Year 12 holidays

[hdxx]

Hi, I was wondering if anyone could suggest what to do study wise on the holidays. I don't know whether I should revise everything I have already done or revise the next outcome coming up? also a teacher suggested we spend one day for each of our subjects, do you think this is effective?
thanks

[zofromuxo]

I don't know whether I should revise everything I have already done or revise the next outcome coming up?
This depends on you.

If you feel your absolutely blitzed the previous outcome and have no trouble with it then I'll just lightly revise such as going through your notes and/or doing some "hard/tricky/least-correct" questions on this outcome.
If the above didn't apply then I would do more rigorous studying on it.
This guide and this podcast episode on this topic may give you some ideas as well.

also a teacher suggested we spend one day for each of our subjects, do you think this is effective?
It can be effective, the only issue I would have is that you may be giving too much/too little attention to subjects.
Eg: If your barely passing Methods, but acing English. Then it wouldn't make much sense dedicating a whole day to study for English. I would rather two days to improve Methods and maybe a few hours for English.

What can help you is figuring out where you are at now, what you want at the end of Year 12 and creating a plan of how to get there.
Then doing tasks for the holiday on how to reach short-term milestones that will let you reach your desired outcome at the end of Year 12.

[Bri MT]

I think this really depends on where you're at and what works for you.

From my perspective,  I think it's better to study multiple subjects in the same day as generally it's more effective for me to study in smaller more frequent chunks.

Consider doing a combination of revision and pre-learning. Now might be a good time to update your mistake-logs and/or summary books if you keep those. You could also consider going through the study design and giving yourself a score out of 5 for each dot point so you know where to focus in later revision. 

I'd recommend getting a general feel for what the next term will cover (lectures can be a good way to do this) and preparing for the first few weeks back.

Importantly,  remember to take some time to rejuvenate.  One of the biggest mistakes I made in year 12 was pushing myself too hard on the holidays

[dashnog]

Prioritise what you struggle with first. As previously stated by other users, if you are acing a subject but barely passing another, it doesn't make sense to maximise what little extra mark in a subject which you don't struggle with. If there is something key that's worth remembering, then for sure spend a while trying to remember it, whether it be a definition or a basic concept or writing style.

If you want to get ahead in a subject, then do some study before the next topic. Sparknotes.com is a place I frequently use, and if you scour the forums a bit, you'll find plenty of other great resources as well.

If your school offers its own online resources, then visit that portal and find some practice SACs, revision material or photocopies of textbook information to read up on, as it has already been curated by your teachers and will be found useful at some point during the year.

If you have the time, then visit the VCAA website and find past exams and try to answer some questions on it. Use past exams as checklists to see what you already know, what you should revise and what you will need to know later on.

Teachers don't necessarily offer the best advice on study, and especially when speaking to a class what methods they suggest for study can be really generalised and won't work as great as they claim to. However, they don't make those kinds of suggestions for no reason, there is rhyme and reason behind what they are saying, so you may use their advice and bend it to what suits you. If the idea of studying a subject per day sounds like it could be useful if implemented more personally, then make yourself a timetable and plan out what exactly you want to do.

An idea I may try in the near future is to create a to-do list of small dot points in every subject for material that I believe is important, or something that I don't quite understand. That way when I have the time to do study of my own I'll have a full list of concepts and ideas to read up on.