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HSC w/ a stresshead {class of '19}
meerae:
Helloooo everyone,
so sorry for literally neglecting this space. I have about 8 weeks until my first English trial and I am starting to freak out because I have been doing literally nothing and have SOO much to do...
So to bring you all up to speed, I had my last eco task before trials last week and I am super confident about the essay component, I predicted the exact essay that came in so I was over prepared and had way too much fun writing the essay in the exam.
I have legal and math x1 next week, and English adv and x2 in week 9. I have to edit my x2 major work and draft out my reflection while also write my CCP by week 9 and I haven't begun doing any of that...
Also, I made a nice little list of everything I have to do before trials, but I've been procrastinating soo much. I can sit all day and watch HTGAWM or The Office but I can barely clock in an hour of maths.
Today was a public holiday; I managed to do about 3 hours of maths and an hour of legal. I'm planning to watch Hamlet tonight for x1 whilst also work on my adv English essay so I can produce a draft by the end of the week.
Weirdly though, I still haven't received my x2 lit review mark and am still waiting on that, which I'm going to check up on tomorrow to see when we're getting that back.
Overall, I wish I was more productive but I feel like I'm getting towards the final stretch and it's making me way lazy. Any tips to regain my motivation, especially with the 3 week break coming up??
Okay, I'm off to do a past paper for maths! Wish me luck.
peace out,
meerae :)
r1ckworthy:
--- Quote from: meerae on June 10, 2019, 05:08:41 pm ---Helloooo everyone,
so sorry for literally neglecting this space. I have about 8 weeks until my first English trial and I am starting to freak out because I have been doing literally nothing and have SOO much to do...
So to bring you all up to speed, I had my last eco task before trials last week and I am super confident about the essay component, I predicted the exact essay that came in so I was over prepared and had way too much fun writing the essay in the exam.
I have legal and math x1 next week, and English adv and x2 in week 9. I have to edit my x2 major work and draft out my reflection while also write my CCP by week 9 and I haven't begun doing any of that...
Also, I made a nice little list of everything I have to do before trials, but I've been procrastinating soo much. I can sit all day and watch HTGAWM or The Office but I can barely clock in an hour of maths.
Today was a public holiday; I managed to do about 3 hours of maths and an hour of legal. I'm planning to watch Hamlet tonight for x1 whilst also work on my adv English essay so I can produce a draft by the end of the week.
Weirdly though, I still haven't received my x2 lit review mark and am still waiting on that, which I'm going to check up on tomorrow to see when we're getting that back.
Overall, I wish I was more productive but I feel like I'm getting towards the final stretch and it's making me way lazy. Any tips to regain my motivation, especially with the 3 week break coming up??
Okay, I'm off to do a past paper for maths! Wish me luck.
peace out,
meerae :)
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Hey! So glad you popped back to your journal, can't wait for future updates ;D
I don't know about you, but the feeling and thought that trials are like 56 days ahead is kind of scary. I guess what we can kind of do is just to study (obvious I know).
In terms of motivation, there is this really good video:
You should watch the whole thing, it's so valuable. I love the part about motivation especially, where even if you feel tired you just keep pushing, just keep going.
Hopefully that provides some helpful advice on motivation!! I know how you feel about losing productivity, I haven't done much during the long weekend, feel so guilty :-\ :-\ :-\. Anyways, I've think I've got back to regular studying right now, which is great!
BTW out of interest, what is your maths extension 1 class upto? My maths ext.1 class only has 7 people, of which 6 have already completed the 2U course last year, so my teacher is teaching the 3U course and we are almost finished (upto to binomial probability, and circle geo is left to do). Although RIP for that one guy who hasn't, he has so many gaps in his knowledge in 2U and 3U maths.
Another piece of advice I found so helpful (boosted my productivity up so much) was not touching any social media or youtube for the whole day unless I have completed my goals. So when I don't feel like studying, I can't access any social media, Netflix or youtube, so I just become soo bored until I actually start to work. Right now, I just resist the temptation too watching youtube or any social media, but if the urge is too much, then I'll use a website blocker (cold turkey app) to block it. It's been really effective for me, because if I don't feel like studying, I just sit there with nothing to do, and I'll become so bored that I'll start to do work. Try it out, it might be of use to you ;D ;D ;D
Good luck for your paper! Hopefully these tidbits of advice are really helpful to you!
meerae:
--- Quote from: r1ckworthy on June 10, 2019, 08:17:44 pm ---I don't know about you, but the feeling and thought that trials are like 56 days ahead is kind of scary. I guess what we can kind of do is just to study (obvious I know).
