how do you study for physics yr11? (1 Viewer)

[s_0]

i was thinking abt writing notes and doing anki flashcards + past papers
is it efficient to learn through textbook (physics in focus) or yt or any other textbook

 

[coolcat6778]

Ankidoesn't work

 

[m_avi]

i was thinking abt writing notes and doing anki flashcards + past papers
is it efficient to learn through textbook (physics in focus) or yt or any other textbook

I've heard anki flash cards are amazing. Aslong as ur consistent at making them and using them.
Writing notes definitely helps thats how i study. also keep a track of your mistakes in questions... I think for physics it's a great habit to have.
Past papers and per module exams are key once you've finished learning the content. I used both the textbook and science ready to assist me through learning.

I don't thoroughly study for physics as I'd like to. However for chem studying ahead really helped me, it might assist for physics as well.

 

[coolcat6778]

people who use Anki end up in UTS or worse . Just learn to content like everyone else (via notes if necessary).

 

[Naren]

people who use Anki end up in UTS or worse . Just learn to content like everyone else (via notes if necessary).

Everyone's using them cause of a guy called jed with 99.7 atar.

 

[coolcat6778]

Don't listen to tiktok influencers unless you yearn for

 

[Naren]

Yh uts is trash.

 

[s_0]

Don't listen to tiktok influencers unless you yearn for View attachment 51330

my bad bro

 

[Study to success]

bro people make it seem like maq or uts is soo bad. Like it's not even bad and for most professions they don't care that much about what uni you go to and you're still equally employable. Plus uts is apparently good for employment opportunities and practical work which is good for creative and tech related stuff. The only downside with uts is that they have some staffing/ financial issues

 

[Naren]

bro people make it seem like maq or uts is soo bad. Like it's not even bad and for most professions they don't care that much about what uni you go to and you're still equally employable. Plus uts is apparently good for employment opportunities and practical work which is good for creative and tech related stuff. The only downside with uts is that they have some staffing/ financial issues

It depends on the individual persons goals.

 

[Study to success]

It depends on the individual persons goals.

yeah but it doesnt mean u have to diss a uni.

 

[Naren]

yeah but it doesnt mean u have to diss a uni.

Sorry, I should've used proper phrasing.

 

[Naren]

Each year and in most years (but not all), nobody ever gets 100/100 in Physics. Module 6 is definitely challenging. For Dynamics, you can use intuition and it becomes pretty obvious how the forces work. You just need to understand what you are doing and a good analysis of the system.

According to David's hacks from Matrix Education, they just derived as many formulas (including those on the reference sheet) using the core formulae known. You also need to be able to analyse well. Many of the complex kinematic equations (such as s=ut+at^2/2) can all be derived using basic formulae such as v=ds/dt, dv=u+v/2 (d for delta or change in variable) and v=u+at (which can also be derived known that a=dv/dt)

Thanks for that. I admit that most of the formulas can be understood and mastered just by derivations but there's other skills needed which are very important such as vector addition and subtraction which are relevant all the way till mod 5. Can you tell me how your physics hsc went?

 

[anonymoushehe]

i was thinking abt writing notes and doing anki flashcards + past papers
is it efficient to learn through textbook (physics in focus) or yt or any other textbook

i think with learning i think its important to not blindly accept something as true but basically ask why until it makes sense which is what i did for chem and physics since it means that it naturally goes in ur head without memorising the info + important since you apply this stuff in different situations. also support your learning in class with different textbooks rather than one since you can have a more rounded understanding of how certain things can be understood; for e.g., i used pearson, in focus, some online ones, etc. with questions i had a google doc of the questions i got wrong and wrote a theory based explaination so that by the time trials and hsc came i would read over the explainations a week before to review since your gonna do fine with the rest of the content (since it wasnt added to ur doc). but lowkey tho try not to go tooooo deep in the content than what is needed in hscs since you end up overthinkng over the questions (since hsc dumbs down a lot of stuff and ignores a bunch of improtant details).

 

[anonymoushehe]

Noted, I'll put more emphasis on EM induction then. Actually, I had also heard that many people practiced mod 6 heavily and overlooked the theory in mod 7 and 8



That's so relatable especially for bio , how did you go in HSC with your methods?

band 6 both!

 

[anonymoushehe]

Excel Study Guide Physics has good questions that are HSC level.

yeah this was really good! i also borrowed the A+ physics and chemistry books and spammed their questions as well

 

[anonymoushehe]

Yes. NESA would assume your internals were harder and so most will have their assessment marks go up.

lowkey though my assessments were like pretty easy since they were rehashed hsc questions bascially and my cohort was pretty weak - so i think its more than just the assessment marks going up if the grade performs well since my internal raw was 89.5 but scaled to a 91.

 

[anonymoushehe]

Good job! I needa grind for both, share strats In my grade for physics there is this one guy no matter what the assessment he always manages to get over 90.... Idek what he does, he gatekeeps so much

is your school ranked pretty good?

 

[anonymoushehe]

Let's just say it's probably terrible because physics ranks have never been talked about

lmfao its okay my school does super bad with sciences like we can get 0 to 2 b6s like every few years - but ultimately it just depends on your cohort since its different from the previous years. the advice i gave before was basically it. but regarding textbooks i also downloaded textbooks from other states and used some uni textbooks (introductory ones) which i thought were much much better than the ones we have in nsw. also i know people might disagree but i also used chatgpt to clarify my understanding about a topic and ask them to check over my explainations and stuff. i also used questions from other state papers and their trials as well. also remember your theories/models early since i was cramming a week before my exams. i also think its important to remember that especially if you are in a weak cohort and you do pretty bad in a task there is still hope for trials since thats where ranks change a lot (happened to me when i got low 70s for task 2 and 3) but i ended up getting 1st and b6 with a midish raw internal average, so there is hope regardless (and keep in mind our cohort fell like 300 ranks this year saur be hopeful ),

 

[anonymoushehe]

Would it be possible to pass on some of those less common textbooks? Did you make notes, or commit everything to memory whilst learning it? Idk if this is a good habit but nowadays I usually read the textbook for understanding but mostly make my notes in reference to videos and others notes from the HSC survival folder. I would really love it if you could just have a quick glance through my bio notes for 6.1 and give me some feedback later today or whenever you are free

what i basically did was when we were covering a certain topic i would basically read the set exercise related to that by each textbook in one go to a get a gist of how the jargon is used and how the logic is applied THEN write my notes - but tbh i had the habit of continously re-reading bits i didnt understand the following days (and sometimes every few weeks), so i was able to fully grasp it. the notes were just a quick summarisation of everything (without simplifying it but leaving the necessary details). i wouldnt rlly start questions on the topic until i actually understood the theory (like a week or two after learning it). generally, i dont ever end up referring to my notes by the time we reach trials since everytime i would write notes a new topic, id subconsciously read the previous notes. the only ones i did were just rote learning parts (theories and models). and yeah sure i can look through it, but i wouldnt say my method of study is efficient cause people in my class would trash how i studied didnt make sense tho cause they didnt b6 + also hated using other peoples notes as well