A quick video on motivation, study, hitting your goals and stuff!

[Joseph41]

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!

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. 😂

[LadyWhoAsksTooMuchQuestions]

Thank you for taking time out of your day to not only recording this video but also providing more useful link. Weeks away from my trials!!! 

[Joseph41]

Thank you for taking time out of your day to not only recording this video but also providing more useful link. Weeks away from my trials!!! 

Hey, no stress at all!

We're always here if you need help, trials or otherwise.