How much did you study and what did you get?

[TrueTears]

Brutally honest: I worked a lot. And true, it annoys me when people lie about how much work they've done - 'oh I did 3 essays before the Eng exam and I got a 50' - some friend's friend said that.

I think that you can ensure a high mark in any subject with pure hard work. I went to the Methods exam feeling confident I would do well. I did tonnes of trial papers, did most of checkpoints by June, did ExamBusters, Neap, A+ notes, A+ exams etc - you will find that most people who DO get high in Methods have done a lot of work. Maths subjects = practice, practice, practice. Do tonnes of practice exams - this REALLY REALLY helps. Especially if you're motivated enough to give yourself reading time, checking time etc - you'll find the improvement amazing if you persevere.

Oh so true (especially for maths), practise and practise and you will reap the rewards.

[NE2000]

Reading time, checking time......how many people do this? I've only done it once for a spesh paper I think 

Otherwise totally agree, not just for maths but for science subjects too. Although I think some people do blitz methods without many trial papers just coz they are good at maths and do spesh at the same time (eg. shinny). I don't think it's possible to do that in English unless you have set a wonderful foundation for yourself in previous years and just know how to do everything.

Also if you are in year 11 then rather than waiting till next year to do your hardest work take advantage of the fact that you are doing only 1-2 subjects while majority of your 'competition' is grappling with 4-5.

[QuantumJG]

They got lower SS than me I guess? The highest SS for methods that year was only 46 ...

That's better than our 42. lol ONLY 46

Worked fairly hard, consistently studied through the year. Did ~25 exams all up, ended up with 40 raw, verrrrrry happy. Also, I was ranked number 1 in SACs, so it clearly wasn't an incredibly talented cohort..

Yeah our cohort wasn't too good either (if you compared us with people who got 49-50). One person got a 42, my friend got a 41 and 2 people got 40. At our school the study scores fluctuated a fair bit (it was rumoured that one person got a 23. There were 4 classes where 3 of them equally held the well performing students and 1 of them held the methods drop-kicks and my friend was put in the drop kick class (trust me he wasn't a drop kick, in year 11 he did better than me in terms of performance) :tickedoff:

Our methods teachers worked much harder at providing resources for us to do well in maths methods compared to our specialist maths teachers. Like actually running a mock exam 1 and exam 2 over the holidays and going through exam style questions over the holidays and they compiled a whole lot of questions from about 10 past exams (like heffernan, TSFX, etc), but I actually only did about 5 practice exams formally (that is what you mean by doing 25 practice exams).

But in the end I got a 39 and was very happy with it!!!

[ReVeL]

I think that you can ensure a high mark in any subject with pure hard work.

I disagree with this. Aside from the hard work you put it, there is also how you perform on the day (i.e. handle nerves) and your natural ability that determine your mark.

[xXNovaxX]

I think that you can ensure a high mark in any subject with pure hard work.

I disagree with this. Aside from the hard work you put it, there is also how you perform on the day (i.e. handle nerves) and your natural ability that determine your mark.

Totally agree. Some people just get mental blanks on the day!! So all that work throughout the weeks disappears . There is also the case of illness over the last few days before exams which prevents many from re-iterating what they have learnt.

But hard work does form the basis of everything I guess.

[sachinmachin]

yes i guess it does come down to how you feel on the day. personally, ive seen a dramatic improvement in my methods and spesh marks of late, considering ive sat my ass down and actually done a fair few exam questions. particularly methods, where ive probably now done over 15 exam 1 and 2's altogether, and im only losing a couple of marks now. im so happy!!!!

so what im trying to say is that hard work does pay off, but it must be specific. there is no point sitting there for 4 hours straight if your just flicking through your textbook or doing exam questions without thoroughly checking why/why you didnt get the answer wrong.

[ninwa]

I think that you can ensure a high mark in any subject with pure hard work.

Not for arts subjects (by that I mean art, vis com, music, etc.)

That's better than our 42. lol ONLY 46

that wasn't supposed to sound arrogant, I would've been OVERJOYED with 46. Just that my school usually gets at least one 49 or 50 each year, so comparatively, that was a crappy year.
(also the guy who got 46 was in year 10, got 46 for spesh in year 11, and ended up getting 99.95)

[vexx]

that wasn't supposed to sound arrogant, I would've been OVERJOYED with 46. Just that my school usually gets at least one 49 or 50 each year, so comparatively, that was a crappy year.
(also the guy who got 46 was in year 10, got 46 for spesh in year 11, and ended up getting 99.95)

that's amazing!!!! edit, as you answered my question.heh

[ross huggard]

Given that I already knew 95% plus of the methods course at the start of this year, I started doing practice exams in the middle of term 1. After 1st semester, I completed about 18 sets of exams, and currently I think I've completed around 40 sets. I only started doing past VCAA exams a few weeks before the term 3 holidays. I've still got about 10 more sets left and that will be about all I do.

get a life..

[ross huggard]

everyone who gave me a -1 karma can get a life too;)
.. lighten up a bit?
Some people on this forum take themselves far too seriously..

[ninwa]

.. lighten up a bit?

yeah cos your comment was soOooOOoooOOo funny hahahhahahahah

[ross huggard]

.. lighten up a bit?

yeah cos your comment was soOooOOoooOOo funny hahahhahahahah

thanks ninwa:)

[Fyrefly]

.. lighten up a bit?

yeah cos your comment was soOooOOoooOOo funny hahahhahahahah

Read: Sarcasm

thanks ninwa:)

[ross huggard]

i dont think any sarcasm wasnt meant.. was it ninwa? :coolsmiley:

[Fyrefly]

i dont think any sarcasm wasnt meant.. was it ninwa? :coolsmiley:

Double negative phail?