Study (4 Viewers)

[Axelscros]

Hey all, could u please list down how u study for all Ur subjects, like specifically what u do for each of them and how, also how has that method gone for you in terms of results. It would be very helpful for me, Thanks!

 

[Axelscros]

Also how often do u do each subject (im more interested in the method you use however)

 

[fromthethickofit]

chem phys x2 eng -> 1 hour a day for each subject this would be reviewing and solidifying content learnt the previous term or learning ahead, most jr students are going library everyday locking in for rank 1 though.

 

[spiderfan44]

Hey all, could u please list down how u study for all Ur subjects, like specifically what u do for each of them and how, also how has that method gone for you in terms of results. It would be very helpful for me, Thanks!

whenever i did notes for my subjects (apart from dt) i would make sure i had all the syllabus content, as anything on it is fair game in the exam, i would put the stuff in my textbook/slideshow into my own words since it forced me to understand the topic, i wouldnt write down anything i couldnt understand.

eng standard- didnt study for it until a couple weeks before trials and hsc, apart from making a list of english techniques. for trials just rewrote essays and memorised quotes. for hsc study i memorised quotes, rewrote my english essays and did practise questions, also did practise multiple choice but not much since i was already pretty good at it. hsc results: 86

d&t- didnt study for it until hsc & prelims, lol. just did notes on the syllabus and some case studies. hsc result: 86

food tech - wrote notes for food tech. i also would get out my syllabus, pick a dotpoint and say what i knew about it, did this for my entire syllabus multiple times. i did anki flashcards. i did practise hsc exams. hsc result; 94

geo - wrote notes. did detailed case studies for my dotpoints, i would also specifically memorise the statistics a lot. i had a notebook in which i rewrote my notes (although very unorganised and going over the basics) since rewriting helped me. did a lot of practise papers. hsc result: 87

ees- wrote notes. i remmeber when i rode my bike i would recount my syllabus and say as much i remembered about the dotpoint. lots of practise papers. 92

 

[spiderfan44]

whenever i did notes for my subjects (apart from dt) i would make sure i had all the syllabus content, as anything on it is fair game in the exam, i would put the stuff in my textbook/slideshow into my own words since it forced me to understand the topic, i wouldnt write down anything i couldnt understand.

eng standard- didnt study for it until a couple weeks before trials and hsc, apart from making a list of english techniques. for trials just rewrote essays and memorised quotes. for hsc study i memorised quotes, rewrote my english essays and did practise questions, also did practise multiple choice but not much since i was already pretty good at it. hsc results: 86

d&t- didnt study for it until hsc & prelims, lol. just did notes on the syllabus and some case studies. hsc result: 86

food tech - wrote notes for food tech. i also would get out my syllabus, pick a dotpoint and say what i knew about it, did this for my entire syllabus multiple times. i did anki flashcards. i did practise hsc exams. hsc result; 94

geo - wrote notes. did detailed case studies for my dotpoints, i would also specifically memorise the statistics a lot. i had a notebook in which i rewrote my notes (although very unorganised and going over the basics) since rewriting helped me. did a lot of practise papers. hsc result: 87

ees- wrote notes. i remmeber when i rode my bike i would recount my syllabus and say as much i remembered about the dotpoint. lots of practise papers. 92

idk how much for each subject but i spent about 5 hours a day (excluding weekends) on doing assignments + studying. during holidays id take 1 week off than the next week id spend 4-7 hours each day on studying. id assume i did 4 hours a day during my hsc exams

 

[spiderfan44]

idk how much for each subject but i spent about 5 hours a day (excluding weekends) on doing assignments + studying. during holidays id take 1 week off than the next week id spend 4-7 hours each day on studying. id assume i did 4 hours a day during my hsc exams

also 5 is quite abnormal, especially for such a low atar (lol). i only did it bcuz i have slow processing speed so it takes me longer to understand content

 

[appleali]

if you do the asian 5 (chem phys 4u maths adv eng), then just spam past papers for chem phys and 3u/4u that's the meta
and then before exams make sure you go over every topic and concept you are slightly unsure about

so for phys and chem right before my hsc, i basically blurted all the info onto my whiteboard about a particular topic (e.g spectroscopy techniques), then checked what i got right, wrong, what i missed and repeated. then i would take a photo of the whiteboard and print that topic and put it on the wall so later i can just talk to myself, essentially explain to an imaginary class what each topic is and its nuances

