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HSC Stuff => HSC Subjects + Help => Topic started by: elysepopplewell on August 23, 2017, 11:38:44 am
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The results are filtering in now from your biggest exam block to date.
Let us know:
1. Overall, have you done as you expected? Worse? Better?
2. Reflecting on the exam period - what will you do differently in the preparation and in the actual exam for HSC?
3. What's your plan from here?
A word of advice: Across all of my subjects, quite a few HSC questions were incredibly similar to my trial questions - even entire essays. You can imagine how many people in our exam room were kicking themselves when they realised they'd never gone back to those trial questions and resubmitted for further feedback, or even addressed the feedback to begin with! You've done the exam, so milk it for all its worth: get feedback from teachers, peers at school, peers at ATAR Notes, re-write the essays, work out where you went wrong in maths.
So, let's reflect! :)
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The results are filtering in now from your biggest exam block to date.
Let us know:
1. Overall, have you done as you expected? Worse? Better?
2. Reflecting on the exam period - what will you do differently in the preparation and in the actual exam for HSC?
3. What's your plan from here?
1. both modern and legal i did a lot better than expected, especially considering my exam timetable.
2. prep wise for the hsc i have a lot more time to prepare because of the huge gap between trials, so i'll be doing a lot more practice papers than before trials, and lots more practice responses.
3. just trying to keep my motivation up i guess!
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The results are filtering in now from your biggest exam block to date.
Let us know:
1. Overall, have you done as you expected? Worse? Better?
2. Reflecting on the exam period - what will you do differently in the preparation and in the actual exam for HSC?
3. What's your plan from here?
A word of advice: Across all of my subjects, quite a few HSC questions were incredibly similar to my trial questions - even entire essays. You can imagine how many people in our exam room were kicking themselves when they realised they'd never gone back to those trial questions and resubmitted for further feedback, or even addressed the feedback to begin with! You've done the exam, so milk it for all its worth: get feedback from teachers, peers at school, peers at ATAR Notes, re-write the essays, work out where you went wrong in maths.
So, let's reflect! :)
1. Just got my last results today! Was pleasantly surprised with phys and english (considering I was still writing my mod c essay the day before paper 2) but slightly disappointed with chem and math - usually they're my best subjects. Overall I'm quite happy though :))
2. Sleep. more. Really should've learnt this lesson earlier, I slept late before my 4u exam to look through past papers and I think that's the reason I made a ridiculous amount of silly mistakes :(. Didn't get a chance to practice writing essays with different questions because I was memorising them the day before the exam, so I'm planning on doing that now that there's heaps of time before the HSC. For chem and phys, will definitely slow down in the exam and spend more time thinking about every question before writing, 3 hours was longer than I thought it would be.
3. Hopefully going to do a maths paper every 2 days or so, maybe everyday when the HSC gets closer. Usually I just read through chem/phys papers without writing anything out so I'm gonna start doing these papers properly to improve my 5-7 markers. Also going to write a new creative because the one I used for trials got completely destroyed, and practice writing my essays.
Oops that ended up being really long. That was kinda motivating though! Gonna stop slacking now that it's been over 2 weeks since I finished trials hahah :))
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The results are filtering in now from your biggest exam block to date.
Let us know:
1. Overall, have you done as you expected? Worse? Better?
2. Reflecting on the exam period - what will you do differently in the preparation and in the actual exam for HSC?
3. What's your plan from here?
A word of advice: Across all of my subjects, quite a few HSC questions were incredibly similar to my trial questions - even entire essays. You can imagine how many people in our exam room were kicking themselves when they realised they'd never gone back to those trial questions and resubmitted for further feedback, or even addressed the feedback to begin with! You've done the exam, so milk it for all its worth: get feedback from teachers, peers at school, peers at ATAR Notes, re-write the essays, work out where you went wrong in maths.
So, let's reflect! :)
1. Worse than expected :(
2. Agree with the above: Start preparation earlier, practice responses, and past papers. Also for the sleep: had an average of 4-5 hours the night before
3. Make colourful mind-maps/summaries for each of my subjects, go through Trial feedback with teachers in 1-on-1 sessions
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2. Sleep. more. Really should've learnt this lesson earlier, I slept late before my 4u exam to look through past papers and I think that's the reason I made a ridiculous amount of silly mistakes :(. Didn't get a chance to practice writing essays with different questions because I was memorising them the day before the exam, so I'm planning on doing that now that there's heaps of time before the HSC. For chem and phys, will definitely slow down in the exam and spend more time thinking about every question before writing, 3 hours was longer than I thought it would be.
Jamon was a hero for past papers - I'm sure you can smash a few out. And you're right, the time is now! Back to it :)
1. Worse than expected :(
2. Agree with the above: Start preparation earlier, practice responses, and past papers. Also for the sleep: had an average of 4-5 hours the night before
3. Make colourful mind-maps/summaries for each of my subjects, go through Trial feedback with teachers in 1-on-1 sessions
Have you been able to pinpoint areas for improvement? I think the 1 on 1 feedback with your teachers will be very helpful. Be proactive in pushing for more if your teacher is vague or you aren't fully understanding what they are suggesting. Sometimes (even now), I receive feedback and think "yep, got this." And then I get home to re-write something and realise I haven't at all understood what went down in my feedback.
