Feeling screwed for your HSC exams? Can’t seem to find a balance between study and the rest of your life?
Let us introduce you to Hamish, a Year 12 student who managed to save his exam marks only a few weeks out from HSC Trials while still staying healthy and sane.
那你还在等什么？让我们找出他的前三名技巧！
- Hamish is a Year 12 student from Engadine High
- He is one of 70 incredible Art of Smart Pathfinders from across NSW for 2020
- Hamish studies Economics, Legal Studies, Business Studies, Standard Maths and Advanced English
- 他喜欢打板球，在挑战性的丛林行走中，是节目“西装”的巨型粉丝
- He wants to study both Law AND Economics
挑战
Hamish was always concerned about how he would study for Trials. His school sits the exams super early and being the first HSC block, he had no idea how he was supposed to tackle it. Additionally, while Hamish’s marks have usually been high, he has always had problems with juggling work and fun.
在探路者计划中，有两个主要因素帮助他实施了新的策略来反弹并王牌他的HSC试验：
- His Pathfinder Mentor – Winnie Li
- The Pathfinder Trials Intensive
在本文中，我们将为您提供一个偷偷摸摸的技巧，Hamish学会了帮助您准备HSC考试。
Tip 1: Finding a Healthy Balance
For Hamish, knowing when to chill out and take a break has always been a problem.
“My biggest issue has always been balance. I’ve been constantly focused on study and have compromised a few other things in my life.”
He has a bunch of passions outside of school, and a major one is sport!
“I am a huge cricket fan and love playing the game. Whenever I get the chance, I try to visit the cricket nets or watch whatever cricket is being played on TV.”
幸运的是，他的导师温妮（Winnie）在HSC期间已经在全国范围内参加了运动，因此她了解平衡承诺和激情，同时仍在尝试在学校做得很好！
“她通过制定时间表来平衡体育和兼职工作，帮助我取得了平衡，并过着健康的生活方式，以便我仍然可以保持很高的成绩。”
This was super important for Hamish leading up to Trials as his old study habits just weren’t working.
“After my exam blocks in Year 11 I would just crash. I would be doing so much work that I’d be so tired afterward. Winnie came in and went through my schedule and put in specific times for study breaks.”
在学习考试时，必须定期休息。它们使您无法压力和过度劳累，并帮助您保留信息。
每个周末，哈米什（Hamish）赶上他的朋友们玩纸牌游戏。
However, Hamish found success also relies on the QUALITY of your study break.
Winnie每天帮助Hamish Inlument Imental研究休息时间。一定的爱好或活动也将分配给这些休息时间。这意味着Hamish不仅会骑电话，还会做锻炼，散步或打板球。
The thing is when you’re doing something like playing cricket, you don’t take a break to relax, it actually serves a purpose.无论您的学习还是运动运动，休息的重点都应该始终是刷新和重新加工所以你可以努力当你回到它!
But how long should your study breaks be? Find out in this video.
“由于我实施了更好的休息时间，所以我没有崩溃。这是因为我有一致的平衡，准备和计划帮助我保持健康。”
提示2：专注于您的弱点
It was Week 5 of the term, and Hamish’s Trials were in Week 9. He had about 4 or 5 weeks before he was going to be tested on absolutely everything he’d learned.
He thought: “If I knuckle down and really focus I can get all of these topics done.”
“However, 2 weeks later I had done 7 topics worth of study yet couldn’t remember a single thing! The problem was that once I looked over a topic I didn’t have the time to go back and revise it all again.”
He brought this problem to Winnie and she provided him with a simple strategy students can use to identify the information they don’t know and hone in on their weaknesses:
过去的纸垃圾邮件
- The first step here is to doas many past papers and questions as you can。A great place to find them is on the NESA website orhere in our resource section.
- As you’re going through these questions, if you find something you don’t know when marking the paper write it down in一本错误的书（This is a collection of all of the question types or concepts you don’t understand.)
- The next step is tobring this mistake book to a teacher or tutorand get them to help you understand the weaker area.
- After this, you need toSPAM the weak area。进行大量的学习/笔记和练习问题，以确保您有信心的特定主题。
- Once this is complete you can return to your past papers and重新开始！
Not only does this technique ACCELERATE your study as you come to focus on your weak areas, but it also helps you get used to EXAM STYLE QUESTIONS.
Hamish says: “At first I took the technique with a grain of salt. I didn’t really feel comfortable trying a new method of studying. However 10 days before Trials I tried it for Mathematics and it worked!”
Every single day Hamish would do an hour and a half of past papers. By the end of one week he’d done 7 years of past papers.
When he finally got into his Trial exam he could tackle a bunch of questions and topics that were similar to the ones he’d targeted in his past paper spam.
“在审判考试中，我最终得到了95％的数学。If I had followed my initial study strategy there’s no way I would have done as well.”
您需要优先考虑自己的学习优先级吗？这是您可以使用的另一种很棒的方法！
提示3：合作和聆听！
As a part of the Pathfinder program, Hamish also attended aHSC Trials Study Intensive.
In this intensive,beplay体育官方智能首席执行官罗恩·昆兹（Rowan Kunz）的艺术解释了一系列HSC研究技巧，例如：
但是，密集的另一部分是向其他学生学习。
在准备考试时，协作可能是极其有效的工具。就哈米什（Hamish）而言，与其他学生交谈特别有用，因为他本质上是因为他们这么早就走进审判而盲目。
“I needed new study strategies, and hearing the group discussion gave me a bunch of new ideas”
这就是为什么您可能想考虑举行GROUP STUDY SESSIONSwith your friends leading up to exams.
想学习如何使小组学习课程起作用吗？观看此视频！
So there you have it. Three awesome tips you can implement in your own study to save your exam marks.
Struggling to Prepare for Your HSC Exams?
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