3u/4u spam past papers and hard questions no other way to do it (or even just 2u maths as well)
make sure you know the content properly tho, but the content is easy, actually solving problems is the hard part

adv eng i was always terrible at this but i went from 44/45 in year 11 to 6th in year 12 by doing one small thing:
building a better relationship with my teacher -> this is the most important thing for every subject especially for english
also memorise essays, no other way to get high marks
everyone, everyone who gets high marks in english at the minimum memorises a base essay to go off of
i memorised essays word for word and you can see the improvement

my results speak for themselves but yea maybe im not the best person to take advice from for english tbh cos im ass at it

good luck and take it easy

 

[hscccc]

for english i memorised essays, its really the only way imo. If i had a blank and didnt memorise the entire essay, I was at least familiar enough with the essay to write one on the spot and had all my quotes memorised. On top of the base essays, i had additional quotes to use tailored to a couple of wide questions i worked out. I think the short answers is a great section to maximise your mark in paper 1, so i practiced a lot of short answers all throughout the year in timed conditions and had my teacher mark them. i think the most important thing in english is to allow yourself enough time to write a really good base essay, get feedback, APPLY FEEDBACK and memorise. You should then practice writing the essays from memory and adapting them to a question (i got slack with this but id wish id done it more). Just be prepared for anything, have a creative, discursive, good essays and make essay plans for other questions and brainstorm what youd write (hsc 93 in adv and 47 in ext)

i did all humanities subjects im not sure what you do but the most important thing for all my subjects was essay writing and sometimes it takes practice. For content heavy subjects (mod history - 92 exam mark) i did a lot of spaced repetition and would then blurt the content out into a giant mind map. I made essay plans for modern and tried to memorise - did practice papers for section 1 and 4.

With legal i spammed multiple choice until i was getting 20/20 in less than 5 minutes, practiced the short answers, made essay plans for options/crime and memorised lcmdi. I knew the syllabus really well to ensure i knew where the crime q was coming from and had lcmdi for bunch of crime dot points - had essay plans for all to ensure id be safe for crime, which moderates the paper!!! (95 exam mark)

society and culture i did practice multis again and basically memorised the syllabus - for some subjects knowing the syllabus is really important to know where specifically a question is coming from. Honestly didnt do much study as id worked consistently throughout the year and just remembered all the content i needed. Knowing the 'style' of writing is important ig for each subject, in society you need to imbed the core concepts into your responses, so i made sure i was doing that in essays and short answers. Obvs theres also a major work, i extensively edited this but i wasnt very good at doing it throughout the year and was finished way too close to the deadline so id try and do major works across the year like youre meant to (94 hsc)

imo i think the most important thing you can do is to be consistent across the year, stay up to date with notes and content. I made pretty extensive notes for modern history and legal, and had very good ones for my other subjects - this helped a lot in trials and hsc, having it all there so i could pull out of it to create essay plans and memorise. if youre consistent across the year with your work, youre going to remember the content you need and itll make studying in the hsc period a lot easier. Every subject i basically just wrote notes and blurted to memorise, thats how my brain worked. Build good relationships with your teachers and always ask them for help, make sure you listen to the feedback they provide and actually work towards applying it and fixing it - this helped me improve so much in ext english. I also chose subjects I liked and was good at, so important and helped me do well. I didnt do intense studying in the hsc, but i have an app and across the year i at least did 80 hours or smth

good luck w your hsc !!

 

[Axelscros]

i have slow processing speed so it takes me longer to understand conten

yeah haha me too thank you so much!!! also your atar is very good not low!! Good job.

 

[Axelscros]

if you do the asian 5 (chem phys 4u maths adv eng)

hah not that smart i do math standard 2, legal, bio, chem, eng adv

i basically blurted all the info onto my whiteboard about a particular topic (e.g spectroscopy techniques), then checked what i got right, wrong, what i missed and repeated. then i would take a photo of the whiteboard and print that topic and put it on the wall so later i can just talk to myself, essentially explain to an imaginary class what each topic is and its nuances

Is this for learning new content? Also how long does this usually take, i've heard its very good method ill be sure to try it!! Would u do past papers over this all well? If yes how often would u do past papers and this method?

44/45 in year 11 to 6th in year 12

Wow good job!!

good luck w your hsc !!

