Starting to study for year 12

[ninwa]

Keep it friendly -_-

Alright, alright, but it's inappropriate to speak in a condescending manner

pot... kettle

[thushan]

Hmm. To answer the original question, I'd say the earlier you start, the better. However, it would be good to start lightly. Light reading. No need to go into heavy stuff and try learn the entire course in one go. Having said that, if you do want to learn the entire course in the holidays, just keep in mind that you are not expected to understand it deeply the first time. Also...be aware that even though you've covered the entire course already, remember to pay attention in class because this is a very good opportunity to concrete those ideas into your head, to think about the topics more deeply.

So all in all, I'd say the earlier you start, the better. If used appropriately, early study can do you wonders. However, don't expect to learn the entire course DEEPLY over the holidays.

[Mr Keshy]

Is it me or did some posts get deleted?

[Stick]

Some of the posts in this thread seriously suggest people didn't get mandatory headstart homework to complete during the summer holidays. I intend on doing nothing extra because 1) I overworked myself this year and 2) the set work is actually enough. This is what I have to do over the holidays:

English:
- Read each text twice.
- Start working on a context scrapbook (minimum of 5 pieces before the holidays have finished).
- Read through and annotate a 90 page booklet relating to my issues oral.
- Write my issues oral.

Biology:
- Read through and make notes on chapter 1.
- Answer all questions from chapter 1.
- Complete the relevant Biozone worksheets.
- Complete other miscellaneous handouts.
- Start working through StudyOn Unit 3 AOS 1.

Chemistry:
- Read and complete all questions from chapters 1 and 2.
- Make relevant notes from these chapters.

Methods:
- Complete chapters 1 and 2.
- Complete all review chapters from the Year 11 textbook.

Specialist:
- Finish chapters 1-5 (technically we did this before the holidays though so I actually have nothing for Specialist ).

I'm certainly not doing much more than that. That will take me a while to complete.

[VivaTequila]

English:
- Read each text twice.
- Start working on a context scrapbook (minimum of 5 pieces before the holidays have finished).
- Read through and annotate a 90 page booklet relating to my issues oral.
- Write my issues oral.


Biology:
- Read through and make notes on chapter 1.
- Answer all questions from chapter 1.
- Complete the relevant Biozone worksheets.
- Complete other miscellaneous handouts.
- Start working through StudyOn Unit 3 AOS 1.

Chemistry:
- Read and complete all questions from chapters 1 and 2.
- Make relevant notes from these chapters.

Methods:
- Complete chapters 1 and 2.
- Complete all review chapters from the Year 11 textbook.

Specialist:
- Finish chapters 1-5 (technically we did this before the holidays though so I actually have nothing for Specialist ).

I'm certainly not doing much more than that. That will take me a while to complete.

That is a LOT of English work, forget the rest if you plan to accomplish that!! I only read one of my texts, once, at the start of the holidays, and forgot it all by the time school started.

I would do less English and a whole lot more Chemistry - try to knock out chapters 1-4 because it's all stuff you can/should know except for Back Titrations and some of the analytical chemistry, but you should still be able to teach yourself imo.

Just my 2c

[Mr Keshy]

My spesh teacher didn't set us anything new. He just told us to concrete the basic knowledge that we were taught during headstart. Because if you start something new and don't get it, you could fall into learning incorrect techniques and then somehow get depressed with specialist maths. Our teacher is epic, makes spesh sound so fun.

I'm not working ahead too far for most of my subjects because my tutor and teachers both agree it's not the best idea, I do not want to fall into the trap of not doing anything in class. For further I'm choosing to because I've read through the core stuff and it does seem fairly simple at first glance.

I'm going about in a way basically saying that I don't want to cover heaps of areas, but I want to cover the few areas we've done in headstart deeply.

[Stick]

But I need something confirmed - by all those who encourage us to start working in the holidays, did you receive headstart homework (and if so, as much as I've got)? I definitely don't want people shunning me because I'm not completing an AOS or something, especially when I have received so much mandatory work to complete.

[pi]

My set holiday homework was minimal. Did what I did myself.

