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Katie-A Rhino's charge through the HSC!
katie,rinos:
24/9/17
I finally put in my UAC application tonight (A little late: 4 days before the processing charge increases). This has been something I’ve been stressing over so I’m glad that I’ve been able to choose courses that I am happy with. :)
At the moment they are:
1. Bachelor of Music/Bachelor of Education (secondary): UNSW
2. Bachelor of Music (Music education): USyd
3. Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Education (Secondary):UNSW
4. Bachelor of education/Bachelor of Arts: USyd
5. Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Education: Macquarie
With the Bachelor of Arts courses I think I would be either majoring/minoring in history or music. I’m pretty excited for uni at the moment-I’ve been researching some of the units that I may be able to do and they sound really interesting!
I still need to fill in audition forms, write a teaching statement (for USyd) and pay for UAC and Usyd auditions.
25/9/17
Had a really good time at the NSW AN meetup. Was great to finally meet everyone! :D
Didn’t do a whole lot of studying today. Really want to start studying a lot more this week because todays the first day of holidays (not that we have a proper holiday or anything). I want to try to start doing more practice papers-I would love to be able to get one done for all of my subjects by the end of the week (will end up being about 8 ) and hopefully even more next week (as well as other study).
Just finished watching all of Emily’s English revision videos. Found them really helpful/interesting! Thanks heaps Emily! :D Looking forward to the other videos! :)
Tomorrow I have a hospitality study day at school (although I’m not too sure how many people will turn up). On Wednesday I have a legal study day in the morning and a concert (The Vamps) that night which I’m really excited about! I also have an English study day on Friday and a maths one next week.
katie,rinos:
9/10/17
Haven’t really updated for a while …
I’ve been busy studying. I’ve been doing essay plans, mind maps, detail tables, flashcards and some past papers. I was putting off essays a bit throughout the holidays so I need to get more on top of it this week and next (as well as more past papers).
I’ve gotten into doing essay plans on my white board during the holidays (especially for Legal and Ancient but also for English quotes). I think at the moment it’s tricking me into studying because it’s not the normal pen and paper and I have heaps of different colours. I’ve included a picture of one of my favourite one’s (on law reform):
My legal mind map!The pictures really blurry, but still looks ok.
I’ve realised there’s still so much more content I need to work on memorising and revising. I need to know so many dates, quotes, archaeological evidence, legislation and media. Also, because I have 8 exams I feel like I’m not studying for everything evenly and there are some subjects that I need to study a lot more for.
Procrastination has been my worst enemy at the moment. I’m doing it so much, even right now! It doesn’t help that half the time studying feels really boring (even though I like my subjects).
Apart from studying, in the holidays I went to The Vamps concert with my sister (really good, first ever time in a most pit, we were so close), to the shops and also to the beach on the weekend (had the best Greek souvlaki). I also had a few study days at school which were pretty helpful (got to see my friends, did some past papers and revision).
Today I did a practise essay for Extension (section 1), an essay on Law reform for legal and worked on memorising dates for Julio Claudians for Ancient. Really need to work on English and music tomorrow (they are my only exams next week)- can’t believe there’s only 7 days left! Part of me can’t wait until this is over.
Might go into school sometime this week to study and hand in some essays to my teachers for feedback. But we were emailed today saying that we come in we still need to wear our uniform.
Hope all of the new year 12’s had a great day today! (Feel’s weird saying that!)
I hope study is going ok for everyone! Good luck guys-not too long now!
K888:
Really enjoyed your update, Katie! :D
Sounds like your prep for exams is going pretty well. I love that you're using your whiteboard - I honestly think whiteboards were the best revision tool I used during year 12.
With procrastination (feel your pain), maybe Brenden's wisdom might be of use:
--- Quote from: brenden ---As for avoiding procrastination… I kind of just embrace it? I don’t feel bad for procrastinating. I just do what I want and get it out of my system, then when I’ve not-done-something for so long that I genuinely need to get on it or I’m fucked, I usually work uninterrupted hahahaha. If I don't want to procrastinate, I don't procrastinate. If I want to procrastinate, I do it until I don't want to anymore. The problem wth people asking "how do I stop procrastinating" is they are actually asking, "How do I stop procrastinating when I want to procrastinate?" and I guess my solution is just... don't. Instead, work on not wanting to procrastinate.
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--- Quote from: katie,rinos on October 09, 2017, 10:36:20 pm ---Might go into school sometime this week to study and hand in some essays to my teachers for feedback. But we were emailed today saying that we come in we still need to wear our uniform.
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We had to do this too - honestly, I didn't mind it, because wearing school uniform put me into the work mindset so I felt like I was more likely to knuckle down and focus. I was definitely glad we had to wear uniform for exams - even if we had the choice to wear casual clothes, I think I probably would have worn uniform haha.
Wishing you all the luck in the world for your upcoming exams! ;D
katie,rinos:
10/10/17
I've actually had a really productive two days:
- Wrote a discovery essay with the 2016 HSC question
- One of the comprehension part of Paper 1
- Worked on some essay plans for Sparta. I have now done essay plans for all HSC questions from 2011-2016! I'm going to have to turn some of these into essays soon but I also really need to work on the Julio Claudian and Agrippina sections as well.
- Did one of the AN topic tests for maths
11/10/17
- I got some feedback from Jamon on my mod C essay this morning! It left me feeling more confident however there are a few things I need to work on and fix up (hopefully tomorrow).
- I also need to work on coming up with a good creative because I always find it really difficult to come up with great original ideas and then to write it. (Should have done a proper one ages ago-will probably end up doing something history based)
- I wrote some of my mod C quotes on my whiteboard today so hopefully I'll know them by Tuesday. I may need to record myself saying them because that normally works really well.
- Listened to some music and picked some concepts to analyse for aural for music (even though I got pretty distracted by the lyrics)
- I did the 2016 Hospitality HSC paper (I've now done from 2014-2016). We got the majority of this paper for trials so it was good to look over it and see how I have improved.
- I worked on my Agrippina detail and interpretation tables. Hopefully will finish that soon as I need to do a lot more essays for Ancient.
- I think I'm coming down with a cold (I've got a running nose, headaches.). I'm so scared that I'll be sick for the HSC (even though I'm not even that bad now).
--- Quote from: K888 on October 09, 2017, 10:45:26 pm ---Really enjoyed your update, Katie! :D
Sounds like your prep for exams is going pretty well. I love that you're using your whiteboard - I honestly think whiteboards were the best revision tool I used during year 12.
We had to do this too - honestly, I didn't mind it, because wearing school uniform put me into the work mindset so I felt like I was more likely to knuckle down and focus. I was definitely glad we had to wear uniform for exams - even if we had the choice to wear casual clothes, I think I probably would have worn uniform haha.
Wishing you all the luck in the world for your upcoming exams! ;D
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Thanks K888! :D
I'm also so glad that we have to wear our uniform for exams-I don't think I would focus as well in other clothes (and it would be so much easier in the mornings not having to choose what outfit to wear).
katie,rinos:
15/10/17
Not too long now! Tomorrow I have two different exams (English Paper 1 and Music)!
This weekend I mainly worked on getting together and working on all my quotes, working on some of my essays and making essay plans. I’m going to try and memorise my discovery essay and mould it to the question tomorrow (listening to a recording of it now :) )
Good luck to everybody for tomorrow! Sending you all internet hugs :D. Try to stay calm during the exam and don’t stress too much! I know all of your hard work will pay off! ;D
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