Thank you so much, good luck with uni or whatever you plan on doing next!!

 

[Axelscros]

spaced repetition and would then blurt the content out into a giant mind map.

If you dont mind could share how you did spaced repetition? I've always wanted to try it but have had no clue how to. It always seemed to much for all my subjects together and the days linking up.

With legal i spammed multiple choice until i was getting 20/20 in less than 5 minutes, practiced the short answers, made essay plans for options/crime and memorised lcmdi. I knew the syllabus really well to ensure i knew where the crime q was coming from and had lcmdi for bunch of crime dot points - had essay plans for all to ensure id be safe for crime, which moderates the paper!!! (95 exam mark)

You did very good for legal!! Do you recommend doing notes for legal? Or would that be too much content and stuff, is better to just do past papers, because this holiday im trying to make notes for my subjects so i can get ahead but there seems to be so much for legal. Also did u prememorise an essay and mould it? or did you write one on the spot.

 

[Sammy445129]

Personally for me the only thing that works for me is cramming info, like memorising EVERYTHING in the textbook works so good for me. Only problem is, its very time consuming and half the info you memorise isn't even necessary, it makes me feel like i studied properly only if i memorise everything. Probably don't recommend this method either lol its very easy to get burnt out. But for some subject like bio and all the content heavy subjects i feel like its a good method.

I would make notes for all my subjects from textbook and in my own words and then never look at the notes ever again, its how i learn content. Then to study again i would do my cramming and memorising info straight from textbook. Honestly i feel like its a good method if you use spaced repetition and revisited and crammed info every so often. Again this is what works for me, it might be different for you.

But for subjects like math you can't do notes you HAVE to do questions, like yea notes might help w content but the only way to ensure good marks is to do questions.

 

[appleali]

Is this for learning new content? Also how long does this usually take, i've heard its very good method ill be sure to try it!! Would u do past papers over this all well? If yes how often would u do past papers and this method?

thanks for the kind words sigma squad
doesn't take that long just gotta lock in for a bit and have 0 distractions
but i think past papers are the best way to study, get feedback from teachers for sciences and humanities written responses, obviously calc qs you just look at da mg and see how and why you got it wrong

my study strategy (very stupid simple no pomodoro or spaced repitisisihz or any of that) was just spam past papers, look at content i got wrong, and then study that using aforementioned blurt method and repeat until 100 in practice papers (never happened but ideally this is what we're aiming for)
i mean you could use those techniques, i tried in year 11 but the amount of time it took to research and setup all the stuff i coulda just studied
i just rawdogged it fr

 

[Axelscros]

my study strategy (very stupid simple no pomodoro or spaced repitisisihz or any of that) was just spam past papers, look at content i got wrong, and then study that using aforementioned blurt method and repeat until 100 in practice papers (never happened but ideally this is what we're aiming for)
i mean you could use those techniques, i tried in year 11 but the amount of time it took to research and setup all the stuff i coulda just studied
i just rawdogged it fr

How about originally learning content? Like would u make notes or anything? Because before sitting the exam you need to know content right.

Also i like this method a lot ill be doing that when i do my past papers thank you!!

 

[appleali]

How about originally learning content? Like would u make notes or anything? Because before sitting the exam you need to know content right.

Also i like this method a lot ill be doing that when i do my past papers thank you!!

oh yeah just pay attention in class, i never really took notes twice
basically i would just take note in class and then do questions at home
why waste time at home studying the content when you already did it in school? at home you need to action the content you learnt, i think thats the best way to review the content as while you use it you review it more actively than if you just read and rewrote notes

although obviously you will have to review content especially before exams and when it has been a while since you studied something

 

[Smbdy]

blurt method

hey mate if you don't mind could u explain this a bit more, like how often would u do this blurting technique

 

[skzza]

hah not that smart i do math standard 2, legal, bio, chem, eng adv

use scienceready to pre study for chem and then spam qs!! its rlly helpful

 

[kkk579]

oh yeah just pay attention in class, i never really took notes twice
basically i would just take note in class and then do questions at home
why waste time at home studying the content when you already did it in school? at home you need to action the content you learnt, i think thats the best way to review the content as while you use it you review it more actively than if you just read and rewrote notes

although obviously you will have to review content especially before exams and when it has been a while since you studied something

how long on average or how hard did u study during the 6 week christmas holidays before term 2 of y12? im planning to js prep for my at2s throughout the holidays (which will continue all the way up to week 7-9, when my tasks happen) and near the end of these 6 wks, do some revision on the topics that have been tested in at1 (i do the same subjects as u), and im also terrible at english so im honestly very worried about that. how would u go abouts actually improving your writing?

