Studying in Year 12

[charmanderp]

Or if you have a folio of some sort due...

[max payne]

does anyone have any sacs next week? If so are you planning on concentrating on them or your midyear's study.

No brainer really, Midyears > sacs (unless it's english, always study for english.... - unless you're a freak at it)

So youre saying English sac > midyears? Or do you mean english is the only subject you would study for during exam study

[Surgeon]

An English SAC might be worth 20% of Unit 3 which is worth 25% of your study score. Effectively, one English SAC may be worth 5% of your study score.

The Chemistry exam for example is worth 33% of your final study score.

There's a pretty monumental difference.

I don't think you should completely disregard SACs in favour of mid year exams but you need to strike up a mutually equitable split.

Ofcourse, you would study more for your mid year exam.

[nacho]

you could surely set aside 30mins-1hr for SAC study
you'd also get bored of studying the same sub (well i do anyway)
anyways i disregarded SACs comepletely whenit came to midyears, i regret it

[charmanderp]

Ideally you should start preparation for exams much before the date, so that this isn't a problem.

[Greatness]

does anyone have any sacs next week? If so are you planning on concentrating on them or your midyear's study.

No brainer really, Midyears > sacs (unless it's english, always study for english.... - unless you're a freak at it)

So youre saying English sac > midyears? Or do you mean english is the only subject you would study for during exam study

Yeah the latter, i wouldn't worry too much about sacs for other subjects. But they're important for english, so make sure you spend a little bit of time on it.

[charmanderp]

But then again English is the only subject where you can get perfect marks without doing any work (except reading/seeing the texts for the Text Response) :p

[Greatness]

But then again English is the only subject where you can get perfect marks without doing any work (except reading/seeing the texts for the Text Response) :p

Lol wasnt for me... Had to bust my guts out to get an A

[charmanderp]

I know what you mean - I put hours of work into Methods for pretty sub-standard results. Frustrating!

[pi]

But then again English is the only subject where you can get perfect marks without doing any work (except reading/seeing the texts for the Text Response) :p

.... How?

[charmanderp]

I dunno, I've managed it this year. Although the English cohort at my school is rather weak, so I'm probably just lucky...

[AllAboutTheLGs]

^ He's being modest. Our English cohort is a cohort that puts out like fifty 40+ study scores every year.
He's a beast at English (top English student at GWSC), and his 2 perfect SAC scores (with a third incoming in Lang Anal) clearly illustrates this.

[charmanderp]

We had eight scores of 45 or above last year, from a cohort of 240+ :p

[pi]

LOL, gotta love/hate modesty sometimes

We had eight scores of 45 or above last year, from a cohort of 240+ :p

MHS had like 12 scores or something above 45...



Any school with 40+ 40+ scores (lol) in english is a strong one.

[charmanderp]

Modesty is a foreign concept to me, as anyone who knows me will tell you :p

That may be the case in terms of marks but reading some of the essays which my very intelligent peers put out at school doesn't really inspire confidence. I genuinely have no idea how there can, across the state, be so many very capable high school students who struggle with VCE English.