2024 99.95 ATAR: Ask Me Anything (5 Viewers)

[sly_lyepat]

btw what you doing in uni, med?

 

[ZNI2024]

Around what time did u sleep during the hsc period

12:30

 

[ZNI2024]

btw what you doing in uni, med?

Comm/law probably

 

[Squash123456]

Did u game at all during yr12

 

[sly_lyepat]

Comm/law probably

future investment banker?

 

[ZNI2024]

Did u game at all during yr12

Very little - I enjoy tennis more than I enjoy gaming so I dropped fifa start of year 11 and put that time into tennis

 

[ZNI2024]

future investment banker?

Idk we'll see

 

[sly_lyepat]

Idk we'll see

good luck and well done

 

[oot123]

how did you stay motivated and not distracted?

 

[ZNI2024]

how did you stay motivated and not distracted?

I didnt get insta until after HSC but I think when I felt super distracted I would just take a break for 30 mins and then when I came back I felt less distracted

 

[Shavi Masee]

1. If you were in yr 10 right now...how many hours a day would you be studying to get ahead of the syllabus for math, chem and physics.
2. And you specify making notes for content (would you watch yt videos to help teach you, or do you just kinda get it from what you are reading?), would your notes be online or on paper?
3. For what subjects did you do tutoring for during 11 and yr 12?
4. Do you still have the past papers you used to study with for math adv? if so, are you able to provide them for free?
5. What was you're main motivation to start studying so much... were your friends doing the same thing, or did you just want to get that .95?

Right now I think I'm struggling at finding my motivation to study (I study really well under pressure of an exam in like two days, but other than that nothing) as well as discipline to sit down and actually do something, any tips for these aspects?

 

[ZNI2024]

1. If you were in yr 10 right now...how many hours a day would you be studying to get ahead of the syllabus for math, chem and physics.
2. And you specify making notes for content (would you watch yt videos to help teach you, or do you just kinda get it from what you are reading?), would your notes be online or on paper?
3. For what subjects did you do tutoring for during 11 and yr 12?
4. Do you still have the past papers you used to study with for math adv? if so, are you able to provide them for free?
5. What was you're main motivation to start studying so much... were your friends doing the same thing, or did you just want to get that .95?

Right now I think I'm struggling at finding my motivation to study (I study really well under pressure of an exam in like two days, but other than that nothing) as well as discipline to sit down and actually do something, any tips for these aspects?

1. I would take it pretty easy (little to no work in holidays) UNLESS you are an accelerant and will take a year 12 course in 2025, in which case you should aim to have learned all content for term 1 in that subject.
2. I took notes on all content from textbook and for stuff that I found more difficult to understand or where I felt that the textbook lacked detail, I would go online to youtube/science ready (or teacher resources/asking my teacher)
3. Did no tutoring for any subjects - but maybe it would have helped me manage time better towards end of year 12 during trials.
4. I only used past papers from thsc/acehsc + the ones my school gave but unfortunately I don't have access to those anymore.
5. From year 7-10 I didn't do that well - good but not as well as I did in 11-12, and a lot of my friends were doing well. In a way my goal was to try and catch up to them - then goal changed when I started to get good marks to achieve an atar, get prizes, etc.

 

[Hehehe22]

Hi, this isn't about study methods but I don't really understand how state ranks work. How can you get a perfect score in a subject but not rank first, even though equal ranks exist?

Also, congrats on your HSC result

 

[ZNI2024]

Hi, this isn't about study methods but I don't really understand how state ranks work. How can you get a perfect score in a subject but not rank first, even though equal ranks exist?

Also, congrats on your HSC result

There are a few cases where this can happen:
1. 100 in HSC does not necessarily mean 100 for internal and 100 for external, it can be 99 internal and 100 external or vice versa, and round to 100. In this case a student achieved a perfect score of 100 but a student with 100/100 in both sections would place higher.
2. 100 in HSC external does not necessarily mean 100/100 in the exam (raw marks), and so a student who got 100 raw would place higher
3. If you are rank 2, even if you receive 100 internally, your internal mark will not be as high as the person above you (some 100s are better than others due to decimals hidden by rounding)
4. Judged marking - I don't know if this occurs for ALL subjects, but definitely for maths and I would assume more subjective subjects like English, markers will judge your work to see whose is better (they don't like giving multiple firsts). For instance I believe that I did not get SR1 in MX1 despite being rank 1 and getting a perfect score because in one question my working was poor, even though I got the right answer and got full marks for that question (though I'll never know for sure).

 

[Shavi Masee]

1. I would take it pretty easy (little to no work in holidays) UNLESS you are an accelerant and will take a year 12 course in 2025, in which case you should aim to have learned all content for term 1 in that subject.
2. I took notes on all content from textbook and for stuff that I found more difficult to understand or where I felt that the textbook lacked detail, I would go online to youtube/science ready (or teacher resources/asking my teacher)
3. Did no tutoring for any subjects - but maybe it would have helped me manage time better towards end of year 12 during trials.
4. I only used past papers from thsc/acehsc + the ones my school gave but unfortunately I don't have access to those anymore.
5. From year 7-10 I didn't do that well - good but not as well as I did in 11-12, and a lot of my friends were doing well. In a way my goal was to try and catch up to them - then goal changed when I started to get good marks to achieve an atar, get prizes, etc.

Did you write your notes online or in a physical workbook?

 

[ZNI2024]

Did you write your notes online or in a physical workbook?

I tried to do physical workbook as much as possible. But when time was an issue (trials and HSC) I was working online.

 

[Hehehe22]

There are a few cases where this can happen:
1. 100 in HSC does not necessarily mean 100 for internal and 100 for external, it can be 99 internal and 100 external or vice versa, and round to 100. In this case a student achieved a perfect score of 100 but a student with 100/100 in both sections would place higher.
2. 100 in HSC external does not necessarily mean 100/100 in the exam (raw marks), and so a student who got 100 raw would place higher
3. If you are rank 2, even if you receive 100 internally, your internal mark will not be as high as the person above you (some 100s are better than others due to decimals hidden by rounding)
4. Judged marking - I don't know if this occurs for ALL subjects, but definitely for maths and I would assume more subjective subjects like English, markers will judge your work to see whose is better (they don't like giving multiple firsts). For instance I believe that I did not get SR1 in MX1 despite being rank 1 and getting a perfect score because in one question my working was poor, even though I got the right answer and got full marks for that question (though I'll never know for sure).

Thanks for the detailed explanation! It makes a lot of sense now

 

[Shavi Masee]

I tried to do physical workbook as much as possible. But when time was an issue (trials and HSC) I was working online.

Thank you, I hope you do well in your future studies!!

 

[quarkkkk]

Hi what did your yr 12 summer holidays look like? what was your general schedule?

 

[ZNI2024]

Hi what did your yr 12 summer holidays look like? what was your general schedule?

I did 3-4 hours a day for first 3 weeks
Took a week off over Christmas
Then did 4-5 hours until school restarted because I had some exams at start of 2024