Awesome post BlinkieBill!
As someone who got a raw 44 last year, I want to add some things to this.
I think it's essential to go to your teacher whenever you're confused with anything. Go to them regularly throughout the year!
A lot of the time I sacrificed my lunchtimes and used my private studies to spend an hour on methods questions with my teacher, but it was totally worth it!!
Also, make your bound reference throughout the year and don't leave it to the very last minute (which quite a few people did rather than doing practice exams). With my bound reference, for every chapter I had a page-long summary as well as any questions that I was stuck on that related to that specific chapter in the pages after the summary.
I definitely agree with doing checkpoints and re-doing practice exams! I remember neglecting this and I often forgot how to do those questions when similar questions came up on my sacs. Even when I put them in my bound reference, I didn't understand the thinking behind the working out....
Another thing I did (which I also did for Psych) was that after every practice exam I finished, I wrote a little summary on the front page of the exam on the mistakes I made, what topics I should revisit, how I made silly mistakes and what I should do to prevent that. For instance, while I had the correct working out in my head I would write the wrong thing out, so I made a note to myself that I should mouth or whisper my working instead to keeping it in my head so I have better track of it.
My last tip would be to try to apply your Methods knowledge to whatever is around you, like idk what's the area of your garden excluding the circular pots that are around the vicinity, etc etc. I know it sounds ridiculous, but it reinforces your application skills so you're more ready for whatever your sacs or vcaa has to throw at you.
Good luck to everyone doing methods this year!!