How "little" work did you do in year 12?

[Rietie]

I did Revs 3/4 last year.

I wasn't a great history buff in year 10, but I just randomly decided to do Revs (laughably, I didn't even know exactly what a revolution was when I started lol).

I tried to stay on top of my notes (although I never knew exactly what I was supposed to be taking down, and I did my notes all wrong anyway - did it under historians) but that ultimately failed in third term.

Did no practice exams (maybe one or two question from a practice exam) except the school ones (which were two).

Was still making my notes up till the day of the exam. Properly started studying 3 hours before the exam.

Got a 35 (A's on all the SACs and exam - well the SAC marks went up from B's).

Did pretty well considering I didn't try very hard.

[xox.happy1.xox]

For Psychology last year:

It was the week before the mid-year. What was I doing? Studying for my year 11 differentiation Methods SAC.

It was two days before the mid-year. What was I doing? Watching The Simpsons (I hate you repeats...)

It was the day of the mid-year. What was I doing? Thinking to myself 'does Psychology actually have a mid-year?'... PANIC.

Result: C (I passed )

Bludged all SAC's... Result: B+ (Wow... I didn't even think it was that high)

Then:

It was two week before the end of year exam: Studying for my English year 11 exam

It was one week before the end of year exam: Was on MSN, my friend reminded me of the end of year psychology exam... PANIC.

On the day... Started crying... I didn't want to do it. Highlighted the paper, left the whole last page blank. Wanting to pass.

Result: B+ (WHAT?!?) Pleasant surprise

Study Score: 30 (was expecting 20, but you know, I was happy )

And that was where my hatred for Psych officially ended :smitten:

[vce01]

for chem, left it til about 5 days before the exam. knew absolutely nothing til then. so..

no practice exams, even though i bought 10 of them for 10 bucks. idiot.
did the multi choice Q's in checkpoints, and went through the answers of all the short ans Q's cuz i didnt have enough time.

got a C+

[Eriny]

*feels inadequate*

Guys! I studied crazily hard for all of my subjects!

Although, I guess if I did have a 'bludge subject', it was literature, I only did one practice exam-like essay before the exam (but that's because my teacher told me to! If she hadn't said that, I would have done a practice exam a day). And also, I had written so many essays throughout the year and was doing uni level literature, both of which helped immensely. In any case, I was confident that I could afford to bludge.

I remember playing a game throughout last year I liked to call 'if I stopped studying now...' and would guess what my ENTER would be if I stopped studying then and only did the bare minimum in class (as in, I'd learn it all but not revise). My estimate was about 95 by August, but I considered that it's easier, for example, to make the difference between 80 and 85 than what it is to make the difference between 95 and 96. The difficulty (or, looking at this thread, the level of intrinsic smartness) required to get higher scores goes up exponentially, which is why I continued to madly study past August.

I can give you a rather extreme story: My friend got 99.95 (in WA) after deciding that he had 'given up' and stopped studying by the term 3 holidays. He is insanely smart though (he got an average of 95% across all his subjects last semester and I can say for sure that he procrastinated a lot).

[lacoste]

most people say that they did not study much, but pulled out a raw 45 or 40's,
their sac results must be low yet pulled out a great ss

does that mean that sacs dont mean much

[TrueLight]

hmm from yr 12... i did like hardly any work i left everything last minute bio- no work just review exercises, and study mid year for like 2 days lol... did around 3 proper exams? psych i studied the night before the exam managed an A lol and chm studied like for 3 days but stil didnt know hwo to do the calculations properly was still reading through summary papers 15 minutes before exam got D lol! english i hardly did essays i think i just the analysing stuff like maybe 3 or something lol and for revolutions i did all the work set my the teacher in class so that was good and i studied like the day before the exam... study as in just read the whole book and thats it lol and managed an A for the exam! lol so my study routine is shit but i really cant be bothered i cant get motivated to do any work until the due date looms closer lolz. like for the bio essay in uni, left that to the last few hours before it was due finished it in like 5 hours lolz.

[Collin Li]

most people say that they did not study much, but pulled out a raw 45 or 40's,
their sac results must be low yet pulled out a great ss

does that mean that sacs dont mean much

No. You can still do very little study and perform great on SACs and exams. I doubt that people who suck at SACs can manage to cram in all the detail for exams. This isn't supposed to lead you to think that exams are crammable.

In my opinion, this thread is more of a bragging thread for people to remark about how well they could do regardless of the small amount of effort they put in. Some people are blessed with the talent of picking up knowledge like intuition and commonsense, without having to put in the hard yards.

[/0]

I guess people who work hard in middle school have a great advantage over those who only just start working hard in high school. Over the middle school years they accumulate 'smartness' and when VCE comes they can afford to not study and still get great marks, just from their 'accumulated smartness'. I wish my teachers reminded me more about that... but then, back in year 7-8 VCE seemed a million miles away.

[dcc]

I guess people who work hard in middle school have a great advantage over those who only just start working hard in high school. Over the middle school years they accumulate 'smartness' and when VCE comes they can afford to not study and still get great marks, just from their 'accumulated smartness'. I wish my teachers reminded me more about that... but then, back in year 7-8 VCE seemed a million miles away.

Nah, Year 12 is the year to fire. Year 7-10 are the years to be regularly be getting marks of 50% on maths tests

[Collin Li]

I started blooming in year 10, but I did not know what it meant to study until year 12.

Starting early to develop a good study routine may advantage you, but there may be better things to do with your time as a youth. This doesn't mean you should fail middle school though -- I certainly learnt a lot from science in high school before VCE, and all that exposure you get helps to develop the mini-simulations and models of the scientific world around us to help you get an intuitive feel about how things work.

My advice is to pay attention in class - it is the easiest way of learning.

[Jeffree]

for current year 12s. Get over yourselves and get back to work

[Matt The Rat]

My advice is to pay attention in class - it is the easiest way of learning.

Bingo. I'd agree with that.

[/0]

My advice is to pay attention in class - it is the easiest way of learning.

Bingo. I'd agree with that.

Paying attention in class and not revising > Not paying attention in class and spending ages reading from your textbook

(For decent teachers)

[bubble sunglasses]

  I think many do more work than neccesary [a lot of extra work for little gain], because they don't
 realize it, or they try to alleviate stress by doing extra work

[millstone]

i think i'm retarded, everything i study crazy hard for i fuck up then everything i bludge at i still do better than if i study heaps

history:
started making NOTES for both revolutions 2 days before the history exam. finished my france notes at about 6am on the day of the exam. slept for 4 hours. needless to say no practise exams were done or even really attempted. score = 39

englang:
started making my notes on the sunday before the exam which if i recall correctly was on a wednesday, anyhow i basically just made lots of cue cards which definitions. i did one practise essay on the day before the exam no full prac exams. score = 37

further:
started making my notes a MONTH before. did 20+ practise exams. score = 39

so basically i am just an idiot and even if i don't study i get okay marks for some subjects but if i study i get fairly crap marks. go me.

i was pretty much the same for my sacs, had goodish marks for history and lang and shit marks for further.