[michak]

I recieved homework over the holidays but hardly the amount that you got. However for myself i probably did the amount of work you got Stick. What i did was complete the first AOs for each of my subjects and read my first english text and annotated it.
But this approach isn't for everyone. Just do the amount of work you think is necessary and like Kesh said, dont learn all the work if you know that you now want work in class and fall into the trap of maybe forgetting the information.

[Planck's constant]

End of Year 11 transition lectures, and holiday homework are fairly typical.
But you must bear in mind, that your teacher sets the SAME amount of homework to all students, but not all students will achieve the SAME study score at the end of the year.
VCE basically rewards effort, and at the of the day the amount of effort put in by students will cover the entire spectrum and so will study scores.
Ultimately, we are talking about individual choice. There is no such thing as a perfect preparation, but we can fairly conidently say that greater effort leads to higher scores.

[Planck's constant]

Hmm. To answer the original question, I'd say the earlier you start, the better. However, it would be good to start lightly. Light reading. No need to go into heavy stuff and try learn the entire course in one go. Having said that, if you do want to learn the entire course in the holidays, just keep in mind that you are not expected to understand it deeply the first time. Also...be aware that even though you've covered the entire course already, remember to pay attention in class because this is a very good opportunity to concrete those ideas into your head, to think about the topics more deeply.

So all in all, I'd say the earlier you start, the better. If used appropriately, early study can do you wonders. However, don't expect to learn the entire course DEEPLY over the holidays.

An EXPERT tip

[Limista]

End of Year 11 transition lectures, and holiday homework are fairly typical.
But you must bear in mind, that your teacher sets the SAME amount of homework to all students, but not all students will achieve the SAME study score at the end of the year.
VCE basically rewards effort, and at the of the day the amount of effort put in by students will cover the entire spectrum and so will study scores.
Ultimately, we are talking about individual choice. There is no such thing as a perfect preparation, but we can fairly conidently say that greater effort leads to higher scores.

+1 to that.

But I also think work SMART, not just hard. The key is to be efficient, I think 

[Planck's constant]

End of Year 11 transition lectures, and holiday homework are fairly typical.
But you must bear in mind, that your teacher sets the SAME amount of homework to all students, but not all students will achieve the SAME study score at the end of the year.
VCE basically rewards effort, and at the of the day the amount of effort put in by students will cover the entire spectrum and so will study scores.
Ultimately, we are talking about individual choice. There is no such thing as a perfect preparation, but we can fairly conidently say that greater effort leads to higher scores.

+1 to that.

But I also think work SMART, not just hard. The key is to be efficient, I think 

Yes, and this is where I think forums such as this can make a difference.
You can get useful tips to help optimise the reward/effort equation.

Different subjects require a different approach.
For instance, English lends itself to the steady build-up approach. No matter what you do, you will never be able to write as good an English essay at the start of the year than 5 minutes prior to the end-of-year exam.

Maths is different. You aim for perfection from get go.

Physics, Psychology, Business Management involve an amount of rote learning. These subjects lend themselves to the LIGHT rather than DEEP start (using chemderp's terminology)

Etc

[Stick]

End of Year 11 transition lectures, and holiday homework are fairly typical.
But you must bear in mind, that your teacher sets the SAME amount of homework to all students, but not all students will achieve the SAME study score at the end of the year.
VCE basically rewards effort, and at the of the day the amount of effort put in by students will cover the entire spectrum and so will study scores.
Ultimately, we are talking about individual choice. There is no such thing as a perfect preparation, but we can fairly conidently say that greater effort leads to higher scores.

I agree. There will be a large number of students who will not complete these set tasks and over 12 months, many more people can drop the ball as well. It's all about consistency.

[Mr Keshy]

End of Year 11 transition lectures, and holiday homework are fairly typical.
But you must bear in mind, that your teacher sets the SAME amount of homework to all students, but not all students will achieve the SAME study score at the end of the year.
VCE basically rewards effort, and at the of the day the amount of effort put in by students will cover the entire spectrum and so will study scores.
Ultimately, we are talking about individual choice. There is no such thing as a perfect preparation, but we can fairly conidently say that greater effort leads to higher scores.

I agree. There will be a large number of students who will not complete these set tasks and over 12 months, many more people can drop the ball as well. It's all about consistency.

If there's anything I'm scared about now, it's this. I'm all enthusiastic about it now, but I'd have to check in, in a few months and hope that it is still the same. If not better!