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National Education => General National Education Discussion => Topic started by: Joseph41 on June 14, 2018, 12:42:38 pm

Title: A quick video on motivation, study, hitting your goals and stuff!
Post by: Joseph41 on June 14, 2018, 12:42:38 pm
G'day friends!

It's a strange time of year for high school students at the moment, I think. Due to that, I thought I'd make a quick video on a few things, like motivation and preparing for the rest of the year.

It's a bit repetitive, I stumble a bit, there might be a couple of factual errors, I didn't prepare at all for it and I basically just ramble for a while, but I hope some people find it useful!


0:00: hello!
0:45: perspective on how you're going at the moment.
2:08: feeling a lack of motivation.
2:30: the things you learn from Year 12.
3:30: those people who seem like they have everything worked out.
4:29: parallels between Year 12 and social media.
5:40: what your marks actually mean at the moment.
9:02: holidays are coming up!
10:11: dealing with stress.
11:23: improving your marks (changing study techniques).
13:42: working toward your goals.
15:41: what the ATAR can lead to.
18:05: exam preparation.
21:18: recap.

As promised in the video:

Spoiler
We have some guides/explanations on the technical side of high school below:
* For VCE, this here is the main "Technical VCE" board. Threads of note include "VCE Behind the Scenes", Orb's great thread on scaling, our study score prediction/question thread, and the main resource summary.
* For HSC, this here is the main "Technical HSC" board. Jamon wrote a fantastic article here, which explains pretty much everything you need to know. But we also have an ATAR/scaling questions thread for any follow-up queries.

And there are also some resources you can use to help with that elusive exam preparation:
* For VCE, check out our best forum resources, a database of our articles, our free VCE videos and our free VCE notes.
* Similarly, for HSC, here are our best forum resources, a database of our articles, our free HSC revision lecture videos and our free HSC notes.

And relevant to what I was speaking about early in the video, here's an article Elyse wrote on different ways to study.

Regardless, hope you're all going well, and have a stellar afternoon!

EDIT: Wow, my beanie really creeps up, doesn't it? Showing a lot of ear there. 😂
Title: Re: A quick video on motivation, study, hitting your goals and stuff!
Post by: LadyWhoAsksTooMuchQuestions on June 18, 2018, 05:17:18 pm
Thank you for taking time out of your day to not only recording this video but also providing more useful link. Weeks away from my trials!!!  :'(
Title: Re: A quick video on motivation, study, hitting your goals and stuff!
Post by: Joseph41 on June 18, 2018, 05:29:29 pm
Quote from: LadyWhoAsksTooMuchQuestions on June 18, 2018, 05:17:18 pm
Thank you for taking time out of your day to not only recording this video but also providing more useful link. Weeks away from my trials!!!  :'(

Hey, no stress at all! :)

We're always here if you need help, trials or otherwise. ;D