I am a new year 12 student and i am doing bio, chem, English standard, legal, maths adv and maths extension1. Naturally, i am pretty good at maths, however, due to some family issues I couldn’t study properly this term and got 65% in my first maths adv test and 68% in bio. The other ones are fine. I am in top 5 for those. So can i still look forward to get a 90+ atar. Not to mention my school rank is like 400th or something.
1. How much should i study to achieve the 90+ ATAR?
2. Is there any hope to get a 90+?
3. What should i do during the Christmas holidays?
1. i think studying 1-2 hours after school on top of study periods is more than enough study, maybe ramping up to 4 hours during assessment periods (but everybody's different. as long as you're on top of everything, don't wear yourself out trying to study a certain amount of hours)
during the weekends, 3-4 hours of study each day is great
when i study this much, i find myself never really falling behind and having the time to tend to all my subjects + get ahead which i think is enough for a 90+ atar
2. yes!! there definitely is hope.
you still have 3 other assessment tasks to get your ranks up, so don't worry!
id recommend to check hsc ninja and see the band 6 rate in your school to estimate what rank you need to be to get a band 6 in the subjects you're doing
3. look back on your assessment tasks and revise the topics you lost marks in. keep the questions you made mistakes on in a document so when trials comes up, you can easily revise older topics.
read your texts for english!!
try and get through as much of the next module or topic you're covering in all your subjects as possible. you don't need to get through everything, just enough to reduce the workload for next year
also, take lots of time to rest!!
