Scorers of 48 and higher: what lectures/study guides did you use?

[thatisanote]

Before I get lectured by everyone - *I KNOW* that using the same guides won't get me the score blah blah blah.
But I would like to hear thoughts on the guides and revision lectures for these subjects
English
Methods
Further
Physics
from students who scored close (jeez guys, cmon ) to 48 (okay, say 45+ then -.-) or higher
edit: and i'm sure other kids would love to hear about other subjects that i haven't listed


Also would love to know how many practice papers you did and how many hours of study.

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My contribution
Subject: Economics
Score: 46->47.6
Lectures: http://www.economicstutor.com.au/ which i found pretty helpful, liked his strategies (I used them on the exam - I liked them but obviously I won't know how I would've done without them!) He did run out of time though. the online resources provided were pretty good, he classifies all the vcaa questions by topic and other stuff (can't really remember), but it was definitely helpful.
Though one of my other friends was tutored by him and went to like 3 lectures and ended up with a 37, so your milage may vary (and hi to that person if they are reading this )
Study guides: and in terms of studyguides, i did basically no work until the day/week before assessments, but we did have to buy http://www.indigopublishing.com.au/book-economics-study-guide.htm which was okay I guess. quite a few errors in the answers.
Hours of study: after term 2 I stopped working at home at all, did about 8 hours before each SAC, and with the exam on the thursday (I think, maybe friday), I took 2 days of school that week, one day was a holiday anyway, and studied about 8 hours each of those days, and on the one weekend before the exam. So totalled about 40 hours study and all in the last week of the exam, but I was happy with the result
Practice exams: During those ~40 hours I did 3 practice papers (though I did 2 of them twice). One CPAP paper (from that ecotutor lecture), the VCAA 2010 sample paper (new study design), and one other companies trial exam (can't remember which). All were good as far as I remember.

[Ghost!]

I'd love to contribute to this thread but I haven't done completed a 3/4 yet, sorry!

[thatisanote]

Wow 7 people reading this thread right now. Good to see some interest! I'm looking forward to the replies now (as I'm sure Ghost! is too - seems we have similar aims )

[taiga]

I got a 48 in Chinese by going through Burberry's business management notes

[Romperait]

I got a 48 in Chinese by going through Burberry's business management notes

They are actually that good

[Menang]

I would love to contribute, but unfortunately, I haven't completed any of your subjects. Good luck, though!

[nacho]

why would you even offer a contribution when by your own rules, you don't meet the pre-requisites?
lol jokes.
serious segregation going on here though

[Water]

why would you even offer a contribution when by your own rules, you don't meet the pre-requisites?
lol jokes.
serious segregation going on here though

That is because....when you round up 47.6, it becomes 48.

[nacho]

why would you even offer a contribution when by your own rules, you don't meet the pre-requisites?
lol jokes.
serious segregation going on here though

That is because....when you round up 47.6, it becomes 48.

pssht, rounding.
that totally rounds to a 50, not 48

[Romperait]

why would you even offer a contribution when by your own rules, you don't meet the pre-requisites?
lol jokes.
serious segregation going on here though

That is because....when you round up 47.6, it becomes 48.

So does that mean I can give advice with my 30 for latin? 8-)

[jane1234]

Well, since I'm procrastinating anyway:

Subject: Methods
Score: 50
Lectures: None.
Study guides: None.
Hours of study: For the first SAC I did about a week of hardcore study (maybe 2 hours a day), for the second it was about 1-2 days before. For the last three I studied for them as I did them (they were over a number of periods). At the start of the year I regularly did the questions from the textbook as well, but I kind of neglected it over the rest of the year and only did set homework. Then, in the second week of the September holidays I picked up my game and did the rest of the questions in the textbook and started practice exams.
Practice exams: ~40 for exam 1 and ~20 for exam 2. Various companies, hated TSFX though and only did one of them.

[burbs]

I got a 48 in Chinese by going through Burberry's business management notes

I wasn't lying when I said they were comprehensive.

[xZero]

Subject: methods
Score: 45
Lectures: none
Study guides: none
Hours of study: About an hr to 1.5 hrs a week to do practice sacs
Practice exams: 15-20 set of exams.

Subject: Spesh
Score: 44(close enough)
Lectures: none
Study guides: none
Hours of study: 2 hours on sunday to catchup on everything ive learnt during the week
Practice exams: 15-20 set of exams

[taiga]

Subject: Geography
Score: 27
Lectures: none
Study guides: none
Hours of study: none
Practice exams: none

You're not going to gain much by asking others this stuff, everyone has different learning styles and I don't think trying to make a formula out of the performance of others will be of any help to you.

[physics]

I only got a 45 for "one of my subjects" and I studied my ass off doing trail exams for-like-ever and well I had no social life