tip that anyone could give you for doing really well in physics is "MAKE SURE YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT YOUR COMMUNICATING" If you don't, it will surface somewhere in your answer. I know this through experience. You must understand your topics.. and i mean all of it!
But how do you do that exactly? How do you develop an understanding of how something works? What are some tips when it comes to all this?
Firstly... Listen to what you teacher says. Go home after school and read through your textbook about the topic you learnt about in class. By now.. you will probably understand how a something works to some degree. But for MOST OF YOU.. you probably wont... so after you have read your textbook through once and have done your homework... read through another textbook on that same topic. And then read some pages on the internet. Just type in your topic. For example "electromagnetic induction" or "the slingshot effect" and just read through some of the sites you get. ALSO check out
www.hsc.csu.edu.au. They give you a dot point summary of the syllabus.
If you can (i did and i did really well) make notes from your textbooks and the hsc page. You should... by now understand your stuff pretty thoroughly.
Go further tho... Have discussions with people in your class before school and teach them what you know. After doing what i suggested above i was amazingly good at explaining how something worked. People started coming to me all the time asking about something to do with semiconductors or g forces. I improved my understanding and solidified the ideas in my mind. Someone said in a previous post that its how well you can explain something. You will find that the best way to learn how to write in a comprehensive way is to teach it to someone. Keep in mind the BAND 6 requirement for use of technical terms.
Teaching someone or answering one of their questions is a good way of knowing whether you really understand something. You will know if you don't understand it. You will be unsure of yourself. You'll tiptoe around things that you don't completely know... or you will make assumptions. IF you cant recognise all that for yourself... well your pretty much fucked... you better go kill yourself.
Have a conversation with your physics teacher about what you were learning. Ask them heaps of questions. then ask some more. Then some more. Then stop for like 5 seconds... pause pause and then ask some more. You'll get instant feedback(sometimes you might wanna ask if your on the right track) whether your brain is made of gold or whether its made of coal..... Although some of the dimwit teachers i've met over the place wouldn't have a clue anyways... I hope your a lucky person.
How about studying for exams
Get a friend together and teach each other what you have been studying. I remember arguing with a friend like 4 days before the physics exam about nuclear bombs and superconductors... we even got to the stage where we went to our teacher at school to ask for help.. (we were studying across the road at Starbucks.) Me and my friend wont forget the stuff we talked about(P.S. We were the only two in our class to do this and we both winded up with band 6's)The key to a good conversation for studying is understanding your topics.
We also made heaps of notes on nearly everything. Pretty much do everything everyone else said ASWELL as the stuff i said above and you are pretty much guaranteed a good mark for your hsc in physics...
OH BTW... if you want a good mark for physics get the best internal rank you can... You hsc marks are calculated according to your internal assessment ranking. search BORED about how your internal ranking affects your hsc mark... I'm not going into that here... takes to long... If your really that lazy and your desperate, i can tell you if you PM me... Those that make the effort deserve to know.