 

[hscccc]

If you dont mind could share how you did spaced repetition? I've always wanted to try it but have had no clue how to. It always seemed to much for all my subjects together and the days linking up.

You did very good for legal!! Do you recommend doing notes for legal? Or would that be too much content and stuff, is better to just do past papers, because this holiday im trying to make notes for my subjects so i can get ahead but there seems to be so much for legal. Also did u prememorise an essay and mould it? or did you write one on the spot.

i used spaced repetition to memorise - i memorised my essays and other content this way. Honestly its quite simple, its the opposite of cramming - to do spaced repetition you have to allow yourself time to do it. The spacing of this did vary, in the hsc it was more condensed but still broken up. A couple of weeks before an in school assessment/exam id begin to revise, id revise a little bit of content a day and then come back to it in a couple of days, just spacing the studying out but coming back and looking at it again (does this make sense?). During the HSC i did have less time, but i think a lot of year 12 was "spaced repetition" in general, which is why its important to be consistent across the year, keeping up with notes, doing homework etc. the best way for me to learn things in legal was pre-learning before class, coming in already being familiar with the content, doing the homework and then writing my summary notes. In the HSC i spaced out memorising my essays, i separated it into chunks and learnt one chunk gradually across an entire day (i think theres some science behind why this works but it did work really well for me!) once i learnt one chunk id move on, however i would always come back to it hence the repetition lol. Sorry this is getting a bit long and convoluted so i hope this makes sense. Subjects will get overwhelming and it does get harder to space it out closer to exams which is why you should be organised, allow enough time and prioritise- if you have been good with this throughout the year the content will probably come back to you quite fast. Its not always possible to do this tho, i didnt always and crammed a bit asw.

also thank you! I do recommend notes for legal as i referred to these and relied on them during revision for trials/hsc. I made very comprehensive crime/human rights notes - fell off a little with options. The content may seem overwhelming but creating notes is simpler than it seems, just go by syllabus dot point and summarise, include lcmdi as well. This will help you in the hsc, especially for crime if you know the syllabus points well and can write a specific essay. If youre going to do any notes for legal i would focus on human rights and crime - especially as you likely do these topics first having good notes makes studying for legal so much easier. If you get a head start on them now, you can add to them each week this year and it wont seem so overwhelming - i can send you an example of mine if youd like? I only did practice papers for multis and human rights short answers - i wrote essay plans for crime and i did 2-3 practice essays that i typed up (not under time) i never memorised any legal essays, i just wrote them on the spot with memorised lmcdi. I had an idea of what i was going to write about for themes and challenges and i brainstormed different lcmdi/syllabus points that would fit different qs. Essay plans for each crime topic are important!! the majority of my work for legal was done throughout the year and i did very minimal study for it during the hsc (only night before world order cramming because i never did a world order essay ooops dont repeat this mistake) I could yap about legal for ages so if you ever want anymore advice id be happy to help. Again sorry for the essay lmao

 

[appleali]

hey mate if you don't mind could u explain this a bit more, like how often would u do this blurting technique

so i did this right before the hsc, you should probably do it a bit more often though

essentially this blurt method was part of my chem/phys/maths study, it would work for any content-heavy subject (except english)
1. do past papers/exam questions (exam conditions)
2. mark them and record topics that you are getting wrong conceptually (not just silly mistakes but rather things that you didn't understand/didn't know how to do)
3. on a blank whiteboard/piece of paper, write everything you know about the topic, almost as if it's an exam question asking you to explain everything about that topic
4. go to your textbook/class notes/eddie woo or whatever, and look at what parts you forgot or remembered incorrectly
(i use scienceready for chem and phys, it's soooo good and it literally goes into each syllabus dot point in detail)
5. then write those parts on the whiteboard/sheet

this part is optional, but what i did at the end is took a photo of my whiteboard, and printed out the completed topic notes and stuck them on my wall
then the night before each exam i would just review each piece of paper and kind of talk to myself, essentially imagining someone who has no idea about the topic is in front of me and explaining it to them concisely but in detail

so it would look like this