DILEMA: Using other peoples notes for the HSC & Trials? (1 Viewer)

[stunner]

Hey everyone
I'm having a dilema... where today I was writting an essay for my trial HSC and looking for evidence, cases and examples and stumbled across a few sets of notes in the resource section of the Bored of Studies. I used them for my essay and realised how good they were, then later on today I got sick of writting out notes for ancient and looked for Ancient History ones and sure enough they were there aswell.

So I want to know what everyones opinions are in relation to using other peoples notes and memorising them for the HSC instead of writting out your own.

Also has anyone done this before? Was it Successful/failed? Is anyone doing it?

Thank you soo much
Steph

p.s. I'm aiming for a 90+ UAI if that helps at all in giving an opinion.

 

[hollaholla]

its what iv been doing all year !
it helps a lot.
saves time+energy

 

[stunner]

What marks have you been getting all year?
What UAI are you aiming for?
Thanks agains

 

[kaz1]

Nothing wrong with it.

 

[Kujah]

With your trials coming around the corner, you might as well resort to it as it'll save you a great quantity of time and allow you to focus on practising questions.

 

[x.christina]

It's not plaigiarising, so its fine.

 

[Kujah]

And in answer to your questions, I used Ahmad Shah Idil's (sic) notes for Biology and Chemistry. They were succinct, clear and in-depth at the same time, and were bloody useful for my exam prep.

 

[0hNivlek]

Never wrote any notes for the HSC. I did for the prelims and found that the one's in the resource section are much better than what i could come up with LOL.

 

[mckensara]

yeah shout out to Craig Cheetham
his notes would have taken some hard ass work.


much love to you Craig if your out there!
ahha

 

[d3vilz]

yeah shout out to Craig Cheetham
his notes would have taken some hard ass work.


much love to you Craig if your out there!
ahha

+1

also a shout out to Jeff Wong, he has some top notes for legal studies

 

[Aerath]

Yeah, Ahmad Shih Idil's (sic) notes are pretty much used all around SBHS for Chem and Bio.

 

[eriito]

Almost out of time so I guess I shall be using Ahmad's notes

 

[Timothy.Siu]

lol.
yeah some notes are pretty decent when i looked.
i try not to rely on them too much coz obviously they'll miss some stuff. i just read them sometimes to get a general idea of whats going on and then i read textbooks (and other sources) to get a better idea. It's good and fast to read a whole topic using some good notes though.

 

[eriito]

Whose notes should I use for Physics?

 

[Uncle]

i rarely made notes and didnt have this issue.
win.

 

[tris123]

you did your HSC in 2007 but still post on these forums.
fail

 

[Absolutezero]

you did your HSC in 2007 but still post on these forums.
fail

Uni forums, entertainment, and non-school. Three reasons to hang around.

Some subjects are its fine just to take notes for. Don't use the resource section notes for additional material in English though. You're better off finding your own texts.

 

[oly1991]

i rarely made notes and didnt have this issue.
win.

you did your HSC in 2007 but still post on these forums.
fail

ouch

 

[mckensara]

ouch

no, not ouch really
if you watch uncle he is so high and mighty about the HSC
his superiority complex pisses me off. :mad1:

 

[Dumbledore]

its ok to use them but its actually harder to memorise other peoples notes than what u've written on your own, e.g if u wrote an english short story and also got one off the internet, if they r the same length, you'd memorise the one you wrote a lot easier than the one you got off the internet. althought since trials are close, if u haven't started writing your own, it would be useful to use others.