study hours (1 Viewer)

[Az-jay]

one of our deputy principals informed us that if we were serious about our hsc then we should be doing two hours of study per unit we take per week.

i have 13 units and therefore should be doing 26hrs of studying per week.
i believe this is way too much and incompletly silly.

what do you guys think of this and how much studying do you do or aim to do?

 

[fakingtheday]

Studying is a subjective thing. See i believe that to do well in the HSC you only have to do well in your assessments and exams. So therefore if you pay regular attention during class it should sink in and then some revision before exams should just be a process of reiteration, you are setting yourself up for a burn out, in my opinion anyway, and if that happens there was no point in the early work. That said i'm not saying don't study, i pride myself on a photographic memory, you may well be different, but do whatever you see to be suffice and just have fun.

Enter people who will get 99s and say you need to study everynight.

 

[Trippendicular]

See i believe that to do well in the HSC you only have to do well in your assessments and exams.

Who would have thought? And there I was thinking our UAI was based on the number of hours of study we do a week, when it was the assessments that counted all along, silly me

 

[fakingtheday]

Fuck you bitch. Some people are under the impression that a sustained and dilligent effort throughout the course is required.

 

[line_backer]

LOL...calm down fakingtheday, i think Trippen is being sarcastic.

I think 26 hrs is too much. If you did do 26hrs a week, you wouldn't have enough work to study and end up finishing the syllabus months before the HSC exams starts. Study should just be used to revise what you have done in class, unless you want to go ahead with the work.

I think many people on BOS have already emphasised consistency of study as more important than quantity.

 

[fakingtheday]

i think he was being facetious more than sarcastic. I was just returning the favour.

 

[line_backer]

hahahah, sly bastard....

 

[fakingtheday]

i enjoi english. I'm about the only one in the state.

 

[Zoltan]

The board of studies recommends 25 hours a week (3 on a weeknight and 10 on the weekend)... which means you basically have to study ALL THE TIME. I swear it's starting to feel like I have done, am doing, and will do nothing but study all my life.

I think i'll take everyone's advice and slow down a little...

 

[Trippendicular]

I've got half yearlies next week and I'm still struggling to do 20+ hours a week

 

[Az-jay]

Well with 11 Units in the leadup to the HSC itself I did between 36 and 50 hours a week for two months.

No Way! wher'd did you find the time? the patience? the concentration?
i'm in awe, that's amazing.

 

[^CoSMic DoRiS^^]

i enjoi english. I'm about the only one in the state.

make that 2 of us

 

[monique66]

make that 2 of us

three...

 

[Casmira]

I was doing about 21-28 hours a week prior my exams, you need ot plan your study it helps boost confidence and will to study alot

 

[velox]

argonaut, but didnt u get a uai of around 90?

 

[line_backer]

The board of studies recommends 25 hours a week (3 on a weeknight and 10 on the weekend)... which means you basically have to study ALL THE TIME. I swear it's starting to feel like I have done, am doing, and will do nothing but study all my life.

I think i'll take everyone's advice and slow down a little...

25 hrs, for how many units? can u give me the website where u got this info from?

 

[melsc]

At the moment I do my homework and assignments and if I get around to it study notes...I don't count the time...i just do it basically

 

[fakingtheday]

Ok here's some lowdown. i did virtually no study leading up to exams, just regular revision, study periods and listening in class.

Engineering - 84% 1st a little dissappointed but cool anyway
D&T - 96% 2nd, cool.

figures speak for themselves.

 

[ameh]

melsc:

same, just hw and assignments. Not much time to do any study really, except for an upcoming assessment ofcourse!

 

[melsc]

melsc:

same, just hw and assignments. Not much time to do any study really, except for an upcoming assessment ofcourse!

Glad i'm not the only one