2026 HSC CHAT (31 Viewers)

[its_ace21]

I'm literally considering writing an apology email to my bio teacher for dropping. She actually hates me now and I don't want her to resent me fro the rest of my time at school

shes gonna forget you in like a year just ignore her

 

[Study to success]

shes gonna forget you in like a year just ignore her

she was actually a really good teacher tho. I feel bad but yeah hopefully we both move on and all is good

 

[Study to success]

I never feel like doing work in class. Only at home. I can't be the only one with this problem right? atp I should be homeschooled cause I could literally graduate early like some people ik+ I would be able to do stuff I enjoy and do it whenever I wanted to

 

[Burnt_Out]

I never feel like doing work in class. Only at home. I can't be the only one with this problem right? atp I should be homeschooled cause I could literally graduate early like some people ik+ I would be able to do stuff I enjoy and do it whenever I wanted to

I literally have a study period rn and the people around me aren't doing anything

 

[ihateschool_ilovemoney]

find the links of everything i talked about in the attached file

Hi fellas,
I’m a 2025 HSC student, and as you may know, we just concluded our Mathematics Advanced course yesterday. I thought it’d be helpful to share some tips from my experience and give back a little, so I’m sharing my full 130-page notes to help any newcomers navigate this awful system as you’ll come to realise soon

a little bit of background about me: i started schooling in australia in year 9 and i worked at KFC, i never took school seriously till the 4th term of year 10 by that time my foundational knowledge was garbage i couldn't do 2x + x (literally)
so started actually studying seriously and i got some help from a tutor.
she couldn't help me get good marks bec. she had no experience with exam questions
i had silly mistakes all over any paper i solved but i kept busting my ass day and night in year 11 but i couldn't score anything above 50% bec. i did not have access to my school's past papers
in year 12, i started fresh, i implemented solving past papers as a part of my study routine and my marks improved (a little)
i started seeing 60s, i kept working hard all year and the rest as they say is history

Please feel free to share these notes, and never fall into the trap of gatekeeping:
and please feel free to ask me if you need anything: rbgshot@gmail.com

some tips i learned the hard way:

1. get help, isolation won't help you; talk to your school teacher or look for other teachers and go to tutoring if you can

2. the best textbook is Cambridge but: beyond simple understanding the ALL textbooks are useless ditch them in the bin do as many PP as you possibly can and repeat the ones you did after some long time to make sure you understood the concept not just memorised the answer, i have the PDF if you would like it

3. care about early entry schemes, apply early and apply effectively that's how my grades got me into uni (i study computer science)
and go to university programs (UOW masterclass, UNSW gateway admission, macquarie open days) and refrence that in your early entry application and get a reccomendation letter from people you meet there and attach that in your application too

4. Pick your Subjects Very Very Carefully, if you're not that good at maths but you want to excel pick it but pick the easiest subjects with it

5. seriously don't obsess about getting a good ATAR work hard but don't let it consume you

6. play sports or hit the gym; it will help you restore cognitive energy

7. record your mistakes after each exam

8. study effectively that is: don't think you're studying if you're not targeting your weakest areas or the most notoriously difficult questions

9. use THSC and focus on solving papers from higher ranked schools

10. move from your school, to a lower ranked one if you know you're not getting a good rank

11. this one is a bit of tough love, the HSC is a nightmare, you will be stressed constantly, your life will be consumed by the huge content you will think you're dumb (that's not true)

12. use SM (smarter maths sheets) they organise all past hsc papers by topic, i uploaded them on Drive, lmk if the link expires

13. don't neglect year 11 content its all over hsc papers

14. Use AI to understand content or solve hard questions and search Eddie woo on yt

15. Universities are fucking scammers; they don't care about you or your marks they only care about their image, and about getting your money so if your marks are shit do your best to convice them that you're a good investment and don't believe when they say "Some programs are highly competitive" they're just afraid that you go to uni and end up repeating years which affects their image

16. uni is completely different to the HSC, in uni the goal is your success the HSC is squid game

17. finally don't hate maths for the rest of your life if you end up with a shit mark, just know that real maths is elegant and that you're not doing real maths the hsc frames maths incorrectly in my opinion

 

[coolcat6778]

just use math in focus instead of cambridge, u dont need eddie woo or those other bs stuff lol