actually for uni ive been typing notes (partially because i dont have the time for writing them out manually). What I will do though before the next exams is type them then briefly write them down in dot point form/
ahh but in the HSC, as you well know, english students are expected to write 9-10 page essays in 40 minutes-an hour. I typed way too much this year, and so that's my main concern at the moment.1Time4thePpl said:actually for uni ive been typing notes (partially because i dont have the time for writing them out manually). What I will do though before the next exams is type them then briefly write them down in dot point form/
I disagree about typing up notes on the computer (for science subjects).I disagree about the part about not typing notes up (for science subjects/sdd), typing them up has some advantages -
* Easy Editing - Improve upon, summarise further, correct mistakes etc.
* Nice and easy to read - your hand writing might get messy about 4 hours of writing
* Much MUCH faster than hand writing so you can get more stuff done unless your very slow at typing - your hand doesn't die as fast when your typing especially for long study days.
However if you dont have ready access to a computer then I guess hand writing your notes is the only way for you.
I had that problem last year as well. You need to delete all the stuff that isn't that important (I know it's hard, and you probably think it's all important, but it needs to be done). I did so many practice essays the weekend before the HSC commenced and I managed to finish all of my English essays on time (usually I'd never finish, esp. during the trials).cherryblossom said:ahh but in the HSC, as you well know, english students are expected to write 9-10 page essays in 40 minutes-an hour. I typed way too much this year, and so that's my main concern at the moment.
As long as you can manipulate your memorised essays to suit the question, as you have mentioned, you should be fine. But some people fail to do this, thus BOS markers can easily pick up on this.kow_dude said:This is so True. You can get really good marks by just memorising. When i did my hsc, i managed to recall all my essays and i twisted them to suit the text type. I think this is the best way to go about for english as i had friends who tried to master their texts and write their essays on the spot during their exams. They were unsuccessful because the pressure was overwhelming. I remember for Paper 1 section 3, i memorised at least 25 techniques and 25 quotes. English gave me the worse friggin headache, and it continued throughout my hsc.
You can't get that for freeking_of_boredom said:ok i didn't quite know where to post it, so i'll ask here
at the moment i'm saving all the past papers from 2001-2004 for all my subjects from the board of studies website. the problem is, it only provides "marking guidelines" with it, not worked solutions which is what i'm after. would anyone know where to find worked solutions for past HSC papers or would anyone be kind enough to send them over?
LOL, what a troll!!king_of_boredom said:ok here's some advice to my fellow HSCers.
go to your school library. NOW. i've never wasted more than 5 minutes for my lunchtime in there, but trust me, you will find great stuff in there. i loaned out a lot of HSC books, but my friend [the bastard] stole the only Success One 2u and 3u maths books there. so, i took some physics, chem, IPT and 3u books to go, all has past papers, worked solutions, the lot. so go to your school library, will help you in your study.