Tips from previous Yr 12s

[dior1]

Hey guys.

Just wondering if anybody has any useful tips for succedding in the final year of high school and to maximise your ENTER score
I would love to hear any words of wisedom you can pass on!!

Just incase you are wondering, I'm doing English, Further maths, Italian and psychology.

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[vce01]

further maths - start exam type questions ASAP.

[Toothpaste]

English: write practice essays consistantly and seek help on areas of improvement.
Ask your teacher for honest and harsher marking of your essays if you notice leniency.
Keep your notes organised.
Use the English forum for help.
You might find discussing novels/etc with classmates helpful for preparation.
Keep on top of your SACs. Unit 3: 25%, unit 4: 25% = 50% of your study score right there.

Italian: don't leave your detailed study for "later" and end up rushing it.

Don't hate and neglect any subjects pretty much.

... and suck up to your teachers. Make sure they like you.

[Ken]

English = biggest kick in the balls

never neglect engerish.

[dior1]

... and suck up to your teachers. Make sure they like you.

This may sound stupid, but why?? Is it because they may be biased and give you higher SAC marks?

[bturville]

... and suck up to your teachers. Make sure they like you.

This may sound stupid, but why?? Is it because they may be biased and give you higher SAC marks?

Not necessarily, but if they DON'T like you - the will most likely give you lower marks. That's my experience.

[Toothpaste]

... and suck up to your teachers. Make sure they like you.

This may sound stupid, but why?? Is it because they may be biased and give you higher SAC marks?

There's a chance they'll look at your essay more favourably, lol. Just give them a good impression.
If you can show them you're putting in effort before a SAC, they might be more obliged to ... be nice with marking your work.

With teachers cross-marking (many teachers correcting) ... teachers like the brag about their students. If they think you're an awesome student, other teachers will hear about it. Thus, you benefit either way.

Unless your friends notice and start joking about your change of behaviour haha, but hey, your gain their loss. 

[memka]

... and suck up to your teachers. Make sure they like you.

This may sound stupid, but why?? Is it because they may be biased and give you higher SAC marks?

In some cases yes. Also means they'll be more likely to go that extra mile for you: finding more prac exams, correcting that extra essay, letting you borrow that other textbook etc.

[RD]

yeah at my school teachers were biased as some went in my favour and a couple didn't but yeah maintain a good relationship with them

[xox.happy1.xox]

Italian: Don't do what I did all year; you'll just end up disappointed. I got basically A's to A+'s throughout the year, and in the exams, I crashed and burnt. Know all of your tenses 'perfectly'! It doesn't matter whether it is an 'are' 'ere' or 'ire' verb, you must know how to spell it as well as pronounce it. I also agree with Toothpick, don't leave the detailed study to the last minute. I was lost for words when she asked me for my 1 minute, and needed to ask 'puoi ripetere, non ho ben capito' about 3 or 4 times (many more throughout the whole thing...). So don't neglect it, and ultimately, make sure you get a teacher who knows what they're doing (mine didn't, and hence why I ended up with a 23 in Italian).

Psychology: My love-hate relationship with this subject continued throughout the duration of year 11. My strategy was to basically revise everything I knew, and consolidate it into long-term memory. Come time for the mid-year and end-of-year, I would recommend making little cards to memorise key facts and what not. Soon enough, those cards should just be used as cues, and you will know the knowledge back to front. And of course, it is best to understand rather than just memorise as you can apply your knowledge to different concepts better, and be able to tackle exam questions in more depth.

Good luck.

[khalil]

in psych unit 4 do sec 3 FIRST...my biggest mistake yet
start writing notes now and revise everyday...i didnt do that but i didnt relli get a great score
AND dont bother ur time with other text books ONLY use jacaranda...and do all the VCAA exams...even the ones not in the study design...some questions came up in the mid year....
psych is a great subject and does not need prior expertise to do well in..(like maths and chem)
most questions in the exam need like 4 or 5 words....as long as ur precise
GO TO THE MONASH CAULFIELD lecture for psych ....they give u notes and show the minimum amount of words needed to get 100% for the exam
VERY VERY useful

[Eriny]

Study!

For English: Know your texts better than you know yourself. Do lots of practice plans and read broadly, including looking through the paper every day.

For Psych: I have an advice thread on this in the Psych thread which basically has all of the advice I have in it.

[shonakennedy]

do everything that i didnt.

i dead set did not study all year. i had my own personal reasons for being unable to study. and boy do i regret it.

take advantage of every moment you have. this one year can map out the rest of your life.

and of course, always make time to socialise and bum around. otherwise you will burn out at the times where you most need your wits about you.

[curry_in_a_hurry69]

my advice would b to never go into a subject thinkin u only need a ceratin score, cos i found that i didnt put in as much effort cos of this. eg, for chem i went in saying that i only needed 35 thus didnt put in nearly as much effort as i should have and only got 32! kind of the same in spec, once i realised how hard it was i lowered my expectations and didnt put in as much time or effort as my other subjects which i prob should have

[rh]

don't do what donny don't does.