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Hello and good day to you. I'm a student in Year 10 and am going onto Year 11, 12 then uni. I'm very anxious about doing very well in 11 and 12 but I have no idea where or how to start preparing for Year 11, next year, now. If you have any tip or advice you could offer me, I'm willing to give it a shot. And if you need to know here are the subjects I plan on picking for next year:
  • Studies of Religion 1 Unit
  • English Advance (Might move to general if I don't do too well)
  • Maths Advance and 1 Unit Extension
  • Physics
  • Chemistry
  • Engineering Studies
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There are some good threads either on this one or the year 9 and 10 page about what to do in the summer holidays to prepare yourself for year 11. They're really useful, so perhaps give that a read.
IMO- focus on year 10 then think more about preparing for year 11. And remember, year 12 is the year that counts!
 

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Umm....I'm already doing very well in Year 10 (top 1-3 every subject) so I want to get prepared for next year and not just in the summer holidays as I'll be on vacation for the whole of it. I'll go over to the year 9/10 page and have a look around though. Thanks
 

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First thing, don't move out of Advanced English into Standard English. The aligning is a lot worse,for something of practically identical ''difficulty''.
 

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Umm....I'm already doing very well in Year 10 (top 1-3 every subject) so I want to get prepared for next year and not just in the summer holidays as I'll be on vacation for the whole of it. I'll go over to the year 9/10 page and have a look around though. Thanks
Wow ok then, great job!
Perhaps think of your motivation to get those high marks, because that's how you'll continuing those extraordinary marks :)
 

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So I was actually in quite a remarkably similar situation to you. I do basically the same subjects as you (3U Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Engineering Studies, Business Studies, and Advanced English). I was in the top of most of my classes throughout year 10 (excluding english) and I'm maintaining/improving that in the preliminary course. I have a few pieces of advice for you.

Routine and Study Habits
Work on a routine. What do you do when you get home from school? What do you do with the pages of notes and worksheets that you accumulate throughout your school day? What can you do to these to further improve understanding and recall? I created a routine where upon arriving home, I typed up my notes to a OneNote file. This acted as a sort of revision for me (albeit not very effective), then I would file the notes away until a week later, where I would process them once more doing various activities with them to further improve retention and understanding. Make sure you have a method worked out so you can apply this to your future years, and keep working on this method to improve it. Think about how you're going to study, as this can be so much more important than what you're going to study.

Mindset and Motivation
Make sure you are ready to go hard or go home. Maintaining, or even more so, improving your position requires a lot of effort. Year 11 and 12 is where a lot of people start taking things seriously, which means you will have a lot more competition. I always say that if you want to do well, that's fine, and if you don't want to do well (you want to relax, take it easy, focus on things other than school) then that is also perfectly fine. I believe both options are acceptable, and you should choose just how much you want to do in year 11 and 12. Whatever you do, don't choose to do well and fail to deliver on that promise, because that's just lying to yourself.

Create the concept in your mind of making deadlines and sticking to them. Remember that if you achieve a few deadlines in a row, you end up on a streak, and that positively reinforces you to achieve further deadlines, ultimately placing yourself in an upwards spiral. You want to be in an upwards spiral throughout the year and to do this you need to honour every single one of the deadlines. As soon as you break one deadline, you can break out of this upwards spiral. As a sidenote, this also means that the deadlines you set for yourself must be achievable, otherwise you're setting yourself up for failure.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask me.
 

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1. Do all your homework in time - and if possible, always ask for teacher's marking and feedback, even though it might not be due for marking
2. Make sure you don't due assignments in late
3. Create a routine - consciously make an effort to start assignments early
4. Don't bother making study notes until Year 11, its a waste of time
5. Practise a lot of maths during the holidays, it will definitely benefit you

I recommend you to stay in English Advanced, especially if you are in mid-rankings, because I heard its a lot better here, then down there in Standard.

Do you need to do well in Year 11? No. You don't want to excel and be the best, and then burn out - which is a really common occurrence.
So please don't run head first in Year 11, using all your energy - especially with your combination of subjects - and then suddenly burning out in Year 12, the ONLY year that counts.
 

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Thanks for the advice you guys have given me! I'm already working on a timetable for when I get home. Do you guys make one based on day to day happenings or in advance and set in concrete? Also what are study notes? And do you guys have any further tips or advice on studying and how to make these notes for revision?
 

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Thanks for the advice you guys have given me! I'm already working on a timetable for when I get home. Do you guys make one based on day to day happenings or in advance and set in concrete? Also what are study notes? And do you guys have any further tips or advice on studying and how to make these notes for revision?
I think someone else wrote somewhere else this already: but I use a to do list, I write down everything I have to do and then prioritise which task to do first.

Get the syllabus for each subject and write the dot point at the top of your page then write all the info underneath that heading. And for maths, just keep doing questions :)
 

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Thanks for the advice you guys have given me! I'm already working on a timetable for when I get home. Do you guys make one based on day to day happenings or in advance and set in concrete? Also what are study notes? And do you guys have any further tips or advice on studying and how to make these notes for revision?
Generally, write down THREE THINGS YOU WANT/NEED TO DO. Keep the list short and simple so that you can realistically achieve it. And if you have spare time after finishing those three things, you can feel more accomplished and reward yourself by relaxing or you can do some light studying afterwards.
 

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The transition between junior to senior year may be difficult so if you're willing to aim for a high ATAR i'll suggest you to do a few things as a good preparation and to be ready for the senior years.

1. Organise your books and notes in a folder, put them in separate folders if you can. One goes in your bag and you hold the other, this is what i do and it's the best in terms of organising your work and it helps you learn effectively and it's so much easier to find things.
2. In the senior years they will be introducing something called "verbs" and yes we all know what verbs are but in the senior years they will be used in exams rather than the usual simple questions in the junior years. So for example:

Instead of " list the 4 dimensions of health "
They would be asking " DESCRIBE the dimensions of health "
They use a lot of critical marking so make sure you know what to write for different verbs.
3. Study DAILY, doesn't need to be as much as you would a week or two before exams but make sure to set aside around half an hour each day just to read through what you've done at school. And also depending on what you pick next year, etc, start focusing this year because some contents WILL appear again next year. I regret bludging the previous years!!!
4. Just don't stress too much. It will be fine :)


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They probably imply it since year 7, but they make more of a deal of them in year 9 onwards, and esp. in year 11 (obviously) and year 12 (well I wonder why lol)
Yeah. I never really understand why people tell students to start worrying about Directing Verbs so late. I started looking at the basics in Year 7, started practising Explain in Year 8, and eventually, I develop that exam technique years before the HSC which is far more beneficial. It really saves me, even though I don't understand the subject I still know how to learn the content and just format the question and make sure everything is being answered etc.
 

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Yeah. I never really understand why people tell students to start worrying about Directing Verbs so late. I started looking at the basics in Year 7, started practising Explain in Year 8, and eventually, I develop that exam technique years before the HSC which is far more beneficial. It really saves me, even though I don't understand the subject I still know how to learn the content and just format the question and make sure everything is being answered etc.
Gosh you're so much more prepared than me! But I do get where you're coming from, I guess they have been using those verbs in tests without the student (me) actually knowing what the verb means to do. I think studying social sciences really improves that knowledge of key words though, only in geo do we actually learn what they mean.
 
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