It's only upwards from here! :) :)
1. both modern and legal i did a lot better than expected, especially considering my exam timetable.
2. prep wise for the hsc i have a lot more time to prepare because of the huge gap between trials, so i'll be doing a lot more practice papers than before trials, and lots more practice responses.
3. just trying to keep my motivation up i guess!
Woohoo! You. have. got. this!
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1. both modern and legal i did a lot better than expected, especially considering my exam timetable.
2. prep wise for the hsc i have a lot more time to prepare because of the huge gap between trials, so i'll be doing a lot more practice papers than before trials, and lots more practice responses.
3. just trying to keep my motivation up i guess!
So happy to hear that Modern (and legal obviously too - but modern ;) ) went well!! So well deserved though, considering how much work you put into it (and how much work you put into helping others as well!)
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So happy to hear that Modern (and legal obviously too - but modern ;) ) went well!! So well deserved though, considering how much work you put into it (and how much work you put into helping others as well!)
modern was a really pleasant surprise when it came back :-) thank you!!
(i definitely put modern before all my other subjects, whoops)
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(i definitely put modern before all my other subjects, whoops)
don't we all ;)
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1) All went well except biology but I'm surprised with how all of them went I thought I stuffed them up
2) We have a THIRD set of trials starting next week so no breaks yet... a bit of cramming to come again as I've still got to edit english stuff. Probably more 4U maths papers for HSC and do hard questions from science papers. Probably gonna do CSSA and NEAP since HSC has the worst sample answers of all time
3) Start studying more per day not just 1-2 hours!
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1) I expected myself to go bad - I ended up doing much worse than I expected. Obviously can't blame anyone but myself here, but damn I feel terrible right now.
2) This is definitely going to be something that is easily worked on, but basically just knowing content. I'm not even kidding when I say that for every single subject, there was at least half a topic that I had not yet covered. Now being in humanities, where the syllabus is synonymous to a Bible, it was difficult to answer questions which honed in on syllabus areas that I know nothing of. With an 8 week time-frame until the HSC though, I feel that my marks could improve significantly if I just knew the content.
3) Collaborating with the rest of my cohort. Even though i'm no longer happy with my rank in most of my subjects, I need to accept that nothing can change them. From now until the HSC, we aren't individual numbers competing for internal ranks, but a group of numbers who represent our school against the entire state. If I can teach, and be teached by other students, then we as a group are moderated up and our terrible trial marks won't matter :)
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3) Collaborating with the rest of my cohort. Even though i'm no longer happy with my rank in most of my subjects, I need to accept that nothing can change them. From now until the HSC, we aren't individual numbers competing for internal ranks, but a group of numbers who represent our school against the entire state. If I can teach, and be teached by other students, then we as a group are moderated up and our terrible trial marks won't matter :)
THIS. THIS IS IMPORTANT. Now is the time for collaboration of resources, tips, reviews, etc. Swap case studies with your peers, join forces with the people who ROCK the course but you aren't real close with, and share time and experiences. This is a very rewarding period coming up!
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The results are filtering in now from your biggest exam block to date.
Let us know:
1. Overall, have you done as you expected? Worse? Better?
2. Reflecting on the exam period - what will you do differently in the preparation and in the actual exam for HSC?
3. What's your plan from here?
A word of advice: Across all of my subjects, quite a few HSC questions were incredibly similar to my trial questions - even entire essays. You can imagine how many people in our exam room were kicking themselves when they realised they'd never gone back to those trial questions and resubmitted for further feedback, or even addressed the feedback to begin with! You've done the exam, so milk it for all its worth: get feedback from teachers, peers at school, peers at ATAR Notes, re-write the essays, work out where you went wrong in maths.
So, let's reflect! :)
1. My school does the hsc compacted so I only had three exams to sit, I got 88.5% in pd, 88% in legal and 86% in ext 1 English. Not gonna lie, I was a little dissapointed in pd and legal cause I had aimed to get a 90 but oh well it's making me wanna work harder for hsc!
2. Definitely going to hand in a lot more responses to my teachers between now and hsc
3. Giving myself a bit of a break because it was just so hectic with trials and major work due but then will be getting back into it soon!
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I did alright in my trial exams but now that I have my overall subject mark for the year, I'm super scared that I won't get an ATAR that'll let me into uni! Would it be okay to post my marks for my subjects for someone to help me set goals for my HSC exams?
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I did alright in my trial exams but now that I have my overall subject mark for the year, I'm super scared that I won't get an ATAR that'll let me into uni! Would it be okay to post my marks for my subjects for someone to help me set goals for my HSC exams?
You sure can! Remember that your internal marks aren't as important as you may think - This guide explains how it all works ;D
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So far results have been as expected (maths terrible, business studies OK).
