Guys just saying, but at this stage of the HSC, simply 'reading' is not going to do much. It is true your writing skills will hone if you are an avid reader, but I am pretty sure that comes after years of exposure to a variety of different writing styles and forms-- as well as your personal (conscious or subconscious) critiques of the work you are reading. Read for leisure all you want at the moment (or for finding your related texts or whatever), but if you are counting novel-reading as studying, then I think you're fooling yourself into acting as though you are working