G'day friends!
It's a strange time of year for high school students at the moment, I think. Due to that, I thought I'd make a quick video on a few things, like motivation and preparing for the rest of the year.
It's a bit repetitive, I stumble a bit, there might be a couple of factual errors, I didn't prepare at all for it and I basically just ramble for a while, but I hope some people find it useful!
VIDEO
0:00: hello!
0:45: perspective on how you're going at the moment.
2:08: feeling a lack of motivation.
2:30: the things you learn from Year 12.
3:30: those people who seem like they have everything worked out.
4:29: parallels between Year 12 and social media.
5:40: what your marks actually mean at the moment.
9:02: holidays are coming up!
10:11: dealing with stress.
11:23: improving your marks (changing study techniques).
13:42: working toward your goals.
15:41: what the ATAR can lead to.
18:05: exam preparation.
21:18: recap.
As promised in the video:
Spoiler
We have some guides/explanations on the technical side of high school below: * For VCE,
this here is the main "Technical VCE" board. Threads of note include "
VCE Behind the Scenes ", Orb's
great thread on scaling , our
study score prediction/question thread , and the
main resource summary .
* For HSC,
this here is the main "Technical HSC" board. Jamon wrote a fantastic article
here , which explains pretty much everything you need to know. But we also have an
ATAR/scaling questions thread for any follow-up queries.
And there are also some resources you can use to help with that elusive exam preparation: * For VCE, check out our
best forum resources , a
database of our articles , our
free VCE videos and our
free VCE notes .
* Similarly, for HSC, here are our
best forum resources , a
database of our articles , our
free HSC revision lecture videos and our
free HSC notes .
And relevant to what I was speaking about early in the video, here's an article Elyse wrote on
different ways to study .
Regardless, hope you're all going well, and have a stellar afternoon!
EDIT: Wow, my beanie really creeps up, doesn't it? Showing a lot of ear there. 😂