English I got the highest score as an average of both papers' mark but only 10/15 for creative writing. That was the only real thing I put time into as my post expenditure on the ATN marking threads shows, and I thought the stimulus fit OK. I got 7/10 for the previous CW assignment back in December so it's pretty depressing to regress like that. Idek what more I could do before mid-October since I've tried all the resources I have. The mark's probably cost me the #1 overall spot for the course too /salt.
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You sure can! Remember that your internal marks aren't as important as you may think - This guide explains how it all works ;D
I just want to say that I'm not at all embarrassed by my marks because I tried my absolute best and although I wish I could do better, this is what it is. So these are my calculated overall subject marks:
English - 53
Mathematics - 36
Biology - 65
Business Studies - 62
Legal Studies - 56
I'm aiming for an ATAR of at least 55 to just get me into uni, I want to do business and have gotten an early offer at ACU which requires a 55 ATAR and a pass in English. Thanks.
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I just want to say that I'm not at all embarrassed by my marks because I tried my absolute best and although I wish I could do better, this is what it is. So these are my calculated overall subject marks:
English - 53
Mathematics - 36
Biology - 65
Business Studies - 62
Legal Studies - 56
I'm aiming for an ATAR of at least 55 to just get me into uni, I want to do business and have gotten an early offer at ACU which requires a 55 ATAR and a pass in English. Thanks.
Awesome attitude to have - Everyone is running their own race ;D
So the issue is that your marks are all below the average for that subject. What that means is that, by definition, you are going to have an aggregate score significantly lower than the majority of the state (that's just the mathematics of it). With these marks as they are, an ATAR of 55 is unlikely. This might seem weird because most of your marks are over 55, but this is how it works.
Can you get a 55 ATAR? Absolutely. You just really need to push super hard and smash your HSC exams, because those results will need to be as strong as possible to bring your results higher to try and crack that 55 ATAR mark ;D
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BUMP! :)
As Trials wind down for 2018, how are you all feeling? How do you think you've performed? Will you change anything for the HSC?
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Pretty good, got English and Legal back today and my marks have significantly exceeded my expectations. However, everyone is literally telling me how horrible my handwriting is - my English teacher told me I may as well have written my essay in another language lol, so I need to sort this out before HSC for sure. It was so bad that I had to read out my creative and Mod C for the marker today lol. Coming forward, I think I need to stop overquoting in my english essays because it is evidently coming at the expense of the legibility of my response - which is not good.
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Pretty good, got English and Legal back today and my marks have significantly exceeded my expectations. However, everyone is literally telling me how horrible my handwriting is - my English teacher told me I may as well have written my essay in another language lol, so I need to sort this out before HSC for sure. It was so bad that I had to read out my creative and Mod C for the marker today lol. Coming forward, I think I need to stop overquoting in my english essays because it is evidently coming at the expense of the legibility of my response - which is not good.
Well done on strong results!! Here is some advice on handwriting and stuff ;D in terms of issues you could potentially have had to deal with post-trials, handwriting is a pretty good one to have gotten! ;D
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Ahhh first day back at school today since finishing my trials yesterday!
The day definitely felt super long and I think my lack of sleep over the last 3 weeks has finally reached its epitome.
I did get maths back today. I was kind disappointed even though I still got 90. I think I was lowkey dissapointed because all of my other 3 maths assessment tasks I got straight 95s. Do you think that is a good mark considering it’s the trials and considering I had Paper 1, Paper 2, Legal and then Maths consecutively?
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Ahhh first day back at school tomorrow since finishing my trials yesterday!
The day definitely felt super long and I think my lack of sleep over third last 3 weeks has finally reached its epitome.
I did get maths back today. I was kind disappointed even though I still got 90. I think I was lowkey dissapointed because all of my other 3 assessment tasks I got straight 95s. Do you think that is a good mark considering it’s the trials and considering I had Paper 1, Paper 2, Legal and then Maths consecutively?
Not just good, incredible!! To be on straight 90+ for most (potentially all?) of your subjects at Trials is insanely good ;D well done!
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I was happy with all my results (I was pleasantly surprised for some exams :)), however there are some things I would like to improve for HSC (which I know I will be able to!). My main issue was time management (for extension 1 maths, chemistry, geography and of course english) so I think I need to practice doing some past exams under timed conditions. I also found english paper 2 really hard because I've never had to write 3 essays in a row before, and the mod B question threw me.
It's amazing that I will never sit another exam set by my school though!!!
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Failed all subjects. Trying to do more past papers etc.
Senior Science: 64/100
CAFS: 64/100
SOR II: 48/85
IDT: 15/
ENG STANDARD-
P1: 10/15, 9/15, 12/15
P2: 9/15, 8/15, 12/15
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My marks were:
English 80%
2u 94% (1st)
3u 92% (4th)
Chem 84% (4th)
Earth 93% (1st)
Geo 91% (1st)
Overall I was super happy, however a little disappointed with english as it wasn't what I wanted, the creative really got me (8/15 compared to 18/20 in mod A and C). In the HSC I'm really hoping to improve english and chem, and get geo and earth up to 95. Gotta focus on planning answers and including all the detail necessary to answer the question fully. I'm also a bit worried about my handwriting in english as my comprehension section has to be transcribed