hmm your getting the 'standard' tips, but i dont always feel their practical. Every1 is different, consistancy is not always the best method. If u draw up these 'timetables' it will literally last no more then a week-routines can become boring, tedious and hence non-effective. If ur forcing urself to study, then ur not studying as ur mind is distracted i.e. thinking about doing sumthing else.
I got 97.35, its no 98 but it aint bad i guess. The main thing i would say is DONT STRESS THIS EARLY!!! I keep telling every1 that otherwise u will be fucked by the HSC.
My best piece of advice for studying is gain interest. Focus on parts of the course that u do find u like??? Attempt to make it fun or a challenge, discuss it with ur friends. This will sound stupid but basically every1 in my english class use to run around quoting King Lear or BNW- even though we didnt like it, but often ppl would randomly use the quotes in real life. Read other students work!!! Steal THEIR vocabularly and expand ur own- hell i did, particulalry in english.
The HSC is essentially a competition- its a huge playing field and only those that know how to play the game well get over 90 in the end- it is a RANK, so be competitive.
This depends of course on the type of person you are- but fuck anything ethical or moral. Help no one- if u want 98 u gotta be acing ur cohort first. Try and find an advantage in every assessment task. Eg's- i worked out (no one else did) that my economics teacher just used q's from past HSC papers for assessment tasks, taking them from papers since the 2001 specimen. Whilst everyone was busy studying the whole topic, i just went through every paper and learned the answers to the MC and practiced the short answers in relation to the topic. I scored 100 percent in every assessment for economics (bar the trial which was bought from an independent). Also if u do eco, read gittins and use his shit!!!!!!
Dont let anyone in on secrets u might work out- u want to beat ur friends. I ended up ranked first in every subject and that helped me a lot in the end. For maths i figured out that he used past papers from excel, get smart etc... so i studied them along with every single question from our main textbook.
For the sciences, i made summaries every holidays of the new dot points and make sure i ahd the easy ones rote learned- such as "describe contribution of a scientists..." I drew diagrams, had physics and chemistry formulas all over my wall.
History (i did ancient) i jsut made it into one big story- i then focused on learning quotes from historians, and lots and lots of sources- eg the Tomb of Ahmose Son of ebana at El Kab- we quoted stuff lik that to each other at lunch and even when we were pissed at partys. It sounds stupid but it makes it stick. For english read sample package band 6 answers. For King Lear, i used heaps of words written in past answers- learned them the nite of the HSC- gave my essay an edge (although i screwed BNW ran out of time). Make sure u practice timing in english. Find a good story, even if it isnt ur own and use it. What u write in an exam comes from ur memory so its very hard (unless its blatantly obvious) to be accused of plagarism.
Any non-exam assessments- lik posters, assignments- put a hell of a lot of effort in. In fact, u want nothing less then 100 percent for them. These are easy marks.
Overall, play to every advantage and stay ahead of ur year. Go into the HSC at the end of the year with incredible internals and u will be sweet. My mistake was nerves in the end and i was very tired and panicky. I still did well, scoring a few high band 6's particulalry in ancient, economics and chemistry. but i did no where near as well as i did in my trials (would of got me 99+ if i had performed like that). So yea- try and not get in a neg mind frame during the actual exams themselves, although that is very hard to avoid.
Good Luck!!!
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