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How to Get a Band 6 in HSC Mathematics

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sophiemacpherso:
Hey!! My school has trials this term, and we're being tested on content we'll be learning right up until the week before... How would you go about doing past papers in this scenario?

RuiAce:

--- Quote from: sophiemacpherso on May 17, 2017, 09:37:18 pm ---Hey!! My school has trials this term, and we're being tested on content we'll be learning right up until the week before... How would you go about doing past papers in this scenario?

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If your school has past papers then you should just be doing it.

There's going to be a need to learn and study simultaneously for the 3-4 weeks leading up to the exam. Start getting into past papers ASAP, ensuring that you can handle everything on content that's already been taught. But you're going to have to find a balance.

The problem: You most likely have to study and learn for not just that subject
The resolutions:
1. Everyone messes up with you, so moderation will save you all regardless in the final exam.
2. If maths is the ONLY subject where you're being taught content up to there then you have a bit more breathing room. There's a different benefit in that you should be able to retain information you learnt recently more easily.

Finding the balance between studying and learning new content is going to be a bit rough. Put a small amount of faith into the likelihood of retaining newly learnt content more easily, and make sure you have all the other stuff covered first. Past papers are easy to find (THSC), so just do every single question relevant to your trials (i.e. you will be examined on). If you see some questions that appear as though they may be taught in that one week before the trials, you can consider bookmarking them to go back to later.

The idea is, if you have all of the old stuff covered, you'll feel more at ease and ready to add the new stuff in as well.

herb123:
Great tips!

Crabstickz:
Hi, do you mind if I ask how you spread out your time in the exam. Specifically for 2u?
how long roughly did you have just to check over your answers and did you have any time goals for each section (e.g. 6 mins for multiple choice, 30 mins for q15)
currently q 11/12/13's are taking me anywhere between 7 to 20 minutes each and I'm not sure how much time i should be allocating for each ?

RuiAce:

--- Quote from: Crabstickz on July 12, 2017, 11:59:47 am ---Hi, do you mind if I ask how you spread out your time in the exam. Specifically for 2u?
how long roughly did you have just to check over your answers and did you have any time goals for each section (e.g. 6 mins for multiple choice, 30 mins for q15)
currently q 11/12/13's are taking me anywhere between 7 to 20 minutes each and I'm not sure how much time i should be allocating for each ?


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You need to be aware of the fact that there is no concrete rule, or even range, that will simply work for anyone.

However, if you want my own experience, it's definitely pretty hard to draw memories from that long ago (I did 2U in Yr 10) but it was somewhere along the lines of:
- 10 min checking
- 5-10 min M/C
- Randomly assorted into whatever I felt like it. Sometimes I just suddenly stop doing working out and start checking and vice versa.

As the papers were 3 hours, from a high aimer's perspective I also tried to make sure I took no longer than 30min on Q11-13. Else, depends on what you get on the day.

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