Would it be wise to solely depend on pre made notes either by ATAR notes or past HSC students?
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Those sort of notes are
fantastic for a study resource and learning tool. They can free up valuable time that would normally be spent preparing a set of notes, so you can use it for practice questions/other stuff. Particularly true for the ATAR Notes materials written by the lecturers, because it is succinct and something you can
actually use like you would study notes - Not a huge textbook with heaps of unnecessary stuff. This is great!
However, there is definitely benefits to having your own set of notes. A set of notes written by you will work better for you then pretty much anything else - Because you know how you learn. You know what works and how you remember your content.
So I suppose it depends on you as a learner! Time is way better spent practicing and actively applying your content than writing notes, which is the benefit of purchasing them, but a good set of notes calibrated to you can be beneficial too as it can make you more efficient.
PS - Posters rule. Whether you make notes or not, I'm a massive advocate of posters. Made them for Physics and Math. If I did HSC Physics again right now, I'd use the ATAR Notes Physics Notes as my study notes (I wrote them, I'm definitely bias, ahaha!) but then make posters further summarising the content the way
I like it