BTW out of interest, what is your maths extension 1 class upto? My maths ext.1 class only has 7 people, of which 6 have already completed the 2U course last year, so my teacher is teaching the 3U course and we are almost finished (upto to binomial probability, and circle geo is left to do). Although RIP for that one guy who hasn't, he has so many gaps in his knowledge in 2U and 3U maths.
Another piece of advice I found so helpful (boosted my productivity up so much) was not touching any social media or youtube for the whole day unless I have completed my goals. So when I don't feel like studying, I can't access any social media, Netflix or youtube, so I just become soo bored until I actually start to work. Right now, I just resist the temptation too watching youtube or any social media, but if the urge is too much, then I'll use a website blocker (cold turkey app) to block it. It's been really effective for me, because if I don't feel like studying, I just sit there with nothing to do, and I'll become so bored that I'll start to do work. Try it out, it might be of use to you ;D ;D ;D
Good luck for your paper! Hopefully these tidbits of advice are really helpful to you!
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Hey, r1ckworthy!
Honestly, even as an accelerated student, I'm still sooo scared for trials and English right now is my worst mark, so I'm really relying on trials to boost that mark :/
Right now in ext1 we're just about to finish the course with further applications of calculus, we're finishing up SHM and projectile motion this week. My whole ext class is accelerated 2u except for one person as well, but my teacher has really tried to have us at the same kind of pace as the 2u class so it doesn't make the non-acc person confused.
I'll definitely check that video out and the social media tip! I'll let you know how it goes!
peace out,
meerae :)
meerae:
heyhey,
So we got eco marks this week, I got 28/35 for the task, coming 4th for the task but still 3rd overall. I'm not too happy with it but I lost all my marks from doubting myself in the MC which sucks.
I also had legal this week and I feel pretty confident about it, hopefully I do super well in that.
Next week I have x2 English, adv English and x1 maths so I'm pretty excited for that.
I have a three week trial period from the 5th of August and I'm freaking out about how I'm going to study and get everything done, in the spoiler is my trial timetable, and its pretty similar to my HSC exam timetable.
Spoiler5th Aug: English Paper 1
6th Aug: English Paper 2
13th Aug: Legal Studies
15th Aug: English x1
16th Aug: Economics
23rd Aug: Submission Day for x2 MW
26th Aug: x1 Maths
I'm off to write adv English now.
peace out,
meerae :)
meerae:
Ahhhhh, hello everyone
Legal was super good, I wrote 25 pages despite kinda injuring my hand from WRITING the day before, I got 39/40 and am coming still coming first with an average of 97%. I'm so happy about this because legal is my best subject and I absolutely love studying for it, I only have trials now. I am also considering doing a sort of guide of stuff Ive learnt on effective studying habits for legal, but we'll see if I have the time.
I also received my English x2 CCP, I got 14/15 and am still coming second by ONE percent :(
Right now, I am waiting on English Adv, which I won't be getting until first day back next term because my teacher likes to give feedback before the marks and math x1, which I am kind of worried about because everyone found it so easy and I had troubles in loads of questions.
I've been sticking to a study plan that I created for these holidays, which includes waking up and doing an x1 trial each day and then doing notes/writing essays/editing my MW during the day.
I'm aiming for 85% in my trials across the board, excluding legal where I have high hopes for a 90... maybe 95?
I think I am aiming WAAY too high, and my study habits aren't reflecting the marks I'm trying to do, but I really am trying to balance work with relaxing.
Which is why a typical day is; breakfast, math x1 trial, one of my tasks, break, lunch, another task, break, dinner, last task of the day, break.
but it feels like I waste so much time, especially because I don't measure my study by hours, except by how many tasks I accomplish in the day (which is usually 3-4, including my math trial)
Tomorrow, I have the English Adv lecture and unfortunately, its the only lecture I can make in this series, which absolutely sucks. I was so excited to learn something from Isaac for eco, but instead I have to send a friend to take (hopefully) extensive notes for me, so that I can still kind of learn something.
My school is being super supportive and is holding holiday classes throughout the next two weeks for us, which is super amazing and so far has been a great help.
Thats all I really have to update on for now
Peace out,
meerae :)
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